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Welcome to Global Harvest Calgary's podcast, where faith becomes real and purpose comes alive. We pray that today's message helps you recognize the hand of God in your everyday life and discover the unique purpose He has placed inside you. Our heart is that you don't just hear a sermon, but truly experience his presence, his guidance, and his love in a personal way. Whether you're in a season of searching, rebuilding, or stepping into something new, you're not here by accident. God is closer than you think, and your purpose is greater than you imagine. Enjoy the message.

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All right, so Ecclesiastes 11:1 to 4. If you're there, say yes, I'm there. Excellent. Okay. It says, Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days. Give a servant to seven and also to eight, for you do not know what evil will be on the earth. It says, If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth. And if a tree falls to the south or the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall lie. Everybody help me with verse 4. Want to go? He will regard the he who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap. All right. Now let's go to Second Corinthians chapter 6, 1 and 2.

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1 and 2. Okay.

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It says, We then, as workers together with him, also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

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Everybody, verse 2. For he says, In an acceptable time, I have heard you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you. Says, Behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

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I just want to preach as a charge that the Lord's put upon my heart for us at this season. Preach the gospel now. Preach the gospel now. Would you help me tell somebody around you, preach the gospel now? Yeah, it is time to preach the gospel. Today is the day of us of salvation. Now is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation. Father, we're grateful for the opportunity to be in your presence and thank you because your spirit is with us right now.

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Lord, let this truth be engraved upon our hearts that we may go forth and preach the good news and be all you called us to be. Thank you, Father. Everyone that believes says amen.

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Um last week's Sunday we had Pastor Matt with us, and he was just charging us about the place of absolute consecration to the Lord and living out as disciples of Christ and not just about uh uh asking us the question is is the life you're living worth Christ dying?

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And then he stretched out on different sizes.

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And um, as I was checking up my old notes, I just remembered how I heard Reverend Samadi and me say once that your life is too small to be the purpose of your life, and that look, you're you're too small to be all that God was thinking about when he created you. It it it will make a very myopic view of what God wants you to do with your life, and that we want to be people who are not just inviting God into our plans, but that we are sold out to God's plans. Can I get an amen?

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All right, and then on on Thursday, Pastor Sam just took us right into this engaging with the with the preaching of the gospel and uh the practical ways to share Jesus. And he just went on talking to us about place of prayer, the place of uh starting a faith conversation, sharing your story, inviting someone to church, um, sharing a Christian resource or or material across all your platforms, explaining the gospel, being able to explain what salvation really means, and then acting as the Holy Spirit leads us, and then he told us to um lead someone to Christ, we should go, we should pray for boldness and all.

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And and as we went into the breakout rooms and had conversations from there, um, I just felt that there was this thing that the Lord uh would have me charge us on, like Pastor Sam left us with saying, Go. And I'm saying that now, now is that time. And as I thought about that, the the scriptures in Ecclesiastes popped because I realized one of the challenges we have with preaching the gospel now, one of the problems we have with preaching the gospel today, one of the challenges we have is because we want everything to be perfect before we preach this gospel. We want to be people who are sure that um you know we're we're in the right place to be able to preach the gospel and and all of that, and that we want to be sure of the outcome before we preach, that once we preach like this, somebody must catch it and and the person must get saved, and and especially as we find ourselves in this community now. But Ecclesiastes 11:4 says, He that observes the wind will not what sow, and he that regards the cloud will not reap. And he's saying, Look, people who want everything to be perfect will never get anything done. Because think about it, he's saying the person who wants the wind to be in place before he plants will miss out because sometimes the weather pretends to be doing something, and then nothing really comes out of it at the end of the day. See, because if you always wait that oh, the wind is contrary, this is that, and that is going on, you won't sow. But guess what? I guess the sowing part is you you feel sorry for somebody who doesn't have any investment, who did not do any business, who did not, who's just always waiting for things to be perfect. But imagine that the person goes as far as to sow, to weed, to to to nurture, to care for what was planted, and now it is harvest time, and the person is looking at the cloud and refuses to go harvest after all that work is done. Hallelujah! And and and and I needed to understand that for for some of us have these perfectionist tendencies, and all of us have it to different degrees, but some people are really, in fact, I think at an extreme they say people were all OC um OCD, like uh the compulsion to make things perfect. I I've heard of all the extremes I've heard, I've heard of a guy who every time he gets up to to use the washroom, when it comes back, he must lay his bed before he can lie on it. I mean, he's such a he has such a knack for making things with the joke we crack in in the marriage school because every time his wife gets up to use the washroom, he must always make sure the bed, the bed must be the sheets must be neat and stretched out. Praise God. Don't worry, people have it in different ways. Some people their cutlery must be if if it is not that way, they cannot eat. Some people, I mean, it's different things with different people, but the the general idea is that some it it's the it's the buff for procrastination, really. Because what then happens is say, Oh, I'm gonna this year 2026. What the things I set out to do at the beginning of the year, we're just waiting for things to be perfect. Pastor Kiddy has been talking about saving. Don't worry, when I have so so so so and so, I will start. And you're just waiting and waiting. Oh, this investment, if you go and put something on and US drops bomb somewhere, they'll just lose all your investments. And people have different reasons for procrastinating, and the same thing it is when it comes to preaching the gospel. And and I just want to trust God to deal with some of these things today so that you can know you are ready to do what God told you to do, and that now is the time. Can I get an amen? Can I get an amen? All right then. So let's get into it. There are about six things I want to pull out, and the first thing that that gives that gives us the challenge with preaching the gospel is that we believe we are not ready yet, or I should put it this way we believe we are not perfect yet. We're not perfect yet. That oh, you know what? I know I still make mistakes. So is if someone like me is preaching, will I not feel like I'm just deceiving people? If someone like me preaches, won't I have the imposter syndrome? You know, like I know am I really authentic with the mistakes that I make and and and with and with the shortcomings that I have. I need you to understand that God has called us to maturity, not to perfection, in the sense that you will not make mistakes. Maturity means you're growing in your knowledge of God, you're getting better and you're getting better and you're getting better, but it does not mean you are you attain a state of perfection where you don't make you never make any mistake at all. It is it is inherent in the human nature that we are still fallible, we we still sometimes make mistakes and and do things wrong, but that does not disqualify you from preaching this good news. Can I get an amen? The most important thing is that you truly have an encounter with Jesus. Is your life changed? One of the stories that throughout this to us is John chapter 4, because Jesus met the woman at the well. You remember that story, and and this woman was a woman that the Bible told us is had five men and and was with the with the sixth person that the Bible says was not even her husband. And so this woman was was like the talk of the town, she had been that kind of person, but when she met Jesus, the Bible told us in verse 28 and 29 of John chapter 4 that she left her water pot and then ran into the city and then called everybody. Say, hey, I just had an encounter with somebody, and so the premise of her inviting people to Jesus was our encounter. The premise is that Jesus told me everything that I ever did. I've encountered somebody. If truly you've encountered Jesus, then you have the right to preach Jesus. I said, if truly you've encountered Jesus, then you have the right to preach Jesus. The only person who can't is the person who has not encountered him. If you've not been touched, then you can't preach him. In Acts chapter 9, the Bible told us of Saul of Tassos, and this Saul was such a wicked guy. Saul was somebody who took on himself a personal mission. The state, the religious people were unkind to Christianity. Obviously, they had killed Christ, and then persecution broke out against Christians and they were doing all kinds of things to them. But the Bible told us that Paul made it a personal mission in Acts chapter 8. I think that's somewhere in verse 2 or 3. The Bible says that Paul took God went and got personal permission to be able to go to people's homes and drag off men and women. And I mean, he he made it a personal mandate to finish this Christianity. It was not this, it was not state-sponsored, it was a personal mission. Do you understand what I'm saying? It was that was how bad he was, and then in Acts chapter 9, on the road to Damascus, the Bible told us that Jesus appeared to him in the sun that the light that shot that shined brighter than the noonday sun. And then he went blind, and then he had this he had this encounter with Jesus. And verse 17, after he was blind for a season, but the Bible told us that Barnabas, God had sent Barnabas to him, and and um verse 17 Ananias rather went his way and entered the house, and laying his hands on him, he said, Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road as you came has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit. Verse 18 Immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he received his sight at once, and he arose and was baptized. Verse 19. So when he had received food, he was strengthened. Then Saul spent how many days? Some days with the disciples at Damascus verse 20.

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Immediately, what did he do? After how many days? After some days, how long have you been saved now? Some years.

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So when are you going to talk about this Jesus? Do you understand what I'm saying? So the moment you have this encounter, meanwhile, this Paul was still far from a finished product. Talk to me now. It was just a few days, and then so what continued by the time you get, I think, somewhere in verse 20. Okay, let me just take it to 22. It says, Then all who heard were amazed and said, Is this not he who destroyed those who so people can still talk about hey, what you used to do in time past? Okay, oh, and and then I come, verse 22 says, verse 22 says, But Saul increased all the more in strength and confounded the Jews who dwelt in Damascus, proving that this Jesus he just kept getting better, and that's the that's that's the invitation. Every child of God, just make sure you're on that journey to keep walking with the Lord, to keep following the Lord as we get better. But the moment you give a life to Christ, you have the license to preach Christ, and you should tell. That's what Pasem was telling us. The least you will do is at least tell of your story. I was once blind in John chapter 9. They had met the guy. I think Pasem was still talking about that as well on Thursday. And then they asked him, Is Jesus a good Jesus or a bad Jesus? They said, The person that healed you, is he a sinner or not? He said, Whether he's a sinner or not, I don't know. One thing I can tell you is that I was once blind, now I can see, and then he now even teased them. He said, But you people said God don't do not answer the prayer of sinners. If the man is a sinner, how come God heard him? They said, You that you have been a sinner from your buttons. They kicked him out to get out from here, but they couldn't stop him from talking. Hallelujah. Somebody may not believe you, but at least you have the right to speak. You have the right to speak. Can I get an Amen? And so God is not waiting for you to be perfect before you can talk about His goodness in your life. You have the right now. Now is the time for you to do it. Can I get an Amen? All right. Number two, sometimes, uh uh um well, what did I call first one? You'll never be perfect, right? Or you'll never okay. Number two is the time will never be perfect. The timing will never be perfect. The timing will never be perfect. You know, I was asking myself, what is the right time to tell church to preach? Maybe it'll be after we have done very well in our careers and we're all established, and then we're good, and then and then maybe then we'll be able to preach, or maybe when you know we sometimes come into oh, winter, it's winter, everybody's in their homes. We don't have the time to preach right now, and I never forget how that this lasts winter. I was like, Lord, so what if Jesus comes during winter? And then, oh, so we're waiting for summer. Well, thank God summer is here, praise God, but it won't last forever, it will go. Are you still here? What would be the right time to preach this gospel? Sometimes you tell yourself, No, it's too early in the morning. I can't be talking to somebody about Jesus just now. Or I'm coming back from work, the person must be tired now. I can't be telling them about Jesus, or you know, we just always come about different things and just wanting, you know, Pastor, honestly. I'm just waiting for that. I will get that right moment. Yes, this there's this cousin I wanted to talk to, but the last time he came to my house, we talked about politics today. We're gonna be talking about football, so it's not the right time. Just we're just waiting for the right time. I'm gazetting that's anything, that's a very interesting word. You know, I'm I'm I'm I'm watching out for the right time to preach this gospel, and then I now remembered the Holy Ghost reminded me of Acts 16. You remember Paul and Silas, they prayed, they sang, and the Holy Ghost did what? So, and there was an earthquake. So, let's take you from Acts 16, 26, because now they have been put in prison, and then they had prayed in the sang, and then there was an earthquake. So, from verse 6 from verse 26, okay. So suddenly there was a grave earthquake, so that the foundations of the prisons were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were loosened. 27 says, And the keeper of the prison, awaking from sleep and seeing the prison doors open, supposing the prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was about to kill himself. He says, But Paul called with a loud voice, saying, Do not harm, do yourself no harm, for we are all here. He says, Then he called for a light, ran in and fell down, trembling before Paul and Silas. He says, And he brought them out and said, Sir, what must I do to be saved?

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What time of the day is this? Church, talk to me. Right?

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So the guy is asking, What must I do to be saved? Verse 31. So they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household. Verse 32. It says, Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. Verse 33, everybody help me. One, two, go. And he took them the same arm of the night and washed their stripes, and immediately he and all his family were baptized. When? In the middle of the night. I thought I would have said, Oh, okay, and by daybreak, oh, you yeah, oh, you know, because I mean, because we want things to be perfect. Are you following what I'm saying here? Middle of the night baptism. This family, see, you are in a very dangerous family. We can do anything at any time. Middle of the night. The Bible says, verse 34. I'm gonna let go 35. Now, when he had brought them into his house, he set foot before them, and he rejoiced, having believed in God with all his household, verse 35. And when it was day, the magistrate sent the officers saying, Let those men so it was all of this was in the middle of the night. That's why Reverend George Adeboy was sharing with us once that he was on the flight going somewhere, and then he got somebody saved on the aircraft, and then he ministered the Holy Ghost baptism to him on the flight. And and when the guy busted out in tongues, that's when some flight attendants came and said, What's going on? He said, We're just we're just in this family. We can get anybody saved anywhere, anytime, on the bus, on the train, in the air. Hallelujah! And so, when is the perfect time? It is now, it is now, it is now. Are you following this? So that we're not waiting and and waiting, he that observes the wind, he that regards the cloud will not reap today is a day of salvation, now is acceptable time. Number three, we fall under the delusion when I fully understand the culture of the people, when I fully understand the culture of the people, you will never, you will hardly ever fully understand the culture because it's evolving and and and maybe maybe eventually, but it's at a long time project. Listen, Jesus knew what he was doing when he told us to go to Jerusalem, Acts 1.8, to go to Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to what uttermost part of the earth. Did he not know we're of different culture? Talk to me. I said, Did he not know we're of different culture when he sent us out? He knew he knew the culture would be different, the language would even be different, but he told us to go anyhow. Why? Because this gospel breaks all cultures, and this gospel is for all cultures. This Jesus is for every tribe, every tongue, every nation. Can I get an amen? And you're not waiting till you fully understand the culture, otherwise, you will you would people will die whilst you're waiting, and that's what happens every time. People will die whilst you're waiting. But I'm telling you, with what you have right now, with the basic understanding you have, there is something you can do with it. You know, there's there's a very interesting story of culture in scriptures. Should I show you? So Acts chapter 10. Paul, uh Peter rather, uh got into a trance and then he saw this shit come from heaven, and the Lord told him, Rise, kill, eat. And he said to the Lord, I have never taken anything unclean all my life. So three times that happened, and then he left. And then eventually the Lord said to him, Some men are the door, they are from me. Follow them. Because now this was going to be the the we're taking, we're going cross-culture missions now. Are you following what I'm saying? We're going what cross-culture. So Peter, being a Jew, is about to go to Gentiles. Literally, what I'm saying to you is like saying an Israelite is about to come to Calgary or is about to come to Nigeria or to Ghana. It's is like that, and it's about to tell us of Jesus of Nazareth. Do you understand what? I'm saying, I don't know if you can just imagine your hometown right now, your your biological, you know, your your natural, your how do I say it now? Is it your first first first place of birth? Anyways, just imagine an Israelite dropping there and coming to talk to your people about one Jesus of Nazareth. Do you understand what I'm saying? That it looks it looks and and and to think white missionaries actually came to Africa and we got the gospel, and so black missionaries have come to Canada and they will get the gospel, and you need to understand that because the devil can let you think you are not culturally fit for the assignment, but the devil is a liar. So Peter now gets to the house of Cornelius and is feeling all strange. In fact, he felt so strange he didn't even know how to preach to them. Now, let me let me help you understand this. Remember on the day of Pentecost in Acts chapter 2, after the Holy Ghost came, and then people thought they were drunk. That Peter got up and said, Guys, we're not drunk as you people think. And then he preached and he told them, They said, What more? You say, Repent and you shall be saved. And then the people repented, and that day we had over 2,000 people that repented and became Christians. Do you understand? So he was not a stranger to preaching, he's had results by Acts chapter 4. They had got more results. He preached again repentance. But by the time he got to the house of the Gentiles, honestly, if you read, you see, Acts chapter 10, verse 38 is where you have and how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power, who went about doing good and healing all of them, the oppressor of the devil. For God was oh, do I have time to okay? Okay, let me walk it a little. Let's go on. Verse verse 30, verse 39. Let's see if I can get it. He says, And we are witnesses of all this of all of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they killed by hanging on a tree. It says, Him God raised up on the third day and showed him openly. It says, Not not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before God, even to us who ate and drank with him after he arose from the dead. It says, and he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that it is he who was ordained by God to be the to be judge of the living and the dead. It says to him, all the prophets witness that through his name whoever believes in him will receive remission of sins. Verse 44. While Peter was speaking, now you see you see. Now please, what did Peter just tell them? Did he make altar call? You know why? Because he didn't, he didn't, he didn't just know where was this this the message was preaching. He don't even know where it was going. You see, because he's just thinking, hey, it's like it's like saying, Lord, you told me to come here, but okay, so I'm telling you people about Jesus, he did wonders and miracles, he did this, he was not pointy like he was in Acts 2 or in Acts 4. He was just he was just telling them about this Jesus. But the moment to God was God was just saying, Go ahead, go ahead. By the time he got to verse 42 and 43, when he told them that whoever believes in him will have that was the word the Holy Ghost was waiting for. Because remember verse 43. You know, it didn't make the other call, that's what I'm trying to say. But the moment he told them whoever believes in him will receive, once they heard that, faith came in their hearts, and God said, If I wait for this, Peter. So the Bible tells us in verse 44, the Holy Ghost, he just whilst Peter was still the Holy Ghost, just came and boom, came upon the people. Now, when that happened, Paul said, Okay, so it says, Okay, yeah, let's read. While Peter was speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word, verse 45, and those of the circumcision who believed were what that was they were not expecting. Do you get because this they were astonished as many as came with Peter because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also? Verse 46. For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God. Then Peter answered, He says, Can anyone forbid water baptism now that these should not be baptized? Who have received the Holy Spirit if he was left to him, he was not baptizing nobody because there was no way it could not even it was after God did what God was going to do that he says, ah okay, we do we don't have a problem, we have to we have to baptize them now. I mean, what's my excuse for not baptizing them? And God used him to break the mold so that we can know you can go cross-cultural, and all you need is let the gospel preach itself. Just you declare this Jesus because it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone. If you will, if you will just tell somebody that God loves them, there is power in it by itself to bring salvation. You just teach, you just preach, you just declare this Jesus and let Jesus do the work.

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Yeah, you just declare Jesus and let him do the work.

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The unbelief of the pastor could not stop the gospel, the unbelief of the apostle could not stop the power of God from working. Hallelujah. So don't wait till you have just preach this Jesus, just preach this Jesus. Number four, don't wait till you have the perfect message. Don't wait till you have the perfect message. Just taking it all right or already from here, like I said, it didn't even make alter call. And it's even funny because I not even remembered even the first message where people that says, What shall we do? Men and brother, what they were the ones who ask it, okay. Men and men, what shall we do? You will repent and be you see, because look, let me let me tell you something. Um, it's good to prepare, it's good to be trained on how to preach, it's good to be equipped on how to be preached. There are um, it's good to understand. One of the the some time ago, we were trying to do a bit of an apologetic work, and meaning we're trying to give the reason why we believe what we believe, so that if somebody asks you why do you do this, you're able to give an answer, all right? Every child of God should be because that's what God, if somebody asks you why do you go to church, you should be able to give an experiential, a relational answer, not just a theological, not just uh, not just um an historic story. What I mean is if someone says, Why do you go to church? Don't say ah, I was born to I was born a Christian, we go to church every Sunday. That's a very terrible answer.

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Amen. Why do you go to church to worship, to spend time with the Lord?

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You see, it that's relational to know more about God. One thing I will I desire, Psalm 27. One thing, one thing have I desired that will I seek after that I might dwell in the that I might behold and to inquire in his temple. Now he's David is telling us why he goes. Why do you go? Why do you come to church? Why do you give your tithe? Why do you give an offering? Why do you pray? Why do you fast? You you it must be beyond Pastor said so. All right, and so and so that's why, even when we're gonna do Stampede, we didn't tell you okay, all of us are volunteering. We told you why we are salt, we are light. Someone says, Why is your church volunteering as stampede? You should understand why, because this is not a mystic thing that pastor has spoken. Everybody lines up, that's good, but with understanding, amen. Amen. All right, so so we we we do all of that, we get equipped. When I was gonna start preaching, they taught us a Roman road to salvation. Pastor uh Pastor Degule taught us that some time ago on on a Thursday service, and we do all of that to be able to take people from all our sin and falling short of the glory of God, the wages of sin is dead, but the gift of God is down like through Christ Jesus. God commended his love to us and that when we're since Christ died for us. Uh, if you believe in your heart, the Lord Jesus confessed your mouth that God raised from dead. You know, to be able to and and and I can tell you that because when I just when I just got saved, there's to be Gideon's New Testament Bible, those cute was it blue black black thing. You see, they usually fit into our back pockets, so that if you're on the boss, you're in the washroom, anywhere, you can just bring it and read. And we preached with it, and those days when we go out, even with the big Bible. Um, I I've I discovered firsthand that it was not easy to to show a comment to take the person to John 3:16, and then you take the person to Romans 3.23, and then you take the person to Revelation 1. It was not easy to flip because you have brevity of time. So Romans made sense. You're in one book, start with 3, 6, 8, 10, and then you you are just there, easy, easy, easy. And so there is a skill, praise God. But so, and we should learn and keep improving. There's a wrong, there's ABC of Christianity. A all our sin are following God, B, because of saying God, see, Christ came and redeemed us. Finish. So that that skills, praise God. But where you don't have anything, the one you have is that once I was blind, now I can see that is good gospel. Amen. Amen. Yeah, I used to be so afraid of night, but when Jesus came into my heart, I was an empty head before I met Jesus. Oh, after I met Joseph, I have a testimony, and so we have something to start with. So don't wait till you know all the scriptures. If it's only one you have, don't three sixteen is enough. It's enough with your story, with your testimony. Please let's do it. If you wait till you have it, you will not preach this gospel.

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Number five. People don't always appear ready for salvation.

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You say you want things to be perfect when somebody, you know, it's good if if um imagine that you get to work tomorrow and a colleague comes around and says, Woman, woman, I told you no, but you know, I had such a terrible nightmare and all of that.

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Now, how many of you know that's a door for the gospel?

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Yeah, okay. Now, honestly, I don't know if you ever had nightmares, but I used to have nightmares. Some of them were were self-inflicted after watching horror movie. You now sleep, and something will not be chasing you through the night and and and and jumping. That's why sometimes, anyway, let me leave people alone. So, somebody who somebody will go and pay money in the cinema, sit down, and to be scared to scare himself, and then he now get home. He is his belt will not look like a snake, the the goodie will look like one demon's coming to chase him, you know. And so, so some so somebody says that to us. So, what do we do? If I had a prayer of experiences, wow, you won't believe that used to be me some years ago, but it's completely different now, and it's because I met Jesus. You know, if I pray with you right now, that the nightmares can stop. Now I can pray, and then I say, and then when you have Christ in your heart, even if you have a nightmare, you can get up and rebuke those terrible things. When people talk to you about their problems, it is a door for the gospel, it's a door of opportunity for the gospel, and we should enter it. And that's one of the reasons I'm saying preach the gospel now, because on Thursday, we were establishing the fact that there's hardly any of us here who has not had an encounter with somebody who told you something, especially here, where somebody can you can come and say, Hey, Jude, how you doing? No, I'm not doing good. My cat had a terrible night. What happened to you my to your cat? He he hit something and his tummy kept you know moving, moving, moving. Now, how is that a door for the gospel? You know, God made the cats so that you can have family, isn't he? What about you honoring the one that gave you the cart? There's nothing, there's hardly anything that can become an opening. And the the the thing is, when you have somebody who of themselves start a conversation, I think I was sharing the other day about one of our pastors, uh, Pastor Femio Duwale, went to uh the US embassy from Nigeria, Lagos. He was applying for his US embassy uh US visa, and the the intervening officer asked him, So what do you do? He said, I'm a preacher. He said, Really preach? Let me hear you. I said, Oh my god. Oh, yeah, you asked for it, amen. And when he started, he said, No, he said, No, it's not enough. Let me tell you a little more. You see, because you asked for it. When people say hi to you, they open the door when they tell you, isn't it a good weather? Say yes, and I'm glad about the God who made the good weather. They were the ones that asked, though. So I'm saying, look, I'm I'm I'm I'm stirring us up, like Pastor Sam was doing on Thursday, to take the courage to have the conversations. What a lot of us do is that we have the good conversations, but we don't talk about God. We talk about, you know, it becomes a good conversation, you become a good friend, but let them also know you're a godly friend. Bring Christ into it, it's a door of opening now. So it's easier when somebody has a problem. Oh, my daughter, oh, she's gonna kill me. You say no, say no, she's not gonna kill you, and then you you go on and talk about it from there. But some people don't give you nothing. You say good morning, they say hi, and they go. You you know, they shot you. You know, some people at work anywhere, they're not just nice, nasty by nature, but you know, we tend to think those people are not ready, isn't it? Yeah, because you just say yourself, oh, this one's not ready for you. You know, this one you just and this this person's not ready. But you know what Jesus told us in John chapter 4? He said, You can look at the field and say a few more months, and this one will be ready. But he said, But the field is white already, they're white for harvest beyond that stoic face and facade is a soul that's desperate, is a soul that's desperate for Jesus, a soul that needs Christ. So I'm encouraging you to go past the faces and to recognize that the people you think are not ready are ready. They need Christ now. Let me give you my number six and I'll wrap up. Number six is we don't have as much time as we think we have. We don't have as much time as we think we have. Jesus said, I must walk the works of him that sent me while it is day. Why? Because the night comes when no one can walk again. Look, we don't have forever. We we and that's why I said, you know, in terms of perfect timing, I wish I can tell you a time is gonna come when you know when life won't be life in. You know, like like okay, this morning I could I could preach any anything else, I could preach the force of favor, we can talk about um taking your inheritance in Christ. We can talk there are so many topics we can talk about, all right. That would I can we can preach on hope and faith and and and be encouraged in the Lord, amen. All right, and and we can preach on salvation, and so the the the thing is we won't stop needing faith and hope, and we won't stop needing to preach. So it's not like when you finish one, when you have all the hope and all your prayers are answered, then now we can preach. No, we we go along with it as we are trusting God for the miracles, we tell people about Jesus. As we are trusting God for the miracles, we tell people about Jesus as the summer comes, we tell people about Jesus, winter switches, we tell people about Jesus. Either in prosperity or adversity, we tell people about Jesus that remains constant, it remains constant, and so this is God is tearing our hearts up at this season to recognize that we don't have forever to do is God-given assignment. And I must also tell you, the harvest does not have forever to wait. He that regards the cloud will not reap, and if they don't reap, what happens to the harvest? It will spoil. So there are persons, some of us have I've had people who we didn't get to preach to them and they died. Some got sucked in into some into some other cultures, into some other religion. Never forget my hundred-level first semester. There was a lady in banking and finance. I was on 100 level, and and and and I felt my picture, picture, picture, preacher. I kept I kept waiting for things to be perfect. Oh, maybe when we're at in this lecture, oh, maybe when we're that, and then and then in Nigeria, there's something called strike, and then it could be a lectoral strike, it could be something strike or all worker strike. And so there was this strike, and we disappeared for five months. And by the time we came back to school, still first semester, she came back with her hair covered, head covered, full hijab. She had moved from being a nominal Muslim, oh so now my work. Just to say, about about uh about 15 or 18 years after she had become head of she had become a lecturer in my department, and I went back and she was still covered. My heart broke again because sometimes the window we have is not forever. So God tells you to do something that little cousin, nephew, niece, hold them now, hold them tight now. That your friend, this is the time now. Is the time tomorrow may be how many of us have heard that before? Tomorrow may be too late. Yeah, it literally, practically could be late, and that's why I'm saying to you in fact, if you're in this room this morning, you are overqualified to preach this gospel. Please preach him. You don't even have any excuse. There's whether you are not perfect, you don't have enough scriptures, you don't just do something and let the Holy Ghost take over. Can I get an Amen?

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