Thanksgiving And Those Who Forget- Sun 24 2023

Last week was the key of Thanksgiving. According to some one hundred verse one

to four or sum one hundred verse four, enter his gates with thanksgiving and

into his courts with praise. We learned that the only key that can lead

you into the presence of God is with thanksgiving. Amen. And let me

tell you something. What I'm teaching you is very important because it's the key

that will help you open many doors in life. Amen. And I've been

getting a lot of attacks since I started teaching you these things. Amen.

So we usually record our podcast and we upload it. But guess what me

teaching you on the key of Thanksgiving? The pen drive was in the machine

A recorded, but when they finished and they pulled the pen drivers, there

was no message on the pen drive. Do you understand? And there are

a lot of attacks I'm getting, But I'm winning all my battles by the

grace of God. Amen. As I stand here right now, I'm very

tired. If I had my way, I'll be sleeping by now in my

air condition room. Do you understand? Yes, But necessity requires me to

be here, amen, So I need you to pay attention. We learned

also that thanksgiving opens the door of healing. Thanksgiving opens the door of healing.

So if you want to be someone who is not who doesn't get sick,

you need to be thankful to God. Amen. You need to always

bless God and his name. You need to be grateful to God. You

always need to find a reason to say thanks to God. How many of

you said thanks to God this morning when you woke up? Amen? Somebody

didn't say thanks to God. Why because they don't recognize what God has done

for them? Amen. And so today I want to take you on another

journey of why people are not thankful, why people don't thank God, so

that you avoid those situations, so that always you are someone who is thankful

to God. You are someone who is always praising God. You are someone

who is exalting God. Amen or Amen. And so please, if you

have something to write with, let's go on this journey. Amen. So

today I'm speaking to you about those who forget, those who forget. If

you ask someone why you are not thankful to God this money, they say,

oh I forgot. People who are unthankful are usually people who forget.

So even when they get food and they're about to eat, they forget to

say thanks on it. When they remember after it's left to the last blow.

Then you say, oh, sorry, sorry, Father, thank you

for this food Jesus. May they finish it in the food. Amen.

So please tell your neighbor don't be one of those people who forget God.

Amen. And so one of the most conscious sins out of the four conscious

sins, which has to do with lying, the sin of lying, stealing,

for nication matter. If you ask people other types of sins, they

will forget forgetfulness. They won't mention forgetfulness as part of the sins. But

today we are coming to learn that forgetting about God, forgetting to be thankful

to God, is actually a sin. And God's word is clear on the

subject. The Bible calls forgetting unrighteousness. Forgetting God calls it unrighteousness. How

many of you are here when we're treating the Kingdom of God and his righteousness.

We spoke about the righteousness of God, that the righteousness of God is

revealed in many ways. Who can tell me one way the righteousness of God

is revealed in anybody? For a box of colorful you're forgotten? How is

the righteousness of God revealed? One of these days you come to church and

I won't preach, who do recap? You tell us all that we've learned

from the beginning of the year till now. Amen, Yes, Lisa and

Sister is reviewed. Yes, the righteousness of God is revealed in the anger

or the wrath of God. That's this one. Where else is the righteousness

of God reviewed? The righteousness of God is reviewed in his son. The

righteousness of God is reviewed in this world. The righteousness of God is reviewed

in us. Please tell your neighbor. Ask your neighbor, have you been

writing notes? What did he tell you? Yes? Please ask them.

Writing notes is different from revising notes. The two are different things. Amen.

For the knowledge to stick in your head and in your heart, you'd

need to revise. Amen. And you see, don't take change as oh

it's one of those things I just come and go only any you are robbing

yourself of keys for your future. Because by now every youth church member should

know what the righteousness of God is. Please ask your neighbor, do you

know what the Kingdom of God is? What did they say? Not too

sure it is anything. By now, every youth church member who has been

coming here, who has been sitting here, who has been listening to me

preach, other preachers preach, should know what the Kingdom of God is.

Amen. The Kingdom of God is everywhere. God reigns everywhere, God rules

everywhere. The will of God is done. Amen. You have remembered,

and the Kingdom of God is established in us. So, if God doesn't

reign in your heart, if God doesn't rule in your life, if the

will of God is not done in you, then the Kingdom of God cannot

be seen in you. And if the Kingdom of God is not seen in

you, then the righteousness of God cannot be made manifesting you. Amen.

So you just keep coming to judge, generate to the same by just walk

inside with your legs throwing your legs. Don't let anything you see that you

rob yourself of an opportunity in the coming here. Amen. And so let's

look at he Bruce, chapter six, Best ten about those who forgets,

those who forgets to give God thanks he Bruce, Chapter six West ten characteristics

of people who forget to give thanks Umber one. People who forget are considered

to be unrighteous by God. People who forget are considered to be unrighteous by

God. Who is who is there? He Bruce, Chapter six verse ten.

Who can read for us, Yes, either read for us that you

have minister to the saints and to the minister. Amen. And so the

King James version says that God is not unrighteous to forget your work and your

labor of love. God is not unrighteous to forget, so he means,

and when you forget, you become unrighteous. Let's look at Jeremiah chapter two,

verse thirty two. Jeremiah toss thirty two. How many of you have

been to a wedding before? Amen? Have you seen a wedding that's the

bride forgot to wear her wedding dress before? Have you been to a wedding

where the bride, the one who was getting married, she forgot to wear

her wedding dress. She came in her pajamas to do the wedding. Have

you seen some before when someone is going to get married, they don't forget

their wedding dress. That's how thanksgiving is. When you are forgetful to give

God thanks. It's like you are going to get married, but you are

forgotten your wedding dress at home. Can a maid forget her ornaments or a

bride hair attire? Yet, my people have forgotten me days without number.

You have forgotten God. Days without number. Since the beginning of the year

up until now you are doing last last with God. You have forgotten God.

God is not the object of your love or the object of your affection.

You have forgotten God. You don't even say thanks to God. You

have not given testimony before. From the beginning of the year till now,

you have not said Lord, I'm here to say thank you for all that

you have done for me and my family. Some of you have gone on

vacation to London, America. You've been on a plane. The plane didn't

crash. You've gone. You've gone to Paris. You've gone to Disney World.

You're going to enjoy it. And you come back. You are okay.

There's nothing you're going to do by You're going to sit on camel.

The camel didn't get angry to toss you over and stumble upon you. You

have gone and come You are okay. You jump into a swimming pool.

You didn't die. You are back. You have not said thanks to God.

Those who forget to say thanks to God. They are like people who

are getting married. They forgotten their wedding gown. There is no honor on

them, and the Bible calls them a righteous Amen. Please ask your neighbor,

are you the thankful type? Amen? Please tell them again, are

you the thankful type? What did they say? Amen? Many people refuse

or forget to say thanks because they don't acknowledge that anything they have or they

have received comes from God. They don't say thanks because they don't acknowledge that

what they have received or what they have comes from God. Amen. But

if you acknowledge that everything you have, everything you are, everything you will

ever be, comes from God, then always you will give God thanks.

Can I hear an? Amen? And so people become atheists. You know

what an atheist is someone who says there is no God. They don't believe

there is a God. But the Bible says it's only a fool who says

in their hearts there is no God. You see, God has blessed them.

They breathe freely. If I was God, I would charge them for

the oxygen their breathing. I'll put a meter on their nose. Why do

one million dollars? Why do if you do five times five million dollars,

we see where you get the money to pay? Amen? So atheists with

all their enjoy. Some of them are very rich, some of them are

doing well in some of them are doctors. But they say there is no

God because they don't recognize the lordship of the God Almighty, who created the

heavens and the earth. Amen. So it is only a fool who says

in their heart there is no God. So it is unrighteousness to forget God.

It is unrighteousness to forget God. Number two. People who forget are

unrighteous and do not have the nature of God. People who forget are unrighteous

and do not have the nature of God Hebrew sixteen. Again, for God

is not unrighteous to forget your work and your labor of love, which you

have shown towards His name, in that you have ministered to the saints and

do minister. The natural man does not like to remember those who have helped

him. The natural unsaved man does not like to remember where he comes from.

The natural unsaved man does not know, does not want anybody to know

where he comes from or who helped him. Amen. There are people who

would say that nobody has helped me in this life before. But meanwhile,

while they were growing, someone helped them along the line. And so it

becomes unrighteousness when you are not thankful to God. That God is your help.

He's the one that has helped us. People who don't thank God do

not have the nature of God. Guess what Jesus said to his disciple,

For anyone who was willing to hear, he told them where he came from.

He was happy to tell them where he came from. The Bible calls

him Jesus of Nazareth. And when one of the disciples met him and went

to tell his brother, he says, ah, can anything good come out

of Nazareth? It means the Nazareth place wasn't anything hyped, It wasn't anything

glorious. But guess what Jesus was happy to say, Oh, I come

from here. This is who my mother is. I'm the son of a

carpenter. Amen. Those who are unthankful do not have the nature of God.

Please ask your neighbor for free. Do you have the nature of God?

What did they tell you? It's only three answers you can get.

Yes. No, they no, they don't say it no answer number three,

they're no answer. People are those who are proud, Oh yes,

it's a sign of pride. Please ask your neighbor again, do you have

the nature of God? What did they say? No answer? If you

are as seated by someone who gave you a no answer, please give us

a wave. Let's see all the proud people. Amen. You have to

always have an answer, whether a yes or a no. Amen. Number

three. People who forget are unrighteous and are cursed to weather joke Chapter eight

Bess eleven to thirteen. If you have the easy Easy Bible or easy version

job chapter eight best eleven to thirteen. Okay, So the King Jesus version

says, can the rash grow without mayor can the flag grow without water?

Next verse best? So whilst it is yet in his greenness and not cut

down, it withered before any heap. So the easy version says that some

plants only grow tall in wet ground. Reeds only grow well where there is

water. If the water is no longer there, they will die quickly.

If they die before they are ready to be cut down by people, they

become useless more quickly than grass. And it says that people who do not

remember God are like these plants. Their hope disappears quickly. So people who

forget God they wither and die quickly. Please ask your neighbor, do you

want to weather? Amen? Let me explain this to you in simple terms.

You see how comfortable your life is now you have your own bed.

How many of you have your own bed? You sleep on your own bed,

or you share with another person, they're still a bed. When your

life with this now you lose your bed. You sleep on the floor.

You sleep on a mat, not on a mattress. That is how life

with us. So before they would drive you to school in a nice car.

When your life with this you'll be walking to school you'll be sweating.

That is a weathered life. Do you understand? Yes, you are now

eating three square meals a day with desserts, two deserts a day. When

you're with this one square meal safe, you struggle to eat. So those

who forget God, they are life with this. Amen. I don't think

you want to be in that situation. So be thankful to God so your

life becomes refreshed. Can I hear an amen? And so be careful that

you remember all the ways God has brought you and all the things God has

done for you. Is there anyone here who remembers all the ways God has

brought them through is there anyone here who is thankful to God for all the

things God has done for them? Oh? Is there anyone here? Amen?

See, you can't be silent. I will not be silent. You

cannot be silent. Do you understand? If God has been good to you

can't be silent. You will always want to express your appreciation for the one

who has done great things for you. Amen. It is a sign that

you love God. How many of you have uncles who are very stingy or

aunties? Do you like them? Not so much? But how many of

you have uncles or aunties who when they are coming bead they will bring you

chocolate? Then they are bringing you something nice? You like them very much?

So esse, imagine God being that uncle or auntie to you who is

always nice to you, and you don't know how to say thanks. It

makes you unrighteous. Amen. So please tell your neighbor for free, be

careful to remember your God for all that he has brought you through and for

all that he has done for you. Amen. Can you close your eyes

and lift your right hand, say, he is my word ship, all

of my wordship. Receive my word ship, all of my ship. He's

my wordship. He's my word. All of man receive my wordship, receive

all of my ship. Those who forget and righteous, and they wither like

grass. Amen. Number four. Unrighteous people are not conscious of the dangers

of forgetting God. Unrighteous people, they are not conscious of the dangers of

forgetting God. Some one thirty seven. There's one to six, some one

thirty seven, Verse one to six. And this is a very popular scripture

that even the Rastafarians have written a song about it. By the rivers of

Babylon, where we sat, Yeah, we wept when we remember zign.

Next verse, we hung our halts upon the willows in the midst of it.

Next verse, For there those who carried us away captive asked of us

a song, and those who plundered us requested men, saying, sing us

one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the long the Lord's

Song in a foreign land, in a strange land. Next verse. If

I forget you, Oh Jerusalem, let my right right hand forget its skill.

If I forget you, if I do not remember you, let my

tongue cling to the roof of my mouth. If I do not exhalt,

please go back. Verse six. If I do not exone Jerusalem about the

chief Joy. Next verse seven, remember, oh Lord, against the suns

of it on the days of Jerusalem, who said, raise it, raise

it to its foundation. Amen. The writer says that if I forget Jerusalem,

let me forget how to type my name on a computer. If I

forget if I know how to play the keyboard, let me forget how to

play the keyboard. If I forget my God, let my tongue let us

stick to the roof of my mouth. It means I, let me not

be able to talk again. So the writer plays a cares on himself so

that he will not forget where he came from. Can you remember all that

God has been to you, all that God has done for you since you

were a baby up until now, Amen, Because if you don't remember what

God has done, then it makes you and righteous. And there are dangers

for being forgetful when it comes to God. Amen. And so we must

remember to take remembrance seriously any and everything God does for you. Write it

down in January. What did God do for you in January? Write it

down in February? What did God do for you in February? Write it

down in March April, June July. What did God do for you?

Write it down, and when you are thanking God, look at it and

say, Father, I thank you for this. I thank you that I

all those who wrote worse he and past where they give a lot a wave.

Amen. Write it down when you get to school. Write it down

when you go to the school. Write it down. When you are thanking

God, refer to it. Say God, I thank you you help me

pass my exams. I thank you you help me get a school. I

thank you you help me get a good cause. I thank you for a

good teacher who is teaching me good things in the house of God. Write

it down. Write your blessings down and name them one by one. Because

when you forget to thank God, it makes you unriteous. Please tell your

neighbor when you forget to thank God, it makes you unrighteous. Please say

it again. When you forget to thank God, it makes you unrighteous.

Amen. So the Psalmist knew that it would be a tragedy about Jerusalem if

he forgot about Jerusalem, if forgot where he came from. Amen. One

of the tragedies of humanity is forgetfulness. It's forgetfulness when you forget where God

has brought you from, how God has been good to you. When you

forget it, and when life becomes nice little you forget about God completely.

That is a tragedy in humanity that makes you unrighteous before God, because God

is not unrighteous. To forget our works and the labor of our love.

Amen. I see Bishop John, and here teas saying Bishop in the house.

Can we welcome you with a hand pler? Welcome Bishop? Amen.

Next time when you are clapping for him, the stand on your feet.

Can we do it when a bishop works if we stand on your feet and

we welcome him. So we stand on your feet and welcome him. Amen.

Amen, Please be seated one number. We on number five. Amen.

I can see some people have airports in their ears. Remove it with

immediate effects so that your two years can hear what I'm telling you. Amen,

Just imagine I also put my airports in my ears when I'm preaching to

you. You think you're the only one who has an airport. I have

an airport too. How will they benefit you? If I catch anybody else?

Is your airport? Yes, you can go and tell your parents.

They want to show that they are cool, but they are not cool like

that. Please tell them you're not cool like that, not yet, until

you start honoring God in the house. You're not cool like that. Amen.

Cool people are those who honor God, Oh, yes, Amen.

Number five. And righteous people forget when God. They forget God when they

are full, and when they are houses, when they have houses, and

when they are rich. The Tournomy chapter eight, verse twelve to ten.

Euteronomy chapter eight, Best twelve to fourteen, twelve to fourteen. Lest let's

go to Best eleven and then will come to vest best twelve. Please tell

your neighbor beware what what's the meaning of beware? Who can tell us what

the mean of you? A is? Dictionary? Dictionary students? Who are

you? What are the English? Yes? What as you mean? Be

careful? It says that be careful that you do not forget the Lord your

God by not keeping his commandment, Beware, by not keeping his commandments,

his judgments, his statues, which I command you today next verse verse twelve.

When you have eaten, and you are full, and have built houses

and dwell in them. Next verse and when your heads and your flocks are

multiplied, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you

have have multiplied. Next verse, when your heart is lifted. So it

says, beware of the dangers of forgetting God, because in this life you

can have abundance. And when you have a abundance, you can't forget God.

And when you forget God, your heart will be lifted. You become

proud. You fall in the category of those who are proud. Shout outs

to all those who are proud. You become their members. Amen. And

when you become proud, you forget the Lord your God, who brought you

out of the land of Egypt from bondage. You will forget him. Amen.

And I tell you Forgetfulness is a tragedy in life. I remember when

I was growing up, when I started waking, I used to take five

trot thross to wake in the morning because where I lived was very far.

I have to wake up at five point thirty get by six o'clock. I'm

standing there. And when you get there, there's a que already. You

jump into the first strat throt that will go a little and then you stop

it. You are light at the junction, and then take another one,

and a light at another junction, and take another one. Fie by the

time I get to the office, I've taken five troutroths. When God blessed

me and I bought my fast car, I forgot the trautoral experience. Do

you understand? It is in the nature of man to forget. It is

in the nature. If you ask me how much they pay for taking a

trouthrough from here to thirty seven, I can't tell you because I don't remember.

I don't know. It is in the nature of man to forget.

So the writer is saying that beway because they are spiritual dangerous in forgetting about

God. Amen, they are spiritual dangerous in forgetting about God. Even affects

your praise and your worship. We come to church and we are singing here

my worship, all of my worship. You have nothing to say. You're

just done in there like a dolly. You're Bobbie door. You can't say

yes my worship when we are saying and I will not be silent. You

are very silent. In fact, you are the definition of silence. I

will always wear shipe you. There is no worship coming because you are not

thankful. You are forgotten your God. So what are you thanking God for?

Even the shoes you're not you're wearing you can't say thank you to God

for it? So what are you thanking God for? And so they are

spiritual dangers in forgetting about God. Let's look at number six weekly and righteous

people who forget are often proud, and righteous people who forget are often proud.

And the Bible says that lest your hearts be lifted, lest your hearts

build the same scripture, less your hearts be lifted, Amen, when your

heart is lifted up. Proud people forget God, they are not mindful of

Please ask your neighbor. Are you proud? Are you a proud person?

Please ask them? Are you afraid of them? Ask them again? Are

you a proud person? What did they say? No answer? All those

who said no answer, they are proud. All those who didn't give you

an answer you are proud. Please ask them again, are you a proud

person? What did they say? Desire yes or no? Because proud people

don't admit that they are proud. So the only way you know that they

are proud is that they will say no, don't give you an answer.

A wise man called Bishop Donna Hereti said the sin of the youth is passion.

The sins or the sin of the middle age or the young adults is

pride when you start buying your fast card, when you start buying your first

house, when you marry and start having children. Pride was set in when

you do your first degree, when you do your second degree, do you

know who I am? When you become a doctor, pride and the sin

of the older generation is prejudiced. They have seen it all, write it

now. It's a good proverb. Amen, So be careful not to forget

God, so that your heart will not be lifted up. Amen. So

pride is one of the principal causes of forgetting, because once you are proud,

you think you have attained or you have by your own self. When

you buy a nice new wig, pride comes in, telling my wig is

nice, though nobody has. What's the name of the leader's wig? Now?

Bone strings? Bone streets, Hey, bone streets, Ah, bone

streets, I'm the only one who has bone streets. Pride comes in when

you wear the bone streets, not that you're working eving changes. Amen.

So when you are proud, you tend to forget God. They don't acknowledge,

they don't want to acknowledge that any human being has helped them before.

They actually think in their hearts that they are self made, and they want

to think the same way. Amen. When you hear someone say I'm self

made, be very careful of them because they are exhibiting pride in the highest

order. Lucifer thought to himself that I am this. I am that I

want to ascend above the throne of God. I want to be equal to

God. I want people to He began thinking that he doesn't need God.

So one sign of being proud is that you think that you have attained everything

all by yourself. Amen, that no one has been of help to you.

Amen. What number we on? Number seven? And righteous people do

not remember anyone when they become wealthy. Eutern on Me Chapter eight, verse

eighteen to nineteen. But thou shalt remember the Lord like God, for it

is he that giveth thee power to get well, and that he may establish

his covenant with which he swore onto thy fathers. As of this day.

Unrighteous people who are proud, they do not remember anyone when they become wealthy.

Amen. And so we are still on the theme of thanks being thankful.

The key of thanksgiving and we are learning about the dangers of forgetting to

be thankful to God, because when you forget to be thankful to God,

you set yourself up for failure. Amen. Number eight. Unrighteous people do

not remember their past sins or their past mistakes. The Toronto me chapter nine,

verse seven. Remember and forget not how thou provoked the Lord that God

to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you did depart from the

land of Egypt until you came into this place, you have been rebellious against

God. You should always remember your past sins so that it humbles you.

Amen. You should always remember your past mistakes so that it humbles you.

Amen. Because God is the one who was forgiving us. God is the

one who has forgive someone with three bless a Lord of my soul, and

forget not all his benefits. He's the one who forgives all our iniquities.

So remember so that it will keep you humble at all times. Can I

hear an? Amen? Oh? Can I hear better? Amen? So

why must we remember our past mistakes? Because by remembering our past miss it

makes us recognize how much grace and messy God has shown us. So by

remembering you acknowledge how much grace and messy God has shown us. Amen.

So when you lift up the song here's my word, ship, you are

remembering the grace and messis how you used to be a very bad boy.

You were a very very bad boy and a very very bad girl. But

by the grace and the messies of God, you are now a good boy.

You are now a good girl. You are now a church boy that

you've even and the title chryst that you are crepit. They call you grefeit

because of the grace and the messes of God. Amen. When you lift

up your voice and say here's my worship, all of my worship, then

you are remembering your life how God has been good to you. You used

to be a sick boy, used to be a sick girl, but now

you are healthy. Amen, you are okay, how God has helped you.

So by remembering it would cause you to give the right thanks to the

Lord God Almighty. Can I hear an? Amen? Can I hear better?

Amen? Amen? So please stand on your feet wherever you are.

It is time, please say, your neighbor, it is time to remember

the Lord, your God and all that he has done for you. Please

Tell your neighbor again, it is time to remember the Lord your God and

all that he has done for you. One more time, Tell your neighbor,

it is time to remember the Lord your God for all that he has

done for you. Amen.