And when it fire burns My heart is cultured to work
I haven't meet the burning fire Or sound of grave things
I haven't meet the burning fire
And bring forth fruit with patience
Luke 8 verse 15
Keep it and bring forth fruit with patience
Let's read that from a couple of versions
Luke 8 verse 15
So from the New Living Translation
Luke 8 verse 15
Good news translation
Luke 8 verse 15
Good news translation
Luke 8 verse 15
Let me read from the King James
You're going to enjoy today's service I'm telling you
I am the true vine
My father is the gardener or the husband man
Hallelujah
Where's your own Bible?
What's your own Bible?
What are you showing?
Do what you are doing
When you finish God, send it to me
Yes
I am the true vine and my father is the husband man
Every branch in me that bear not fruit, he take it away
Hallelujah
Every branch that doesn't bear fruit, he does what?
He take it away
What does it mean he take it away?
Amazingly, it's not what they've told us
He take it away actually means that he keeps it
He dresses it
He keeps nourishing it till it grows
Hallelujah
That's what the Greek word means
But that's what we are looking at maybe one day
So every branch in me that bear not fruit, he take it away
And every branch that bear fruit, he purge it
That it may bring forth more fruit
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you
Abide in me
Now underline that word
Abide in me
And I in you
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself
Except it abide in the vine
No more can ye except ye abide in me
Now let me read that portion again
Abide in me
And I in you
Now you can see abide in me
What is the mark there?
It's comma right?
What do you call it in English?
Pantrecy
So what is the pantrecy in me?
Comma
So it means that the end there cannot be translated as witches
So this is different alright?
So abide in me
Comma
And I in you
Why do we have to abide in him and he in us?
Because as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself
Except it abide in the vine
No more can we, what does that mean?
No more can ye means no more can you bear fruit except ye abide in me
I am the vine, ye are the branches
Now so what is Jesus trying to say?
I am the vine, ye are the branches
What is he trying to say?
Okay
He told you as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself
Alright except it abides in the vine
So you also cannot bear fruit except you abide in me
Why?
I am the vine, ye are the branches
Hallelujah
He that abideth in me
And I in him
The same bringeth forth much fruit
For without me ye can do nothing
Without me you can do
So listen to it
What does it mean to be a good ground?
What does it mean not to be a thorny ground like we have studied?
Those of you who are coming to church today we are very sorry you may not understand
What does it mean not to be a thorny ground?
A wayside ground and a stony ground
What does it mean to be a good ground?
Colleging onto?
Jesus says that
It what?
To abide
All together
It means to abide
So the parable of the sower can be said to mean abiding in the word
Is that okay?
Now it's only in this place we can do this synonymous exegesis
Alright?
Now I know some of you say what is synonymous exegesis?
It's none of your business
Listen
If the word is going to work
Which in other words is called
A good ground
Alright?
What is the meaning of good ground?
From what we have been talking about what does it mean of good ground?
Understands
Alright?
Keeps
So understanding the word means abiding in the word
Do well to understand what I'm sharing with you
So
It never would help us say amen
So to understand the word means to abide in the word
Hallelujah
It means that anybody that has back and forth with the word is somebody who does not understand
Are we following that?
If you understand the word
We will see it in your abiding in the word
Now go to James when James spoke about do not be heirs
And you will know that
Or let me leave that we'll get there
So understanding the word means what?
Abiding in the word
And abiding in the word means what?
Being a good ground
So abiding in the word of God, understanding the word of God is the same as being a good ground
So the parable of the sower can be said it is the parable of understanding the word or it is the parable of abiding in the word or it is the parable of keeping the word or it is the parable of doing the word
As we see that in James
Come on, hallelujah
So if the word is going to and also abiding in the word means abiding in Christ
So the parable of the sower, the parable of the good ground simply is abiding in Christ
Come on, I believe we are fine with that
So if somebody asks you what is the meaning of the parable of the sower?
I say the meaning of the parable of the sower is to abide in Christ
And what does it mean to abide in Christ?
Abiding in Christ simply means abiding in the message of Christ
What is the message of Christ? Abiding in the gospel
So the parable of the sower means they are abiding in the gospel
Are we together?
So the good ground simply means the heart that receives and keeps the gospel
Hallelujah
Come on, we have done this thing since when?
Last three days or last four days?
Yes, so you should understand that
So now let's come back to what Jesus said
Jesus says abide in me
Now, the word abide is menno, M-E-N-O
Write that down quickly
Let's do this
Menno, say menno
Oh, menno people are here
Menno means to remain
All right?
Menno means what?
To remain
It also means to continue
So you're going to have in different versions that will say remain in me
Some will say abide in me
Some will say continue in me
Hallelujah
Okay, now
Write this down
Number one
To abide means to tarry or to wait
Write that down
To abide is to tarry or to wait
Are you all there?
Good
You can see example of that in Luke chapter 8 verse 27
Luke 10 7, John 7 9
Are you all there?
John 7, John 7 9
What's the name of John 7 9?
Somebody read that for us
John chapter 7 verse 9
Sit down, sit down with me
When he has said these things
He remain in
Are we together?
So when he has said these things
He remain there
So to abide means to stay
To remain, to tarry
Alright?
Okay, so if it means it's to tarry
Then it means it does not mean to go away from
Alright? This is very important, just be right with me, you understand it
Okay
So I said it also means to remain, right?
It also means not to depart
Not to leave or to continue to be present
To continue to be present
So when Jesus says
Abide in me so that you can bear much fruit
What does that mean?
Continue to be present in me
I know
Graceful people will say I live in Christ and Christ dwells in me
That's all he's talking about
Hallelujah
You see, oh the Bible says abide, we are abiding
We are not abiding
Hallelujah
So he's going to abide
It's not something Christ has done
It's something you do
Hallelujah
Come on, it's something you do
Are we together?
So he says that abide
What does that mean?
Continue to be present
So continue to be present in the world
Now I'm talking about the good ground
The keeping of the world
It meant that those that had good heart or good grounds
Whose heart were good grounds
These are people who continued to be present in the world
Hallelujah
Alright, let's get into the word
First John 2.19
You can also see John 14.16
Some read any
They went out from us
They went out of us
If they had been of us
They would have continued with us
Now that word continued with us means they would have continued to be present
Are we together?
So abide, meno means continuous present
It's like, what is it?
Continuous present tense
Or continuous tense, whatever it is
You get it
So to be there
Not to leave and to come
But to be there
Now if we are going to get the word of God to work
Which is our faith working
Or our faith becoming audacious
Then it means that there is a necessity
Or that there is necessity on us to abide
What does that mean?
To continually be present
Now if you hear the word today
And you stay in the world for a week
And three weeks later
You are looking for a new word
Your faith cannot work
Praise the name of the Lord
Now look at all those people who crave for revelations
Today they need this mystery
They are doing this wonderful mystery
You know, it goes nowhere
But for your faith to work
For your life to take an upward turn
There is the necessity to abide
To continuously be present
In the world
Hallelujah
Tell somebody, continuously be present
Alright, now let's get into
It also means to continue to be
To continue to be
Or to endure
To continue to be or to endure
Hallelujah
So when Jesus says abide in me
What does that mean? Endure in me
So remember he says those who received the word in a good ground
They kept it and they endured
Hallelujah
The message says no matter what came
They cling to the word, they kept on to the word
I want to get out of this place
Come on, I want to get out of this place
Good
So I said it means what?
Come on, it means what?
To continue to be
To endure
Alright
Now it also means
Is the state or condition
Alright
To remain as one is
And not to become another or different
So is the state or condition
Where one remains as he is
And not becoming a different person or a different thing
Hallelujah
Now John chapter 12 verse 24
Look into the word, John 12 verse 24
The Bible says
When a grain of corn
Except it dies
It remains or it abides alone
Alright
So it talks about not changing states
Are we together?
Not to change states
To remain the same
Over and over and over and over
Time doesn't change you
So it means that those who received the word
And got result of the word
What did they do?
They did not change form
Hallelujah
They did not change
And what is that?
To be consistent
Hallelujah
So when Jesus says abide in me
He was saying don't change form
Come on, hallelujah
Don't change form
Be consistent at the word
So the parable of the sower can be said
It is the good ground can be said
It is a parable of consistency with the word
Hallelujah
See there are a lot of us or a lot of people
They can't, they always
You know it's human tendency to be changing
Alright
When you get one thing for a long time
Now you are there
Now I know
I mean just imagine you come to church
And everyone is preaching the same thing
You understand?
But what makes or what brings results is not
Is not different, different, different, different things
It is the unchangeability that brings results
Come on, are we together?
So the parable of the sower is not just about
The parable of the sower is not just about
The parable of the sower is not just about understanding
So he understood the word
What does it mean to understand?
To understand means to be unchanging
Hallelujah
See that's why I told you that
You can't use the English dictionary
To study the Bible
Because in English
The synonym of not changing
Is not understanding
But in the Bible the synonym of not changing is understanding
It doesn't make sense, that's how we study the Bible
So
To not change, to not change form, to not change style
To not change, you know, shape
Not changing shape
Not changing form
Abiding
It abides, it remains alone
John 12, 24, quickly
John 12, 24
Huh?
Read it
Very, very I say unto you
Except a corn of wheat
Falls into the ground and dies
It abides alone, so like you pick this one
You pick a corn
And the corn is in your hand
Dry corn in your hand
It will never change its form, it will never multiply
Are you understanding?
So when I say it abides alone, it means that it doesn't change form
Don't think about it, I mean like you're receiving the word, you're going to church today, your mind is here, tomorrow your mind is this, today you want to go to church, tomorrow you don't want to go to church, you know?
That is changing form
You can go off one month, then somebody will try and meet, the person is pulling you, pulling you, pulling you, pulling you, before you come to
You will live a very long time in church and you will not have results of your faith
Are we together? Yeah
You know what, because you are not constant
You are not constant
Small issues will, when something small hits you, it will break you down
And you will take you time, time, so that weeks, months to recover
When you do that, you can have, how do we call it?
You can have results, your faith cannot be audacious
Because you see, audacious faith is a product of consistency with the word
Hallelujah
Your faith is audacious
Bold
Working
You have stayed at the feet of the word of God
Praise the name of the Lord
I entreat you
No, look at, look at all the people who go to church on Sundays alone
Nothing good comes out of your life, I mean like church becomes like a fashion
If you really want to know people who are serious for God
Go to evening services
Midweek services, the Friday services
The prayer booth services
The services of labor
Are you understanding that?
I mean, we cannot come here on Sunday and then let's say
The choir have to come and sing, then I'll just come and then I'll just take the microphone and be talking
It doesn't happen very often
But midweek service, yes there's structure, but there's no really structure like that
You come for, like what's his name? What Francis said?
He said on Saturday, after the prayer, he said, pastor
Meet the hand of God
He said to me
The whole body was right by here, those kind of meetings
When the church embarks on a fast
When we are going for meet, you see the meetings that will make you uncomfortable
That is where to show
That's where you will see people who are constant in the word
Yeah, I went together
That's how you are going to see the people
No, no, no, he said also come to church on Sunday, you know what I mean
They are well dressed and stuff like, no
Constancy in the word is when you go for the meetings that are not pleasant
One prayer topic, three hours you are praying
You are tired, you are still praying
Constancy in the word, and it is in those things that you get your faith working
God doesn't come to church on Sundays
God actually comes to church in midweek services
The evening service, where he knows he will not come
Yeah, where you are too busy to come
Then we show up, you come on Sunday and say, no, I'm not coming here
That is how your faith begins to work
That's how you begin to get results of your faith
Because most of you as you are seated here, the things I am teaching today, you don't even know where I am coming from
Yeah
The whole week, the 12 days we are having fun
We are supposed to be in church every evening
You just want to come to church when it's church day
Pastor cannot kill you, nobody can kill you, but you know what?
You will grow to become spiritually moral
You know why?
Because you are not constant at the word
Jesus says that, abide in me and I in you
Hallelujah
He says the branches cannot bear fruit
Except it abides in the vine
And that's not confession, you can't come and say I abide in Christ
You can only, this kind of confession, you say it when you are doing
You don't say it to do because it's your responsibility to do it
I went together
You cannot stay at the feet of the word of God for 20 years
And still come and tell us that you didn't receive anything
Everybody that complains, I have followed your prayer
He never did, she never did
You understand? Today someone was asking me a question
So I just burst out in laughter this evening
The person asked me a question, the person says, how can you know the purpose of God for your life?
I didn't ask, you know the answer I gave, I said by being in a responsible local church
Then he said, okay please, is that all? I said yes that's all
No, how can you want to know the call of God for your life?
And you are not in church
No, we all have one purpose
We all have one destiny, it is not anybody's purpose to become a president, it's a career
You choose what, and it's not God's problem
You decide I want to be a doctor, you decide I want to be a teacher, you decide I want to be a banker
But you can't decide you want to be what?
No, that one, every Christian, we all have
The one who says, those that are in for you
He predestinated to be conformed to the image of his son
We are all to be conformed to one thing
And that is our predestination
The destiny God prepared before the time began
Yeah, hallelujah
So you can't come and say, the Lord says that you should go and become a doctor
God does not talk rubbish like that
You can come and say there's a call of God for my life, I say yes, I know that's what God is saying
Hallelujah, come on I said hallelujah
Constancy at the word
You are going to church, you are coming
It looks like nothing is happening, nothing is happening
Very soon I will start giving you assignment on faith
Before this one ends
I'll group the whole church, they are giving Bible assignment
You are walking, you are reading, you are praying, you are this, you are that
It looks like a person is warning you
But by the close of some years
You will know that ah, it's like a lot has happened to me
A lot, a lot, a lot of many various happenings have happened to me
Are we together? Yeah
So subject yourself to abide in the word
Come on, hallelujah
Subject yourself to abide in the word
You see it does not matter what you call your weakness
It does not matter what, forget about all those things
Just abide in the word because as you keep on abiding in the word
You will be, you see, the word will grow
Like on the thorny ground where the word starts growing and then the thorns
It will try to grow the word
So this one, it doesn't matter what is inside you, what weakness you have
Just keep at the word
And the word will grow so much powerfully above every kind of weakness
Now where you are weak, the word is strong
Are you understanding that? Yeah, where you are weak, the word is strong
You cannot be like a Dacica with church, with the word of God
Where the word of God is taught and expect to become a meaningful Christian in life
Your life will not amount to anything
The Christians whose life, they have the holy ghost in them but their life amounts to nothing
Hallelujah
You cannot call them out as people who are doing exploits
You can't call them out as people who are doing that
No, you just count them as members
Why would you want your life to be like that?
Say my faith is going to work
Oh come on, like you mean it, say my faith is going to work
See, we don't grow by abiding in entertainment
We don't grow by abiding in things of pleasure
Hallelujah
As you are coming to church, then we declare one night praise aton
You know, then all the praises, everybody is wearing jeans, some white jeans, tattered jeans
What was the name of those kind of shoes that people go to heaven don't wear?
Sneakers, long sneakers, boots and stuff like that
You know, all kinds of colors and you wear all kinds of wigs and you come and somebody is standing here
And you are being entertained and you are jumping
No, that doesn't bring results
That doesn't bring results
Our church is very boring, our church, man of God, every day we are praying
We are going to enjoy ourselves
You know, like we bring a comedian, like at least sometimes, you know, a day off
We bring a comedian here to comedy for us to laugh
At least we are all in different, what do we call it, football clubs
That one day declare Jesse Sunday, rep your Jesse
You come to church, someone is wearing a basketball, someone is wearing a gun
Someone is wearing a house of folk, someone is wearing all kinds of things
It will never happen in this church
No, it will never happen in this church
Our excitement is the wax of faith
Come on, hallelujah, very important
Come to church and you see someone like Rashid who come and Rashid has pierced wine ear with earring and standing ear
And his brother signed with earring
Come, put your head down
Hallelujah
Why you think about the Christian ladies who are, who now they are debating whether you can tattoo or you can't tattoo
Whether tattoo is a sin or it's not a sin
Have you seen a Ben Scarlet they write on it before, Sirius Ben Scarlet they write on it before
You see a guy was like he's going to blow his hair
And it's not a sin
Then the person is asking, is it a sin that a Christian to blow your hair
Then I say after you have fasted for a while you will know the answer
This is why you don't have to go and read the Bible, just fast, be praying, fast, be serious with church
You know that you can call it a sin but you will not have time to go and do that nonsense
I mean what's wrong with you
Oh gentlemen, you go and you blow your gold, you dye your hair
And you are asking whether it's
When you see now you see musicians when they are coming this one is wearing dread, this one is wearing, which one?
I mean what's wrong with you
It's a sign that they are not irresponsible churches
Hallelujah
You can carry yourself anyhow if you are serious with God
Oh come on I'm serious here
You are a Christian, child of God, born again, a man like you
You go and buy earring, put it inside your ear, then you go and blow your hair, for what? You say fashion
You think church is a place for fashion?
I'm serious
Young girl like you, you've, you've, you've, you've
Here, you've pierced here, you've pierced here, now you pierce here, now you pierce four here
And you still call yourself a Christian
You still pray in tongues
How do you manage to pray in tongues?
As having 60 earrings on your body
Who are you?
No, who are you?
Oh, you, sometimes you ask yourself, why did the church get it wrong?
A person is teaching about sex in church
You know?
When you marry you must do this, when you marry you, and it's like, that's what we want to, that's the trending message now
Every preacher, the preacher is a preacher, and the wife is a relationship coach
So when the women are having a relationship, they come to the wife
It will never happen in this church
Because the word of God you are hearing, it has to solve all your issues
Hallelujah
Now we're going to have marriage seminars and stuff like that, we'll come, we'll talk about, then pass out, we'll come and wear pants, how you are to dress it
Army call us Satan
Abiding in the word
Hallelujah, abiding in the word
Do you know if you abide in the word?
All these matters will be sorted out
Abide in the word, that's what Jesus says, if you abide in me, you abide in the word
You will be able to bring forth much fruit
Much fruit
Remain in the word, be constant with the word
You cannot be saying for five years you got born again, every day when you pick Bible to read, you don't know what to do
Something just come upon you and you feel like you want to sleep
Abiding in the word, abide in the word, tell somebody abide in the word
Constancy, come on, constancy
See the whole thing begins, like I said the last time, when the joy is gone
Yeah
After the excitement is where real growth begins
So if a church, you know, now churches are struggling to bring all kinds of entertainment in the church to keep people in the church
So this church is a youth church and the moment they say it's a youth church, it means that there's a lot of
So they pray, they pray kakra, they wear kakra
Then they see Jama'a small
Then they bring
Look at it, look at it
Vows day, every church is doing a laugh program
It shows that we don't have vision, we don't have focus
Every February, every, almost every church is talking about laugh
And they are doing laugh activities, singles and couples summit
Laugh this, laugh what, laugh this and laugh what, you know
No
Valentine does not change us
Are you understanding that?
All of these things are kind of things
That have found themselves in the church
So you will not talk about laugh until February
And who even gave you that calendar as a church?
That February is the month of laugh
Do you know, do you know Valentine was not a Christian, a proper sensible Christian?
How was your mother?
Valentine day
Then you go and wear red, red
How you sick?
So who is taking me out today?
Today is vows day
See I know with the way we have sweet names, vows
You are waiting for what? Chocolate
My daughter was saying concrete
This is what you call concrete
And now churches, every person is talking about laugh
Love is in the air, this one is in the air, this one is in the air
Just want to abide in the work
See Valentine doesn't change our posture
Christmas doesn't change our posture
Are you understanding that?
Yeah
Doesn't change our posture
What's the other one? Easter
Easter doesn't change our calendar
Hallelujah
It hasn't changed us
Christianity is not a festival oriented whatever
We don't even have one single festival in Christianity
Hallelujah
Come on
Christmas is not a festival
Come on
Easter is not a festival
Yeah, it is not
We should not talk about the birth of Christ only in December
It should be every time
The birth of Jesus is not only in April
Because historically, Jesus might have not
Christmas actually is somewhere around April
Historically
So why the rush?
Now we are doing Carol's night
What is Carol's night?
The day we are singing and waiting for Christmas
Night of nine lessons of Carol's
Then we are having night of nine lessons
Nine lessons
Then we will come to church
Then we will be lying there
We want things that will excite us
Church must not be exciting
Church must be wedded
Hallelujah
Are you following that?
Are the church must be what?
A Christian, if you don't celebrate your birthday, you can sleep
If people don't call you to wish you, problem
Are you a Christian or you are a Kana'a man?
You don't have money, still you are making plans to celebrate your birthday
What's wrong with you?
Can't you just forget about this birthday thing?
It's not your thing
Hallelujah
So abiding in the word
Come on, one more time, abiding in the word
So it means you are not going to change form
Hallelujah
Someone say, oh the church, the same activity
You know it's the same activity, we have to put it in different containers
It's when there is a special program that you feel like you have to come to church
If you say we are having the Nose of God conference
Or God of Iron conference
Then you will come
But when you hear midweek, when the flyer is midweek service, that's called midweek service
So you know, this is the normal service, where two or three are gathered
You hear Sunday service, you hear Friday service
You hear Sunday income
Ask somebody, what's wrong with you?
Don't ask anybody like that, that's a good stick
Say what's wrong with you?
Come on, come on, say what's wrong with you?
So it means to remain as one is, not to become another or different
Hallelujah
It means to wait until 2023
Now when a church wants to do a program for people to attend
They do it with a musical concept
Then they will invite all the celebrities
So you see a church
300 people, yet all the stars have come to sing in the church
What they call stars, those they call stars
Proskino, conino
Once we are having a worship concept, we are using our choir
We hear them every Sunday, we have important things to do
Don't get yourself to become so much of a sinner like that
Hallelujah
Don't show off your sins too much, read it
Born and Afflictions what?
So the born and afflictions are waiting for you
It means they are not going anywhere, they are there, they are waiting for you
So that manual also means to wait for
To wait for
You see there is a character for people who get the Word of God working in their lives
And maybe I'll take time one day to explain that in one full sentence
There's a character of receiving the Word
There is a how
To even come to church
So you must live always in wait for the Word
It actually could mean be ready for the Word
So those who got the Word working, which were the good grounds
These were people who were waiting for the Word
People who live in anticipation, excited to meeting the Word when the Word is coming to them
Look at somebody who is coming to church, he walks two steps front, one step back, one side side
Then he goes to two
What's wrong with you?
Hallelujah
If you want the Word of God to work for you
You must be excited to come to church
So you must be excited to see that the Word of God is coming
Sometimes you administer and look at somebody's face alone and it can drain your anointing
You say praise the Lord
Hallelujah
Turn to somebody and say God is here
God is here
You know the Word is not going to work in your life
Because you don't have any value for the Word of God
The joy of the Word
Excitement when the Word of God is coming
Hallelujah
Praise the name of the Lord
So the Bible says, and Samaria received the Word
And when they received the Word, there was joy in the city
Joy in the city
When the Word of God is coming, your face is like
MacBrown's kitchen
Yeah
The Bible says when Samaria was there, there was joy everywhere
The city was joyful
Why?
If you entered Samaria, you see people laughing, people running, people shouting, people jumping
And you ask what is happening?
Everybody is happy, they ask what is happening?
Who have received Christ? Who have received the Word?
Now here our pastor is preaching you are chewing gum
There are people that come to church and they are chewing gum
When the Word of God is coming
And you look at their face with the gum
You want to ask the person, why did he come with a chewing stick?
He is chewing gum in church
Hallelujah
So there is the wait for the Word
Hallelujah
Men are waiting for God's Word
It is in so doing, every day like every day
It does not matter whatever word, whether you have heard it before or not
You hear them say the same thing over and over again, they get bored
This is what every day man of God is talking about
And then you know there are some people too
The simple fact of the gospel does not move them again
If you say Jesus Christ died for us on the third day, he came back from the dead
And you know, soul
Soul
If he came back from the dead, what does that mean? Soul
I went to a place and I said to him, you are the light of the world
You will see that someone here that is going to be healed
And they were all there
And I am like, okay
That church is a Presbyterian, it is right here
See you are the light of the world
And they were there
And these guys have boxed me, there is one something there
They have to stand in to talk and they came with a big Bible
All of them are not even feeling okay
Now I am looking for people to respond, they are not responding
That was my shortest message ever preached
I said, wow, God has really sent me to dead people today
Yeah
So I go, I am just saying, I am just light of the world
I said say Amen
Now they said Amen, I had continued talking
There was a woman sitting there, you want to say Amen
Their mind is not even there
Their mind is not there
Hallelujah
So to abide in the word also means to continue in the word like I have told you
Now let's go to James
James chapter number one
Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo
Man oh my
The word is nice
Be ye doers of the word
And not hearers only
Deceiving your own selves
Now let's read that again 22, one two go
One two go
For if any man be a hearer of the word
And not a doer
He is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror
A glass
For he beholdeth himself and goeth his way and straight away forgetted what manner of man he was
But also looketh into the perfect law of liberty
And continuet underline the word continuet therein
He being not a forgetful hearer
But a doer of the word
This man shall be blessed in his deeds
Now so it means that the word is going to produce results right
That's why I say this man shall be blessed in his deeds
So to be blessed in your deed means the word will bear fruits
Some thirty, some sixty, some hundred
Alright
So to be blessed in all your deeds here will mean what?
To be fruitful
It means that you are going to have the fruitfulness of the word
Is that ok with us?
Good
So he says be ye doers of the word
Say I am
Doing oriented
So he says be ye doers of the word
And not hearers only
Deceiving your own selves
The word deceiving there from the Greek means to miscalculate
To miscalculate
Alright
To misjudge
Alright so he says that if you hear the word and you are not a doer you misjudge yourself
A kind of you misunderstand
Alright
You see how the Bible is in line
So the one that heard the word the good ground was the one who heard the word understanding it
That means we can say the good ground is of the parable of the sower
The good ground is the parable of a doer of the word
And all the other grounds is what?
Deception or people who received the word who heard the word and deceived themselves
Are we together?
The teaching is very down today you should all understand
So deceiving your own self will mean that you are either a stony ground or a stony ground or a way sided ground
So when you are trod by the cares of this world you are deceiving your own selves
Are we together?
When you are trod by the pleasures of this life you are deceiving yourself
It means that if you come to church that you are a Christian
And you identify yourself when you are filling forms and they ask you religion you say Christian
Sometimes they ask you your denomination you say gospel is a international church
You say all of that right?
If you are in this church or if you say you are a Christian and your heart is dominated by the cares of this world you are deceiving your own self
It means that we cannot authenticate your Christianity
Because you cannot be a Christian and your life will all be about the cares of this world
Are you understanding that?
So you are deceiving your own self
So it says if anybody hears the word and not a doer the person receives, I'm sorry, deceives his own self
So be ye doers of the word and not hearers only
If we want to read it in Matthew we can say be ye good grounds
Alright?
If we want to read it in Luke we will say keep the word
Alright?
If we want to read in Matthew, Matthew is the one who spoke about understanding
Then we are going to say be ye understanders of the word
So what does it mean to understand the word, to do the word?
What does it mean to do word, to understand?
If A is equal to B, B is equal to A
Hallelujah!
What does it mean to do the word, to keep the word?
What does it mean to keep the word, to abide in the word?
What does it mean to abide in the word, to continue in the word?
So be ye doers of the word it can be said be ye continuers of the word
and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. Then he says, for if, let's continue,
verse 23, for if any be a hearer of the world and not a doer, he is like a man who beholds
himself in a mirror. For he beholds himself and goeth his way and straight away forgetteth
what manner of man he was. Hallelujah. Did you see that? So he says, who is a hearer
of the world? A hearer of the world is the one that receives the word and he forgets
it. Alright? The one who hears the word, a hearer only. It also means to be a forgetful
hearer. To forget the word means that you don't consider the word. It's not just a
matter of something in your head. Alright, for example, I mean, you look in the mirror
before you are coming. Alright? And right now, if I ask you, what did you look like
when you look in the mirror, you'll be able to tell me exactly how you look like. But
it is not something that is domineering or that's dominating your mind. So forgetting
the word is not the English to forget where you don't remember. Forgetting will mean you
don't consider. It's not a topmost priority in you. It's somewhere that is hidden somewhere
in your head. You know, some of us, we have a lot of scriptures in our head. Matthew 29.35,
the Lord will boot you. Leviticus chapter 98 verse 29. Mises, Martias, Matashas. You
be quoting strange things. But the word does not dominate. It's, you see, to be a forgetful
hearer means the word does not dominate you. You dominate the word. Hallelujah. And with
that, your faith cannot work. You can be praying, you can be crying, you can be fasting, you
can be wailing, you can be screaming, you can be dancing, you can be jumping. You come
back to zero faith. Faith that is zero. We have a teacher in SMAS, he says zero. He's
the best teacher in the whole wide world. He says zero. You know, you come back to square
zero. What is the square root of zero? One. Square of zero is what? Is one. My God. What
do you, what's up here? Are you teaching again? So like, you are not dominated by the word.
You do the word when you feel like doing it and you don't do it when you don't feel like
doing it. Nobody can arrest you. You see, the word must not be done when you are with
daddy. The word must be done when daddy is not there. Hallelujah. It's not like you do
your face when the word of God is coming and you are. Like what is, it's kicking. When
you are not in church and you are home, that is the time to see whether you are forgetful
here or you are a doer. So what does it mean to do the word? To make the word dominate you.
So we can say that the parable of the good ground is the parable of the domination of
the word or the dominion of the word. Hallelujah. So that land, that the word bore fruits was
a land that the word dominated. So the dominance of the word is actually the practice of the
word and the practice of the word is the understanding of the word. The understanding of the word
is the continuation of the word. The continuation of the word is the weight for the word. You
understand that? So all of these things are synonyms. So put all these things together
so you know where you stand. Hallelujah. If I ask you right now today, what was your,
what was your quiet time? What did you learn in your quiet time? You are likely not to
remember. If we ask you what was the scripture used for today's devotion? What was the scripture
used for today's devotion? Why? Why? Not had time to read it. Hmm. Have you ever read
devotion today? Huh. Lift your hand up high. Hi. Lena, what was the, what was the scripture?
It's not what we are talking about. Yes, the main scripture. Don't have the content, the
scripture. Quote the scripture. So you see, this one will shout when they wake up, just
shout, just put it on her status. Meanwhile, two are the day, it's not in her head. So
what was the content? What was the content of the scripture? Not the scripture, content
of the message. Yes, the content. So you understand, or you want to continue. We should give you
the microphone. So you see, there is the proliferation of words, sayings, to the point that it becomes
so normal that we don't even take into account the things we read or we learn from the word.
Meanwhile, right after reading the devotion, if you may have, if you had met the lady of
God, today's devotion bless you, bless. It took me to heaven. You understand? Yeah. So
it's very critical. So do we say today's devotion is going to work in Eli? No, it can't work
in Eli. If she has to let it work, if she wants to work, she has to go back and get
it and be dominated by it. It's as simple as that. Come on, hallelujah. Some of your
faces are too spiritual. I'm not even, I'm not going into the message yet. So let's continue.
But who so looked into the perfect law of liberty. Hallelujah. What's the perfect law
of liberty? What is the perfect law of liberty? The word of God. So whosoever look at paracoptos,
that's the word look, P-A-R-A-K-O-O-P-T-O, sorry, P-A-R-A-K-U-P-T-O. Paracoptos. It means
to bend to look. To bend to look. Boy, I can discuss that with you the whole of this night.
To bend to look. See, this year don't be missing church meetings. It will not help you. Hallelujah.
It will not help you. You are coming, you are not coming, you are coming, you are not
coming. It will not help you. Because this year too I'm making up my mind that major,
major programs, if you want to hear a word, come here. Yes, I'm gradually changing. I
will make local church meetings more powerful, like more insight. You can't just scratch
their face, we just do pray, we pray more. I just use them to pray for church. Paracoptos.
It means to bend to look. So who bends to look? What does that mean? What does that
mean? What does it mean to bend to look? To give reverence to the word. Hallelujah. Now,
why is it that, okay, so for example, when Esther came to church today, I was seated
there, then she came there and said, daddy please, is she there? Daddy please, good evening.
Oh, that's all you need. Why did she do that? Huh? How those of you can say, daddy, good
evening. Then next time I catch you, you'll be sorry. Daddy. You, daddy. Bring your hand,
get up. No, get up, get up, get up. So you are daddy. Daddy. Good evening. Oh, you mean
I say daddy. Yeah, good evening. And all these people also want to go to heaven. No, you
know, we don't have a refraff in heaven. No, you're saying, oh, that is me a long time
old. And you're doing like this. That is me a long time. Daddy, please, how are you doing?
You know? Hey. Oh my God. How sin has taken over your soul. Yet you don't know. The real
unpardonable sin is what you just did. There's no way God can forgive you. You lost your
salvation the moment you do that. You better stop church and become something. You are
done. God is done with you. You are beyond the saving power of God. Yeah. He can't reach
fatu. He's gone, like you are, you are gone beyond the reach of Jehovah. Hallelujah. Are
you people think I'm joking? I'm serious. I'm teaching you the way. The Bible says for
this cause, some of you are weak. Some of you are sick and even some are dead among
you. That's the cause. Daddy. For this cause. So now when you do that, when I say for this
cause, so you're about to either get sick or die for this cause. So to bear means you
acknowledge the superiority of the world. So look into the world, to look into the perfect
law of liberty does not mean to open the Bible and say, no, it means to have reference for
the world. What does that mean? To consider. Are you understanding that? To consider. So
we can say, um, um, who so ever considers the perfect law of liberty, who so ever has
reference for the word of God. So it tells you that for the word to begin, am I teaching
good? I'm really enjoying the teaching myself. For the word, the first stage of getting the
word to work, the first stage, the beginning of getting the word to work is to have reference
for the word. Yeah. Sometimes, you see, I'm supposed to write a devotion and put it there
so that they will work on it, but I don't, I don't, I don't, I write by inspiration.
So it's not how you sleep. 2 a.m. I'm done writing. Then I'll tap you. Today like this,
I'm not stopping him. I call like 20 minutes. He woke up. I went to, when I finished, I
went to bath. By the time I was coming, we're just to occur and no other. But you know that
if it's not me, he may not have done it. That is our problem. There are some of us, we will
study the Bible or we study the word of God only when we know that somebody is supervising
us. You get, for example, we are all reading Proverbs because you know that if you don't
read and write what you learn, when you come to the end, that you ask him, that he can
disgrace you publicly. So you'll be reading. I remember that day, Danny and the, so for
Danny and Gifty, in the kitchen, they are reading Proverbs, you know, they are writing,
writing, writing, writing, writing. Why? Because daddy says so. After that, they don't even
know where the book is now. You understand? So to look into the perfect law, it talks
about a constant reverence for the word to look into the perfect law. The word look,
I say it's word parakutu. And it means one, to bend to look. Number two, it also means
to come to the level of the word. I'm a good teacher of the word, I'm telling you. Or you
don't believe that. If you don't believe that, get out of this church. Hallelujah. Yeah,
to come to the level of the word, to come to the level of the word. So you are going
to bend to look because the thing is not up. Are we together? You have to bend to get to
the word. The word has not been to you. That I can teach on it for a lot of times. I mean,
if I'm, if I'm really talking to preachers or teachers of the word, I can really, really
spend much time. Hallelujah. So let me just do it at your level. It means come to the
level of the word. If I've met Bible teachers, I'll talk to them. That means exegesis. All
right? You forget it. So it means you come to the level of the word. The word has not
come to your level. You know, the word does not say what you want to say. You have to
say what the word wants to say. So you come to the level of the word. So for the word
of God to work, you must come to the level of the word. You have to look, you have to
bend, bend, please have come. Then the word can talk to you. Please, are we together here?
Are you sure we are together here? Yeah. So this is whoever, read that portion, verse
25. Uh-huh. Read that portion for me. Now understand that I underline the word whosoever
you are in your Bible. Now I'm going to talk about it before we close. I can't imagine
I'm almost doing two hours now. I don't know if we're praying to. By now we wouldn't have
30 minutes. Well, this today I want to pray. Bye, bye, bye, bye. We look at the time and
you've done seven minutes. In your mind, you think you've done like 45 minutes. Whosoever
look at into the perfect law of liberty. So whosoever bend to look, whoever reference
the word, whoever goes to the level of the word, uh-huh. Whosoever look at into the perfect
law of liberty and come on and and continuous therein. So you continue it therein. Come
on, continue it therein. So 25 underline continuous. The word is parameno. Parameno. P-A-R-A-N-E-N-O.
Parameno. It means it comes from two words, right? That is para and meno. Now I've told
you men already. Para means besides. Alright. Beside. Beside the word. Now so parameno is
rooted in to stay beside. Alright? To stay beside. So whosoever look at into the perfect
law of liberty, whosoever bend to the word, whosoever gives reference to the word, whosoever
does word again comes to the level of the word and stay beside the word. So to continue
in the word is to stay beside. It means to be continually present beside. That is why
they brought the word therein. Because therein is not in the original. It's italicized. And
what does it mean when something is italicized in the Bible? It's not in the original manuscript.
It's not part of the original manuscript. Alright. But this therein, is it right or
wrong? Because sometimes we bring words in that are wrong. So is this not correct or
wrong? Why is it correct? Because of the word para. Alright. So whosoever look at into the
perfect law of liberty and continue it. Alright. He stays beside the word. So it's not somebody
who gets to bend to look and then gets up. That's why he says, if a man is a hearer only,
he is like somebody who looked into the mirror and he left. So to forget the word means to
look into the word and leave the word. Whether it's in your head or not, you have forgotten.
So James defines forgetfulness. As to look and leave. I didn't say to look and leave.
To look and leave. Now let's go to 22. Quickly. Are you enjoying this thing at all? Okay.
Ma ma ma ma ma. Be a hearer of the word and not hearer only. Uh huh. Uh huh. For if any
be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he's like a man beholding himself in a mirror. Uh
huh. For he looks at himself and do I have people in this church at all? Look into the
Bible and talk to me. He looks into the, like a man who looks into the mirror and so what
does it mean to forget? Or what does it mean to be a hearer of the word? A hearer only.
To look and leave. We can also means, it means to go his way. Alright? To look and leave means
that you are going in your own direction. To look and leave. It means that the power
of the sower, of the land that did not work, of a thorny land is, we can say is the power
of looking and leaving the word. We can also say the power of forgetting the word. We can
say it's a power of hearing only the word or only hearing the word. Are we together?
So only hearing the word means looking and leaving. It also means to go your own way.
Now what does it mean to go your own way? To do what you want. What does it mean to
do what you want? Not to consider the word. What does it mean not to consider the word?
Not to be dominated by the word. What does it mean not to be dominated by the word? Not
to abide. What does it mean not to abide? Not to keep. What does it mean not to keep?
Not to understand. Praise God. Hallelujah. So he who looks into the perfect Lord, I mean
he who is a hearer of the word only is like a man who looks into the word and goes his
own way. So he knows what the word of God is saying but he will not consent to what
the word of God is saying. He goes his own way. So when you are doing your own things,
when you do the things you like, no wonder what the word of God is telling you. The word
of God cannot work in your life. See, you can't walk in disobedience and have the word
of God work for you. So the word of God says alright, you are going here or you are doing
this, you are not doing this and then you look at it and still you go your own way.
What does that mean? You are a hearer only. You are only a looker. You don't look and
stay. You look and go your own way. I pray for you that from today when the word of God
talks to you, you will not go your own way. I want to say that so I pray for you that
from today when the word of God talks to you, you will not go your own way. You will not
look at the word and leave but you will stay at the word. You will bend beside the word.
You bend down, you look and you stay beside the word. You will not go and do before you
remember what the word of God says. No, you will remember what the word of God says and
means, say that you come and do
what the word of God says in
the name of Jesus. Say. You
will look and you will stay.
You will look and you will
stay. Amen. Do you have people
in the church? I said you will
look and you will stay. Say.
You will look and you will stay.
Do I have people in the church?
I said you look and you will
stay. You will not run away
from the word. You will not go
So the man who is a hero of the
still goes his own way. So remember the parable. The one on the the the turning
ground is the one who hears the word, receives the word and the cares of this
world and the deceitfulness of riches and the pleasures of this life. Makes the
word or chokes the word. So it means that that person now goes into the direction
of the cares of this world. Are we together? Yes that we are not together. One minute of
madness you are having it. I've been looking at this place for a long time.
Yeah are we together? Say yes. As I'm preaching I'm looking at all of you. Some of you are
finding this and you are looking at here. Are we together? I'm here. Are we together? Yes.
What are you thinking about? Any broken hearts? Is there a low key one? Low key broken heart. So you see that one leads into the
world and still will choose to be a lover of wealth. He will listen to the word of God and still will choose to be a lover of the
pleasures of this world. He will listen to the word of God and when offenses come he will be
offended. When persecution arise for the sake of the word you'll be offended. What
is a wayside heart hearted person? The one that does not consider the word. So the
word of God is telling him this but he will not even consider. He does not care. It's not his concern.
So it is that that will call you a forgetful hearer. So a forgetful hearer is a
thorny land. A forgetful hearer is a wayside hearted person. A forgetful hearer is
what? What's the other one? A thorny ground. So it means that your heart, the state of your
heart is as a result of your relationship with the word of God. Hallelujah.
The state of your heart is as a result of your relationship with the word of God.
You cannot claim otherwise. You can't say your heart is pure. Your heart is for the
word and we don't see it like that. Hallelujah. Praise God.
What's your name again? Rahel. So
what are you saying? We are now coming to go into the
continuum. So yes, that is the real message.
What is the point? Hallelujah. Smile. Smile. Someone using a long time with smile. Rashid, I say smile. Rashid, lift your head. Smile. No matter what he's doing, just smile. Let's not see that you are smiling.
If you don't like smiling, you are serious in life.
Praise the Lord. I say praise the Lord. Okay, so let's get in there.
But who so looked at into the perfect law of liberty, mastery, and continued therein, he be not a forgetful hearer.
So what is the opposite of forgetting the word? Is it remembering the word? No. It's what? Continuing the word.
So you know Lord, I remember one of the days when the word of God told us that people can remember a lot, but they don't continue in what they remember.
But real scripture remembrance of the word is continuing in the word, staying with the word, abiding beside the word, remaining in the word.
Hallelujah. Very important. Remaining in the word. See, to be a Christian is a difficult assignment.
Do you know why it's a difficult assignment? Think about the number of words that you hear.
Today you are here, tomorrow you are here, tomorrow you are here, and you are to remain.
There are a lot of us who write notes, we don't even read. The messages are there you don't listen to.
Think about it. You have the boldness to listen to a song that is worldly.
I know Loki, that's more of you. You love some secular artist. Loki, when we come here we are all singing Sinatra, we are all holy.
Loki, when you hear Stone Boy, still things rotate in your system.
Yeah, of course someone begins to sing, bang, bang, bang, something is, you know, something is...
You know, is he trying to sleep?
There was a woman who was preaching, like I'm preaching, then the people played music there.
And then, yeah, he was just talking, and then the woman heard.
And I, yeah, I'm living there.
Then the woman said, you.
Hey, this woman is not born again yet.
One time, one time, one time we were in a church, my former former church, and there's a beer bar there.
And the song was played.
Then there was this elder or dicky.
You know, they have where men sit, women, so he just sit there like that. And the thing was playing. The pastor was preaching.
We saw the man there like this.
And the tapping of the feet was going with the beat.
One of the guys, I said, this man said,
I'm going to put a copyright on us, copyright.
You have time for this.
You pray in tongues, that's what you pray in tongues, but low key.
You listen.
You know, you know this one, you know, you know, you know,
sometimes you just put earpiece inside your ear because your house, you know, you also for mommy and stuff like that.
Yes. You just put like, I listen to gospel.
When you see a church brother coming, you just.
Yes.
Something give it to something give it to.
I'm going to ride.
Oh, oh.
I'm going to get the bone again.
So to continue in the world is to stay beside the world.
So to keep the word actually means to stay beside the word.
Now, what your parents will say, oh, but I'm holding on to God's word.
It means I'm staying beside the word.
The word of God says it's not going to work, but the word of God says a different story.
So I'll stay beside the word.
Hallelujah.
They say I'm sick yourself.
OK.
As a doctor's report, I'm going to stay beside the word.
There's a man who is an elder in the church of Pentecost.
He's the age of 90 years when they went to the hospital, one of their old people and then they found out that the man actually is sick yourself.
90 years, he's giving birth.
She has finished giving birth, everything and she was sick.
He was sick yourself.
He never had what do you call it?
When there are crises, he never had crisis.
He was sick, sir, living up to 90 years.
I'm sick, sir.
Is it my grandchild?
Then he can't walk.
Staying beside the word.
That is how you get your faith working.
Hallelujah.
So you don't just say my faith is working.
My faith is working.
Let's let's close this.
They're looking for an offering.
My faith is working.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, it's working.
No, stay beside the word.
Stay beside the word.
When you feel like you can't do it anymore, stay beside the word.
When you feel like you want to give up, stay beside the word.
When it feels like hell has broken loose on your life, stay beside the word.
And the Bible says that the one who continues, who continues with the word, the same is blessed in all his deeds.
Now, that's why I told you to underline the word whosoever.
The person may have been broke, the person may have been sick, the person may have been whatever.
But if that person can be a one who continues in the word, he says, I'm telling you, results is going to come.
There will be results.
Hallelujah.
Because I'm not a guy.
I'm myself when I'm calling people, they are not coming.
Keep stay at the word.
Stay with the word.
It can take 20 years.
But you know, by the time the results of the word is coming, it's in full.
Sixty, thirty, hundred.
By the time you read it, wow.
Wow.
So don't say, ah, it didn't work.
You see, we are too eager and quick to conclude it didn't work.
Oh, it didn't work.
It didn't work.
No.
Stay beside the words.
Are you understanding that?
Stay beside the word.
Just walk in the will of God.
Just walk in what the word of God is saying.
The one who says go out, go out and reach out to people.
Do harm.
Go out and do harm.
It's coming.
Yes.
One minute.
Go out.
Reach out to people.
Talk to people.
Pray for people.
Just be doing it.
Be doing it.
And stay by the word.
Stay by the word.
There is going to be a time where it's called the fruit bearing season.
The fruit bearing season.
You know we read, he says that, and the one of the good God, the Bible says that then some
thirty, some sixty, some hundred.
So then Matthew will say, is it Matthew?
Or Mark?
Mark 4 will say, then first the blade.
I should not have spoken about that.
First the blade.
So the blade will start coming up.
You see now the meetings are changing.
Meetings are changing.
People will begin to come.
Then the people who are coming, they are staying.
People who didn't used to stay, now they begin to stay.
People who didn't used to come around, now they are coming around.
And you are wondering, wow it looks like something is happening.
And people who are not responding will begin to respond.
People who will not go for soul winning, now will say, when are we going for soul winning?
Then they will be coming.
You know what is happening?
Blade.
The growth is coming.
They are about to sprout.
Hallelujah.
I said hallelujah.
Yeah hallelujah.
Sprouting is coming.
You can look at somebody in church and you conclude on the person, this guy is a west guy.
This sister is a west sister.
If we are talking about serious case, I will not even mention her name.
I will not mention his name.
This guy, you know.
When the same person stays by the word, and the word that is being taught, you will see that change, sometimes in little, little things.
You know, it means that, you see, when you put, let's close, we are closing.
Because of you I am closing.
Should I close?
Or I should continue?
When you put the corn in the ground, there is a point where you will see that, I don't know how many, some of you have never gone to farm before, the land, nothing is on the face of the land.
Then the thing is inside the ground.
It looks like nothing is happening.
Then about two weeks or three weeks, you will go near a catcher and say, oh, a broon in the new aba.
You will now be seeing something small, small, small, small, small, small, small, on the land.
So it will start later, later, later, later, later, later, then the blades.
Growth is coming.
That's how spiritual growth is like.
Growth is coming.
Some rubbish the person was doing, he begins to walk out of them.
He begins to think differently now.
You find out the blades are out there.
And it's like the person is now finding the essence of his Christian life and his Christian faith.
Then the Bible says, then the sickle.
You know, it means it's growing.
Then it's ready to be harvested.
You know what that means?
It's ready to be a blessing.
So you don't run away from the word.
Come on, say I don't run away from the word.
Come on.
Say I don't run away from the word.
Stay by the word.
Lucas always says stay by the word.
Stay by the word.
Very important.
And what does it mean to stay by the word?
To understand the word.
What does it mean to understand the word?
To do the word.
What does it mean to do the word?
I don't know the word.
To abide.
What does it mean to abide?
To continue.
What does it mean to continue?
To what?
To remain.
What does it mean to remain?
To stay by the side.
What does it mean to stay beside?
To what?
To tarry.
What does it mean to tarry?
To bend.
What does it mean to bend?
To what?
To acknowledge.
To consider.
to do the work. So don't run away from the word. Continue in the word. Tell
somebody to continue in the word. Because the word is alive. The word works. The
word transforms. The word of God changes. The word of God builds.