Living Sacrifices to God - Sunday 21st Jan 2024

Testimony time. Testimony time. Please come. We have a few people on

here to share facts. As many as can come, and then share your

testimony whilst the projection team opens to revelations to a US eleven. Anyone with

a testimony, we are waiting for yours. We are waiting. We'll read

the scripture together. So right before the scripture came in the scripture that precedes

this one talks about the accuser of breading. But then this scripture says,

let's say it together. And they overcame him by the blood of the lamb

and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives

to death, to the death a man. So if you're unashamed of what

God has done, and if you want to remain an overcomer, this is

the best time to come and then share your testimony. Any testimony is in

the house today. Hey, God hasn't been good to anyone. Wow,

let's encourage our brother anyone else. So are we saying that God has only

been good to some particular people in the church? Is that what we are

saying that you'll be here is not a testimony enough? Do you know what

happened when you were sleeping. Our God doesn't sleep nor slumber. He's always

working. He's always delivering his children, even when we are disobeying. Is

that all all right? So you would mention your name is briefly share your

testimony with us? Thank you? And what did that good for? Where's

the people? So? Where is the morning? City? Languagement came in

and I was supposed to write a for so I went four six can I?

So I went there to find my seat to write my house. When

I went into I could to find my seat. I seated. We have

to go out, you have to go out there. So we're outside and

it was start work. Then I started praying, st praying. I started

praying. All of a sudden move around and we found an empty hole.

We were to see down to write out myself to start with. My name

is Saracen. And yesterday I was going to the pitch to play. And

for no reason I don't know, I wasn't dressed. I didn't want my

cliffs. I just went to my flippers and I went out and on my

way. I like hatter store and mostly I'm supposed to get a big cattle

over it. But so it's just they said, my skinages to a little

bit. It didn't come off. Mostly my friends will have come over.

I just down where that's a leg is too. Second, my name is

Selena, out to town God for gaining admission to the university. Who are

usually your testimony to you? Who celebrates those? Please let's give it another

round of word place. Let's celebrate our brothers, our brothers and our sister.

Amen. I want to add my testimony before we pray. So oh,

let's put our hands together forever on or let's do it better. We

are celebrating the life of a selfless leader. Amen. So my testimony is

this. I want to thank God for life and for grace and for his

revelations. I would like to say thank you for the life of the act,

Bishop Nicholas and Williams. Whenever I am down, I don't know.

Somehow he always has this service that will just uplift my spirit. It's either

just lessening online or I come to church and then join the service. I

also want to thank God for Reverend Ron. There were so many times I

wanted to run away from the New Church. I didn't want to be a

shepherd here because I was struggling. I was struggling a lot. I don't

know if those times you notice me, I'll be very quiet. I don't

I'm not as energetic as this, but I want to thank God that reverence

still encourage me to stay here. There are sometimes that we go through pain.

There's sometimes that we go through sorrows or our heads. We are hurting

so bad. But then that should that should be an indicator that we are

doing something right. Okay, because the enemy will attack you anyone that is

done. Why would you want to attack them unless the person is high and

you want to bring them down. So I want to thank God for the

life of Papa and Reverend Ron. So let's give it up for them again

and celebrate their lives in men. So let's close our eyes, let's stretch

our hands so was our brothers and our st start here, and let's thank

God for your testimonies and security in the blood of the lamp Father. Lord.

We are grateful, Lord God for that which you're doing in our lives.

We are grateful, lor God for your deliverance. We thank you for

excellence. We thank you, Oh God, that You've made us ten times

better than our peers. Wherever we find ourselves We thank you for your healing.

We thank your God for your protection and for your safety. We pray

that you will fill our mounted mini more testimonies. We give you all the

praise, O God, We give you all the glory a mighty king and

Jesus Name I we prayed. Amen. Okay, so let's be on our

feet and then you know what we're coming to do, right, we are

coming to celebrate the life of our own shepherd. Let's be on our feet

and let's celebrate the life of our shepherd. Reverend Raunchier rally. Oh,

we can't do it louder. We are thanking God for his life. We

are thanking God for such a great gifts to the you Church. Oh,

we can't do it with a smile. We can't do it with a shouts.

If you can't jump, you can't jump a man. Hallelujah. Are

you excited to be in church this morning? Please lift your hand to the

Lord and say, Father, I thank you this morning for loving me with

an everlastic love. Say I bless you with all that is within me,

and I give you all the praise in Jesus precious name. Ama. Let's

do all that then, as we gather that your work within us. Yes,

Sweet God, follow your name, knowing well, spak to get sneaking

sweeping as sneaker sweeping. Then you cat an a sweeting sweating the d speak

with baby sweetings and speaking sweating speaks SnO super fun step steak small steaks.

Spect Father, We thank you this morning for your faithfulness towards us. We

are grateful for gathering us together again under the burn of your love this morning.

As we gather, Lord, Holy Spirit working us a good work that

will leave blessed in Jesus name. As your word comes, the Bible says

the entrance. If your word brings light and it brings understanding, So Lord,

bring light to our hearts, Bring understanding to our hearts in Jesus' mighty

name. Let her believe us. Say ourn. Amen, And before you

are seated, just look to the left and to the right and tell your

neighbor it's good to see you in church this morning, or please tell someone

else it's good to see you in church this morning. Amen. Please be

seated in the presence of the Lord. Hallelujah. And so we thank God

for another Sunday. Amen, on behalf of our Father and the Lord,

the Archbishop Nicholas Duncan Williams. Can we plank God for his life? Amen?

If you can stand and thank God for his life, it would be

really nice. Amen. And so on, behalf of our father and the

Archbishop. You are all welcome to church this morning. Amen. Please be

seated comfortably in the presence of the Lord. Amen. On Tuesday we had

our first online midweek service. Amen. How many of you were on there?

How many of you joined? I see only three hands, four hands?

Amen. Please ask your neighbor why did you join? Amen? Those

who joint who can remember what we spoke about? Yes, I saw that

hands here? Is I am expecting to see hands here? Yes? Novel

what did we talk about on Tuesday? Can remind us? You don't remember?

Okay? So on Wednesday, on Tuesday, we spoke about the outcomes

of fasting, the nine outcomes of fasting according to Isaiah fifty eight's one to

fourteen. And there is a true way of fasting, and there is a

false way of fasting. Amen. And God's prescribed true way of fasting is

found in Isaiah fifty eight. That's one to fourteen. Amen. And so

we learned very interesting stuff in that God puts us on a fast, so

we go on a first for God's intervention in our lives. Amen. So

that's a build up on our last week Sunday's theme of fasting as a sacrifice.

All right. And so if you missed out, then the me you've

missed out on something nice. So today I'm going to talk to you about

another kind of sacrifice, another kind of sacrifice, all right. So let's

look at first be Touch chapter two, verse four to five. First be

Touch chapter two, vers. Four to five as our foundation scripture. And

so the Bible says, coming to him as a living stone, rejected indeed

by men, but chosen by God and precious vers five. He says,

you, also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house,

a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through

Christ Jesus. Okay, So there's a foundational scripture. And by this scripture

we understand that God is buildings up as a house a man. If it's

first going tends abou Able says that don't you know that your body is the

temple of the Holy Spirit and that the spirit of God dwells in you.

So God is building as a Please tell your neighbor for free. God is

building you up as a spiritual house. All right. So God is building

you up as a temple. And do you know that every temple has a

priest. So as he's building you up as a temple, a house,

a spiritual house, he's also building you up as a priest. Okay,

So in your house, because you are born again and you are choosing to

serve God and to follow God, God will make you a priest in your

house. Can I hear an? Amen? Or you don't want to be

a priest in your house. You don't want to be a priest. You

want to be a flaw member. Don't be a flow and be a priest

for God. Amen. And the duties of the priest is outlining there.

It says that to offer our spiritual sacrifices to God. To offer up spiritual

sacrifices to go. And we know that because our sacrifices are spiritual, they

are not physical. So we don't need to go and buy a good and

sacrifice it to go. We don't need to buy a chicken to sacrifice it

to go. We offer our spiritual sacrifices. So in the past two weeks

we've studied about a few types of sacrifices. So prayer a sacrifice. So

by praying to God, you are offering up sacrifices because your prayer brings up

to God incense sweet smell in aroma before the throne of God. There's an

altar before God that your prayers are put on that altar, and the result

of it is that sweet incense comes up from the altar because of your prayers.

Amen. There is also the sacrifice of thanksgiving, in that thanksgiving is

the key that opens the gate into the presence of God. And so thanksgiving

is a sacrifice. One you're offering thanks to God. You are being grateful,

you are showing gratitude towards God. You are offering up sacrifices, which

is a spiritual sacrifice to God. Amen. We know that praises, singing

praises to God, glorifying God through praises is also offering spiritual sacrifices to God.

All right, lifting up your head of your hands. According to David,

he says lifting up of your hands is like the evening. So in

our worship we've come to understand that when we lift up our hands, it's

not because of punishment, but it's because we are offering up a sacrifice upon

to go Amen. And so if the person leading says, lift up your

hands to the Lord, it's not a punishment. It's simply that offer up

another sacrifice, apart from your praise and apart from your thanksgiving up another sacrifice

called the evening sacrifice to go Amen. And so today I want to speak

to you about the living sacrifice, the living sacrifice, Amen, the living

sacrifice. And let's look at Romance chapter twelve, verse one and two.

Romance Chapter twelve is one and two. And this scripture was a letter the

apostle Paul wrote to the church in Rome. Rome was a cosmopolitan capital city,

and by the grace of God, the Gospel had reached Rome, and

they had built many churches in Rome. And so Paul wrote a letter to

them, as he would always do, and he said to them, I

beseech you therefore, brethren. So it's like he had written a letter and

the pastor came to stand there to read the letter to the church. So

he says, I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the messis of God.

That you present your bodies a living sacrifice wholly acceptable to God, which

is your reasonable service. Which is your reasonable service? Amen? I beseech

you, therefore, brethren, by the mesis of God, that you present

yourselves or your bodies as a living sacrifice wholly acceptable to God, which is

your reasonable service. Amen. Can you please read the scripture to your neighbor

who is sitting by you? Three two one goal Amen. So your reasonable

service to God, as a child of God is to present your body as

a living sacrifice. Amen. How many of you remember the definition of a

sacrifice. We spoke about it two years ago. So a sacrifice is anything

that is precious that is offered to a deity. All right, Something that

is precious that is offered to a deity becomes a sacrifice. And so if

upon is saying that we should offer our bodies a living sacrifice to God,

it's because we are precious in the sight of God. And so by offering

ourselves to God, we are offering an acceptable sacrifice to God. Amen.

And that sacrifice should be holy. Amen. And so from this scripture,

God does not demand our sacrifice. God does not demand our sacrifice. It

is not by force. Amen. God does not demand our sacrifice. But

Paul begs the Christians in Rome, by the message of God, to present

themselves and living sacrifice upon to God. Okay, so a sacrifice is something

that you would offer up to God willingly. Do you understand this is not

by false You have to offer up your sacrifice up to God willingly. And

so when it's time to praise God. When we are praising God, we

are worshiping God. And you look around, you will see those who are

offering willing sacrifices to God, and you see those who are not offering any

sacrifice to God. All right, So your body as a living sacrifice that

you're offering to God should be holy. On Tuesday night, we look at

what it means to be holy, what it means to offer a holy sacrifice

up and to God. Amen. So Tuesday seven p m To eight pm,

please tell your neighbor. Tuesday night, seven pm to eight pm.

Please ask your neighbor do you use a smartphone or am What did they say?

Any users? Yeah? Where are the am users? Give it a

lot away, But what you're holding is not a young We use both.

No, we want the smarthphone one, the one that I can connect to

the meeting. Amen, the am users, please tell your parents Tuesday is

midweek service. We want to use your phone to do midweek online. Okay,

yes, If your parents are not on their parents group, please go

and add their number. Go to the information there to add them to it

so that they see the link. All right. So we learn at about

what it means to offer up a whole offer up your body, which is

a sacrifice holy to God. All right. Also, your body has a

living sacrifice must be acceptable to God. So in as much as a sacrifice

is offered freely to God, it is not a traumatic that God will accept

your sacrifice. To understand, So the sacrifice you're offering up to God must

be a sacrifice that God will accept. So if you're offering just any type

of sacrifice, there there's one hundred percent chance that God will not accept your

sacrifice. So if you're offering your body as a living sacrifice upon to God,

you should offer it up according to what is prescribed. It should be

holy to the point where it is acceptable to God. A Then let's look

at Genesis chapter four, Vest. Three to four. There's a story about

two brothers, Cain and Abel. Cain and Abel, they both brought offerings

as a sacrifice to God. And the Bible says that and in the process

of time, Cain brought an offering of fruit of the ground to the Lord.

Best form, Abel also brought off the first bone of his flock and

of their fact. And the Lord respected Able and his offering. God respected

Able and his offering. Amen. And so Abel's offering as a sacrifice was

acceptable to God. Cain, however, his offering as a sacrifice was not

acceptable by God. Amen. God did not respect Cain and his offering.

So please tell your neighbor if you want God to respect you, if you

want God to respect your offering, then offer up an offering that is holy

and acceptable to God. Amen. That you hear as you're growing up,

you hear such phrases like God is not a respect of peasons, It's is

false. This scripture tells us that God is a respect of persons. Amen.

If you offer up the right sacrifice and offering to God, God would

respect you and God would respect your offering. Okay, understand Amen. So

offering offering yourself as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable to God is your reasonable

service which means that it is your true and proper worship to God. It

is your true and proper worship to God. Amen. So now, how

can we offer unacceptable offering to God? How can we offer up to God

having sacrifice that is acceptable to God? Romance, Chapter twelve, Verse two,

Number one point, do not conform to the patterns of this world.

Let's look at the NIV. Don't conform to the patterns of this world.

Please tell your neighbor number one don't conform. Please tell your other neighbor number

one, don't conform. Amen. Do not conform any longer to the pattern

of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then

you will be able to test and to prove and to approve what God's will

is, his good will, his pleasing will, and his perfect Amen.

So, in order for you to offer a living sacrifice to God that is

acceptable, number one, you don't need to conform to the patterns of this

world. Amen. Now what are the patterns of this world? I'll take

time and go through in detail on Tuesday evening. The patterns of this world

is essentially the counsel of this world. You understand, it is the way

of life of this world. Anything outside of the Kingdom of God is this

world is considered as the world. So a way of life in the UK

when you live in the UK, it is all right for a man and

a woman, a man and a man to live together and call themselves as

man and wife. It is the counsel of this world. It is the

pattern of this world. It is okay for a young boy and a young

girl to rent an apartment to live together. They are not married, they

are boyfriend and girlfriend, but they are living together. J understand. And

then they end up having babies. It is the pattern of this world.

It says that don't conform to the patterns of this world, and many of

you will go and live in the UK very soon. I didn't hear an

amen, or you don't like the UK when you go, don't conform.

Please tell your neighbor don't conform. Do not conform to the patterns of this

world. So the thing that looks okay that everybody is doing, which is

not of God, is the patterns of this world. So don't conform,

amen, it is the pattern. Have you realized that how many of you

have video games? So how many have you you have video games. I

realized that every year new game comes, how many of you have been buying

the games? Every year? You buy sometle your thirty years and even now

there are old people as old as fifty years who are still sitting by a

TV and playing games. Do you understand if you conform to the patterns of

this you'll be seventy years white. Instead of getting up and going to work,

you'll be behind your computer. You'll be playing games. So when you

play, more that you work and do the things of God. Okay,

so you play it to distress, you don't play. It's like a full

time joke. Can I hear an? Amen? So please tell your neighbor.

Don't conform that is what number one to the patterns of this world.

Okay. Don't comply to the rules and the standards of this world. That

is what means. That is what conformity means. Don't succumb to it.

Don't comply to it. Amen. So let's look at what is the world

that the Bible is talking about? First Joint, Chapter two, verse fifteen

to sixteen. What is the world. It's not just talking about the physical

world, all right, but he's talking about the philosophies of the world,

the patterns of this world. He says that do not love the world or

the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of

the Father is not in them. If anyone loves the world, the love

of the Father is not in them. If as a child of God,

when you hear Chatawali is singing, your heart and your body moves more than

when you come to change, it means the love of the Father is not

in you. If as a child out of God, a bond again believer,

you love Beyondcey and his songs. When you hear beyond sy you are

like, you don't know what to do to your Please tell your neighbor the

love of the Father is not in you. And then he says that do

not love the world. I used to play basketball when I was in secondary

school. I used to play bad. But guess what, I realized that

basketball in itself is a culture. It has a culture. So as a

basketball player, you end up dressing a certain way. Understand So I used

to like, I used to have sneakers, basketball sneakers. I vesin those

days. It wasn't Kobe Bryant, you know. And the rest ives.

In those were the times Ives was raining and he had he had brought out

a special type of sneakers. There were only three carlos. That was quite

and gray, that was all black, and that was all red. And

I had the white and gray, which was very rare. And in my

whole school, I was the only one who had some understand And you dress

a certain way, you walk a certain way, you even end up talking

a certain way. But when I started to love God, when I started

to love God more, I realized that, Charlie, I can't do this

the two at the same time. Do you understand so I the moment you

start loving God more, you realize that your love for the world will diminish.

How many of you love your football teams very much? I can see

the boys at their back. They love their football teams. Let me tell

you something. When you start growing in God and you start loving God right,

your love for your football team will diminish. How many have you watched

the Ganna much? Do you watch the Ganna much? Wonderful? We're doing

Shepherd's meeting online and somebody was talking and we heard from the background, hey

go they have called ganas called. I was like, hey, I'm one

ful Listen. I didn't watch that much. I haven't watched much in a

long time. I understand that's now scored five something. I didn't watch.

Guess what. I have d SDV in my house. I have a big

TV. I can watch much and enjoy myself. I didn't watch in my

bedroom. I have a fifty eh TV in my bedroom. I could have

just laid down to put their condition on and watch them. I didn't watch

because my love is not forgetting. Amen. Let's look at the next base

for all that is in the world, everything that is in the world,

including your football team that you love very much. The last of the flesh.

I actually to write this down, the three sins of the world.

The last of the flesh, the last of the eyes, and the pride

of life. Is not of the Father, but it is of this world.

It is not of who. It is not of the Father, but

it is of this world. So do not conform to this world. Amen.

So what is the last of the flesh. The last of the flesh

is everything that appeals to your appetite and involves excessive desire for it. Amen.

I saw a video a guy with a big port belly. When Ghana

scored, he took off his shirts and he was dancing. He was enjoying

himself, dancing like somebody's father. Imagine your father has taken off his shirts

at the football match with his big port belly. He's done excessive desire that

is love. Amen. By sing the same person will go to church and

we are saying Harley and he was standing there streets as though he doesn't know

how to dance. Amen. And So the last of the flesh is that

excessive desire for food, for drink, for things, for sex, and

anything else that satisfies your human needs. That is the last of the flesh.

The last of the eyes involves materialism. How do I look? What

am I wearing? Brand? I wear Gucci? I wear what? What

are they? What are they? Give me? Give me some of the

names and Apollonia, Prada? Yes, what else? Chanel, Coco,

Chanel, Yes, I've had on which one again? What bongoman? Have

you heard? Bongoman? Beopo? Amen. So the last of the eyes

involves materialism, converting what we see, yeh, converting what we see and

don't have anything but envying those things that we want. So last of the

eyes. When you see something, your eyes are doing your dollar signed dollar

sign. As a fifteen year old boy who is still in school, you

want to drive a messages e twenty two, So your eye is doing dollar

sign, dollar sign. By the time you get to essays, your only

outcome will be to follow fraud stage four or nine boys who have gone to

do rituals, and then when they are going to be going with them,

last of their eyes. All right now. The pride of life, which

is the third one, is defined by any ambition for that which puffs you

up and puts on the throne of one's own life. So the pride of

life, anything that puffs you up is the pride of life. Hey,

you do you know what school I go to? Meanwhile, people go to

that same school and they are not proud. Do you understand? Do you

know what car I drive? People drive better cars and they are not proud.

Do you understand or don't you know? I go to London on vacation.

People live in London, They are not proud. I go to Dubaio.

People are residents, they are IMMORTI residents, they are not proud.

I hope you understand. So anything that puffs you up can be considered to

be the pride of life. Amen. And as you are growing, you

realize that you'll be faced with various things at every stage in your life that

can potentially make you proud. Do you understand when you have passed your law

degree and you have become a lawyer, you can potentially be proud. Pride

of life can't settin. But choose to be a lawyer who is not proud.

Choose to be a doctor who is not proud. Choose to be an

engineer who is not proud. When you become presidents, the first president of

Ghana who is a lady might be be here. You didn't say amen,

hey, when you become presidents, choose not to be proud. Amen.

Don't let the sin of the pride of life be your portion. Amen.

And so number two way of presenting ourselves as a living sacrifice to God,

according to Romance chapter twelve is two be is that we must renew our mind

for godly transformation. Renew your mind. Renew your mind, Amen. The

mind is one of the most effective organs God has given to humanity. If

you don't apply things, you don't apply your mind to situations, you end

up being left behind. Amen. For those who pass examps and the rest,

they apply themselves by exercising their mind, their brains. Those who fail

and they are not doing they don't exercise their brains. So renew your mind.

Right now, we have understanding that God is building us up as a

temple, as a house. We have understanding that God is building us up

as priests. We have understanding that priests offer to God a spiritual sacrifice.

That now as we are little guindiaboops and kiddiebubs, we can offer to God

a living sacrifice that is holy, that is acceptable to God. So you

need to start to renew your mind. Amen. When you start renewing your

mind, you see that even how you dress, how you talk, how

you behave, how you respond to situations will also change because there is a

renewal of the mind. Can I hear an Amen, Please increase my micael

listen so I don't shout. Amen, So renew your mind. You are

now born again. You are now precious in the sight of God. Amen.

Even if your parents don't like you, God likes you very much.

Amen. I was listening to BBC yesterday. A young lady has given birth

to a baby that is just two hours old and has gone to leave the

baby in the park. And how many of you know that is very cold

outside now it's very cold. Has left the baby in a park on a

bench in the cold snow. There are some parents who don't like their children

like that. Amen. But when you come to know God, it doesn't

matter whether they like you or they don't like you. God loves you very

much. So you need to start renew in your mind. Amen. Those

who have low self esteem, you need to start renewing your mind. You

are a holy priesthood. You are a peculiar people. You are a special

person to God. You are precious in the sight of God. So if

you change your outlook, your mind has to change. You don't need to

walk with your head down. You need to walk with your head up because

the most like God loves you. Amen. You are prescuous to the most

like God. It doesn't matter if you're friends in your school. You don't

have friends because nobody likes you. Who cares? God likes you very much?

Do you understand God likes you very much? And you are a priest

onto God. Priests don't have many friends. That's one thing you notice as

you are growing up in the things of God. The more you grow in

the things of God, your friends will they all fall off. What God

will give you is that you will give you brothers in the Lord, sisters

in the Lord, my friends, buddy, buddies. Oh, Charlie,

let's go. Yeah, Charlie, they'll stop calling you. Do you understand?

So purpose and renew your mind so that you can walk in the priesthood

that God has called you too? Can I hear an amen? Amen?

Number three? You need to test and approve what the will of God is

for your life. One way you can offer a living sacrifice upon to God

is to test and approve what God's will is for your life. So you

need to know what the will of God is for your life. The will

of God is in three stages, the good will of God, the acceptable

will of God, the perfect will of God. The good will of God,

the acceptable will of God, the perfect will of God. You need

to know what the will of God is for your life. On Tuesday evening

we will look at the will of God. What the will of God is?

What is the perfect will of God? What is the acceptable will of

God? What is the good will of God for us. Amen. So,

as a child of God who is offering up to God a living sacrifice,

you need now to know what the will of God is for your life.

Amen. And so when you are faced with a situation that can potentially

change your life, change the outcome of your life. As a child of

God, you should be more interested in what is the will of God for

my life? To understand? Yes, that one should be more. You

should be interested in that one more than anything else. I'll give you an

example. In twenty fifteen, I had applied to three universities in London to

go and do a master's degree, and then I had all the three of

them wrote to me. I gained admission to three universities in London, and

it was a matter of choice which one do I choose two of them had

given me scholarship fifty percent scholarship. Junderstand, And it was an easy thing

to like when I just got that more mon and I'll be able to go

Jundastand so now I was considering, Okay, Ghana is some way now.

So if I go to swim and do my master's I'll get a job there

and very soon I'll be dropping pound stealing. Do you get it? Yeah?

So I was at a crossroads and I was deciding. But then it

don't know me that. Okay, let me find out what the will of

God is for my life. So I started to pray to God, Lord,

what is your will about sting? And God didn't say anything. I

wasn't hearing anything. So I changed my prayer to me and I said,

okay, God, if it is not your will, then anything I do

to try and get there, let it not work. I got someone to

give me a sponsorship letter to go and apply for my visa. I applied

three times. They bounced me three times. Meanwhile, I have my admission

letter, I have my scholarship, I have everything I need the people.

They bounced me for no reason three times, and I said, okay,

take your school. I'm not going nowhere, amen. But I see if

I had gone, I will not be your pastor. I won't be standing

here today. Do you understand I would have messed out on the will and

the purpose of God. I would not even be a pastor, talk less

of pain or dained as a reverend minisul Do you understand? And I'm not

saying school is not good school is very good. Go to school to the

highest level that you can never achieve in doing that, find out what the

will of God is for your life. Amen, And you see while being

here, God has blessed me. I have a company, I have employees.

I pay people salary. Junderstand if I are gone, I probably not

have a company. I'll be working for somebody else. I can't sleep out

and wake up at ten o'clock. I don't need to wake up at six

o'clock to sit in again, sit in traffic for two hours to go to

wake Do you get it? So? Sometimes knowing the will of God for

your life is what will guide you on the path that God has set for

you. Can I hear an? Amen? Many of you have started going

to school, university and the rest. Find out what God's will is for

your life. There. Sometimes being friends with an evil person that's it and

has planted can derail you from the purpose of God. Before you know it,

you are smoking ganger. Meanwhile, you're a good boy, do you

understand? Yes, So even the friends you have, don't be in a

hurry to be friends with people. You are precious. You are a priest.

Priest, don't go around being best friends with everybody. Eh, you

are the one who should influence people, should not be the ones influencing.

Amen. So we must know what the will of God is for our lives

if we are to offer up ourselves as a living sacrifice upon to God.

Amen, Oh I said Amen number four Romance twelve, Verse three, be

so bamed minded in order to offer yourself as a living sacrifice upon too,

God. Number four, We need to be sober minded. We need to

be sober minded verse four twelve Verse four. For us we have many members

in one body that all members don't have the same function next verse So we

be many are one body in Christ and individual members of one another. Amen.

Or is a suberminded invest three? Let's look at best three? For

I say to you, through the grace giving to me to everyone who is

among you, that do not think of yourself more highly than you ought to,

but think sob believed, Think soberlyve as God has dealt with you a

measure of faith. Think soberly in order to offer yourself to God as a

living sacrifice. You can't be high minded. High mindedness will sow seeds of

pride in you. Amen, So be sober minded. Please stell your neighbor

be sober minded. Please start your other neighbor, be sober minded. Amen.

And finally, number five, how to offer yourself as a living sacrifice

to God is behave like a drue Christian. Behave like a true Christian.

Amen. Romance Chapter twelve, verse nine to twenty one. And who end

with that? Romance Chapter twelve vers nine Let's go west nine says I let

love be without hypocrisy. So these are the signs of being a true Christian.

A true Christian shows love without hypocrisy. Amen, are what is evil?

True Christians don't do things that are evil. True Christians cling to good

things. If you are a snitch, you know who snitches. If you

are as you can be a true Christian because a snach is always looking out

for something bad about somebody to doing snach on they are not true Christians.

Amen, So our ball things. Let's look at the NIV version for the

scripture. Our boy is a is a king James. This thing so says,

let love love must be seen here. Please tell your neighbor, let

your love be seen here. Hate what is evil? Cling to what is

good? Yes, So, as a true Christian, this are saying,

let's we have west ten be devoted to one another in brotherly love. How

many of you called your friends within the week before Sunday? Anybody your friends

is your friend here I'm talking about your friends in church, not your friends

outside. Amen. How many of you called somebody within the week or texted

somebody within the week. Oh, Charlie, Hi, how's it going.

We're meeting in church on Sunday? Are you coming? So it means you're

not true Christians? Please ask me? Are you a true Christian? Amen?

You can't be a true Christian and not follow up with your friends.

We are doing what's reach out campaign? You are not reaching out to your

friends? How are you a true Christian? Let brotherly love? Let's sist.

Please. If somebody is take their number right now. Say I will

call you within the week and find out how you are. Take their number

right now, Break out your phones, take out somewhere. Noble, take

if it's number, If I take Noble's number, take your numbers, amen.

Thirty seconds. Everybody mentioned your number to your neighbor. Write your numbers

down. Hey, that's your assignment. Though next to you, I'll ask

you write somebody's number down. It's a sign of being a true Christian.

We follow up with one another. We let brotherly love exist. Are you

taking the numbers or you are sitting Take Jeremy, take the number. My

son's name is Jeremy. You can't be Jeremy and be slow. Take the

number. Hey, take a number. Hurry up, everybody. Are you

taking a number? Have you taken a number? Have you taken a number?

Ty? Have you taken a number? You don't have a phone,

write it down? Take a number. If you can write those, you

write numbers. And if you go to the moll and you meet a girl

and you like the girl. You say that I don't have my phone.

You say, right your number in my palm. Write down the number.

Follow up. Text your friends, say Charlie, Sunday is coming? Are

you coming to churche? Let brotherly love. Be devoted to one another.

In brotherly love, and now one another above yourselves Verse eleven. Never been

lacking in zeal Don't be slow, Always be zellous. That's a sign of

a true Christian. A true Christian is always zelos for the things of God.

Don't be slow. True Christians are not slow when it's time to do

your quiet time. You don't say, oh, teles are doing it.

Don't Please tell your neighbor don't be slow. Are you telling them say don't

be slow? Please? Some of you are not saying to your neighbor a

veryson. I'll call you and give you the microphone for you to tell your

neighbor. I said, tell your neighbor don't be slow. Amen. Be

zealous as a true Christian. Amen, keep your spiritual favor saving the Lord.

We know that you are now a priest, So save the Lord with

zeal. Amen. Please tell your neighbor again, save the Lord with zeal.

Vest All be joyful in hope, be joy four. Tell your neighbor

be joyful. A sign of a true Christian is that a true Christian is

always joyful, even in affliction. Amen. So your joy is not based

on what breakfast you have eaten or what breakfast you have not eaten. But

the joy of the Lord that is in you becomes your strength. Amen.

Be patient in affliction, be faithful in prayer. Amen. Please write Romance

chapter twelve, verse nine to twenty one. When you go home, read

it for yourself. That is the characteristics of a true Christian. So read

it for yourself. And if there is any part of you that doesn't align

to this, force yourself to align to it, because it is the will

of God for your life. Amen, and write down Matthew chapter seven,

We's thirteen to fourteen. Marthy Chapter seven, verse thirteen to fourteen is a

parable. Jesus spoke about the narrow way and the broad path. True Christians

remain on the narrow path. True Christians don't go onto the broadway. Remain

on the narrow path in Jesus Mighty name. Somebody, say amen, and

please be upstanding today. You want to create as one prayer the road.

I want to open my life and limit sacrifice holy and acceptable to you the

Lord. All that I need to do gets according to your wearing. Today.

Let me not be tonight the praise to prefer myself a living sacrifice.

Can you just open your mouth and pray the sprayer family to the door.

I have more than a song today, I bring myself. I am your

son. I have more than song today. I break myself because I's a

break today, Immules. I have more than a song to day to day.

I brought myself. I have m yourself five I not so my broad

my son, I sing, miss say the same said, say so chas

pre see see it's slave it sir, rever, please recena it's you shop

on the racisi around we see song it sound, we sack, sit,

spin it side, every head bone, every eye closed. In order for

you to be able to offer yourself and living sacrifice to God requires that you

are born again. Nico Namos came to Jesus, and Jesus said to him,

unless a man is born again, he cannot see the King of God.

Unless a man is born of God and not spirit, he can't enter

into the Kingdom of God. If you were here, you desire to offer

yourself and living sacrifice to God. But you are not born again. Jesus

Christ is not the lord over your life. Something else is lord over your

life. But you want to offer yourself and living sacrifice the Lord. And

you want to surrender yourself to God so that he can be lord over your

life. If you are such a person, you need Jesus. You want

Jesus to be massive by our life. You want Jesus to be lord of

our life. Wherever you are, taking the bold step and come to me

in the front. Wherever you want to take a bold step and come to

me in the front. You need Jesus. You want to be born again.

You want to offer yourself a living sacrifice to God. You want to

be holy and acceptable to go. You need Jesus. Take a bold step

and walk to the front, letting the song. You need Jesus. Come

final call. You need Jesus. Come Jesus is knocking at the dormard you

need Jesus. Want to surren a your life. Just come to a boostep

and take a bote and final the final. You need Jesus. You need

Jesus. Finale before I pray for these precious ones. Come tomorrow is not

promised. Why not wake up tomorrow. Your destination as well as in tality,

is one said. You have to be sign on it. Now.

I'm gonna by accident. You are not here by chance? Did are you

your life to Jesus? Come final? Run? Thank you Lord Jesus,

blessed be your name, naybe with the right ondlifted. Just say this very

after me, say Lord Jesus, I thank you for today. Father,

I thank you for your son Jesus, that you sent to die for me.

I believe in my heart that Jesus is the son of God who died

for me to redeem me onto life. Say Lord Jesus, today I opened

my heart. Please come and live in me. Please come and help me

to be all that you have purpose for me to be. And help me

to offer myself and living south verse to my heavenly Father in Jesus my today.

So congratulations. This is a