For your life. And the church and this part of
the city, the leadership that God has given to us and the.
People who have been. Serving with the lost people
each time that were made. Amen.
We bring you a special. Greetings from Germany,
specifically Hamburg, and let me take this opportunity to invite
you all to Germany, Pentecost, Pentecost 2020. 6 How many?
Of you have registered, how many of you have registered?
No one. Wow.
No, you can't be. You can't be at SK Baidus
Memorial Worship Center. I think you know that man.
Have you seen him before? Really did not.
Oh wow, you desire him? Amen.
He's a man. Of mission his his full life is
composure everything about. Him is about missions.
That the Lord. Will save the lost.
Soul this morning as we're getting ourselves.
Prepared to die with the Lord. I want to share.
Briefly with you, a message that I've tagged.
Desiring God in this. Entertainment world Desiring God
in this entertainment world. And I said entertainment world
since we are young, we know. How this world is becoming the
world is. Becoming more entertaining.
If I say entertaining or entertainment, things that will
please you, things that will make you happy, things sometimes
will push you not to meditate, but just what the body responds.
The desires of the body. It gets you dancing, gets you
desire them more, and many other things, the eye and the fleshly
desires So more than the spiritual aspect of it.
But friends, before Jesus was betrayed, he came as a savior.
He came as a ransom. He came to deliver us from
darkness into God's light so that we become friends and
family of our most high goal. He came to draw us back to God
himself, but knowing surely that the world will be more darker
than as it was before. He came as a light so that those
who come around to Him. Will draw nearer to the light.
I pray that your uttermost desire in this life that you
draw more. Nearer to God.
There's a songwriter who said that my my songs unto thee, my
prayer unto thee, that Lord God, draw me nearer unto you.
Draw me nearer unto. You you see, in our time we get
more attached to our phones, more attached to our gadgets,
more attached to the media, in fact more attached to things
around us more than God himself. And though we have Bible on
these phones, but how many of us stick to our Bible on the phone
than the social aspect of it? Even as we are seated here,
someone may be tempted as I am talking to you, someone may be
tempted to go to the social media, to the Facebook.
To the Facebook. All over.
All over and that. Is what I just want to draw
attention that we have come to a crossroad of an entertainment
world where people. Want to be entertained?
Where people want to hear where what what their itching years
will be hearing. Where people want to see.
People want to experience things that will please them, things
that will urge them. So people are desperate to work
with their head and even even to understand what their stomach.
People walk with their head and they understand their stomach.
What? The stomach will bring to the
body. But I pray that.
God will help us. Oh Hallelujah.
And what we talk about desiring
is the things that people yearn for.
If I say to desire things that you work hard towards, things
that you give attention to, things that you wish you have
gotten there desire, it motivates your zeal.
It motivates your understanding. It gets you poised to do them
more because you want to get there.
Paul once said that stretch hard that you get there, desire to
do, desire to have it. Desire and I.
Pray that you desire God, but nothing else.
You desire. God, but nothing else.
We want to take our first reading.
Our first reading will be taken. From Second Corinthians.
Chapter 4, verse four and then the verse 6.
I read from the new international version.
Are you there with me from the New International?
Version The Bible says the God of this age has blinded the
minds of unbelievers so that they cannot see the light of the
gospel. The light of the.
Gospel on the line that displays the glory.
Of Christ on the line who? Is the image of.
God. The God of this age has blinded
the minds of unbelievers so that they cannot see the light of the
gospel that displays the glory of.
Christ. Who is the image of God then?
6 For God, who said, let's light shine out of darkness, made his
light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the
knowledge of God's glory displayed in the face of Christ,
displayed in the face. Of Christ.
You know, Paul by in the inspiration of the Holy Spirit
was bringing to the attention of the hearers that there is a
wicked man, there is a God of our time, there is a ruler of
our age. And then his scheme, his tactics
is to blind the mind of unbelievers.
You know, unbelievers are people who are far from the gospel,
people who are far from the truth, people who are far from
Christ, people who are not willing to give in their life to
God so that they become sons and daughters of God.
But the mechanism, the man behind all these things, that
the devil forever comes to steal, kill and destroy.
But Jesus said that he came that we might have life and have it
more abundantly. And so these are the disparity
between the two, that Jesus came that you might have life and
have it more abundantly, but never came to steal, kill and
destroy. And so he's a killer, He's a,
he's a chief, he's a destroyer. But God came that you will have
more life and abundantly say Hallelujah.
And so if these two agents are put before you, I believe that
you will desire to have a life, you desire to have a grace, you
desire to to leave the more if these two people are put before
you. But its not easy sometimes you
can easily say that if these two people are put before me, I will
easily attach myself to the light and we easily attach
myself to Jesus. But the mechanism for which the
enemy steals the mindset and the focus and the direction of
people is so amazing. More especially in our time, the
young ones, the young ones. So I've come to share my life
with you. I've come to share that there is
light, there is power, there is grace in the law.
Amazingly, Paul said that the people have form of godliness,
but they have denied the power thereof.
There is a kind of power that God gives to people who come
around to him, that that power will hold them to remain under
his feet. That power will hold them.
To remain under his feet, but. The the the devil comes to
steal, kill and then destroy. And so Paul writing to the
church in Corinthians saying that the God of this age has
blinded the minds of unbelievers so that they will not believe
the gospel. They will not believe the gospel
because they will not see the light of the gospel that
displays the glory of Christ the the light of the gospel.
You know the gospel bring illumination.
The gospel, you know, brings you from darkness to the light.
The gospel has power, has authority, has grace, that
whatever surrounds your life will become that of God, the
gospel. Praise the Lord.
Hallelujah. And so this year's focus is that
we will be unleashed to, to, to, to save this world by the gospel
and the power. Of the Holy Spirit.
And so Paul is saying that the enemy, the wicked one, has
blindfolded many, that they would not see the light of the
gospel that displays. The glory of Christ.
So the Gospel displays the glory of.
Christ, I here with me this morning.
Oh Hallelujah. The gospel displays the glory of
Christ, and when you are fully consumed, saturated by the power
of the Lord and the Word, there is a kind of glory that
surrounds your life. The gospel gets hold of your
life. And when the gospel gets hold of
your life, the gospel reposition you to come to the arena of
grace that God's glory surrounds your life.
And he say that who is the very image of God.
And so when when you the gospel come unto you now God brings you
to his light, you come out of darkness into his life.
And then you begin to experience God's glory.
And then you begin to experience the presence of God.
How I pray that God will strengthen us as we are about
to. Die with the Lord.
I am sharing this with you because now before Jesus.
Was betrayed, he knew. Very sure that he be betrayed.
Of course he came as a ransom, that he would give his life for
us as an offer, as a sacrifice, that through that his life will
atone for our sins, that God will have mercy on us and bring
us back unto himself. But then, but then Jesus said
that surely it will happen by the one through whom it comes,
comes beyond that one. And so do it may happen, but it
should not be you. Lo and behold, there was one man
among his cabinet, among his people.
One man who has been coming to Jesus fellowship.
One man who has been coming to church every Sunday like you are
seated. Here and you know.
Him by name Judas. Quite recently I was talking and
I said that amazingly people don't want to name their
children after Judas. But we are not talking about the
name, but the character, the nature.
People don't want to. And then if somebody is named
Judas, you will see all kinds of names and all kinds of eye and
the way people pointing their hands on them.
But amazingly, in our time, people are called Angel, but
they are darker than the Judas of our time.
The Bible says that when the leaders were looking for
opportunity to lay hand on Jesus, a Jew that has decided
and went to them by saying that how much are you willing to
offer me if I betray him to you Remember the God of this age has
blinded the minds of. Unbelievers.
But you are a believer, you are a child of God and don't get
yourself loose that you will be blinded by the things of the
world. I pray in the name of Jesus that
those who come daily under the feet of the Lord will not go
back to the world and begin to behave differently, begin to
lead your life differently. And that is the desire of
leadership. That the church will set the
pace, That the church will become the measuring Rd.
That the church will become people, become the light.
That the richest, the way that people will look through the
church. And see Jesus.
Desiring God. In this entertainment world.
The world is becoming. More entertaining.
Entertaining. More entertaining, More
entertaining. More entertaining, More
entertaining. Oh.
How I pray, if there's anything that will entertain you, it will
be the power of the Holy Spirit, it will be the word of God, it
will be the presence of God. To be the presence of God.
And the Bible says that the Hansi betrayed Jesus, hadn't
done the lay hold of Jesus beating him, saying all kinds of
things. And finally he saw that Jesus
was being led to be crucified. The Bible said the money that he
got when you read Matthew chapter 27 verse one to three.
In fact, the backdrop is that 26.
This is where Judas was. Willing to betray Jesus.
And your life and my life. Should not betray Jesus.
I hear men. Oh Amen.
Your life and my life should not betray Jesus.
The the devil is more smarter and scheming.
And I said one time that one. Of the mechanism.
In our time. That the devil is using very
smart is fashion. The devil is so smart, he's
choosing fashion even to erode, even to draw those who are in
the light. Fashion.
Very powerful tool, Very powerful tool.
May you not be caught in the snare of the enemy.
Shout our man. Oh, shout our man.
And then for the enemy to cause you to be blind, that means that
you will not know your way out before you.
You are aware. You are trapped before you are
aware. You are in it.
Before you are aware you have been caught in the web.
Of the enemy. And then getting back.
Becomes difficult for you. Getting back becomes difficult
for you. And then the same chapter.
Of the Second Corinthians. Verse chapter 4/15/18 Say that
all this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching
more and more people may cause Thanksgiving to overflow to the
glory of God. Therefore, we did not lose
heart. Though outwardly we are Wesson
away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day for our light
and momentary troubles, achieving for us an eternal
glory that far awaits. Them.
All so we fix our eyes not on what is.
Seen listen. So we fix our eyes on not what
is seen, but what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary,
but what is. Unseen is eternal.
Oh Hallelujah, what is. Unseen is internal.
Soon our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the one who gave his
life, was crucified, died, buried, rose again, and sat on
high. Very soon as we did see him, He
will come again and those who are found in him.
Will be caught in the air with him.
I pray that this will be your. Desire.
This will be your desire. You know, when we talk about
blindness, I often say that if you bring a child, a baby who
is. Crowing.
And then a man. Who can run?
And if that man is blind and the baby?
The baby can crawl. If you set a distance for them,
it will amaze you. Sometimes the baby who is
crowing will reach the end. Than the blind man.
And spiritual blindness is so miserable.
Spiritual blindness. It is so disturbing.
Spiritual blindness can cause damage.
Spiritual blindness can cause a great loss.
But those of us who are in the light.
Must. Remain in the light.
Of God. People's deeds are more into
darker than the light. Because these are becoming more
evil than probably you might think about.
Desire, desire God, even in this perishable, entertaining well.
Perishable. Entertaining.
Well. In our time, most people it is
good to have a smartphones, but what we have seen that people
would not mind, will not, will not check the end effect about
the process that they send on the Facebook.
And so sometimes you pick. Now you go to Facebook and
somebody, a Christian, can pick the.
Phone and they begin to video. Himself video has served
sometimes the the dresses that that person has it on probably
may think that, but it is good. You look good on the phone, but
the information that you put on the Facebook cannot be delayed
even in 100 years. That information.
And when you grow, you become all responsible.
Sometimes God gives you grace and God elevates you somewhere.
And when the same information pops up, you turn your back.
The God of this age, very smart, blinding people.
I pray that your eyes will be hoping God will open the eye of
your understanding so that your commitment to Jesus.
Will be real, will not be on their mind.
By anything that. Comes your way.
May the Lord help. US.
Oh, may the Lord help us. May the Lord help us.
May the Lord help. Us the.
Goal of the enemy is blind you. The goal of the enemy is to
distract you. The goal of the enemy that's to
cause you to embrace anything that goes everything we are in a
period of. Everything goes fashion and
competition. We are in the world of whatever.
ISM whatever goes. How do I get there?
How do I get richer? How do I get popular?
This is the world that we are in.
But it is more blessing to be popular in the things of God.
Hallelujah, more blessing to be richer in the.
Things of God more blessing. And so the Bible says through
Paul said that God, Jesus though in the very image of God, but
never count. Equality to be God.
But Humble himself suffered pain as a servant to the point of
death, even death on the cross. And he said that therefore God
has given him a name above every other name when you analyze.
You could. See that?
How could that person get so low yet?
God has given him a name above every other name.
You know godliness. Pays godliness and holiness, it
pays godliness, living for God, certainly your life as an
example, whatever that you are, it pays and.
God will glorify you, you become an example unto many and that is
why I just want to encourage you all that we all will desire to
know God that more even in this entertainment world.
In this entertainment world. And then those of us when we
come to Ghana and sometimes some of the things.
That we see we. Begin to get ourselves trouble
because over there, even in the cold time sometimes you begin to
see how sometimes we see that the whites the summer time.
They they they go half naked, but.
In Ghana is getting. More rough, getting more rough.
I pray that you will not be part of that, men and women.
You will not be part of that. Hallelujah.
You will not be part of that. You will not get yourself.
Blind, there is a need for total turn around, turn back to the
law, because it is only the gospel that set people back to
the law and strengthen that, passing the weak hand and the
feeble hands to be more stronger and attached to God because
there's power. In.
The Word of God and then the Bible uses that he has a blinded
the minds of unbelievers with hot metal.
While the Bible does not explicitly mention hot metal, in
the book of 2nd Corinthians 4 verse 4, the phrase that
blindfolding means that he has the three words of antiwear that
he has attached. What metal in the minds?
Of people and so. The the veins.
And the. Arteries.
And everything gets stuck. If you know radio.
When the wires get attached. It does not function.
That's how the. Enemy does to the mind.
So that though you are a. Believer.
You are a spiritual man and when?
You become a. Carnal man where?
You know the truth, but you are not not able to decide.
Good for yourself and good for people around you.
That makes you a carnal man. And a carnal man though has the
mind of God, but still cannot leave as God wants him to leave.
And that is the mechanism that the enemy uses to draw people
back onto himself. I pray that.
God will help us. I pray that God.
Will help us I. Pray that God.
Will help us. Go by the inspiration.
And the power of His word. Through Paul spoke in the book
of first. Timothy chapter one verse 5 and
6 says that. The goal of this command is
love, which comes from a pure heart.
And a good conscience and a sincere faith.
Some have departed from these and have turned to meaningless
talk. Some have this departed from
these and have ended in meaningless talk.
And so when the mind is made, when the mind is.
Captured by the enemy, your talk, your speech becomes
meaningless there. Is no value of the word of God,
there's no direction for people to know God and so in our time
in our day, I pray that you will not be captured by the enemy
where you become an agent that the West.
From you will be meaningless, by your W will be meaningful.
That bring light and direction. Unto many we are.
Looking for people, agents, people that God will unleash
them, people that God will trust them, people that God will
position them wherever they are, that their words will carry
weight and power their. Words will carry weight and
power. May you be 1.
Oh, may you be one in that marriage, in that workplace.
Maybe they will passing that your words.
Will. Carry so much life.
That people would desire to be like you.
And when? Things are not going on well.
We would desire to call you because.
You have first desired God, even in a terrible time, and you
become a light. Unto many Hallelujah, you become
a light unto many see when? When young men are getting more
older. Their messages are more longer.
I'm a young man.
An old man, Young old man. By the grace of.
God, I will be retiring next year but now I have more grace
to have more two years. So now I've been giving more two
years to work as I will be retiring more next year and
that's how young I am. Praise God, oh Hallelujah.
And the word of God has life. It sets you loose, it sets you
free, it sets you reposition you that evenly bodily.
You become more healthier, more healthier.
Desire God. In this entertainment world.
Desire God in this entertainment.
As I am. About to wrap up.
One thing that you need to do then hold fast.
To the word of God, because the Word of God is powerful.
Hold fast to. The Word of God Hold fast to the
Word of God. Is able to direct you.
The Bible says that it's a sharper than double edged sword.
Is able to Pierce and then divide even the soul.
The word of God. Is able to work on you.
When they take the excesses from you, you become a refined man, a
refined woman, a woman who is cultured, a man.
Who is cultured? You are being taught by the word
of God, so that your thoughts. Are changed to focus on the
Lord, the Word of God, and. Then to meditate on the word.
Of God. Meditate.
Meditate on the Word of God. And at three, let prayer be your
lifestyle. Let.
Prayer be your lifestyle. Pray without ceasing.
If you want to desire him, if
you want to desire him, pray without ceasing, because things
around you will speak volumes. But when prayer becomes focused,
when prayer becomes your strength, that will tell you
which will direct you. To the things of God and you
will not be swayed by the things that goes on every day.
The world is becoming more entertaining.
How I pray that you will not be trapped by the things on social
media. Many good Christians are being
trapped, and sometimes. Their commitment and their zeal
has been undermined. It's watered down because of
social. Media, but you.
Let a word of God be your focus. Oh, Hallelujah And so.
The Word of God, prayer and also get yourself.
More committed and then. Be content.
Be content be content, be content the.
Enemy was able to draw Judas onto himself because he was not
content. But amazingly, the things that
he had, the money that he had, he went back and throw to them,
get it back, but say we're not getting it.
That's not our business. It's your business.
And so people can want to do anything, everything, to get
money by the end of it. They can't enjoy it so much, but
you, may you take the good way, the good way of the Lord, that
your focus is to desire Him who gave His life as a ransom, that
those who come around to Him will be with Him in the light.
And then they have this hope that since He will come again,
what kind of people are we to be?
We are to still focus and remain under His feet.
I pray that God will help us, that God will help us, That
contentment will be the yastick, and God will help us when things
are getting darker. The light of the Lord will draw
us into His Kingdom. May the Lord bless us.
Let's bother your head. Let's bother your head.
There's a need for us to enjoy daily fellowship with the Son of
God. If we want to desire him, enjoy
daily fellowship with the Son of God.
There's a need that our eyes, the eyes of our heart, will be
enlightened to know. What is the hope?
Of our. Calling and the riches of the
glory of our. Inheritance in the.
Lord, immeasurable greatness, Greatness.
Of God's power towards believers that will hold on to Him.
That in all things, at all time. The Lord will appear, and the
Lord God will help you even in time of need if you want to
desire Him. There are troubles, there are
hardships. That things that make people
easier to decide and do it you. Will.
Ask. The Lord 1st And sometimes it
may seem that you are being set back, but still as you desire
Him, the Lord God, the waymaker, He will make way for you.
He will make Wick for you. Begin to bless God, begin to
pray. Begin to deepen yourself in the
Lord. Lift your voice in prayer.
La cobo sikhi be da la Banda
labo sikhi Banda da da de. Pray to God that God will ease
you. God will.
God will set you. Loose from any entanglement, any
entanglement and anything that you get yourself involved and
that I end that you know that this is not the way of the Lord
and the will of God. Now open your mouth and begin to
pray. Kado Basi talo bayan Dada bande.
The power of the Lord in His word is able to change our
inner. Man the.
Word of God is able to change. Our inner man is able to
translate. Our inner man is able.
It is only the word of God that's able to give a sight,
able to give. This is my desire this morning
to honor you, Lord. This is my desire, oh God, to
honor you, Lord. Shall we lift our voice in
prayer? Shall we lift our voice in
prayer? If you can stunt your feet in
prayer. If you can stunt your feet in
prayer and come on, begin to pray.
Ask in the Lord. We.
Want to raise our hands on to God if we really want to desire
God. If we want to desire God in this
entertainment where there is a need to set our affection on the
things that are above, we become more heavily minded, become more
heavenly minded. But the Bible?
Says that since then you have been raised with Christ.
Set your heart on the things above, where Christ is seated at
the right hand of God. Set your minds on the things.
Above, not everything's. Just let your.
Hands and the earthly things are.
Consuming other things. Are.
Eroding people's fate? Earthly things are getting
people off the track, and these are schemes and the mechanism of
the enemy. The God of his age has a
blindfold in the minds of unbelievers, that they will not
know here the gospel, and then they will.
Come to the light of God, which is the glory in Christ Jesus, as
we lift your hands. As you lift your hands that day
Jesus said, one of you will betray me.
And they start saying that it is me.
And the one who was about to betray Jesus so boldly came to
Jesus asking him, I am the one. Am I the one?
He said. Yes, you are.
So he did not repent. I pray that as your hands are
lifted and you know your weakness and I know my weakness,
as we go from this auditorium, the Word of God, the power of
God, the grace of God will saturate our lives and become
people that God has reposition into his light, that God is
unleashing us, that wherever that we go, we carry the
presence of God. We walk at people who have our
eyes. Physical and spiritual eyes are
there now. Begin to pray.
Begin to pray.
We may desire you, Lord, our
pirates, to beset straight in the by the name of Jesus.
May our pirates be set straight in the by the name of Jesus, may
our. Pirates be.
Set straight in the by the name. Of Jesus.
The. Sweep.
Over my soul, she's swearing just.
Sing it with me. Over my soul.
Meditate on this world. My.
Rest is complete as I see it. As I sleep over my my rest is
complete. As I see how dark be sweet sleep
is sleep over my soul rest is complete.
I pray this morning that the Spirit of God will reach you
wherever you are, that in brokenness you begin to reflect,
and that you ask God's grace to help you to overcome any
limitation, any shortfall that easily entangles you.
That is, it draws you to the arena of the enemy, the kings
and the liars of this world. That draws you before you
realize you are in it. And then you said how miserable
the good I want to do, I am unable to do.
But the bad the. Wrong.
What the wretched man in prayer? Just be seated in prayer and I
want to cancel you this morning. I want to cancel you this
morning. There is a.
Kind of urgent. That is swiftly eroding
godliness, the fear of God, holiness.
From God's people knowing the good.
But still. Want to attach to the dark the
bad because it makes it easier for them as you are seated and
we are about to come to the table.
I pray this. Morning that if.
You re. Align your life.
With the gospel, the. Power that set men free.
You'll be free indeed, and that you will become a witness of the
light that set people free. For the God of his age has
blinded the minds of unbelievers.
But fans, be to God that you are a believer.
You were a child of God. You were a child of the light.
Darkness has no control over you and therefore set your mind and
the things on high. Where Christ is seated there,
soon and very soon He will come and take His own, and I pray
that I'll be one of them. May you not succumb to the
entertaining world. By you be attached to the things
of God. He died for me.
You.