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LRH: Order in Our Giving - 2

Harvest Chapel International - Kumasi

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  1. Do you want to build your faith? Do you desire

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  9. God richly loves you. Welcome to the logo streamer are

  10. with God Save and Reverend Doctor Joseph ba Being, Head

  11. Pastor of Harvest Chapel International Commercy. And now to today's message.

  12. Amen, let's take a confession from Joshua and best eight

  13. best book of the Law, Shallow depart out of my mouth,

  14. that I shall meditate in a day and night, that

  15. I may observe to do according to all that just

  16. rated it. But then I will make my way prospered,

  17. and then I will have good success. Amen, as we

  18. welcome each other into the presence of God. And Amen,

  19. and so in this man's as we are looking at

  20. yet another, we are looking at a very very important

  21. subject of bringing order in our giving life as individuals,

  22. as families, and I believe in as a church Charlie Louier.

  23. And our text is taken from Matthew chapter six, verse

  24. twenty four. Can we now pick it up? So those

  25. are some of the truths that we have learned. Like

  26. I said, we are tailed doving all our conversations. We

  27. did our conversations with God, order in our prayer, ordering

  28. conversations with one another. And now we're going to look

  29. at how we can bring order to our giving life.

  30. And can we put it in context? Now, let's start

  31. from verse nineteen and then come to twenty four just

  32. a little context. And he says, do not lay up

  33. for yourselves treasures on it were Morth and Rast destroyed,

  34. and were thieves break in and steal twenty But layer

  35. for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither Moth nor Rast

  36. destroys and were thieves.

  37. Do not break in and steal Where.

  38. Your treasure is there, your heart will be also twenty two.

  39. The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore

  40. your eye is good, your whole body will be full

  41. of light.

  42. Twenty three.

  43. But if your eye is bad. Your whole body will

  44. be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is

  45. in you is darkness, how great is that darkness? And

  46. then he says that no one can save two masters,

  47. for either he will hate the one and love the other,

  48. or else he will loawyer out to the one and

  49. despise the other. You cannot save God, and mammon, amen,

  50. he's talking about being divided, die vision, save God or

  51. serve man. And already before in nineteen was thinking about

  52. the treasures he knows. And in this verse, yeah, he says,

  53. you cannot save God.

  54. And mamone.

  55. Mamone was the name for the god or the spirit

  56. behind wealth, money or property in.

  57. Jesus's day, How they do here?

  58. And so by so saying he was talking about the

  59. d gathering, you know, spirit behind the drive the quests

  60. for money. At the exclusion of the same drive, passion

  61. and enthusiasm for God, he may in a way Jesus

  62. was trying to let us draw our attention. Look, if

  63. we put the same zeal, passion, enthusiasm in our sech

  64. for God as we do for money, we will find him.

  65. And this one let me say a few things. Yeah,

  66. and then.

  67. And do what I believe we should do this night,

  68. and then lay the foundation for our subsequent talks. Is

  69. the fact that this is part of what he said

  70. during the Salmon on the Mount. So Matthew Chapter five,

  71. six and seven, the gospel writer Matthew sets in place

  72. what Bible scholars and the church, or the Christian Bible

  73. students and scholars have come to know and called the

  74. Salmon on the Mount, Harlen Lewis, and the Salmon on

  75. the Mount, we could call it eve you like a

  76. code of ethics for believers Jesus in the Salmon on

  77. the Mound. That's our kingdom ethics, kingdom ethos, culture, principles

  78. that God expects to see in the life of his children.

  79. And I just wanted us to read there. I look

  80. at it.

  81. There are seventy two verses before we get to these

  82. twenty four. So we are going to attempt to read

  83. all these seventy two verses, you know, so that we

  84. can get the backdrop, you know, of where money comes in.

  85. And I have yet that don't take me on, because

  86. I've not already anywhere. And if I'm wrong, it is

  87. me that I'm wrong. The same one on the Mount

  88. can be cited as one of the longest lecture times

  89. or sessions that Jesus had with his disciples here on earth.

  90. I don't know.

  91. It's a five, six, seven, and from five and six

  92. to twenty four alone, I've seventy two verses, and we

  93. have to continue from there to the end of chapter

  94. six and then chapter seven, and all these things from

  95. the gospel account seem to have been one long lecture

  96. or session. And I've told you, amen, it was a

  97. session where he lay clearly the kingdom principles that God

  98. wants or expects to be seen in his disciples or larous.

  99. And remember who the disciple is. The disciple is someone

  100. who is falling a rabbi so that he can be coached,

  101. mentor taught and hopefully become just like his rabbi. That's

  102. why we call disciples who were larous.

  103. Amen. Jesus came to teach and to do well.

  104. Read it in somewhere Halleluiah, so the Bible says. And

  105. seeing the multitus, he went up on the mountain, and

  106. when he was.

  107. Seated, look at the people who came to it.

  108. His disciples, His disciples came to him. So it wasn't

  109. just the crowd, but particularly his disciples was the focus

  110. of this rather long lecture.

  111. Three chapters, three long chapters.

  112. How the lawyer amen and in line with what he's

  113. been teaching us throughout.

  114. I can't say that that's what I'm saying.

  115. It was a very long session in the school of

  116. the Spirit. Hello, So Jesus took them through the school

  117. of the Spray. And it wasn't the Holy Spirit was

  118. the instructor, but Jesus himself. Remember he said that he

  119. is the chief instructor, but he has to leave. When

  120. he leaves, he says that I'm going to send someone

  121. the Holy Spirit.

  122. Who now become your teacher.

  123. So it was a session or a lecture and period

  124. by a very very long period, Halene Loujah, and I

  125. believe it was for a good reason, if not for

  126. anything at all, to give us the idea that we

  127. need long hours or sessions with God if we hope

  128. to have our minds transformed from the substantial damage that

  129. has been done in our so journing in the world.

  130. You know, you look at yourself, Chess, and.

  131. How bad you were, Hello, Jo, have your parents and

  132. you have everybody look at you and see you're a

  133. small boy or a girl. And then you are laughing

  134. in your head near by a small girl. If you

  135. only you knew the things I knew, halenelujah, and most

  136. of those things that we knew that we private ourselves,

  137. that we were adults, and they were all damaging things.

  138. Amen.

  139. So we come moment, then we are we are smiling,

  140. We are smiling behind our parents. And then they think

  141. I'm a good girl, and it's just because I have to,

  142. you know, that's why I comport myself in the house.

  143. But when I go hallelujah. Amen.

  144. So someone then they're waiting when they will go to

  145. the boarding school. And then and then some of those

  146. in the boarding schools also they are awaiting that when

  147. I get to the university where there's no housemastery, hallelujah.

  148. And then meanwhile, your parents and so maybe it gave

  149. you are the.

  150. Name sweet Tea, not the sweety yell.

  151. Angel, oh and all those nice names perfect hallelujah. And

  152. then we are there. Then we are smiling. Me at

  153. the angel. You know you don't know, hallelujah.

  154. Amen. No. My point is, my point is that we

  155. need long sessions. That's like the.

  156. Damnit is some standis the damach hallne No doubt Jesus

  157. took a long time, because if we read through, you

  158. realize that, as I said, he was spelling our kingdom principles,

  159. and most of the things he was just you know,

  160. de banking old accessions, principles that they had grown up

  161. with attitudes that they had learned from their sojourning or

  162. belonging to the kingdom of Satan.

  163. And now remember he said, disciples.

  164. These are people that he are translated out of Satan's

  165. domain of darkness into the kingdom of the and got

  166. himsel new that look, we need these long sessions so

  167. that we cannot do the damn it before we can

  168. and be able to once again they construct the old man.

  169. Else we are not going to get anywhere. Is it

  170. anyone that he told Jeorshare that this book of the

  171. Law shall not depart out of armand but we shall

  172. meditate only day and night, day and night, continually at

  173. every opportunity, because it will only take the power of

  174. the Word of God to undo or to do the deconstruction,

  175. to destroy all attitudes in our lives and mindsets and habits.

  176. They can only be destroyed by the Word of God.

  177. He said, ye shall know the truth, and the truth

  178. is what will set you free. And it is the

  179. same word and authority of the world that helps us

  180. to construct the new Man. So when it comes to

  181. the Word of God, it is primary. And remember what

  182. the John said, John in his introductory and passages, the

  183. Word in the beginning was the Word, and the Word

  184. was with God, and the Word was God.

  185. And without him was nothing made. That was made.

  186. He said, in him was light, and the life was

  187. what the light of me. Hallelujah, Amen. And so we

  188. need it, we need more. And like I'm saying, long

  189. sessions with the Lord, hallelujah.

  190. And and.

  191. The Word of God. It's going to be very, very

  192. very central.

  193. That's why we keep on saying, read your Bible every day.

  194. Read your Bible every day, hallelujah.

  195. Amen. The Word of.

  196. God, by our attitudes towards it, by our actions and

  197. in actions when we read or listen to it tells

  198. us that the fight and the battle for our souls

  199. is more over.

  200. Amen.

  201. As we said, Satan will contend for our souls. That

  202. the soul belongs to me. I don't want him to

  203. go and have it end my life.

  204. God, he belongs with me. I am him. We are

  205. going to help. That's what Satan is saying. And so

  206. you chase us Ah and do everything.

  207. And make sure or that we never get to hear

  208. the word of God, because when we hear the word

  209. of God, as I said, it's going to deconstruct.

  210. The old man.

  211. It's going to destroy the old man and then rite

  212. the new man. A lot of us as you read it,

  213. like I said, when you become a student, you are reading,

  214. there's no way you're not going to be wowing the

  215. word is whoa I see? I never knew that is

  216. what the word of God said because most of us

  217. have been driving on yessay, yes.

  218. Say.

  219. Hallelujah Amen. And as I said, it's going to be

  220. a lifetime of re education in the school of the Spirit.

  221. There's the need for a mind shaft and transformed. And

  222. that is what we'll be able to empower us to

  223. do the will of God for a lifetime. To do

  224. the will of God for a lifetime, something has shift

  225. in our hearts and our minds.

  226. If it doesn't, we can't.

  227. How many people do you know who began with us

  228. or who started in check and have drifted. And when

  229. they all can what do they see? We can't do

  230. the wed when they all come, and when they all said,

  231. the word.

  232. Is too hard.

  233. It doesn't fit into our modern day lifestyles. It's absolute.

  234. It needs to be edited. If God will edit it,

  235. our come. It's all about the weight of God. No edition,

  236. new edition with some deletes. Halen lujia, amen. And so

  237. let me put it again, say that God's desire and

  238. go in all of these if you like classroom sessions,

  239. is to make us all emaike bearers of Himself, so

  240. that we can see and can see It's likeness in

  241. us wherever we go. And He wants us when we

  242. have when when the light, he says, when the light

  243. is shining in us, to go everywhere and to make

  244. that light.

  245. No, we're going to read it as I said. It

  246. is so when you when.

  247. You start from Matthew five, and you are able to

  248. put everything in context, then you understand very well when

  249. God decides to tell you that, look, you can't save

  250. two masters, and that you're going to say, have to

  251. save God or you're going to save the spirit of

  252. my moon. My dad doesn't leave, I said, and Jesus

  253. Jesus is a tough teacher. The Holy Spirit is a

  254. tough teacher, and he doesn't live as he says. Look,

  255. there's no way you can you can have both. You

  256. have to make a choice. Either you go for the

  257. spirit of my Moon or you come and follow God.

  258. You cannot save two masters because you want to follow God.

  259. I'm going to make a demand for loyalty. The spirit

  260. of my mom will also demand loyalty. And then our

  261. response in Papa, we need the man you. We need

  262. the money to do kingdom business. As the past I've

  263. had it to. We need God.

  264. Oh God.

  265. We all pray, God, give me money, Give me money,

  266. Give me money like who are the rich the rich people?

  267. Give me, and then I'll build you, not just one logos.

  268. Read my temple. I'll go over all the Sabbaths in this.

  269. City and build you logos. Rem my temples, and God

  270. be shaking his head the next time. We immediately the

  271. money drop. Where can I get an airplane? I need

  272. an I need a private airfield for myself.

  273. Halen Loujijah Amen.

  274. So I'm going to read through the Salmon on the

  275. Mound and comment if there's the need for it.

  276. So we reach.

  277. As I said, the passage or truth that concerns our

  278. attitude towards giving to God, and particularly the context within

  279. which God makes this definitive statement concerning our attitude towards

  280. God and my mom. And you're going to hear some

  281. very shocking statements. Yeah him, but let's look. So that's one.

  282. Let's go, he says.

  283. Then, seeing the multitudes, he went up on the mountain,

  284. and when he was seated, his disciples came to him

  285. that there's two.

  286. Let's go to two.

  287. Then he opened his mouth and taught them. There's the

  288. place that The comment that I want to make is

  289. that there's the need for us to be taught and

  290. edicated concerning Kingdom principles and values. If we are going

  291. to be able to have a healthy church is very

  292. very important.

  293. Hallelujah. Amen.

  294. What Satan dislikes most and is scared of is the

  295. Word of God. So if you have a church, and

  296. by church we mean the envy doers, if you're a

  297. believer and the Word of God is central in your life,

  298. you will be a winner.

  299. You will be a winner. Amen.

  300. There's no way you're going to fail. Contrary, if you despise,

  301. you don't like the word of God.

  302. You will fail human opinions.

  303. You will fail the customs, the traditions of men.

  304. Somewhere somehow you will fail. Will you will imbite is

  305. in the.

  306. World has a different attitude towards money or even giving

  307. our lives and giving our time.

  308. Talents and treasures to God.

  309. Have been to how many times I've been to be

  310. heid that you are saving God too much? And your

  311. attitude is positive attitude every time.

  312. It is too much.

  313. And we are talking about our creator, we are talking

  314. about our inventor, and the we're people in the world

  315. are saying we give too much type to God. Halene Louia, Amen,

  316. let's go on now. As as I said, we're going

  317. to read through as much as we can. I said, then,

  318. now I'm listening to him. Now, he's laying down the

  319. Kingdom principles, the expectations that he has for us.

  320. He said, blessed.

  321. Other translation, we say, happy are the poor in spirit?

  322. But the yes is the Kingdom of God, humble hearts

  323. towards God, the attitude that they have, the disposition that

  324. they have. Yes, I may have had an education, I

  325. am a very old person. I'm a very resourceful and

  326. very successful person. But when it comes to the word

  327. of God, I'm going to give first place to the

  328. word and authority of God. Poor in spirit, I will

  329. allow the word of God to order my footsteps. Because

  330. God's word says it, I am going to take it.

  331. And then everybody is shaking your head. No way, after

  332. all my education, after all that lending the unvesty. No,

  333. not the word of God, the philosophies of our day

  334. and time. Poor in spirit, we don't want to submit

  335. to the authority of the Word. Then he says that

  336. if like we are saying, the word of God, your

  337. by all means make it, for this is the kingdom

  338. of Heaven.

  339. But for.

  340. Pleased are those who mourn, for they shall be comfort

  341. telling us about our current state. Look, there is no

  342. way you can make this journey, which he says without

  343. self denial. We moan sometimes when they are going to

  344. all the places I'm sure a lot of us.

  345. If but for.

  346. God's wear and all that we have learnt in church,

  347. every every every holiday will also be at beach side.

  348. Hallelujah, Amen.

  349. Every holiday all the jams will all be there and

  350. also have some of the fun. But then the Word

  351. of God says no, and you hear the spirit of

  352. God echoing the same. No, it's not for you, And

  353. we say no, so we deny ourselves I P.

  354. I p.

  355. Twenty one day, first end of mon first breakfast first.

  356. Amen.

  357. We moan, but he says what one day we shall

  358. be comforted. Hallelujah Amen.

  359. Verse five. Let's go on.

  360. Blessed are the meek, or they shall inherit the earth.

  361. God is applauding your humility, your meekness, your submission to

  362. the authority of the Word of God. Keep it in

  363. focus the way the authority of the Word of God.

  364. These are principles and values that ugets the Kingdom of God.

  365. Six.

  366. Blessed are those who hunger and first for righteousness, or

  367. they shall be feeled. Like we said, you have to

  368. be determined. It doesn't just come. They first and anger

  369. for it. They go for it. They don't want to

  370. be starved. When they are stabbed, they reach out until

  371. they are satisfied. They test for righteous they get it wrong,

  372. the Lord corrects. Then they are open to correction, and

  373. they go for it again until they get it right.

  374. It's a many and the righteous manser for all. How

  375. many times seven times, but there will always be the

  376. spirit of God giving them a helpin hand.

  377. You can't do better, rise up.

  378. Then they take their hand, and then they go again

  379. until they get it right. The hunger and thirst for

  380. righteous neck. When they make mistakes, they don't throw in

  381. the towel and say that's it. I'm out of this place.

  382. Like I said, like people are quitting. I can't do

  383. the word of God. There's no way you can live

  384. it out in the twenty first century, and.

  385. So a lot of people quit church.

  386. They quit God, and then they imbibe the philosophies of

  387. the and beking to lead according to his dictators and preceps.

  388. Young man will be edit, a young lady will be

  389. in church. Immediately they go to school. They say, now, old,

  390. I don't want anything to do with the word of God.

  391. They stop singing in the choir, they stop coming to church,

  392. doing all the things that they were doing, and then

  393. they just reject God. Harley Lou Amen verse seven. Blessed

  394. are the merciful, for they shild Lord obtain mercy.

  395. Amen.

  396. It's a reciproc car. You read what you see, He's

  397. so mercy. You read mercy eight blessed as the Peo

  398. in her. But they shall see God childlike attitude, peore

  399. in her childlike attitude. This is what my dad has said.

  400. That's all. This is what the Word of God says.

  401. That's all.

  402. God is true. And the thing about the Word of

  403. God is that Look, that's why we say the Holy

  404. Spirit is the teacher. When you open it and then

  405. you read it, the simple logic of it, the comprehension

  406. of it.

  407. Boom, it is your heart. That's it.

  408. Give and it shall be giving back to you, no debate.

  409. You take it on that phase v Look, it will

  410. work for you. But ah past that this give What

  411. does God mean by give to? My mother has paid

  412. Typho and God's God and then my mother. I know

  413. they are regular type and they type the money and

  414. then they gave me some. And you're saying that.

  415. You're type and of your heart? Up your heart? What

  416. did the words say?

  417. Didn't bring all the clauses that you are asking me about?

  418. Immediately you know the person is making an argument about

  419. the illogicity.

  420. Of the Word of God.

  421. It's not logical. God, let me go ask pastor and

  422. make my point. And I have an opinion pu're in heart.

  423. God says that type out tipe. After all, after all

  424. it belongs to him. Like David will say, you gave

  425. it to us and we and you have made a demand.

  426. I don't have anything to say, but if you want

  427. to argue, oh, you have a lot of reasons why

  428. you should ind obey the word of God. Blessed, appear

  429. in her or they shall see God.

  430. Amen.

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