LRH: Order in Our Giving - 11

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

Dr.

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

to today's message.

Let's take our confession from Joshua 1 verse 8. This

Joshua 1:8

book 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 in his presence. So we are journeying on

how best we can bring order into our life of giving.

Hallelujah.

God wants his children As we are saying, to learn

the values, the principles in the word.

Hallelujah. We are already rich. Hallelujah. Amen. That's the Bible.

So we are already rich with God. He said he

has now seated us with Christ Jesus in the heavenly places.

Far above all rule.

And authority and principalities. He said, I show that in

the world to come, he will show us all the

good things that he has taught for us.

Hallelujah. Amen. Very, very important.

I always like to quote Abraham calling God the possessor

of heaven and earth. The possessor.

He owns it.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And it isn't an acquisition as if, you know,

a wealth acquisition. God, somebody did it and God went. No,

he created it. He invented it himself. He's the original

owner and sole owner.

Hallelujah.

So if we pursue him, we will have access to

the wealth.

Hallelujah. Amen. Amen.

Sometimes some of the things that some of us do,

and once again, so that we can fall in love

with the word of God. so we can fall in

love with the word of God. As we are saying,

it's very, very important that don't pick and choose. You

want to see, you see that he's basing the wealth

acquisition or the stewardship of the wealth of this world.

Why should I place it in your hands maybe? Hallelujah.

You have to show.

Trust in the word that you're going to trust God

to guide you.

Hallelujah. Amen.

So if you can't, Read the Word and grasp what

is foundational.

Amen.

What is important. What is very, very important. The skill,

the order that we are talking about.

Hallelujah.

Amen.

So when you pick and choose, then that is this orderliness. Amen.

But let me use this solution. You look in all creation,

there's order in all creation. I don't know who invented

the numeral systems and alphabets and But if you go

to school, or you are a teacher, and then you

call the children here and say, can we come and

recite the alphabet? And then child A comes, and then

he starts, A, B, C, D, E, F, G. And

he says, well done. Then another person comes, and they say, K.

O, Z, R.

But it's the alphabet that he's giving. So why would

you mark that person down?

There's no order.

Amen. It's the same thing. One, two, three, four, five.

You say, come and recite the numeral. And then you

start from 21. You say, wait.

Hallelujah. Amen. So it's the same thing. Hallelujah. Amen. A

comes before B. Then C. Amen. So that's life.

God has put in place an orderly arrangement of things.

What comes first and next. In this life, it is

always going to be God first. In this life, it

will always be God first.

Hallelujah. Amen.

You want to come in. We are talking about divine wealth.

You want to come into divine wealth. You want God

to bless your life such that when they draw a

line between your wealth, it will end up at the

doorstep of God.

God first. Hallelujah.

I want to go and pursue. When my business takes

root and begins to flourish, and then I'm able to

buy my car, then I'll be regular in church. You

will never get there. You will never get there. I'm

talking about you being able to pursue God.

Hallelujah. And knowing that.

I know my Redeemer lives there. I found God. Hallelujah.

Amen.

In the kingdom, in life, in God's kingdom, it's always

God first. His assignment first. Hallelujah. It's the same thing.

When you wake up in the morning, God first. When

you wake up in the morning, God be fine. You say,

where you go to work, it's a very far place,

so I need to hit the ground running. And first

thing that I think about when I wake up is

to just get into the shower and just be off

else I'll be late and I'll lose my job.

No problem.

On your way, can God become first in your thoughts?

Hallelujah. Can you connect with God?

And be talking to God and holding those conversations with God.

I'm not going to mark you.

You have the witness within your spirit that I spoke

with God this morning. I talked with God and he

spoke back to me.

Hallelujah.

And then you have that witness in your spirit that

there is joy and there is strength. When you are backsliding,

you know you are backsliding. Because the strength will not

be there. The joy will not be there. The binding

and loosing, you will lose it. Then you know that

maybe what I am doing is not right. I mean,

in any case, the Holy Spirit will be giving you

the feedback.

Can't we talk before you set off? Hallelujah.

You see, so when you don't do things orderly, before

you realize, your faith life has become basah. You are

listless and you are worried. It's that you are not

putting order. You are not giving God the best of

your time, the best of your talents, the best of

your treasures. God makes a demand on that because he

wants to be, he created us to be number one

in our lives.

Hallelujah. Amen.

God first, and then money or wealth will follow as

our reward. Hallelujah.

Amen.

So now let's go to the second point. So that

is it, the whole commandment. Point number two, we said

be careful to do. Now that word there, careful, is

the same word that when God created Adam, when he

put him in the Garden of Eden, he said, work

it and do what?

Keep it. Amen.

Safeguard it. And he's talking about the word of God.

Protect the commandments. Put your life on it. When he

says protect, that's what he says. Shield it. I just

want us to see how important the word of God

is to coming into wealth that God will bestow on

you as a steward. So that when you know the

word and you know the voice of God, you know

the logos, you know the remarks, Even when God makes

you a billionaire, God will still remain first in your life. Else,

I guarantee you, look, without the word, there's no way.

When you become a billionaire, we have seen you. We

are praying with you. We are trusting God that you

become the billionaire that we are all looking for.

Hallelujah.

But when you become the billionaire, what's going to.

Be your priority list?

God first, and then sometimes the pastor, then they'll make

their face something.

I don't know.

They'll make their face something. Don't talk to me. Don't

talk to me. I know what I'm doing. You know,

you are worrying me. You are worrying me. Already I

hear when the people, the seekers and finders, they are

calling some.

People and they say, you are worrying me. Don't call me.

You are worrying me. We will worry you. I told

them that we will worry you.

Hallelujah. Amen.

That is our duty. So you permit us. We will

call you.

Amen.

When you don't come to church, they will seek you.

They will call you out. Say a big amen. Hallelujah. Amen.

That's the nature of the job.

We will call you. We have to call you. When

we don't see you in church, we have to call you.

If we don't call you later on, you say, leave

me alone. When we leave you later on, you will come.

Nobody loves me here. So that's why we are calling you.

Hallelujah.

So they say something when they call, you know, miscall, miscall.

Even the miscall, you will return the call.

Please.

Hallelujah.

Amen. We will be calling you. Hallelujah.

Amen. So as I'm saying, that word careful is the

same word of caution that's used in Genesis 2.15 when

God instructed Adam to work and keep the garden.

Hallelujah.

Amen.

Very, very important.

So he says that the commandment I give to you,

you shall be careful.

Hallelujah. Amen.

Joshua once said, what did he tell him? This book

of the law, out of my life. But meditate in

it day and night. And observe to do according to

all that is written in it. For then I will

make my way prosperous.

So is it any.

The reason why God would say safeguard your pathway to prosperity.

Joshua is about to go for warfare. And God is

not talking about military tactics and all that. But he's

talking about the word. The word of God.

Hallelujah.

So the book of the law, the word of God

is relevant in your business life and enterprise. God knows

why he has given you the grace to be a businessman.

Or whatever profession that you are doing.

Hallelujah.

A pharmacist, whatever. God knows why. He puts you in

that place. And yet still, he says that it is

this book.

Of the law.

Safeguard it.

Hallelujah. And not just that.

In your marriage, safeguard the word. What does God say

about how we need to be modeling and conducting ourselves

in the marriage and in the union? The new man,

if you go into your marriage with the old man,

you will collapse the marriage. Amen. So for a child

of God, he says this book, school, warfare, marriage, whatever

profession that you are pursuing, he says that let the

book of the law be relevant in this pursuit of life.

The word of God is relevant in the pursuit of

an enjoyable marriage. Do it. Just do it for God

and see if it will work or it will not work.

Hallelujah. Amen.

But you know why it's going to work? Now, you

just take a little peek. What happened in the case

of Joshua? At least during the conquest and the fall

of Jericho.

Hallelujah.

Amen. This is the book of the law. Now, here

comes Joshua to the promised land. Jericho lies, you know,

is the first town or city that he had to conquer.

And they had this impregnable wall as a fortress. And

there was no way that they could be able to

bring those walls down. Some Bible commentators have said they

could do horse racing, child racing on the walls that

surrounded Jericho. So the people of Jericho, they were so secured.

I'm sure Joshua would have wondered, and God didn't give

me any military tactics. And so this book of the law,

this book of the law, this book of the law.

You know what happened?

Lo and behold, as he was surveying the mountain, here

comes An angel of the Lord. He says, a man

with an outgrown sword comes. And then Joshua asks him,

are you for us or against us? He said, I'm

not against you, but I've come as the commander of

the armies of the living God.

What am I saying?

Look, when you follow the Lord, God will give you

supernatural resources. The kind of challenges in this life, you'll

be exhausted. People have lived and died and gone. Trying

to solve, you can't do it. You won't have a successful,

if you like, life without the Holy Spirit of God.

But you and I are fortunate to have the Holy

Spirit sitting right inside of us and offering supernatural help

because of the opposition.

The level of the opposition. And the Bible is clear.

We are not warring against flesh and blood, but against principalities,

against powers, spiritual forces of wickedness and darkness, We need

spiritual resources to fight. Hallelujah.

And you see it.

Why is it that everybody, all your friends, all your

friends who got married, they're having successful marriages by you alone.

Hallelujah.

And you know that there are certain forces of darkness

battling against you. This book of the law, relevant in

all pursuit.

Hallelujah. Amen.

And remember that the word of God is an expression

of God's thoughts and his planned acts.

And activities on earth.

He says, I'm not going to do anything without first

making a declaration. That's why it's a book of prophecy.

That's why we know how this world will end.

That is why we have taken refuge.

Because we know that God says that he's going to

destroy the world. He says that even if we die,

he will wake everyone again and drag every one of

us for judgment. So we know how the world is

going to end. One day, God is going to say,

with the shout of the trumpet, with the blast of

the trumpet, and then the voice, whatever, it's going to

come to an end. And I'm going to drag everyone

to come and face me for judgment. It is appointed

once to die after that judgment.

See what the reading of your word is going to do.

It's going to bring you all this information, and the

Holy Spirit is going to help you to process it.

So where comes in the wealth? When the Bible says

that at the last trumpet, it said all these elements,

they shall melt like wax. And then we are going

to stand before God and he's going to say, can

you give me an account of how you lived your life?

And then he goes on further to say that, you

know something, the people who gave their lives to Jesus

Christ while they were here on earth and lived their

life purposefully to give glory and honor to him, they

will be spared. When they call them to come and

give an account, Jesus Christ will just rise up and say,

I'm their lawyer. Papa, they live their life for me.

No more questions. Go.

You are reading all these things.

It's going to shape your values in life. It's going

to reorient your thinking. And as you look around and

everybody is dying, everybody is dying, and then you know

it will hit you that there is one life to

live by even when you die. He says, I'll raise

you up again for judgment. So what is the way out?

And then the Bible gives us the way out. Seek

ye first the kingdom of God, and all these other

things shall be added. So you realize that the word

of God answers the pertinent questions in life. These are

the questions that people are asking about. Sometimes, initially, they

will think wealth, wealth. They pursue wealth, and then once

they get it, like Solomon says in the book of Ecclesiastes, vanity, vanity.

I want more. He went more.

He said, I want more. I want more. And then

only later on, hey, I am dying. So this more, more, more,

more thing. Who is going to enjoy them more? Then

he says vanity and vanity. And the word of God,

it educates us on all these things. Hallelujah.

Amen.

So the word of God, God wants us to place

premium value on it. And the word of God and God,

he says they are one. John defines the word of

God as Jesus for us.

Hallelujah. Amen.

And so let us be deliberate and intentional in reading

and understanding the word of God, knowing who is instructing us. God. God,

our creator, who cannot lie. The word of God is true.

There's no lies. All that God has prophesied, it will

come to pass.

Hallelujah.

Amen. And in a way, it tells us that We

can trust him. The word of God can be trusted.

And hence, we are compelled to obey and to live

by the.

Truths of those words of God. Hallelujah. Amen.

Amen. Very, very, very important. So that's the second point

that we are looking. Can we look at it? So

be careful. More like safeguard it.

Protect.

Put your life on it, the word of God. Do

everything to get the word of God into your life.

Let it dictate the choices that you make.

Ah, shaking.

The third one we say is that what? Now he's talking,

he's going to tell us about the rewards. I like this.

He says what? That you may live and multiply.

You shall be careful to do it.

Remember he said careful to do it. He said when

you do that, you may live and multiply. Hallelujah.

Amen. Amen. The law of life is.

That you have to live you grow mature, and then

you begin to what? Replicate, and to give birth, replicate yourself, increase,

and multiply. That's the law of life. Remember when he

created Adam, he said what? Increase, multiply, replenish the earth.

That is the law. That is the blessing that God

has put out. And the Bible is saying here that Moses,

through God, was telling us that That when you uphold

the integrity of the word of God and you do it,

you will live. You will not die. The opposite of

living is death. It means that so long as you

neglect the word of God, it doesn't matter how you,

you are dying. And the thing about the Christian life

is that when you are dying, you know you are dying.

When you are suffocating and choking the life of God

in you, you will know it. Now you can't mix,

if you like, sin and logical choices in life that

are in harmony and in sync with the word of God.

All your choices are bizarre. Now you are scratching your

head and you say, this is my boyfriend that I

went to. I know that this person is not a believer.

He doesn't believe in church. Even when I say we

should pray, it's also another litmus test. When you are

not sure somebody is a believer or not, you say,

let's pray. And before you realize, because he's not praying.

You know, you say God has answered your prayer and

has brought you a very sweet heart. You can't hold on.

To that person.

When you say, let us pray, he says, oh, they

can't answer.

Hallelujah. And gradually, you too, you are doing the same thing.

After one, two, three, four, five, you start asking. When

you go, you can't pray. So you realize that you

are dying instead of living and multiplying. And when you

are dying, you can't multiply. The Word of God, the

Logos and the Rima, it's obedience, safeguarding it. It says

you will live and you will multiply. You begin to

impact people. There's no way you can market a gospel

that your whole lifestyle shows that you don't.

Believe in it.

Amen. You can't market a gospel that you have not tested,

that you have not validated, that you have no signs

and proofs and wonders in your life that it works.

You can't market it. So if you are a parent

and you are not praying because you are not getting signs,

how are the children going to pray? You can't encourage

them to pray because you know your prayers, they are

not working. And you know you are dying. It's all

because of the word. What God says is you do

the remand and know God's. I said, oh, okay.

I've read it. He said, look, God is so amazing.

God is so kind. This is for New Testament. He says,

in the Old Testament, I think it's Ezekiel 33 or something.

He says that it shall not be that in the

New Testament, somebody will point his hand to somebody and

say that no God or this. He says, I'm going

to inscribe the law on the table of your hearts. Amen. Amen.

So these 66 books, yes, we are talking about reading it.

But in a way, God is saying that there is

a way that he can inscribe the commandments on the

table of our hearts. Why? Because the Holy Spirit, who

is the word, he is there. So even when you

have not read it, that's why I said, even when

you have not read it, there is something, when you

want to make that choice, there is something in the hand,

the restraining hand of God, screaming out to you.

No, no.

I don't want you to turn to the left. Turn

to the right.

I don't want you to go the way you are going.

Stop it. Revive your quiet time.

Revive your involvement in church life. Rise up!

You will hear him doing it when you are dying.

Like David who said, Lord, if you watch on and

I die, who is going to praise you? The dead

cannot praise you. So God wants you to live. That's

what he told them. So that by it is dependent

on the word of God. He said, so you will

live and multiply. So you will live and multiply. So

when you kick out the word of God, the law

of multiplication and increase, it just gets snapped. Remember in

the beginning it was Adam alone. And God blessed him.

And what did God say? Increase.

And multiply.

On the authority of his word. And he says in

Jeremiah 1 verse 12. I always stand behind my word.

Jeremiah 1:12

To perform it.

To make sure that it will come to pass.

Hallelujah. Amen. Through Adam. All the people in this world.

Now we are.

Or you can take it from Abraham.

Abraham. Abraham had just one son. Isaac.

Let's forget that. And then the side son.

Ishmael.

Then.

Isaac had two. Isn't it?

Jacob and then Esau. Esau went on the side. Then

Jacob had who? Joseph and his 11 brothers. And then

Joseph and his 11 brothers who were in Egypt.

They were how many?

Is it 75 or 70 souls? And then the multiplication.

That is the principle in the word of God. God

starts with one. So it's the same thing.

Your wealth.

The wealth creation. The wealth acquisition.

It's a process.

Say a big amen. Amen. The law of increase, it

starts from a certain point.

Hallelujah.

God said, I will bless you and I will multiply you.

Eventually, look at what happened to them. And it's the

same thing.

God wants to endow us with the riches.

We're going to work for it. Hallelujah.

But it will go little by little. And then it

will expand. So you don't, you don't that, oh, I

have finished school. I come from a dysfunctional background. And,

you know, I need to make money for my family. Hey,

where were that family before when you found God? That's

why I say, when I see such life, I say,

you never knew God. It was all pretense. You never

knew God. You were looking for God, for the spirit

of Mammon and the world. Because if you knew God

and you took time to understand him, now that God

has enriched you, you won't drift away from the altars

of God. It's a conundrum I'm still trying to wrap

my mind around why people drift away from church immediately

that they become prosperous.

Hallelujah.

And then sometimes you hear to say, so you don't

serve God again. No, it's very difficult.

Hallelujah.

Yeah.

Amen.

So Adam was blessed by God to increase and multiply. Why?

Decrease is seen as a curse or disfavor from God.

Hallelujah.

But God will take us through the process. Go through

the process. God will take us through the process. Be

patient in the hands of God. Let him take you

through the process. He promised Abraham. He started from him.

That's what we have enumerated. Then it went to Isaac.

Then it went to Jacob. Then it went to Joseph

and his 12 brothers. Then by the time that Moses comes,

they had multiplied.

They were in millions.

That's how it works.

Hallelujah.

There's a gradual increase. And then the explosion or exponential growth.

Hallelujah.

At the hands of God. It's God that brings the multiplications. Amen. Hallelujah.

And God is saying that all that he requires for

us to do is to live by the precepts of

the word. And that when we live, we will not die.

Hallelujah. If we don't live.

On the authority of the word of God, we will

not be fruitful in the kingdom of God. And most often,

the reason why some eventually drift away from God is

the fact that you know that he didn't follow godly principles.

There's a certain, let me say this. God is thoughtful.

The three people, they have a certain name that they

use to describe God. I don't know the English version,

but they say, or is it the people who sing that?

Is it in the Bible? Is it in the Bible?

Okay. But it just tells you something about God. Okay. Hallelujah.

He wanted to walk with God. Enoch walked 300 years

with God. Died at 365. Abraham, when he was called,

he was 75. He died at 175. He walked with

God for 100 years. Hey, Joseph was 17 when they

saw him. Joseph lived to 110. At 17, when we

meet him in the Bible, he was walking with God.

And he walked for the next 93 years of his

life with God. And they all come out with the

same verdict. Don't mess up with God. You want to

go along with God?

The word. The word.

Whatever he has said, just do it. And just count

on him to fulfill his word. God has promised that

he will bless us. He will bless us. He will

increase us. He said we must live and not die.

How many people have not said that this church will die?

Sometimes I tell you.

We are living and thriving and multiplying only because of

the presence of God. Let us do things that will

kick the spirit of God away. There are prophecies. There

are doomsday prophecies that will come to pass. One day

you come, the whole place will have been shut down.

Or even if there will be no presence here. Because

we would have choked out the spirit and the presence

of God.

Hallelujah. Amen.

And those of us who want this church to live

and to thrive and to multiply, we need, all of us, collectively,

individually we must do our part, collectively we must do

our part to maintain the presence of God, to cultivate

his presence, to live by his word, to organize our

church services and everything that we do by the word

of God, to bring order, order in everything.

That we are doing. Hallelujah. Amen. We honor our leaders. Amen.

In every corner, there is one leader, one pastor.

Hallelujah. We all rally around.

God speaks. And then for us leaders, we have to

be spirit-filled because it is the word of God that

will come to pass. If you become carnal as a leader,

then you are earmarking that group that you are supervising

for death. Me, if I become carnal, this church will die.

the Holy Spirit will move away. So we need Spirit-filled

leaders because they will be ordered by God, the Holy Spirit.

And whatever God gives them to supervise, it will thrive.

It will flourish.

Before you realize that, God is injecting innovative ideas and thoughts.

And it's all the, what's the name?

The ushers.

That must be the Spirit of God must be there

ordering you.

Amen.

The singers. The Spirit of God. All of us, whatever

we are doing, sanctuary keepers, filled with the Spirit of God,

so we will live and not die and multiply and

not die.

The Word of God. The Word of God. Rise up

on your feet. We'll continue the other two the next

time we meet. Hallelujah. Oh, I said a hallelujah. Amen.

How are we going to be able to go in

and possess, to go in and possess the land and

Look at how God has taken an oath. God has

sworn that he will give us the wealth and bring

us into prosperity. Hallelujah.

Amen.

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