You Must Love the Word of God Rev Nana Kwaku Sekyere Sun 11th Aug 2024

Or to us lifted this morning. Further, we thank you.

Our hands are lifted and we are saying that we

surrender it all.

Take your glory.

We cannot share this glory with you.

Nothing can share this glory with you.

Therefore we say that all king of kings, take your

Lord for we thank you for all you have done.

Spirit of the Living God, have your way and let

your will be done in our lives, said Jesus, my team,

those who love the Lord, can you appreciate him with

a shout?

Can you do it better? I'm oh, can you do

it well? Can you do it? Glad? I show love.

With that same honoring? Can we do it for our father?

Is seminage the actually sure or less appreciate God.

For his life? How many advants was able.

To join him online with the global works?

How many of us were able? That was a wonderful time.

And please, it's.

A blessing that we keep praying for our Father as

he goes from nations to nations, from places to place

to share the world of God and empower people.

This is the father we have.

He cannot sit and wait for people of God to

go and be in bondage and once he's out there.

We know that his power and his spirit is also

here with us.

Let's appreciate God for him one more time, where the leaders,

to shepherds, the past and every other our person who

is here, yourself, I appreciate God for yourself and take

your seat.

God, bless you for coming. To God, bless you for coming.

We mention that we are dealing with the great commandment,

and the great commandment. We realize that loving God is

the greatest commandment of it all. And the Lord said

that if you love him.

You will love your neighbor.

And Pastor James preached about loving your neighbor, and the

Lord also said that if you love.

Him, you will obey him.

And last week he preached about being obedient to God.

And one of the things that I believe strongly it's

in the heart of our Father and our Maker, is

that if we know that if you love him, this

one and I want us to be specific on days,

that if you love him, you will love his word.

So this one I want to preach you shortly on.

You must love the word of God. Is that a

good thing? Hallelujah?

If you love him you will love his words.

Can you come with me into John chapter number one.

I'm reading from verse number one through to two. The

Bible said that in the beginning, what's the word? And

the word was with God, and the word was God.

He was in the beginning with God. Can you go

to the verse one again? Can you go to the

wirst one again?

Listen?

The Bible said that in the beginning, what's the word?

And how many of us knows that the word that

we are talking about is Jesus. Jesus is the Word

of God that was made flesh.

Please you understand, so.

We can tend this scripture to in the beginning was Jesus,

and Jesus was with God, and Jesus was God. Please

are you understand what I'm saying? Goes to the verse

to look at it the best to say that Jesus

in the beginning was with God. So he is the

central point of where we are and who we are.

And if we say that we love God, we must

love Jesus. And what will show that you love Jesus

is when you love his word.

Please, are you understanding what I'm saying.

One of the things that shows that someone loves you

is when they love your word.

I love you.

I want to hear from you always. If I love you,

I want to hear you speak. So it is very

strange to say that I love you, bet I can't

stand you.

There is something strange about that.

Why do I love you but I can't stand you speak?

So I want you to keep quiet always when I'm

around you. There is something wrong with the love that

I said I have for you. Those of you have

been in love before, do you understand what I'm saying?

It's like you always want to speak to the person.

It's either when you have the chance and you someone

does you credit, you want to spend everything on him.

That's why they made on a freelite cause for you,

so that the day that you think that you don't

have enough money, you will sacrifice your sleep and hear

from the person. Do you know that someone says that

for the love I have for this and when their

petition speaks.

It short is my heart and I fall asleep.

It's like when you can't even sleep sometimes you want

to hear certain words from settin people.

Do you understand what I'm saying?

Sometimes when you are frustraated, you want to hear someone speak.

In your life, someone speak to you.

So it tells you that your words are powerful to

someone who loves you. And now it's not just anyone,

it is God said that he was there in the beginning,

and everything that is having our foundation in here was him. Hallelujah.

So if you love him, you must love his word.

John chapter five. I'm reading from verse number thirty seven, Annalty.

The Bible said that, and the Father who sent me

has testified about me himself.

You have never heard his.

Voice or seen him face to face. Amen, this is

Jesus talking. Say that you have never heard his voice

or see him face to face, and you do not

have his message in your heart because you do not

believe me, the one he has.

Sent to you. Thirty nine. Look at it.

You such the scriptures because you think they give you

eternal life. But the scriptures points to me. Yet you

refuse to come to me to receive this life. Your

approval means nothing to me. Forty two It's wonderful.

Look at it. Said that because I know you don't

have God's love you. It is dangerous.

Said because I know you don't have God's love within you.

So it tells you that this is how Jesus singes

us that if you have God's love within you, you will.

Love his word. Please, you understand what I'm saying.

So if you say that I love God, when they

sing that song, I love you Lord, some of us

can cry. And he's saying that for you to love him,

you have to come to the point of realization that

God sees one thing that you also love his word.

And if you love his word, he says that you

love him.

And when you get to the point that he sees

that you love him, he knows that you are ready

to listening to his word. You are ready to obey

his way. You are ready to follow his way because

if you love someone, the words that they speak.

Will be important to you. You understand what I'm saying.

Those of us in schools, there are some rules and regulations.

We decide that we will do some of these rules,

and this particular one we will not do it because

that's not aligned with the things we want to do,

the freedom and how we want to express ourselves. This

particular rule does not.

Applied to us.

If you have been to school before and you have

seen set of rules, there's always one of the rules

that you don't agree with.

Oh, yes, some of us.

You might not even agree with all the rules because

you want to enjoy yourself, You want to feel free,

you want to do things on your own.

You understand what I'm saying.

So some of us, when we take that Bible, there

are certain things in it, we know that this stuff

for us.

We know that this one we don't want to be.

We don't want It's like God, I can't give you everything,

but not this one.

Amen. But he said, are use such.

The scriptures because you think that this scriptures gives you

eternal life.

But the scriptures point to me.

And the Bible said that the Lord inspired holy men

to write the way and to speak his way. So

it means that I have been with you, but I

have a lot to tell you better. I know that

currently you cannot handle the things I have for you.

Therefore I am going so that the Holy.

Spirit will come, and when it comes, he will teach

you all things. And when the Lord wins, the Holy

Spirit came, and the Bible said that he inspired holy men.

To write the words.

So the words that you are saying as a result

of an inspiration that God gave to holy men to

write it down.

So it is coming from him directly.

So there is no way you would say that there

are certain words in the.

Bible that does not apply to you. I will follow everything,

we're not this one. You know that some of us

we selected.

The commandments the one that you want to follow, and

there's other ones that we think.

When we grow up, we will follow this one.

There are some of the some of the commandments to

we think that the people have been telling us don't

do this like they have experienced it.

So after we have also experienced.

It, after we've also enjoyed the practicals, we also stop

so that you can also have the experience to tell

other people that don't do it. So it start past

let's why are you telling me not to do this?

And you are You are saying that you have been

there before, and I don't want you to get there.

That's like I want to say, were you.

So when you were dead? Hallelujah? But the Bible said

that there are there are ways, and there are things

that seems good to man, but at the end of it,

it is chaos and it's just death. So it tells

you that when you love the word of God, one

thing you have to know that when you love the

word of God, you will zene for it. You will

yen for it. When it's like I want to hear

from you always? Why is it that you alone? You

can hear everything, but you don't want to hear the

word of God.

You can read.

Everything that you don't want to read anything that is

connected to your faith.

You can't list it that Now they have feeling made it.

Cheaper and easier. If you can't read it, you can

play it about ten hours and it's playing from Genesis.

Chapter one, verse one. Someone is reading.

It to you, like just let play at the background

and sleep.

Do you understand? And you still you don't want it.

Now they are broken it down into smaller books that

you can have pocket size in your pockets. You said

that it is too heavy. You don't want to carry it.

Now when you come to chess, they want to preach

to you.

But they said that you want everything.

You want the worship, you want the song, want the choreographs,

you want everything. But when it's is the word of God,

then all of a sudden, some sleep and some fatigue

and tests you. And it's like all of a sudden,

the word of God becomes irritating to.

You, you don't love it.

When you love it, you yearn for it. And what

to make you yearn for it is when you meditate

on it. Some of us we just we just want

to use fifteen minutes and five minutes and ten minutes to.

Just appease go. Do you understand so that he will

know that we wanted to do it, but we don't

really have time. We want to appease him.

So in the morning, five minutes you'll just go through

and the prayer that they have at the devotion.

You pray that prayer and that is it. No, you

don't love him. You don't love him.

The reason why some people can see other people and

they see the eye, the way you talk and the

way you your monarism and everything, it looks like you

are closer to this person. And the only way that

will make someone feel that is when you do things

like the person. It's when you behave like the person.

It's when you move like the person. And you can

only move and behave like someone. If that person is

word is something that is in you, If that person

is word is.

Reflecting in you. Because we know that certain phrases and

certain things.

That comes out of you represent that person and we

can see exactly that certain things that the person mention

it or said, you also repeat those things. Then we

think that you have been with that person. Are you

understanding me? And when you love someone and you'll be

in the presence with that person for a long time.

Sometimes they even say that the person looks like you.

How have you seen that before?

It's like you've worked with someone for a long time.

But they say that child is like.

Power's una. Are you understanding me? So that's what it

means to love the Word of God. It's that you

jame for it. You love it, You want to be

seen with it.

You want to.

People want to hear you speak it. They want to

hear you say it. Are you understanding me? So when

you love the Word of God, one of the things

that you have to understand is that you yent.

For it and you love it. Hallelujah.

And see you can go past that and memorize it. Ah,

I want it to be in me. I wanted to

stay in me. I wanted to be part of me.

The certain scriptures even if they pointed down at you,

it's like you can say it without having any second,

Like you don't even need them to open that scripture.

You know it. It is in you.

By the time they will open it, you are there already.

It's like someone will say someone and say that what

is wrong? What is going on? Like is the person

that one who wrote the Bible or when they were

writing the Bible, he was there with him.

And when you move to this place in your life.

I came here to tell you, the enemy will be

afraid of you. For the Bible said that the enemy

thrives when we are ignorance.

Be consay that for my people perish for lack of knowledge.

And the enemy is not afraid of you when you

are praying. He's not afraid of you. When you are

just saying and you are saying things, He's afraid of

you when.

You come to the realization of the truth.

And you cannot have the truth until you know the

word of God. Because the word, he said that that

is what pacifies of.

Me, that is what represents me.

And the Bible said that I exhauted my way far

above me. So it tells you that the Lord, our

God seems his word far more than any other thing.

So when you have this, weord in you the enemy

cannot fight you, because when he came to Jesus and

he wanted to tempt him, he said that it is written.

And when he comes to you and provide that it

is written, what is going to be your counter?

That time is not.

Set, That time is also coming to the realization that

I also tell you that it is also written in

this place and at that place, that he that is in.

Me is greater than he that is of the world.

And when he knows that you know what you are doing,

he is afraid of you. He's not afraid of you

when you are just roaming about and saying dragons that

you don't even understand.

He's afraid of you when he knows that this is

having a root in you.

It's not like you are just saying things for people

to club for you and to be happy.

This one is inside of you. You have memorized it,

you have loved it, you have yearned for it.

And any time, anytime you have the chance to read

a particular book, you have to understand that you are

just making a journey with the old of the book.

Do you know that people say that when they read

this accorded books a spirit and test them so It

tells you that when you love the Word of God

and you dive into it and you are reading it,

it's like you are having a journey with the author.

Do you know the author of the Word of God.

The author of the Word of God is the Holy Spirit.

It's like you are working with him. You are moving

with him in a journey. And once you are moving

with him in that journey, he is directing you. Because

the Bible said that the Word of God is light.

Onto my path, he said, lump to my feet. So

he directs you. He walks with you because he said

that the Spirit of God will come and come to

teach you, and it come to direct you, and it

come to guide you. So when you have it in you,

the enemy cannot cause you to be astray because he

knows that you know what the Word of God is saying.

And the Word of God is the shop prophecy is

that Word of God.

Says that you will pass your exams. She will pass yourselves.

Because said that it's any of you lack wisdom. Let

him ask of the Father, why are you asking him?

Consider that? Try me and see. So it means that

you can't hold him by his way. But the word

that for you to hold him by.

You don't have him because it is not in you.

So it tells you that you can set the scriptures

maybe to not be in you because you don't love it.

Did you do you do you understand what the boy

was saying that you set that scripture because you think

that that's what gives you eternal life. But because it

is not in shure, it shows that the love of

God is not in shoe.

Because if the love of God is in.

Hue, his way will be planted in show and his

word to have been in your life.

John't chap that number six verse number sixty three. Can

you put it up quickly?

The Bible say, a liver does killer my dosi ah youngda.

But the spirit alone, this eternal life, human effort accomplishes nothing.

And the very worst I have spoken to you as

spirits and our life. So the word of God is spirit,

and the word of God is life.

So if you have.

Any problems spiritually, it is not about people laying hands

on you for you to turn around and fall. That

will pick you up again and you put another oil

on you. The Bible said that Jesus can say that

I will preach deliverance, So it tells you that deliverance

is preached I you understanding me. And when you receive

deliverance is when you have been you have been pegging

out of your place of ignorance. And when light comes,

darkness disappears. When there is no lights, darkness rules over

that jurisdiction. And the only thing that will give you

light is when the word of God has enriched shore,

when the Word of God is having a place in

your life, because that is what will give you spirit,

and that is what will give you life.

That is what will give you a sense of airpus.

That is what to give you a sense of meaning.

That suicide and that depression you would take antidepress and pills,

nothing will happen.

But just the word of God can take you out

of that place. Because it is the word that beckis.

It is the way that creak is when you are

not well.

It is the way that bereackens when you are weare

It is the word that creak is.

For you to be busy in life, going up and

down and not knowing what the Word of God is saying.

Ah, it's like you are working and you are you

have nothing within.

Hallelujah.

That it is the word that he are spoken that

gives life, and that is the spirit.

This morning. I don't know about you, but you have

to move past the place.

That you just read one or two scriptures and will well,

we will just be happy with ourselves and go to

the point that we will yearen for it. You see,

and what shows that you are yearning for it is

that when you live here, you go back and you

search for it. One of the things that the Bible

said in Acts chapter eleven.

I believe, verse number seventeen. He says that the people

of very they are people.

It's not like He loved them, not because they are

obedient and they.

Come to judge us.

He loved them, not because any time it's seven clock

they are here. He realized that he loves them because

these people there are people who after everything, they will

go back I think seventeen eleven check that rather they

will go back and read the scriptures. They will go

back and search the scriptures. The Bible said that they

will go back and search and see where what Paul

has taught them is true. So that you're not going

to stand anywhere and say that that is what's the

man of God said, no, do you understand that when

people say that, that is what my pastor said, you have

to move from that place. That's what my pastor said.

So that is what the Word of God is saying.

Are you understanding me? He said that, And the people

of Barrier were more open minded than those in Bersalonica.

How can you be open minded? You can only be

open minded when you have the truth. When you are

in biness, you are ignorant. And when you are ignorant,

you I deal with everything because you are in the

place of that except and the people of Barriers were

more open minded than those in Barsalonica, and they listening

eagerly to post message. Look at it. There's such descriptures

there after day to see if poor and Silas were

teaching the truth. M P Support who has had encountress,

It's like this one said that I've been to the

heavens and he's preaching and said that you want to

wear and search and see whether what he's saying is true.

It's someone who has been working at h It's like

right now.

If Persilest come and tell me that father, I don't

want to like because he's really he actually he always walking.

So even if it's like it's like I know that

I've seen my not two picture that people won't take

creatures with where non people is like, so that we

know that we associated with them. Ah, I can't believe

you easily. You'renderstand I said, But these people wants to

confirm that what these people are saying, where are.

You strung or not? So they seuch the scriptures. They

want to understand. They want to know.

And you can only search for something that you don't

know when you love it. Ah, you only search for

something you don't know when you yet for it. The

reason why they are searching and they want to understand

is that sometimes when you are meditating on it, because

you are working with the Holy Spirit, he drops the

meaning in your heart. And that is what will fool

you that will move you to the next level. Are

you understanding me?

So you have to understand that when you love the

Word of God, one.

You yet for it, Two you meditate on it. Three

you'll memorize it, Four you will lead it. Five you

will search for it. You will search for it in

which area are you lacking? You will sesch for it

in which area that you have confusion. You will such

for it. You want to satisfy your curiosity. You will

set for it because you know that this is what grant.

Me assets to the next level. Are you still hear

with me?

Someone? Ah?

If you love God, you will love it his word.

The reason why you don't want to even open the

podcast and listening.

Again, you don't love it. The reason why you.

Write the scriptures down and the next time you will

see it again it's another Sunday, is that you don't

love it. The reason why they will post things on

your pages and you just touch your phone and you

just swipe it like this so that everybody will see

that you have read.

It, is that you don't love it.

The reason why they said that Africans, when you want

to hide something from them, hide it in a book,

but they know they will not read it. Are you understanding?

So the enemy feels that the truth is hidden in

the Bible. It's in the scriptures, but you don't read it,

so you are ignorant.

That is why that.

Small boy who just saw two dreams said that meets

me at the beach for me to bath you for promotion.

And you also went and you strip naked and he

bathed you, and he bothed you. If you see great

people who are who they have been bathing it to

shock you. People that they don't want their children to

even see them naked. A young boy somewhere go above you.

You'll give the person money to give in both you.

But something about they will talk. You're not given above yourself.

You will give them money. Please bath me because I

want promotion.

Because you are ignorant. You don't know it, and you understanding.

Come for a particular handkerchief, you'll go for it. You

don't have it. Can we go in the journey ourselves?

That you want to search the scriptures?

We want to understand the mind of goal. It's no

longer about what some group of people. It's a personal journey.

I want to know him more. I want to memorize it.

I want to search for it. I want to understan

from it.

And I want to be someone who can.

Be identified with this particular person because I love his

word this.

Can you stand to your feet, m.

Tell your neighbor that if you love the Lord, one

of the indicators is that you must love his way,

and that's the person against you. Love the word of God.

The only thing for you. Don't don't wait for the parsident.

Say that, yes, tell them that if you love the

Word of God, I will see it.

You cannot hide it.

Amen, So when it that's the point that you love it,

you will see it. This excavation centerens, you are just

deceiving yourself.

Lift up your lover this bos Say, Lord, how mess

you on me.

That the love I have for you will not just

be worse, that it will be foiled by action. Help me,

Lord to love you by loving your word. Help me

Lord for the Bible, say that the Word of God.

Have I hid it in my heart?

Oh? Look, help me to hide your word in my

heart so that I will not.

Sin against you.

Let your word you are richly in me. Lift up

your ching lover this place and pray before I say

the final prayer. Please, if you are here, you want

to say that, Pastor, please pray with me. I want

to give my life to Christ. I want the Lord

to give me a second chance. I want to walk

with him. I want to pay like him my parents' stakes.

It's not the one that will favor that call. Therefore,

Spirit of the Living God, I want to dedicate my

life and my everything to you.

Please, if you are here like that, come let me

pray with you. We have the next tharies against. If

you are here like that, come let me pray with

you that I want to give my life to first

lift up your twins. Father, in the mighty name of Jesus,

we thank you for the gift of salvation. We thank

you for all that you have done, all that you

would do, the things that you're about.

To do in our ways. Please, Lord, help us, help

us to become students of your words.

Help us to become people who will live by your words,

who go by your standards, who will not go promise

because we know the truth. Let the truth periad us

in Jesus my name. Amen. Can you appreciate God's