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Welcome to Logos Rima Hour with God's servant, Rev.

Dr.

Joseph Baalbin, Head Pastor of Harvest Chapel International Kumasi. And now,

to today's message.

Hallelujah. Amen. So you are all warmly welcome. Order in giving. Hallelujah.

From Deuteronomy chapter 8. Concerning the pursuit of either the

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spirit of Mammon or God. Hallelujah. Simple as that. Hallelujah.

Verse 7. Let's do 7. He said for the Lord

your God. So we'll do 7, 8, 9, 10. Let's

love them. Now listen. For the Lord your God is

bringing you into what? A good land. A land of

brooks of water. of fountains and springs flowing out in

the valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley,

of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of

olive trees and honey, a land in which you will

eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing,

a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose

hills you can dig copper. And you shall eat and

be full, and you shall bless the Lord your God

for the good land he has given you. What do

you use the billions for? And the people who make

their billions, how do they make it? Look at this.

Now it's tech, tech, tech, tech. Over here, it sounds

like agrarian. That's how they were making their money in

those days. Covet. And God says that I'm taking you

there and I'm going to bring you into wealth. Amen.

So if we trust and obey God, he will bring

us into a state and place of great wealth and reward.

He owns it all. And Hebrews 11, 6 says that what?

They that come must believe that he is and that

he is a rewarder. Of them that diligently seek him,

he is a rewarder. And he has told us where

he's taking us. Not just in this life. This is

a transit point. to what he has planned for us

in the life hereafter. Hallelujah. So the blessings that God

has planned for us, it will more than compensate, now

listen to that, for any hardship we go through, if

we just trust and follow on. God will compensate you.

Turn to someone and say, God will compensate you. Amen. Hallelujah. Amen.

Now let's go to 11. So we are picking the lessons.

We won't finish. Now, listen now. It's a warning, isn't it?

Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by

not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes,

which I command you today. You see the repetitiveness. We

are back again to the word, the instructions that you give,

the logos and the rhema, the Holy Spirit in us.

Read your Bible every day. It will If you like,

he will always remind us of the words that he

has taught us in private. When we come into the open,

he will edge us on to obey the truths, to

put them into practice so we can profit. Hallelujah. The

word again, hallelujah. And so the warning is to stay

humble and focused. How? He says, forget everything. Don't forget

the Lord, your God. Hallelujah. Amen. Why? Because he knows

that we will get anxious. We get anxious. How are

we able to forget him? Or when are we tempted

most to forget the Lord? When we get anxious about

the curse of this life, what we shall eat, drink, wear, sleep,

and all the other comforts of life that make us

forget about God and then go chasing after the spirit

or the God of my mind. Amen. Hallelujah. So God

tries to address it. He knows that when we go

for the chasing after money, he knows just what we

want to use the money for. But then once again,

he keeps on hammering the word, my word, read my word.

We'll come to that in a moment. Read my word.

Never forget that you and I, we are owned by God. Hallelujah.

We are his creation. We are his stewards. We are

his sheep. And if we are his sheep, by default,

we are supposed to be dependent on him. And he

is our source and our provider. Which is exactly what

David says in Psalm 23. The Lord is my shepherd.

And that is why he says, I shall not want. Amen. Hallelujah.

And the surest way to get that message is to

walk in obedience. Hallelujah. And the surest way to get

that message It's a walk in obedience. Hallelujah. Remember what

Jesus said? He said, my sheep know my voice and

they do what? They follow me. My sheep, they know

my voice and they follow me. More like if you

follow me and allow him to be our shepherd and

our guide, he will bring us into wealth. Say amen.

The food that we need, the clothing that we need,

the shelter, the shoes, the health and the vitality, they

are provisions that God, if you like, has prepared them

for us. Hallelujah. And has guaranteed us. Amen. Hallelujah. And

we need to remember that God is a planner. Turn

to somebody and say, God is a planner. Turn to

somebody and say, God has planned your life for you. Amen. Hallelujah.

So God has planned our lives and the journey for us,

just as he did for Israel. Now in Exodus 13,

Exodus 13:17

verse 17, let's listen to what God said. The Bible says,

He said, Hello? Hello? So what this verse is trying

to let us do, and the point I want to

bring forcefully is that God planned the wilderness journey for them. Hello?

God planned the terrain to the promised land to be

through the wilderness. Wow. Hallelujah. So whatever you are going

through now, you want to agree that God has planned it?

I'm not hearing anything. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen. So what is

unfolding in your life is intentional. Rise up! Once you understand,

like he said, it's a testing of our hearts. Whether

we're going to give up on him and go chasing

after the spirit of Mammon. And we will follow in

obedience and in faith. Hallelujah. Amen. God said that the

shorter route could make them panic at the sight of war.

But then we are seeing that some of the lessons,

critical lessons, that we need to know before we get

to the other side. And these were all lessons that

were learned in the wilderness before they go to the

promised land. And it's the same thing. Critical lessons that

we need to learn before we get to heaven. Discipline, humility, faith, trust, obedience, character, character.

A Christian without character, charisma alone, no. Satan has no character. Amen.

So if you go for charisma, no character, you want

to follow Satan's pathway. We'll come to the lessons about

the pride very soon. Hallelujah. Remember, it's character. The discipline

is character. When we are fasting and it's all about character.

When God leads us through the pathways, you know, of

fasting and praying and all the things that we are

crying out. And day one, we were hoping that God

would do it. He didn't do it. And then day two,

we come again. And by faith, we come again. And

God will say, come again. And we come. He's training us.

He's training us. He's disciplining us. How to be able

to master faith. and obedience, and trust, and hope. Vital

lessons before we get there. Hallelujah. Never ever forget that

God is in full control of your life as a believer. Hallelujah.

If only we will trust and obey and follow God. Hallelujah. Amen.

But one of the things that will help us so

that we'll never forget as we follow him It's the

story of the Bible. Now, let me make this point.

Many of us shy away from reading the Bible because

maybe when we hear it, the Bible is God's commandments.

And none of us, nobody here likes commandments. When we

hear commandments, hey, I command you, then we cringe back.

Commandment means that you are compelling me to do something

against my will. So sometimes when we hear the word

of God, like the commandments of the Lord, the statutes,

the precepts, then it's like, no, no, no, no. So

a lot of us, when I go into the Bible,

I'm going to see do's and don'ts. And so we

never are able to come to hear what God has

to say in the Bible. Hallelujah. But the Bible is

not just about commandments. It is about the great love

story of God. Hallelujah. Hidden or embedded in In the

commandments of God. I'm saying this because it's so easy.

You realize that God keeps on repeating it again and

again and again. Because immediately you start reading the word

of God. You know, I've come to love the Bible

because I think I've mentioned this before. One of my

first Bibles that I bought for myself was a paperback Bible.

The New King James Version. It was paperback. Hallelujah. And

I like reading the Bible like a storybook. It's very helpful.

Just read it. Some of them, just like any storybook,

when you find it, just leave it over. Go to

the sweeter parts that you like. Hallelujah. Amen. So when

you hear this, and he begot, and he begot, and

he begot, you, for starters, just read. Go, go, go.

And then when they are giving the genealogies, and then

it's like, read it like a story. It's a love letter. Hallelujah.

Because if you don't understand, it's very difficult to follow. Amen. Hallelujah.

It's an amazing life story. If only in childlike trust

and faith and in innocence, we'll just read the word

for the story of the Bible for ourselves and listen

to the voice of God and all the good plans

he has in store for us. Say amen. You see,

the Bible says that faith comes by hearing, hearing the

word of God. And I'm saying that the word of

God is not all commandment. Thou shalt do this, thou

shalt do that, thou shalt do that. No, it's the

story of what God planned to do. Like we said,

what made him or made our world go off course.

What he has done temporarily to bring it back on course.

And what he will eventually do to bring total healing

and the fixing of the problem of our world. Hallelujah.

And the Bible is the first to make us understand

that you and I find ourselves in a very tough world.

God doesn't deny it. The Bible doesn't deny it. So

God knows what we are going through. God knows that

we want the wealth. But as I said, his argument

is that what do you want the wealth for? Why

do you want to go chasing after the spirit of

my mom? Can you trust me? Can you allow me

to guide you? Can you allow me to lead you

through chapter number one of your lives and bring you

to chapter two? Because ultimately the message to the New

Testament believer or child of God, it is not about

this life. Apostle Paul says, look, if all in all

your life and in all your following and chasing after God,

it is about this life. He says, then you are

very miserable. It means that you have not understood the

story of the Bible. Amen. That's why he says that.

So he brings us back to the word, the word,

the word, the word, the word. The understanding. Hallelujah. So

the word, it is his last will and testament of

Jesus Christ before going to the cross. Hallelujah. And over

there you find him saying, What I like is John 17, 24.

Can I read? It says, Father, I desire that they

also whom you gave me may be with me where

I am, that they may behold my glory which you

have given me, for you love me before the foundation

of the world. This is Jesus' last prayer for the church.

Listen to him. That's why I say the whole story

of the Bible. Read it so that you will know that.

It says, Father, I desire that they also whom you

gave me may be with me where I am, that

they may behold my glory which you have given me,

for you loved me before the foundation of the world. Hallelujah.

Turn to somebody and ask that person, do you believe

in all that the Bible says? Give that person an answer. Hallelujah. Amen.

But my answer is absolutely hallelujah. Now get this. You

will not be qualified as a child of God if

you don't believe some portions of the Bible. That's hard.

You will not be qualified as a child of God

if you don't believe some portions of the Bible. That's

why you must believe all. Amen. I mean, you simply believe.

When you are a true child of God, you simply believe. Why?

The Holy Spirit. The leading, the guidance, the truths. Because

he's going to lead you into the truth. Jesus said what?

I am the way, the truth, and the life. No

one comes to the Father except through me. We must

read the Bibles. When you read the Bible and you understand,

you stop chasing after the spirit of mamon. Why? You

have it. You are wealthy. You are a very, very

wealthy person's child. Say amen. And you know that the

riches are there for you. But when you play with them, yeah,

you leave them. You leave them. Because where we are going,

Obwasi gold, or Ghana galam say gold, We went again.

He said, no way for you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Now, the

other thing that is going to do for you is

that as you keep reading God's story or the Bible,

it is going to drive out fear and unbelief and

allow faith to spring up in your heart. Faith comes

by hearing. Reading the Bible, getting familiar with the story

of the Bible will drive away fear and unbelief from

your heart. And you're going to rise up and say,

I believe! I believe! I know my Redeemer lives. I

know we are going to a better place. I believe!

You won't even finish reading the Bible from Genesis to

Revelation before you start making these pronunciations. and confessions. I

assure you. Try it. When I asked a new believer,

I said, when I got my paperback, new NKGB, and

I started reading, I have to always tell you about

my Exodus experience. And when I say, I believe! I believe!

I believe! Because God will give you the signs and

then the proofs that you need And all the truths,

all the truths, all the Bible stories that you have

heard in Sunday school and all that on the air

and all that, they will all seemingly crystallize into your

heart and say, I believe because of the supernatural encounters.

It's not an ordinary storybook. It is the words I

speak to you. They are spirit and they are life.

Unbelief will go. Faith will spring up. Fear will go.

hope will spring up in your heart. And you won't

go chasing after. We are still talking about you cannot

save God and my mom. And why you are going

to give all your time, all your talents and all

your treasures to God. Because of the understanding that will come. Hallelujah. Amen. Now,

get this too, because if unbelief can't be kept out

of our hearts, then worries, cares, anxieties will cause us

to forget God and forsake Him in preference and pursuit

of the Spirit of Mammon. Can I take that? If

we don't read the Bible, unbelief can't be kept out

of our hearts. And when unbelief comes in. He is

the one who is going to bring worries. He's going

to bring cares. He's going to bring anxieties. And then

we begin to forget about God. And then all this

wilderness experience, we don't like it. The spirit of Mammon

is saying that come, come. There's a broader road here.

Whilst God is saying it's a narrow way. And then

once you follow this narrow way, you are going to

find life everlasting. And then the spirit of my mom

says that while I go through the narrow way, when

there's a broader way here, you are going to enjoy

all the goodness of life. You're going to have enough clothing.

You're going to have enough food. You're going to have

enough shelter. I'm going to fly you all over the

world and all the things. And hey, very, very enticing. Why?

Because unbelief has set in because of your neglect of

the Word of God. The Word of God will choke

out the cares and anxieties. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Let's do 12

to 14. We'll finish soon. Because as I said, when

we forget God, the resultant effect is less. When you

have eaten and are full and have built good houses

and live in them, and when your heads and floods

multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all

that you have is multiplied, then your heart will be

lifted up And you forget the Lord your God who

brought you out of the land of Egypt and out

of the house of slavery. So what does God say? Amen.

When our hearts are lifted up, what does it mean? Pride.

The original sin of Satan. The cost is full. Pride

helps us to resist and to fight God off our backs. Pride.

It helps us to resist and to fight God off

our backs. Leave me alone. I want to do what

I want to do. Hallelujah. Amen. So when the Bible

says we forget God, it is not as if to

say that we forget that he exists, but that we

just say we won't be bothered by him. We can't

afford to trust him and worship him and lean on

him or even be thankful to him. We care less

about his existence. When pride comes in, we care less

about God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We rather prefer the spirit of Mammon.

And that's idolatry, as I said. Anytime you go chasing

after the spirit of Mammon, that's idolatry. And you will die.

Because that's the... Idolatry is capital punishment. I mean, the punishment.

You have to die. So immediately you start chasing after

the spirit of Mammon. You realize that you don't enjoy

church life again. You don't enjoy the presence of God again.

You don't want to have anything to do. So pride

lies along the wealth acquisition pathway. And wealth can, the

same thing, wealth can easily induce pride in our hearts.

And whenever pride sets in, we tend to resist God

and his word. The other thing that pride does is

that it chokes gratitude out. Pride, it will choke out

gratitude for God. It never appreciates God. That's what he

was saying. He said, then you will say that my hand,

then your heart be lifted up. You forget the Lord

of God who brought you out of the house of Egypt.

Out of the house of God. Hallelujah. Pride of heart,

it will induce amnesia in us and make us forget

that we are born servants of God. We'll forget that

he redeemed us. We'll forget about our humble beginnings. Let's

read 15 and 16. Who led you through the great

and terrifying wilderness. Still talking about what God did. With

his fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there

was no water. Who brought you out of the flinty rock.

Who led you in the wilderness with manna that your

fathers did not know. That he might humble you and

test you. Once again, we are seeing the same thing.

Now listen to 16 at the tail end. Now listen

to it. He might humble you and test you and

do what? To do you good in the end. To

do you good in the end. Amen. So all these

trying seasons here on earth, the lessons of discipline, faith, trust, obedience, humility,

It's also that God, he says that he will do

us good in the end. What is God? What is it?

We want mamon. We want cash. We want to be

below next. Then we know that God has done us good.

God is good. He has done me well. Oh, my soul,

rise up and praise him. Then you know that cash

has come. God is good. He has done me well. Oh,

my soul. Rise up and praise the Lord. He has

done for me. He has done for me. And then we...

What my sister could not do. Oh, praise the Lord.

Have you seen those wagons parked in your car park?

Oh God. Hallelujah. Then it means that God has done

us good. No, no, no, no, no. No. To do

us good and then to escape upcoming judgment. That's it.

That's it. To escape upcoming judgment. That is the good

that God wants you to do. Because we know where

we are going. And we know all the lessons that

he's trying to teach us. About discipline, obedience, faith. It

all marks, year marks for the next life. The real life.

All those vital lessons that we are going through here,

including all the hardship, the suffering, the sickness, the death,

that will usher us into chapter number two of our life,

to do us good in the end. Never forget it,

where we are going. He said, to do you good

in the end. The reward of eternal life. That's it.

That's why we don't go chasing after the spirit of God.

Mamon cannot. He has no power. He has no ability

to give us eternal life. Mamon doesn't. But God has it.

So 17 will warn us. Listen to him. Yes, beware.

That's a warning. Less in your heart. You say it

in your heart. My power and the might of my

hand have gotten me this wealth.

18.

You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is

He who gives you power to get wealth, that He

may confirm His covenant that is sworn to your fathers,

as it is to this day. Amen. Remember the New

Testament covenant, what Jesus has promised us, and even if

it's not forceful, in the New Testament covenant, God is

quite forthright with it. Eternal life. Eternal life. Jesus said

that so that where I am, you will also be there.

It's a new dispensation. And like we always say, Jesus

is coming through. We are in the end times. Very soon,

the trumpet call of God will sound. And then this

whole world, including all the world, the Bible says, it's

very clear, the mountain peaks with all the silver, the gold,

and then all that, all the galamse areas in all

the world. The Bible says that the mountain peaks, they

will melt like wax. The rivers and all too, they

will dry up with the heat of God's fierce anger

and wrath. But some people will escape. Hallelujah. And that

is you and I. I thought I'd hear an amen.

That is why he says you shall remember for it

is he who gives you power to get wealth that

he may confer his covenant that he swore to your father.

Rise up on your feet. These are some of the

few lessons for us to understand why we don't need

to be worshipping and chasing after Mammon. God has planned

our lives. Begin with thanking. God has planned our lives

for us. God has planned our lives. Whatever you are

going through is all intentional. God wants some vital lessons

to be taught for us to learn and pick them.

The lessons of discipline, the lessons of faith, the lessons

of humility are the lessons of obedience.

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