LRH: Order in Our Giving - 8

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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.

Joshua 1:8

This book of the Lord shall not depart out of

my mouth. but 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. Turn

to somebody and say, remember the Lord your God.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

We want to continue with our discourses on bringing order

into our given life.

Hallelujah. Amen. And remember what.

We are looking at coming from our Creator God, Jesus,

the Son of God, that it is impossible to serve

God and mammon.

Hallelujah.

Because he says that you can't serve two masters. You're

going to be very pleased one and that will cause

the displeasure of the other.

And therefore, one way or the other.

It's not a possibility that you can pursue God and

at the same time have enough time to also pursue

money to the detriment of our service and our obligations

to God, especially as children of God. Remember the context.

And that is why we went through the book of Matthew,

Matthew 5 · chapter mention

chapter 5, 6, 7, trying to recap what occasion Jesus

Christ to make that rather bold and mind-boggling statement that

you have to choose.

There's a choice before you.

Either pursuing the Lord God of Israel, the creator of

the ends of the earth, the possessor of heaven and earth,

or you just go narrow down through the spirit of

Mammon and chasing, but he was quite definite. I can

assure you it's not going to be possible.

Amen. You have to make a choice.

And so when you put it in context, you realize

that he was speaking to his disciples, men and women

who are giving their lives, their time, talent, and treasures,

and committed them to serving God. Men and women who

have said yes to God, the call of God on

their lives, and that God takes priority in their lives.

The men and women.

Of God who have heard, or children of God who

have heard, that God has said the first law and

the first commandment is to know and understand that you

shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,

all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.

And then thy neighbor as thyself. Hallelujah. Amen.

So he's talking to people, as I said, that He

believes that they understand the input of God's call upon

their life. And therefore, they have their priorities right. And

the same one on the mount like this. On the

mount is like a code of ethics to Christians or

believers in Christ. What should be foremost on our hearts

and our minds as we strive to pursue God?

Hallelujah.

And as we have been learning in the past discourses,

Jesus challenges us concerning the values that we have learned

growing up.

It's all over the place.

The traditions of men, the customs, the constitution by which

we have drafted or crafted up by our philosophers of

the day that we have said is going to govern

our way and manner of life, the way we relate

to each other, and the way we relate to God.

And I always like to remind us, this is God's world.

Amen.

So it cannot be me setting the rules.

Amen.

That is why the disciples will tell and look in

the sign in the face and say, you now judge

whether it is right for us to obey God or

to obey you.

Amen.

When it comes to obedience, God has set the priority.

God first, me first.

Why?

What undergets this understanding of our value system as believers?

The understanding that God is creator. And in the opening

pages of the Bible, he makes it abundantly clear.

Moses says, in the beginning, it was God, God who

created the heavens and the earth.

And in chapter number one of Genesis, he takes this

line by line, day one, day two, day three, day four,

day five, day six, what God did, laying the foundation that, look,

when it comes to the wealth in this world, God

is the.

Bona fide owner.

Psalm 24, the earth is the lost and the fullness thereof.

Including the men that are therein. It's all mine.

So when Jesus is saying this, like we said, he's

not arguing that you don't need money.

Hallelujah.

But he's trying to tell you that, look, sit down.

Like he would say, you know, that, is it Solomon?

Hallelujah. Amen. He said, with all thy getting, get wisdom,

get understanding. And that wisdom is the primary thing.

If somebody who created the thing is there, he can

uncreate it. He says that it is God, listen to that,

that calls those things that be not.

As though they were. It's like at any moment.

In time, God can conjure anything in an instant.

He can't do anything.

And the Bible is replete with the stories of transformed

lives that happened in.

The second, the split second.

I mean, look at the day that Joseph rose up

from jail. Remember, he had been made a chief prisoner.

Can you imagine what was going on in his head?

He said, for two years. He had begged the butler

that I am here on the wrong charge. When you

go out, because I've interpreted this dream for you, can

you put in a word to Pharaoh for me so

I can get out of jail? And the Bible says

for two years, the butler forgot him. And so as

far as Joseph was concerned, it was yet another day

of having been forgotten.

Hallelujah. Maybe he was going through the pain.

Maybe that morning when he woke up, he said, this butler,

if you are hungry, I did this to you and

I interpreted your dream for you. And they said, if

only you are putting a word. Now I have to

go through yet another miserable day. Not knowing that God,

that night before, God had wrestled with Pharaoh.

In a dream.

Had given him sleepless nights and had given him a

vision of what was yet to come. Every time I

asked him, how many of us are here who every day,

every day of your life, when you wake up and

you dream, you go looking for interpretation.

It would be very tedious. Amen. So you go about

your business.

But there are some of the dreams that when you have,

you know that, no, this.

One, there's a message in. It makes you restless. No,

there's something.

That's when you begin to share and you begin to

pray about it as believers.

Can you help me pray? Hallelujah. Amen. And that was it.

It was an ordinary day.

But the dream, the dream, the dream, the dream that

God communicated to Pharaoh about what he was about to do,

it made him restless. And then he called all the magicians,

and they said no. And the butler who was serving

him was perplexed because these were the leading people who

were in contact with the gods. They should have been

able to give the king or Pharaoh an interpretation. When

everyone comes, and then they shake their head, and they

shake their head, and they shake their head. And then, boom,

just from nowhere, he just recollected Joseph. that Hebrew sleeper

who told me that he had been incarcerated on wrong charges.

I had nothing to do with Potiphar's wife. And he

gave me an interpretation. So he went to Pharaoh and said,

you know something? He says, I now recollect once upon

a time about two years ago, you were mad with

me and you threw me in jail. I had a

dream together with the baker.

That same day, we both had dreams.

There was a young Hebrew slave boy there, incarcerated by Potiphar,

and he gave me an interpretation. All this was going on,

and when Joseph was in the prison, yet another miserable day,

serving the people. He didn't know what God was about

to do in his life. And then he said, can

we call him? And then he is there, and he says,

Pharaoh is looking for you. Can you go and shave?

You look disheveled. Can you go and shave? Can you

get some cologne?

Hallelujah.

And then they change his garments. Can you imagine a

prisoner's clothes? They say, no, you are going before Pharaoh.

That same day, that same day, that ordinary morning. And

then they shaved him, gave him new clothes, and now

smelling very, very good, and he stands before.

And then this is my dream.

I hear you can give an interpretation.

He says, it's not new. God, God, God.

If it was some of the prophets of our day, oh,

can I get a glass of water first?

Hallelujah.

He said, God will give Pharaoh an interpretation. And then

he interprets it. And then he recommends a pathway for

the hunger project that is about to come. And then

Pharaoh says, can we get somebody wise, as wise as this?

In an instant, one day, oh, And then Pharaoh says,

let them bring their ring. Can you imagine it? It's

not like go and sleep. That same, whilst he was

still standing there, Pharaoh removed his ring and said, bring

your hand. I am Pharaoh, and I'm telling you, you'll

be next in command to me.

Wow. Hallelujah.

One day, God, that's why he says that it is

he that calleth those things that be not as though

they were. So when you understand this, when these things,

they don't just come like that.

They are spirits.

That's why we encourage you to read the word. Faith

comes by hearing, hearing the word of God.

It's not ordinary.

When you read it, something will be injected in your spirit.

Like I'm saying, you are reading and you are saying, wow, wow. Me, me, me,

I'm Joseph. So I say, wow, that's me.

God, you do. I'm the next person in line for

a miracle.

And a transformation because I believe. So your body language

as a believer, you are faithful. You don't know where

it comes from, but you just know, hallelujah, that you

are marked for success. Say a big amen. You are

a believer. All the prayers, all the IPIPs will go nil.

No way. No way. Turn to somebody and say, no way. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen. Amen.

So even before you finish school, and sometimes you, that's

why we say you must all have a spiritual agenda.

That's how we follow God. It's a walk with God.

Amen. You want to go somewhere, God is a writer. Hallelujah.

So we say write the vision down.

Write it down. God's instructed, write it down. It's like

an oath to you. I'm swearing to you.

I promise.

We'll look at that concerning Abraham. God, he calls those

things that be not that as they were. And then

we'll look at Israel's, if you like, transitional.

Pathway to wealth. It doesn't just begin like we read.

This was the people that he took them through pathways

before the wealth comes.

So you have read it.

So you are not impatient that God has forgotten.

No, there's no way God has forgotten you.

If you are serving him, you are honoring him, that's

why we always say, bring time, talents, and treasures.

That's how we did it. That's what we did.

And that's what we continue to do, to enjoy the

blessings of God, the protection and the provision.

Nothing just happens. Amen.

So as I said, as we read through the scriptures,

I just want us to try to connect with the

way God does his things.

Hallelujah.

And so I'm saying that on the pathway towards divine wealth,

on the pathway towards divine wealth, when you look at

your wealth, you can draw a line between your wealth

to the doorsteps and the feet of God.

This one, made by God. Made by God. Hallelujah. There's

blessings made by God.

I can bet you, like he says, he says that

the blessings of the Lord, it makes rich.

It adds no sorrow. You will enjoy it. Say amen.

You will enjoy it before you die. Hallelujah. Even when

your time is up, you know I'm going.

Say a big amen. Have you read through the Bible?

All the heroes, they knew when their time came. God

told them it's time up.

Hallelujah.

So you will enjoy it. Sudden catastrophe will not happen

to you. Say a big amen.

And tragedy. No way. Every morning you are on the

prayer ground.

God.

Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow

of death.

Amen. Why? Thou art with me. And thy rod and

thy staff. They comfort me. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Amen.

This working with God, how can you imagine that God,

is it a dull life?

There's no way.

Else, Enoch would not have worked with him for 350

good years of boredom.

Hallelujah. Me, my own, I've enjoyed it all. Oh, I've

enjoyed it. Hallelujah. And it's also not like it's smooth. Oh,

we have worked too. Hallelujah. You think when we are

doing IPIP, we don't weep? Hallelujah.

And we are praying then before you realize their tongues

are stinging.

Manu Koko. Manu Koko. Manu Koko. Hallelujah. You say that, buddy. Buddy,

we are going through with this three days. Somebody say

a big amen. Maybe we should declare IPIP too soon. Hallelujah.

Amen.

Okay, so help me.

Let's look at the scriptures. Let's look at it. But

at least today, this week, we'll do some half days,

isn't it? So we can add a cutting edge to

our Christ and intercessions.

Tell God, go down, hear the prayer. Today the week comes.

Say where two or three bind, it shall be bound. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

The other day I was sharing with the students and

I was telling you, maybe at the time that you

finish school, there should be a certain buoyancy in your

heart and spirit that God will bless you because of

all the investments of your time, talent, and treasures that

you are inputting into the kingdom of God for its advancement.

The Bible says it. God is not a liar. God

will not do you totally. Say a big amen.

Amen. Hallelujah. We won't be standing here. We prayed.

We read the word, and we believed it, and we trusted.

And he honored the word.

Hallelujah. Amen.

And like I say, it's not the wealth that you

look at. If I show you my bank account now,

you say, oh, pastor, you're not a faith man, oh.

Where's your faith? But I'll tell you that even in

the empty account, there is faith.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Amen, for just anything. Why?

Because those things that be not as though they were.

Let's pick it up from Deuteronomy chapter 7, even though

Deuteronomy 7 · chapter mention

8 is where we are going. Once again, the backdrop

helps you a lot, isn't it, to understand. So let's quickly,

if I may teach in the impromptu, I said we

want to read through.

There are 26 verses there.

If I'm able to do that, I look at the

time and maybe about seven minutes, we should read through all.

And then we'll pick up the lessons later. It says,

when the.

Lord your God, follow me, brings you into the land, listen,

which you go to possess. This was the second reading

of the law before Moses was buried by God. Amen.

And now he's recapping all that God had said, all

that God had done. And at the centrality is the word.

That's what Jesus was literally doing in the Sermon on

the Mount.

As I said, the values. It has to change. It's words.

The power of words. There's life. There's death in it.

And God is speaking life-giving words to them. Listen.

He said, when the Lord your God brings you into

the land which you go to possess and has cast

out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Gagashites,

And the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and

the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier

than you. Verse 2. And when the Lord your God

delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and

utterly destroy them.

Verse 2. Verse 3.

Nor take their daughter for your son. For they will

turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods.

So the anger of the Lord will be aroused against

you and destroy you suddenly. But thus you shall deal

with them. You shall destroy their altars and break down

their sacred pillars and cut down their wooden images and

burn their carved images with fire.

Six, for you are not. They are taking note.

You are a holy people to the Lord your God.

The Lord your God has chosen you to be a

people for himself, a special treasure above all the peoples

of the face of the earth. So you're not going

to imbibe the value systems of the world, where the

spirit of Mammon is what is leading and driving people

to the detriment of the chase for God. And then

he says, what profit shall it be to a man

if you shall gain the whole wealth and lose your soul?

And like he told that rich man who decided to

destroy his bonds so that he could build bigger ones.

And then he says, I'm going to take my time

and enjoy. And he said, Jesus was looking at him.

God said, you fool. Today, your life and your soul

will be required. You will be required to come and

join me and keep an account.

And whose possessions would they be?

And you look around and all the rich men, all

the rich men, they are dying.

And you are saying that minus me. No.

It's the value system. God is not saying that. Look

at what God did. God is not anti-wealth.

No.

Else he couldn't be boasting that the silver and the

gold is mine. And all the cattle on a thousand hills.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Amen.

So he says, for you are a holy people to

the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen

you to be a people for himself, a special treasure above.

All the peoples on the face of the earth.

Seven, the Lord did not set his love on you

nor choose you because.

You were more in number than any other people.

For you were the least of all peoples, but because

the Lord loves you and because he would keep the

oath which he swore to your fathers. The Lord has

brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you

from the house of bondage from the hand of Pharaoh,

king of Egypt.

Therefore, know that the Lord your God, he is God.

The faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a

thousand generations with those who love him and keep his commandments.

You love God, you bring time, talent, and treasures on board,

and you serve him. Not some of the days of

your life, but all the days of your life. You

will know that he has redeemed you from a certain bondage.

Hallelujah.

And he repairs those who hate him to their face.

You think God is just God, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh.

Listen to him. God is thoughtful. Look, listen to God.

Moses says, and he repairs those who hate him to

their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack

with him who hates him. He will repair him to

his face. Therefore, because of what I have said, you

shall keep the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which

I command you today to observe them. Then it shall

come to pass, because you listen to these judgments and

keep and do them, that the Lord your God will

keep with you the covenant and the.

Mercy which is swore to your fathers. 13.

And he will love you and bless you and multiply you.

He will also bless the fruit of your womb. Are

you reading it?

And the fruit of your land, your grain and your

new wine and your oil. What is God doing? Increasing

their wealth, giving them wealth, bestowing it. He said it's undeserved.

I will do it for you. You don't have to

deserve it. He said you are special to me not

because you were numerous.

I just love you, period. Look at where you are

coming from.

There were two or three on the streets, but God

handpicked you and saved you.

Hallelujah.

He says, and your grain and your new wine and

your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring

of your flock in the land of which.

He swore to your fathers to give you. So you

understand it. God is not anti-wealth. Let's go on.

He said, you shall be blessed above all peoples. There

shall not be a male or female barren among you

or among your livestock. And the Lord will take away,

because you.

Need this health.

You need health, vitality. You need vigor to enjoy the blessings.

Look at God. As if he knew. Hallelujah.

And he's telling us, even when you have created the world,

you need peace of mind to be able to enjoy it.

You need health. And like Mammy was preaching.

This morning, before the doctors tell you you can't eat this,

you can't eat that, you can't eat that.

Hallelujah. Amen.

And the Lord will take from you all sickness and

will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of

Egypt which you have known. But will lay them on

all those who hate you.

16. And you shall destroy all the peoples.

Whom the Lord your God delivers over to you. Your

eyes shall have no pity on them, nor shall you

serve your gods, for that will be a snare to you.

17.

And if you say in your heart, these nations are

greater than I, how can I dispossess them? You shall

not be afraid of them, but you shall remember well

that what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and

to all Egypt, the great trials which your eyes saw,

The signs and the wonders, the mighty hand and the

outstretched arm by which the Lord your God brought you out,

so shall the Lord your God do to all.

The peoples of whom you are afraid. Hallelujah.

Moreover, the Lord your God will send the hornet among

them until those who are left, who hide themselves from you,

are destroyed. 21. You shall not be terrified of them,

for the Lord your God, the great and awesome God,

is among you.

Hallelujah.

And the Lord your God will drive out all those

nations before you little by little, little by little, little

by little.

Hallelujah. And you will be unable to destroy them at once. Amen.

So we are on track. Turn to somebody and say

you are on track. Little by little, we will get there.

Hallelujah.

If we continue to serve and to repose faith and

trust in God and obey the commandments and bring time, talent,

and treasure and serve, serve God with a childlike heart

and attitude and see what God will do in your life.

Hallelujah.

He says you will be unable to destroy them at once,

lest the bits of the field become too numerous for you.

God of process. Now 23, we're going to 26. But

the Lord your God will deliver them over to you

and will inflict defeat upon them until they are destroyed.

24.

And he will deliver their kings into your hand and

he will destroy their name from under heaven. No one

shall be able to stand against you until you have

destroyed them. 25, you shall bend the carved images of your.

Gods with fire.

You shall not convert the silver or gold that is

on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be

snared by it, for it is an abomination to the

Lord your God. 26, nor shall you bring an abomination

into your house, lest you be doomed to destruction like it.

You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, But

it is an accursed thing.

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