The Cost of Loving God Bishop Joel Duncan-Williams 2.2.25

Come on and lift up a shall come on and

lift up a show. Your shout is too weak. Your

shout is too weak. You can shout better, you can't

club better. Are you not excited to be in the house?

Say man, man, who.

I am?

I am very happy. I'm very happy to be back.

And to be with you, And I pray that we're

going to have a wonderful service this morning. Amen, quickly,

before we get started, turn with me to Psalm seven

and verse sixteen, and Lty Psalm seven and sixteen and

Lty Psalm sixteen, Psalm seven and verse sixteen. The Bible says,

they make they sorry. The trouble they make for others

backfires on them. The violence day plan falls on their

own heads this morning. Anyone looking for you to trouble you,

anyone looking for you?

We for violence, We pray and let it fall on

our own heads. Lift up your voice and begin to break.

Lift up your voice and begin to break. Lift up.

Yeah, Oh, come on, rise up on your feet, lift

up your void, clap your hands, beget to pray over around.

Up no, um.

Up up my.

Lapping your.

Line.

You found a.

Hollow.

Tell you.

In the name of Jesus, say any trouble and then

shouble dear found for me, Yeah, found for me?

Say let it backfire, let it back fire.

Say trouble spiritually, shoble spiritualie, trouble physically, shovel physically, trouble,

emotionally shrouble emotionally, trouble in my life, shouble in my life,

trouble in my help, shovel.

In my health. Say right now, right now, let that let.

U trouble travel back fire, back fire, back fire, that fire,

back fire, that fire, back fire, that fire, back fire.

That fire, back fire.

You are not saying it like you mean it, said

black fire. I've taught you before. Good see, I've taught

you before. When we are praying, when you confront her personality,

what it means either you overcome it or it overcomes you.

So some of the prayers you are praying you can't

overcome that way. Your prayer must be aggressive. Your prayer

must be aggressive, saying like your prayer. Your prayer must

be aggressive. I said, said this morning, this morning, any trouble,

any trouble, looking for me, looking for from.

My life, from my life, for my health, from my health.

From my body, from my body, from my family, for

my education, for my finance, my final say right now,

right now, let it let it blackfire, fire back, fine,

mock fire buck fine my.

Fire, fine up your heads. I gets a bread.

My dad, Freddy, I'm yeah, my father, I'll buy up

a fire.

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I know that about you.

I'm gonna, I'm.

I'm I'm friend. Yeah, I mean yeah, I am my my.

Help my mom from immy know my mother.

In the name of Jesus, The Bible says, the foul

that the plan fouls on the audit. You never just

wanted just anyone planning violence for you, for your family,

for your job, that workes off your hands, for your community. Yes,

the whole, your prosperity, the able to break you down

from your excellence.

Yeah, I go right now by prayer. Let it followed

the old let, It followed the old hell. Let it

followed the old editor. Lifted up your voice.

Pray yah right mother, yeah young my na ye, my god,

I'm yeah my my my im no no, I'm from

you my monda my money, I'm young, my my day,

my day that money yeh no no no no no

no mother, I've been h.

Why yeah my no no my mom my my my

I'm by yeah my I'm out my my mother, mom

my I am you.

Know no no no no no no no no no

no no head ye ben I.

My young, my my father.

Am I man? Why your pando? WHI are my arm?

Yeah, I'm.

I'm gonna yeah yeah, my mama no, my brother they

are they have been no, yeah, my my mother, I

m my mother yaha, my dot no no yeah young

myna my.

Father day pam not my ah my father, your mom

my mom my no no noah my I got my

no no no I been amna oh yeah I found

that yeah no no.

Yeah, I'm here my brother here, I'm payin.

Yeah no they're my mom Y're funny on the young

im and i I'm yeah yeah.

Yeah my h my fire, I'm talking.

Yeah man, yeah, I'm yer yeah, yeah, I'm I'm I'm out,

I'm no.

My love be as start your figure play there s

that there is a player here a yeah here, I'm

my I my father. You are not hyah, I ay,

I'm I've been yeah. No no no no I'm no

no no no no no yeah yeah up here I'm yeah.

Ye know.

In the name of Jesus, I brother sigh over your life, man,

that any trouble that I found for you, it back fire.

On them, and that any violence they are found for you,

it falls on their own heads.

If you believe it. Shot and say yes, yes, oh shot.

I said shot and said yes lor yes, sir, I

just saw it. Made your deliberance for you, have made

your deliberance for you. No, you don't need to bring

them out and madejor deliberance a man. It's like you

just escaped and tramp that was between life and death.

And may God keep you, May God preserve you, and

may God strengthen you. In Jesus' name you may be

see that. But before you are seated, let's give honor

to whom, honey is you, to our father, his eminence,

the act Bishop Nicholas, that can Williams. That is our father.

If you are clapping, come on and clap your hands.

If you are shouting, come on and shout. If you

are running, come on and run.

Amen, you may be seen that in heavenly places, because

of because of, because of, because of the rain. Time

is far gone. And so I'll be preaching for about

the next twenty minutes.

And then.

And then and then we will we will continue next week. Amen.

But it's very important.

I want to encourage all of you to make sure

that you have the podcast and you are continually listening

to the messages. You are continually listening to the messages.

Way is, Reverend Francis, you are continually listening to the messages.

It's very important. Now this morning, I'm preaching on a

very deep, a very deep and spiritual message. And this

message is only for those that are spiritually deep and discerning.

If you are not spiritually deep and discerning, this message.

Won't work for you. It won't work for you.

So please try and be as spiritually discerning as possible.

Amen, Oh I said, Amen.

Now, then, tight, the title of my message is the

cost of loving God. The cost of loving God, the

cost of loving God. Now, brothers and sisters, you must

understand that the love for God is the highest calling

of every believer. It is not merely an emotion or

affleeting sentiments, but a covenant A covenant with God is

a sacred agreement between him and his people where he

makes promises and expects faithfulness.

In return.

It is based on his grace and often includes commitments,

blessings for obedience, and consequences.

For breaking it.

I want to share with you just a few people

had from biblic perspective, that had covenant. Noah had a covenant,

Abrah had an Abraham had a covenant.

Jesus had a new covenant.

Which revealed God's plan for the relationship and redemption.

Of his people.

Are you here? You've gone home? A divine obligation A

divine obligation with God is a sacred duty or a

responsibility that he expects his fullow west to fulfill. It

involves obedience to his commands and faithfulness in worship and

living according to his will. Look at and say living

according to his will? Say like you mean, say living

according to.

His will?

So that means not your will, but his will. Do

you understand what I'm saying? Are you sure you understand?

These obligations reflect a believer's commitment to God and often

come with spiritual blessings for obedience and consequences for failure.

So please understand that when you have a covenant with God,

there is obedience and then there's also consequences for disobedience.

Are you listening to me? Look at your neighbor and

say obedience and consequences for disobedience. Are you listening to me?

Please make sure you are listening to me. Will all right?

So it is just like when it is just like

when the children of Israel were fighting the Philistines and

they went to bring the ac of the Covenant without

being instructed to go and bring it, and they brought it,

and the Bible says that there was such a trembling

in the camp of Israel that the Philistines became scared.

Do you understand? And the Israelites thought they will win

the battle. But not only did they lose the battle,

but they also lost the ac of the Covenant and

they went to set the ac of the Covenants before Dagon.

And I will not continue because that's not my message.

But I want you to understand that their consequences for disobedience.

When God does not ask you to go and bring

the Act of the Covenant, you don't go and bring it.

Do you understand? Do you understand? And there are some

of you. You test God's obedience. You test God's obedience, you.

Are like God.

If I don't leave this sister's house before twelve midnight,

then it means that you sanction me to be here.

That is not That is not the covenant God wants

with you. And that is not how That is not

how the covenant works. Are you listening to me? I'm

trying to break it a little bit further down for you.

Do you get what I'm saying?

And that that.

Story I told you about what's a pastime in his beloved?

And the pastor said, God, let me leave this place

before twelve. And if I don't live before twelve, I

know that it's in your will. And he didn't live,

and the rest is between him and God. God forbid,

God forbid. It shall not be the costern U Timothy.

The Bible presents love for God as an all encompassing devotion.

It is a love that shapes life, thoughts, actions, and priorities,

putting God above all else. This deep commitment is expressed

through worship, obedience, trust, and a con sterun desire to

grow closer to Him, allowing his will to guide every

decision and purpose in our life. A supreme commitment that

defines our work with Him. And supreme commitment that defines

our work with God means placing Him at the center

of our lives, allowing his will to shape our thoughts,

actions and decisions. It is a wholehearted dedication to follow

Him in faith, obedience, and in love, regardless of the challenges.

That regardless of the challenges, this commitments, regardless of the challenges,

this commitment deepens our relationship with our God, guiding us

to live with purpose, trust, and on wavering devotion to

His truth. The foundation of loving God. Our love for

God is not self generated. It's a response to His

first love for us First John four nineteen NLT. The

Bible says, for we love each other, for we love

each other. What's going on in the back. For we

love each other because He first loved us. Because we

love each other because he first loved us. We love

each other because he first, because he loved us first. Sorry,

another translation was he loved he first loved us like

King James. But let's continue. So it's important you understand

that your love for God is not predicated on anything

else but that He first loved you. Do you understand

now when you are born. When a child is born,

a child is looking for love and acceptance from the parents.

Do you understand when the child shows love and acceptance

to the parents, When the parents show love and acceptance

to the child, the child automatically loves the parents back.

Not because the child fast showed love, but because the

parents fast showed love. God has fast shown us love

because he died for us. And that is why intent

we also love him. Because his love was not just words.

His love was not just speakings. His love was not

just sweet words. His love was His love was not

something he said and then he took it back, but

the love, the love he shared for us, He took

it into actions and died for us, and he first

loved us. That is why we also intend must love him.

Are you understanding what I'm saying? From Genesis to Revelation,

God love has been relentless, on wavering, and sacrificial. The

ultimate expression of his love is found in Jesus Christ,

the son of the Living God, who became the embodiment

of divine love on it. He became the embodiment of it.

He wrapped himself in the womb of a woman, came

here and became the embodiment of love. Do you understand

he became the embodiment of love?

Now?

When when.

Have you watched some of those funny videos where a

couple are walking and then somebody comes out with a gun.

You will see the guy run and leave the girl.

Have you seen some of those videos before? I wish

I had one to play for you. Some just the

blast of a balloon and then they run. The one

I watched, I was very, very funny that the guy

took there. You saying hair as a shield. And if

you are a woman and such a thing happens to

you and you go back to such a guy, something

is wrong with you. Something is wrong with you, something

is definitely wrong with you.

Now let's continue.

Number one, Supreme Devotion to the greatest Commandment Matthew twenty

two thirty seven to thirty eight. Nalty Jesus replied and said,

you must love your God with all your heart, all

your soul, and all your mind. This is the first

and the great commandments. Marthe twenty two thirty seven and

thirty eight. No I said to two, yeah, stop there,

don't go to twenty nine means that loving God should

be your highest priority in a believer's life. Jesus emphasizes

that love must be complete, coming from the heart, affections

and the desires.

So I'll take it from the beginning.

It means that loving God should be the highest priority

in a believer's life. Jesus emphasizes that this love must

be complete, coming from the heart, affections and desires, so

identity and devotion and mind thoughts and understanding. It is

not just an emotion, but a deep, all encompassing commitment

that shapes every aspect of your life. By calling it

the First and greatest commandment, Jesus highlights that our relationship

with God is the foundation for everything else, influencing how

we live, think, and interact with others. Please look at

your neighbor and tell them their foundation of Christianity is

loving God. Do you understand the foundation of Christianity is

loving God? That is what when somebody comes to slap you.

When somebody comes to slap you, you don't slap them back.

You don't slap them back because because it's not what

you would do, it's not your temperament, but it's the

temperament of God. What are you talking about if it

were me, and you come and slap me. By the way,

I've never fought in my life. I've never hit somebody.

I've never slapped anybody. I've never I've never done any.

Of that in my life. So it's a you.

It's there's only one person that I ever slapped in

my I said I ever slapped, I ever wanted to slap,

and I ended updating the person.

Yeah not serious, yeah, not serious.

No that I'm serious the woman, so a get me.

I wanted to put everything aside and slap it and

just one slap and and like to later we ended

up and I did that for a long time, about

six years. Yeah. Yeah, that thing has changed. It has changed.

It does changed. Yeah, you see, you see the thing.

And then and then when we wanted to marry, a

certain prophet said that that's not my wife.

And then he went around trying to sleep with it.

So be careful of those that you call profits in

your life. Not everybody is a profit. When we enterre

your phone, you have more than twenty five profits in

your phone. More than twenty five profits in your phone,

more than twenty five profits in.

Your phone.

One day and I'm finishing my message with three more

points you no time is up. No, no, no, it's fine.

I've sucked you. I have you not been paying attention

to everything. As a matter of fact, it's one of

the most sock san days I've ever suked you because

I'm not listening to anything any of you are saying.

I'm just delivering my message, so be very careful.

There was this one soccer guy I prophesied too about

him going to play soccer, and he met me a

few weeks later, and then he said, can I have

my number? I started this number and he was trying

to call me. I promise you there was nothing less

than fifty profits in his phone when he tied profits.

Profit profit profit profit, profit profit profit profit profit profit

profit profit profit, and.

He finally found my number. I never answered his care

I never answered his call. And those of you that

don't plant yourself in one place and learn from one

place and hear from one place, and you finish here

in the word of God here, then you on YouTube

watching this pasta and watching that pasta and watching that pasta.

It's not good for you.

A tree cannot uproot, replant, replant, replant, replant, and grow.

It doesn't work. It doesn't work. It does not work.

It does not work that we look at you never

and say it does not work that way. You cannot

be uprooting and replanting yourself. It doesn't work like that.

Out come is one bow? How come is one bowl?

We put the flowering one bow?

One bow, one bow, one bow, not two, three, four, five,

six seven, one bow.

Ah, you are feeding from his evidence.

The archbishop, somebody who has been in ministry for forty

seven years, lasted the.

Test of time. So many people.

Do you know how many people have risen and gone

down in forty seven years? And you have somebody who

has stood the test of time. And you are listening

to this South African or Zimbabwean or or Guinean and

new letters past time in town because you think they

have the latest message.

What is wrong with you? What wrong with you?

You don't know their beginning, you don't know their end.

You can't even trace them. You don't know who their

spiritual father is. How did they raise themselves up in ministry?

Why are they agabus? And it's only Agabus. We don't

know where he came from. It just appeared. The guy

just appeared. It doesn't work. Like that. It doesn't work

like that. Now, let me give you this a night clothes. Okay,

let me start from the beginning, because I've gone a

little bit of So let me start from the paragraph

and give it to you, and I'll give you three

points on the heart, the soul, strength, and then we'll close.

Amen. Amen, Amen.

So, as I was saying in Matthew twenty seven thirty eight,

as I was saying in Matthew twenty two thirty seven

and thirty eight, it means that loving God should be

the highest priority in a believer's life. Jesus emphasizes this

love must be complete, coming from the heart, affections and desires, so.

An identity. Please, if you are talking, please stop.

I can. It's a secular room, so I can hear

everything to the stage understanding it's not just an emotion,

but a deep awe compassing commitments that shapes every aspect

of life. But calling it the first and the greatest commandment,

Jesus highlights that our relationship with God is the foundation

for everything else, influencing how we live, think, and interact

with others. When Jesus spoke these words, he was addressing

religious scholars who prided themselves on their knowledge of the law.

Yet He revealed that the essence of the law was

not just rituals and traditions.

It was love.

This commandment was first given in Deuteronomy, chapter six and

verse five n IVY. Love the Lord your God with

all your heart, and with all your soul, and with

all your strength. Now your heart means loving God. Loving

God with your heart means having deep, sincere devotion to Him.

It's more than these emotions. It's a commitment to put

God first, trust him completely, and seek a personal relationship

with him. The love is reflected in worship, obedience, and

a desire to live according to His will. It means

loving him not just in words, but in actions, aligning

your desires and decisions with His truth. Do you understand

aligning your actions and your desires with His truth? Do

you understand so that pass that I was telling you

about who said that if by twelve he doesn't leave

this place, that's not God's truth, That's not the will.

Love God.

You must make sure that your desires and your actions

align themselves with God's truth, or else you do not

love God.

It's a very simple thing. Do you understand it? Means

you do not love God. Do you get it?

So? Loving God with your soul means surrendering your entire being,

your identity, purpose, and deepest desires to Him. It's a

love that goes beyond emotions or actions, flowing from the

core of who you are. This kind of love seeks

God all above else, finding fulfillment and purpose in Him alone,

and remaining faithful in trials. Now I'll continue strength from

next week. There is something I want to do very quickly,

which I feel a strong desire to do. If you

you are here and you feel like some way, somehow

you've stopped loving God, your desire for the love of

God has gone astray, please come let me pray for you.

It's not a joking thing. It's very important. It's the

first commandment, and it's the greatest commandment which He holds

us to. If you are here, don't look to your left,

don't look to your right, don't look at anybody around you.

Please come and let me pray for you. Please come

and let me pray for you. Please come and let

me pray for you. Please come and let me pray

for you. Please come and let me pray for you. Please,

come and let me pray for you. Please come and

let me pray for you. If you are coming, please

come and let me pray for you. Loving God is

a commandment and their consequences for breaking that commandment. He

is not going to to the person to your left

or the person to your rights and say why why

did you not let them come forward and renew their

covenant with me.

Is going to all be on you.

So don't let anybody to your left or to your

right influence you. If you are coming, please come. Don't

let anybody influence you. If you are coming, please come.

It's a simple prayer. We are going to pray. Nothing

is meant to embarrass you. Nothing is meant to do

any sort of thing. If you are coming, and whilst

you're here, just lift up your voice and speak to him.

Whilst you're here, just lift up your voice.

And speak to him.

Say God, I want to renew my covenant with you.

I want to renew my covenant with you. I want

to renew my covenant with you. I want to renew

my covenant you covet I want to relieve my covenant

to Jesus. If I want to renew my covenant with.

You Russian Mamma shady shady blah blah blah in the

mighty name of Cheese Lord random, and she can't tell

her mama, mama rit shaker, tell her blah blah blah blah.

Father, touch her hants, Oh God, release your love into

our hearts. Oh God, let her love for you. Let

her heart be renewed with your love. Ret shake up

paya ba from today God, or not according to our will,

but according to your perfect war. Let our desires, Oh God,

be in line with your truth. Oh God, this morning

dish is our prayer. Hey my, God, messy on us

call my shaken, help us, oh man, tell you about

hey my, to align our top path things, Oh God,

in your throat, Oh God, rise shaka. Tell your lord

she I'm just.

Opening your hands. Boy little rick Tony, my.

Little to your love cost a little for our lives,

Oh God, Rich shaky pany, bring us cloak shout in

the name of cheeseus. Let's shake you pant tuly you

go my year. I read knew our love for you,

Oh God, let our love never dry. In the name

of Jesus, help us to start for you. It might God,

shake it, telling my Mama rich shake old party. Help

us to love you first, Oh Godd, anything that is

blocking our way from loving you, Oh Gord, let those

things be removed. In the name of Jesus, Oh Godd,

perge out so we can love you. Little shaking tally about.

Help us to understand our love for you. Help us

to understand the love that you first shown as in your.

In your hands and head saying the name of Jesus,

in the name of Jesus, say Father, Father, anything, and

those of you sitting down please repeat this prayer. Say

anything in it him that has taken, that has taken

my heart, my heart from you, from you, and placed it,

and place it in something else, in something else, in

something else, in something else, in someone else, in someone else. Father, Father,

this morning, this morning, as I annoy into my head,

as I annoyed my head, say I decree, I decree,

and I declare, and I declare by prayer.

By prayer.

Let my heart let my heart come back to you,

come back to you, re established, re establish that covenant

that covenant I have with I have with you. Let

that covenant. Let that covenant you re established, You re established.

Father from today, Father, from today, Lead my heart.

Lead, my heart, lead, my soul, lead my soul, lead,

my strength, lead my strength in Jesus name, in change

that's name.

Amen. Amen, you are blessed. Now, please listen to this.

Please listen to this strength which I didn't touch and

I said will continue next week. It's with all your abilities.

It's with all your abilities. So please make sure that

you are using all your abilities to save God and

need to be well with God.

Bless you