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The Church of God - Elder Michael Wuni

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

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  1. The time in and out in God What? Is it ever rest in your place?

  2. Oh God, in your mind, No, breathe.

  3. I try to see you is what's for me sharply.

  4. There's no spa ever. Rise and blaze, Lord Indivar.

  5. Lord could rewind. I just see here, Lord.

  6. Live in one is what's for me. Sharply, Lord.

  7. The. As we go.

  8. To the tune of the Lord, we are going to read from the book of

  9. Psalm 95 verse 6. Psalm 95, verse 6.

    Psalms 95:6 Psalms 95:6

  10. Please kindly project it for me. Psalm 95, verse 6.

    Psalms 95:6

  11. Come, let us come, let us bow down in worship.

  12. Let us kneel before the Lord our God.

  13. Hallelujah, This very moment we are going to exhort our Creator.

  14. We are going to leave the name of the Lord, the God who created

  15. you and I, the God that prepares a table before you and I.

  16. He deserves all our praise. So this very hour we are going

  17. to tell him that he deserves all he He is the one that will

  18. forever. Be.

  19. Praise. Just think about the goodness of

  20. the Lord. Think about where you used to

  21. be. Think about the family you are

  22. coming from. Hallelujah,

  23. Jesus. Hallelujah.

  24. Jesus, Hallelujah. The Jesus.

  25. The. The.

  26. None. None.

  27. None. We wash you.

  28. You are your way. You are your way.

  29. You are your way. You are your way.

  30. You are your way. You are your way.

  31. You are your way. You are your way.

  32. You are your way. You are your way.

  33. You are your way, way. You are your way.

  34. How far and no maker? You are your way.

  35. How far and no maker you are your way.

  36. Yeah, you are your way. You are your way.

  37. You are your way. You are your way you.

  38. Are. Your way the.

  39. Lord deserve our worship. The.

  40. The. The.

  41. None. The.

  42. Our Lord and Master Jesus, this morning we praise your name.

  43. We worship you because He deserve it.

  44. There is no code that can be compared unto you.

  45. You are indeed the Savior of this world and he deserve to be

  46. extolled. This morning we bow to you

  47. alone. We salute your children.

  48. We sell it to your majesty. May your name be praise.

  49. May your wonderful name be worship.

  50. In the name of Jesus, we worship.

  51. Amen. Hallelujah.

  52. A mighty clap offering unto the Lord.

  53. We thank God so much for how far he has brought us without much.

  54. I do. I want you to welcome the person

  55. sitting beside you. Please welcome someone.

  56. Welcome someone, welcome someone.

  57. We are about to listen to the Word of God.

  58. You are welcome to escapade to English assembly with a club of

  59. friendless invite our presiding elder, Elder Michael Wooley.

  60. To give us the word and all die, change, try and find we

  61. joyfully. The.

  62. Of our salvation, head on, head on the Church, try our fight,

  63. rejoice fully, hardly to die. The and rise along that leads to

  64. God that raise our heart and grow and leads to God that

  65. raise. Praise the Lord, I said, Praise

  66. the Lord, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

  67. This morning, if you are here, I want you to be grateful unto the

  68. Lord. So I would say, praise the Lord

  69. and you keep your mouth shut. It means you are ungrateful unto

  70. the Lord. But if the Lord has made it

  71. possible for you to be among the living this morning, you have

  72. every cause to praise the Lord. Hallelujah and you have to

  73. praise the Lord with all your parts, including your mouth.

  74. So I always say praise the Lord if I were you are weaving jump

  75. and say Hallelujah, praise the Lord and that is one of the

  76. means we show our gratitude on to the Lord.

  77. Amen. Amen.

  78. This morning I prepared a message entitled Your Mandates,

  79. Your Mandates. But as soon as I enter this

  80. auditorium in the Holy Spirit, give me a new message to preach.

  81. But one thing I want you to understand this morning is that

  82. if you are here, you have been saved.

  83. You have been purchased by the blood of Jesus Christ.

  84. It is for a purpose. The Bible says no one can come

  85. unto him until he calls you. So whenever the Lord calls you,

  86. the Lord has a reason why he calls you.

  87. The reason why God called me is to give me eternal life.

  88. The reason why God called you is to give you eternal life, but

  89. apart from the eternal life that God wants to give unto us, each

  90. person that God calls, He gives him or her a mandate.

  91. And it is very important as a child of God to know your

  92. mandates. When God called you, what

  93. mandates did He give to you this morning?

  94. If you don't know your mandates, I pray in the name of Jesus that

  95. you will ask of Him and He will show you your mandates.

  96. Praise the Lord, I said praise the Lord.

  97. When I say praise the Lord and don't respond, I'll come there.

  98. I'm preaching with you and that is what shows that you are

  99. following what I'm saying. I remember very well when this

  100. English assembly was created and then I was chosen to be the

  101. presiding elder of a truth. I was interested and I did not

  102. want to become a leader because of one or two reasons.

  103. But somewhere, somehow, God spoke to me and God gave me a

  104. mandate. God told me the reason why I

  105. should be the presiding order. And some of the things that the

  106. Lord told me I've already shared with you.

  107. So as I stand here and as I'm in this local assembly, I know my

  108. mandates, Praise the Lord. So what?

  109. It means that whatever assignment God gives unto you,

  110. including the reason why God has called you there, should be a

  111. mandate. And when you know the mandate,

  112. you need to be focused. And when you are focused,

  113. nothing can distract you. Amen.

  114. Amen. This morning I want to speak to

  115. the topic the Church of God, The Church of God, the Church of

  116. God. When we talk about the Church of

  117. God, we are talking about the extension of God's Kingdom on

  118. the earth. The church represents the

  119. Kingdom of God on earth. So whenever we talk about the

  120. Church of God, we are talking about the Kingdom of God.

  121. Hello. So I all you sit there, I

  122. standing here representing the Church of God, we coming

  123. together collectively to represent the Church of God.

  124. We are the extension of God's Kingdom on this earth.

  125. So this one, and I want you to understand that you are not an

  126. ordinary person. So long as it is the Lord who

  127. has called you, then you are an extension of God's Kingdom on

  128. this earth. And when we talk about the

  129. extension of God's Kingdom on this earth, we are talking about

  130. what an ambassador, praise the Lord.

  131. So this morning, I am not an ordinary person.

  132. You may choose to be an ordinary person, but for me, knowing my

  133. mandate, knowing the fact that it is he who has called me.

  134. And if you also know that it is he who has called you, that is

  135. 1. And I want you to believe within

  136. your hearts. I want you to believe within

  137. your hearts that you are not an ordinary person.

  138. Amen. So I read the book of John,

    John 3:16

  139. chapter 3, verse 16, which says that for God so loved the world

  140. that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in

  141. Him will not perish, but have eternal life.

  142. What it means is that the purpose for which He has called

  143. you, the purpose for which He has called me, the purpose for

  144. which He has made me His ambassador, the purpose for

  145. which He has made you His ambassador, is to enable you

  146. inherit eternal life. Praise the Lord, whoever,

  147. whoever. So what it means is that He has

  148. opened His doors to everybody, people from different

  149. background, different society, that whoever believes in him who

  150. have an eternal life. So what it means is that it

  151. doesn't matter where you are coming from.

  152. Recently, the President of the Republic of Ghana appointed some

  153. some people to to to represent him in other countries.

  154. And among the many people in Ghana, some few were privileged

  155. to be selected. When we talk about ambassadorial

  156. position, it is not easy to be appointed.

  157. So if God through the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ has

  158. selected you to be His ambassador, then I want you to

  159. know that you are a privileged person.

  160. Praise the Lord, I'm saying all these things so that you know

  161. who you are at times. We work within the church, we

  162. work on this planet earth as if we have no aim, as if we don't

  163. know who we are. But this morning I'm here to

  164. challenge someone. I'm here to remind someone of

  165. your identity about the fact that you are the Church of God.

  166. Amen. So when Paul was speaking in

  167. First Corinthians chapter one verse 18, he said for the

  168. message of the cross is foolishness to those who are

  169. perishing, the message of the cross is foolishness to those

  170. who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power

  171. of God. How can you tell me that?

  172. Because Jesus died on the cross, someone has died so many years

  173. ago, about 2000 years plus. How can you tell me that for the

  174. fact that you have faith in Him, you believe in Him, and you

  175. accept Him, you are saved. How can you understand this with

  176. your human mind? And so Paul is saying that this

  177. message we are talking about, it is foolishness unto those who

  178. are perishing. So what it means is that this

  179. message can never be sensible to you if you are perishing, but to

  180. those who are saved, it is the power of God.

  181. Amen. Amen.

  182. This morning it is my prayer that you believe in the message

  183. of the cross and that I will believe in the message of cross.

  184. And as you believe and I believe, the Bible is saying

  185. that this message is the power of God unto us.

  186. Amen. Amen.

  187. You could see that the main reason why Jesus came unto this

  188. earth is to come and save mankind from his sin and

  189. reconcile man back unto God. And so when you read scripture,

  190. the Bible is saying that when Jesus came, he called men unto

  191. himself, He called his disciples.

  192. And you could see that the disciples that Jesus called unto

  193. himself, they came from different backgrounds, showing

  194. that Jesus is interested in all people from different

  195. backgrounds, from different race, from different what?

  196. From different, different. Whatever you can mention, Amen.

  197. There are some of us. Should we consider where we are

  198. coming from? It is not even, it cannot be

  199. located on the map of Ghana. Should we consider the kind of

  200. family we are coming from? We are far from the gospel

  201. message. We are not qualified to be

  202. called children of God. Should we consider where we are

  203. coming from? But God has interest in us.

  204. God has interest in us. So you could see that after

  205. Jesus has brought his assignment on this edge to a completion and

  206. Bible is saying that he was killed and then he asked the

  207. disciples to go and wait. And the disciples waited and

  208. they received the promise which is the Holy Spirit.

  209. The Bible is saying that that is way and how the church was

  210. birthed. Amen.

  211. Why the church? Why the church?

  212. The church was birthed to represent the Kingdom of God on

  213. this earth. The church was birth to promote

  214. the agenda of Jesus Christ. The church was birthed to

  215. represent Jesus Christ on this earth.

  216. And so you could see that when the church was birthed, the

  217. Bible is saying that the apostles taught the people who

  218. came to the saving knowledge of Christ and day in, day out the

  219. church, and I want you continue reading Bible is saying that as

  220. a result of the kind of life these people lived, the

  221. weatherly people named them Christians, which means

  222. followers of Christ, Amen. So the weatherly people

  223. recognize them as living same life, being an example of Jesus

  224. Christ. Amen.

  225. So when we talk about the church, we are talking about the

  226. Kingdom of God. Jesus is gone.

  227. Jesus is in heaven. The Bible is saying that he's

  228. gone to the Father. But the church represent the

  229. Kingdom of God on this earth. And So what it means is that

  230. Jesus has his people, Jesus has his, his men and women on this

  231. earth who are representing him. Hello.

  232. So Jesus is expecting that I be in His church, you be in His

  233. church. I will be His representative.

  234. You be His representative. Jesus is looking up unto you.

  235. Jesus is looking up unto me. Why?

  236. Because He has saved me. Why?

  237. Because He has delivered me from the Kingdom of darkness, and He

  238. has brought us into the Kingdom of His light.

  239. Amen. But let's just take note of

  240. this. As I already said, the church is

  241. the Kingdom of God, and the Kingdom of God is open to all

  242. kinds of people, all kinds of people from different

  243. backgrounds. If I should give all of us the

  244. opportunity to say or to testify how we came to the serving

  245. knowledge of Christ, we all have different stories to tell.

  246. Someone would say my grandmother was sick and she accepted the

  247. Lord Jesus Christ, or she she was miraculously healed and she

  248. accepted the Lord Jesus Christ. And as a result of that, all her

  249. children were saved. And the children, the children's

  250. children are saved. Everybody has a story.

  251. My whatever your story, my story may be, I want you to understand

  252. this morning that when we talk about the Church of God, the

  253. Church of God is the community of God which has embraced all

  254. kinds of people. When we talk about all kinds of

  255. people, we are talking about good people.

  256. When we talk about all kinds of people, we are talking about bad

  257. people. When we talk about all kinds of

  258. people, we are talking about evil people.

  259. And to give you a typical example, our Lord himself, when

  260. he was doing ministry and he called the disciples unto

  261. himself, there was one, There was one who was evil.

  262. Praise the Lord. Did Jesus not know that Judas

  263. will betray him? You could see that Jesus did

  264. ministry with all of them. And so this morning I want you

  265. to understand that as we belong to the Church of God, as we have

  266. been called into the Kingdom of God, we are all from different

  267. backgrounds. And I also want you to

  268. understand that in the church we have good people.

  269. And I also want you to understand that in the church we

  270. have bad people. And I also want you to

  271. understand that in the church we have evil people.

  272. Someone say knowledge is power. Until you know this, you don't

  273. know how to live in a church. Praise the Lord.

  274. And you see, it is God himself who calls all of these people.

  275. It is God himself who called Judas.

  276. You think if Jesus had not called Judas, Judas could have

  277. worked with Jesus to the point that he had an appointment, to

  278. the point that he had an appointment.

  279. Hello. So one of the things I've come

  280. to realize is that when we talk about the Church of God, which

  281. is the extension of God's Kingdom on this earth, I've also

  282. come to realize that the church is like a hospital.

  283. The hospital is there for everyone.

  284. When you come in, you'll be treated.

  285. When you come in, you'll be prescribed medication.

  286. What? The medication is prescribed for

  287. you? You can choose to take the

  288. medication. You can choose to throw the

  289. medication somewhere. Praise the Lord.

  290. But the fact that you failed to take your medication doesn't

  291. change the hospital. The hospital remains the

  292. hospital. We who have the privilege to be

  293. called as leaders of God's church, I'm saying we who have

  294. the privilege to become leaders of God's church, The reason why

  295. I'm saying this is because it is a privilege.

  296. Now we need not to take for granted God is looking up on to

  297. us that we will prescribe the unadulterated word of God unto

  298. His people and the keyword here is the unadulterated word of

  299. God. When we prescribe the

  300. unadulterated Word of God, we are delivering our mandates and

  301. those of you who have the privilege and the opportunity to

  302. listen to the leaders of God, God is expecting that.

  303. As we prescribe, as we teach, as we preach the unadulterated Word

  304. of God, God is expecting that you will take it.

  305. Failure to take it. We have done our part.

  306. Hello, God is expecting that we will pray in this church.

  307. So that church being the hospital, we are supposed to

  308. preach the word of God. We are supposed to pray and we

  309. are supposed to receive the failing of the Holy Ghost.

  310. So these are the kind of medication we are supposed to

  311. receive from the Church. And when we are receiving this

  312. medication and we take our treatment seriously, then what

  313. it means is that we are fulfilling the mandates of the

  314. Church. Failure to do that, we are not

  315. fulfilling the mandates. Amen.

  316. And you see, and as we preach the unadulterated Word of God,

  317. what we are also doing is that we are sowing seeds.

  318. As we preach the unadulterated Word of God, we are sowing seed.

  319. That is the only thing we can do.

  320. But for the seed to grow, for the seed to germinate, it will

  321. take the Holy Spirit. Amen.

  322. And this brings to mind the parable of the sewer.

  323. Maybe I'll read briefly. Should I read?

  324. OK, I'm reading from Matthew chapter 13, verse 1 to 11.

    Matthew 13:1–11

  325. That same day, Jesus went out of the house and sat by the leak.

  326. Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a

  327. boot and sat in it while all the people stood on the shore.

  328. Then he told them many things in parables, saying a farmer went

  329. out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed,

  330. some fell along the path and the bears came and ate it up.

  331. Some fell on rocky places where it did not have much soil.

  332. It sprung up quickly because the soil was shallow, but when the

  333. sun came up, the plants were scorched and they withered

  334. because they had no roots. Other seed fell among tongs

  335. which grew up and chopped the plants.

  336. So other seed fell on good sale, where it produced a crop 160 or

  337. 30 times what what was sold? Whoever has ears LED them here.

  338. The disciples came to him and asked, Why do you speak to the

  339. people in parables? He replied, Because the

  340. knowledge of the secrets of the Kingdom of heaven has been given

  341. to you, but not to them. Verse 11 He replied, because the

  342. knowledge of the secret of the Kingdom of heaven has been given

  343. to you, but not to them, praise the Lord.

  344. So those of us who have their privilege to belong to their

  345. church, what it means is that we are privileged to receive the

  346. secret of the Kingdom, and the secret of the Kingdom is the

  347. word of God. The secret of the Kingdom is the

  348. word of God. So what it also means is that as

  349. we preach, as we teach the word of God, from the parable that

  350. Jesus said, you could see that Jesus himself who is the all

  351. knowing God, this is a parable, he said.

  352. So what it means is that when you are a leader or you are a

  353. child of God and you preach the gospel, you preach the word of

  354. God and it is not yielding the result you are looking for.

  355. Don't worry yourself, keep on keeping because Jesus himself

  356. from the parable that he said, he's saying that when the

  357. message was preached, some fell on the path soil, some fell on

  358. the rocky soil, some fell on the toy Tony soil, and some fell on

  359. the good soil. And all these soils are in the

  360. Church of God. Praise the Lord.

  361. But Jesus is saying that for us, for us, for us, because the

  362. knowledge of the secrets of the Kingdom of heaven has been given

  363. to you, but not them. Now we talk about the knowledge

  364. of the secrets of the Kingdom of heaven.

  365. We are talking about the Word of God.

  366. And so, beloved, I want to stand upon the Word of God and

  367. encourage someone, Do not let the message we preach unto you

  368. go wasted. Hello.

  369. In fact, look at her brother and sister and tell him, do not let

  370. the message we preach to you go wasted.

  371. You see, when I started, I said the Kingdom of God is the

  372. extension of God's Kingdom on this earth.

  373. And when you read scriptures, the Bible, when Jesus was about

  374. to depart, he said he will come back.

  375. Jesus will come back. Whether you believe it or not,

  376. Jesus will come back. And that is what should be very

  377. interesting to us. When Jesus comes back, what will

  378. be our stand? From one of the scriptures we

  379. use for our annual team, Ephesians chapter 5.

    Ephesians 5 chapter mention

  380. Maybe let me start from verse 21.

  381. Ephesians chapter 5, verse 21. Submit to one another out of

    Ephesians 5:21

  382. reverence to Christ for Christ. Wives, submit yourself to your

  383. husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of

  384. the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, his body of which

  385. he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to

  386. Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in

  387. everything. Please shall we read the verse

  388. 24 together? Ready go.

  389. Amen. Let me continue, husbands, love

  390. your wives, just as Christ loved the church, and gave Himself up

  391. for her to make her holy cleansing, to make her holy

  392. cleansing her by the washing with water through the wade, and

  393. to present her to himself as a radiant church, without sting or

  394. wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

  395. Amen. So Christ is expecting that as

  396. His Church we shall submit ourselves to Him, because we are

  397. his bride. And then the last portion, maybe

  398. let me repeat it, he said, husbands love your wives, just

  399. as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her to make her

  400. holy. So that here Paul is trying to

  401. explain the reason why Christ gave himself is to make the

  402. church holy. So if Christ are not giving

  403. himself, the church can never be holy.

  404. So the holiness we are talking about does not come from our

  405. strength, but it comes from the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus

  406. Christ. Praise the Lord, cleansing her

  407. by the washing with water through the weight.

  408. So the Word of God cleanses us. The Word of God purifies us.

  409. So what do you belong to the church?

  410. And we preach the word to you, and you refuse to take the

  411. weight, and you are in the church.

  412. How can you be cleansed when we preach the Word to you and you

  413. are in the church and you refuse to take the weight?

  414. How can you be washed? And then when he continues and

  415. to present to himself, So you could see that all these things

  416. we are enumerating, we are enumerating is not out of our

  417. own efforts. And we are talking about pure

  418. grease and the end of the matter, the end of it all.

  419. His aim is to present her to himself, to present the church

  420. to himself as a radiant church without steam.

  421. So what it means is that when God called you, when God called

  422. me into the church, God knows. God knows that we are full of

  423. steam. Hello, God knows that we are

  424. full of steam, but He has brought us into the Kingdom.

  425. He has brought us into the church.

  426. For what? For which purpose?

  427. To wash us, to clean us, and at the end of the day to present us

  428. unto Himself. So this one.

  429. And if you are here, I want you to understand that God has

  430. brought you into the church to clean you, to wash you and

  431. present you unto himself. So if you are here and we are

  432. preaching the gospel to you all the time, and you are not taking

  433. the gospel, we are preaching the gospel unto you all the time.

  434. And you put the gospel somewhere and you live your life as if you

  435. are independent. You owe yourself.

  436. Yes, you are in the church, but that is not the reason why God

  437. brought you into the church. To present her to himself as a

  438. radiant church without stain or wrinkle or any blemish or any

  439. blemish. So what it means is that when

  440. one is called into the church, it is assumed that you have

  441. blemish. When one is called into the

  442. church, it is assumed that you are not holy, you are not real,

  443. but by the invitation or by you, 100 the invitation coming to the

  444. church, the reason why you are brought into the church and is

  445. for you to be transformed, to be transformed.

  446. And then the last part says, But holy and blameless, holy and

  447. blameless, praise the Lord. So this morning the Lord who has

  448. called us, has called us for a purpose.

  449. When you read the book of Revelations, Chapter 9, verse 9,

    Revelation 9:9

  450. Revelations 9 verse 9, then the Angel said to me, write this,

    Revelation 9:9

  451. blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of

  452. the Lamb, of the Lamb. And he added, these are the true

  453. ways of God. Blessed are those who are

  454. invited to the wedding supper of the lamb.

  455. Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of

  456. the lamb. While we are talking about those

  457. who have been invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb, we

  458. are talking about those who have been saved, who has been washed,

  459. who have been purified, who have been sanctified by the blood of

  460. Jesus. So this morning, if you are here

  461. and you have been saved, the Bible is saying that you are

  462. blessed. The reason why you are blessed

  463. is because you have been invited to the supper of the Lamb.

  464. And then when you read Revelations 22, verse 7,

    Revelation 22:7

  465. Revelations 22, seven, look, I am coming soon.

  466. Blessed is the one who keeps the ways of the prophecy written in

  467. the school. Look, I am coming soon.

  468. Blessed is the one who keeps the ways of the prophecy written in

  469. this group. If I want to reverse it or read

  470. it otherwise, look, I am coming soon.

  471. Guess is the one who refuses or who does not keep the ways of

  472. the prophecy. Hello.

  473. So what it means is that any person who keeps the ways of the

  474. prophecy, which stands for the word of God, any person who

  475. obeys the word of God, the Bible is saying that that person is

  476. blessed. So what it means is that God is

  477. expressing that the church that is you and I will keep the word

  478. of the prophecy. And when we keep it, the Bible

  479. is saying that we are blessed. So what happens to those who

  480. does not keep the word of the prophecy?

  481. Amen, Amen. And then when you read the book

  482. of Matthew chapter 25 Jesus book another parable there Matthew

    Matthew 25 chapter mention Matthew 25 chapter mention

  483. chapter 25 verse one down was at that time the Kingdom of heaven

  484. will be like 10 virgins who took their lamps went out to meet the

  485. bridegroom. Do not forget that the church is

  486. liking to the Kingdom of heaven. Do not forget that the church is

  487. an extension of God's Kingdom on this earth.

  488. Matthew 25. At that time the Kingdom of

  489. heaven will be like 10 virgins who took the alamps and went out

  490. to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and

  491. five were wise. The foolish ones took their

  492. lamps but did not take any oil with them.

  493. The wise ones, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps.

  494. The bridegroom was a long time in coming and they all became

  495. drowsy and fell asleep. At midnight the cry rang out.

  496. Here is the bridegroom come out to meet him.

  497. Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps.

  498. The foolish ones said to the wise, give us some of your oil,

  499. our lamps are going out. No, they replied.

  500. There may not be enough for both of us and you instead go to

  501. those who sell oil and busy sorry and buy some for

  502. yourselves. But while they were on their way

  503. to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived.

  504. The virgins who were ready went in with him and went in with him

  505. to the wedding banquets, and the door was shut.

  506. Later the artists also came. Lord, Lord, he said, open the

  507. door for us. But he replied, truly, I tell

  508. you, I don't know you, therefore keep watch because you do not

  509. know the day or the hour. Amen.

  510. I will share the rumor I received in this parable with

  511. you. You could see that the Bible

  512. describes 5 of the virgins are foolish and then five as wise.

  513. And the virgins knew. The virgins knew that the

  514. bridegroom was coming. They knew.

  515. The ten of them knew that the bridegroom was coming.

  516. One of the lessons we can learn here is that the ten of them had

  517. the same time to wait. The ten of them were in the same

  518. place. What it means is that the ten of

  519. them had the opportunity to hear whatever they needed to hear as

  520. they were awaiting the bridegroom.

  521. Praise the Lord. And then one of the remor I

  522. received, in fact, let me let me put it this way, somewhere last

  523. week something happened and then I was thinking about the whole

  524. thing. It's happened in the church.

  525. And then I was asking myself a lot of questions.

  526. In fact, I wasn't happy. So when I entered the bathroom

  527. and I was baffing, I was baffing and then I was worried.

  528. And then I was asking a lot of questions within my mind.

  529. And then I heard a voice telling me, Masa, have you taken your

  530. medication this morning? I asked myself, what medication?

  531. And then he said, well, read your Bible and pray.

  532. If you take your medication, you do not be worried about these

  533. days, praise the Lord. And the understanding I got from

  534. this is that as people of God, as children of God, if we should

  535. take, do not forget that I have already said that the church is

  536. like a hospital. It doesn't matter.

  537. You can be a leader or whatever you we are all in the hospital.

  538. God is working on us day in day out through the word hello.

  539. And so the explanation I receive is that should I pray and so.

  540. I. Forgot all those worries.

  541. I cannot do anything about it. All those worries, you cannot do

  542. anything about it. The only person who can do

  543. something about it is the owner of the church.

  544. Praise the Lord. And then it went further.

  545. And you see the reason why I was worried about, you know, I have

  546. mentioned here that one time God told me, I will reveal

  547. everything to you. I will show you everything

  548. within the church but do not utter a word.

  549. So at times when I see some of the things I want to talk, I

  550. want to speak, but I will be instructed do not talk and you

  551. won't say I'm a human being. I want to talk and the

  552. instruction is do not talk. So one that didn't happen like

  553. that, the reason why I was worried is because I want to

  554. talk. Is it the only way to control

  555. me? The only way to control the

  556. believer to do the will of God is to read your Bible and pray,

  557. praise the Lord. And so after I did that, I

  558. realized that I became relieved and then I got another

  559. explanation. The other explanation that came

  560. is that the reason why someone will belong to the Church of God

  561. and be worried. Be worried idea how is because

  562. you don't take your medication. If you take your medication, if

  563. you take the word of God and if you pray, you have the inner

  564. conviction that God is in control.

  565. You have the inner conviction that God rules.

  566. So when you have this inner conviction, when you come to the

  567. presence of God, you dance and you do everything as if nothing

  568. happens because He is in charge. My work, your work is to come

  569. and worship Him. Praise the Lord.

  570. Because he lives. Oh yeah, he's gone.

  571. So let me announce here that if we are in the Church of open the

  572. door for us. But he replied, Truly, I tell

  573. you, I don't know you, brethren, don't waste your time in the

  574. church. What will be the essence of you

  575. coming to church? Coming to church on Sundays and

  576. at the end of the day, you will not inherit, you will not go to

  577. heaven. What will be the essence of it?

  578. You would have wasted your time, just like the foolish virgins

  579. wasted their time. They called him all right, Lord.

  580. Yes, he is Lord. They called him.

  581. What it means is that they knew they knew him.

  582. They knew him. They know that his name is the

  583. Lord. They know that he is the Lord.

  584. So you may be in the church. You may know the Lord all right.

  585. Therefore, keep watch because you do not know the day or the

  586. hour. Amen.

  587. Maybe the last scripture I will mention I will not read John

    John 13 chapter mention

  588. chapter 13 verse one to five. John chapter 13 verse one to

    John 13 chapter mention

  589. five. You could see that when Jesus

  590. came to do ministry on earth and then he was bringing his

  591. assignment on earth to an end and he was preparing to go and

  592. dine with his disciples. The Bible is saying that from

  593. the Scripture, if you go home you read, but he talks about

  594. Jesus washing the feet of his disciples.

  595. And then Jesus instructed that we should do this in remembrance

  596. of him. That is the church, that the

  597. church all the time we shall dine.

  598. And so when we are dining, when we are taking the Lord Supper,

  599. we are taking the body of Christ and the blood of Christ.

  600. We are doing it in remembrance of him.

  601. But what I want us to learn here this morning is that you could

  602. see that before the Lord Supper or before they, they went to the

  603. table. Jesus who was the master, He

  604. went so long and then he washed the disciples feet.

  605. He went so long and then he washed the disciples.

  606. What can we learn here? Jesus was trying to portray to

  607. the disciples that before you come to my table, you need to

  608. humble yourself. Before you come to the table,

  609. you need to cleanse yourself. Before you come to my table, you

  610. need to purify yourself. We cleanse ourselves as I've

  611. mentioned already with the word of God.

  612. We come with all humility. We come to the table with a

  613. loving hearts. Hello.

  614. You can remember that when Jesus says he washed the disciples

  615. feet, Peter said no Lord Peter resisted by the long run, he

  616. gave up. And that is what at times some

  617. of us does as the one you read First Corinthians 11/23

  618. downwards which says that many of you are dead and sick.

  619. It's because of the way and the manner in which we come to the

  620. lost table. Some of us, we come to the lost

  621. table unprepared. The reason why one week is set

  622. aside is because it is scriptural.

  623. The Bible says that we have to come to the the lost table well

  624. prepared. How do we prepare ourselves?

  625. We prepare ourselves through prayer.

  626. We prepare ourselves through the word of God.

  627. And so when we declare one week lost supper week, what we do as

  628. a church is that we are praying, we are committing ourselves into

  629. the hands of the Lord. We are we are washing ourselves

  630. with the blood of Jesus through the Word.

  631. And so before when you're able to do all these things and you

  632. come and you take the law supper and to have effect on you and

  633. those who do that, I can say they belong to the wise group.

  634. Hello. But those who belong to the

  635. foolish group, they don't prepare in any way, yet they

  636. will come. May the Lord have mercy this

  637. morning. Which group do you belong to?

  638. When I read scripture, Bible says some time ago King David

  639. took someone's wife and then God sent his prophet to go and

  640. admonish him. And the Bible says that when the

  641. prophet went, he spoke to the king in parable, and the king

  642. did not know that he was the one the prophet was talking about.

  643. So when the king had brought out his comments, and then the

  644. prophet said, you are the one I'm talking about this morning

  645. as the word of God has come unto you, as the word of God has come

  646. unto you. And one thing I want you to

  647. understand this morning is that the way I preach, the way I

  648. speak is part of my mandates. Hello.

  649. It is part of my mandates. Yeah, that I was asking, Lord,

  650. why you told me. I have big men and big women in

  651. my church. I have a friend and say

  652. politicians. I have business tycoons.

  653. Where are they? And he said, Oh my, no.

  654. What do you want? You just pick the weight this

  655. morning. What I received from the Lord is

  656. what I have delivered unto you. Amen.

  657. Shall we be on our feet? Just by die your head and

  658. contemplates on the word of God you have had this morning?

  659. Just by die your head and contemplates on the word of God

  660. you have had. Father, let me call thee.

  661. Father is your child. Return to thee.

  662. Lord of mercy and compassion, look with thee upon me.

  663. Father, let me call thee. Father, here's your child,

  664. return to thee. Jesus.

  665. Lord, I must go. Mercy, let me know ye blow ye

  666. all my sins. I now never will I seen again

  667. Jesus Lord I am for mercy. Let me know Him blowing me all

  668. my sins. We are.

  669. Praying, thanking the Lord for the mercy that He has given unto

  670. us. I want you to.

  671. Open your mouth and thank the Lord for the revelation that He

  672. has revealed unto us this morning.

  673. Thank the Lord for the machines. Father, we thank you for the

  674. revelation that you refer unto your church, Lord, that the

  675. Church of God, what we are supposed to do, the rule that we

  676. are supposed to belong. Father, we thank you, Lord, for

  677. the message that you have given unto us.

  678. Bless you Lord, we bless you, Lord.

  679. What you've done for the masses that you have given on to us

  680. this morning, we take you, Lord, the Father called us to know the

  681. way that we are working. We thank you, Lord.

  682. We thank you, Lord. We thank you, Lord, for this.

  683. Thank you. We bless you, Lord.

  684. We thank you, Lord. We thank you, Lord.

  685. We thank you, Lord. We thank you, Lord.

  686. People of God. This morning.

  687. The Lord is in our mess and the Lord has been said.

  688. You'll be thinking that it is presiding that has said what

  689. he's supposed to say, but I believe that it is the law that

  690. is speaking to Him. And you want us to change

  691. certain things in our lives. This morning I want you to

  692. surrender unto the Lord. He talk about the two groups,

  693. whether you are for the wise or for you are for the foolish

  694. group. And this morning I want you to

  695. surrender unto the Lord that a father have come to you.

  696. If I belong to the foolish group, father, forgive me and

  697. I'm repenting of my sins. This is what we have to say unto

  698. our Lord this morning. Talk to God, surrender to God.

  699. Leave a suryapa. We've come to you, Lord.

  700. Father, We surrender unto you the Father.

  701. Whatever we've done against your will, Father, we pray that you

  702. forgive us, Lord. Mary belong to thy wife group.

  703. Mary belong to the foolish group Lord.

  704. Pray the Father you forgive us all if you've done anything

  705. against your will. Lord Mother.

  706. Forgive us Lord, and bless us. We surrender all to you.

  707. Lord, our Father, forgive us. Our Father help us.

  708. Lord, we are praying once again when our presiding was speaking,

  709. all that I could understand is that he want us to refresh

  710. Christ, or say you, whoever had any and nothing and normal soul,

  711. by not doing our own thing, but we representing Christ, we

  712. representing God on it, that his character will be seen in us,

  713. that we will not live a certain kind of life and come and stand

  714. here and pretend unto God. This is what we are praying this

  715. morning, that may we refresh Christ in whatever that we do,

  716. our character that alone, may the Lord change it and Mary

  717. refresh Christ. Prayer to God we pray Lord, and

  718. Mary refresh you, Lord. There are certain characters in

  719. US, Lord, that are not from you, Lord.

  720. We pray the Father take it away and Mary refresh you, Christ,

  721. Lord, that are not from you, Lord, take it away and may we

  722. refresh you, Lord. May our character, Lord be like

  723. you, Lord. May we love your taste, Lord.

  724. May we do your works, Lord. May we obey you, Lord.

  725. May we serve you, Lord. We pray for this character's

  726. Lord to be like you Lord, and act like you

  727. wrong. The.

  728. We are praying once again. Sometimes our oil runs dry

  729. because we use our own strength. There are certain things that we

  730. are supposed to do for gold that we are not doing.

  731. When our presiding was speaking, he was talking about certain

  732. things about gossiping you now you know your life, you know the

  733. things that you have been doing. I know mine.

  734. But we are coming to the Lord telling what are this is a

  735. gospel. This is the Lord Supper and we

  736. telling what? The Father, we've come to you as

  737. we are coming to dining with you.

  738. There are certain things in us which I'm not reflecting You

  739. Christ, we've come to you, Lord the Father.

  740. Take it away and help us to reflect you.

  741. Christ, this is our player. Let's shanada badaba laba

  742. suryana badaba. Father, we've come.

  743. To you. Lord, you know that we are doing

  744. that. I'm not reflecting you, Lord,

  745. that we have been doing that. Our Lord, Father, reflect to

  746. you. We are praying this morning.

  747. The Father help us as we standing with you.

  748. Lord, we pray the Father take it away.

  749. We pray the Father take it away. Because we

  750. are not coming close to you.

  751. People. Of God, if you we really want to

  752. be like Christ, see a person, you get to say Jesus Christ.

  753. There's one thing that our Poseidon said I like so much.

  754. We must humble ourselves and this is the Spirit of God.

  755. When you don't have this spirit of God to humble yourself, there

  756. are certain things that God will tell you.

  757. But you will. Not do.

  758. There are certain things that our leaders are going to tell us

  759. because we don't have this humble spirit.

  760. Do not listen to them, but we are praying this morning that

  761. that may the Lord pour his spirit upon us.

  762. A humble spirit, a humble spirit to hear from God, a humble

  763. spirit to listen to God, a humble spirit to obey God.

  764. Open your mouth and pray for the spirit.

  765. Liba surya na daba daba daba. We pray for humble spirit.

  766. Lord the Father, God has a humble spirit to listen to you,

  767. Lord, to obey you, Lord, spirit, Lord, upon your church, the

  768. Father, we are going to hear from you and obey you.

  769. Lord, we are going to hear from you, Lord, and obey our leaders.

  770. Father, we pray for this humanity spirit that will live

  771. upon your charter. May we humble ourselves, Lord,

  772. may we humble ourselves. Lord and Father, rely on you and

  773. do what you have said we should do.

  774. Your presence I come. We are not opening this can see

  775. light Your glory transform me to Christ.

  776. Your sound I come. Oh my God bless me.

  777. When we were praying, I heard a voice which is saying that many

  778. of us speak against the Church of God, many of us speak against

  779. the people of God, and as a result of that we are paying the

  780. consequence. But the same voice is saying

  781. that if you surrender, I will heal you this morning.

  782. The Lord knows me and the Lord knows me.

  783. But the good thing is that it is the Lord who has called you.

  784. For what reason has He called you?

  785. He has called to work on us. So this morning, no matter how

  786. you are, I want you to surrender unto Him.

  787. We are singing the same song. When we are done, I will stand

  788. in and pray. If you don't know the lyrics,

  789. look at the lyrics and sing along And I should be our

  790. prayer. We don't want to stand in the

  791. presence of God with a hypocritical life.

  792. When we say just as we are, we have come.

  793. What it means is that God knows all our weaknesses and therefore

  794. we have come before you with our weaknesses.

  795. God, touch me, reveal yourself unto me.

  796. Your your presence I come. We are not all in place gazing

  797. out your glory. Transform into Christ, your son.

  798. I can't. Oh my God bless me.

  799. Oh my God, Oh my God bless me. If you can't raise your two

  800. hands as a sign of surrounding unto him.

  801. If you can't raise your two hands.

  802. The Lord is. Yours since I come with our own

  803. living faith, kissing as your glory transform into Christ,

  804. your Son, I come. Oh my God bless me.

  805. Oh my God, Oh my God bless. Me, oh Lord, our God, the Master

  806. of the universe, the all knowing God, the creator of humanity,

  807. this morning You know everything.

  808. We come before you just as we are.

  809. We have had your word. Your word is able to clean us.

  810. Your word is able to purify us. Your word is able to sanctify

  811. us, Your word is able to heal us.

  812. And therefore this morning I stand in the cup and I intercede

  813. for your church. Lord, may you be merciful unto

  814. us. Lord, may you be gracious unto

  815. us and let your wait transform our lives in Jesus mighty name,

  816. Amen.