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Welcome to Logos Rima R with God's servant, Rev.

Dr.

Joseph Baalbin, Head Pastor of Harvest Chapel International Kumasi. And now,

to today's message.

Let's take our confession, Joshua 1 verse 8, this book

Joshua 1:8

of the Lord shall not depart out of my mouth,

that I shall meditate in it day and night, that

I may observe to do according to all that is

written in it. For then I will make my way prosperous,

and then I will have good success. Amen. Why don't

you take your seats? So let's continue our discourses on

order in giving. Hallelujah. And we are in Deuteronomy chapter 8,

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and we said we are on the pathway to divine wealth.

The wealth that God, when God brings into our lives,

He says He adds no sorrow to it. He gives

us the health, the vitality, and every other thing that

we need so we can enjoy it. Amen. Hallelujah. And

we are looking at, we're looking at some of the

key and the guiding principles for you and I acquiring

or having bestowed upon us divine wealth. Amen. And last

week we were looking at Deuteronomy chapter 8, and then

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maybe let me read through once again, and then we'll

come to verse 1. We have not finished breaking down

verse 1. That is where we ended last Wednesday. But let's,

so we can get all the background again, how God

created wealth for Israel of old. And some of the

trying times and seasons that God took them through before

bringing them into the world. Hallelujah. And we take note

that every commandment which I command you today, you must

be careful to observe that you may live and multiply

and go in and possess the land of which the

Lord swore to your fathers. Let's quickly run through to

20 and then we'll come back. And you shall remember

that the Lord your God led you all the way

these 40 years in the wilderness to humble you and

test you, to know what was in your heart, whether

you would keep his commandments or not. Verse 3, So

he humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you

with manna, which you did not know, nor did your

fathers know, that he might make you know that man

shall not live by bread alone, But man lives by

every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.

Verse 4. Your garments did not wear out on you,

nor did your foot swell these 40 years. 5. You

should know in your heart that as a man chastens

his son, so the Lord your God chastens you or

disciplines you. 6. Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of

the Lord your God to walk with 7. For the

Lord your God is bringing you into a good land,

a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs

that flow out of valleys and hills. 8. A land

of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees, and pomegranates,

a land of olive oil and honey. A land in

which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you

will lack nothing. A land whose stones are iron and

out of whose hills you can dig copper. 10. When

you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless

the Lord your God for the good land which he

has given you. 11. Beware that you do not forget

the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments, his judgments,

and his statutes, which I command you to do. Lest

when you have eaten and are full and have built

beautiful houses and dwell in them, and when your heads

and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold

are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied, When

your heart is lifted up and you forget the Lord

your God who brought you out of the land of

Egypt from the house of Bondi. 15. Who led you

through that great and terrible wilderness in which were fiery

serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water.

Who brought water for you out of the flinty rock. 16.

Who fed you in the wilderness with manna which your

fathers did not know. that he might humble you and

that he might test you to do you good in

the end. 17. Then you say in your heart, my

power and the might of my hand have gained me

this wealth. 18. And you shall remember the Lord your God,

for it is he who gives you power to get well,

that he may establish his covenant, which is swore to

your fathers, as it is in there. Highlight this one,

you know, very key, because that's where we are heading towards,

but we'll see if we'll be able to get there

in our discourses. But you should have this key verse

that talks about divine will, highlighted in your Bible. It says,

and you shall remember the Lord your God, For it

is he who gives you power to get wealth, that

he may establish his covenant, which he swore to your fathers.

As it is this day. Let's do the last two verses,

19 and 20. Then it shall be, if you by

any means forget the Lord your God and follow other

gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against

you this day that you shall surely perish. 20. As

the nations which the Lord destroys before you, So you

shall perish because you would not be obedient to the

voice of the Lord your God. Hallelujah. Amen. That is very,

very strong language, you know, that God uses concerning Israel

of old. He told them what he was to be

expectant of, what he was going to do. But he

also told them, don't forget your background. Don't forget your past.

Don't forget where God is bringing you from. When you

come into covenant relationship with God, more or less, he

was saying, that's for me. I have the power. I

have the resources to do whatever I want to do

in your life. Because the earth is the lost and

the fullness thereof. When it comes to me, I'm not man.

I'm not a promise and fail God. When I speak,

he says that I always stand behind my word. to

ensure that it comes to pass. So take note that

as for the blessings I told you, when I unpicked

you and I rescued you from Egyptian bondage, I'm taking

you to a land that is filled with milk and honey.

And he gives us a graphic description of what to expect.

Did you see milk and honey? I didn't see. But

he was talking about wheat. He was talking about grain.

He was talking about enlarging your cattle and all those things. Hallelujah.

And then he said, but hold on, hold on. Hold on.

I created man. I know what the fall has brought

into your life. The ability to forget your creator and

then begin to think in moments and seasons of prosperity

that it is my hand, my ingenuity. Because God created

us with a lot of talents and competencies. So sometimes

it is very, very, very easy as a child of

God to forget the skills, the competencies, and everything that

you are enjoying in the hands of God that it

is God. And he says, remember, hallelujah, where you are

coming from. And he's telling us that, he's reminding them

that it's a background where things were tough. But he

says it was intentional. So before God brings you into wealth,

sometimes in order to humble us, in order to let us,

because in those seasons of humbling and chastening, at least

we can't, in Exodus chapter 1, sorry, Yes, in Exodus

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chapter 1, you saw that Israel were crying out to

God because the Bible says of the bondage, the severe bondage.

of Egyptian bondage. And they cried, and the Bible says that,

but God remembered Israel and the covenant that he had

cut with him for Father Abraham. God said he had

respect for the covenant. You and I knew. What are

the lessons? You and I, New Testament believers, there is

a covenant. The blood of Jesus Christ has been shed

to seal that covenant. The promises are hinged on the

promises of Jesus Christ. Better, far better than the promises

of the covenant that Abraham cut for Israel or God

cut with Abraham on Israel's behalf. Hallelujah. He says that

we should have a Shorak covenant. Amen.

Amen.

So it is based on this covenant that God has

reassured us that he will bless us. And in you

and I's case, he's not just saying that he's taking

us to a land flowing with milk and oil. He

has been very, very explicit and clear. So if I

believe a truth, look, hard times and seasons, this is

part of the package. And God has never in any

time or season said that anything. Let me rather put

it the other way. He has promised us where the

blessings that he has earmarked for us will unfold in

our life. Not in this life. He says, in this life,

I'm going to do everything that I can so that

you can have an enjoyable life. But the riches, the

promises of God in the New Testament is for the

joys and then the riches of heaven. In chapter number

two of our lives, not here. So even as you

are reading the Bible and you are getting a conversation

with the promises, Israel's old, it was the promised land.

By you and I, it is heaven. Say amen. Amen. Hallelujah.

But then in the journey, he has promised us. Jesus

said it. He said, you forsake father, you forsake mom,

you forsake anything for the gospel's sake. He said, in

this life, in this life, I'm going to compensate you

and bring you fathers, mother figures. I'm going to bring

you brothers and sisters. I'm going to bring you houses

or a place to put your head whilst we trek

through this land. But rest assured that in the life

to come, When we get into heaven, that's when the

full compensation package or rewards for us will unfold. Hallelujah.

That is the gospel of Jesus Christ. So there's a

slight difference between Old Testament blessings and New Testament blessings. Amen.

The wealth of the New Testament believer will not be

fully accessed in this life. Say a big amen. Amen.

So if you never sleep in a pajero, take heart. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

For all you know, the one that you will ride

in heaven, hey, gold-plated one, from the time we will

be gold. Hallelujah. Amen. And there will not be gallants there.

So no potholes. Say a big amen.

Amen.

Hallelujah. Amen. So there's a difference between Old Testament blessings

and in the year mark, New Testament blessings. Hallelujah. But

in all of these, God is saying, For one thing,

I will honor my word. I will honor my word.

He says, even in the Old Testament, to give Abraham

all the assurance and reassurance that he needed, he took

a oath. He said, Abraham, I swear I'll bless you.

So that he said in two things that is immutable law,

God cannot change his mind. Just to make that thing

a double issue. Number one, when God speaks, he doesn't

change his mind. And then, Much more swearing and taking

an oath. But God said he did that just to

reassure you and I. Now whatever he has said he

will do, he will do. Say a big amen. Hallelujah.

So let's follow Israel and let's pick up the lessons

where we left off from. So we are in verse 1.

We said we are breaking them down. And then we

looked at, we said five key things in Deuteronomy chapter

Deuteronomy 8:1

8 verse 1 that we could pick lessons from. Number

one is that He says that every commandment which I

command you today, you must be careful to observe that

you may live and multiply. Go in and possess the Lord,

the land of which the Lord swore to you. Five truths.

Number one, we said the whole commandment. Number two, be

careful to do. That's what he said. Be careful to do.

That is living obedience. Number three, so that you may live.

Live and multiply. It's an assurance. Your resources will. We

saw in the case of Isaac, God started prospering him

until he became very, very prosperous. And I like what

the tail end of that verse, it says that such

that the Philistines around, they started envying him. Who is this?

And where is he getting this wealth from? Hallelujah. Amen.

That's the third truth. And then we say, Number four

was to go in. He said, go in and possess

the land. And the fifth truth there, the Lord has

sworn to give it to us. Hallelujah. And I think

we ended on the third point. And we already have

spoken about the whole commandments, saying the logos and the rhema.

You must read your word and you must be mindful

and conscious of the indwelling presence of of the Holy

Spirit in your life. Every time that we have the opportunity,

we want to remind ourselves as New Testament believers. Now

what makes us live, move, and have our being is

the Holy Spirit. Without any Holy Spirit, I'm afraid you're

not going to be able to end up in the

courts of heaven. Because the seal, the authentication of your

born-again experience is the Holy Spirit in you. And the

Holy Spirit doesn't come in and sneak in. He's not silent.

You will know. Amen. Please, you will know. You don't

have any Holy Spirit. You are not born again. You

are not. He won't sneak in. It's a tumultuous event.

You will know it. We are saying this thing. We

want you to get the real thing so that these blessings,

they will become a reality. So they will be tangible.

People drift away from church because all the promised blessings

of the gospel, they are not experiencing it. And God

is never at fault. If only you would just, you know,

rally your mind and wrap your mind around it that, me, me,

I'm the one that I'm at fault. And God is

not afraid of us. He will point it out to us.

He created us. He owns us. Our bodies, he says,

are the temple of the Lord. So when he invades

your temple, he makes it come because it's a very

welcome exercise. Unizes all that what believed in him and

received him. We welcomed him. Holy Spirit, come. Come and stay.

So when he comes, you have opened your heart to him.

He will let you know. So it's a very critical

stage in the born again experience. The invasion of the

human soul by the Holy Spirit. Amen. So that you

will know something. Something, a spirit has come to take

residence in me. And he will let you know. And

this is where all the signs, the proofs, and all

the reassurances that you need as a believer to let

you know that you are a child of God come.

That is when the dreams and the visions, you hear

people talking about visions of heaven and seeing angels and hallelujah.

Satan too can appear. Satan is an angel. So anytime

I do that, I won't. That's why you need to

be genuine. When you are genuine, God will not allow hallelujah. Amen.

Even when they come and the angels of Satan comes

and he pretends, there will be something niggling in the

back of your heart and mind that there's something wrong

with this angel. Hallelujah. Amen. You say, oh, I've read it.

That's why going to school is important. The school of

the Spirit. Because you are reading, you are reading. You

see the dreams and the visions of some of the

prophets and all those things. Daniel, you know, and all

that and then. You now, you alone, your angel when

he came. Have you read through those prophets? When they

see the angels, what do they do? They bowed. They

fell down. They said, I fell down as if I

was dead. They are shaking. And you, your angel, when

he appeared, hallelujah. And so immediately, your own appearance, it

seems you just, this angel died. It didn't feel like

worshiping there. Maybe there's something wrong. Hallelujah. Amen. So there's

always something in the scriptures and then by extension, the

Holy Spirit in you that will Just, you know, prick

your heart and mind that there's something wrong. And that

is why the safety of the believers being planted in

the house. Then, can I go and share with Pastor

this person? I had a dream and then this angel says,

I'm called Angel Akakatiako. And he says, I should. Somebody

came and says that they had a dream and then

they say that there's some wealth in their house. Some

wealth in the house that they need to go and

find somebody to do some ritual so that they can dig.

The grandparents left some wealth on the compound. You read

the scriptures in that angels are leading people to find

gold in their house when there is some waiting in heaven. Hallelujah. Amen.

So there are a lot of things that are happening

that sometimes we are a little bit, some of us

are a bit hesitant when it comes to spiritual encounters

and all those things. But my point is that get

the genuine thing. The Holy Spirit will guide you. If

there is anything fishy, sneaky, uncomfortable, with the dream, the vision,

in the body of counselors, sorry, in the midst of

multiple counselors, there is safety. In the body of the Lord,

we are doing the Bible studies. You have the opportunity

to ask. When we do the household of faith Bible studies,

that's how we grow. By asking questions, sharing the experiences

that we are going through, In our spiritual journey. Amen. Sharing. Very,

very important. Because they are false and deceptive angels. They

are false dreams. They are false vision. Amen. So that's

the world of the spiritual phenomena. They are false ones.

They are true genuine ones. Share. So we can be guided. Hallelujah.

But my point is this. The Holy Spirit comes in

to take residence in you. He's going to bring holy

appetites to you. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

He's going to help you understand the word of God. Amen.

And he's going to let you have to build a

certain measure of confidence in the hand of the Lord.

And he's the one who is going to help you

understand the scriptures and give you the energy to obey.

So when we say every commandment which I command you today,

you will do it by the enabling hand of God.

Say a big amen. You don't say, oh, yeah, yeah.

I know in 21st century, every commandment, you can't. That's

the mystery of the Christian life. You can't. The Holy Spirit,

that's the mystery behind godliness. He will take you one

day at a time. You may stumble and fall. He

says that seven times you may do it, but there

will always be a helping hand to lift you up

so you can validate the word because it is the

word and that gets the wealth that God is going

to bring into your life, the prosperity. of body, soul,

and spirit, the peace of God, the passive all understanding,

the joy of the Lord. Hallelujah. You need this. It's

not just the material blessings, but you need the spiritual

blessings that makes you a happy person. Say amen. So

when you wake up in the morning and you are

going to church, I was glad when they said unto me,

let us go into the house of the Lord. Your

leg and your whole body language is positive. Hallelujah. When

you sleep, you can sleep. And you stop flying in

the night. Hallelujah. Amen. A brother came to share with me.

That's why the safety of the church. And he says, Pastor,

I sometimes sleep and I'm flying. And I said, you

are not a bird. I said, you are not a bird.

You are a human being. We need to cast that

spirit out in Jesus' name. You are not an occultist.

You are a child of God. You have to stop flying. Amen. Hallelujah.

And he understood me. Amen. So the whole commandment, the

second point was he said, be careful to do it.

Be careful to do it. And we said that is

to live in obedience. You can do it. That's exactly

the point I'm making. God will help you. The Holy

Spirit will enable you. He comes alongside as our coach,

as our mentor, as our comforter, as our counselor throughout

all our lives and sojourning here on earth. Say a

big amen. The only reason you will not be able

to feel him or he will walk away is when

sin comes into your life. When you stop obeying, then

I'm afraid you're going to go on a backslide or

a downslide. You backslide. And even when you are in

a backsliding state and the Holy Spirit speaks, you will

hear it. And when you get in that state, it's very,

very difficult. Because even if the Holy Spirit is speaking

to you, you will hear. When, Pastor, when I come,

Anybody else to come to, you won't hear. You won't

listen to us. Hallelujah. Amen. Very, very, very important. So

he says, be careful. And we said that word, be careful.

It has to do with safeguard it. Hallelujah. Be careful.

We said it is that at the cost of your life,

put your life on it. Hallelujah.

Yes.

Put your life on. Defend it. Defend it. When God

speaks to you, the commandments, the way we are living

our life, people will give us or demand from us

a reason and an answer why we live our lives

that way. You know, like Satan did to Adam and

Eve in the Garden of Eden. Has God said that

you should every day be going to church? Has God

said that you should be fasting every time? Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

You know where you are coming from. You know the

demons that are chasing you. You know the leading and

the guidance of the Holy Spirit. So you can stop

flying at night and have all kinds of things chasing you.

Not by power, not by might, but by your spirit.

So sometimes the Holy Spirit will take you on a

journey of fasting and praying. It's spiritual warfare. You never know.

Sometimes you know, you just feel like, I don't feel

like eating. I don't feel like eating. I feel like

waiting on the Lord. And then there is a stariner

to pray and to praise. And somebody who doesn't understand.

who come in there and your church, they like fasting.

And I said, for me, that's my experience. That is

how we got out of the church. That's how we

escaped out of the snare of the fowler. And that's

how God broke the net and the chains and liberated us.

And that's how come we have been able to, you know,

by the grace of God and the word of God's authority,

be able to get people and a lot of people

to flee out of the prison yard of the devil.

Not by power, not by might, but by my spirit.

IPIP and all those things is leading by the Holy

Spirit because of the peculiar challenges that we find ourselves

in in our day. Oh my God, that is how

the chains of pornography and all the sexual sins have

been broken in the lives of people. So when you

come and tell me as a pastor that we are

fasting too much, we should stop fasting, I just look

at you and say, I don't think God sent you.

I don't think that God sent you to me. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen.

Because the needs, the needs, look, it's not going to

be by power, not by might, but the spirit of the...

How are we going to be able to do all

those things that we... How have we come this far?

Despite the opposition. By prayer. Aggressive spiritual warfare. And the same,

and then we are not even there. Look at all

that is left to do. And then as we are

going on there, you look back, and then the children

also are coming. It's a generational thing. So when are

we going to stop, you know, fighting in spiritual, fighting

on our knees? As for the fasting, it is an

addition to help, help, help, help! The main thing is

the prayer. But sometimes, You'll be so much agonizing in

the spirit that you just feel the hand and the

stained hand of God. Can you wait? Can you give

me your breakfast? Let me talk to you and let

us connect to bind some things and to lose something

in the church, in the family, in individual's lives. Then

you are there and then God is just sending you.

You are seeing pictures of things and pictures of people

and names that are resonating in your heart and in

your mind. Pray! You never know what they are going through.

And God will use that prayer of intercession to just

bring deliverance to somebody. Hallelujah. All because our minds, if

you like, our spiritual antennae has been sharpened through the

continual conversations we have with God in fasting and in prayer.

That's how we are able to obey him. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Amen.

And then when you do that, oh my God. As

I said, the children, oh, the children. If it were

me alone, no, but the children, the children. Hallelujah. Amen.

So we fight for another generation. That's why we can't

stop what we are doing. We can't lay our toes down.

We must still stay on our knees and pray. And pray.

If they don't get you, don't attack the children. Hallelujah.

And just mess up their lives. But you and I,

God is a very merciful and compassionate God. As we

continue every day, day one, you will see and I say,

nothing will happen. And you will see and I say,

the children are going wayward. They will be swallowed by

the spirit of the tide. But God, who is merciful,

will look upon our cries and intercession and send a rescue.

That's how it works. Somebody must decide, I'm going to sacrifice.

I'm going to pay that price so somebody might live

and not die. Hallelujah. Amen.

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