Very rarely like I told you last night. Do you find a topic like this anywhere in the world? Most of the conferences are called how to get rich How you can prosper how you can get wealth how you can succeed in life? Yes, I mean I spoke at a church in In pungo before I came here So the first few sentences that I made about getting ready for the coming of the Lord There was no amen from the crowd Then I said another few sentences along that line everybody was dead silent then I said and you will succeed in your life 400 a mimes boom through So I wondered in my mind The attitude of the Christians So you you don't care about the second coming of the Lord Jesus.
You don't care about the end-time judgments You don't care about what is going to come to pass in the last days. You don't care about all that all you care is money That's all you care money and how to be successful in life And I can tell you last night because our hearts are greedy You will get ministers who will cheat you along that line They will come to deceive you because that's what you like to hear false teachers false prophets will come to deceive the people because that's what is in their heart and you and the Bible itself says Because we are no more given to sound docking So God will turn you over into a reprobate mind He himself gifts up on you and he will give you teachers According to what you like to hear so what would be the end goal? Down to the pit of hell that is the end goal is that where you want to be? This is something you should decide But anyway since you all like success, I'm going to give you a tip for success.
You ready? No This is genuine tip Guaranteed to succeed Ready? You don't want to write down this golden tip, but before I give the golden tip I should also give up envelops so that I can collect offerings I give you two tips tip number one Joshua chapter one verse eight the Bible says meditate the word of God day and night and you shall be successful in all things that you do I mean The scripture says clearly you shall be successful in all things that you do not only spiritual things But also in business in your career in your studies anything You will have success because you will not walk with the wisdom of the world But with the wisdom of God and you walk with the wisdom of God you will have success in all areas of your life Many Christians not many most Christians think that God only knows spiritual things He doesn't know anything else When God called me to do television ministry I was a simple evangelist doing ministry in the Himalayas walking up the mountain down the valleys Sleeping on the streets sleeping in the caves sleeping on the snow mountains. That was the kind of ministry I was doing for 20 years before the Lord called me to do this television ministry and I knew nothing about television ministry The only television ministry I know was to seek before a TV and watch it and I'm sure by that definition all of you do television ministry Amen So when God called me to do this I fasted for 40 days How to do this work lot and during the 40 days of fasting the Lord got me that technicalities of how to do a television ministry how to set up a TV studio how to buy the equipment What can have cameras what kind of lighting how to set up an entire studio how to plan programs how to manage an entire?
television network we started with one channel and today in after eight years we have 12 TV channels all over the world and One channel for Africa all over Africa our channel is available. You can watch this channel to satellite direct to satellite or through online WWW dot angel TV dot org and you can select the channel Africa and we have all Africa related programs that are in bilingual English and French Since there are many French speaking nations in Africa now who taught me all that? It was good. I clearly remember one day.
We were shooting a drama the drama was part of the My message so we were shooting little skits about the second of the signs of the second coming of the Lord Jesus So we hired a cameraman a lighting crew all kinds people from the movie world industry to come and shoot for us So I'm supposed to be the director so on the first day of the shoot So I came and stood in the in the area where they're going to shoot the flume the drama So the cameraman is a very professional cameraman So he came to me and said he introduced himself that he was a cameraman and they don't call them cameraman They call it director of photography big title Simply is cameraman, but you should not say cameraman. It is an insult to them Someone who manages this camera can be called cameraman But someone who manages a big camera you call them be OP Director of photography or director of cinema photography you call them cameraman. They feel so insulted they will throw the camera They'll walk away Anyway, so he came and introduced himself and the lighting were already so he asked me sir. Everything's ready Where do you want me to set the camera?
So we were going to have three cameras and I know nothing about what he was asking me But I cannot show him that I know nothing See because I'm supposed to be the director right, but I know there's I'm a big zero who knows nothing about Direction or semi-motography so I told them so you have to ex smart don't you do that? Yes, I mean so I acted smart by buying time So I called the actors I told them okay, you practice first. Let's do a practice and while they were practicing I was fervently feverishly praying Lord, please teach me now. What I should do next.
I do not know what to do next I do not know where the camera should be placed these guys are asking you the question as Soon as I was about to say amen I saw three angels come in stand before me and they say we will now teach you and get you how to do this work So the angel to me asked them to place the camera one in this position camera doing that position camera three in this position and This is how you will do it. I was amazed just like how I work together with angels in a spiritual environment Here the angels come to teach me in a non-spiritual environment like a cinematography so that day I learned something God knows direction So God knows everything When you meditate God sweat day and night which means in the morning and in the night Then you shall make your ways prosperous and have good success You want financial prosperity that is Tip number two you you are seriously writing up. You really want success in life, but you don't want to go to heaven Okay tip number two Matthew chapter six verse 33 sick first the kingdom of God and his righteousness done All these things what things food to eat close to where will be given to you? Which means?
Financial needs for you to buy food for you to buy clothes for you to leave alive God will add to you Your focus should not be on the daily necessities your focus should be on seeking God Seeking his kingdom doing the works of the kingdom of God then God will add all these things to you The scripture says your father knows that you have need of all these things. So why do you worry? What you shall eat tomorrow what you shall wear tomorrow? Don't worry your father will provide for all all that for you I mean, so I give you two tips for success So you practice this the next time I come to Tema.
I will see all of you driving the sadis bands driving Lexus and You will in this Tema would have become More prosperous than Akra is it possible? Absolutely possible because your God will become the God of Tema the Lord God will become the God of Tema and Tema will be very rich not only in Ghana, but in all of Africa is it possible? Absolutely absolutely possible the people that make their God God That nation will succeed that nation will not sink under it will be right over You will be the head and not the tail you shall land and you shall not borrow which means you'll be very successful You'll be very prosperous And what is the key? The key are the two tips that I just gave you two tips you practice the two tips you will be very successful in life Not only you'll be successful.
You will also be God fearing God fearing without the fear of God if you have success you will fall You will be full of pride you'll be walking with pride you'll be walking upside down You'll not your feet won't stay on the ground But if you have the fear of God then when God trusts you with riches that riches will not become idle in your heart They will be under your feet in 1985 I flew the first time on a business class on an airplane You know in the airplane there are three classes the economy the business class and the first class So all my life at that time I was only flying economy That's all I can afford and I wasn't flying too frequently in the early days So I was going from India to Singapore and the church who invited me because they bought me a one-way ticket in those early days A one-way ticket is only on a business class not on economy today. You can buy one way ticket on economy So they sent me the ticket and I didn't know it was a business class ticket and this was the big Jumbo 747 plane It has a little hump on the on the top like a camel's hump and the business last six are on the top and All the other passengers this sit on the first level the first class and then the economic class So I checked in and I went into the plane and I said entered into the plane. There was a stevidus there I had to show my ticket to her she saw my ticket and she said sir, please go upstairs So I said no, I should go to the back She looked at me to get a sister. You should go upstairs.
I said no you are wrong I should go at the back So this war went on within us for a few minutes and I was holding up all passengers behind I was saying at the back She was saying go up. I said no I should be at the back. So finally she said sir go up and go back So I thought alright there is another way to go to the back by going up. So I was so naive So I went up the stairway and there were only about ten passengers seats for the business class and there was another stevidus standing there and She took my ticket and she pointed me to the very first seat in the business class And I was looking to go right at the back.
There was no way to go to the back So I thought okay, this is where I'm supposed to sit and when I sat on the business last seat It was too big for my size even now and I was I'm telling you honestly before the presence of God I tremble when I sat on the chair I felt so unworthy when I looked at me during the first three years of my ministry I was not even wearing a center on my feet. I all over India Nepal Tibet barefoot So here I was sitting barefoot wearing a gown like this in a business last seat I personally look down on myself as the most unworthy unqualified person to seek yeah, and I was trembling and I was praying say Lord. Thank you for blessing me with this seat as I was praying I saw the Lord Jesus walk up the stev way like how I had walked up Very real like how you see me standing before you he woke up the stev way came and set by my side And he said this word that I have never forgotten this past 38 years in my life He said I will bless my children with riches, but always keep them under your feet If you keep them in your heart you'll get corrupted as long as you keep them under your feet You will never fall to pride This was the lesson the Lord got me early in my ministry So that is why sometimes got extra true poverty to teach you true values true value of money True value of riches once you learn the true value then you will be trusted with true riches. I mean So let not your heart hunger and thirst after riches let your heart hunger and thirst after righteousness I mean then All these things that you need will be given unto you Do you want to hear another success story?
Alright another tips. I'm going to give you this one is a mistake. I made in my life so When I was starting out my ministry in the 80s full-time ministry the most popular Doctrine at the time that came out from America flooded Asia was the doctrine of prosperity and sure you do you have this doctrine here? And he does corrupted Africa doesn't it?
So that doctrine was just given birth at that time So it flooded everywhere and so the principle to the doctrine is whatever you want You name it you claim it and then you confess it period So I got excited about reading that I mean studying about that doctrine so And so I began to pray Lord. I want a car not a smota Rolls Royce Have you seen a Rolls Royce the grandest cow on planet earth so far? So I began to pray Lord. I want a Rolls Royce Lord.
I want to Rolls Royce Then I also read another book by dr. Paul young it show said when you pray you must be accurate You must tell me exactly the color the model the type everything you must visualize everything So that God can bring you the correct model if not he will be confused If he just simply break car. Yes, so many cars which car to give you right and there's so many colors which color to give you Heaven will be confused. So you must be very accurate in your prayer So when I read that I understood okay now I know how to pray accurately So I looked at all the models of the Rolls Royce car and I found one particular model that I liked very much the silver Clout and a white color so I began to make my pray very accurate now so that none of the angels can mistake Say Lord I want a Rolls Royce car white in color silver club model every day.
I pray this prayer So one day I went to a mall as I was coming out of the mall and walking by the kappa I saw the very car that I was praying for I said oh my god. This is my chance So I I told the Lord look at the car. That's the very car that I want I even told the angels please take a good look That's the exact model exact color and I went very close to the car looked around nobody was watching and lay my hand I claim this car in Jesus name. I claim it mine and I walked away So I came back home After lunch during my afternoon prayer and knelt on to pray as I was praying the presence of the law came into my room And I heard the Lord Jesus asked me a question son.
What do you want a car or a Rolls Royce? So I thought for a moment I said Lord I want a Rolls Royce So the question the Lord asked this question again the second time son. What do you want a car or a Rolls Royce? So I thought for a while why is it that God doesn't understand?
What is the car? What is the Rolls Royce? Maybe because in heaven they only have chariots. They don't have Rolls Royce I reason like this.
So maybe that's why the Lord is having difficulty trying to understand. What is the car? What is the Rolls Royce? Oh the second time I told the Lord Lord.
I want a car that must be a Rolls Royce So there was a two-minute silent then the question was repeated the third time son. What do you want a car or a Rolls Royce? See by then I have learned in my ministry some little common sense that if the Lord asks a question two or three times Something is wrong. So when the Lord asked me this question three times I knew something was wrong.
So then I Prostrated I mean I was kneeling down. I asked a lot. Is there a problem? Lord and the Lord told me to go from to go from point A to point B You just need a car.
You don't need a Rolls Royce an ordinary car can go from point A to point B Rolls Royce is one that will puff up your ego Puffs up your flesh and you will show forth show off your wealth your status and how great you are So now you tell me what do you want a car or a Rolls Royce? I Felt so deeply convicted by this I prostrated myself before the Lord and I repented for my stupid greet Stupid greet was stupid. I was stupid didn't know what I was asking So I repented and I confess my sin to the Lord. I say Lord.
Let's erase all of that Let me pray again all over again So Lord I need a car to travel from point A to point B even if it's a small car for one person is funny But if you feel that a car is not necessarily a bicycle is necessary. I'm fine with that Then I went one step further But if you feel that you want me to walk from point A to point B I'm also happy with that. So when I pray despite the Lord was so pleased with my prayer His smile he blessed me and he left and from that day till 2006 I was walking everywhere No car walk everywhere from India all the way up to Nepal up to Tibet walking everywhere Hi Mountain low mountain 12 days at a time 20 days at a time the most recent trip I did was last November last October to Nepal I could trek up the mountain for 20 days to reach the Tibetan people living in the mountains So the point is this the riches of this world are great Great what you really need is what is your need? See like the question a lot of me a car even a small car can take you from point A to point B For that you don't need any fanciful car even a car without any name can do that Even right now during these times Who work can do that right?
You don't even need to buy a car anymore Just dial the number go on your app you deck and a chauffeur driven car comes to you So all these false doctrines are from the pit of hell. I mean True riches comes from God true riches when you are faithful and true and when God can trust you then he will promote you Then he will bless you. I mean So those are all the appetizer for you today was a good appetizer I mean so this wonderful conference is called the holiness and purity conference when I was praying for this conference The Lord gave me three messages part one part two and part three So yesterday I shared the first message which was part one and today is part two and on Sunday will be part three so all these Messages that will prepare you to be holy in spirit soul and body To prepare for the coming of the Lord and for the end times Yes, I mean end times So on the 28th of September at 10 20 in the morning when I was praying I heard the whisper of the Holy Spirit saying to me the Lord will purify his people That is the message you need to preach in this conference the Lord will purify his people Please turn your bibles with me to the book of Malachi Chapter three and the verses two and three Malachi chapter three the last book in the Old Testament Malachi chapter three and we will read verses two and three But who can endure the day of his coming and who can stand when he appears for he is like a refiner's fire And like launderers so he will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver He will purify the sons of Levi and perch them as gold and silver that they may offer to the Lord and offering in righteousness Amen This is what God is going to do in these days in these last days in his church He's going to purify the church Why God is going to do that because we are not going to do that Since we are not going to do that or we are lagging behind See the coming of the Lord is hastening The entire heaven is ready for the coming of the Lord Sadly the church is not ready The very people for whom the Lord died and purchased them by his precious blood are not ready the bride is not ready I'm sure this church has conducted many weddings Have you seen many weddings in this church? All right The day before the wedding or before a wedding is planned months of preparation goes The venue the gown that these and that everything am I right?
All those of you already married and on the day of the wedding the bride spends hours doing all the makeup am I right? Am I right? So I went to one wedding one of my stuff was getting married and I was speaking at the wedding so when the when they told the bride is coming and I saw a woman walking down the aisle and I turned to the pastor was with me and I said pastor they have changed the bride This is not my stuff. I'm sure in the pastor told me it is your stuff.
I said no pastor look at her She doesn't have two white tea face like this. She looks like a ghost But I didn't tell this to anybody only to the pastor she looks like a ghost and when she came closer Only then I recognize her. Oh my god Because my scalp is pretty in the natural without any makeup So when she put on tons of layers of makeup, it made a look otherworldly Anyway, so all this preparation goes am I right and then selecting of that ground? You will not want to rent you will buy do Africans do that?
Oh my you do up They do that in India now just for that one moment even you'll rather buy than rent you do like that. Okay, anyway So and what if you put on weight? So you want to make sure that you stay slim and nice maintain your weight till the wedding day gets over. Am I right girls?
Alright, so now I'm going to ask you a question Have you ever seen any bride? Walking down the aisle on her wedding day in her pyjamas Have you ever seen any bride? undone Just got up from a bit have you? No Bright always gets ready Then why is it that Christ bride is still in her pyjamas?
Why is Christ bride hair is undone? Why is Christ bride doesn't have makeup on her face? Why is Christ bride not wearing the wedding gown? Christ bride I I tell this honestly, but in truthfully with all sincerity without meaning offense to anybody Christ bride is not even in her pyjamas.
She's in her nakedness She's not even wearing her wedding gown. She's naked ugly This is how you look like in the spiritual realm. Do you know that how much it will paint the heart of the Lord Jesus? How much?
He has sent so many teachers to you to teach you to prepare Many true prophets to you true pictures to you to blow that trumpet sound that about the soon coming of the Lord Jesus What have you done? Why are you unprepared? That is why the scripture warns in Revelation chapter 16 verse 15 behold. I come like a thief in the night Not necessarily for 13 in the morning In the night when you least expect make sure you have your garment on Less you be found naked less you found naked It pains my heart to stand here and say this to you looking at the spiritual condition if My human heart can feel the pain how much more the heart of the Lord Jesus.
I did not die for you The Lord Jesus died for you. How much he will feel the pain? So therefore he has decided to do something. He will purify his people He himself will do it because we are not doing it.
So here the suture says for he is like a refiner's fire and Like a launderer's soap and it will sit like a refiner of silver and he will purify the sons of Levy and purge them as gold and silver Let's look at the scriptures in depth Who can endure the day of the Lord's coming now the way and be or in Hebrew means who can bear? Who can stand when he comes? Many people I do not know about Africans yet, but many Americans they say like this. Oh You know Jesus Christ is my buddy.
Do you say like that? Oh? Jesus Christ is my friend. Do you say that?
Oh? When I see Jesus, I'll put my arms around him and we will walk hand in hand because he's my buddy But I tell you who can endure when he comes who can endure why because when he comes the coming of God is fiery Exodus chapter 19 verses 16 and 18 when God came down on Mount Sinai the entire Mount quick Trumbull and he burn at the top the whole Israel trumbull with fear They could not even endure the voice of God Three million of them they begin to run away from Mount Sinai and told the prophet Moses We don't want to hear God's voice. We are scared you talk to him and you come and tell us what God talks Can you imagine how awesome the voice of God must have been for them to run away? That's how terrible awesome God is Secondly when it comes his glory is like a blinding light Second thessalonians chapter 2 was it blinds you a good example is found in extra 10 9 on the road to Damascus The soul saw Jesus Christ in light and he fell down flat And that's not the full glory of the Lord Jesus Just a little light if a little light can cause him to fall down how much more when he comes again in full glory It will be blinding Blinding who can endure that is why the prophet Malachi asked who can endure who can stand before the blinding light Matthew chapter 25 verse 31 say it would be so full of glory glory full of glory in Exodus chapter 40 we read after the setting up of the tabernacle the cloud of God's glory came down on the tabernacle of Moses And no one could enter in no one could enter in full of glory The same truth we read in second Chronicles chapter 5 when Solomon's temple was dedicated the cloud of glory came and filled the temple And the priest could not enter in because it was full of glory Who can endure?
number four He's coming to be full of power Matthew chapter 24 verse 30 March of the 13 verse 26 full of power who can endure in John chapter 18 When the Roman soldiers came to arrest the Lord Jesus Christ All the disciples ran away for fear for their lives the Lord Jesus stood by himself all alone And he asked the decide I mean the Roman soldiers who do you seek and they said we seek Jesus and they'll say I am The moment he said I am they went backwards and fell Just one word I am Cost them to fall backwards and the Lord Jesus was in his humanity not in his power If people cannot stand before the humanity of the Lord Jesus how much more when he comes in full power How much more who can endure who can endure? So now you tell me with all honesty if the Lord Jesus Christ comes like this right now How many of you can endure if your honest you will say none am I right? none Why because we are not ready we are not ready we have not become pure like silver pure like gold Therefore the Lord will prepare us to meet him He will make his bright ready to be presented to himself He will make it ready. That is why he sent us the Holy Spirit the sanctifier the beautifier He will prepare us he will beautify us that we may be hold him in glory.
So let's look at his two works Refiners fire full as so firstly refiners fire What does the what refiners fire mean the what refiner in the Hebrew is sir up and sir up means to fuse Two metals together or to smelt means dissolve them or refine Burn them until they are refined Metals such as gold or silver. So the refining process is like this metals the process of refining metals is referred to in the following scriptures Isaiah chapter 1 verse 25 Jerry my age of the 6 verse 29 and Zechariah chapter 13 verse 9 So in these three scriptures you'll find the process of refining being mentioned So the refiners fire is not new only in the book of Malachi this found in several books of the Old Testament What is fire? Fire doesn't need much explanation fire is fire fire also includes the Hebrew word for lightning Lightning is also a form of fire. So in the Old Testament Sacrifices were consumed by fire Genises chapter 8 verse 20 that was the first time a sacrifice was offered by a man and fire Consume the sacrifice and then we read in Leviticus chapter 6 verse 9 that when the tabernacle of Moses was set up So let's I want you to imagine like this this entire stage is the tabernacle of Moses and this region is the outer court And where the pulpit is is the holy place and this region the most holy place So in the outer court there are two furniture The altar of burnt sacrifice and then the labor of washing now the altar of burnt sacrifice is where all the sacrifices are offered and burned On the very first day that they were going to offer sacrifices the Bible tells us fire came from heaven and lighted up That altar which tells us you cannot repent on your own without the work of the Holy Spirit Fire is refining only the Holy Spirit can refine us all our self works are empty So you need the Holy Spirit to refine you when you repent of your sins It is the Holy Spirit that comes and burns burns you which is a Four days of the coming of the Holy Spirit that when he comes you will burn the drawers burn everything inside you So that you can be pure before God So that is the purpose of the fire and Afterwards the second time you read about the fire coming down from heaven is in second chronicles chapter 7 Thus one and three when King Solomon set up his temple again fire came from heaven to consume all the sacrifices So again, so these two incidences prove to us one thing true repentance must be kindled by the Holy Spirit's fire True repentance and only the Holy Spirit can lead us further into a sanctified life Secondly full of soap or Londerer's soap which we read in verse 2 now what is fuller the word fuller in the Hebrew is kabak and kabak means to Trimple to wash by the stamping of the feet in the olden days in India That's how they wash clothes they take all the dirty clothes to the riverside and there they Wet them and apply some soap either they will just splash it on a rock or they will lay them on the ground and they just stamp on their feet Have you done that in Africa see we are the same so India and Africa we are brothers Yes, I mean So this fuller so is that is that what it means washing by the tramping of the feet Do you wash your clothes by hand or by washing machine?
By hand Once I asked my stuff. I said how do you spend your time at home? How much time is when your children? She said you uncle I have seldom have time with my children I say why because when I go back home after the ministry was I have to wash my clothes I asked don't you have a wash machine?
She said yes, then why are you not using it? It's not very clean Yes, I mean I said what do you mean not very clean? She said I'm called all the dirt on the collar it will never go away on a washing machine You need to wash by hand scrub it with a brush right madam scrub it or do the old action way Stamping under the feet and that's how the washing is the Holy Spirit stems you because we are stopping Oh man, so you need to stamp you Change be bad change be bad until all the dirt in you comes out Fullers soap now the wood soap is very interesting because in the old husband times They did not have a spa of soap like how we understand above so the wood soap in the Hebrew is Boreth and boreth means a vegetable alkali It's an alkali substance that's made of vegetable and Obtain from the ashes of certain plants which is found by the shores of the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean Sea So they take this alkali and they apply it on the clothes to make them clean they mingle it with oil Not soap you read this in Job chapter 9 verse 30 The word bore bor which means clearness is found in Job chapter 9 verse 30 That word bore for cleanness is used for washing So it comes from this ashes of the plant mixed with the oil and then applied on the clothes That is the soap they use in the olden days And it is also used for the smelting metals that all is used to make them melt quicker and Flow more readily and purely these are all the process of refining Now turn your bibles with me to Isaiah chapter 1 verse 25 That scripture clearly defines the process of refining I will turn my hand against you and thoroughly perched away your drawers and take away all your alloy There are four things in the scripture number one perch away number two draws Number three take away a number four alloy now. What are they?
Perch away means to refine to burn with fire and Draws is the refuse is the refuse that comes out when you are burned Take away means to turn off So that you don't go back to your old ways and alloy means The thing that remains after smeltering so that is removed To understand this I must explain to you how silver and gold is refined So silver is heated in fire and as it melts the draws rises up to the surface And then the silver Smith schemes the drawers and throws it away And the silver is heated again at a higher temperature Which brings more draws to the surface the impurities again a scheme and thrown away This process is repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated until The silver Smith can see his own face in the silver This is exactly what second Corinthians 3 18 says that the Holy Spirit will transform you from glory to glory glory to glory glory Until the image of Jesus Christ is perfected in you when the Lord Jesus comes and stands before you He can see his image no more your image his image So the refining process goes on and on and on and on until all draws is removed secondly gold How is draws removed from gold? pure goal is soft and Free from corrosion. That's how pure goal is It is when goal is mixed with other metals like copper nickel or iron it becomes very hot The higher the percentage of foreign metals makes the goal becomes very hot So how is gold taken back to its original pure form and this is what they do the first step grind the goal Grind it to powder and they will mix it with a substance called flux FLU X the mixer with that then the mixture is placed in a furnace and melted by intense heat not just heat intense heat and When it melts the alloys and the impurities are drawn to the flux and rises to the surface goal which is heavier intensity remains at the bottom and Golds with then schemes of all the draws and removes away and pure gold remains So for silver and gold to become pure it must be heated With intense heat so that it will become pure gold So we put these definitions together. This is how it can be simply explained the refiners fire was used to purify metals and refine it by melting it and allowing the draw which floats to the top to be scooped off So how does this is a natural process?
How does it apply to us in the spiritual? This is how it is this is the process by which God refines us by removing the refused in us By smelting means subject intensity so that we become pure and clean So how does God send heat in your life by the trials? Trials if you read first Peter chapter one It tells us do not be taken back by the various trials that you go through which are able to make you strong strong the various trials Sometimes you did nothing wrong and you're subject to trial a good example is found in Genesis chapter 39 Joseph was a young boy maybe about 17 years old very handsome looking young man His boss wife had an eye on him because her husband was an old man ball-headed I'm not looking and here is just an employee in the government very handsome looking at me So the boss wife decided to have an affair with him and she would every now and then give some gifts to him by him Give him flowers give him gifts give him everything trying to entice him And then finally she wanted to sleep with him and Joseph told her how can I do this wrong? Against my master and against court That's all he said.
How can I do this wrong? You see? I have meditated that incident hundreds of times and I have imagined this scene how it looks like in the privacy of their bitroom There was no one else the woman had sent away all the servants Leave them and get them a day off and get them some allowance go to KFC eat some jollof rice by all the Stars and eat and go to a movie enjoy and only come back two days later No one was in the house and she pretended to give Joseph extra work to do so that he will stay back So if Joseph had chosen to sleep with her no one will know the secret am I right everybody? The woman will not say neither will Joseph say because with Joseph said I slept with her He will be be headed the woman cannot say because she will be headed So it will be a secret between the two of them am I right?
But Joseph said how can I do this weakness against God? No one watches but God is looking down your wife may not see your husband may not see your pastor may not see your parents may Not see your friends may not see the secret affair you will do in the secret no one sees But God sees God sees when King David committed adultery with Bacheva no one saw God saw am I right? When King David plotted to kill Bacheva's husband no one saw God saw no one knew how he died because David very cleverly schemed in such a way he will die in battle Then he was given a hero's funeral he became a martyr and was given a medal in posthumously And his name was inscribed on the wall of honor Yuri a great wall hero nobody knew God saw and God sent Nathan the prophet to rebuke King David very strongly So God sees the angel see So let's have that fear in our heart Don't think you are all alone in a secret place You're not in the young 1985 I was praying one night at about 12 midnight As I was bowing down my head on the floor and just been still in God's presence a Few minutes later. I felt coming out.
I came out and I walk a few steps I turn around I saw my body still in the bowed praying position Only then I realized it was my spirit that came out of the body. I looked at myself I look exactly like me your spirit looks exactly like you your outer is just an outer The real you is inside who looks exactly like you so if you're big your spread is big If you're slim just pretty slim doesn't matter You know you still go to heaven where the big small fat or ugly steel there is plenty of room in heaven I mean anyway When I stood and I looked around at my surroundings and when I understood that I'm now in the spirit Then I felt something on my shoulder Something was sticking on my shoulder and when I looked around Wings like an eagle stretch out Six feet in length from the right side and on the left side and it looked exactly like the wings of an eagle When I saw that I understood the truth of Isaiah 40 verse 31 Day that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength and they shall lift up with wings like eagle So that day I understood Everything that you read in the Bible is not a parable. It is real real in the spiritual realm So when the wings lifted up it flat and I flew out from the house across town and entered into a certain person's house in a corner of the house the room was dark When I entered into the house there was already an angel standing in the room and there was a man Sitting on a chair facing the wall and committing a sexual unclean act in the secret and he thought nobody was watching him I was there an angel of God was there two witnesses that day. I knew one truth We are never alone you're never alone Can you believe this if you find it difficult to believe Ezekiel chapter 9 Ezekiel chapter 11 the prophet Ezekiel was taken in the spirit and brought to the temple in Jerusalem And there he saw Behind the walls in the temple a group of men bowing down before idols Where was this in the temple in Jerusalem?
They were secretly worshipping idols and burning incense to the idols in the temple Outside nobody knew but God took Ezekiel in the spirit to see the evil that that have been done by the elders of the temple This is what the supchas mean in second chronicles chapter 16 verse 9 the eyes of the Lord runs to and fro throughout the earth watching his people and in Zechariah chapter 1 you read This prophet Zechariah saw four angels on four chariots and they went to the north to the south to the east to the west and Zechariah asked another angel. Where are they going and this angel told Zechariah? They have gone to see The men they are patrolling officers going all throughout the earth looking at people How do you leave my daily beloved brothers and sisters sons and daughters? We must fear God fear God when he comes again You'll have to stand before him and give an account for whatever you have done in your life the things that you think the things that you spoke and the things that you did your works and the things that you did in your Body what are the things that you done in your body?
Sexual uncleanness When you have an unlawful relationship with another person Either you're not married or you're married and having an unlawful relationship You are join yourself to another person sexual uncleanness That is why the sexual scene is very very evil because your soul is joined to another person Can you imagine if you sleep around with many people how many times your soul is joined to so many and you will be a distorted person Your soul will be distorted your mind will be totally corrupted and distorted You think you will think nothing except sexual uncleanness all your life Because that's how corrupted your soul has become in John chapter 4 The Lord Jesus looked at the Samaritan woman and said You have lived with four men Slipped with four men and by the way, you know the Lord Jesus told her You have four husbands and the present one is the fifth husband But she was never married She was a prostitute so I meditated that for a long long time Why would the Lord tell her that those men that she slept with or had relationship with or affair with her husband's? Because when you commit the sexual act your soul gets united with another The two are no more two they now become one join together one The original plan of God for a family so that becomes your husband this becomes your wife So if you sleep with many partners How many husbands how many wives you have? From the spiritual point of view that's how they see That's how heaven will record in the books And if you commit abortion how many babies you have killed those are all recorded One of my relatives she got married very young she was only 18 years old Matley in love with this boy who's not even handsome Doesn't have a steady job was a loafer You know when you're madly in love you are really mad The mind doesn't work the eyes doesn't work the years doesn't work You know you will not listen to sound advice anymore, right? You're mad.
That's why they call it madly in love So against all family members advice this young girl married that mind And he was young jobless this girl was very young 18 years old not ready for family life and she conceived And her husband told her we are not ready so about So what is called didn't know anything better about it Then a year or I think a few months later she conceived again And her husband told her I'm not ready about about a year later She began to have recurring dreams When she's sleeping on the bed a baby about one foot tall to come and stand on her chest and look at her and we'll begin to cry Mama, why did you kill me? Mama? Why did you kill me? Why did you kill me?
Mama? Why did you kill me? Every day? She has this recurring dream and she'll get up and she'll cry and cry and cry Crying over her sins of abortion Every day she has this dream she cannot sleep in the night And once she gets up she'll cry the whole day whole night she cries Regretting again and again again.
Can he come back? No, it cannot come back The blood of the innocent Christ to God The dream on this talk after she totally confess a sin and got safe then it's tough But the record remains Right the consequences of sin And do you know what's the consequences of the sin? When she wanted a baby she could not conceive for 10 years They went to see all kinds of doctors done any every kind of test IVF ABCD all kinds Nothing work nothing work. They spent so much money on medical science.
Nothing work because there is the consequence of sin So they came to me for prayer So I made them realize this and made them truly Confess all the sin and then I prayed for them shortly after that she conceived and got blessed with a beautiful baby boy Seven years later she conceived again and got blessed with a beautiful baby girl So All those evils are before the records of God So therefore you need this refining process to purify you to cleanse you So that you will become pure and clean in the eyes of God And in malachi chapter three verse three the first part says he will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver That he will purify the sons of lady and purge them as gold and silver So here we find another word called purify that God will purify you the world the word purify in Hebrew means to be ceremonially clean Purify or to pronounce clean So that's what the word purify means which means God will Announce or pronounce now you are clean to give you one good example Once in the old testament there's this process where if a leper When he gets healed he must go to be examined by the priest and the priest will examine him and pronounce him clean Then he's clean if not he's not clean and you will recall when the lord Jesus heal lapis He tells them go and show yourself to the priest they must pronounce you clean Then you can mingle again with society now mark this word When the priest pronounces you clean then you can mingle with society in the same manner When God purifies you you can mingle with the same sin heaven You can mingle with the angels in heaven. You can mingle in all the rums in heaven You can mingle with the son of god. You can mingle with the father. You can mingle with the holy spirit Fellowshiping with the triumph god.
So how is this done? So it is a process cleaning process So now let's ask a question What is the purpose of this refining? Perching purifying what is the purpose? What is the end goal?
Malachi chapter 3 verse 3 and the second part says that they may offer to the lord and offering in righteousness That is the end goal Now when I first read the scripture years ago It says that they may offer to the lord and offering righteousness means like in the old testament that you bring offerings to god And in the new testament you bring offering not only monitoring offerings But also offering of thanksgiving to god offering of praise offering of the worship of sacrifices So this qualifies you to offer unto the lord sacrifices But when I was doing a deep study to prepare for this message I made an interesting discovery that the offering does not mean what I just told you earlier The offering means the what offer in the Hebrew is nagas N-a-g-a-s and nagas means to come near to approach To bring forth Which means you offering you come near before god All the process of cleansing refining verifying qualifies you to come before god Offer yourself you come before god you are now made acceptable you have been pronounced clean So now you can come boldly before the throne of grace That is what offer yourselves as a living sacrifice romans chapter 12 verse 1 And there is another purpose for this refining work Matthew chapter 3 verse 12 It says here His winnowing fan is in his hand and he will thoroughly clean out his stretching floor and gather his wit into the barn But he will burn up the shaft with uncrunchable fire Now this is the end goal another purpose of the refining work What is the result now the winnowing fan is a fox that farmers use to when they have how when they have harvested the wit They all like on the ground they use this fox to throw it up in the air Have you seen this the Ghanaian farmers do that yes or no no You use a modern harvester you drive through no no wit and Ghana second bastard Okay, okay Yes or no Yes It's like a fox long fox and you use you put it into the head you throw it into the air When you throw into the air the shaft flies away Blown by the wind and the wheat will fall down to the ground that is called the winnowing fox So this is what the lord Jesus does it throws it up in the air For what purpose two works a separation and a gathering Separation the wheat and the shaft are separated the good and the bad are separated the ship and the goats are separated The wise virgin and the foolish virgin are separated Separation and a gathering the wheat is gathered into the barn the sheep are gathered into the ship hole a gathering and What do they do with the shaft burn with fire? Burn with unquenchable fire and what is unquenchable fire? Hell Hell So in conclusion The ultimate purpose of cleansing by fire is found in sakaraya chapped out 13 verse 9 I will bring the one third through the fire Will refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested They will call on my name And I will answer them. I will say this is my people and each one will say the lord is my god This is the ultimate purpose of refining So that you will become a people of god and the lord will become your god So when you submit yourself to the holy spirit to cleanse you to refine you It's a daily process What you did last night is the beginning it's not the end When you leave this conference and you go out into your everyday life Pollution from the world will come and stick on you again.
Am I right? You will mingle with the world You're not going to heaven right away You will mingle with the world Lust of the eyes Lust of the flesh Bright of life will come To test you to try you Every day You must ask the holy spirit to refine you to burn you Before you go to bed every night Ask the holy spirit to check your heart Check your heart If there be any sin Check your mind If there be any evil thoughts that you've thought Check your eyes If you've seen unclean things Check your years If you've heard any unclean things Ungratifying things Un-edifying things Check your mouth If you have spoken Things that are not pure Good place worthy This is what I personally do every day Before going to bed and Before I enter into the presence of God I do this every day And I'm giving you, sharing with you My principles This is how we enter into the glory presence of God I mean This evening As I was praying before coming to this meeting Just before our bishop came to pick me I began to sense the presence of God Flooding into my room So I knelt down To pray And as I was staying in the presence of God I saw A man full of fire Walk into near where I was At first I thought It was a seraphim Coming close to me But when This person came and sat on the chair Firstly I knew it was not a seraphim Because they weren't sick Secondly I was able to speak closely And I saw it was the Lord Jesus Full of fire From the head to the toe Full of fire As if he was made of fire And I began to tremble My heart shook And my hands were begin to tremble And the Lord said I am the refinance fire I am the refinance fire And the purifier I will purify my people Like silver and gold He said go and tell my people I will refine them And purify them Like silver and gold And the Lord also told me this one thing He has a special plan for Ghana Special plan for Ghana And there's something special, wonderful Going to take place in Tema Something wonderful Something wonderful Is going to take place in this city That is why these three wonderful men of God They come together Irrespective of their status Coming together as one body Our Bishop Richard Continuously said one word Try partite Three in one Or three together in one When you are united together in one God is going to do Great mighty things in Tema And this is the beginning Beginning You are going to see great awesome things In your individual churches Individual ministries As well as when you come together The three of you As a corporate body That will affect the whole of Tema And for that This is a seat That has been sown here tonight So God is calling you His people To commit To a total surrender To holiness Will you Submit yourself To be refined by the Holy Spirit Will you submit yourself To be washed by the Holy Spirit