Hallelujah well let me again start this morning by acknowledging those who have gone before me you know um the STS crew uh starting with sister du who came uh to point out very Salient lessons from Pastor speech I put the speech in parenthesis because you know he said he wasn't preaching that day but from the the much that he said he was able to draw out some very very essential truths and then how do we thank Dr loo DOA who came in here and you know just gave us a bar of prayers and blessings with so many scriptures I'm still trying to get over them and I said to myself this is a v vintage message anytime I feel you know that I need those blessings I will just invoke them over my life again and of course uh a big thank you also to brother Fey who came uh last Sunday and emphasized the need for us to have the heart of the father well um we did decide and agreed in the STS team that the entire month of December was going to be dedicated to a theme titled lessons from our father but be because of the way he went I think only two of us have been able to do something like that uh but when I looked at the fact that I would be on December one I said to I said I've escaped that one after all November is not December she said L Li you know so here am I standing and um looking at the theme lessons from our father and I have put as my topic for this morning follow me as I follow Christ now um can we look at Ephesians 51-2 uh because I first and foremost want to establish the reason why we have picked this theme and why it is necessary for us to do so Ephesians 51 and 2 says therefore be imitators of God as their children and walk in love as Christ also has loved us and given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling Aroma and then the second one there is First Corinthians 11:1 imitate me just as I also imitate Christ and then 1 Corinthians 4:15 to17 for though you might have 10,000 instructors in Christ yet you do not have many fathers for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel therefore I urge you imitate me and so you find you know those three different text that I have used you know I just remembered I haven't prayed that's religion for you but I believe that the Lord is there with us and the Holy Spirit will give me utterance in the name of Jesus Okay so we've looked at those three sets of scriptures uh we'll find first and foremost the one in Ephesians when we are taught to be imitators of God as his dead children and to walk in love as Christ also loved us and then he cascaded down you know to Paul saying imitate me but just as I also imitate Christ and then you know in verse in the last one in 1 Corinthians 4:15 to17 not only did Paul give the admonition he actually also deployed uh Tim uh Timothy have did we read that can we go back to that text please 1 Corinthians 4 um for though you might have 10,000 instructors in Christ yet you do not have many fathers for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel therefore I urge you imitate me 17 now for this reason I have sent Timothy to you who is my loved and faithful son in the Lord who will remind you of my ways in Christ as I teach everywhere in every church so he went ahead you know not just to admonish us uh but to also send Timothy you know to coren to keep the church in constant remembrance of this church now I believe that from this any time that you know anybody within the church setting wanted to do something you know that was the charge I believe that somehow you know Paul became the yach stick for every action or decision that was taken or to be taken and I could imagine them thinking would Paul do this what would Paul do okay so the goal of this teaching this morning is defined by these three text and I'm hoping that by the time we are done we also will take as a y stick for our actions and decisions will Pastor do this or what will Pastor do so if you look at those three text there are two people persons that the Bible encourages us to imitate first is God I mean and you know that God is is um it doesn't operate alone so you have the trinity encap encapsulated in that scripture so we are supposed to be imitators of God Christ the Holy Spirit and then we are supposed to be imitators of our father in the Lord which is what Paul was saying now let me say a second why should we do this a second reason why we should do this is actually targeted at reward and so if at any point in time there's anyone here who has never seen or or understood that Pastor has been rewarded and he's been continuously rewarded for you know for his imitation of Christ for the life that he live if you were here for his 70th birthday celebrations then you would understand that there is actually reward in imitating Christ and then also in imitating the fathers of the faith now let me states that that scripture says father in the Lord and so it is not all fathers that we are supposed to imitate a father that is not working you know in the world that is not working according to Christ is not someone that is a perfect example for us so please let's take note of that you know sentence fathers in the Lord hallelujah okay so I'm going to be looking this morning at lessons that I have basically learned from Pastor tund bakare lessons that I have cons consciously followed diligently followed and which I know it has even gone beyond believing which I know I have been rewarded accordingly for now um initially when I was thinking that he was like ah but my reward hasn't reached pastor but the truth of the matter is I've been rewarded according to my several ability so you know and I believe that anyone who's also doing the same thing will get the same reward that he gets because God is not a respector of persons and is not a partial God so so very quickly Hebrews 6 10 to2 my daughter was looking at my notes and she said to me mommy you love this thing about patience I said even me I don't know because I don't know how many times I must have quoted this scripture standing on this platform so let's look at it for God is Not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward his name in that you have ministered to the Saints and do Minister and we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full Assurance of Hope until the end that you do not become sluggish but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises so the first thing I want to consider about ptb is the fact that he's a man of great faith you know when you talk about the gifts of faith I see that gifting you know not only deposited in his life in measures more than abundant I see them deployed you know and if you are somebody who has studied him and let me say something to us you don't even need to have met him to be able to study Pastor or to be able to benefit from his Teach as long as you can listen to him before I came here and became a permanent member I'd been listening to him for maybe some 15 years or more okay for instance I became a Dominion partner as far back as 1998 but I didn't step up step into this place as a member of the church until 2010 so you can imagine and so a number of the things I've learned from him were actually lent in those former years now he's a man of Faith he possesses I wrote here a a stubborn and dugged faith in God and His word that he believes that everything is possible with God and to him who believes nothing shall be impossible he actually took time at some point in time to teach us that with God all things are possible and to him who believes nothing shall be impossible now you look at a man has a thriving law you know practice was into business had made his millions and all of that and you would imagine that at the very peak of that career When anybody will say okay I'm getting there and God says okay shut it down and without a Shadow of Doubt without any form of argument he did as he was told and even when people tried to reason with him you know you can still you can still practice this thing and then still do ministry you know he he he did not listen to that canel he was a man I'm sorry he's a man he's a man who is always willing to follow through 100% if there's a 150 he will do it what kind of faith is this I liken it to the same thing that Abraham you know did when God called him at the age of 75 and said get out of your father's house and he just did what the Bible says he obeyed and the Bible said something that he did not know where he was going it didn't know it wasn't as if there was a particular you know Assurance all God said to him was to a place where I will show you he didn't even have an idea and so it's the same kind of calling that Pastor had and he went you know because he may not have known where the Lord was leading him but he knew who it is that was leading him and then if you don't even know about all the other Faith work sit there this one does not stop to aound me is a man who would take the word and pursue that word so that word you know um water that word do everything engage with that word until he sees it come to pass you know and I ask myself what lesson do we learn from here what lesson do we learn because is a man that I see who doesn't do it otherwise what does the Bible says and he follows it through you know going little by little the lesson here you in terms of in terms of imitators being imitators of those fathers of the faith who are in the Lord who continually do it according to scriptures Hebrews 13 7-9 there is the very first lesson it says remember those who rule over you who have spoken the word of God to you whose Faith follow considering the outcome of their conduct how many of us love the outcome of pastor's conduct you are silent on me Hallelujah you love you love the outcome you love the reward you know and so he saying to us today that we should do what we should remember such persons they have spoken to us the word of God not any other word the word of God and then it says we should follow their faith and so we're going to say this morning Father help us help us to follow the faith there's that song that says Faith of Our Fathers you know help us oh God that we might also in Bible we might also imitate this man in terms of this fa work with you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ so that also Father as we consider the outcome of his conduct we also would have the same in the mighty name of Jesus now if you look at that text that text that we read you know Hebrews 6 talks about faith and patience so my second consideration from our text of course is patience ptb is a patient man how do I know he's a man who is never in a hurry to arrive he's a man who understands the power of process and is willing to wait it out he often tells us that he would rather be part of a thing that starts small and grows big than to be part of a thing that starts big and ends small and he will tell you that his life has always been slow you know as I was writing that I put something down I wasn't even sure if that's the correct proverb my Elder is here I said pastor do is that the way it is okay it's not somebody that rushes to take hot Pap that's the you know the interpretation or the translation of that and then I now stumbl ped upon another one I'm sorry I'm going to interpret you know this one says Toby the meal that you are going to eat for a long time you don't start by cutting the muscle big you know you take it little by little one day at a time a man that did not build his house that he will reside in until he was 60 years old what what kept kep him let's ask ourselves is it that Pastor before he was 60 did not have the means to do that he will call himself Chief tenants why was he doing that you know he's a man that is led by process he's a man that is led by God's timing he's a man that will not hurry into anything and if there is anything I also want us to learn from him this this morning it is that ability to be patient a lot of us the problem that we have is that we want to run ahead of God it does not run ahead of God in the demonstration of his faith and of patience he talks about project 16 and though so many people you know scun him so many people say this is a man that with doggedness has held on to that word given to him by the Lord and is waiting job said all the day of my expected life will I wait until my change comes and the Bible tells us that those who wait upon the Lord do what they renew their strength they mount up with wings as eagles they run they are not weing they walk and they are and you know they don't grow F amen and habac also tells us he says though the vision Will T he says wait for it it will come I don't know what it is I mean that's the thing that kept on brewing in my mind even as I kept on you know looking at this word for today I don't know what it is oh that you think you had so much DeLay So Much delay and you have probably gotten to a place where you want to work things out with by yourself I say to you this morning please don't pause and don't wait I say on the Lord that's what the Bible says and in the name of the Lord Jesus the Lord will give us the strength to W through he will you know he will increase our faith and it will make us you know to trust totally in him knowing fully well that what he has said is also able to bring to pass in the name of Jesus what's the lesson from here Isaiah 28 and in ver 16 whoever believes will not okay therefore thus says the Lord God behold I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation a tri Stone a precious Cornerstone a sure Foundation whoever believes will not act hly please don't act hly we have not so learn that of our father Psalm 81946 to 47 I will speak of your testimonies also before Kings and will not be ashamed and I will Delight myself in your Commandments which I love oh that's all which I love okay now I'm looking at the second thing pastor's intimacy with the word you you can't overemphasize that he has never come to this place to present anything to us outside the world there's no oil there's no water there's no oroke you know there's no you know 70 days fasting 70 you all of those things there are no emblems that introduces to us everything he focuses upon is the word if the word cannot do it it can not happen anything that you make happen outside of the word is not God it's counterfeit it's not going to last long and what lesson have we learned from this great man is the fact that enter the word you know I actually use is the word here pastor's intercourse with the word the intimacy is so strong you know with the word and you begin to ask yourself now anytime you if if you have been privileged to go and see him even if he for 5 10 minutes Pastor will go into the word after he said oh how are you the next thing is the word and then STS starts and you can be there for the next four hours for the next 5 hours and it's you know you say anything you say I remember one day I was there that was after I'd returned from my trip this year and I want to just say a KOA you know to him and as we were talking Mrs B asked me a question and I began to respond and then I came across something and I said go Pastor actually there's something about some you know about this event in my life that I don't understand and then I told him a few things he just turned and said who is there get me my iPad and the next thing Isaiah K read it this one this one by the time you know it was trying to draw my attention to something and it would open it it will tell me I read it I will read I will see the words 10 years because it had to do with the time you know 10 years and then he will call another one I will open I will read it by the time he called the third or the fourth one when I got to 10 years I kept quiet he said read it you know and so this is the one that we deal without if if if our father if our teacher always settles on nothing under reward what right have you to do otherwise why do we keep running elter Skelter because that is the thing that I find with church folk they are always here and there they listen to this one listen to that one I don't know I was speaking with somebody he was brother family me I was speaking with yesterday and she he mentioned somebody I said a husband I said I don't know anybody God forgive me it's not Pride you know it's not that I don't you know listen to other people but I just stay in the house I stay in the house if you have a child that you raise and train in the house and then you find out that that child is always going from one house to the other to receive instructions how will you feel there will be confusion so I'm encouraging us this morning can we imitate this one even as he imitates Christ every time Jesus Christ spoke he said it is written what do you know that is written what kind of Engagement you know do you have with the word of God and and so that for me is a very critical one and one thing that I also put here you know Pastor is so fixated on the word that anytime at least to the best of my own knowledge that you will find Pastor disagree with a man and walk away it is always on the basis of the of the word always on the basis of the word it doesn't take him time and then he would say a friend ship that ends never truly began and I and I'm asking myself I don't understand that oh especially when you are looking at friendships that have span you know a long period of years if I have a friend that I've had for 30 years I would think okay that my heart is settled with this person this person is true but Pastor you know it doesn't matter how long the moment you come against the word he has gone well there's no story no sentiment nothing and then I said maybe I will still ask him about that statement sir but the truth of the matter is the Bible says if you are not willing to forsake father forsake mother for take wife well he has taught us that he didn't say husband and that he would tell us why so one day I cornered him I said ior said women women were not considered as people so that's why we shouldn't even have an opinion I say God will forgive you know the generation so and even children so if God is that deep and he says to us if your right eye will cause you to sin cut it off if it is EV and what is saying here is that if even if your father your mother your wife or as the closest relationship you can have will come and stand against the of God he says if you are not ready to push them aside and go for the word he says you are not fit for the kingdom that's a tall order that's a tall order but Pastor I've never known him to be emotional he obeys that instruction to the letter you know and somebody who tried to go off that instruction very quickly turn with me to 2 Chronicles 19 I'm not sure I put it there thank you 1 to2 he says then josaphat the king of Judah returned safely to his house in Jerusalem and jeu the son of anani the SE went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord therefore the Wrath of the Lord is upon you we remember this story from when Jehoshaphat aligned himself with haab to go and fight in a battle that he was not supposed to go to you know why because Ahab was his father-in-law you know what I'm talking about he was his so maybe he was too shy to say no and he followed him despite the fact that a warning had come up there he's going there to be destroyed you know and then God helped him they shot at him randomly but for God and when he came back the SE was waiting to see him should you help the wicked you know and and so what is our lesson but for the fact that the you know that scripture actually ends therefore the WTH of the Lord is on you but he now comes and says nevertheless some good things were found in you that was the thing nevertheless good things are found in you in that you have removed the wooden images from the land and have prepared your heart to seek God this is what brother Fey was talking about last Sunday because God looked beyond that stupid action into the genuiness of his heart he escaped that Roth some other FS may not be so lucky amen what is the lesson here Colossians 3:16-17 it says let the word of Christ dwell in you richly not sparingly richly in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing with Grace in your hearts to the Lord that is the lesson from that second uh uh you know uh lesson from ptb the number three thing that I want to look at second Peter uh chapter 1 yes verse 10 I put here if time permits we could read we could back up to verse five and I think I may be able to do this so can you please back up to verse five thank you so that we can get the full understanding second Peter 1:10 okay but also for this very reason giving all diligence giving all diligence add to your faith virtue to Virtue knowledge to knowledge self-control to self-control perseverance to perseverance godliness to Godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness love for if these things are yours and abound you will be neither Barren or fruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ for He Who lacks these things is shortsighted even to blindness and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins now 10 therefore Brethren be even more diligent to make your call and election sure for if you do these things you will never stumble for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the Everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ I want to look at pastor's diligence I don't know if I've seen a more diligent man of Personality than he is when you look at his itinerary from morning till night and it keeps on going it keeps on going now this is a who will come here and tell you this this this food that I brought to you today I spent 16 hours preparing it now even me we are not the 16 hours squ you know but you would expect that a man of his sture in the spirit his knowledge in the word you would expect that hav spent some 35 years and more because he actually started preaching before you know the L assembly came into being you would think that a man like that does not need to do too much study if he will do at all but pastor at every time that he has to minister even if it's for 15 minutes Pastor will study as if he's preparing for a qualifying exam he will study like he's preparing for ION you know like he's preparing for what are all those doctor's exams and all all of that and you just wonder you just begin to wonder why does it do that diligence commitment he commits that same due diligence to everything that he does to his family the way you know he hovers over his family and ensures that things are in the right place the same diligence to his trade the same diligence to his call and his ministry and even his assignment to the nation when Pastor went and was part of those who did the National Conference when he began to talk about the things he presented I said to myself is this man was he the only one there he took it upon himself that it was his job it was his duty that is the amount of diligence that he puts into everything that he does now I do not understand how a man like that would be our father and we will have slothful people in the house I don't understand it I don't understand how a man of such Excellence will now produce people with a mediocre spirit I don't understand it it it's alien it does not it does not align at all and so if you are here and you are a son you are a daughter in the house and you are not diligent and you are lazy and you are slothful and you always looking up to people who will come and you know always begging always begging not finding your hands to do something you know that will that that some labor that will produce something for you and then you know you even come you borrow under pretenses you don't pay back that is not the man that we have come to know and I don't know where you brought that from that's a strange Spirit it should never have its way in this house Hallelujah so what do we see all through scriptures we are instructed to be diligent in all things I can come with over a 100 or even more of scriptures like that but I've written down just four in 2 Timothy 2:15 I didn't give you uh media uh multimedia so sorry about that 2 Timothy 2:15 says be diligent to present yourself approv to God so if you are looking for God's approval the only way by which you can get it is through diligence so if you don't have diligence forget about God approving you nothing like that the second one is second Peter 1:10 sorry second Peter 110 it says be even more diligent okay therefore Brethren be even more diligent to make your call an election sure for if you do these things you will never stumble so we're looking it's it's graduating you know the heat is getting higher the first one says be diligent to present yourself approv to God this one says Be even more diligent to make your call an election sure look this common salvation don't think is so common oh that you know you can just walk through it there's a diligence that is required to make that election to make that calling sh otherwise may we not fall by the wayside in the name of the Lord Jesus the third one is Jude 13 says I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation in writing about this salvation in ensuring that this salvation goes to the ends of the world Jud say I did not just I was very diligent he also qualifies the word diligent I wasn't just diligent I was very very diligent and then David the sweet psalmist of Israel himself says in Psalm 77:6 it says I meditate within my heart and my spirit makes let me read it from there just to the ones that I wanted I call to remembrance my song in the night I meditate within my heart and my spirit makes deligent search you know when you have things in the world that you are not too sure about that you are not able to crack you don't just gloss over it and leave it and say well I don't he said I made diligent search that's David so who are we to not do the same and so what's the lesson here my lesson for here is Proverbs 12 and in verse 24 Proverbs 12:24 it says the hand of the diligent will rule but the lazy man will be put to fce labor amen it is only the hand of the diligent that bears rule so church if you want to Bear rule be diligent now my next one Romans 13 1 to5 this one this one is interesting 1 to5 Romans 13 it says let every soul be subject to the governing authorities for there is no Authority except from God and the authorities that exist are appointed by God therefore whoever resists The Authority resists the ordinance of God and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves for rulers are not a terror to good works but to evil do you want to be unafraid of the authority do what is good and you will have praise from the s for is God's minister to you for good but if you do evil be afraid for it does not bear the SW in vain for is God's Minister and an Avenger to execute wroth on him who practices evil therefore you must be subject not only because of Wrath but also for conscience sake I put it here a disciplinarian with a Father's Heart Hallelujah this is I think this is the part of him that people are worry about this is the part of him that people really don't want to see but I'm I'm mentioning it this morning because it is actually a virtue that we need to embibe or imitate and I put here because Pastor is a man under Authority he also carries Authority with greet and Grace it's called tough love is a strong disciplinarian who frowns at Every Act of indiscipline and foolishness and he will ensure that he pruns you and he removes all the THS that are overgrowing your heart this is the part of him that is tough and difficult for people to embrace but Proverbs 291 he who is often rebuked and hardens his neck will suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy then we can now go to 15 29:15 Solomon writes and says the rod and rebuke give wisdom but a Child Left to himself brings shame to his mother pastor does not entertain foolishness it does not entertain indiscipline Li Li it can't be here the rod of Correction will come down hard upon you and you know in spite of what people might think I think that it is a virtue that we ought to celebrate the reason why you have some children that misbehave that are just here and there is because they've not had anyone to correct correct them they've not had anyone to correct them and you you see when you go out and you put a pool of children together you it's easy for you to identify the ones that have been disciplined and the ones that are just petted you know Pastor told us the different kinds of children that we have so it's a man who is not going to spare the rod but in doing that he doesn't do it you know out of wickedness he does it because he wants to do what make ethical Corrections and adjustments in our lives so that what you know the Bible says of Jesus it says every branch in me that bears fruit it does what it prunes it's not even talking about the one that doesn't bear fruit or that one it cuts off but even the one that bears fruit the Bible says it PRS why that he might bring forth more fruit and so if you are working with Pastor you know even you know you have to shape up you have to shape up it is a father it is a child that we love that we discipline a a Child Left to himself I think you know is that my lesson here because there's a yeah I just read it the r and rebuke give with some but a Child Left to himself bring shame and you know when you see discipline in places you wonder where are these ones coming from the yorubas we ask the question person whose child is he whose child is she and I don't know about anybody else you know I celebrate that as a matter of fact it is one of the major things that Drew me to Pastor because I had I had become tired of all dis mment that goes on in the body of Christ that at least we can have somebody who will whip us to shape and weip us to sze and if you think that that is tough you know there are people who say what it is to your own W if you want to Bear more fruit you better submit to the discipline of the father you know and is a it's a is a Sweet Soul I put it there I think somewhere I put it there maybe in the next one Pastor a number of people see the outward men of Pastor toan there's a soft side to it though if you don't know at least you see him every time when before you do anything the man don't begin cry you know what I'm tell there's a cord on the inside that is soft and so even in disciplining you that other hand of Love is always there to do what to embrace you this is something we should be imitate especially as parents we should know how to do that with our children and our mentees and anybody that comes within our sphere of influence lesson five psalm 41:5 let the righteous strike me he shall be a kindness and let him rebuke me it shall be as excellent oil let my head not refuse it for still my prayer is against the Deeds of the wicked can you say to yourself this morning pray that prayer let my head not refuse correction in the name of Jesus it doesn't matter how unpleasant it is it doesn't matter how hard and how tough it is father pray this morning let the righteous rebuke me it shall be an oil of it shall be an ointment upon my head let my head father never never forsake corre correction in the name of Jesus Hallelujah I think we're doing good then the final one that I want to put Psalm 103 verses 1 to2 now this one is something that almost everyone has spoken about but to say the same things to because is not Grievous the Bible says bless the Lord oh my soul in all that is within me bless His holy name bless the Lord oh my soul and forget not all his benefits Pastor is a man with a gracious heart that is I mean it's open to every one of us who's been a part of this house for a while now that scripture is talking about my soul our souls blessing the the Lord and not forgetting any of his benefits but I put here that Pastor has not limited his heart of gratitude to God but he extends the same to everyone who has helped him in life he understands the principle that gratitude to God is not an excuse for ingratitude to man he understands that principle because there are people who say it's God that did it God came down he didn't go through somebody you know so he understands that princip and he searches out intentionally and deliberately all who have given him as little as a cup of water to give back to them and to their Generations his gr you know his heart of gratitude does not stop with the generation that helped him he goes beyond that because the Bible says also that a seed Shall Serve him and it shall be accounted to him for a generation the seeds that the fathers have sown you know they are somewhere waiting for the children to reap we need to understand that and just as I say this I'm reminded of something and I'm going to quickly tell us that testimony you know when I came back from my trip last year and the first message I came to talk about here I talked about how you know I was receiving money all over the place I hope the same thing will repeat itself this time amen no because it must be an Ever flowing Fountain Hal Hallelujah you know and I mentioned a particular fellow you know to whom I had gone to look to ask for help for somebody for a friend whose wife you know had a challenge and how he had given me money and all of that the truth of the matter is I can't even talk about how much I've gotten from this fellow but let me tell you something God's word you know they change you sometimes in the 1950s maybe around between 1952 1954 there about my dad worked in the Daily Times and was the editor of the Daily Times and he had this you know they would have cameram men Peter OB was his major cameraman for those of that age who would identify and Peter OB brought this gentleman and to my dad to say you know he needed work and all of that my dad should help him and D said no problem and gave him a job that man is the father of this person I'm talking about that man became as stupendously Rich from that job if I talk people will know so I'm trying to hide that identity because he became in that field he became the number one person in this country now that was about let's say about 1954 this is 2024 70 years after I'm reaping that fruit from his son we met under different circumstances I didn't even know and all of that and you know a few years just before his father passed he had called me where are you I said come and meet me so so so place if I talk the name of the person again you people will know I don't want you to decod and I went there and his dad was there and he now introduced me that and the man was oh you know a seed that was swn 70 years ago Mah I'm I've not stopped repping it oh I am still reaping it and it has been over anything if I just but you know he delivers how do you know if God is not putting you to preserve a posterity that's what Joseph told his brothers how do you know so I sure that when people have a hard time helping people and blessing people I don't understand it because everything there's no there's no everything you do you are doing for yourself do you understand you are doing for yourself you are going I think the Y even said something like B you understand that when you do good it is actually like a loan or something like that you are going to collect it back in multiple fold so this is Pastor you remember one V that we came for that he suddenly had discovered the friend of his I mean the son of his friend who taught him mathematics in secondary school did you see the excitement of Pastor to bless that boy and said today even busted I thought shun my son is here that's the heart of the man and I I remember him also saying that there's one family that is still looking for who does that who takes a record of every body that has ever given him a cup of water to deliberately go and give back to them it's something to imitate oh Hallelujah if you when things are working for the man it not be m magic it's not magic it is the kind of seed the quality of seed that he has sown and continually SS now I'm you know my time now is a man that in the when you talk about his gracious heart an Israelite in whom there is no gu I don't see Pastor bearing B do you understand and there are cases that I've seen in 1998 I came in here I was having challenges where I was and you know it was so bad so I came in here one day to to worship and then his secretary I don't know the lady but I remember from 1998 her name is an I said my come and see the celebration my super super secretary I looked at my I said I know it's this same job they do and I began to cry then I remember when he came and I'm sorry to mention this I think brother Frank or something you know and Pastor will come and you will see his hard and when that gentleman passed you could cut through the sorrow in the heart of Pastor yet he still stood and celebrated him and said we are going to let them know that a general has crossed over this was somebody that left in very very interesting circumstances I said show ah places that I know they not go even mention the name Nowa so you see the heart of a man Church these are things for us to IDE and what's my lesson here is Romans 16: 1-6 we can't go there it's too long but I call this Paul's project 16 this chapter I call it Paul's project 16 from verses 1 to 16 Paul took deliberate time to do what to write and to say thank you to all those who had helped him s and mention them by name what about us you know so Pastor to me is a curriculum in character in values and in virtues and this does not in any way exhaust the lessons we can learn from him but are only a few of what I consider Germain now if you're in this house and you consider yourself a son or daughter to ptb and these traits are not in you something is wrong and we may have to conduct a DNA test to determine your paternity you're laughing I'm I'm serious you say that today I'm not I'm not doing dancing dancing this is serious business we need to do a DNA are you really his son are you really his daughter because you cannot be his son or his daughter and you are far away from the ethos of the man and the ethos of this house Romans 9:6-7 says there are not all Israel who are of Israel so if you are say I'm P you better let us know if you are truly one Hallelujah so if we are humble enough to invite the spirit of the man PB and we follow him as he continues to follow Christ not only will God Delight in us as he Delight in him we also shall get the same results that he gets because there's no partiality in go in God Church These are some of the lessons that I have learned from ptb personally and for which every time I have followed I have gotten equal results you know in Pro proportion like I said earlier to my several ability and I'm still enrolled in the school learning each topic each subject per day and project by project and so I round off this morning by saying my prayer is that almighty God will give us Grace the right heart and the right attitude to remain in the school of ptb as they remained in the school of tyrannos till we come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God to a perfect man to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ that we should no longer be children toss to and fro and carried about with every wind of Doctrine by the trickery of men in the conning craftiness of deceitful plotting but speaking the truth in love may grow up in all things into him who is the head that is Christ that is found in Ephesians 413 to15 and so that is my own testimony this morning good morning God bless you uh welcome to Advent uh Merry Christmas Happy New Year everything all at once