How deep is your love Part 1 Rev Nana Kwaku Sekyere 13.12.24

Follow this one, and we say that, come and buri

with us. Come and show yourself strong, Come and let

us know that indeed you are hearing us. We lift

our prayer this morning, and we say no one after everything.

When we take the inventor, there will not be anyone

here that you didn't touch. Let this sacrifice not be

in vain. Touch us law that you move from this

state to another state. Help us law, that we will

be able to experience you like never before. Help us

law that those who saw us, yes, than they would

see that different version of us today. Help us long

there is no one who has been with you and

leave the same, and we will not be a deception.

Help us hep Us and Jesus writing him. Those of

us who love him, can we appreciate him? The smarting.

If this is the club to show your love for God,

then I take something wrong. Something is strong with your love.

Those adverts who love him, can you appreciate him? They're smiling?

Halloway a man, please, before you are seated, just tend

to someone and tell the person I will help you

to stay awake. Tell somebody you they won't tell the

other person to. So that's like you are helping each other. Hallelujah,

and tell the person that we will help each other.

We have to do this together, a man and some

of us. It is now twelve seventeen, but we are

already exhausted. But the Lord will help us. A man,

and please God bless your forcoming. It's it's it's it's

not a joke, especially on Fridays. You know, there's different kinds.

Some of the days it's a little bit better, but

on Fridays there's this tiredness that captures you. It's like

you you don't know where it's coming from. You know,

the body, the body by default wants to shut down

on Fridays. Do you understand? So sometimes for you to

make it. It's not a joke, and it's really really

something that I believe that if you are here then

you cannot live the same. That what I'm saying. It's

like if you have been able to come, there is

no way you should live the same because you should

have as well used your bed. But once you are here,

there should be a determination in your heart that I

will not leave the same. Please, are you understand what

I'm saying. If you are not careful, you will take

some of these things simple. And if you're not careful,

you will be so familiar with God to uderstand that

you know when I'm sleeping and playing music, I'm listening

to messages. You can't be so familiar that you feel

you know him. You have no idea. You would never

get to know him enough till you die, because he's

ever changing, He's ever evolving. So if you are not

dynamic enough, you'll be using two thousand and two software.

Where else we have been upgraded. Are you understand what

I'm saying? Because you are stuck by the things that

you used to know. And when the system has been

upgraded and the country have been reset, it will shock you.

It will shock you that you will still be at

the same place. So if I wear you this morning,

I will tell myself, like Jacob said to himself some

time ago, that I would not leave you to your

bless me. When the Lord blesses you, it is evident.

You don't have to say it. People will see it.

If you keep telling people you are blessed, you are

not blessed. They have to know. Please, If you keep

telling people who are annointed you are not annointed, they

have to know. If you keep telling people you are

the best singer. I know that. You know, like as

we are here, I will never compete with anyone when

it comes to singing. I can't. I remember when I

was pastoring Kenyays, they used to mute my microphone because

when we are singing. I'm very sure what they were

hearing was not good. And I said to myself that

I will learn how to sing. Oh. I even wanted

to go to They said that you have to go

to the beach and you'll be shouting and all that.

I wanted to try, but I realized that there's some

cross you have to allow some people to carry. So carrellly,

my wife is carrying that cross now, so that I

don't have to carry that cross. Amen. And and I

invest in that. Sometimes I pick it up. We go

to place, I just just look at what's been done.

And she will be looking at this. She'll be saying,

I say that it's not like this. You have to

do it this way. No, like the father, I can't think.

That's not mean. I can't hear music when the key

is not proper. No, No, you can't do it this way.

Let's do it this way. You drive to some places

listen to this one because each place you go demands

a different flow and you cannot say that I am

like this. I can't change. No, you need to invest

in yourself. Pause. I understand what I'm saying. So I

want you to know that God is the same yesterday,

today and forever, but he is not the same in

the ways that he deals with people. He keeps changing.

So what he used to do with people, it has changed.

The way he used to speak with you. If you

work with him to appoint it changes. And when you

are working with him, how he demands attention and nothing

also changes. So if you are still at that same level,

then you have to know that something is strong. So

as we are here, it's a privilege. And I want

us to appreciate our leaders, purists and Jason. Yes, and

he keeps reminding me, so how do we want to

go about it? Because he has a particular heart for

what is being done, and if you don't have a

particular heart for what's being done, you can't do what

is being done. Amen, And it's a blessing every Thank

God for all your lives, for being here. And I

want us to speak shall it tank God for the

life of our bishop for this. It's not a joke.

He is ever ready to be helping us to become better.

And I can tell you for a fact that he's

not stopping. Immediately I got here, he called me and

was asking what was being done, what's going on. He

asked me to tell Koby that I want you to

record it so that I can also listen to it

if I'm not there in person. You have to let

them know I love them and I will eventually be here.

So that's that's that's a very wonderful thing. And I

want us to tank God for his life greatly for

this opportunity. A man, so please, I only take your seat,

God bless you. We are talking about something. We will

do a little bit of teaching and we will do

some few productals. Is it okay? Wonderful? We want to

talk about how deep it's your love? How deep is

your love? So please? My name is the Knack. I

have one wife. I don't have any side check, I

don't have any other I have only one and her

name is Dora, and she's here with us, a man,

so please. The reason why I mentioned my name again

is that it will shock you that you can be

in a church for so many years and still people

don't know your name. They will see you every day,

especially with guys. We can be friends for yes, better

we don't know our names. It will shock you can

be in school for four years and you don't know

the name, oh chairman, my guy, till you are down

with school. So it's very good to introduce yourself. When

we're doing the youth in prayer. We went to some

of the places and you ask you go to this

wonderful what what's your what's the name of mm hmm, oh, yes,

forgotten and as you go to everything. So it's amazing

to shock you that when some people are even under pressure,

they forget their their own names. Have you seen that

one before? Yes? So it is very important. Amen, So

how deep it's your love? Sometimes when you are dealing

with young people, immediately we hear love, a lot of

things runs through our minds. And when you hear love,

most of us think about marriage. When you hear love,

you are just looking at the next available young lady

or young man to show that Indeed, this is how

I want to express my love. And you know, some people,

when you tell them you love them, they will tell

you that what shows and in this our current dispensation,

the only thing that people feel its shows love is

when you actually have sex with them. When a guy

is asking what shows show me something, do something for

me to know that indeed, what you're saying is true.

It is not hagging. It is they just want one thing.

But love is not sexuality, amen. Love is not a feeling.

Love is not an emotion, a feeling that hmm. It's

like you feel something within you. You know, someone passes

by and it's like something has entered you and immediately

you feel neverous and you are shaking and all that,

and you equate that as love. But it's not love.

That's why people marry and within three days they want

to divorce because like after yes, after I be with

a person sleeping together and all that's like what there again?

There's nothing there again? Then let's divorce onto the next one.

So it tells you that love is not a feeling.

If it's a feeling, I'm sure prince won't be married

by now. Price how long? Now it's a five or

six five six, like like he's gone, oh, yes, like

he's gone. I came to his marrier. I was in

commercyden I came. It's like he's like, oh six yes,

if it's feeling or like it has faded, oh yes.

And I tell you for a fact that those of

us who dwell on feelings, we don't have a strong

base for what we do. So it's one of the

things that people find it very difficult to define. When

you ask someone what is love, they will be rooming

about and so she will not be able to understand

because this is not it's not a joke. It's just

for or the better, not the joke. People have died,

they still couldn't find it. You get people are in prison,

but they still didn't find it. People who keep dying

better still will not find it. Are you understand what

I'm saying. Jesus came to die to him he was

coming to die for the people he loved, but people

showed him that you are joking. We don't love you.

It's that you have got in your own dying that

you want to die. Come and die. So it tells

you that each and everyone of us sees that he

under the sound of my voice. We understand love in

a different way, we show love in a different way.

We respond to love in a different way way. There's

some people, when you're even showing them love, they become

very suspicious of you. Why all of a sudden, why

are you being nice to me? They have to investigate

and know why because and there's some people when they're

even joyful, they become amazed. Why am I happy today?

It's like they don't understand why because by diffault, that's

not who they are. So the way we respond to

love is different. The way we talk about it is different.

So if you're not careful, how you express your love

will be opposite to how the person expresses love. But

love biblically is commitments. Biblically, love is commitment, Amen, because

I used to hear, and it is crucial for us

to understand because love is the center point when it

comes to the Bible. Love is the central message when

it comes to God and he's dealing with his children.

Love is what he came to die for. And love,

as I told you earlier, it's not anything you are

thinking of. The Love is commitment. Love is not sexuality.

Love is commitments. Love is not a feeling. Love is commitments.

Love is not emotions. Love is commitment and there's no

way you can commit to something when you are not

ready to sacrifice. You can't. Oh, I tell you, I

will not lie to you until you are ready to

make sacrifices. You can't commit to anything. You can't commute

to anything. So it is very important and it's crutia

for us to understand is a commitment because the love

that we have is dependent on it, and God created

us in his own image, and God is love, and

if we are in the image of God, it means

that there's a part of us that must also show love.

And if you are not able to receive love, you

will not be able to give love. That you understand

what I'm saying. So when we are talking about how

deep it's your love, it tells you that there's some

loves that you can actually weigh it and know that

this one cannot move from here with me to the roadside,

because that love is very faint and it's very thin

that you cannot build any foundation on it. And there

is no way you can succeed on something if the

love that you have for that thing it's not deep

and you are not ready to be consumed by it.

And if God will take us far. You have to

understand that we have to have the ability to love him.

So I came here to ask you one question, how

deep is your love to go? Oh? Yes, you have

to find out. Sometimes you have to examine yourself some

of the things that you can do. Ah, you have

to question your love for the person. Those of you

I don't know. I side periods. Who is married here?

Who has married before? No one wonderful. But I think

some of us has been in relationships before and some worked,

some didn't work. Some we've gone back again, and some

are waking wonderful and some looks like it's work, but

we have a defeeling it will not work. But we

are handing on to it and see that we're whether

there will be some changes along the line. Amen. And

it's really dicey. I think a month or two months ago,

a young lady sent me two pictures of two gentlemen

and told me that Rev. I want you to diagnose

this case for me. And when he gave me the introduction,

she said that this one is this he's very matured,

he is carrying, he is a very good Christian. And

the creditionals was really heavy. Do you understand and he also,

this one too is you know, I've found him were

closer and his Christian life is not too good and

all that. So after he gave me all this, said,

from the way you were giving me this, it's like

you want this one said that it's not like that.

I'm confused, so please look into it for me, and

I said, no problem, and I went to do enquiries

and I came back and I told her that during

the period of diagnosing the case, we are going for

the one who is not to go there Christian in

your site. And she was worried. So I asked her,

have you made a decision already? She said that no.

I said that yes, then pray about it. But if

you want to go by what I have seen, then

go with this one. Then when was it that we

went to danceman Monday? So Monday she wanted to eat pizzas,

so I took her to dancemmer. So whilst we're on

our way going I think around eleven am or something,

we've gone to drop one daughter of ours. She was

going back to school. So I said that less past

there so that I get this for you. And the

ladies sent me a message the reverend. Do you know

what's happening? I said, speak to me. Apparently now the

guy who was not really into church and all that,

saying that like the guy, I started having an encountess

that the guy is even seeing Archbishop in his dreams

and all days and that telling me, the guy wants

to come back to Ghana. He has a house already,

wants to come and by another house and put her

in the other house so that he can go and prepare,

get a different house outside Ghanna, so that he come

and pick you. So the things take your time, take

your time. Now it looks like she's even happier than

the person who asks her to go for this one.

But imagine she was going by her feelings and what

she has seen. But by now, I'm very sure the

one he's saying that he's matured and all that by

now he has would have shown him her something that

all the things that she saw and all that would

have vanished. Juana's at that, saying, so sometimes what we

are looking out for, it's not what it is that

God is also looking at for. So if you're not

careful and you follow your heart and everything that is

entering your ears, and you don't allow God to speak

to you, you have an accident, that car will eventually

have an accident because you understand what I'm saying. So

when it comes to love, it is very serious. Oh yes,

I have people who are saving jail times because of love.

We have love for women, we have love for money,

we have each of them is love. But each of

them have where it is taking you too. But the

love of God has to take us somewhere. So how

deep is your love for God? Nobody can answer that

question for you. You have to answer it to yourself, and

it comes by years of going through things and still standing,

if not experiencing things before, it is difficult for you

to say that you love God. If you pray, now

answer comes you love him? Oh, you love him. And

when people are giving and people are saying they are

going through spiritual battles, you'll be wondering that what they're

not Christians enough. It's like you, bepore do you people pray?

You have no idea? And when you first and you

are seeing, you have some encounters here and there. Oh

it's nice, and it makes your Christianity so in a

particular area because Wow, immediately you pray no, you get answers.

It increases your love, Amen, But that's not actually what

shows that you love someone when you are able to

move with a person from one level to the other.

That sometimes you even want to divorce the person in

your heart, but you are still standing and you are

still going through. Sometimes you've beat it the person blue, black, white,

but the person is still roaming about and you're looking

at the person and going up and down, and you've

not touched the person that you've beating the person in

your heart, you've left that when people they've packed out

but they are still around. You go through all these

faces and you are still standing. It tells you one thing.

Then you can actually say that I love this person.

Because you could have gone by the way you felt,

you should have used your emotions to unit, but because

you are committed to making it weak, you still stayed behind. Amen.

And some of us, we are so familiar with what

Jacob did when it comes to love that we think

it is a joke when you talk about true love.

True love is seen when someone is ready to lay

their lives for you. If you are not ready to

lay your life down for someone, it it's not true love.

The Bible said, a word manner of love is this

that a man laid down his life for his friends.

They can't quantify that love. So he's asking what manner

of love is this? That a man will love a

young lady to the point that they've asked you to

work seven years, six months, grandade seven years and work

for seven years. That's not mean it's like, oh, you

go and sit behind your computer. You do no hats man.

You wake up in the morney. The sheep will be

following you. You go uppend down and they're not paying you.

You have to understand that I work for you. The

is the woman the only thing you are getting. In

addition that you eat. Do you understand better for money

in your pockets you'll not get it seven years? And

I'm very sure in that seven years Rachel was growing fairer,

becoming very nice. And all the days the father chalie,

the ho for bed too, and go for bear to

crab you can want, and you increase the energy because

you want them to know that challenge. Even five people

are around you are told them one they have to

go in for seven years will pass by and don't

come and tell you that Charlie is because the old

day it's not married yet you can't allow the younger

to so go for another seven fourteen years, fourteen years.

If it was some of us, you say, well, every

painting be painted every woman. When I'll go for, I'll

go for a different person. Why why should I work for? Why? Why?

And your friends to encourage you? Ah, is this the

only girl? I can't even show you better people up

than this world? Fourteen years? You can't. As I'm looking

at our faces here, we can't. We don't have the

capacity to go through. No, our parents will not allow

us to go to our first will not allow us

to go through. Ourselves, will not allow us to go through.

It's not a joke. And they will ask you are

you ready to throw away fourteen years of your life?

By that time you will be like forty something. When

are you going to give you? When are you going

to give birth? What is this? And by the time

they'll finish convincing you you know that actually you've been

fooling for a long time. Why have you you? You

made a decision yet and you'll live? Do you know that?

This is changes mind? Several times at the point he

didn't want to die. It's like this people that I

want to die for. Why are they being treating me

this way? Oh no, at the point when he shot

the manarism of some of us and the way we

are treating him and said that listener, it's not worth it.

And on the day of the appointment, on that day,

that same day, he said that God, let's make another deal.

I'm very sure if there was a different way without

chosen it. So he tells us that if Jesus almost

failed those of us here, that we are following him,

that we say that we love him no matter what,

and so that no matter what comes, take your time, amen.

It's cheap to say certain things until you've actually worked

in it and you've questions certain things, and you and

the wise are coming into your mind. Why this? Why

that you understand what I'm saying. You've been faithful all

throughout and the time that the Lord should bless you

with this? Why has it been taken away from you?

People are no longer in church because they were not

able to answer that question. Hhmm. But I asked myself

sometimes that the people that Jesus healed they falsake again,

Yes they did. They fell sick again, larger that you

wrote it, come back. He died again. The woman that

he gave a child, the boy died. They came no.

So like if he gives you everything, it will perish again.

So if your love is based on these things, then

you actually don't have any foundation. You understand what I'm saying.

Then you are holding on to the things that you have.

And if these things are taken away from you, will

you still be standing or will you have a change

of heart and a change of mind? Your re has

and you come once you're about to sing. Now they

take the microphone from you and they give it to

someone that everybody has seen it, and from it one

of the farthest distances from that time working from the

stage back to where I won't do that. It's like

it becomes a long journey. And as you're walking down

you are telling yourself me or move whom me be

able last year. So as you are even going back

to six, oh you have you have resigned in your heart.

There's nothing that they will do for you to come back.

And when the other person is singing, you know that

I could have done better. That's the most even painful part.

I could have done better than this one. Will you

go home? Oh you still stay? Amen? Do you do? You?

Are you committed to go to the point that no

matter how they will treat you, stay, not because they

are treating you that way, but because you love him.

You have to is it this thing? You have to

answer it to yourself. I remember some years ago when

my wife had to go through a surgery. It was

very painful because periods have prayed for people for the

same thing that God has healed them, and I've prayed

for this one several Nothing is happening. Ah, why them

just on fund I don't even have to be there,

just on phone, do pastor? Can you imagine? And it

motivates me and I will go lay my hands on her.

Nothing nothing, that's no push locked in and I said that, okay,

maybe it's because this thing is closer to to me.

Let me request reinforcement. I called for reinforcement from different regions.

Reinforcement came, oh nothing, and sometimes you call me, okay,

I can't this that's and I will tell her it.

Don't worry, it is done. But it does not done. No,

it was not done. And I kept on doing what

I what I have to do, going up and down,

move here, do this, go here, and now come home.

She's in pains and people have sent messages that God

has hailed them this that that. So one time she

was crying on the bed and I was just I

I didn't have anything to pray against, like stive your

baby away, and it's left for God to just step in.

So I just sitting down and I was always reflecting

that what's really going on? Have I missed that on

something or what? Oh, it's my love for God, not

really something that will provoke his hand to move this way. Okay,

tomorrow's service, I will test it and say, if you'll

move in a particular dimension ezy and you're missus see,

then I'm sure that when as I'm coming home, it's

a damn deal nothing, nothing, and eventually something that takes

in the name of Jesus, it is done. I'll take

her to the hospital. Spent over sixteen thousand to go

through that and everything. When she was it was full anaesthesias,

so she would go completely off, and the doctor came

to tell me that this is the Johansen, that is it.

That they will come back or they will not come

back because it's two things. Is that the person will

make it all like reviving the person to come back.

Because I was in the theater. I was there when

they were doing the savory and everything, so that passed

that soul, this is the time I have to pray.

And then I've warned me that ten I was wearing

my tea. So when I'm praying and shoot and go

back again. Second one went back again like everything is off,

so she's not moving. Then the doctor came back. I

knew one he was like a friend came back said

that so like I said, yeah, well, oh be sure

of course said that who I'm with you in prayer?

This is that that I think there was something happening.

So most of them were here. I was the only

one that praying. And when she came back the third time,

opening her eyes and they were asking her, what does

she she went back again. It was not a joke.

So I was asking that I don't know why yet.

My about hounds were, yes, that's had my drama and

drama take you been here, but everything showed there as

you are going, I'm with you, So I thought it

was that I didn't know that you would go through

all this process and all that, and finally on the

fourth one she came opening her eyes stayed on for

some time, and they quickly brought the oxygen and all that,

moved her to the recovery room, set up everything, and

I was there praying that the Lord will sustain her,

that the Lord will bring her back. It was a Saturday, Oh,

on Sunday, the services on the phone, Oh, I pre

both first and second just a joke, and I felt,

and I was sleeping at the hospital that I was

coming to preach, coming for all the other things. And

after everything, I realized that it didn't really change and

determine what I have to do and what I used

to do. And everybody was telling me that takes some

time off something that you don't understand. It's like something small.

You want to take a whole two months off for

them to be calling you to come and do you

understand and saying to be calling you and all that,

and and it's like you feel so important. No, no, no, no,

I realize that it is not about what you do

for God. It is about God, in his own kindness

and his own messes, doing things in the way that

He wants to do it. So you understand how he

does things, that it is not by your way, but

by his way and how he wants to do it.

You will feel that you are less loved than other

people who are receiving miracles of a kreind. But when

God wants to work with you to a fat distance,

he wants to go through fire with you, because that

after you have suffered with me, that's when you can

reign with me. If you have not sufferet with me,

you cannot reign with me. So if you have suffect

with him, he can trust you that when times comes,

he knows that you will be faithful and you will

stand on your grounds. Not will move you because you

have gone through were people for and they are not

able to come back. You have gone to wear people

are not able to stand. So you ask yourself that

what this comes to me? What would be my reaction?

What would be my next step? That this thing that

these people are going through, if it was supposed to

be me, what would I do? You are privileged, your

school fees was paid throughout hmm? Is that that when

you're passing by and you see this young girl standing,

you install them? But you ask yourself, when if the

tables were to tend. What would you do when as

I raining by, how a young girl who I think

it was in thirty years and he said that, or

somebody's husband who rented this place for me, paid school

fees and pastor you are telling me to leave him?

How will I survive here? Nobody is helping me from home?

You are What answer are you going to give her?

You don't have the capacity to be supporting her always?

What will you tell her? I want to come to church,

I want I want to save gold Well. I want

to love him, but this is it? What will you do?

But it's not about feelings and emotions me those things

that don't move me at all. I said, I leave him.

There's no one that has entered this school that there

was not a way for the person to complete. Leave him.

If you're still holding on to this one, there will

not be another opportunity leave him. That's ameister. She was

not able to leave him. I was not worried because

I knew eventually she would do that. I didn't. I

didn't insert it. No, no, no, no no. I said that

you will leave him, But you see, you are taking

time because you are still doing her collations. You are

doing car class. The rent is this school physics, this

this is that you are doing all these calculations. I

need to tell you that you can't do it. He

said that I have not been to church for so

many years, because if God is really someone who loves us,

why is he not able to do this? My father

can help, but he's not willing to help. But some

of us we are fortunate. When you do this, it comes, uh,

it comes, and we are still finding it difficult to

understand that it is just by the grace of God.

Unless you don't know that that some people they've had

everything that in life you should have and at the

point they were not having anymore. Unless you don't understand

that way you see that that what should cause you

to love God must move from what you see now.

What should cause you to love God must be on

something higher and greater than what you can do now.

Then what comes to you now than what you feel

should have come to you and then come to you.

So if it's going this way, then I will show

them something. If you love him well, there are certain

comments you will never make if you love him well.

Oh no, there are things that will show amen. There's

a lot of blessings. Somebody this morning, come with let

me show you something. First John chapter two, verse number fifteen.

Our love for God is measured by how much we

hate sin. The Bible said, I do not love the

world or the things in the world. If anyone loves

the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

One of the things that measures our love for God,

it's how much we hate sing. It's how much we're

hate shim. So you ask yourself, are you willing to

compromise always? Or you are willing to fight it? H

This is a very simple scripture that we always quoted

to to call ourselves and be happy. Or if any

do not love the world and the things in the world.

If anyone loves the world, the love of the fact

is studying him. You don't have to love the world.

Then they will tell you. But you are in the world.

You are in the world, and now things are moving

faster that you need a lot of things. Kh And

since I'm moving faster that for you to be comfortable

in life to a point, you need you need things nice. Oh,

you need things I don't not like to you. You

need it. Huh. There are certain things if it is

not in your life, it's not a joke. Hum hmm.

But you see, when the world captivates you to the

point that you can't hear anything else than what you

must come to you, it becomes dangerous. Oh yes, it

becomes very dangerous because then you are willing to compromise.

You are willing to do everything possible to make sure

you arettain certain heights to make sure you get the things.

And it's become very normal. Oh yes. And now people

are no longer able to talk about purity because we

feel that when you talk about purity, people become very

some way and they look at you someway, and we

don't want them to look some way, and we don't

want them to look at us some way, so we

don't want to talk about it. And you are in

a church pastor is willing to compromise, member has compromised,

and it's helping the pastor to compromise, showing you how

to compromise, showing you how you will be able to cheat,

and they will not find out, giving you steps by steps. Oh,

past I can meet you here this place. We don't

have members in this area. Nobody will come to this area.

This is outside town, and nobody will see us. Don't worry.

I will make the reservations. You don't have to. You

just have to just enter and I will be there.

It's very nice, it sounds very It's like they've drawn

their map and everything for you to go and enter. Amen,

and those of us that they will tell us, Oh,

this is just something small, it's not something you know.

After they've described it in to you and all that,

you know that, oh, you can actually go and ask

for forgiveness and the Lord will forgive you. So you've

been asking for forgiveness and you come back and you

come and cry, and you go back and ask for forgiveness.

You go back and go and cry again about the

same thing. You ask for forgiveness for five years now

about the same thing, and you are still asking for

forgiveness because you are not ready to hate it. You're

not ready to hate it. You are just saying that

if you don't do this, you know, it's like, please,

let me tell you, let me tell you, you will not die.

If you don't have those things, you will not die.

If those things are not you will not die. And

if if you have to, you have to make that way.

Prepare yourself because eventually, even if you have it, you'll die.

But you have to ask yourself, how might you love God?

For you to hate thing? Some of the mistakes is

very sweet, and you want to make it again, and

you want to make it again, and we love to

go to a change that they will tell you that

you know that's happened before. And gradually, gradually, as we

give it time it to eventually disappear, it will dry out.

I'm very old school. I don't believe in those things.

What if you don't come back? What if you are

not able? Do you understand? So when you do the calculations,

you know yourself. What if? So as they come back

to you submit ways of doing things. And we are

also happy that no, let me do it. We have

a loving father that whatever you do, when you come

back to him and you ask for forgiveness, he will

forgive you. And you have the verses that will encourage you.

And you have people in characters in the Bible that

God gave them tenth and twenty chances, and even God

used them mightily. And you look at yourself say that,

oh then I have chance. Amen. So actually, when you

look at yourself now and you look at what you

are into that you've not been able to do away with.

You have to understand that you are encouraging yourself. You're

encouraging yourself, and you are willing to compromise. And some

of us we have moved from the place to a

point that not it is normal, and when we get

to that point that it's normal, it's become very dangerous.

We don't hate it anymore. It has become something that

every young person is doing. So nobody actually talk about it.

Nobody actually speak against it. How to acquire the latest things?

Nobody actually we don't really even care about it anymore.

How did you get it? We don't evenly ask people anymore,

but those things they used to ask growing up in

environment that if we don't go to school, someone who

is not your parents will beat you and send it.

Now it's a different game all together. They'll ask you

why didn't you go to school? All right, and they

will beat you and they will take it, and when

your mad, you'll also adapt to it. So everybody is

checking everybody in the community. Hey, now, for if I

to have a holiday, One time I wanted the holiday.

I was tired. It's like I've gone to school. Why

I was at the holiday and there was nothing that

was going to give me a holiday. And in the

community they will beat you. So I to find a way.

And early in the morning I was shaking and I

had to use my own finger chalk my thro to

vomit and I didn't cover it. So I have a

proof I'm not well. I've even vomited. So they will

leave you for you too, because that one like, it's

kind of proper. But now you can't even decide. I

read online. If online will not help me, I'll go

and see the lecturer. The electria is give me my friend.

They will do something about it. It is only those

who want to stress themselves that they are everywhere. I

want to live soft life, baby girl life. I want

to live good. And after saying all these things, you

find yourself in that place. But it's stated. Can you

put back my scripture so that if anyone loves the world,

the love of the Father is not in him. Mm hmmm,

let's look at some ninety seven verse number thing. Look

at it, King James, please he that love the Lord

hates evil. I just want the a pard he do

love the Lord hate evil. Very simple. If you love

the Lord, you will hate evil. If people feel comfortable

around you doing whatever that they feel like doing, you

don't love God. You don't love God. Why is it

that you alone all your friends are like that? And

you want to tell us you are not like that? No, no,

why is it that nothing about you has not transformed them?

Then there's a possibility that there's something in you that

makes them comfortable to be around, because they shouldn't not

trying not be comfortable. But now we feel weird and

it makes the environment really awkward. So we don't want

to take people on at certain things. So we have

become lovest of evil, and we so want to show

that we love God. But they say that if you

love him, you'll hate evil. You can love You can't

love him and love evil. Oh yes, oh yes, we

can't love him and love evil. You can't love him.

And you are consumed about the things of this world.

If it comes, wonderful. If it does not come, you

are moving on. But if you have gone to the

point that until you get it, people have sleepless night too.

People can't sleep, they can't even eat better because of

something that they have not gotten. They can't eat well,

they can't sleep well, especially when everybody around is having

and they are not. And they are telling you that

you use what your mama gave you to God and

you are not using it. They will internally decide to

make sure that you stave. They eventually decide to make

sure that you go through pains. But are you willing

to go that far because you love God? Are you

willing to go that far because of the kind of

love you have for him? Are you willing to make

that sacrifice? That you could have gotten this easily, but

you will not do that. That you could have added

one not to zerus to the account and nobody will

find out because you can't defend it. You can't defend it.

You can ac certain things to it and for it

to be equal to that figure. And after the deal,

you know that you are become a man. And you

still say no that when they are giving people bribe

and some wild incentives in the company, I will I

They're free to come to you and say that, Charlie,

everybody takes it. You can't be different. Take it and

you go and you discuss it with your friends. AH

A long time you've not taken it. Oh, we are

taking it too. I've taken my a long time. And

then what are you waiting for? Show you waste and

how to take it, and you will take it. But

if you love him, you'll hate it. Hallelojah amen. So

your love for God is measured of how much you hate. Say,

if you don't hate it that much for people to

look at you and feel some way, then the love

has not consumed you yet. If do you know that

people can see you and look at you from here

to told, then know that you are really ready to compromise.

They assess you, and they know that you are ready,

and that some people to they will assess you, and

they know that I don't try this one. Why are

you in the same place that they will not try

this one? And you? They have been trying you always,

And you are saying that on me, I don't know

what I have done. It's only being married men who

will always come to me. You have to know what

you have done. Why don't you know what you have done?

Once you have entertained them, they have also introduced their

friends to you. Oh, go go to this one, this

one there, you don't have to talk much, you will

get it. Amen. And those of us who are also

saying to us, says that, oh, we are not moving around.

It's just one person. Please, it's not about it's just

one person. Whether is half person or one person, it

is still the same. Oh, I mean, it's just one person.

It's just the same person. That Please, let's be serious.

He said that if you love him, you'll hate the

other one. Amen. So one is measured by how you're

hate him. Two it is measured by how you obey him.

Our love for God is measured by how we obey him.

First John chapter five, number three. For this is the

love of God that we keep his commandments, and his

commandments are not grievous. For this is the love of

God that we keep his commandments. You see, this is

where they're juancing that most of us get to and

we actually get to the point that we know that indeed,

indeed we don't love him. This is the junction. For

this is the love of God that we keep his commandments,

and his commandments are not crieious. And you ask yourself

that are you keeping his commandments? The reason why, initia

I told you that the center of it all is love,

Because if you love him, keeping his commandments will not

be difficult for you. If you are willing to sacrifice

for him, keeping that commandment will not be difficult for you.

If you are willing to go all out for him,

keeping those commandments will not be difficult for you. But

if you are willing to give him your all but

not your heart, you are ready to compromise. You can

give him everything, but you want to keep that particular one. No,

until you have been able to give it, give it all,

irrespective of what you will lose. You are willing to

lose it, not for anybody's sake, but for the sake

of the love you have for him, Not for what

people would say, but for the sake of the love

you have for him. Sometimes everything looks and turns back

to you, and you feel that people think you are crazy.

You feel that people think what is wrong with you?

But it's not about what people think. It's about what

He thinks. It's about what people think. Oh yes, like

some of us will not be here. It's about what

people think. Oh it's about what people see. Oh please,

it's about what people feel. Some people's faces can even

let you feel that God has not called you anymore,

and you will give up and they will still be

doing what they are doing. Some people actually naturally talk

people out of a particular chitade in your today and

the fact that you watch movies and you see someone

condemning their husband and the friend that is being beating

every day is still staying with And they are telling

you that me, if it was me, like this is

what I would do that this person did not touch

me and they bit their person every day. And they

will let you leave the one you were await and

they will tell you that they didn't force you that

you should you should do that. They just gave a suggestion.

But if you love him, are you willing to go

all out to keep that commandment? Are you willing to

go all out? Second John one six? Are you willing

to go all out? Second John one six? And this

is love that we work after his commandments. This is

the commandment that as he have heard from the beginning,

he should work in it the same things that people

were willing to be storn to death. It has not changed.

Sometimes it's amazing. You think that God would drop down

the standards because you are handsome, He would drop the

standard down because you have computer university. He would drop

the standard down. Because you are from a royal home.

You know people who have worked in it. That is

your tenure, and you want them to drop the standard.

Sarah had to go through so many years without a child.

She has to go through. Abraham had to go through,

Isaac had to go through, Solomon had to go through,

David had to go through. And it's your ten now

and you're asking God that why I can't bear this anymore?

I can't do this anymore. You don't love him enough.

You don't love him enough. It's a commitment. If you

say that way, that's certain things you will not do.

If you say that way, whether the healing comes or not,

you will still be around. If you see that way,

whether that you goes through or not, you will still

be around. If you see that way, whether that promotion

comes to or not, you will still be around. If

you see that way, whether you get that admission or not,

you will still be around. If you see that way.

What that's tenny years now, No, how it has that

for you to come, you will still be around. It

does not matter. It's like why don't they see me?

It does not matter. I know a young lady, very nice, beautiful,

had her own business. Is it a pastor? Can you

imagine that for seven years now no one has done

And she said that I am willing that if anybody

comes by, will pay for everything. No, she was working

at vote that phone, that I will pay for everything,

but no one is even doing it. And I was

even I was also thinking. I wondered that this one

is a very beautiful one, so why is no one

doing it? And as I sister, you have towards we'll

go through somebody who can't say that passed that when

I don't know exactly the time, but I believe somebody

will come. And at one time the way that was

really bad. She sent me a tester. I can't hold

it anymore. I said that. I said that you will

have to hold it. I can't hold it anymore. And

this person I'm talking to you, who was forty two

this year, nice beautiful lady, forty two DC. And I

said that, and she said that I don't know what

to do. I said that what we have been doing

now we will do that because it will be very

painful that you've been around for all these years and

on your caroage moment, it will enter you like someone

is forcing you, and immediately you finish everything. It's like, oh,

I should have waited a little bit longer. I said,

you are forty two, But I've also waited someone who

is fifty two and who was naming her first child

wearing a very short tinn It's like a young girl

fifty two years he said the pastor, you want to

encourage I said, no, I'm not encouraging you. I'm telling

you what is going to happen. Do you understand what

I'm saying? Because the Bible said that those who are

planted in the house of God, they flourish in the

court of If you're not planted enough, how can you flourish.

There is no plant that doesn't have firm roots, rooted

ones that flourishes. And if everything can move you about,

then don't think about flourishing. Huh. It takes time. It

takes time. It is not a joke. So people immediately

receive the prophecy they wanted to happen tomorrow. There are

prophecies that can happen tomorrow and the prophecies that will

take years. And the Bible said that these people some

of them did not attain their promise, but they stayed faithful.

They held on to the fate. They didn't change, and

they didn't compromise. If you love him, it must be

measured by how you are willing to obey him. You

cannot love anyone you don't want to obey his words.

You love him, but you can't go through with what

he's saying, then the love is questionable. You can't go

extra mine for the person. Sometimes you can't sacrifice some

comfort for the person, then he's serious. Sometimes you you

inconvenience yourself so that the person will feel comfortable. You

inconvenience yourself. And some of us here asked we are here.

We've inconvenienced ourselves. I don't know likee to you because

ideally like we must be somewhere, but we are here.

And imagine you keep doing what he's asked you to do.

Instead of a joke, you obey throughout you obey, and

mind you. I don't know where they I've not said

to me that I said. I said that I will

not go because of this one. No no, no, no, no, no, no,

no no everywhere. Sometime in the course of the work,

I'm looking a cray. I'll just come maybe Saturday to

the next day. I've been moving when to talk, when

to talk, when to keep close. Meaning by moved all

this everywhere, we shall will send me. I don't really

need much. I just have to go, and by the

grace of God, if you go, there's results. I went

to reading by the Way thirty five. I was living

the way once. It's the five. It's not a joke.

Within one ear, I don't. I didn't take anything from

them they wanted to. I said, no, nothing, oh personal, listen,

no increase. Everywhere results it comes because someone inconvenienced himself

and made a particular sacrifice. So sometimes they will feel,

we shall go, let's go. They don't have any idea.

You can't be in your room, will do calculations. But

what I'm willing to sacrifice, you can. Your parents will

not allow you. They will sit you down, do calculaches

and everything with you. Because everybody is different. When the

law said that moved, I left everything I was doing

and I went. I took myself to a casual. I

moved out of my room, took the balance of my money,

took myself there. I didn't know what was going to happen.

So when we were on vacation, I was sleeping on

the bench at sixty night outside. I didn't have any

room anymore. You ask yourself how deep is your love

to obey somebody that you had everything? And in the work,

I was running a business that every week period I

was deposited fifty thousand cities, was supplying the whole of

casule Midi softs every week with that feel. It's two

market this two market day, Tuesdays and Fridays. Ah, it

was nice and now you are living it. The lady

who should have should have married when we were counted

the one us together. So when I come back and

I put it on the other thing, and you you know,

when you accounting the money, you become happy, become happy

and counting it, then she will be bringing ideas. It

was nice. Then when I broke the news, stay that

this is said that no, no, no, no, I can't.

And by the gress of God, when she left, my

wife came. Maybe maybe we didn't know what would have happened.

You wouldn't have been able to maybe saying for me.

But the love you have for God is measured. But

how far you are willing to obey him? And you

ask yourself, you know being him, will you be ready

to inconvenience yourself? Will you be ready to inconvenience yourself?

You are going to go through all that period of

your life and nothing everything seems silent, and in that's

still silence. You are still going through with him, obeying

his word, going through everywhere he has asked you to go?

Are you willing to show that? Indeed you are the

love of my life, the lover of my soul, my

very pen in whom I will be able to give

everything up? For you to ask yourself, how deep is

your love for him that you go through all that

that people think maybe you are crazy or something is

wrong with you. And you know what you have heard,

You know only you that certain things people will never

be able to understand. Even if you explain it, they

will not get it. You better not explain because they

will not get it. And and things that people are

not willing to do, they are not ready to encourage

you to do it. You ask yourself, are you ready

and are you willing to show their love for him?

I used to tell people that this woman, she does

not have any voice to sing Cecilia muth Oh, it's

no goodle better see her passing captivates you if if

it's just for her voice, no, no, like nobody will

be interested in her. Her voice and her passion. It's

two different things. But some of us we have the voice,

we don't have passion. Janas saying she knew she doesn't

have the voice. There's no key that there's passion. So

when she starts a true you you you want to

you want to win? Here? What's about this? If she

gets it wrong, she's still singing you you mind your

mind that the ways that's sometimes she is saying she

does not even understand that word, but she is still singing.

And people enjoys administration. But you that you have voice

that you can do. There is no passion, there's no persion,

and you want people to to fall under there annoy

in the power does not work like that. Your passion

does not motivate them. There's no passion, there's no willingness.

It is just you, your voice and the microphone. No,

it goes beyond that. There must be a drive. There

must be something in you that you are dying to

make sure that you see until it comes out you

are not giving up. But if there's nothing that is

it has become your uncle. One time, one gentlemen, So

pastor what keeps you moving? What what I said? That

there's descript I said that was so iver your hand

finds to do do with all your minds. In this

time of my life, this is what my hand has

until I die. I'm not changing it. You have so

many things, so you're not giving yourself to anything. If

you know this last time was in Takrate. Anytime good

I escape him. I was in school with him. He's

my best friend. And those times, oh oh, we used

to even laugh at him. So that his voice like

the concerts people. When we are concerts, they will be playing.

Then they will be that thing and they will he

will be singing for Pencer Gham through and those things.

And the last time I said that, Charlie, you have

to come and sing for us. He had his program

at Atakrad. The more the new place that they have opened,

I was already Passagen said that we should go and

pray on the pack for him. I said that he

should come. He says, miss I have to go back.

He's not even staying gonna anymore imagine, imagine passion, passion,

it's nothing. I told him passion, and when we met,

he was saying that if God God, he's dealing in

some way. That why I been able to climb up

to this. Because when we're in school, it's like I

was Antichrist. I didn't want to hear anything about God.

But when I came to the knowledge of it, I

have to double up. It's like I have to be

four steps ahead. So it's like, whilst you are sleeping,

I'm not sleeping because people started way back you want

to sing in this our country that you can sing

for so ye nobody will see you and better you

are sleeping. No, like you have to understand that. It's

like you are in this our country. That's it is

very difficult for someone to rise up because everybody will

make sure that you will not rise up, and they

say country hazards like they are forcing you, they're worrying

you that they don't know what they don't know. How

tired you are. Please, there's nobody up there who's not tired.

They're all tired, but it takes that dedication to get there.

There is something there. They are all being the reason

why you are still aware you wire, there's nothing you

are being. There is no drife, it's just vipeses. And

when it's just like that's that's nothing you can't do,

you can't do much. I used to hear, yea, how

deep youac your Lord for God? Amen, you are going

to pray shortly? Please? Are you gonna have her hairs

out again? Or you are down? Ready? Her hairs out?

You have you'll have her hair ess again? Alright. I

want to manage my time. So I wanted to know

if you have her hairs as again, then I will know.

I will know where to end. Amen. Please write it down.

When our passion for Christ is great, our level of

obedience is great. So he tells you that when our

passion for Christ is low, our level of obedience is low.

It's just as simple as that. Second Chronicles twenty five, Verst.

Number two. One spiritual trap. I'm going to show you,

and I'll be running up very soon. One spiritual trap.

I'm going to show you. Look at it, and he

did that witch was right in the sight of the Lord,

but we not with a perfect hat. It's a spiritual trap.

If you're doing something for him and it's not with

your whole heart. It's a trap. Can I give it

to us in Nalt look at it? Send scripture. A

messiah did what was pleasing in the long sight, but

not wholeheartedly. He did what was pleasing like what I'm

doing please issue. That is why it is always good

that you check yourself. You examine yourself, you sit down,

you take inventory of your life, and it will be

able to inform you where you are falling short. He

said that a messiah did what was pleasing in the

lord's sight, but not wholeheartedly. When the Lord brought in,

but not wholeheartedly, it erased everything pleasing that he did.

People congratulated him, he had his accolades, but because it

was not whole had the Lord was not pleased. Then

you ask yourself that this thing called Christianity, who are

you doing it for. If you're doing it for your friends,

h then you've got to please them. If you're doing

it for your parents, then you go to please them.

But if you're doing it for God, then you have

to please him. So it tells you whose voice are

you going to obey? You? And you will find it

in your life as you go on. Oh yes, there

are times there are times you will be having conversations

and my wife will be telling, okay, you should have

done it this year. I said that, please, you have

to understand that you are not my holy spirit. You

cannot tell me you should do it this way. Somebody

will be calling. Sometimes they will call me. They are

not getting through to me, and they will call him,

call head and they will come. And you have to

pray for this one. That I'm the one going to

do the prayer. If you are the pray for the person.

I took a phone hour was coming to prayer for

the law said I will not answer. I said, I

can't pray because it is not me. He said, I ain't,

But you just pray so that the person said that

you don't understand. You can even die. You don't get it.

Life is spiritual, so if you joke with certain things,

it's on you. Life is spiritual. So if you don't

see things that way, you will be living, but you

are not alive. Life is spiritual. That it is even

difficult that you are living up and down and you

don't have any direction. Life is spiritual that if you

you are doing things and people are helping you, healing,

helling you and all that, and you don't know why

you are doing what you are doing. You, Ah, life

is spiritual. Amen. What are some of the things that

you are doing that people are happy about? But you

are not doing your whole hearts? And you ask yourself,

is the Lord pleased with you? It's a spiritual trap.

People don't know. My past life is happy with me.

That's all it takes. You are joking. Oh, my mother

wanted me to do it this way. People inquire from everywhere.

But God a friend of my message me today he

said that my brother have to go and find work

to do. My bishop said that we should work and

do the ministry. So wow, But what has God said?

Your bishop said? What has God said? He said that

I'm now praying about it, but you're looking for job.

You are looking for a job. You've not prayed about it,

but you are looking for it. Because your bishop said

mm hmmm. Mostly most of the places that go people

don't really like my message. But I understand why because

I will not make you happy. The thing is, if

you are not willing to inconvenience yourself, you will not

see the glory of God. If you are not willing

to make sacrifices. You will not see the glory of

God if you're not willing to commit to say, you

will not hm see the glory of God. You've had

God told you that do it this way, and you

are not telling me that I have to search for

a job. And he gave me a very nice explanation

my wife for becoming. You know, I have to do

something to support the family and all. That's what he did.

Every said that we want wonderful. That's nice, that's nice,

but it will be pleasing to your bishop. But the

Lord who is the overall, who is the one who

is having the markis Kim. That is what tests the

love we have for him. That is what tests the

love we have for him. That's what tests the zoo

we have for him. That's what tests the wyte that

we want to go with him? How why can you

go with him? It is what would touch you? And

are you willing to go that far for him? Are

you willing to go down mile for him? Are you

willing to put everything aside and do it? Because it

has to be for him and what people say, and

not how people want it, and not how you feel.

It has to be done, not the ways you feel

it has to be done. Are you willing? And I

told you that this is where they judging that a

lot of people feel. Because now as we are even

here singing, worshiping, doing for the Lord, we are not

concerned about whether it's pleasing to gold or not. We

are we are gazing whether they are in support of

what is how it is being done and what has

been done. If you are not consern whether is making

impact in the lives of people, you're conserned. It's whether

you were so on the key, or whether is sounding

well in the ears of those who are hearing you,

or whether people after you are done, they will come

and tell Charlie to day, dear today there you were

up there, and you will be pleased in your heart.

And you say that, oh, oh really, I mean I

just gave it more. That was not that was the

way I want to eat you next time. And you

know it yourself within your heart that you didn't even prepare.

You know it within yourself that it's just gammicks. You

know it within yourself that this one day, this one day,

it's not a real deal. But the Bible said that

a messiah did everything pleasing to the Lord, but he

didn't do it with his whole heart. And I came

here to ask you that what are you doing that

is not for with your whole He write it down.

Lots of love for the things of God happens gradually

over a period of time. It happens over a period, gradually,

over a period of time. Lots of love for the

things of God, it happens gradually. Gradually. I become wary

of people when I see that they are deceiving themselves,

thinking they are still in the fate. But gradually you

see that these people are far away, but because they

still pray, because they still worship, they think they are

the same place. Are you not truthful to yourself to

know that sometimes you are praying and you are singing,

but you are not in the place. You know, if

you want to really be truthful to yourself, that you

are singing but it's not really singing. You are praying

but it's not picking up, but you are still doing it. Anyways,

you are not vulnerable enough to go to the place

and assess yourself and say that you have missed something.

You have missed it, and if you're not careful, you

will stay in that same mood, and you will lose

everything you've achieved over the years. But if the love

you have for God is deep, you put everything aside

and you make time for him. You put everything aside

and you make time for him. Sometimes you clear everything

on your desk and make time for him because it

is not it's not about anyone, It's about him. You

inconvenience yourself because you want to achieve something that you

need to achieve. It's not a joke.