Sanctification

Let's bow ahead for a prayer. Our most gracious and loving Heavenly Father, we humbly bow our hearts before your holy presence this morning. Thank you, Holy Father, for hearing the prayer and for answering the prayer by bringing unity among the three churches in Teva. Not only the three men of God are united together, but also all your churches are united together as one body.

Thank you Lord Jesus. Only you can do that. You had poured your love into their hearts. Thereby you have bound them together in the bond of perfection and in the unity of love.

Thank you, my Father. Now I ask you, Spirit of the living God, open our hearts, open our ears, give us an understanding heart and a listening ear that we may hear about the Spirit of God, will speak to the churches in these last days. In the name of the blessed Lord Jesus Christ we pray, Amen. Please be seated everybody.

So we have come to the final day of this wonderful conference. Do you know the theme of this conference? What is the theme? I can't hear you.

How to be successful in life? Amen. How to get rich in life? The shortcut to become prosperous in life.

How to be a millionaire? How to be the greatest businessman in Ghana? Really? Then you must be in the wrong place.

So what is the conference theme? Holiness and purity. Amen. So on the first meeting, what was my message title?

Who is coming? The seraphim. Are you for God? Oh my, you forgot.

It's all right. We all are getting old. So memory will begin to fail. But you all are very young.

How can you forget, right? We cannot forget. The seraphim are coming. Why are they coming?

To cleanse the church. Why cleanse the church? To prepare the church to meet the Lord God. Second day.

What's the message title? I know why you are confused because the fault is mine. I preached a message but I didn't give you a title. So my fault.

I repent. You forgive me? Oh, such a wonderful sense. Okay, the second day's message title is called the Refinders Fire.

How God will refine his people so that they can become purer than gold to offer themselves as an offering to God. Today is part three. The final session, part three, and the title is Sanctification. So next time I ask you, you cannot say I don't know.

Sanctification. This will conclude this conference message. The Bible tells us that we should sanctify ourselves for the coming of the Lord. And for our key text this morning, let us read 1st Thessalonians 5 verse 23.

First Thessalonians 5 verse 23. I always keep on forgetting one thing. I was supposed to introduce my Bible college, which I forgot. I always do that.

Even when I was selling my books, I always forget to introduce them. I will take it up to the stage. I will have it by my side but I will forget. Okay, so I will look at it at the end of the session.

1st Thessalonians 5 verse 23. Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely and may your whole spirit, soul and body be preserved blameless at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now this message I had already prepared on the first day that I came to Thema when the Lord gave me all the three messages. But this morning, as I was meditating the Word of God for my personal devotion, the presence of the Lord came near me and moved, became to move my heart.

I felt a moving in my heart about that the Lord wants to speak something. So when I quieted myself to hear what the Holy Spirit will say, the Holy Spirit directed me to read the scripture again. So I turned to the scripture because the scripture was not part of my morning devotion and read it again. Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely and may your whole spirit soul and body be preserved blameless at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

So I thought to myself, I know the scripture. So but why read again? But when I was reading it, I felt in my spirit there was something in the scripture. So I read it again.

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. Okay no problem with that sentence. God will sanctify us. Period.

May your whole spirit soul and body. No problem with that. We are tripartite men just like that tripartite pastors. Spirit soul and body.

Everybody believes? Okay we have no problem with that. Now when I came to the next phrase, those two words jumped up. Be preserved blameless.

That two words stood up. Preserve blameless. When the Lord Jesus comes, you must be blameless. Not only blameless when you are born again.

When you are born again, you accept the Lord Jesus Christ. The blood of Jesus Christ was shook clean. Make you perfect. Make you justify.

Make you sanctify in Christ Jesus. However from the day that you get safe, every day of your life, you all will agree with me that you have not been living a holy lives. Everybody agrees? We have our ups.

We have our down. One day we are good. Another day we are bad. One day we are holy.

Another day we are unholy. One day we live like a saint. Another day we live like the devil. Not only another day.

Five days like the devil. One day Sabbath off. When we don't do any work, we try not to be good, we try not to be bad. We are at rest.

Like the day people. And then on Sunday we are holy angels. I mean, but look at description. You must be preserved.

Preserve. Which means from the day of your born again. Till the day the Lord comes. Preserve blameless.

The meaning of the word preserve is like this. Okay, tell me how do you bury the dead in Ghana? When a person dies. Do you bury immediately or you keep them for a few days and then you bury later?

Few days. Okay. One month? Really?

Wow. So you are like the Egyptian. You mummify your bodies. My mother died ten days ago.

So I was going to a meeting in London. And when I landed in London, about 20 minutes later I received a phone call. My mother has died. But I am in the meeting now.

So the following day was going to be the first day of the conference. If I call my brother and I told them I cannot make it. I cannot cancel the meeting. Just go ahead with all the burial process without me.

I have already seen my mother before she died. I have already prayed the blessing prayer with her. And you all go ahead. So he said no, we will wait for you.

He said I will only come three days later. He said all right. We will preserve the body. So the mozzurists came.

They did all the embalming. And they preserved her for three days until I went back. Then they had the funeral service later on. So when I saw my mother's body, it was as if she was old, not dead.

The only difference when you know a person is dead when he touched their body is icicle. Have you touched any dead bodies? Not only icicle is rock solid. I mean, because the soul is no more there.

It's just a shell. Just like this. Solid. No life.

Warm blood doesn't flow. So it's already dead. So the body is hot like a rock. It's a box.

Nothing. It's just a body there. But they preserve it very well. They made her wear her.

She had a desire. She told us years ago before she died that when she is dead, she should be dressed in a white sari. So my nephew, her favorite grandson, he bought her a nice sari. So she was dressed in a nice sari just like how you all appear so beautiful in white gown and given a white glove and she was lying in a state of peace.

Preserved from corruption. That's the exact meaning of the word preserved in this Bible text. Which means from the day that you get safe, you are preserved from corruption, from pollution, from sin till Jesus Christ comes back again. So a question arose in my heart.

Why is it necessary? Why need to be blameless till the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ? Three reasons. Number one, because the Lord Jesus Christ is going to come to judge his people.

Jude was 14 and 15. He's going to judge and he's coming as a judge. Because he's coming as a judge. Reason number two, second Corinthians chapter five verse 10 says, we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ Jesus.

See, there are going to be two kinds of eternal judgments. One is a judgment of everybody from the day of Adam right till the last person remaining alive when the Lord Jesus comes. And this will happen after you read this in book of Revelation chapter 20 called the great white-prone judgment. So that's one judgment.

But this is not for the believers. For the believers we appear before the judgment seat of Christ Jesus. If you are a righteous believer, if you are a sincere believer, if you are living in Christ, then you appear before the judgment seat of Christ. So there the Lord will judge us not whether you are safe or unsafe, how you live.

What manner of life did you live? Your conduct, your thought life, your speech, how you spoke. Did you spoke against one another? Did you beg, bite the goshick, devote one another?

Have you been speaking lies? That's what you'll be judged. Have you been speaking unnecessarily? Just talking jokes free-worlessly, meaninglessly, foolishly.

What kind of words did you speak? That leave your body. The sins you did against your body. Sexual sins.

What do you do in common? The sins that you do against your body. Sexual sins. Or one of the modern fact today, FAD, is young girls like to be super slim.

Even a slim girl considers herself fat. I once had a staff. She was a little taller than me, but she was slim, like a pencil. Have you seen a pencil?

Yeah, she was slim. Flat stomach. Just slim. So during lunch break, because our staff was very small 30 years ago, I would sit and eat with them.

So we'd all eat together, and this girl would sell them eat lunch. And even when she eats lunch, it is one cucumber. Not one whole piece of cucumber, one cucumber cut into very tiny slices and only three slices. And then to my toe, two slices.

That's her lunch. So I asked her one day, my dear daughter, why are you not eating? She said, Uncle, I'm very fat. I looked at her.

If you are fat, what about me? I have the full gospel inside me. Then I tried to lose my fat, belly fat. They called his stubborn belly fat.

And I hardly eat. You cannot check with your bishop. And so I tried to do some, I signed up for a gym to do some workout so that I can flatten my stomach. If not six pack, at least try for flat.

So one pastor's wife told me, please don't try to do that, because you are really now full gospel. Full gospel. Full. So that girl, not only that girl, even my niece.

She's penciled thin. And yet she considers herself fat. You know there's a disease called aneroxia. It is a demon spirit that makes you think you are fat when you are slim and nice and takes you down the path of destruction.

So what do you do to your body? You destroy your body. But if you are over fat, that is also bad. Again, you are destroying your body because you are no use to the kingdom of God.

I remember reading a very saintly man of God called Kenneth E. Hagen. Have you heard of him? A very wonderful, solid teacher of the word of God as well as a man who works with God.

So it's two, spirit and the word. So one day the Lord spoke to him to go and give a word to one of the pastors in the town. And the pastor was big. So the Lord told him, go and tell him to watch his weight and reduce his weight.

If not, he's going to die. Because if you are over fat, you have heart disease. You have heart disease and you die. So this Kenneth E.

Hagen went and pulled the pastor. This is the word I got from the Lord. Please watch your weight. Please take care of your health.

The pastor just laughed. Just laughed. Say, I'm big fat, Albert. Have you heard of big fat, Albert?

No. In order for you to know about big fat, you must be at least 65 years old. Because big fat, Albert was a cartoon that I saw when I was a small boy. Anyway, the pastor laughed.

He walked away. A month later, he died of heart attack, which is not bad. But what was bad was the Lord told Brother Hagen, this man died not entering into my destiny for him. God has a destiny for all of you.

He never even anchored into the destiny. His life cut short. Just like a premature baby, or babies not born and they die in a mother's womb. Miscarriage.

See, we consider in our natural mind when they are born, then they enter into their life. If they die before they are born, we call them miscarriage. Am I right? So they did not fulfill their destiny.

We consider in the national sense. So in the same manner, God has a wonderful plan for your lives. You need to know what is the plan of God for your life. Then you will be successful in all that you do.

All that you do. Not all of you may be called to the full-time ministry. You could be a businessman. And yet, be a man of God.

Is it possible? I was in Togo before I came to Ghana. And one day I was invited to pray for the chief advisor of the president of Togo. So when I went to his house, he appeared as a very humble man, very calmly, gently, and he was invited on the chair.

And then he told us about himself and how God promoted him from step by step by step to the highest office now where he is the senior advisor to the president. And the president doesn't do anything without first consulting him. So he was invited by the committee to the last day of the meeting to share a word of greeting before I would speak. And when I entered into the auditorium, I heard a thunderous voice that was thundering through roaring like a lion.

So I thought it was the other bishop who had come from America, who was one of the speaker. And when I came to the seat by sitting, I saw this president's advisor preaching. Later on, I found out he himself is a pastor. He passes a church and an elder goes around on the weekends to preach the gospel in Togo.

See here, we have a politician, yet a prophet of God, a man of God. So that is his destiny. And I prophesied to him what his destiny is going to be. And every stage of his promotion that he got from being a minister of co-profairs, minister of just peace, and then ambassador to Ethiopia, ambassador to another nation, every stage that he climbed up was a result of a prophetic word that was given to him.

This is your destiny. Then came the promotion. This is your destiny. Another promotion came.

This is your destiny. Another promotion came. So that was God's call for him to be in that sphere. And because of him, he could exert the influence on the president.

That was what Daniel the prophet did. In 1998, I was invited to Indonesia. The largest Muslim country in the world. And the Lord gave me a word for the nation and the president.

And the chairman of the committee that organized the conference was a close friend of the president. So when he heard his prophecy, he called the president to tell him what was the word God spoke to him about him. The president was a Muslim man. And the president wanted to see me.

So the following day, a few of the pastors, we went to the president's palace. And the president asked what was it that God spoke about me? And I read to him the prophecy that God gave. He started crying.

And he bowed his head and he said, please pray for me. Now how was this possible? Because of one godly man who was close to the president. So you can be in any sphere of your life.

You must know your destiny. What is your destiny? And then walk in your destiny. Do not walk blindly by what your heart desires or what people tell you.

Don't do that. You must ask God, what is your purpose for my life? Why did you create me God? None of you are here by accident.

Do you believe that? In case you don't believe, I'll give you a scripture for that. Jeremiah chapter one verse five. And extrapto one, sorry, extrapto nine.

In Jeremiah one five, God tells concerning Jeremiah, before you were born, I had ordained you as a prophet. So which means that was his destiny before he was born. His destiny was to be a prophet. And then in extrapto nine, when Saul was blinded by the bright light and God spoke to Ananias to go and pray for him.

Ananias refused to go. He said, Lord, he's a murderer. He's a tortuada. He's a persecutor.

And the Lord rebuked Ananias. No, he is my servant. My vessel whom I have chosen to be my apostle to the Gentiles before Saul was born, already chosen. He's destiny.

So what is your destiny? What is your destiny? When I got my calling, when I was seventeen years old, I didn't know anything. I was not even baptized in the Holy Spirit.

But I clearly heard a voice come from heaven saying, you have calling to be a preacher. I had decided to be a doctor, a neurosurgeon, those who operate on the brain. And I was gearing my studies all to a dead direction. But now came the call of God.

So I told my pastor, my pastor was a very godly man. Don't not fill in the Holy Spirit. Very prayerful men, very godly men. He suggested to me, since you have a call on your life, why don't you go to a Bible college?

So now long story short, so I ended up going to the Bible college. And if you go to a Bible college, what will you become? A pastor. But I only lasted in the Bible college for six months because I had no money.

My father refused to give me money to study Bible college. So I dropped out. I dropped out, didn't know what to do. Then I came to know about the Holy Spirit.

So I prayed ardently for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. So after one and a half years, in September 1981, I was gloriously baptized by the Holy Spirit for three consecutive days, three days. And after that, there came a great desire in my heart about the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Because the man of God in whose meeting I was baptized in the Holy Spirit moves powerfully in the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

So I began to pray Lord, bless me with the gifts of the Holy Spirit like this man of God. I want to preach like this man of God. I was praying like that. But I never had any further direction.

In 1882, so I joined the Methodist Church. So when I joined the Methodist Church, the pastor of the Methodist Church, I would say, I don't know whether to use the word godly or not, but highly educated theologian. So when he came to know that I have a calling on my life, he called me privately and said, we need young men like you to serve God in our church. I heard from your mother that you have a calling on your life.

So we want to send you to our Methodist Bible College for years of training. After that, you come back, we will order in you and you can be a pastor in our church. So I was happy because I was being guided towards my destiny. I didn't know anything better.

So I thank the pastor. I said, all right, pastor, I will do the following day when I was praying. Because I learned during that period of time that I had been getting up early in the morning, at 2 o'clock to pray and to start walking with God. After two hours of ministering unto God, as I was waiting on God, I felt the presence of an angel in my room.

Those were the days my spiritual eyes were not open. But I sensed in my spirit, have you felt like that when you're praying somebody was standing in your room, right? So I felt it was an angel. And the angel communicated to me saying, God has not called you as a pastor, but as an evangelist.

So I knew what was my calling, not pastor, evangelists. So the following Sunday, I went to the church, I told the pastor, which was a big mistake I made. I told the matrix pastor, pastor, an angel appeared to me and said that my calling is not pastor, but as an evangelist. He looked at me.

Hm, hm, ah, angel, ah. So he composed himself, he said, okay, it's all right. So angel came to talk to you, huh? Okay.

Evangelists, okay. Well, it's okay. We have an evangelist institute in Canada, near US. We'll stand you there for one year training.

And when you come back, we'll ordinate you as an evangelist. You can go to all our churches in our denomination to conduct revival meeting. So I was happy because the pastor is not helping me towards my destination. I said, all right, pastor, praise the Lord.

So the next day, I think maybe not Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, as I was praying, the same thing happened. Another visitor came. But this time in my spirit, I felt it was not an angel, but a saint from God. Now what I'm going to share with you only applies to me, but not to everybody else.

Because it's my peculiar calling. So this saint spoke to me, say, God does not want you to be under any church denomination, but to be under him because he will send you to far away places. So I understood that, okay, not under denomination. So the following Sunday, I made the greatest mistake of my life.

I went and told my pastor. He was already holding up everything inside him. The moment I said, a saint came. He just let go everything.

And he started scolding me. You idiot, what do you think you are? Who do you think you are? You think you are so spiritual, there's no such thing as revelation, there's no such thing as prophecy.

When the last word in the Bible say, amen, finish, finish. No more revelation. Whatever God wants to speak, he has already spoken, which means God doesn't know how to speak anymore. So he scolded me very badly.

He said, don't come to discharge anymore. I don't want you. So he said, get out. I don't want to see you in my church anymore.

So I thought in my heart, that's exactly what the same said. I don't want to be under any church. So now I'm kicked out. So when I'm kicked out, now I didn't know where to go, what to do.

So I spent all my days fasting, praying, fasting, praying. That's when little by little, step by step, my destiny was shown to me what to do, what to do, what to do. Where to go? For 20 years I was a missionary in Nepal and in Tibet.

And after 20 years, then the Lord opened the door to go around the world. It didn't happen immediately. He said, now you go. Now go here.

Now go there. I was calling to start a television ministry. And then came the latest one, the Bible College. This calling came during the lockdown period.

When I was praying one day, the Lord came to me and said, now I want you to prepare my people, my army for my coming. Mentor them, train them, teach them and make them strong to become wonderful workers for God's army. So your destiny, what is your destiny? You must know your destiny.

Don't end up dead without fulfilling your destiny. You must know your destiny. What is your destiny? Because God is going to ask you for an account when you come and stand before Him at the judgment seat of Christ Jesus.

Thirdly, why we must be preserved blameless? Revelation 12 verse 10 says that devil is constantly accusing us before the throne of God. Constantly, oh this person, you think Lord, he's a good person? No, he's a liar.

He's a filthy. He's got a filthy mouth. He's constantly accusing you before God's throne. So even if nobody sees you, bat-mouting because you are in your work environment, everybody doesn't know that you're a Christian.

But the spirit of the Lord is looking at you. Am I right? And your conscience is watching you and your conscience is recording everything. Romans 14 10 says, on the, at the judgment seat of Christ Jesus, your conscience will either accuse you or excuse you.

So your conscience will come out and testify against you. So who can you lie to? Where can you run? That is why the Psalm says, where can I run from your presence?

If I go to heaven, there you are there. If I go down into the waters, there you are there. Even if down in hell, you are there. Where can you run?

The presence of the Lord is filling everywhere, knowing your thoughts, knowing the intent of your heart. Where can you run? So this is the reason why we need to preserve blameless till the coming of the Lord Jesus. So when you stand before the judgment seat of Christ, when the Lord Jesus looks at you, he will see you all clean.

His eyes will scan you. Just like when you go to the supermarket, you go to the supermarket, his eyes will scan you, and when it's all clean, he will look at you and say, well done, good and faithful, enter into the joy of your Father. Your goal in life is to hear that word. Well done, good and faithful, seven, six words from the lips of the Lord Jesus.

Let this be your goal from this day till the coming of the Lord Jesus. To hear, preserve yourself blameless in holiness and purity so that you can stand uncondemned before the presence of the Lord and before all his holy angels, before all the things in heaven, you'll be crowned with glory. Before that came a turning point in the life of the prophet Moses, not prophet, he was not even a prophet, just Moses when he was a shepherd, he had to first cleanse himself. When he approached before the burning bush, Exodus chapter 3 was 5 says, God told him, remove your shoes, remove the shoes.

What is the significance of the shoe? The shoe, if you look at the back of your shoe, it's full of dirt, right? Because he goes everywhere, he steps on the mud, he steps on the dung, he steps everywhere, he's dirty. When you enter into your house, you don't wear your shoes in.

In Ghana, do you do that? No. You wear your shoes and you walk into your house? No, right?

You remove your shoes. At home. Some homes, most homes don't. Okay.

Okay. If you come to India, you have to remove your shoes. You enter into the house. Never, never wear shoes into the house.

Why? It is unclean. unclean. So when God told Moses to remove what he was saying to him is, nothing unclean can come before the holy God.

Remove it before you step into the holy presence of God. Nothing unclean can come before the holy presence of God. Now you can be used by God, put away uncleanness from your life. Because that incident brought a turning point in Moses life.

That was like his baptism of the Holy Spirit. Secondly, before the entire nation of Israel can have a glorious vision of seeing God almighty. They were told to sanctify themselves in Exodus 19, verse 10 and 11, and verse 14 and 15. You were told, wash yourselves.

Change your clothes. Don't come near your wives. Meaning a white sexual relationship for three days. Sanctify yourself for three days.

Sanctify in the Old Testament means fast. So fast and pray for three days. Wash your clothes. Because in the wilderness, there's no place for them to wash clothes.

They'll be wearing the same clothes for years. Like I told you yesterday, I came day before yesterday. The same time last year, I was in Nepal, climbing high mountain trekking for 20 days. And I was wearing the same clothes for 20 days.

Because there's no toilet, there's no place to wash. The whole is just a jungle and no place to sleep, no lodges, no homes anywhere. So we had to bring our own tent to pitch along the journey. And no water.

Whatever water we bring along is only for drinking and not enough for washing. So how to wash the clothes? When we change the clothes, how many clothes are you going to change for 20 days? You cannot be changing one clothes every day, right?

Then you need a big elephant to carry all your luggage for 20 days. The only thing we hide was donkeys. So how much can I don't take care of? So the most was two sets of clothes or three sets.

And every seven days we change. After the third seven day, I had to go back to the old clothes again. And that is really, and dirty. So now God tells them wash your clothes.

Wash your clothes. Why? What does the clothes signify? Not just the external cloth.

The Bible says when you are born again, God gave you a garment of salvation. A garment of salvation. Now you must make sure that garment is unspotted. Can the garment be spotted?

Yes. It can be soiled by the lust of the flesh. You read this in Jude chapter 1. So you need to cleanse your garment in the blood of Jesus Christ every day, every day.

When you leave a clean life, holy lives, the Holy Spirit cleanses you clean. It sanctifies you clean. So just like Moses, just like the children of Israel, before you can have a turning point in your life in the coming days of these last days, you must, we must sanctify ourselves. Colossians chapter 3 verse 4.

When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. For you, for us to appear with Him in glory, we should be living sanctified lives. Holiness and purity. The theme of discharge for this year.

Do you know? Okay, all those members of discharge, Adonai Church, put up your hands. No, but please, put up your hands. Okay, all those Adonai Church members, tell me what is the theme of your church for 2023.

I beg your pardon? Very good. Very good. Because did you see up there and you found it there on your banner?

When the first day I came in, my eyes fell on the banner. It is your theme. Holiness to the Lord. It should not only be for 2023.

For 2023, put an arrow till the coming of the Lord Jesus. We should leave, we should be holiness unto the Lord. Now you have been hearing me speak often the word sanctify. What does sanctify really mean?

The word sanctify means to consecrate, to set apart, to dedicate unto God as holy and undefiled, to consecrate. Technically they all mean one thing. For example, this pulpit, this pulpit and this whole church when they made it, they dedicated it for God's glory. When they dedicated it for God's glory, which means it is set apart only for holy purposes.

This church cannot be rented for a wedding. This church cannot be rented for a movie house. We put a movie screen here and people come and watch movies or rented to parties. People come and have fun and have party.

We cannot do that because set apart, set apart, consecrated. If this pulpit has been consecrated for preaching, it cannot be used for any other purpose. That's what the word sanctify means, set apart, consecrated because the oil of anointing is on your head now. The oil of anointing is in this place, sprinkled in this place.

How can you defile the house of God? You cannot. Let me give you a very good example. Daniel chapter 5.

In Daniel chapter 5, we read of an instant where a very boastful, prideful king was veltasazar, who was thrown a big party and invited 1,000 politicians from all the 120 provinces under their control for a big party. As they were partying at the height of his super, he ordered his servants to bring the vessels from Jerusalem's temple for the party. Now the vessels in Jerusalem temple were sanctified for God's use, for temple use only, not even for personal use. Even Moses is not allowed to use it.

The priest is not allowed to use it. They set apart only for temple purpose. So they brought the temple, the vessels, the cups and everything. They pour the wine and they begin to hold up.

Look everybody! This is the golden cup from the Jerusalem temple and everybody clap their hands. And they even use the spoon that is used for the temple purpose to scoop filthy pigs and all kinds of unclean animal and scoop on their plate to eat at the height of their activities. The hand of the Lord appeared on the world.

Many, many tekel o pasin. You are judged for touching the vessels of God. Consecrated, set apart. Don't touch it.

Don't touch it. Because it's not yours to touch. If you dedicate anything to God, don't use it for any other purposes. To use it for any other purposes, you are bringing judgment upon yourselves.

That is why, don't touch the tights and the offerings of God. Because the tights is its God's. Sanctified God's money. If you touch God's money, the Bible calls you a what?

A rubber. A rubber. You are a rubber. Look at one another.

You are a rubber. Oh, actually you should not, before saying you are a rubber, you should have asked a question. Did you pay your tights? If they said no, or they just keep quiet and say, you are a rubber.

Ten percent is not yours. It's God's. Don't touch. Don't touch.

If you make any vow that I will do this to God, or I will give to this man of God, I will give to this church. You make a vow, keep your vow. Because the word that came out of your mouth, that word of vow, consecrated. Consecrated.

I will give you a good scripture for that. Extra to five. Ananias and Sapira. They had a plot of land.

So they talked to themselves. Let's sell this plot of land and give the money to God's work. Both of them talked about it. See, the word came out of the mouth.

Pika doesn't know. They never told anybody they did not make a pledge. Never. Just that they spoke the word.

And when the land was sold, Lord Sapira saw many, several millions of cities. So now they want to bring the money. Mrs. Ananias, Sapira say, darling.

Why should we give all the money? We have two girls. What about their future? We have to send them to London, out to the US for education.

Let's skip half the money. Then Ananias said, no, if we do that, do you remember what happened last week in the church? When burn numbers brought all this money and gave to Peter, Peter pracing in front of everybody. So we should be praised.

So Mrs. Ananias came up with a beautiful plan. Okay, darling. Let's have a win-win for both of us.

We'll keep half for our children's future. In the other half, you bring to Peter and say, this is all the money that we got from the sale of the land. Then Peter will appreciate you, like how he appreciated burn of us. Secret plan in their house.

Nobody knew. Right? So far correct. So he came to Peter and he brought the money.

Peter, like any ordinary pastor, was about to receive the offering when he spiritualised open. You never know when your pastor spiritualised will be open. You never know. You never know when the Holy Spirit will open.

Or the Holy Spirit speaks in their years. Don't touch that cassette money. That's why the Holy Spirit will not touch that cassette money because this is unsanctified offering. Unscentified.

Because the first lot was consecrated for God. Now they only brought half of the consecration, not the full consecration. So the offering is rejected. Just like how Cain's sacrifice was rejected.

Because not because he offered vegetables to God. Because it was the wrong sacrifice. A sin offering blood must be shed. If you cut vegetables, will there be blood?

No. Wrong sacrifice. So rejected. Rejected.

And what was the end result of? Okay. Besides the unconstrated offering, when Peter confronted them, they should at least have the humility say, oh sorry, sorry, sorry, right? Instead, he lied.

He said, no Peter, this is all the money. He'd ask him two times. And then finally Peter said, you have not lied to me. You have lied to the Holy Ghost.

You have lied to the Holy Ghost. So therefore you will drop date. Instantly he dropped it. Three hours later his wife came.

She got a husband who was having a big party. Peter was so happy with them. I was throwing them a big party. They were all eating nice delicious Indian food.

Truly. And of course, Jollof rice. And the nice fried plantian. What do you call that?

Dodo. Let's call it Dodo, okay? Nice delicious Dodo and Jollof rice. Yesterday I had that for lunch.

So yummy. From tomorrow I'm going to miss all that. Until next year. Jollof rice.

Anyway, so when she came looking for a big party to honor them, he said she was looking for us when he was nobody to be found. So Peter got a come here. So Peter got a come here. She got Peter was going to lay his hands on her and ordained her as an elder in the church because of the large offering.

Many churches do that, isn't it? When you give large offering, they are honored. Instantly made the church elder. Instantly inducted into the bottom directors and finance chairman.

Right? Why? Because they give money and you don't realize they will control your church. They will control.

You know, when we started in the our television network, we wanted to be like commercial, like other channel, have commercials to finance the network. The law told me don't take money from commercials because the businesses will control you and your channel will lose my presence. It will lose the amounting because the businesses will tell you what you can speak, what you cannot speak because they invest money, they must need a lot of people to see your programs. Put away that.

So never, never give in to all those evil things. God can use a video to give you a lot. I mean, you never know. Never know.

Don't underestimate videos. There are many, many, many million videos. They just appear be baggley. They have a baggley, but they have lots of money keeping in their store.

Never know. OK, you want a good scripture for that? Do you believe me or you want a scripture for that? Anyone want a scripture?

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. So there are nine unbelievers in this church. Who don't believe what I say. First Kings chapter 17.

A widow, she had only one handful of flour. That was her property, which is worth millions of dollars. Because what can you put value to that? That was all that she had.

All that she had. Millions. And here comes Prophet Elijah, hungry. And all he needed was two buns of bread.

That's all he needed. And the widow gave all that she had. Wasn't she a rich woman? She was a rich woman.

Because the end of the story was she became a millionaire. That's the end. So what saw the end from the beginning? She was a millionaire.

Agreed? Millionaire. And who was she? A widow.

Who are we? So don't underestimate widows. Amen. So this is Ananiya's light.

She too dropped it. Anything sanctified for God. Don't touch it. Don't touch it.

Because it's not yours. Set apart. Don't touch it. It's not yours.

The Bible says in the same manner. Your firstborn child belongs to God. You should be set apart for God. When my two sisters and my brother, when they got married, I told all of them.

All your children, not only the first one. All the children set apart for God. Our family must serve God, not serve the world. So I told my two sisters and my brother.