Compel Them 27.08.23

Grace of God. I want to share with you a very important topic that

also has to do with our theme for the month of August. August is

not over, and in the month of August, we've been studying about fruitfulness,

being fruitful as a child of God. So when I started my teachings

on fruitfulness, I spoke to you about the fact that God expects you to

be fruitful upwards. Your relationship with God has to be fruitful, and God

expects you to be fruitful laterally, also based on your relationship with others,

because Jesus loved others, and Bible says that for God so loved the world

that he gave his only begotten son, all right, and so because now

you are born again, you are not living for yourself anymore, but now

you are an ambassador of Jesus Christ. Jesus is pleading through you as a

minister of reconciliation to reconcile the world to Him. I hope you understand.

And so we are in the month of fruitfulness, and we are continuing in

fruitfulness. In the past two weeks, we've been talking about our soul winning,

the reason why you need to be a soul winner. We started.

I started with the first four Pastor James came, pastor Body came. They

also gave information. We are continuing in that light because the reason why Jesus

has saved us so that we can be saviors of others. All right,

So please tell your neighbor for free, the reason Jesus saved you is so

that you can save others. I hope you understand. Yes, So in

saving others you become fruitful. Jesus said, I am divine. You are

the branches. If you are abiding me and my words abiding you, the

end of it is that you'll be fruitful. And whatever you ask for,

the Lord will give to you. Amen. And so we are being fruitful

in this month and beyond. At the time we get to the end of

the year, you should have at least five people that you have led to

Christ. You have at least five people that you yourself. You didn't need

your pastor to help you. By your own self. You have led them

to Christ. And when you look at them, you can say that these

are my convents, and you can tell them that, Charlie, let's go

to church, and they will follow you to church. Can I hear an

amen? You don't believe you can win five people. Do you believe you

can win five people for Christ? Yes? Then say a better amen.

Amen. And so today we are going to learn some Greek. All right,

we're going to learn some Greek. Amen. And it's in essence based

on one thing Jesus thought. So let's take our foundation scripture for today from

Look chapter fourteen, verse sixteen to twenty four. Look chapter fourteen, verse

sixteen to twenty four. And the Bible says this is Jesus. He went,

he was invited to a party, and when he got to the party,

he realized that a lot of people were rushing to go and sit in

the front seat, you know by this by the main person who had invited

them. And so when Jesus looked at them, and he advised them that

when you go to a party like that, don't strive to go and sit

in front, to be like on the high table. Go and sit somewhere

else, so that when the person who invited you sees you sitting there,

then he will ask you to come and sit at the high table, because

by doing that that will bring honor to you. And he said the opposite

that if you go and sit at the high table and you are sitting there.

There's only one chair at the high table, and President Akado comes,

the only thing that will happen is that they will ask you that, oh

master, can you please move to the back so that President a Kufa can

sit in front? Do you understand? And by doing that, when you

came into said you felt so important about yourself. But now that you've been

asked to go and sit at the back, you now feel ashamed because for

you you've been demoted. So right after Jesus said these things, he said,

what we're about to read, He said, a certain man he told

them a story. A certain man gave a great supper and invited many people

next verse and sent his sevens at supper time to say to those he had

invited, come, for all things are ready. So he had done a

banquet, and he had sent invitations to them, and on the day of

the supper, he sent the sevenths to go and tell them that come,

everything is ready. The food is ready, the park is ready, the

white chair is ready, the jolofice is ready. That food you like very

much is ready. The supper is said, And so he sent them to

those he had invited are now everything is ready next verse. But all day

but they all with one accord, began to make excuses. So all those

that he invited to the party to the supper, they started to make excuses.

The first one said that I've bought a piece of ground. I've bought

a new piece of land, a debris, so I'm going to inspect it,

so please excuse me. I must go and see it, so please

excuse me. Next verse. The other one said that I've bought I've bought

five yoke of oxen. I've bought cattle cow. I need to go and

inspect it. I'm going to test them. So in other ways, I've

bought a new Lamborghini, I'm going to test drive it. I've bought a

Jago I'm going to test. I've bought an Abobo. I need to test

it, so please excuse me. The next one still another said I have

married a wife, and therefore I cannot I'm going for honeymoon, so because

of that, I can't come. I cannot come to your party this evening.

Next verse. So the seventh came and reported these things to his master.

Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his seventh.

If I let me ask this question. If you do a party and

you invite all your friends and no one shows up, will you be happy?

Who I'm asking you a question? Will you be happy? Like you

are attending eighteen years, or you're attending nineteen years, or you're attending sixteen

years, and you've done a sweet sixteen party, and you've sent invitation one

month in advance, and the party has come, you are there and no

show, There's not even one person there. Will you be happy? So

the Master was not happy. He wasn't happy at all. And being angry,

he said to his seven, go quickly into the streets and into the

lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the maid,

and the lane and the blind. He said, forget about those are invited.

Go into the streets or the beggars on the streets. Bring everybody in.

Invite everyone in next verse and the seven said, Master, it is

done as you commanded, But there is still more room. You book five

hundred chairs. We've only brought two hundred people in. There are three hundred

more chairs. Then the Master said, next verse twenty three. Then the

Master said, go out into the highways and into the hedges the highways and

into the hedges, and compel them to come in that my house. Maybe

four. Please tell your neighbor compel them to come in that the House of

God. Maybe four. Amen. Please look to your left and to your

right. If you see an empty seat by you, If there are empty

seats behind you, the are empty seats. They are about how many?

They can count the empty seas at the back for me, shepherds, if

I count the empty seats at your side, shepid count the empty seats out

your side for me. Traver, count the empty seas I decide for me

the man who has finished counting eleven eleven empty cta? How many cta twelve

empty cta? How many cta thirty two empty cta? There's one empty cta?

How many empty cd have? Sixteen empty cta? The mathematicians. If

you put eleven plus twelve plus thirty two plus sixteen, what do you get

eighty? The mathematicians at eighty. So compel them so that the House of

God can be four. Do you understand? So? The message, the

title of my message this morning is compel them all right, tell your neighbor

for free. Compel them, Amen, How many of you are influences.

You can influence your classmates. Give me a wave. Yes, you're an

influencer. Sorry, you believe so? Yes, he believes so. Yes.

How many else can influence people? Lift your hand to God, yes,

lifted up above your head. You are an influencer. If you see

even if you are going for lunch right and your your friends said, oh,

let's go eats watch, you can say no today I don't feel like

let's go eat gobet, and they will all go eat gobet. That's an

influencer. You can influence them. You said, Charlie, today we are

coming to school, Elie. They will come to school Elie. That's an

influencer. Right when you are in exams and you see somebody say Charlie,

what's the answer, then you'll be at the back and say Charlie, behave

yourself. Everybody will behave themselves. That's an influencer. You understand. When

it comes to conversations, you can direct the conversation the way you should go.

When we are talking about MESSI then say Charlie, forget about messy,

let's talk about zero. Then before you know it's everybody's talking about zero.

Charlie dic Zero's new haircuts. Did you see his new shoes? You an

influencer, amen, so don't belitter yourself. Amen. And because God has

made you an influencer, you can compel people to come to church. Can

I hear an? Amen? Amen? So please tell your neighbor compel them.

Amen. And so the man said that compel them to come in that

my house may before. God wants you to compel people to come to church

so that the house of God will be four. Amen. And so the

first rick where we are going to learn today is an acasto and acasto.

The spelling is A N A g k A z o and acasto A n

A g g k a z o. So alpha nano alpha gega killo alpha

zeta opera. Amen. You didn't here? Can I repeat? Okay?

So an acasto A n A g k z o A n A g k

z Oh, everybody say anacazo. Please say it again, an acazo.

Amen. And an acaso simply means compel them, compel them. So your

influence that you have, you can't influence people to be watching pornography. Not

as a child of God. Amen. You can't be an influencer for movies

Netflix. You are an ambassador for Netflix, Charlie. Have you watch this

movie? Charlie? Have you seen this movie? There's some wild things inside?

Or no? You are an ambassador who you are an ambassador for Christ?

Amen? And so you need to influence people to Christ. Amen?

Did you have a question? Someone You've got in it? Okay? So

an acasto, it's time to compel people to church. Shepherd or your friends

that you can influence? Where it gobey? You need to influence them.

Compel them all to church. You understand. Compel them, get them longline.

If you need to take three hubers to bring them to church, call

me. I'll send you money. You bring all of them to church.

You hear me? Amen? So it's time for you to start making a

list of all your friends that you can influence. Make a list of all

your friends you can influence and bring them to church because God wants his house

to be full. Can I hear an Amen? The reason or the importance

of an acastle is that an acastle is an important type of evangelism that every

child of God must be comfortable in doing. Amen. If I tell you

that I'm going to give you my microphone, and I'm going to give you

a speaker boombox. Go to a cram all and preach the gospel. Many

of you will not come to church. If I say next week we are

going to a cram all to go and preach the gospel, reach out to

the lost that day, many of you will not come to ch h you

understand, but you have friends? Who doesn't have a friend here? Give

give the Lord a wave. Let's look for a friend for you? Who

does not have a friend here? You don't have even one friend. Ethan,

you don't have a friend. You don't have a friend at all,

not even one person. What's your name? Maker? Are you new to

Ghana? You've been here for a while. You go to school? What's

could you go to? Attended labone? But I just finished? You just

finished? So you're looking to go to university. You're going to Methodist University.

And you don't have any friends in Ghana. They are not friends,

they acquaintances. Okay, So let's find some friends for Chiquen Maca. How

many of you want to be Chicken Maker's friend? Give the Lord awave maker?

All these people want to be your friend? Okay, So let's start

with you into produce yourself to chugren Maker. Tell him your name. Yes,

so exchange numbers. You see all the people here. We have Sla,

we have Lisa, we have Ethan, we have Dave, we have

Tyson. They're all here. When you close, see all of these people.

Take their numbers. Who else wants to be chugren Maker's friend? Yes,

So the moment we close, come to chugren Maker. Exchange contacts,

all right, and introduce. You can make up to your friends. Do

you understand you're looking at me? Some wait, introduce him to your other

friends, because it doesn't have a friend. Do you understand? But for

all of you who are friends, you don't have an excuse. Now you

have to have been seeing some of you on TikTok. Yes, I have

eyes everywhere I've been seeing some of you. You are promoting some music on

TikTok. Please start promoting Jesus on TikTok. Am. I talking to somebody

here. Start promoting Jesus on TikTok. Amen. Sow your one thousand followers.

Ise some of you are here. You have one thousand people following you.

Some have two thousand, five hundred people following you. Hey, you

are a pastor of a mega change on TikTok, but you don't preach Jesus

on TikTok. All you do is dance and do skills. Hey, Jesus

is coming. You need to start compelling all your people on TikTok to follow

Jesus. Can I hear an? Amen? Because Jesus is coming. Amen.

Next month, we're going to treat the rapture. How many of you

have heard about the rapture before? Is? See? Some people when I

said the rapture their hearts, they will because they are not ready for the

coming of the Lord. And as a child of God, you should be

ready at all times. Do you understand you should be ready at all times?

So now it is time now to compel people to come to Christ.

Amen, Am I preaching a good message? It is time now to compel

people to come to Christ. The first reason is that anacazo is a type

of evangelism that is effective in itself. I'll tell you a story for free.

There was a young man who targeted someone in this neighborhood and he went

to preach Jesus to him. You wanted to tell him about his testimonies,

and the guy said, okay, fine, I'll follow you to change.

So he says, come on Sunday. On Sunday, he went to the

guy's house and the guy was sleeping, so he knocked and knocked and knocked

and knocked until the guy woke up. Then he said, oh, I've

come to take you to change. Then the guys who are haven't bad,

so I can't go to Oh I wait for you. He said, oh,

I don't have water. He is away is your buckets. He took

the bucket and went and fetched what this is? This is water. So

the guy went to bath. He said, oh, I don't have anything

to wear to change my My dresses are not iron. He said, what

do you want to wear to change? Give me. He took the clothes,

ran to his house. He went to iron it. He brought it

to him. He said, this is your dress. Wear the dress.

The guy gave another excuse that I don't have shoes. How can I go

to church barefooted? Guess what? The guy removed his shoes and gave it

to him. He says, where your shoes, I will walk barefooted.

Let's go to church. He compelled the guy to go to church. And

when the guy went to church, he loved being in church so much that

when they've closed, it's actually Jack, we've closed. He said, Oh,

let me stay here small, because you never know who God is drawing

near to himself. Amen, you need to learn to compel people. For

some people, all you need to do is to give them twenty gana CDs

to take an uber that will compel them to come to change. Some people,

all you need is to wake them up, call them chale, it's

time to go to church. I'm come to pick you up. Whether you

are ready or not, I'm picking you up. You compel them to change.

You compel them to the things of God. Amen. When you guys

as as you guys used to do, like those ball and all those things,

what was the name of its? Cry? Like the end of year

you have a party? Or it's not as always prom. You don't do

prom in there as always you do prom. There's another school. How many

of you are jis? Yeah? Didn't, Oh you're jis? Were you

part of the problem? You didn't or even got in their heads next year?

So you see they were compelling themselves, giving themselves pressure. This one

said, I'm going in my unders Lamborghini. This one said, I'm going

to get the driver to bring me. Then they'll dress in their sharp suits.

I'm going to pick up my friend, who is a lady. She

is my dates for the prom. So they will call the girl Charlie.

I already the girl said, Chi, I don't have shoe. Then they

said, Charlie, I'm sending you to Underganda buy shoe now, because you

are my dates. Do you understand they will do whatever is necessary to make

sure that they go to prom with your dates. So how about your Master,

the creator of all things, the one who made all things, the

one who sent his son to come and die for you, who has prepared

a banquet, who has prepared a supper and has invited rich people. When

Jesus came the Jews, they Israelized, they rejected him. Do you understand

they rejected him? So the message of the gospel now had to come down

to gentiles, you and I. So it is time to invite more people

to the banquets. Please tell your neighbor it's time to invite more people to

the banquets. Amen. If we don't do an accasuo evangelism, the church

might get finished. Jo understand, the church will get finished. Trevor is

going to school, he will be away for a long time. Are you

also going to school, You're also going to the same school. So you

see they are going to America. There will be away for a long time.

So then it means there are two empty seats when they leave. Jo

understand. If someone also decides that I'm going to do bye to school,

then there's an empty seat. If Danielle also says I'm going to Philippines to

school, then there's an empty seats. Then Noble says I'm going to Russia,

there's an empty seat. Do you understand if your friends sitting by you

said, though I'm going to shs, I'll be away for four months,

they are empty seats. Just imagine if everybody here all of a sudden decides

that, oh, I'm going to do something, there will be an empty

seat. So then where is the replacement. The church will get finished,

So it is time to compel people to come so that the House of God

will be four. Because when the House of God is four and two people

leave, there are still people. Do you understand if the house of God

is empty? If three people leave and there are more people. You'll see

that the empty chess will be fewer than they are now. I hope you

understand. So if we don't do an accousual ministry, the church will get

finished. Do you want the church to get finished? We don't want the

church to get a man. And if we don't do an accasual ministry,

then the life of the church will come to an end. Because if the

church finishes, then the life of it will also finish. You understand.

COVID killed many churches after the lockdown, and they said that, oh,

we can all go to church. Many churches didn't open again. They've turned

into warehouse because the church is dead. Do you understand? Because you are

the life of God in the church, you need to replicate yourself, all

right. The life cycle of a believer. Danielle come the life cycle of

a believer. If I meet Danielle and she's not born again, and I

tell that Jesus loves you, Jesus wants to save you. He died for

you to save you, to heal you, to make you, to make

you also a child of God, will you accept Jesus Christ? And she

says yes, and she receives Jesus Christ. She's not born again, So

now we go through the process of discipleship. She gets baptized, she becomes

a disciple of Jesus Christ. Her life the life cycle of she's supposed to

reproduce after her kind. Do you understand. So, then Danielle says,

Michelle, Come meets Michelle, who is not born again. Then Danielle speaks

to Michelle about Jesus Christ. And the end of it is that Michelle also

receives Jesus Christ. You want to witness to her. How are you?

And the Lord needs come and speak to you and tell you that he really

allows you. And also whatever you're going through, his the provider and helper,

end healer, so he can guide you and protect you. So would

you accept Christ? Yes? And she also receives Christ, So then she

becomes a disciple of Jesus Christ. She is her new convert. So then

she helps her to be discipled for Christ to a point where she's also baptized

and she's also a disciple of Jesus Christ. The life cycle also continues.

She's not supposed to remain a new convert for the rest of her life.

She's supposed to graduate to reaching out to other people. So then if all

these people are here, she goes to this one witnesses to her, she

also witnesses to another person. Then they are bringing many people into the Church

of God. I hope you understand. So an acaso is important because if

we don't an acaso, the church will finish and the church will end up

dying. And because we don't want the church to die, we don't want

the church to finish, we need to speak out and bring more people in.

Thank you, ladies, amen, oh, I said, Amen,

amen, And so I'll share with you just one very important point on what

and acoustule does for the body of Christ. Amen. I remember when I

went to university. The first time, I joined Penzer Pentacole Students Association in

school and when I entered, there was a small gathering were they were not

even up to twenty those days, and the choir was ministering the keyboard.

The person playing the keyboard here was the music director was playing the keyboard.

But the drums were sitting there. There was no the stakes were on it's

there was nobody to play their drums. The bass was sitting there, there

was nobody. In fact, there was someone playing the bass, but there

was nobody to play their drums. So imagine if the choir singing and shepherd

is not in church and nobody can play their drums, the service would be

some. So I just walked from where I was sitting and went to sit

behind the drums, and I started playing the drums. And that was the

first time I had been there. That was my first time being there.

So like Hanana has just come today. Then he comes and he sees that

the shepherd didn't come because he's busy, and he goes to play the drum.

Then we went I finished. The music director said, oh, Charlie,

I want you to be part of the choir. The choir was the

way about seven by the time I got to the final year. I was

an assistant music director. By the time I finished school and I was handing

over the choir to the next batch. The choir was one hundred and sixty

people. Do you understand, and so by your gifts you can and acasule

someone to check. Some guy getting to tell me that he likes the way

I played the drums. That's why he came to join the choir. Even

though some people will come because of the ladies inquire. We always have those

people. They will always join the choir because the ladies they smell nice,

so they have to come and smell some nice perfume every Sunday. You understand,

but yes, use your perfume to unaccoustle somebody to change. Amen,

use your perfume to an accoustle. Use your beauty to an accoustle someone to

change. Do you understand. Don't just be a fashionista. Use how well

you dress, how well you coordinate yourself to draw someone to change. When

you are coming to church and someone say, oh, I like your shoes,

Your shoes are very beautiful, and I said, oh, thank you

very much. Are you born again? They see you and say, oh,

hi, oh, I like the way you smile. Can I please

have your number? Are you born again? I'd like to invite you to

church? Do you understand. When you are sitting on the bus and you're

attempted to listen to worldly music and the boys isting by is trying to get

your attention, you find a way to are you born again? If they

are not born again, they will say what is born again? I don't

know. Then you have the opportunity to tell them about Christ. Amen.

So it is time to earn accastle everyone for Christ. Can I hear an

Amen? So it is time to use your giftings also to practice an acasto

to influence people. Amen. So, all the influencers in the house,

it is time to use your gifts to influence people. You'll be amazed.

All the thousand people who follow you on Instagram, on TikTok, You'll be

amazed the impact you make with them. If you decide that today I'm not

going to post dancing video, I'm going to share my testimony that today I'm

going to tell them how Jesus has saved my life, You'll be amazed the

impact you make. Amen. So today please tell your neighbor for free it

is time to compel them to church, or tell them it is time to

compel people to church. Amen. And so your prayer this morning should be

the Lord help me so that I can bring people to church. Amen.

If you count ten of your friends and you put them in order of priority,

there are some that you can easily influence. So for those ones,

you need to influence them to come to church. Amen. Don't influence them

only to come to your house to play fever don't influence them only to come

and eat. Don't influence them only to talk and gossip about people. Have

you simpacts around shoes tally they should shine, you know, don't do that.

Influence people to God. Amen, influence them and lead them to God.

Amen. So now that I know that three of you, do you

have other maids who are also going to the same school. One more I

know what's his name? A big okay? And then you and you you

see this one is a mega change. We started changing your school. I

come and visit to you would do evangelism in your school? Who are accousual

people for Jesus? So yes, you'll be a doctor, all right,

You'll be a politician. You can even be president of Ghana. By you

still be a disciple of Jesus. Do you understand that even where you are,

you'll be stealing dollars and putting it in your garage. You'll be saving

souls, You'll be directing fans the right way You should go, Amen,

because you're a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ. Can I hear an Amen?

Amen? So this one we're going to do an exercise. Please stand

on your feet. We're just going to pray for ourselves briefly, Amen,

And your prayer is that Lord, help me to compel someone to church this

morning. Amen, say help me Lord to compel someone to church this morning.

Help me to lead someone to Christ this morning. As we are going

into a new month, your target should be that every month, try and

win one soul for Jesus because it is a sign of being fruitful. Amen.

Every month, one person. We're not saying one day, one soul

a day, one soul a month. There are four weeks in a month.

How many days are in a month. Sometimes they are thirty days in

a month, Sometimes they are twenty eight days, and sometimes they are thirty

days or thirty one days. Just win one soul for Jesus. Tell them

about Jesus until they want to follow you to church. Tell them about Jesus

until they want to know more about God. I hope you understand. Because

God has made you the light of the world and the soult of the earth.

Amen, So you need to shine forth. You need to shine forth.

Amen. Just close your eyes briefly and pray to the Lord. Tell

the Holy Spirit to help you. Tell the Holy Spirit to help you that

you want to be useful to God, to his purpose and to His kingdom.

Tell the Lord to help you this morning. Tell the Lord to help

you this morning, that wherever you find yourself, that God should help you

to be an ambassador for Christ. That God should help you to be a

person who leads others to Christ. That God should help you to be a

person who tells others about Christ. That God should help you to be someone

who bears the testimony of God. That wherever you go, you have the

ability to tell someone about Christ. Tell the Lord to help you, say,

Lord, help me, tell the Holy Spirit. Lord help me.

I want to be a soul enough for Christ. I want to win souls

for Christ. I want to be a fisher of men. So help me,

their Lord. I want to be a fisher for men. Help me,

their Lord. We bless your name, Lord Jesus, and we give

your praise in Jesus. S nay pay my