It’s a joy to be here again this
morning. We will carry on with Mathew
24:29
Last time I said the sun and moon will turn
to darkness and the stars will follow.
When I was a child I was courageous but the only thing I was afraid of
was darkness. I could be naughty during
the day but if my mother told me to get outside when it is dark, I will scream
and ask for forgiveness. During the day, I will say, “I will do whatever I want,”
but when I got back in the evening, I will be told to get out.
Darkness can teach you something. It is a time where we have eyes and sight but
we can’t see because of the lack of light.
When darkness appears, we will not say we are blind but the absence of
light makes us see differently.
One time I was living in Uganda, we were
supposed to go through a forest. During
the day we can’t cross, it must be night-time.
We were five people including my brother Oscar. We saw a lion in the darkness. We walked for 5/6km but it felt like we
walked for 10 days due to the fear. My
body was shaking because I could see the danger of being killed. However, some people are happy to see darkness
so they can do bad things. E.g.
nightclubs and all other evil, prefer to operate when there is no light so
people can do their acts in secret.
We are living today in a day that has no
light. Evil is now in action. Danger now surrounds Christians. How much temptation are you tempted by per
day? Have you tried to write down each
time you are tempted? My heart or body
can ask for something wrong.
Yesterday, a witch lady rang me. She is an extremely old woman of around
90-100 years old. I see a picture of
someone come up on my phone that I have never seen before. She said, “I am a witch, a snake and I want to
work with you so that you can become someone big in this world”. My heart was beating. Then my phone rang, the person said, “This
person can help you to become extremely rich in 3 weeks only”. I thought, my wealth is in heaven not on this
earth.
My Father wealthier than what she thinks. If my heart was not in a good position, I
might think it was a good thing and I might easily take that position. Looking at the lady herself, she can’t move
or walk and she is ready to give me something that herself doesn’t have.
Satan will promise us something so we will
become famous and get respect but never accept to work with satan. The sun will be turned to darkness, many Christians
who don’t see properly, they will accept satan’s offer because they think it is
accepted in secret. Once accepted, you compromise
your faith and you become the slave of satan instead of Christ.
Suddenly I saw the rates from Hamilton City
Council and bills kept coming in. If I
accept this deal, I won’t mind paying my bills but my soul is more important
than my bills. For that reason, Jesus
said light won’t be there and then heavens will be shaken and suddenly the sun
of man will appear in the sky and every eye will see Him.
Before the end of the time, God has told us
that things will be exactly like the time of Noah where people are eating,
drinking, and getting married. Genesis
6, you will read and you will see even angels came down and found that the
children of human beings were extremely beautiful and angels adored our beauty
and the angels accepted to sin. Today
beauty has taken the highest level that the world can consider.
If someone appears on TV, they must spend 4
hours first to look beautiful. If we are
invited to a party, we want to appear beautiful. Our beauty is higher than what God found
beautiful. God created me and I believe
I am handsome the way He created me but when I look at myself in the mirror, I
start to correct what God created, I’m bald, my nose is short. I might give myself 2/10 because I compare
myself to others.
God looks at us and thinks, who are you to
correct me and believe that you know beauty more than me. That vanity of wanting to look impressive and
beautiful has led thousands in sin. What
is your purpose to look beautiful? Is it
so that others will appreciate you and for you to get glory while God wants all
the glory? We are now fighting for His
glory so we can also be glorified and to be seen.
One time I was talking to two ladies from
different corners of our country. One
looked at the feet of the other while the other looked at the other’s
dress. “Her shoes are not as good as
mine” and the other one, “The dress she is wearing is not as good as
mine”. To buy a car, glasses, we want
something greater and better than others so that wherever we go people can
appreciate us.
My shoes maybe cost me $20 and when I see
Leah’s shoes, I see fashion. Every
single young person will know Vans shoes but when I hear the name Van, I think
of transport. They are worth more than
$100 for a pair of shoes and if mummy tells the kids, “Lets buy food instead of
Vans,” they won’t accept it because they want to be seen by others as special
in their Vans.
Our eyes most of the time focus not on the
light but on physical things that we see.
Our light is Jesus but our focus is not there and we want to walk in darkness
and appreciate what the world gives to us instead of appreciating what God has
given us. Every girl today can be a Miss
World. How many beauticians do we have
in New Zealand? Maybe thousands. Our neighbour is a beautician and we see many
cars arriving at her house per day.
Physically she’s not that beautiful. People want to look more beautiful than
her. People walk in and they come out
looking more beautiful. They rush in so they can’t be seen and when they leave,
they walk slowly, “Stop, look at me now”.
That appearance does not last.
After a few weeks, they go back again.
If you are beautiful in the Lord, you will
shine every day. People will see the
glory of Christ every day and you won’t need to take care of your body that
much because you are preparing the body for the One above.
I eat like a pig and I know some people who
have a diary of food. Monday at 6pm,
peanuts. Monday at 8am, egg whites. Some people have very good discipline even if
they are dying hungry. They don’t have a
big tummy like I do, they are fit and healthy.
Imagine how healthy you would be in front of the eyes of the Lord if you
ate spiritually healthy. Sugar is bad
for us. Open your Bible, what is bad for
your soul? Although the sugar tastes
good but it is bad. What is bad for me? Sin,
it can be tasty but it is bad for me. I
am on a diet and I must protect my soul.
Today, you will see all people fighting to
eat healthier which is good. One time in
Paris, I looked at the menu and the meal was so small. It was healthier so it was more expensive and
portion size was much smaller. Do you
know that the Word of God is very expensive? Do you know that Word of God is
well prepared by the best chef ever, Jesus who has been serving this to us day
after day but we complain, we don’t want this, it doesn’t taste good, we prefer
KFC.
Our desire, our mind is only on the
world. People were eating in the time of
Noah. Everybody wants to get
married. Married to whom. Not to Jesus or the Word of God or to God our
father but to human beings which is normal but not for the purpose of forming a
family that pleases God but one of sin.
It is better to marry a poor lady than a
multi-millionaire. Today, if you have a
lot of money you can marry anyone. Many
will tell you that they love you but they only love what you possess. When you
don’t possess what they expect you to offer, then that love will die.
Our father, Jesus, our Lord, our God has
offered us life but we are not grateful for that, we want more. We can be like those angels like the time of Noah
where we start to envy other creatures and go astray. The world has become crazy.
It is as it is written in Romans 1:5
onwards where the Bible says clearly that man will go for man and women for
women. Pastors read it but because we
are living the similar time as Noah, the pastor will still bless a same-sex
marriage. You call this house the house
of the Lord and you say that you read the Bible but you don’t accept certain
verses of the Bible and only consider where God says, “This is what you have”. This is a serious problem of the church today
and if we don’t open our eyes to see the light, we will live in darkness and
when Jesus comes back, we won’t be aware.
Today I came late on purpose to see what
would happen. I wondered how you would
respond, “We have started the programme, who is going to preach? Where is he, what happened?” Maybe this created worry and doubt. What will you do Tyrone if the preacher is
not here? Maybe there is no plan B. When the time of Noah was there and he was
building the ark, he was telling people to repent but they didn’t believe him
and their minds were only on looking to marry beautiful people and a life of
partying.
Finally, the Lord came and it was time for
the rain and when God came down, He locked the door of the ark. The people couldn’t find salvation anymore. God
was the barrier. Noah had neighbours and
because they were late too come they could not enter the ark. God said to collect the animals. The animals
were so respectful and walked into the ark politely but human beings said no.
Once the door was shut, many would have
shouted, “Open the door,” but he couldn’t open the door because God had shut
it. When you come late, people worry
about you. Aren’t you sometimes late to God’s
plan? When you give yourself the
assignment to read the Word of God every morning at 6am, do you do it? When you have an appointment to pray for
someone, are you on time?
The first thing God taught us was time, He
was creating things on time. As the time
is moving, the day is also moving forward and you can’t stop it. If you say you will start church at 10am, if
we are late, the time will keep moving forward and God will say you are
late. Once we are late, we can’t justify
ourselves, just repent.
We are late today to give the gospel to
others. Since the time of your
salvation, how many promises have you kept with God? When was the last time you surrendered
yourself in God’s hands? Noah knew
exactly what he was doing building the ark.
Have you built your ark? Those
measurements God gave you, “Start here, step one, step two,” how many steps
have you done?
Lebon had a true a experience in his life
at Lois’ place and how he was so scared of cows and even to touch a baby cow’s
mouth. It was a big experience to see a farm
and he wanted to become a farmer and he had extreme joy. If I go through my junk, I can find the DVD
of Lebon being on a farm for his first time.
Even children can enjoy learning something new and we must teach them
new things.
What we are doing is important for Christ’s
return. If you focus only on eating,
drinking, and parties, according to God that is a big distraction. The main party we are waiting for is when Jesus
comes back and then we can have a big feast.
Let us seize the opportunity to talk to others about Jesus. Don’t go to parties to create envy in you.
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