Yeah. I won't try one.
Yeah, yeah.
Praise the Lord, Oh, I said. Praise the Lord.
Hallelujah. We want to thank God for His
faithfulness, for His love, and for His protection.
And we want to see. May His grace be sufficient for
all of us this morning. Amen.
Shall we be on our feet? We just want to pray this
morning and ask God of His grace that He shall release His grace
upon us this morning as we have come to His presence.
You and I will attest to the fact that God has been faithful
unto us. You and I will attest to the
fact that God has preserved our lives from first January to
dates. And this morning I can feel
within my spirit that we should ask of his grace, Thy grace, O
Lord. We need to do thy grace, O Lord.
We need to Lord. If you can't raise your two
hands onto the heavens. Nigra's love me.
Nigra's love me we need. Now shall you open your mouth
and speak in tongues? May you release your grace upon
us this morning. May you release your grace upon
us this morning. May you be gracious on to us
this morning. May you be gracious on to us
this morning. Oh Lord, may you be gracious on
to us. May you be gracious on to us.
May you be gracious on to us, Lord, may be gracious unto us,
may be gracious unto us, may be gracious unto us.
Lord may be gracious unto us. Lord may be gracious unto us.
Lord may be gracious to us.
Lord may be gracious unto us. Lord may be gracious unto us.
May be gracious unto your
church. Lord may be gracious unto your
people. Lord may be gracious unto us.
May be gracious unto us. Shall we humbly resume our seat?
Oh, praise the Lord, Hallelujah. This morning.
The grace of God is here and anyone who is going through a
situation that demands the grace, the grace has been made
available. Praise the Lord.
This morning I want to speak on the topic, the reward of God,
the reward of God, the reward of God.
As you all aware, today's last of our Sunday.
This is the day in our church. It is set aside to dine with the
Lord. And so this morning is a great
day. It's a great day because God is
giving us the privilege to dine with him.
Amen. Amen.
And whenever we are celebrating the Lord Supper, the Bible says
we should remember the death of Christ.
When we talk about the death of Christ, we are talking about the
sacrifice Jesus made for our sick, the price he paid for our
sick. And the Bible says that he came
on this earth, He lived like an ordinary human being because of
you and I. And at the long run, the Bible
says he gave up his life to pay for our sins.
And when you read scriptures, Bible makes sense to understand
that Jesus came on this earth for a purpose, and the purpose
for which he came is to come and do the way of the Father.
So we can say that Jesus came on this earth to work.
Praise the Lord. Jesus came on this earth to
work, and his work was to come and pay the price of the Saints
of men. Amen.
The way he reads scripture, Bible says that when Jesus came
and then he completed his work, he completed his work and the
Bible says he died on the third day.
He resurrected and then he showed himself to his disciples.
When you read Acts chapter one verse 11, the Bible says that
after he has brought all his work on this earth to a close
and was being lifted, Bible says that is Act chapter one, verse
11. Men of maybe let's start from
10, let's start from 10. They were looking intently up
into the sky as he was going when suddenly two men dressed in
white stood beside them. Men of Galilee, they said, why
do you stand here looking into the sky?
This same Jesus who has been taken from you into the heaven
will come back in the same way you have seen Him go into
heaven. Amen.
So Bible is saying that when he
brought his work to an end and then He needed to go back to the
Father, the Bible says that there were witnesses and the
witnesses saw Jesus being transported, Jesus being carried
away into the heavens. And Bible says that as the
disciples and the men available or present were looking up into
the sky, the angels of God told them this same Jesus who is
being carried away will come back again.
Amen. So this morning I want to
announce to you that our Savior, the one who has saved us from
our sins, the one who has redeemed us from condemnation,
this same Jesus who has finished his earth, on his work on this
earth. And as a result of the work he
did, you and I have received, this same Jesus will come back
again. At times when we are saying
this, some people doubt it. Some people say we started
saying this same Jesus will come back again.
And it is 2000 years plus now. But this morning my mission here
is very simple. I care less whether you believe
it or not. My mission is to declare to you
that this same Jesus will come back again.
Amen. What is reward?
We are talking about the reward of God.
What is reward? One of the definitions maybe I
want to talk about. Reward is a thing, giving in
recognition of work, service efforts or achievements.
Reward is a thing, giving in recognition of work, service,
efforts or achievements. When you read scriptures, the
Bible says because of the work Jesus did on the X and was able
to complete it, the Bible says God has given him the name above
every name and that at the mention of the name of Jesus
every knee should bow and every tank will confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord. Amen.
So what it means is that without wake there is no reward.
Without wake there is no reward. The reason why Jesus has been
uplifted is as a result of the work He did on the earth and
completed successfully. So without work there is no
reward. If we are saying that without
work there is no reward, then maybe let's try to find out what
is work? What is work?
Some of the definitions I found that I want to share with you.
Work is an activity involving mental or physical efforts done
in order to achieve a purpose or results.
It is a task to be undertaken. It is to be engaged in physical
or mental activity in order to achieve a result.
You could see that all these definitions that I'm trying to
talk about, at the long run it is looking up onto a result.
So what it means is that the purpose of work is to achieve a
result. For example, maybe you are what?
A teacher? What is the purpose of your
work? Teacher tell us what is the
purpose? Of the purpose of my work is to
install knowledge and discipline into lengths is.
To install knowledge. So the point I want to put
across here is that every work has a purpose and at the long
run it is the results that we are looking at.
If I should give you the opportunity to tell us the
purpose of your work, we all have a purpose.
Those of us who are into accounting, they will give you a
different reason. But all or at the end of it all,
it is the result that we are looking at to achieve a result.
Amen. Amen.
This morning I want you to understand that all of us seated
here, all of us guarded here, so long as we have come to the
saving knowledge of Christ and we have accepted the Lord Jesus
Christ as our Lord and our Savior.
The Bible says we are the children of God and God has
called us to work. You see, when you read
scriptures, when Jesus completed his assignment and then he was
commanding his disciples, one of the commandments he gave them is
that go and make disciples of all nations.
And you could see that this instruction that he gave them,
it wasn't optional. It was a command go.
So what it means is that when, Oh yes, when you become a child
of God, the work that God has called you into it is a command.
It is not optional unless you are not a child of God.
Praise the Lord, unless you are not a child of God.
So this morning I want you to understand here that so long as
you are a child of God, God has called you to work for Him.
Amen. Amen.
If you read Revelations chapter 22 verse 11 to 12, Revelations
chapter 22 verse 11 to 12, he that is unjust, let him be
unjust still. And he which is filthy, let him
be filthy still. And he that is righteous, let
him be righteous still. And he that is holy, let him be
holy still. And behold, I come quickly, and
my reward is with me to give every man according to his work.
To give every man according as his work shall be, to give to
everyone according to his work. Amen.
So here you could see that when
John had the revelation and he was saying what he saw, he's
saying that he that is unjust, let him be unjust and and he
which is filthy, let him be filthy.
And you could see that he enumerated many people.
What I came to realize is that all these people that John
enumerated, they are working. Hello.
Those who are unjust, they have chosen to to do that work.
Those who are filthy, they have chosen that path.
Those who are righteous have chosen that path, and he said
that those who are holy, they have also chosen that path.
So what it means is that we have many paths, we have many works,
and all these works are in the presence of God.
It is not behind Him, it is not at the back of Him.
All these works takes place in the presence of God and so John
is saying that whatever category you find yourself in, keep on
keeping on. Amen.
And then the verse of he said, behold, I come quickly and my
reward is with me. So what it means is that
wherever you find yourself, you are going to receive a reward.
To give every man according to his work.
So here why is the work. As Jesus is gone, he has
committed his work into our hands.
In other words, Jesus has committed his work into the
hands of the believers. So the day you come to the
saving knowledge of Christ, you are ushered into the wake of
God. I want and I want each and every
one of us to understand is that what are you wake for God, or
you don't wake for God? You are working.
What are you wake for? God?
Working for God stands for holiness.
Working for God stands for righteousness.
And if you don't find yourself in righteousness and holiness,
you find yourself way in filthiness.
You find yourself In Sync. And I want to believe that that
is the reason why Paul admonished that we should work
on our salvation. God is expecting that as we have
come to the saving knowledge of Christ, you and I will work on
our salvation. Brethren, accepting the Lord
Jesus Christ alone is not enough.
Yes, it is good to accept Him. Yes, it is good to believe in
Him. That is not enough.
He has called us to wake for Him.
And so Paul put it this way. Maybe let me read it.
Philippians chapter 12. You can find it in Philippians
chapter 12 verse one to Philippians chapter 2 verse 1 to
12. But for the sake of time, I will
read only the verse 12. Wherefore my?
Beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence
only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own
salvation with hear and trembling.
Not as in my. Presence only.
But now. Much more in my absence, Yeah.
I don't know what Paul was trying to talk about, but I want
to believe that he was addressing the problem of high
service. He said not only in.
My presence, but in my absence. You know there are some
believers when they need to work in the presence of people, their
work is different, but in the absence of people, the work is
different and one. Of the.
Maybe Bible characters we can cite as an example is Joseph.
You could see that. One Potiphar's wife wanted to
have an affair with Joseph. No one knew about it.
Joseph could have decided to have an affair with Potiphar's
wife and no one will know about it.
But Joseph recognized, Joseph saw that the work, the service,
the worship to God should be in absence and in presence.
Amen. Amen.
It's just like, let me use our church, for example, maybe we
are coming for a program and then I stand here and see, maybe
tomorrow I will not come to church.
If I say tomorrow, I will not come to church.
Some of you may not come because presiding idea is not there or
the pasta is not there. Have you done it before?
Oh Moncano cracker cry. That's why we call it.
Eye service or you know, software we say, or you know or
you know presiding who saw you know, so that whenever there is
the need for us to maybe get new officers or whatever the
intention is to get something to catch the eye of the leader.
So Paul says we. Should work out our own
salvation with fear and trembling.
And they're working out of salvation.
It is done in the presence of God, in the presence of men.
And even if men are not there, we should know that God is there
all the time, free car, free whatever bonuses, dressing
allowance, phone call allowance, and then what hospital allowance
and everything. And all he ask of you is, sleep
with me. Praise the Lord, we believe in
the Bible. And believing in the.
Bible is wake and God is expecting that whether rain or
shine, in every situation, whether favorable or
unfavorable, we shall believe in the Bible.
Amen. There is this evangelism song
which says one more day, One more day.
One Sanko. Sheba, praise the Lord.
So the Bible is the mirror of the believer.
In other words, it is the manual.
Of the wake God. Has called us into.
Amen. The next thing we believe?
In is the one through God that we shall not serve any other God
but Elohim, that we will be careful not to create other
goals for ourselves. The Bible says anything we love
more than God becomes our God. And in our dispensation, you
could realize that there are some people who have come to the
saving knowledge of Christ, yet they love money, yet they love.
They love their work. So much that if you put the work
and God for him to choose what he will choose the work, and he
will tell you that it is the work that feeds me.
That is true, That is true, but we shall be careful to believe
in the One through God, Jehovah, Elohim, praise the Lord.
We shall believe in the One through God.
What do you believe in? What do you love more than God?
Now we shall believe. And you see believing in the one
through God through a swag. It is swag on your Bible.
Bible says God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit,
the whole one. I told me be sagging away.
If you want to understand it with your human mind, if you
want to take care, you go crazy. And that is what Bible is.
Saying whether you believe it or not, God is the same as the Son,
is the same as the Holy Spirit, and that we shall believe in
only God. What is difficult in?
This your own is to believe. And you leave the rest for.
God. And some people will.
Worry themselves trying to understand.
Well, you see, when you believe so, Ujidiya, God himself, knows
how to. Take care of your.
Mental for you to understand. Amen.
We. Also believe in the.
Depraved nature of humanity, we believe that for all have seen
and come short of the glory of God.
When Adam was sinning, I wasn't there.
In fact, when my grandfather was doing his idolatry things, I
wasn't there. But the Bible is saying that I
have seen. The Bible is saying I have.
Sinned. The Bible is saying you have
sinned, and the work here is that we will accept that we are
sinners. Who bet?
She had to say. We are audible in praise the
Lord. You see, if you don't accept it,
if you don't accept it, you cannot accept Jesus.
Some people say. As for me, I don't think.
As for me, I don't commit adultery.
As for me, I don't commit fornication.
Some people will even go to the extent of saying that.
As for me, I always give arms. And he doesn't see the need and
the importance of accepting the Lord Jesus Christ.
Until you get to the point of realizing that you are a Sinner,
you cannot and that one too is awake.
And that is the reason why why we go out to preach the gospel
or whenever we are going, we need to pray.
Because you see, for the person to accept the gospel that we are
preaching to him or her. It takes.
The Holy Spirit to convict. Hello.
It takes the Holy Spirit to convict.
And that is why it is very. Important Whenever we are going
for evangelism, we need to pray. November being the month of
aggressive evangelism, and it is expected of each and every one
of us to win at least a soul for God.
We need to pray. Before we embark on evangelism.
If you don't pray. And you don't take care before
you realize the Sinner will win you.
It's a sad of someone who went to a prostitute joint to go and
preach to the prostitute before he realized praise the Lord.
And you see, because of time, maybe I'll read the rest and
then we progress. The next one is the.
Savior, that because I am a Sinner, that because you're a
Sinner, the only one who can save me is the Lord Jesus.
The only one who can save you is the Lord Jesus.
That you will believe, and also your ejuma.
The next one is repentance after we have come to believe.
After we have accepted. That we are sinners.
And then we have come to the point of believing and accepting
Jesus Christ. After you have accepted Him,
after I have accepted Him, it is expected that we shall leave.
I cannot say we shall repent from our sins.
Hello, we shall repent from our sins.
You cannot accept. Him.
And then leave. Your old life.
You cannot accept. Him.
And do your the. Things you used to do before.
In our. Dispensation.
I have come to realize that there are some people who have
accepted the Lord Jesus Christ, yet they live like before.
If you come to the serving knowledge of Christ, if you
accept the Lord Jesus Christ, you must obey Him.
So before you came if you used to drink alcohol.
When you accept him. You must stop.
That is repentance before you came.
If you were into soccer beds, when you come, you must stop.
But what is so sad? Is that even in our
dispensation, the soccer beds? Last Friday.
I had a call from someone and then he was telling me that the
Sun kind of say okucha, soccer bets maybe.
And then he won 1.2 billion, 1.2 billion and.
Then he decided. To open a store for their mother
and their mother resisted and then he used all other means to
convince their mother and their mother resisted.
He. She said she's not interested in
any soccer bets Money. This is a guy of.
Less than 30 years. And he's working at.
Their bank and you know what's happened.
What culture soccer bets view Well, Kocha now Kocha I wouldn't
know a he used a client's money 2.6 billion.
No idea. Kocha Anayaka Anaya China too.
And then I was called to come and help.
Hello. Those of you who are seated.
Here who are into betting. Before we leave here, pray that
God will give you the grace to quit these things.
And even you see. No one will know that you know
in our dispensation and the Lotto and the Lotto now you'll
be there and they will call you Lotto number.
Saying I'm me, I'm wow. If you are down watching the
last money then something will tell you and that is where the
work is. That is where the work is in the
OBR. Someone who stands believes in
the Bible. You know waste your time you
just ignore it. Now someone who doesn't believe
in the Bible not is that personal?
No, no, GNO mean trap, mean trap, mean trap.
Oh, hello, hello. Can I see my handles who are
into soccer betting and betting the youth and they're crying.
You think one painful? Oh, are you here?
OK, wow, we're Trabida. Man was a summation.
Wow. We're Trabida, my brother Peggy.
You see if you are into. All these things and only I can
say working out your own salvation in absence.
No, no. One is seeing you.
Between you and your God now we shall repent and realize that we
have been justified and we have been sanctified by God.
If you're a madra. You're an armed robber.
You have killed 20 people. You have killed 30 people.
The Bible says that when you accept the Lord Jesus Christ and
you repent the moment you repent you that person, you have been
justified and you have been sanctified.
And this is the gospel And you see, when you get to this point,
you need to live a free life or be a with the ponies are now
video and hunting. No, no.
The Bible says when you accept Him and you repent, you that
person, you are just justified and you are sanctified and that
is the Bible. Tom Ribi at this time is very
simple. How can it be?
But that is it, and that is the Bible.
The ordinance of. Baptism and the Law Supper when
you come to the serving knowledge of Christ Jesus being
an example, the Bible says he allowed himself to be baptized.
Meaning that we are. Dead to sin and we live for
righteousness and the Lord supper that we shall partake in
the Lord supper, that we shall partake in the Lord supper.
And you see all these things that I'm talking about, These
are things that you have to be mentally, mentally hurt.
As I said, we are watching say Uber this Sonowaya, not some,
but all all. How can you be a Christian who
comes to church all the time, yet you don't partake in the
Lord Supper so. Should you die now?
Should you die now, one of the work expected of us is that we
shall live a righteous life and be able to dine with him on the
set. And the Bible says that he who
dies me with me on this earth, I will dine with him in heaven.
And then you, yes, you have accepted him.
Yes, you come to church, yet you live or you do something that is
preventing you from dining with him on this earth.
So should something happen and you die now?
How can you dine with? Him in heaven.
And so you see that all. These things demands intentional
efforts. And anything that.
Demands intentional effort is work.
Baptism gifts and. Fruits of the Holy Spirit.
Baptism. Gifts.
And the fruit of the Holy. Spirit, that you shall be
baptized by the Holy Ghost, that you shall receive the gifts of
the spirits, and that we obey the fruits of the spirits.
And doing all these. Things demands intentional
efforts. You cannot tell me that you are
a child of God and you not forgive.
You cannot tell me that you are a child of God and you live your
life anyhow. Hello.
There was one time a pastor who said that As for me, I don't
like preaching or forgiveness because me, I don't forgive.
Not in our church. Somewhere.
And then tighten. Offering tighten, offering
tighten, offering. It is wake.
There was this man who did not have wake.
In fact, he worked before and then he lost the wake and then.
Someone dashed. Him.
And that person is. A church officer, someone dash
him 10,000 Ghana 10,001 brew and then they dash him and head
down. And then you could see that the
reason why I'm saying you could see that the man was struggling
is because he came to pose a question.
And the question he came to pose me is that Edda.
Would be actually. 10,000 and also as a cemetery are tighter
now, hey? I'm saying this.
For you to understand that Adam Pony.
Hello. So you see that believing in
tithes and offering it is work. The moment you receive.
Your money that you need to pay, your tithes, that is when you
remember your problems. That is when you begin.
To do calculation, you remember that you must pay school fees.
You must do this. You must do that.
On this one. You have to be mentally strong
to. Comply at times.
It got to the point. That oh, let me borrow from it's
more your movie. Are you dig?
You dig, Am a tight Yeah, borrow Sarsi.
And we have such people here. At least the way you are
smiling, you are suspects. Some people they.
Believe they believe in tights, they do well in tights, but they
don't do well in offering. But you see, when you come to
the saving knowledge of Christ, we need to come to the point of
understanding that everything you have belongs to God.
When you get to this point, when you are paying your tithe, you
not struggle and when we are giving offering, you not
struggle. Even if they're.
Offering it demands that you give all your money and you walk
home. You not struggle in our
dispensation. It is difficult for a Christian
to give his money to support the work of God and walk home.
Look at what Wendly people are doing.
People work from Independence Square to Kasua.
Or not Africa. Swaggers to come and see
Chatawali and then walk back home.
There is no problem with it. But when you give your money to
support the work of God, you the same person with channel now?
Sorry not Jimmy CK. We believe in divine healing.
We believe in the second coming and the next life and then we
believe in marriage and family, maybe their marriage.
Let me talk briefly about it. We believe in marriage and
family life. We believe in male and female
marriage. We don't believe in male and
male or female or female, female and female.
We don't believe in human being, marrying an animal.
And also we believe that one man, one woman.
Can you repeat after me? We believe that one man, one
woman, if. I had a woman.
Now I'm alakai some people get married to one wife yet they
have side chick. Maybe be before you.
Came to the saving knowledge of Christ.
You you, you are married to two women.
The moment you come into this work and you repent, you must do
away with one. And the one you must do away
with is the second one, not the first one.
If you are not second one and I open up.
The Bible says. The first one is your wife, and
if you're able to do away with it, that is what we call
repentance. But if you struggle.
To do away with it, it means you haven't repented and if you
don't repent, it will be difficult for you to be
justified and it will be difficult for you to be
sanctified. It means you are living in your
own nature. Hello.
You know dispensation people are doing it and it is even coming
into the church. I said no one thing.
Some people are in the church, they are married, yet they have
their girlfriends in the church. Some of the ladies to you.
Know that this man is married and so now what talent and you
come to church. Hello.
Why do you do that? You are not doing the work of
God. You are not doing the.
Work of God when you read Matthew chapter 25, maybe let me
talk about the specific work also.
Then I bring the way to a cruise.
So this one I just mentioned the the tenants of the church, which
summarizes the general work that God is expecting from every
believer who comes to the saving knowledge of Christ.
We have the specific work and maybe the Bible tests I want us
to read is Matthew chapter 25 verse 14 to 30.
Matthew 25 verse 14 to 30. It talks about the parable of
the talent. Because of time I will no read,
but you could see that the Bible says the master called three
people. From this you could realize that
there were many people, just as we have many people here, but he
called only three out of the many.
So you could see that these people, the master, gave them a
specific work. So should you bring it to our
church? The church leaders, like the
elder, the Deacon, the deaconess, the ministry leader,
the church worker, the drama, the keyboardist, the what?
Everybody who is doing something in the House of God.
That is the specific wake. I know from the scripture.
You could realize that when the Master called them He.
Gave them the. Talent.
After he gave them the talent, he gave them a specific
instruction. Go and.
Work. With it so on sets, they knew
why the Master gave them the talent from the beginning.
They knew. If they did not know, it is
different. Just like in our case.
I think last Tuesday I spoke about it when we met US
officers. In our case, before we call you
from among the people, we'll call you to the local presbytery
and then we'll interview you. Maybe if we are calling you to
become a Deacon, we'll ask you the work of the Deacon.
And then before you come, you will learn all these things.
We'll ask you that the tenants of the church who ask you Bible,
Scripture, and you mentioned all at the local presbytery.
Then we saw why are there. Then we push you to the
district. District will interview you
there too. Why are they now?
We push you to area. Area we interview, interview
you. If you pass there, then you'll
be ordained. You cannot tell me that someone
is a Deacon without knowing the duties of a Deacon.
Considering the processes that we go through before we ordain
an officer, you cannot tell me that.
So what it also. Means is that before 1 comes
into the specific work or the specific call, he knows his
duties are men. And then in our case, when?
You go through all these processes and then the apostle
who is going to pray for you or ordain you, he will ask you.
He will not just pray for you, He will ask you again and then
you respond, yes, I will do the Lord be my help.
So I am comparing this call to the talent that was given to
these three people. So you could see that in our
church, no one can just wake up one day and say, I am a Deacon.
I've never seen it before. No one can wake up.
And say I am an elder, no one can wake up and say I am a
presiding no. So what it means is.
That the structures are in such a way that before you come in,
you know. And then they pray.
For me. And they make me a Deacon, they
make me a deaconess, they make me an elder, they make me a
presiding elder, they make me the ministry leader.
And then when they pray for me, God is expecting that I work.
As an elder. As a Deacon, As a deaconess, and
I will make profit for him. What work am I supposed to do?
I say Deacon. It is expected that before we
come to church, you make sure the auditorium is set up,
everything is right. Because of that, I don't want
to. Mention, but we know the duties
of the Deacon. We know the duties, and those
are the works we are talking about.
Hello. Oh, are you here?
You. And then we are handed over or
we are called into the office. The Bible says that what the
Master gave them the talent. Two of them they worked and one
of them he went to hit the talent in the soil or in the
ground. And the Bible says that what the
master came and it was time for accountability.
The 1st 2 they gave account but the third one he said Master I
knew that. Can you project the comments of
the last person to me? Hello.
So what it means is that there are some of us who have been
called, we have received a specific call.
Is it that we are doing? Our things like the first two or
the last one. Now the question here is which
group or we are doing our things like which one.
The reason why I am bringing this to our notice is that.
The three were called. From among the many, just like
in our church, whenever we need offices, we need pastors.
We'll not go and fetch them from outside, but we'll fetch them
from here. So my mission this morning is to
draw your attention to the fact that whenever you are called,
whenever you are giving the specific wake, you are going to
give account of it. Hello, in other ways they raise
a reward for the wake. So when you read the Bible is
saying that when the master came and they gave account the 1st 2
they gave positive account and you could see that when they
gave the positive account, the master rewarded them.
The master rewarded them and then the last one when he came
to give the account, the master also did what rewarded him.
Hello. So why can't you do it or you
don't do it, you'll be rewarded. Amen.
Then the man who had received one bag of gold came Master.
He said I knew that you are a ha Batman.
Harvesting where? You have not sown and God and
you see this kind of people in their church when they become
officers, they are the type of people who always criticize the
church. When he was coming in, the
church was the church. He knew how the church was.
He didn't criticize. But when they criticize hello.
Harvesting where you have. Not sown and gathering where you
have not scattered seed. Please continue.
So I was afraid and went out and hit your gold in the ground.
See, here is what's belong to you.
Continue, please. His master replied.
You wicked lazy servant. So what it means is that any
person who fails to wake, especially those of us who have
received a specific call, whenever we fail to wake in the
sight of God, we are wicked. Lazy servant.
So you knew that I harvest where I have not soon and gather where
I have not scattered seed. Please pause here and let me
pass this comment. You see, let me tell you this.
There are some people in the church.
When they come into the church, their interest is is to come
into the leadership of the church.
I want to become a Dickie. I want to become a Dickens.
I want to become an elder. And some people, they try to
work their way out. They try to work in JBR.
So on the presiding, oh, let me go and give presiding a gift or
the gift in the paper. And now let me visit pastor.
I'm not saying don't bring me gift, bring it, I'll collect it.
But you see, the motive is what I'm talking about.
The motive is that I'll catch his eye so that they will see
that or Yemi Dick in a year or Yemi Dick in a year.
If you have this mentality, I want to tell you that when
you're coming. Wait.
Hello. I see such people when they're
coming. Open movie are on your shit now.
Open movie are you should know that you have taken
responsibility upon yourself. That's what I'm saying.
We have the general wake and a specific wake.
So I standing here as an elder of the church, I'm going to
receive a reward. For the general wake and I'm
going to receive the reward for the specific wake.
What a wake. Let me also say this.
Because of time, maybe I should rush.
I should rush, But please people of God, people of God, God has
called us to wake. Matthew, Chapter 20.
Verse 1 to 16 Matthew chapter 20 verse 1 to 16 it talks about for
the Kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in
the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
He agreed to pay. Them a denarius for the day and
send them into his vineyard. I believe you all know this
story, but here you could see that when the landowner called
the people to come and wake those he called, initially he
bargained with them on how much he's going to pay them.
And the Bible is saying that he called people at different times
and then during the closing of the day he called other people
to also come and wake at the end of the day.
The landowner paid all of them equally.
And then the one who? Bargained with the landowner.
Was unhappy with. Him and he was complaining, but
I came in the morning. These people, they just came
closing of the day. How come you are paying us or
you are rewarding us the same? What I want to tell you this?
Morning is that no one determines the reward you
receive from the Master except from him.
Hello. No one determines the reward you
receive from the Master. I will receive from the Master
except him. This one.
It doesn't matter when you came into the church.
It doesn't matter when you came to the saving knowledge of
Christ. What matters is that you have
done the work of the Master. Praise the Lord.
At times some people will be working in the church.
That's what a church. We have suffered for the Church
when you wait up then or by. I remember one time I.
Told you people here that if we don't take care a time will
come. God will bring people from the
back to come and take over and if you don't take care and it
get to that stage that is when some people in their church will
be memory. Hello.
This morning God has asked me to come and tell you that He's
coming quickly and as He's coming, He's going to reward
everyone according to His works. And maybe the last Bible.
Scripture I want us to take is Revelations chapter 14, verse
13. Revelation Chapter. 14 And I
heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Right, blessed are the
dead which die in the Lord from henceforth, yeah, see as the
spirit, that they may rest in their limits, and their works do
follow them. They are.
Give me the NIV. Let me see, let me see what this
is. Then I heard a voice from heaven
say, write this, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from
now on. Yes, says the Spirit, they will
rest from their liver, and for their deeds will follow them.
Hello. So what it means is that even if
we die in the Lord, our works will follow us.
Why will our works follow us? Because we shall be rewarded
according to our wakes, You shall be rewarded according to
your wakes. So this morning the Lord has
sent me to come and announce to you that He's coming quickly and
He's going to reward each and every one of us according to our
works. What is your wake?
Amen.
Shall we? Be.
On our feet. Let.
Me. Say this English assembly.
This morning. We should all know that God has
called us into His wake. Last.
Tuesday when we came to church, loss of a week.
When we came to last Thursday, we were 6IN number 66, loss of a
week. We are preparing ourselves to
come and dine with the Lord. We were 6IN number when I came.
Barbara, you were here on Thursday.
I think the office says you and I came.
I sat here alone. Barbara, what happened to me?
I was sleeping like something. In fact, when I was coming.
I was very tired. And then I knew I was.
Sleep yet? I came when I came to sleep.
And you see this call that we have been called into one.
I didn't finish my message, but you could see that when you
continue the Bible exalt us not to forsake the gathering of
God's people. And it is part of the work.
So whenever we agree that this week we are waiting upon the
Lord to pray and come and dine with the Lord and you stay in
the house, you have chosen that path.
And I've also chosen another path.
And it's all part of the work we are doing.
So if we should be measured by this, you could see that we are
not doing a good work. Hello, we are not doing a good
work. And should a master appear, what
will be awake? Mr. Oma will some you know such
restaurant. You know the kind of.
Work you are doing. I know the kind of work I'm
doing this morning, as the Word of God has reminded us.
I just want you to be sincere to God.
The Bible says that if you repent, He justifies you and He
sanctifies you. So what is important is that as
you have heard the gospel this morning, we shall repent from
any bad works. And if we repent, the Bible is
saying that He will justify and sanctify us.
As you have raised your two hands, I want you to confess
your works to Him. What kind of works are you
doing? If they are negative, confess to
Him. And as you are confessing, ask
Him to be gracious unto you. Open your mouth and pray.
Father, in the name of Jesus,
this morning we have come unto you.
We have heard your words. You have made us to understand
that you are coming very soon and You are going to reward us
according to our works this morning, as you have reminded
us. O Lord, we confess all our works
unto you, works that are not pleasant unto you, works that
does not end well with us, works that does not go with your way.
This morning we confess all his works unto you.
We pray that even as you have, we have had your way.
You shall be gracious unto US1 More time.
Lord, may you be gracious unto us.
Lord, may you be gracious unto us that henceforth we shall work
according to your will and your desire.
We shall work as you expect of us, that we shall not be made
pleases, but we shall please you at all times.
Lord, may you help us even as we confess, even as we admit, even
as we acknowledge that we have not work as expected of us.
We pray that your grace will speak for that you'll be
gracious and to run. So, Lord, and give us another
chance that we shall work for you, we shall work for you, that
we shall work for you, so that when you appear, we will be
worthy to receive a good reward coming today.
One of the reasons why you may work anyhow is the absence of
the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit is with
you, He will teach you, He will guide you, He will remind you.
But when the Holy Spirit is not with you, you do your work.
Anyhow, we are asking the Holy Spirit this morning to come into
our hearts coming today.
To my heart, Lord Jesus coming into my heart, heart.
To my heart, heart. To my heart, Lord
Jesus Christ, coming to the To my heart, Lord Jesus, I
mean to say to my heart, to my heart.
Revelations chapter 22 verse 11 and 12 He that is unjust, let
him be unjust still and he which is filthy, let him be filthy
still. And he that is righteous, let
him be righteous still and he that is holy, let him be holy
still. The.
Difference here is. The Holy Spirit, when the Holy
Spirit is with you, you shall be righteous and you shall still be
righteous. When the Holy Spirit is with
you, you shall be holy, and you will still be holy, but absence
of the Holy Spirit. You will be in the Church, but
you will be unjust, but you will be filthy.
And this morning we are asking Him to come in.
When He comes in, He makes the difference.
Come in, raise up your two hands.
We are calling on you. One who is able to make a
difference. He makes the difference.
Shall you begin to cry on him
this morning? Call on him, invite him, call on
him, invite him. Spirit of the living God, we
follow you this morning. We invite you this morning.
I. The.
You see wonder Spirit of God is
not with you. You come to church.
Because of human beings. Wonder Spirit of.
God is not with you. You work to please people, but.
When the spirit of. God is with you.
You work to please God this morning.
We are. Asking Him to help us know His
ways. If we know His ways, we shall
work to praise Him so that I. There was this person in the
church who got angry with the leadership of the church, and
because the person was angry, the person decided not to pay
his tithe. Such a person is he coming to
church because of human being, because of God.
And we have such people in our mess.
It may be me, it may be you, but the good news is that when we
give ourselves to the Holy Spirit, He will show us His way.
Yeah. Lord.
The. The everything is your marry son
and I thought you can't change my life has said my soul of fire
that you do your I want a brother and a sister to come and
stand in and pray a touch of you can change my.
Life and. Change my life.
Hallelujah, you are my. Our.
Heavenly Father, we. Thank you for the opportunity to
come and listen to your way today.
Father, we have fallen short of your glory.
We can't boast that all the things that came this morning,
we are not part of it. We are guilty of our actions and
we pray the Lord God as your word has come, continue to fill
out with your Holy Spirit so that we will be strengthened so
that we will come out from our weakness and and stand for you
when the need arise. We pray the Lord God guide us,
strengthen us. Jesus, fill us with your
anointing and revive us so that we give glory to your name.
Thank you in Jesus name. Amen Lord.
We thank you for teaching us and reminding us of the work of our
salvation. Thank you for reminding us that
we need to be intentional about our salvation.
Thank you for reminding us that we need to fulfill your whole
will. We thank you, Lord, this
morning. Our hearts are open.
Our hearts desire. To do your work, to do your
will. But Lord, sometimes we don't
find the strength. Lord, we pray.
That you give us the. Grace.
You give us the enablement. From the inside to be able to do
your whole will the grace to read our.
Bibles. The grace to live a life of
integrity. The grace to pay our tithes.
The grace to be part of your people every time.
Pray the Lord, whatever thing that is holding us back,
whatever thing that is holding your people bound with the Lord,
you break everything by the power of your Holy Spirit.
Lord, do a work inside of us, transform us.
And Lord, from today, even as we are come to dine with you, let
us see a transformation. Let us see a change in our life.
Let us begin to gravitate towards Your will and let us
find ourselves beginning to do the things that we couldn't do
before. We know that your power, we know
that your grace, we'll do this. We thank you for that.
In Jesus mighty name, Amen.