The Power of Compassion | Part 4 | David Ibiyeomie — Transcript
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- 0:07Praise the Lord.
- 0:09The message in this fourth service
- 0:12is the power of compassion.
- 0:16The power of compassion.
- 0:22This part four.
- 0:26God is compassionate.
- 0:32In Psalm 103:8,
- 0:36the Lord is merciful and gracious,
- 0:41slow to anger, plenteous in mercy.
- 0:48God does not treat us accord to our past
- 0:51mistakes and failures.
- 0:53It does not treat us based on our
- 0:55disappointments and whatever we have
- 0:56experienced.
- 0:58If God has been compassionate towards
- 1:00us, we must also learn to show
- 1:01compassion to others.
- 1:04In Ephesians 4:32,
- 1:08it be kind one to another,
- 1:11tenderhearted,
- 1:13forgiving one another, even as God for
- 1:15Christ's sake had forgiven you. You say
- 1:18I hear
- 1:21>> compassion is one of the most powerful
- 1:24expressions
- 1:26of God's nature.
- 1:30Compassion is more than just feeling
- 1:32sorry for somebody.
- 1:36There are three elements of compassion.
- 1:40See, care and act.
- 1:46C care and worth.
- 1:50A se take notice of someone hurting or
- 1:54in need.
- 2:00Be caring. Show concern about what they
- 2:03are going through.
- 2:09Don't leave them the way they are.
- 2:11That's what you mean by caring.
- 2:15When someone say carry, people think
- 2:16it's only money that is carried. No.
- 2:19In Acts 3:6,
- 2:22Peter said gold and silver have I none,
- 2:24but such as I have give ID. So caring is
- 2:28goes beyond just money. Is that clear?
- 2:31Even if you don't have money, you can
- 2:32care. Peter said, I don't have money,
- 2:34but I have something to give to you. You
- 2:37can exercise your faith for somebody by
- 2:39praying for the person. You can fast on
- 2:42behalf of somebody. You can go all out.
- 2:45Are you saying now to say this our
- 2:47brother will not die with this sickness?
- 2:48We pray for him. Caring is not only
- 2:51giving out. Money is involved but it's
- 2:54not only money. Are you getting what I'm
- 2:55talking about here? Glory to God. See
- 2:58acting. See what? Do something to help.
- 3:03Jesus is a compassionate savior.
- 3:07He was moved with compassion. He was
- 3:09moved with what? Compassion. In John s
- 3:11Matthew chapter 9:36 and when he saw the
- 3:14multitude he was moved with compassion
- 3:17on them because they fainted and were
- 3:19scared abroad as sheep having no
- 3:21shepherd. Shout hallelujah.
- 3:24>> Matthew 14:14 and Jesus went forth and
- 3:28saw a great multitude and was moved with
- 3:30what? Everywhere and healed the sick.
- 3:33Today the sers will heal you in the name
- 3:34of Jesus.
- 3:35>> Amen. in Matthew 15:32 and just called
- 3:38disciples unto them and said I have
- 3:40compassion on the multitude because they
- 3:42continue with me now 3 days and have
- 3:45nothing to eat and I will not send them
- 3:48I I will not send them away fasting at
- 3:50least they faint in the way he said they
- 3:52have been here for how many days he said
- 3:54I don't need to go Peter said and John
- 3:57and James said they should go said no my
- 3:59my nature will not permit me to allow
- 4:01them go every child of God must have
- 4:05this nature of compassion. Is that
- 4:06clearly sir? Peter even said I let them
- 4:09go. It doesn't matter. I shar a story
- 4:11life story that happened with one of my
- 4:13associates one day. I didn't know that
- 4:16pastors were around. They were after
- 4:18service Sunday like this. They stay till
- 4:195:00 p.m. and we are driving out. I saw
- 4:22them standing. I said me pastor s
- 4:24around.
- 4:26I said have they eating? He says don't
- 4:28worry.
- 4:30I looked at him. I said but you have
- 4:32eaten.
- 4:34He said don't worry don't worry that's
- 4:36after service they say state to fight we
- 4:37are not fasting he says don't worry
- 4:39don't worry don't worry many Christians
- 4:40are like that don't worry don't worry
- 4:43it's not compassion we go worry
- 4:46person has not eaten he said don't worry
- 4:50Jesus had what compassion
- 4:55in Luke 7:11 he said when the lord saw
- 4:59her talking about the widow of na who
- 5:02was going to bury her son he had
- 5:04compassion on her and said to her, "Weep
- 5:07not." May somebody's weeping come to an
- 5:09end.
- 5:11>> Jesus did not only preach to people, he
- 5:14cared about people.
- 5:16He did not only see crowds, he saw
- 5:19individuals.
- 5:21He did not only heal the sick, he cared
- 5:23for the suffering people.
- 5:28It not only see failure, he saw people
- 5:30who could not who could be restored.
- 5:33Everyone Jesus saw compassion moved him
- 5:35to change their stories and he said be
- 5:37imitators of who? Of God. Ephesians 1
- 5:41verse Ephesians 5:1
- 5:44the amplified.
- 5:46What is compassion?
- 5:51What is what?
- 5:53Compassion
- 5:55is the ability to feel another person's
- 5:59pain and respond with love and practical
- 6:03help. Compassion is the ability to feel
- 6:08another person's pain and respond with
- 6:11love and practical help. Compassion is
- 6:15different from pity.
- 6:19Pity watches. Compassion cares.
- 6:24Are you hearing what I'm saying?
- 6:27You can feel pity for somebody and do
- 6:29nothing.
- 6:31Pity talks about the problem. Compassion
- 6:33looks for solution.
- 6:38Christianity without compassion will end
- 6:40up as a mere religion.
- 6:45Many miracles of Jesus ministry we are
- 6:47connected to what? Compassion. One day
- 6:50he met a leper in Mark 1:4041.
- 6:54The man asked him, he said he put forth
- 6:56his hand and did what? And heal him. May
- 7:00somebody leprosy end.
- 7:03>> Sometimes the miracle somebody need
- 7:05begins with compassion you show to them.
- 7:12Compassion sees what others ignore.
- 7:18For instance, in Luke 10:30-37,
- 7:26the good, how many of you know the story
- 7:27of the good Samaritan?
- 7:29You know the story?
- 7:32The Samaritan was passing.
- 7:35A Levite and a priest was also passing.
- 7:38Jesus gave the parable that a man was
- 7:40beaten by arm robbers, by robbers and
- 7:43dropped on the street with wounds. I
- 7:46used in second service and the priest
- 7:49passed by. When the priest saw him, he
- 7:51crossed over to that side of the road.
- 7:54When the lever saw him, he crossed over
- 7:56to that side of the road. But it was a
- 7:58Samaritan who went to touch him. Is that
- 8:00true? Many of us are very religious in
- 8:02church.
- 8:04We know the whole Bible. When people
- 8:06come, we do as if we do not hear what
- 8:08they said.
- 8:12We are on the other side pretending not
- 8:14to know what people are going through.
- 8:16Sir here.
- 8:22>> Compassion begins when you begin to see
- 8:26what other people ignore.
- 8:28Are you get what I've said now? This man
- 8:31was able to see that this person should
- 8:33be needed attention.
- 8:37Real compassion is willing to pay a
- 8:40price to make somebody's life better.
- 8:44That's what compassion is. You don't
- 8:47ever meet somebody and leave the person
- 8:48the way you met the person. Is that
- 8:50clear? It's not just money. It's not
- 8:52just what? Money. The Bible said the the
- 8:56Samaritan took the man, treated him,
- 8:59took care of him. The priest did not do
- 9:01anything.
- 9:02Some of us are old believers in quot.
- 9:07We are just so self-centered. All we
- 9:09think about is ourselves. Just our
- 9:13Christianity is more than self here.
- 9:17>> Shout hallelujah.
- 9:18>> Hallelujah.
- 9:21>> May your life touch other people.
- 9:23>> Amen.
- 9:24the prodigal son also in Luke 15:11-24
- 9:30you find that the father had what
- 9:32compassion on him
- 9:35when the prodical son was trying to
- 9:36complain the father said no my
- 9:38compassion nature cannot allow you
- 9:40complain
- 9:42compassion will make you lift those who
- 9:43are fallen
- 9:45if you have nature of compassion you
- 9:47enter the ministry of condemnation I
- 9:49repeat if you don't have a heart of what
- 9:53You enter the ministry of condemnation.
- 9:56Everybody you see, you find fault.
- 10:00There are some people in church all they
- 10:02do is to find fault in other Christians.
- 10:05They never see anything good in
- 10:07somebody.
- 10:09Are you getting me?
- 10:10>> Glory to God. Even when people are
- 10:12falling, leave them off first because of
- 10:15compassion.
- 10:17People may debate your theology.
- 10:20People may argue with your doctrine, but
- 10:23they cannot see genuine love and ignore
- 10:25it.
- 10:28What 50 sermons can't do, genuine love
- 10:30will do.
- 10:32Are you getting what I'm saying?
- 10:34>> What 50 messages can't change a person,
- 10:36genuine love will change a person. But
- 10:39many of us, we can preach all the
- 10:41preachings, we can teach all the
- 10:43teachings, but compassion
- 10:45zero.
- 10:47Sir here.
- 10:49How many of you will be compassionate?
- 10:54Do you know no matter how you preach, if
- 10:55you're not compassionate, nobody will
- 10:57believe your Christianity?
- 11:01John 13:35.
- 11:06Let's read together. Everybody stop
- 11:08writing. Let's read one to go. By this
- 11:12shall all men know.
- 11:15If you
- 11:17it is a if you if you quote
- 11:20if you preach IF YOU LOVE ONE ANOTHER it
- 11:23will show you're a disciple of Christ.
- 11:26The world needs to see Christianity
- 11:27through our actions.
- 11:31Compassion makes the church a family.
- 11:34Make church what?
- 11:35>> Family.
- 11:37>> What concerns one concerns everybody.
- 11:41When Peter was in prison, the whole
- 11:44church came together to pray. Today, if
- 11:48it was today Peter was have gone to
- 11:50social media and say Peter has been
- 11:52locked up
- 11:56because no more comp. We have turned
- 11:59church to a social club.
- 12:02Christianity is the hallmark compassion
- 12:05the hallmark of all Christianity. No, if
- 12:08you don't have compassion, no point
- 12:09being a Christian. Look, I'm not
- 12:10preaching compassion if it's not there.
- 12:13There are people's heart are hardened.
- 12:14Hardened heart is what
- 12:19Christians don't be like politicians.
- 12:21Politician's heart is at the back.
- 12:23Expect Nigerian politicians. Their heart
- 12:24is where the back
- 12:26>> at the back.
- 12:28All of you are my children. Don't be
- 12:29like Nigeria. No Niger Niger politician
- 12:32don't have heart for people.
- 12:35Their heart is where
- 12:38people are suffering. They say nothing
- 12:40is everything is working well.
- 12:43That's that's church two hours now carry
- 12:46THE SAME SPIRIT. EVEN WHEN YOU SEE
- 12:48SOMEBODY HUNGRY, he say God will bless
- 12:50him.
- 12:52YOU ARE SEEN THE MAN GOING THROUGH
- 12:54STRESS. He said don't mind God is going
- 12:56to show him favor. God will show favor
- 12:59to a man who has not eaten this morning
- 13:03and you have food for give to him to
- 13:04eat. You are saying God will show him
- 13:05favor. Where will he get the favor from
- 13:07when he has not eaten? Give him food for
- 13:09goodness sake. You see somebody with
- 13:12clothes the clothes are not tattered.
- 13:14You have got food full you cannot remove
- 13:16one and say take. He said don't worry
- 13:18God will cover you.
- 13:23Are you hearing what I'm saying now?
- 13:25>> Yes sir.
- 13:27THE EARLY church they cared for one
- 13:30another. They were just as a family. So
- 13:34here
- 13:35>> but today churches everybody come mind
- 13:37your business and go.
- 13:40They just come church they close go.
- 13:44Church don't close. We go. I think
- 13:48church don't close. Church
- 13:51don't close then go home.
- 13:57You want to know what language is that?
- 13:59Find from your Acts chapter 244:44.
- 14:07Shall we read together? One to go. And
- 14:10all that believed were together and had
- 14:13all things common and sold their
- 14:16possessions and goods and parted them to
- 14:19all men as every man did. That is true.
- 14:23What? Christianity
- 14:27church should not be a place where
- 14:29people only come sit and listen to good
- 14:31sermons
- 14:34at all. IT SHOULD BE A PLACE WHERE seen
- 14:37loved supported and restored. Church
- 14:39should not just be a place of just come
- 14:41sermon copy note and go. No no if that's
- 14:43no need. No what church should be a
- 14:46place where you come you feel belonged
- 14:50people care for you. They show love. You
- 14:54know you have a family. Are you hearing
- 14:56me, sir?
- 14:58>> That's the essence of Christ.
- 15:04Practical ways to show compassion.
- 15:07And I close.
- 15:12Practical ways to show what? One, call
- 15:15somebody who has been absent. Anybody
- 15:19who have been you have not seen, call
- 15:20the person. Today we have technology
- 15:25call someone who has been what absent to
- 15:29visit someone we seek
- 15:32visit someone who is what we seek in
- 15:34scripture say when I was hungry you
- 15:36visited me now Matthew 25 you remember
- 15:41three encourage someone who is
- 15:44discouraged
- 15:46encourage what
- 15:48is discouraged someone is discouraged
- 15:50Encourage the person say God is
- 15:52faithful. Don't give up on life. God has
- 15:54not given up on you. Shout hallelujah.
- 15:57>> Hallelujah.
- 16:02>> Number four, feed someone who is hungry.
- 16:05Feed someone who is what?
- 16:07>> Hungry. These are practical things you
- 16:10must do, not theoretical.
- 16:16Number five, give to someone genuinely
- 16:20in need. Give to someone genuinely in
- 16:24not someone who just want to take money
- 16:26from you, but someone genuinely in need,
- 16:28give them. Some of you, God has blessed
- 16:30you. Don't wait for people to beg you
- 16:31before you give. Is that clear, sir? If
- 16:33they have to beg you before you give,
- 16:35you're not a Christian.
- 16:37You don't wait for people to beg you
- 16:39before you you see a need in your
- 16:42service group. Just take care of it as
- 16:43God has blessed you. You need some
- 16:46people in church. You just look at them
- 16:47and say this old woman she's going
- 16:50through. Just take care of her. This boy
- 16:53nobody to train you. I pay your school
- 16:54fees. That is Christianity. That's what
- 16:57in you at your own level. Don't wait for
- 16:59people to be doing for you to do for
- 17:00somebody
- 17:02s here.
- 17:05Number six, forgive someone who hurt
- 17:08you. Forgive someone who who hurt you.
- 17:11These are practical things. They hurt
- 17:12you, forgive. Some of you, you won't
- 17:15forgive. I can't come to touch because
- 17:17of what they do to you. No, no, no, no.
- 17:20That's not Christianity. Christianity
- 17:21forgive those who hurt you. How many of
- 17:23you have hurt me? Many of you have hurt
- 17:24me now. Some of you have abused me even
- 17:25at my back. Have you not abused me
- 17:27before? Did God kill you? Some of you
- 17:31and I lift my hand. I said, "God bless
- 17:32you." And he still bless you. Some of
- 17:34you have abused me. I know my pap to
- 17:35talk.
- 17:37Some of you have abused me, abused me
- 17:39that even God said say, "Hey,
- 17:41my servant that I'm using to bless you,
- 17:43we abusing like this." Did I did God
- 17:45kill you?
- 17:48So why would you not forgive other
- 17:49people? Somebody say you your head is
- 17:51big before you leave small.
- 17:54The reason why God gave me big so I can
- 17:56have big sense.
- 18:02doesn't me getting angry that my head is
- 18:04shining before I would I wear afro
- 18:08it's shining now because no hair thereh
- 18:11we saw one boy yesterday I told you so
- 18:13bring your hair take come my own the
- 18:16laugh he was in church today
- 18:18are you now so forgive those somebody
- 18:21abuse you forgive there not that forgive
- 18:23somebody anything you tell me is your
- 18:25business number seven pray with someone
- 18:29facing a difficult ch situation pray
- 18:31with someone facing a difficult what
- 18:34facing a difficult situation or
- 18:35challenge whatever someone's going
- 18:37through something pray with the person
- 18:39in the name of Jesus this situation will
- 18:41come will overcome it
- 18:46and finally number eight help someone
- 18:48who cannot help you back
- 18:50I didn't say help somebody or just help
- 18:52someone who cannot what always help who
- 18:54cannot even tell you thank you who
- 18:56cannot even help you they don't they
- 18:58it's easy to help somebody who can help
- 18:59you back but how you know that you have
- 19:01Compassion is when you help somebody who
- 19:04cannot help you back. The you know
- 19:07people are rich now if somebody has
- 19:09money does not come to church it's easy
- 19:11for people to look for him. But when
- 19:12somebody is broke doesn't have anything.
- 19:15How many people look for such persons?
- 19:17So help somebody who cannot what
- 19:20>> who cannot help you back. They don't
- 19:22even have the money to give you back.
- 19:25So I hear
- 19:26>> that's the hallmark of all Christianity.
- 19:29Shout hallelujah. Hallelujah.
- 19:32>> The world does not only need more
- 19:35preachers. They've had enough. Turn
- 19:38television, you see preachers. Even as
- 19:40you came this morning, you have sons of
- 19:41many preachers. But the world needs more
- 19:44compassionate Christians.
- 19:47The world has been they've had too many
- 19:49what sermons including the ones you have
- 19:52been preaching on television. Now they
- 19:54need more. Compassionate.
- 19:58Be the one who pays attention.
- 20:01Call,
- 20:03visit,
- 20:05give,
- 20:07forgive and encourage others. I said be
- 20:10the one who does what? Pays attention to
- 20:14people,
- 20:15call,
- 20:17visit,
- 20:19give,
- 20:21forgive and encourage what? Others. Just
- 20:25listen. It's not money. In Acts 3:6,
- 20:30PETER SAID, "SILVER AND GOLD HAVE I
- 20:33NONE, BUT I [screaming] HAVE SOMETHING
- 20:36TO GIVE TO YOU." YOU MAY NOT HAVE MONEY,
- 20:38BUT CAN'T you fast for somebody WHO'S IN
- 20:40TROUBLE?
- 20:42CAN'T YOU PRAY WITH SOMEBODY WHO IS HAVE
- 20:43GOING THROUGH CHALLENGE? OH, I don't
- 20:46have money. Can't you fast for the
- 20:48person? That's Christianity. Simply like
- 20:50Peter said, I don't have money, but I
- 20:53have faith that you will rise. Is that
- 20:54true, sir?
- 20:55>> Yes, sir. That's compassion. That's what
- 20:58compassion.
- 21:01Oh, I wish I have money. No, since you
- 21:03don't have money, you have something.
- 21:04Don't you have something? Use that one
- 21:06you have to touch somebody's life. Sir
- 21:09here.
- 21:13>> When the church becomes compassionate,
- 21:16the world will see Jesus through us.
- 21:20Do you understand? Now, it's not all
- 21:23these big sermons we are preaching. Why
- 21:25am I saying so?
- 21:28MANY CHURCH PEOPLE are hard-hearted.
- 21:32Their heart is like stone. All this I br
- 21:35you.
- 21:37They don't care about anybody. They care
- 21:39about themselves.
- 21:42Everything about life nothing moves
- 21:44them. Somebody is dying. It doesn't
- 21:46concern them.
- 21:49They say if die make him die now.
- 21:54And best talk is a church person
- 21:57and they telling you to hear I've been
- 21:59telling you who does not hear you. They
- 22:01hear
- 22:04first rescue the person first and they
- 22:08cannot correct the person. Is that
- 22:09clear?
- 22:10>> This I'm talking don't think even
- 22:12pastors their heart most of them they
- 22:13forb
- 22:18stayed with pastors who are so hard for
- 22:21politicians is their lifestyle. So no
- 22:23need to play for them. Is it polit like
- 22:26that be for Nigerian? Oh god. Niger I've
- 22:29not you are all see high ship. They
- 22:33say hip for Nigeria.
- 22:36Don't do like that in church. Oh.
- 22:39No they not talking about Nigeria. They
- 22:41talk about election. Statesmen talk
- 22:43about the next generation. Politicians
- 22:46talk about the next election. Everybody
- 22:48you meet Nigeria is 20 to the Have you
- 22:50seen anybody who say how is Nigeria
- 22:52going to be better? N Mandela was
- 22:54thinking of how South Africa will be
- 22:55better. After he left, politicians took
- 22:57over South Africa. See how where South
- 22:59Africa is
- 23:01when politicians take over country is
- 23:02messed up. When statesmen take over,
- 23:04country improves.
- 23:08>> Any nation ruled by politicians will
- 23:10die. Any nation ruled by statesman will
- 23:14grow.
- 23:15Ness Mandela took South Africa to a high
- 23:17level. The next one after him took South
- 23:19Africa back once.
- 23:22Nigeria is ruled by politicians. The day
- 23:24Niger will get a states man. You see the
- 23:25difference. For now what we have no
- 23:28statesman. The wol are statemen. The
- 23:31zigway we are state men. The statemen.
- 23:35Today what we have is what? Politicians.
- 23:39Politicians think of the next election.
- 23:42Statesmen think of the next generation.
- 23:44Make your choice in church. Don't be
- 23:46like a politician. Don't be like a
- 23:48politician.
- 23:51[applause]
- 23:54THINK OF HOW [screaming] YOU CAN AFFECT
- 23:56A fellow Christian. Even the unbelievers
- 23:59when you're preaching to them, let there
- 24:00be compassion. These people can't go to
- 24:03hell. I love them to be out. Rise to
- 24:05your feet.
- 24:08>> Shout a big hallelujah.
- 24:09>> Hallelujah.
- 24:11>> Shout aloud hallelujah.
- 24:12>> Hallelujah.
- 24:14You don't need long prayers. Lord, I put
- 24:18to practice what I have heard.
- 24:22>> I put to practice what I have heard. Are
- 24:26you getting now?
- 24:27>> I you know why God anointed me for
- 24:28healing? I can't stand a sick person. If
- 24:31somebody is sick, something in me just
- 24:33can't stand it. I say, God, heal this
- 24:37sick person. Heal this person. He can't
- 24:40anoint you in an area you don't have
- 24:42compassion. You can fast. Somebody is
- 24:45sick. You're not moved. God can anoint
- 24:47you.
- 24:48When I see the poor, I can't stand it. I
- 24:52want the person to come out of poverty.
- 24:54That's why he anointed me for wealth. Is
- 24:56that clear, sir?
- 24:57>> God will never anoint you in an area you
- 25:00don't have what? Compassion. Jesus was
- 25:02moved with compassion.
- 25:06What is moving you?
- 25:09He said the hope maketh not ashamed.
- 25:12Romans 5:5 because the love of God has
- 25:15been shed abroad in our heart by the
- 25:17Holy Ghost is given to us and say by
- 25:19grace is sufficient for you. 1
- 25:21Corinthians 12:9 you are going to
- 25:24receive grace as if to put to practice
- 25:27to give expression to love to what
- 25:30>> to love.
- 25:33Ah listen I'm not preaching theory. This
- 25:37is what I am.
- 25:40If you know me, this is my first
- 25:41quality. I I pour my heart into people.
- 25:45One day I talking to my I said if any of
- 25:47you have 50% of my life, this church
- 25:48will change.
- 25:50Forget whatever they preach. I have seen
- 25:53challenges where people will leave you
- 25:55in the midst of challenge.
- 25:59You will know WHETHER THIS HAS ENTERED
- 26:00YOU WHEN SOMEONE AROUND YOU HAS A
- 26:01challenge and you stand by the person.
- 26:04Am I talking to you?
- 26:05>> Yes sir.
- 26:05>> It's easy to say I love I never love. IT
- 26:08IS THE M WHEN JUNGLE m you go know
- 26:11whether we know we will love you. It's
- 26:14easy to say I love you. It is THE M OF
- 26:17TRIALS. YOU SEE PEOPLE WHO LOVE YOU.
- 26:20>> Just go through a challenge. You see
- 26:22people who stay alo like this and watch
- 26:25whether you will crash
- 26:28but nobody will crash.
- 26:30>> So you say Lord I want to give love
- 26:32practical what? Expression. It's not you
- 26:35can come this altar and quote all the
- 26:36scriptures don't mean you know love
- 26:40you can quote you can recite it's not
- 26:43that I'm talking about practical
- 26:46demonstration of love
- 26:49are you understand now it will convert
- 26:51people easily than me message you can
- 26:53preach good message why is that I don't
- 26:56preach any message I make other people
- 26:57come out
- 26:59just watch crusade even if I just say
- 27:01for God so loved the world that he gave
- 27:02the only because his people will come
- 27:04out
- 27:05It's not the messages. So that's I just
- 27:06say God love you. Give your life to
- 27:08Jesus. Come out. They just crush out.
- 27:10You know why? Compassion.
- 27:12You can come and quote section one,
- 27:14section two, section three, section
- 27:16four, section five, section six and make
- 27:18call, five people will come out.
- 27:21Everything works by what? The crowd in
- 27:24this church Jesus brings is by what?
- 27:26Compression. It's not because I preach
- 27:28very powerful messages. My messages are
- 27:30very simple, very what?
- 27:32>> Very simple. But what I have on my heart
- 27:33is not in many people. It's compassion.
- 27:35It's what?
- 27:36>> Compassion. What I do for my pastors, if
- 27:38they were in my shoes, they won't do.
- 27:41If they are to be in my position, they
- 27:42will not do for others.
- 27:45It's because of compassion. Not because
- 27:49me I do for them. If any of them was to
- 27:50sit in my position, they won't do it for
- 27:52others.
- 27:54Say compassion.
- 27:54>> Compassion.
- 27:55>> That's why a Christian should not be
- 27:57like all believers. Have compassion. You
- 27:59see your brothers, talk to them loves
- 28:01you. Don't say don't mind him go die
- 28:03with this cigarette. You go kill him and
- 28:05just go chest go bust your own brother.
- 28:09Tell him Jesus loves you.
- 28:12It's not condemning you. Your brother go
- 28:15like this. You start crying. He say
- 28:17brother. So with all the cigarette you
- 28:18still love me. He say yes I love you. I
- 28:20don't want you to die with this kind of
- 28:22lifestyle. But just go say go die. Hell
- 28:25hell. Hell they look at you like this.
- 28:27Hell that's your own brother. Hell they
- 28:29look you hell they go. He's going to
- 28:32hell already. Now
- 28:34a great man of God of blessing called
- 28:36Yong Cho said after the war in South
- 28:38Korea, you know the Korean war, he said
- 28:40he was preaching one woman he went to
- 28:43preach. I said that was why he's
- 28:44preaching change. He told him go to
- 28:46hell. He said is there any other hell
- 28:48more than this one?
- 28:50He said that was the day preaching
- 28:51change. The woman said hell she's
- 28:53already in hell if this is because no
- 28:55food to eat nothing. What do you mean
- 28:57hell? This is hell. So no point. You can
- 28:59imagine preaching hell to Nigeria. They
- 29:01already hell.
- 29:03>> There's no way you preach hell to
- 29:04Nigerian, anybody will be born again.
- 29:06They already where
- 29:10just tell them God loves you. He can
- 29:12change your story. Then the man say
- 29:15come to Jesus. But if you say you go to
- 29:17hell, the Bible say they suffer when
- 29:19they suffer.
- 29:21Already the suffering is what? That kind
- 29:24of message can't convert one soul. You
- 29:26go there say you if you don't convert to
- 29:28Jesus you are going to go to hell you
- 29:30will suffer the man say they waste your
- 29:32time you never see food eat you never
- 29:35buy patrol in the in the hell already so
- 29:38you can't convert anybody with that kind
- 29:39of preaching compassion will make you
- 29:42tell them Jesus loves you in spite of
- 29:43what you're going through he will show
- 29:45you his mercy the man said
- 29:48okay compassion will trigger it is the
- 29:52greatest tool that that brings people to
- 29:54Christ compassion What is it?
- 29:57>> From your heart. From where?
- 29:59>> Not from your lips. Not from here. Not
- 30:00from lips. Not quoting scripture. Coming
- 30:02from
- 30:03>> your heart.
- 30:05You are going to pray, "Lord, I receive
- 30:07grace to put into practice
- 30:12what I have heard today. Let it become
- 30:15my lifestyle. Every hard-heartedness,
- 30:18stinginess, and selfishness, I c it in
- 30:20the name of Jesus." Go ahead and pray.
- 30:22In the name of Jesus,
- 30:32grace to be compassionate. I receive
- 30:34right now.
- 30:38I receive grace to put to practice what
- 30:39I've heard.
- 31:00Blessed.
- 31:22Are you praying in the name of Jesus?
- 31:29>> Thank you, Father.
- 31:31>> In that precious name, may your heart be
- 31:33circumcised
- 31:36>> in the May every form of stony heart be
- 31:39removed.
- 31:41The Lord give you a heart that will p
- 31:42after him
- 31:44>> and walk in his steps
- 31:46>> in the name of Jesus Christ.
- 31:50>> You will you will just swim in sweatless
- 31:52miracles with a heart of compassion.
- 31:55With a heart of what?
- 31:57>> Jesus didn't struggle anyway when crowd
- 31:59followed him. The greatest crowd puller
- 32:01is what? Compassion. It's compassion.
- 32:04Compassion is compound passion. Passion
- 32:07that makes you have love for people. You
- 32:10just see people you love them. Are you
- 32:12now?
- 32:13>> Yes. One or two may treat you wrong.
- 32:14Does not mean that you change your
- 32:15attitude.
- 32:18One day I got very angry with somebody
- 32:21did. And a word from a very genous staff
- 32:23changed me. He said sir don't change
- 32:25your nature because of the one person.
- 32:28He said we we all know you that your
- 32:29nature you're not a hard person. You're
- 32:32a very free-handed man. He said don't
- 32:33change because of this one person who
- 32:34did this to you. It just turned me.
- 32:40Why will you not? Why can you be eating
- 32:42only you you're eating five lumps of
- 32:44meat?
- 32:46Somebody has not eaten food.
- 32:55Somebody has not eaten. Someone has
- 32:59not Christian. That's not Christian. You
- 33:01have 50 shoes. Carry one in in your bag
- 33:05and you come to church, you look at
- 33:06someone who doesn't have shoes. He don't
- 33:08doesn't need to tell you thank you. You
- 33:09don't even know him. You said take
- 33:11before the man you have gone.
- 33:15You get suits you bring them. You look
- 33:16at it said Lord show me those. If you
- 33:18don't have anybody say give to people
- 33:19who don't have that's what said not I
- 33:23have 50 shoes. Are you
- 33:29all know when they gave me 500 suits I
- 33:31didn't take one. Not one. Did I 500
- 33:35suits? Not one. I gave all out.
- 33:39I've given 94 LV shoes in one day.
- 33:43LV Louis with or whatever you call it.
- 33:46Not abameo.
- 33:50[laughter]
- 33:51The real LV. I used to wear 44 but now I
- 33:55wear 45. So I said bring all of them
- 33:57out. Well 44 was spinning my legs. I
- 33:59said bring all clean because I don't go
- 34:02anywhere. I don't match my shoes
- 34:03anywhere. It's church. Where do I go to
- 34:05church? Back home. So the shoes s are
- 34:07still fresh.
- 34:08I says, "Give all out." All said, "Give
- 34:11them out." What am I going to do with
- 34:14409 shoes? I said, "Give all out."
- 34:18Suits. I I carry my shoes that are very
- 34:21expensive. There's a young man of
- 34:23blessed memory used to buy me shoes
- 34:24$6,000 per one. He will buy 20 of those
- 34:28shoes once plenty. One day I just look
- 34:31at my size. I said, "This shoes, bring
- 34:33them, give them out.
- 34:38Now you say I give anybody this kind for
- 34:41what I'm no human being.
- 34:45>> Is God WHO LIFTED YOU TO BE where you
- 34:47are?
- 34:49>> He can lift anybody.
- 34:51>> Don't get arrogant and cocky.
- 34:55Are you hear me now? SO WHEN GOD GIVES
- 34:58YOU A CHANCE OTHER people's lives that's
- 35:01what makes us Christians. That's what
- 35:02makes us Christians. Christianity is not
- 35:05Jesus is coming soon. Amen. Amen. Amen.
- 35:10Are they telling you? Amen.
- 35:18This church must be known for true love.
- 35:21True what?
- 35:23>> Let them know us as people who love one
- 35:25another and not just coming to church.
- 35:27You know, I just I just sent my children
- 35:29overseas. You've not trained one person
- 35:31in River State University. Not one
- 35:34person are you paying school fees in
- 35:35local government school.
- 35:38Now my son is in in Harvard.
- 35:42The second son is in Oxford. The third
- 35:45son is in Cambridge. Is anybody attun?
- 35:49No.
- 35:51Is anybody pay school fees in community
- 35:53sol? No. But my first son is in United
- 35:57States. No one is United.
- 36:01As you send yourself to United States,
- 36:04train two people in United River State
- 36:06University.
- 36:08Then God knows you are somebody with
- 36:10compassion.
- 36:12Any testimony that ends with you and
- 36:14your family is nonsense.
- 36:21Are you hearing me? [applause] Is I will
- 36:24bless you and that shall be a blessing.
- 36:26May you carry fresh grace now.
- 36:30>> [cheering]
- 36:30>> May you put to practice what you have
- 36:32heard
- 36:34>> in the name of Jesus.
- 36:36>> I'm sure we take a new leave
- 36:39>> and we start a new life
- 36:41>> in Jesus mighty name.
- 36:43>> Now the prophetic with David Ibomi.
- 36:49>> Lift your hands to heaven.
- 36:52May the joy of this moment continue to
- 36:56the end of the year.
- 36:58>> And beyond this year in the name of
- 37:00Jesus,
- 37:02>> everyone who came to this service being
- 37:04the end last Sunday in the month of
- 37:06August, I decree the best God has for
- 37:09this month be released to you [cheering]
- 37:13in the name of Jesus.
- 37:15>> Every concern of yours is already a
- 37:17testimony.
- 37:19I repeat with authority this week you
- 37:21will hear good news
- 37:24>> in the name of Jesus.
- 37:26>> Go in peace.
- 37:29>> Return celebrating
- 37:31>> in Jesus mighty name.
- 37:39>> But no one can walk in this new step
- 37:41except you are born again. There's no
- 37:43way you can have this new life except
- 37:45you've accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and
- 37:48Savior because the heart of Christ is
- 37:50different. You must be born again. All
- 37:53those who are not born again, whoever
- 37:54you are, pray this prayer after me now
- 37:56and cleansing. Lord Jesus, pray this
- 37:58prayer after whoever you ask after me.
- 38:00Lord Jesus, come into my life. I accept
- 38:05as my personal Lord and S. I believe in
- 38:08my heart that you died and rose from the
- 38:09dead to save with my heart. I declare
- 38:12you the Lord over my life. Thank you
- 38:15father for saving me in Jesus name. If
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