purity and holiness. Without these two quality, no one can see God. Matthew chapter 5 verse 8, Hebrews chapter 12 verse 14. Without holiness, it is impossible to seek God.
So holiness is of paramount importance. Now we are coming nearer to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you believe that? How many of you don't believe that Jesus Christ is coming soon?
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. So my dear bishops, ten percent among these hundreds do not believe that Jesus Christ is coming back again soon. When I was a new believer, I attended a Bible college and the Bible college belongs to a denomination that emphasizes very strongly about the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. So one afternoon, I spoke with a professor.
So we were just talking over a cup of tea. So I asked a professor, an older man, who was also a pastor in the church for a long time, and then he became a professor. So I asked him, sir, see I was just about nine months old Christian. So I said, sir, how soon do you think the Lord Jesus would come?
So he looked at me, wrinkles on his face, wearing glasses, and many years in the ministry more than I think he was about fifty or years old at that time. He said, son, I'll be in a Christian for forty or years. All my life, I was born in the church. And I've been hearing this message.
Jesus Christ is coming again, he's coming again, he's coming again, but he has not come yet. So in a few more years, I'm going to retire. So whether he comes or he doesn't come doesn't matter. When I retire, I'm going to buy a small piece of land and I'm going to do farming.
And then I will die. Whether he comes or he doesn't come, doesn't matter. Are you like that? Except for the ten.
Yes, I'm in. Now you are smart. Well, I have one good news for you today. Whether you believe or you don't believe Jesus Christ is coming again.
The Lord God is not waiting on you to believe. He doesn't care whether you believe or you don't believe. He has set a time when he will come. And when the time comes, just like the s***ers say, at the time appointed, God was born as a human.
So in the same way, when his time comes to come, he will come. Whether the church is ready or not. Like our Apostle Dr. Emmanuel said a beautiful story yesterday about his uncle with a rifle waiting to catch the thief.
Do you remember the story? I would not forget the story. I'm going to use the story in all my messages. Is it all right?
The uncle was waiting 12 midnight, 1 a.m., 2 a.m., 3 a.m., his rifle was pointing at the gateway where the thief will come. 4 a.m., he went into the third heaven or the seventh heaven. And then suddenly he woke up at 4.30, pointing his gun at the gateway. 5 o'clock, 6 o'clock, no one came.
So he must have thought the thief didn't come today. Only to realize all the tyres are gone. The point is, when you least expect the thief came. And when did the thief come?
When the uncle was sleeping. And the s***ers say, do not sleep. Do not sleep. Although the story of our Apostle's uncle was humorous, but it has great truth.
Just as the uncle was waiting and then slept at the last moment. The church is waiting. When was it waiting in the first century? I was amazed when I met a research in the New Testament.
From the time the Lord Jesus was taken up into the heavens. From that time, he'll be the end of the third century of the early church. They preach the message of the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ very strongly. In fact, when they meet one another, they greet them Maranatha.
Do you do that? They greet them Maranatha. Reminding everyone, the Lord is coming back soon. They kept that thing alive.
Never to forget. From the fourth century till now, the church has gone into what they call the duck ages. Or rather I would call it the sleeping mood. Till today, sleeping mood, heaven woken up yet.
Why are you asleep? You know, when you go to sleep, you pull your blanket over, you pull a pillow around your legs, you pull a pillow around your neck. And you're so comfortably sleeping. That's how present doctrines of Christianity or charismatic Christianity has pampered us.
Pampering and we have forgotten that you are not a permanent resident in this world. We are just a pilgrim passing by. And the world and the things in this world will perish. Well perished by fire.
Second Peter, chapter 3 verses 10 to 12 tells us every element in this world will be burned by fire. So what will remain? Everything that can be shaken. Hebrews chapter 12 verse 26 says, Can be shaken so that the things that cannot be shaken will remain.
So what is the thing that cannot be shaken? Your faith. Your faith in the Lord Jesus. Can not be shaken.
Everything else will be shaken. So where do you stand today? That is the question. Where do you stand today?
The wonderful conference has been held for the last 32 years. And for 32 years, the steam, purity and holiness has been preached and caught from this pulpit. How many of you have applied that to your heart? How many?
All you are just a hearer. You came to be entertained. A year ago I was speaking in a church in the US. And I made a very strong point.
And they all started clapping their hands. And I rebuked the entire church. Why are you clapping your hands? Am I an entertainer?
Entertaining you? I'm not entertaining you. The church is not a circus. It is the house of God where the Lord comes to speak to you, to teach you.
And what is the purpose of the church? To make you ready for the coming of the Lord. And to make you all work of the ministry. Not for you just to sit in your church and lay ex.
Don't laugh. This is not a laughing matter. This is something for you to feel ashamed. From the day that you got safe.
Till today. How many people have you brought to the Kingdom of God? Ask yourself, how many? If the Lord would ask you, what have you brought for me?
What would you say? All your silver and gold. All your titles. You cannot bring it up to heaven.
They all get burned. To dust you can. To dust you return. You cannot bring anything up there.
Whatever degrees that you have is just a paper. Piece of paper that can be printed on any computer. Am I right? Just just paper.
You cannot bring it up there. And your titles don't exist in heaven. The only title that exists in heaven is Brother, Sister. And the scripture says, the Lord Jesus Christ is not ashamed to call us.
His brothers. And his sisters. He is not ashamed to call you. Like that.
That is the only title that exists. So how much have you prepared yourselves for a life that you are going to live forever? There was once a very, very rich man in Europe. He lives in a castle.
And he has tons of servants who attend to him. One to put on his shoes. One to make sure that the water is temperature is just right. When he goes to take a bath, then once make sure his clothes are all ironed.
Once cooked the food. Once make sure the water temperature is just nice for him to drink. Every staff. And before he goes for any trip, he makes elaborate arrangement.
A long time before he goes on a trip. So one day, like all of us, he died. So when he died, after the burial of the funeral everything was over, the servants sat down to discuss an issue. So the issue was where did our master go after death?
Did he go to heaven? Where did he go? So each one contributed an idea. Maybe the master is just lying in the ground.
Which some Christian denominations teach. When you go to the ground, that's why you stay. You don't go anywhere else until the Lord comes to heaven. The Lord comes to resurrect you.
They don't even believe that the soul is in heaven. They don't. And most Christians believe that your body goes to the ground and your soul is alive in heaven. So when they discuss this, and maybe one said, maybe he went to hell.
And then another said, maybe he went to heaven. But the chief servant told them, no, I don't think our master went to heaven. So the others were surprised. They asked him why?
Because he said, whenever our master goes somewhere, he makes a detailed plan. He prepares a head of time. And he gives me an instruction, what I should do, how I should prepare for the trip. But our master, all his life, and never ever spoke about preparing to go to heaven.
Which means his heart was on the things of this world. Never had any thought of going to heaven. You are not going to live in this world forever. Do you think you are going to live here forever?
No. So if you are not going to live here forever, where will your life be in the next life? In the next life, heaven or hell? If I ask this question to all Christians, all of you will say, I am going to heaven.
Am I right? But my question is, are you really sure? The reason why I ask this question is, I have been graced by the mercies of God. To see from the other side, what really happens to a soul when they die, where it goes to heaven or to hell?
So because I was graced by God to see, I have come to the conclusion. It's not good enough to know by faith where you are going. But just like the Apostle Paul wrote, make your calling an election sure. Make it sure.
You must know, be an all-shot of doubt. That's where you are going by the lifestyle you are leaving. Heaven is a place of holiness. If you are going to go there, then your life must be holy.
If your life is filthy, worse than the standards of the world, though you come to church every Sunday. What does it matter? It doesn't matter. When God sees you, he sees you just like an unbeliever attending a religious service.
Period. In India, the Hindu people worship millions of God, and they also consider many of them, or most of them. Lord Jesus has one of the gods. So they are praying to say, 10 gods, why not at another God?
That's how they believe. And they have deep reverence and respect for all gods. So if you just add a picture of the Lord Jesus to many other gods, that doesn't make you a Christian. Yes, I mean, it doesn't make you a Christian.
Similarly, with all the idols that you have in your life, you add another idol called Jesus. Does that make you a Christian? No. Before COVID, I was asked to pray for a pastor's mother-in-law.
And this woman was not born in a Christian family. She was a Hindu and saved. And in all her life, she attended church. She lived a Christian life and everything.
So now she was dying. Not dying of not a very old age, but she was maybe in her late 60s or early 70s. And she had cancer, her stomach had bolted, and she was counting her last days. So the pastor asked me to come and pray for his mother-in-law.
I stood there praying. And as soon as I started praying, something mysterious happened, a glorious happen, that I have never experienced in my life before, nor another experience again so far. That was a very frightening experience I had. I saw that heaven's open.
And I saw some things in heaven. And they looked down at me and they rebuked me for praying for the woman. What are you doing there? Get out of this place!
I began to tremble. Because never was I ever rebuked by a sinking heaven. So as I was trembling, I managed to pluck some little courage to ask them what's wrong. And they said, this woman has been judged, turned over into the hands of the devil for the destruction of her flesh, and she will go to hell.
So you don't pray for her. And what is the reason her life was full of bitterness, unforgiveness, anger, against men of God. She was always criticizing every Christian except her. No one else was perfect.
So the pastor was there. His wife was standing in one corner. That's her dear mother. So what am I going to say to get out?
This is not laughing matter, you know. What is this? Would you be laughing? Then why are you laughing?
So somehow I said some words and I ended the prayer. But the pastor who knows me for years saw my face being shaken. And it took me 45 minutes to come out of that experience. I was so shaken that I could not become normal yet.
And after 45 minutes, the pastor asked me what happened to you. So I narrated what I was told. And the pastor now became shaken and he told me, whatever the saints in heaven told you are correct. Then he told me about his mother-in-law confirming every word that I was told.
So now who is this mother-in-law? Born again Christian. Baptized in the water. Baptized in the Holy Spirit.
Did some little ministry. But when did she end up? Why? Heart not forgiven.
The scripture says very clearly, if you will not forgive one another, your father in heaven will not forgive you. These words were not spoken by an apostle. It was spoken by the Lord Jesus himself. The author and creator of our salvation.
He knows what he is talking about, right? He knows who can enter and who cannot enter. Unforgiveness. There was another woman.
And this woman got saved in the year 1981. And from the day that she got saved, she was a zealous Christian. Very zealous. And she was the chief among the women in the women's ministry.
She would always take teams out to go and pray for the sick people, sick women, the churches, those who could not come to church. She would take them to visit. And whatever little way of ministry she could do, she did. And she was the chief prayer warrior in the church.
And every pastor who comes to the church, she attended and acknowledged the metri-church. So every three years a new pastor comes. And every pastor comes there. They will always acknowledge her because she was the most senior member in the church and a praying woman.
Later on in her life, she became afflicted with arthritis. In her hands bent, her fingers bent, and she used to have pains in her knees. And she became very lean and thin. And whatever medicines that she took, nothing will work on her body.
And on top of that, every now and then she will be tormented by demon spirits in the night. Now all you Africans understand what it means to be tormented by demon spirits. And she was spread for by all the top men of God India. Nothing worked.
So one day she came to me for prayer. As I was praying, an angel came down from heaven, stood by my side and said, this woman will go to hell. A very seasoned Christian. And what is the reason?
Unfookiness. Unfookiness in our heart. And again, think of the lips criticizing, backbiting, gossiping. The scripture says very clearly, if you beg, bite and gossip one another, you are devouring one another.
And the church stands at the door to judge you. In today's present times, there is a new form of backbiting, gossiping and criticizing. We take it to the social media. Yes, I mean?
We use Twitter or X, Facebook. And we take videos of people we don't like and post them on the video criticizing them. Now we don't need to gather in two or three. We just go and upload on social media for the whole world to laugh at us.
That is the work of the devil and not the work of the Holy Spirit. Because the Holy Spirit will convict us of sin, not shame publicly. Holy Spirit doesn't do that. But the devil does.
He condemns you and shames you publicly. So when you do those kind of works, who's seven are you? The devil's. You're not God's servant.
There are some people in India who claim, oh, the Holy Spirit moved me. Inspired me to expose six in the church on the social media. I once told a man who claimed like that. I said, you are a filthy worker from the pit of hell.
Because the Holy Spirit will never inspire you to do that work. Why? I gave him the scripture, the Lord Jesus said, if you find someone in fault, go and talk to him directly. If he doesn't listen, face two, bring two or three and go and correct him.
If he doesn't listen, face three, then bring the matter to the church. Not to social media. To the church, church community. Not go to the public streets in Tema.
And you broadcast aloud about your brother. These are the bright lines from the Lord Jesus. And how can you say the Holy Spirit moves me to do something on the public against the words of the Lord Jesus? The primary work of the Holy Spirit is to glorify the Lord Jesus.
Whatever the Lord Jesus says, the Holy Spirit does. Whatever the Father said, the Lord Jesus did. So if the Lord Jesus says, this is the way to do correction. This is the way to deal with offenses.
The Holy Spirit is not going to overrule the Lord Jesus words. My dear beloved brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, can you now see how low we have fallen away from holiness and purity? In the year 1992, I was invited to a church in the US in a city called New Mexico. So it was a small Pentecostal church, maybe about 50 to 100 people there.
And they had a very lively worship. And the musicians, they were all anointed with the Holy Spirit. They were singing in the Spirit, singing in their natural language. And during the worship, I thought in my heart, what the holy church this church is.
It's such an anointed atmosphere and I prayed. I sincerely pray to the Lord. Thank you for bringing me to this wonderful church to see how holy they are. As I was praying this prayer, the Lord Jesus said to me, when you go to the church, before you preach your word, look at the church and say this one word.
If I come today, none of them are ready to go to heaven. I was shocked. So I did exactly as what the Lord Jesus told me. And there was a pink drop silence in the church.
Normally, after the church service, you'll come for individual prayer. That day, no one came. So after the service, the pastor invited me for lunch with the church elders. So each elder sat in one group of tables.
The pastor is a woman pastor and her daughter, we sat together in a separate table. And the menu cart in the restaurant was a very large menu. It was half my size. Literally, I'm not exaggerating half the size.
So the pastor held up the menu cart and came very close to me. And she said, this is this, you know, she was introducing me to the dishes because we went to a Mexican restaurant. Just like if I wouldn't understand, Ghanaian dishes. So you would have to explain to me what Ghanaian dishes are, and my favorite are Jolo Price and Dodo.
And they say the best Jolo Price is from Nigeria. All right. But the Nigerian's claim that. You don't agree?
So the best is from Ghana? All right. Since I'm in Ghana, I cannot disagree. But Jolo Price is that?
Delicious. You know what I mean? So, and while I was looking at the menu, the pastor leave close to me and she asks me a question. She asks me a question.
She says, brother, you say, if the Lord Jesus comes like now, none of them are ready to go to heaven. What about me? So I asked the pastor a question. When I gave the word, where were you?
She said, I was sitting right there before you. Then I said, that includes you. You know, whenever I prophesy like that, he doesn't bring joy to me. It grieves me.
That even the pastor to the last believer in the church are not ready for the coming of the Lord Jesus. So what kind of a lifestyle are we living then? It also begs another question. You are living alive, not in preparation for the coming of the Lord Jesus.
It is never in your mind. Never in your mind. Yesterday, when a apostle in manual gave his wonderful message about the coming of the Lord. He gave seven points.
How many of you remember the seven points? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen. Are you sure you're hand up or down? Up there.
Up or down? Put it up. 15, 16, 17, 18. So out of the several hundreds here, only 18 remembers those seven points.
So what about the rest of you? You came here to be entertained? If you came here to be entertained, then you are in the wrong place. Because the church is not a circus ground.
It is not a movie theatre. It is not an entertainment center. Where a singer or a dancer or a stand-up comedian makes jokes. This is the place where the break comes from heaven.
This is the place, the house of God. It is the house of Prya. And this is the place from where you are trained to go out and do the works of ministry and bring souls into the kingdom of God. So I think you are in the wrong place.
On the 30th of June, 2023, I was in South Korea participating at a prophetic conference. So one morning at two o'clock on that day, I knelt down to pray. As I began to pray, I heard the Holy Spirit say, A setup wants to talk with you. A setup is an angel from heaven.
So I began to prepare my heart and quieted myself in the presence of God. A few minutes later, a setup came and stood by my side. Now who is a setup? What's a setup?
Comes from the Hebrew word Sharap. And Sharap means two things, a venomous neck or an angel with six wings. And this setup is mentioned in only one book of the Bible, Isaiah chapter 6, verse 2, verse 3, verse 6 and verse 7. Nowhere else in the Bible you will read about the seraphim.
And the word Sharap means fiery ones. And why are they called fiery ones? Because they appear full of burning fire. Not just fire, it's burning fire.
Why do they appear like that? Because they stand in the very presence of the consuming fire. The Bible calls God in Deuteronomy chapter 4 verse 24. And Hebrews 12, 29, that God is a consuming fire.
So when you stand before the consuming fire, what did you become? You become like that. If you take a rod of iron and you put into a furnace of fire, after some time the rod becomes red hot. Am I right?
Because it's in the fire, in the same manner. If you stand very close to the consuming fire, all that is upon you and within you will be burned. That you become like the consuming fire. So that's how the setup looks like.
And Isaiah 6 verse 2 says, the seraphim each has 6 wings. Now there's a difference between the seraph and the cube. In Ezekiel chapter 1 you read, the cube bin has 4 wings. What else the seraph has 6 wings?
Now interestingly, the Hebrew word for seraph is also used in Isaiah chapter 14 verse 29 and chapter 30 verse 6 for fiery serpents. Now the word fiery serpent does not mean the serpents are full of fire. It's just that when they stink you, there's a burning sensation that goes all over your body that makes you feel like you are on fire. Now why God uses them whenever Israel goes away from the will of God.
Numbers chapter 21 verses 4 to 9 and Deuteronomy chapter 8 verse 15 says, God allows these fiery supple to come and fight or punish them. So the serpents were used by God as his agents of discipline. Now seraphim are associated with the holiness of God. Holiness and fire of God.
And Isaiah chapter 6 verses 1 and 2 tells us that dwell around the throne of God and above it. That's where their place is. Besides, like the caribim who stinks God around the throne of God and they fly above the throne of God crying holy holy. That's all true because they see the holiness of God.
Knowing you are on top, you look down on the throne of God. They see the glorious glory of God which caused them to get excited and they cry holy holy holy. Which tells us one thing, the essence of God. Why is he unapproachable?
First Timothy chapter 6 verse 16 tells us he dwells in unapproachable life. And in chapter 19 we read that when God came down on Mount Sinai, the whole mountain top burned with fire. And the throne of Israel was standing far away from the mountain top, was trembling with fear. Why?
Why does God appear like fire? The fire is the outward symbol of God's holiness. The essence of God is holiness. If you remove holiness from God, he sees us to exist.
He will just be like any other gods of this world. I was a human. So from my growing up years, I told you earlier that Hindu people worship millions of God. But in every Hindu home we have an altar and there are at least about 10 to 15 pictures of the gods that we will bow down and worship.
None of the gods in all their books, teachings ever talk about holiness. None. No other religion talks about holiness. They say do good.
But the Lord Jesus said be good. That's a difference. Anybody can do good, but not all can be good. Being good is an internal thing.
It's a character. You can be a robber and still do good. You can be a gambler. Gambling all your money and bring the tithes and putting the offering box.
Right? Who knows who can see where the money comes from? He can be even a robber who stole four tithes and bring one tithes to the church. And give to the bishop pastor.
I want to donate this tithes to your church. Who knows the same tithes will come to even our apostle Emmanuel. Right? You did not know where the money came from.
But the Holy Spirit knows. You can fool all men, but you cannot fool God. So the set of him dwell around the throne of God. They are very fierce creatures.
Yet have a very kind look on their face. When they stood before me, that's what I saw. The glorified burning from their presence. Yet their face had a very kind look.
Like an angel's kind look on their face. So who are the set of him? They are the sanctifiers of God's throne. Isaiah chapter 6 verse 3 says, they circle around the throne of God and they praise and glorify the holiness of God.
That's all they do. All throughout their lifetime. Flying around the throne of God. I once read an interesting story from the experience of an American pastor who had the privilege to be caught up to heaven.
So when he was in heaven, God gave him the grace to visit the throne of God. So he stood at the distance because he cannot go near the throne of God. And he saw the set of him flying around the throne of God, crying, holy, holy, holy. And he stood there for some time, just looking at the seraphim.
And let's suppose he stood there for an hour. And for one hour, they said nothing else except those three words, holy, holy, holy. So this pastor was quite curious. And he asked his attending angel, don't the seraphim get bored of just saying three words again and again and again and again.
And he asked them for how long have they been doing that? So the attending angel said they have been saying that before the creation of the earth. So the geologists tell us that the earth is about millions of years old. Creation science tells us the earth is 6,000 years old.
Okay, let's forget about geology, let's speak to creation science. So for 6,000 years they've been going around saying those three words. So these men have got wondered. How could they just simply say three words again and again and again.
So he asked the angel, how could they do it? So the angel gave a very interesting reply. Now let's suppose this is the throne of God. So let's just imagine I'm in a seraphim.
So I go around the throne and I look down and they see a character of God. They get so excited they cry, holy, holy, holy. Then they go around they come again and they see another character of God. They cry holy, holy, holy.
So for eons of time they see the manyfold character of God and they cry holy, holy, holy. That underscores or confirms what the sutra says, the manyfold wisdom of God, the unfetchable wisdom of God. Which means there is no limit. You and I have one character, or maybe two characters, one outside.
Yes, I mean, at the most two characters, or maybe three, one in the church. One character home, one character outside, one character in the church to be of holy. Yes, I mean, look at the character of God. Unsuchable.
Besides that, the other important work that the seraphim does is they sanctify a person. It's like chapter 6, verse 6 to 7. They also have a job description to sanctify a believer, sanctify a man of God, sanctify a church. And that is the purpose they visited me the day.
To give me the word, the seraphim are coming to cleanse the church. They are coming to cleanse the church because the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ is drawing near. And God has been waiting and waiting and waiting. We are not going to put our lives right.
So therefore God has decided to push us to put your life right. So he's sending the seraphim to the church. Now turn your bibles with me to the book of Isaiah chapter 4, and we will read verse 4. Isaiah chapter 4 verse 4.
When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall appulge the blood of Jerusalem from the mist thereof by the spirit of judgment. And by the split of burning, the split of burning here is the Hebrew word seraph. Now look at the first sentence, the Lord shall have washed away the filth of Zion. The daughters of Zion can be translated to me, the church.
All agrees. All ministers have got agree. So the Lord shall wash away the filth of the church by sending the seraphim. So they have gone forth to all the churches all over the world to effect a work of purity and holiness.
When they come and they stand in your mist, they will come on holiness in the church. Now those who respond to them in repentance will be cleansed and sanctified. A good example is found in Isaiah chapter 6 verses 6-7. When the prophet Isaiah saw the glory of God.
He saw the heavens opened, he saw the Lord that seated on the throne, and immediately he cried out, oh I am a man of unclean lips. He repented and he cried. And when he did, the seraphim came. And he touched his lips with a pearl of fire from the altar in heaven, and instantly he became clean.
So when you repent in response to the word, but they will stand by the right side of the pastor, and they will inspire the pastor to speak words about holiness, to challenge the church to holiness, to call for the sins in the church, to rebuke the church of sins. And those who respond in repentance, they will release their fires, to cleanse, to sanctify, to refine, to purge, to be made ready for the coming of the Lord. Now if you look at the prophet Isaiah's life, he was a good man. From chapter 1 of chapter 5, he saw visions, he was prophesising.
Then why did he say, I am a man of unclean lips? Because there were some issues in his life that were not dealt with. See when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, your old man is still there. That is why you fall and you sin.
When your baptized are the Holy Spirit, your old man is still there. That is why you still sin after the baptism of the Holy Spirit. When you are called into the ministry, you are moving in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, you still sin. Why?
The old man is there, of some un-delt issues in your life. They are still there. That is why the Bible says you need the baptism of fire. Baptism of Holy Spirit, baptism of fire totally touch you, totally burn you of all the trust in your life, so that you appear before the ice of the living God.
That is what the seraphim do. So, when they come, they will effect a work of cleansing in your life. I personally experienced this on 15th April, 2023. One morning I was praying and repenting of some sins and shortcomings in my life.
As I was doing that, I saw a setup come and stand before me and he appeared totally white, blinding white that I couldn't see. And when he did, he came off from him and it made a washing, a cleansing, verifying experience in my soul. I personally experienced that. So, that is what the presence of the seraphim will do.
To plant, to sanctify and to refine the church, making her the bright of Christ. So, you need this sanctifying grace from God. You need this. The Lord saw us.
We struggled with those sins. We tried to give up, but we couldn't. Are you there? Is that your problem?
You try very much to give up. You are successful for one week and then you fall down again. You try to be a way from the sin, then you fall again. God has been seeing our struggles.
So, now he is sending you help from heaven. He is sending you help from heaven to praise you, to put you, to purify you, to refine you, one and for all. God comes right now. All of you are ready to be caught up into glory.
Amen? Now, if you repent, the seraphim's fire will sanctify you. What if you don't repent? Because there will always be people who will not repent.
Am I right, everybody? There will always be people who will doubt. There will always be Christians who will not agree. There will always be Christians who will find fault.
There will always be a Judas. And there will always be a Peter who will deny. And there will always be a Thomas who will doubt. And there will always be a man like Alexander, the Copasmic, the Blacksmith who turned against salvation.
One self is not always safe. Many of us have got you agreeing? One self is not always safe. The Lord Jesus Himself said, in Matthew 24, 13, He that end the end, only they shall be saved.
So, what happens if you give up at the last movement? Then what? If you don't end the end, then what? Can you make it?
Let me direct you a true story that happened in Russia. Seven pastors were arrested. Now, this happened when the Communists were still ruling the USSR. So, they were arrested and they were stripped naked of all the clothes and made to walk in the icy vinta for several miles to a place in Siberia.
Siberia is the coldest place on planet Earth. So, they were brought there where there was a pond. And the pastors were told to go into the ice-cold water. And then the captain of the Russian army, he also had seven sets of one clothes.
And he made seven sets of fire and seven bottles of vodka before them. And now the pastors are standing in the shivering cold and they were swaying about to die. And the captain would every now and then say, why are you so foolish? He announced he's come out of the water, put on this one clothes, sit by the fire, drink vodka and be married.
No matter what he says, the pastors would not move. And then he saw the body turning blue. And one by one the pastors were now swaying about to drop dead. And something supernatural happened.
The captain saw seven angels coming down from heaven with seven crowns. And each of the angels stood above the head of each pastor. And this captain who was smoking a cigar the time, dropped a cigar and just looked at the whole scene with white eyes and white mouth. And as he was looking, he was too shocked to say anything.
And just at the time when the pastor was about to drop dead, the angel would lay a crown in their head. So as soon as the crown is lit, the pastor dropped dead. First-pastors, second-pastors, third-pastor, fourth-pastor, fifth-pastor, sixth-pastor, all dropped dead one by one by one. The crowns are pulled and they dropped dead.
Now when he came to the seventh-pastor, something strange was happening. The angel who stood above the seventh-pastor was coming down and going up. Coming down and going up. So the captain wondered why this angel is playing games.
Coming down, going up. Coming down, going up. You know what was happening. The seventh-pastor was depeting in his heart, shall I renounce?
Each time he got shall I renounce, the angel would go up. Each time he said, no, I will not, the angel came down. So the angel going up and coming down was a reflection of the pastor's heart. So finally, the seventh-pastor said, I renounce Jesus Christ.
I don't believe him in any more. I believe in communist Russia. And he came running out of the water, put on the one cloth, set by the fire, began to drink vodka and burn a cigar. So the seventh angel was going up.
And the captain who saw all these removed his clothes and he said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the twin living God. Now that's not the end of the story. The Russian captain ran to the very spot where the seventh-pastors was. He stood there and lifted up his hands, making his declaration one more time, and he received the crown and he dropped it.
He died. Now the seventh-pastor had suffered so much under communist rule, but he did not endure till the end. At the last moment, he lost his salvation. He lost.
So can you lose your salvation? That is why the Lord Jesus said, in Revelation 2, hold on to your crown that no man take it. Why should you hold on if there's no danger of losing it? Right?
Now you see this pulpit here. It's been there for the last three days. And I'm sure this is when we have for how many years? We should.
20 years or two years. For two years this pulpit has been here. Have you ever seen any church usher holding on to this? So that the thief comes at 4.30 in the morning?
No. Nobody's holding on to this because there's no danger of this pulpit being stolen. But if there is a danger for this pulpit to be stolen, they will make sure they are CCTV cameras all around. And make sure they are guards slipping on the stage all the time so that nobody spills the pulpit.
Right? But there is no danger. No need to guard. The Lord Jesus said, hold on to your crown.
That you do not lose it. So you can lose your salvation. You need to guard your salvation. God, you never take your salvation for granted.
Never. Let me repeat again. One safe is not always or forever safe. That is a lie from the peak of hell.
If you ever hear any teachings like this on the YouTube, burn your YouTube. Do not swallow every false teachings that you find on YouTube. There are so many false prophets in Africa. From the north to the south, from the east to the west.
Flutter with false prophets. Why? Because you can make money easily. Everybody wants a prophecy.
And how do you know the prophecy will come to pass or not? You come and you stand and then the basket is put here. You want a word? Yes.
500 CD. It's true. Right? It's true.
In America, they go by numbers. $1,000, you get a word. $2,000, the prophet hugs you. $3,000, hugs you, and the prophecy is recorded in a cassette tape and given to you.
You wouldn't believe. People Q before such a false prophet. This was in New York City, some many years ago. And that same gimmick is practiced in Africa.
There are some false prophets who even sell a bottle of water labeled as blood of Jesus. I'm not lying. I'm not exaggerating. Have you seen that?
Blood of Jesus. And the prophets sell this water and every dumb, stupid, silly, blind, deaf Christians in the church by that. How can you be so dumb, blind, deaf, and stupid? Only those who fall in love are like that.
And he makes tons of money. How? And then there's another false prophet who runs the church members to eat grass. Have you seen that?
And people roll on the floor eating grass like a cow. How much more silly can you be? There's another prophet who tells the church to drink poison. And he takes us, he keeps many serpents in his church.
And that's in the pulpit, he's a big box. Many serpents in the box. Have you seen that? And he takes, before he preaches, he takes a serpent and he calls the scripture.
If anyone takes a serpent, nothing will harm them. And he kisses the serpent and he puts back in the pulpit. One day, that serpent beat him. It's true.
The serpent beat him and he died. Right on the stage in a Sunday church service. Why is there such foolishness? Why?
Why are Christians so gullible? What is the root cause? Because there's greed in your heart. Greep.
You want financial prosperity. You want financial blessing. Greep. So you go to a false prophet who promises you that.
Bring your money to me. Put it under my feet. And you'll get all your money in your bank account. Have you heard that?
If you want financial prosperity, I show you a short talk. How many of you have financial problems? Nobody. Wow.
Wow. This is the first church in the entire Africa where people have no financial problems. My God. So since you all have no financial problem, you're going to bless me tons before I leave Ghana.
So tell me, how many of you have any problem? Do you want a financial miracle? I share with you one secret. How to get financial miracle?
Like what you saw, of course, an Emmanuel do yesterday. You give to God without any false promise of what you will get. With all your heart. All your heart.
Not baggley. With all your heart. Give. With all your heart.
Then you shall receive good measure, press down, check and over. Flowing over. God will give you. Open the windows of heaven.
This is a challenge from God. Bring your tights. I understand in Africa, you don't bring your tights. See, you are living in sin.
If you live in sin, how can you expect God's blessings? Sin number one. You're not titing. Some people like to say that's not in the Bible.
It's only the Old Testament. Then I tell them, I agree. Since it is in the Old Testament, those of you have Bible in your hand, please open to the Old Testament. Then I tell them, since it's in the Old Testament and it doesn't apply.