The Mystery Of Honour - How To Honour

[0:01] Welcome. Thank you for choosing to listen to this spirit-filled word by David Enshie. When you catch a word, you have caught God. May you catch a word today that will cause God to change your story.

[0:13] Be blessed. Luke chapter 18, reading from verse 18, says that A certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

[0:29] Jesus said unto him, Why call thou me good? None is good, save one. That is God. Thou knoweth the commandments. Do not commit adultery.

[0:40] Do not kill. Do not steal. Do not bear false witness. Honor thy father and thy mother. And he said, All these I have kept from my youth. Now when Jesus said these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing.

[0:55] Sell all that thou hast, and issue it to the poor. And thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come and follow me. Now, amen. I read the scripture. I'm picking it up from where I left off last week.

[1:08] About children obey your parents in the Lord. But Ephesians chapter 6. For this is right. Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise, that it might be well with you.

[1:20] And it's not just being well with you. Two things. Let's all read from the screen if you can see. It's Ephesians 6.3. Let's go. Most people live for this.

[1:36] Most people. Most people. This is where they live. A lot of people go to their gym for this. People are working for this. They want to buy a good house because of this.

[1:51] People want to get good salaries because of this. Going for holidays because of this. What is this? That you may. It may be well with me. So you don't want that it's not well with your child.

[2:04] You don't want that it's not well with your loved one. Everybody. How are you? I'm well. I'm well. I hope you're well. Hello. I hope you're well. I hope you're well.

[2:15] And America, they say, I hope you're good. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. So I hope you're good. You're well. So we people live for well-being.

[2:26] So you want to be well and also live long. It's just natural. Everybody runs away from death naturally. And we protect our loved ones from death.

[2:40] And it says that you may live longer. That it may be well with you and live long where? Not on mass, but on the air. Long life is not an entitlement.

[2:53] No. No. At all. Long life is not an entitlement. One of the things that I really thank God for helping me to try to do is when I see people who, a person who is advanced, is where I haven't been, I automatically respect the person.

[3:10] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And especially when you see someone who is older, far older, seen years, many years, I admire people who have seen many years. Because there's no guarantee generally that everybody will see many years.

[3:25] At all. Yeah. There's a master key for long life, which God has prescribed. You go to the doctors, they prescribe a medication. Take it and your block nose will be fine.

[3:39] So, it says that it may be well with thee and thou may live long on the air. This is where everybody lives. So, so what should I do to do that? It's behind you.

[3:49] So, then verse 2, say, is that all? Why are people struggling to do that then? Is this all it takes to live life in full?

[4:01] It is not, it, I'm going to say something very interesting. To live life in full is not a matter of prayer. To live life in full is not a matter of reading Bible, reading Bible.

[4:15] To live life in full is not what many people think the means is not what many people think it is. The means to live life in full, for it to be well with you and to live long, God has coded it into what is called honor.

[4:35] Honor is a mystery. So, that is why it is very dangerous, verse 4 of Ephesians chapter 6. It's very dangerous. God will judge them.

[4:48] For fathers to provoke their children to wrath. You know what that means? Don't make your child do what will not be in the interest of their future. Some of the fathers, you have given birth and abandoned the child.

[5:05] You automatically generate pain and hatred in the child's life. And now anger, the one who is supposed to honor you for well-being, you have set him up to not do well because of dishonor.

[5:18] Don't provoke your children. Before you follow the girl, make sure you are going to be taking care of a child. You think girls are telling you, you are good, you are good, you are good, you are good.

[5:33] So, it's ended. You are bad if you don't take care of children you give birth to. You don't take care of a child you give birth to. You are abandoning the child.

[5:45] You are listening to me. You have abandoned the child somewhere. Go back. Go back. Wow. Go back because God will judge you. Don't let a child's heart break because of rejection of a father or a mother.

[6:01] You are there but you don't care. You don't care. You don't care. You go for another woman. Especially, it happens to the men. The men. Yeah. And what they like is to look important and look big and all that.

[6:18] But listen, you shouldn't feel good about yourself if you have a child you are not taking care of. Or you have abandoned. You have abandoned your own father.

[6:29] I'm talking about a father. Today is Father's Day. Rise up to the occasion. Capture this. Put your social. Rise up to the occasion. Today is Father's Day.

[6:41] Father. You have fathered somebody and abandoned him. Abandoned her. You are provoking this child to wrath. And so then the problems that child will endure because of dishonoring you.

[6:54] You have caused it and they will suffer anyway. But they are suffering. You have made them inherited suffering. So then when the righteous judge is judging, who thinks you judge?

[7:05] On earth their child will suffer. But the judgment of their suffering is upon you. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Don't provoke your children to wrath.

[7:17] I'm saying something. Because honor is a fundamental responsibility. Or a fundamental principle for well-being in life. So if many people live to do well, live long.

[7:29] They live to do well and live long. Then, and he says, honor your mother and father. Dad, you'll get that. That means honor has been placed in such a, so long as God's principle is concerned.

[7:41] Such a significant position. Our honor is so vital to well-being and to, or to life in itself. Yeah. So Jesus said, I honor my father.

[7:57] I don't have the devil. John chapter 8 verse 49. One of the signs of someone having a demon is dishonor.

[8:13] Let's all read here from the screen. Let's go. Jesus said, I am not a devil, but I honor my father. I need you to dishonor. You guys dishonor me. I don't have a devil.

[8:25] I actually honor my father. My father. Sometimes, listen, listen. Listen, brothers and sisters. You always have to take stock. Take inventory.

[8:36] Check this here. Who is in your life you are actively honoring? Who are you actively honoring in your life? Some of the young girls is boys.

[8:50] You only honor your boyfriends. And they break your heart. Like they're shattered glass.

[9:02] Yeah. That's the only ones you know. So we have systems in place. That doesn't think these things matter. So by the tradition of men, so-called freedom, so-called enlightenment.

[9:22] God said in 1 Samuel chapter 2, that those who honor me, I will honor. And those who dishonor me, they will be lightly esteemed. Yeah.

[9:35] That's 30. It says that, wherefore the Lord God of Israel says, I said indeed that thy house and the house of thy father should walk before me forever.

[9:52] But now I've changed my mind. God said, that's what I said. That was my plan. But you know what? Your behavior has made me change my mind. God can change his mind. He said, I said, you should walk before me.

[10:05] Your house and your father's house should walk before me. But now the Lord said, be it far from me. Far from this will never happen. Ha! Why? For them that honor me, I will honor.

[10:16] So what God has said he'll do for the people and for the house, it was going to be sustained by honor. That's right. Because if you honor me, I will honor you.

[10:27] Because what I said I was going to do is honorable for you. So to sustain it, you have to learn how to give God the return, return the honor to him. He said, then that honor me, I will honor.

[10:38] And then that despise me shall be lightly esteemed. Lightly esteemed. Wow. Wow. So we put in systems because of godlessness in the bit to try and make people happy and human-centered lifestyle.

[10:58] It's all about me. All about me. So self, self-ease. Yes. It's just me, myself, and me. Me, myself, my only mind.

[11:10] It's just me. Life is about me, you know. So if I'm not being happy, I will do anything. I just want to be happy. You know, I have to be happy. There is this generation.

[11:20] We are living in a generation that if we are, these things are not reinforced and retaught. Parents, school will not teach them this. No. No. Especially in the, especially in our Western society.

[11:35] No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We don't teach this. We actually frown on it. It's a serious situation. Let me show you something in Matthew chapter 15, verse 3 to 6.

[11:47] But Jesus answered and said, why do you transgress the commandments of God by your tradition? By your systems. By your national philosophy.

[12:02] You are transgressing the law of God. Wow. By your tradition. Wow. What was he talking about? Look at the next verse. Verse 4. For God commanded, saying, hey, honor thy father and thy mother.

[12:16] You know, give us NIV. Let's read from the NIV. God said, honor your father and your mother. He said, oh, it's usually father before the mother. Father and mother. Sometimes we don't realize.

[12:27] We keep saying mother and father, mother and father. But when you look at God's order, it's father and mother. Honor your father and mother. And anyone who curses their father or mother.

[12:40] Who said that? God. God. God. You see, this is why I don't like Christians. God is endorsing murder. No. He says that.

[12:51] Ah. You didn't. You are already dead. In the spirit. Your lights have been switched off. Your engines have been switched off. In mid-air.

[13:03] It may not take long. The organs will start getting rotten. It's been switched off already. No one will kill you. You are already dead. What it means is, you are not permitted to enjoy life or live if you dishonor a mother or a father.

[13:19] That's what it means. It's that. For God said, honor your father and your mother. And anyone who curses. Kai. You curse your father or mother is to be put to death.

[13:32] You curse a mother. You curse a father. Wow. That's why. It doesn't matter how high you are flying. It's coming down. It's coming down.

[13:43] Oh my God. They will cry. They can't help you. They can't help you. What can help you is the honor. The system that is in place. It's law in life. It's the system of life.

[13:54] Yeah. It's the system. So in the same way, honor. It's the system in place. You can't change it. Yeah. You can't. If I try to jump, I'm going to calm down. Oh yeah. Because of force of gravity.

[14:05] These are systems. God has. And see, there are natural laws and there are spiritual laws. When I say spiritual laws, I'm not speaking about the laws of God like, you know, some laws like, if you sow, you reap it.

[14:18] Even those things are so, so much program into how life works. For instance, if you keep using your mouth to say, I'm failing, I'm failing, you'll fail hands down.

[14:28] So what you keep saying, you'll keep seeing. So that's how life works. And then, so when you dishonor or curse a mother or father, life is not permitted.

[14:43] You have actually disengaged from the things that make life work. It can't be well with you. It can't be well with you. It can't be well.

[14:55] Don't wait for Father's Day. No. It might be too late. Don't wait for, and when Father's Day comes, take advantage of it. Use it.

[15:07] Use it. But don't wait for Father's Day. You are not a simple thing. Simple things wait for a day to show their wife I love you. No. Your lifestyle should make, must be a statement of I love my wife.

[15:22] Your lifestyle. He said, why don't I see the screen? He said, this is what the law, for God said.

[15:35] For God said. Wow. You didn't get it. As soon as I saw this, I saw this. It took me Genesis 1, verse 3.

[15:47] It took me Genesis 1, verse 3. Genesis 1, verse 6. Genesis 1, verse 9. Genesis 1, verse 11. Genesis 1, verse 14. Genesis 1, verse 10. I saw, go sit.

[15:58] Go sit. Go sit. Go sit. Go sit. And everything was showing up. Everything was showing up. Go sit. And whatever created the world still said something, but we are ignoring that one. a system has been put in place.

[16:11] You can't go against it. If you go against it, it is difficult to kick against the pricks. For God said, honor your father and your mother and anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.

[16:28] Look at them. The next verse. But you say, you have your own version. But you say, you see, because of societal issues, you know, because of safety issues, because of that, you have come out with all kinds of systems.

[16:44] But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is devoted to God, you are saying that the person is that, ask for me, I'm doing God's work.

[16:59] I'm in church, church, church, church, church, church. Okay. Okay. And you use church to dishonor your mother. Wow. Okay. Offering you can use to buy something, a gift for your father.

[17:12] You say you are using it to build God's house. Hey. Wow. And the pastor said, that's fine. Yeah, that's fine. Once you use it for the work, it's fine. Ah. It covers everything. It covers everything.

[17:23] He said, God said, honor. You said it's okay as long as it's doing the God's work. Oh. Wow. And look at the next verse. Wow.

[17:34] And they are not to honor their father or mother with it. Thus, you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition. Wow.

[17:47] You invalidate the word of the Lord. As soon as you invalidate that order, you have invalidated the benefit that comes with the order. So you are killing men now.

[17:59] You are killing people now. Wow. You are killing people by not making them follow what gives them long life and well-being. Let's go to the Mark account.

[18:11] Mark chapter 7, verse 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13. Mark chapter 7. He replies, I was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites.

[18:21] As it is written, these people honor me. Honor. Honor. God. Yeah. Honor. You see, God likes honor. Honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Verse 7, please.

[18:33] They worship me in vain. Their teachings are merely human rules. So they leave God's word, and they teach what, you know, yeah.

[18:44] It's humanity. Nowadays, if you say things like this, it's good. Yeah. It's better. People just, people, yes. You connect with the people. You connect with people.

[18:55] So you can do it like this. And we don't care what God's word is saying. We connect. Verse 8. Verse 8. You have let go the commandments of God and are holding on to human traditions.

[19:08] The next verse. And he continued. You have a fine way of setting aside the commandments of God in order to observe your own tradition. Yeah.

[19:19] Wow. That's what is happening in our generation. Yeah. Setting aside just so we can, this is the tradition we have chosen to live by. Verse 10. What Moses said.

[19:32] Now he's quoting the law given to Moses. Anytime you hear the New Testament that Moses said, he's just trying to say the law of God that came by Moses. Okay. So John chapter 1, verse 17, it says that the law was given through Moses or by Moses.

[19:46] So the law was given by Moses. So it's talking about God's law, not Moses' law. But he was the figure God used. Those people who said, it's just me. It's between me and God. I don't care about any human being.

[19:58] God uses human beings. Please grow up. Yes. Grow up. God uses human beings. So it says that for Moses said, honor your father and mother.

[20:08] And anyone who cases their father or mother is with food to death. That's the same thing we read earlier. Look at the next verse. But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is carbon.

[20:22] That is to say devoted to God. Then you no longer let them do anything for their father or mother. Because there's a religious thing. Oh, it's just this.

[20:33] You have explained that away. So it's okay if you don't do that for their mother or father. Go to the next verse. That's the word. That's you nullify the word of God by your tradition. Yeah.

[20:43] By your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that. The other things you do. But this is the key one. When the rich young ruler came to Jesus.

[20:55] He said, what must I do to be saved? Look chapter 18. The scripture I read. Look chapter 18. Verse 20. Jesus said. It's very interesting. Jesus said. He was trying to quote the commandments.

[21:07] He said, you know the commandments. Let's read it out. Let's go. Thou knowest the commandments. Do not commit adultery. Do not fail. Do not steal. Do not bear false witness.

[21:19] Honor that our father and our father. So how many did he mention here? Let's count them. Number one. Do not commit adultery. Number two. Do not kill. Number three.

[21:29] Do not steal. Number four. Do not bear false witness. Number five. Honor that our father. Five. He just referred to five of the commandments. Four of them were prohibitions.

[21:41] You think that a commandment is just prohibition, prohibition. But there is another instruction and courage that you have to honor. So then if you don't honor your father or mother, you are not different from one who is committing adultery.

[21:58] The one who is committing murder. So long as the rules of God, the systems of government is concerned. You are not different from the one who is stealing. The one who is bearing false witness.

[22:10] If you don't honor your mother and father. You are not different. So if someone deserves punishment for committing adultery. For stealing.

[22:21] For killing. For bearing false witness. Whatever judgment they deserve. The one who also has some honor father and mother deserves that. That's the problem. So there is already negative equity.

[22:32] And then number two. So if you honor your father and mother, you escape from that situation. But it's not just the escape. It comes with a promise attached to it as well.

[22:44] So it's not. See, if you don't steal, you are fine. But nothing means they will give you something. Why should you be rewarded for not stealing? You won't be rewarded for not stealing.

[22:56] You will not be rewarded for not committing murder. Have you seen someone, the police have called and said, we want to honor this person because he has not murdered anybody. Like all of us, most of us will be receiving a lot of honors.

[23:08] But you don't get honored for not murdering. You don't get honored for not committing adultery. There's no attachment of reward for not doing that. But the other one, which if you also, if you don't do and you end up falling into the, like you commit adultery, that one, you get the judgment.

[23:28] If you don't honor your mother and father, you also get that same, that kind of judgment. However, if you don't do all those other four, no reward. But when you honor your mother and father, that one comes with a reward. Ah, so why won't you use that?

[23:41] Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. You are reading and studying and studying and reading, exam and exam and exam and exam. And your life itself has become a big examination. Yes.

[23:54] But you have left what is weight here. Yes. Weight here. Honor your mother. There are people who have not been to school, but they are doing so well. Yes.

[24:04] I'm not talking down education because it's of such importance. But what I'm trying to say, well-being in life, has been attached to the principle of honor.

[24:15] Yes, sir. Can I ask you a question? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I think you have to. I said it earlier on. You have to, if you want to do well in life, before... This is a serious... This is a serious... Hey, okay.

[24:25] Oh, okay. Before you start wondering, why am I not married? Before you start wondering, why am I so struggling?

[24:38] Before you say, I have to call the doctors because I think I'm having something. Check. This pain should start having in your body. Check.

[24:48] Before you at least go to the doctors. It's good to go. But maybe it's not the doctors. The solution might be honor. Because well-being in life has everything to do with honor.

[25:00] So before you are wondering, receive, miracle, marriage. Watch out. Amen. That is important, please.

[25:14] However, when you finish, start doing inventory. Start checking, stock taking. Who am I supposed to honor? Who are having honor?

[25:25] I taught you last week. The personalities to honor. Yes. And the general ones. And the ones that carry some spiritual... God, mother, your spouse, your wife.

[25:38] Say, I can tell you, your job will not do well. Because the way you are treating your wife, you won't get a promotion. Even if you get a promotion, someone will take it and you will suck it back.

[25:51] Yeah. I told the branch pastors, missionaries, that, listen, if you don't treat your wife well, your ministry won't do well. Oh, yeah. If you won't treat a wife, you will not have a fine ministry.

[26:06] Anybody who has a good ministry and the ministry is doing well, check, they treat their wife well. They treat their wife well. Sometimes even their wives might be very difficult people.

[26:18] Difficult. Sometimes they even eventually leave or something. However. No, no, I'm telling you. So don't say that this man's wife left. Maybe it's not a man. Because you can't do well if you don't honor your wife.

[26:34] Doing well means honoring well. Honoring well. Honor well. Honor well. Honor your husband.

[26:47] It's your spouse. Honor your wife. Sometimes one of the ways to honor your wife is just to overlook some stuff. Oh, sir. God bless you. God bless you.

[26:58] Let it grow. Let it grow. Yeah. Let it grow. But I'm realizing that the older you grow, if you are wise, the older you grow, the more you master doing it. So sometimes your wife will never even know you are not happy about something.

[27:12] And you don't harbor it. You just. Very smart. Let it grow. Very smart. Very good. And that's the wife of your youth. Take her like that. That's it. Take her like that and stop comparing her with other people.

[27:25] I have to be getting ready to run out. So God, your mother and father, your spouse, and the prophets, you like it or not, you can't change it.

[27:39] No, no, no. It's an order from God. That's it. You can't change it. There's no way anyone who carries grace from God can be of benefit to you in spite of the way you honor them. Yeah.

[27:50] Or the way you dishonor them. Whatever. You can't dishonor a man and be entitled to what they carry from God. They said. Jesus said, I don't have a devil.

[28:01] I honor my father. But you dishonor me. John 8, 49. And John 5, 23. That all men should honor the son.

[28:12] Even as they honor the father. You can't say I honor God. But Jesus says no. No. As they honor the father. He that honors not the son honors not the father which sends him.

[28:25] Did you see that? The last statement. The last three ways. Or four ways. Which has sent him.

[28:36] So if God sends me to you and you dishonor me. Do you know who you are dishonoring? The one who sends you. Most offices.

[28:49] Government offices or places. When you get to Heathrow. At the immigration. They put notice there. Any assault.

[29:01] To our staff. We will prosecute. We. It's not the person. The person has to stay out. We. Will prosecute you. If you assault a police officer. Her Majesty's government.

[29:14] Will prosecute you. That's right. Yeah. If you assault. A prophet. He doesn't have to do anything. The one who sent him.

[29:25] Will deal with you. Honor. Jesus could not do mighty works. Wow. Except lay.

[29:35] He said yesterday I was teaching them. Except lay. Laying of hands. Is the least. You can do. That means that laying of hands. Really works. Even in the extreme situation. Just lay hands.

[29:46] It's. It's. It's. It's. A few before it's away. Except. He couldn't because he was without honor. Bible says that. Yesterday's reading. It blessed me so much.

[29:58] It says that. God. What is man. That you are so mindful of. You crown him with honor. And power. And. He made him. A little lower than angel. And he said.

[30:08] But now. And put all things under him. But now. We don't see all things. Under him. Verse 8. Very interesting. But. That has put all things. In subjection under his feet. For in that. He put all things.

[30:19] In subjection under his feet. He left nothing under him. That was not put under him. But now. We see not yet. All things. Under him. Then the verse 9 say. We see Jesus. But we see Jesus.

[30:30] But we see Jesus. But we see Jesus. And then that one comment says. Who has been made little lower than angels. For the suffering of death. That's why he was. Okay. Because angels don't die.

[30:42] So for him to die. He has to step down. So he had to use the step down. To his former. His mother. And Mary's womb. To come there. To step down.

[30:52] And became a little lower than the angels. And. Watch this. Even at that. He was crowned with glory. And honor. That's why he could do ministry.

[31:04] All right. Anybody God calls. Watch this. This is very important. Anybody God calls. And sends to the people. God puts a certain honor on them.

[31:16] If they come in the name of the Lord. And you know that this is really in the name of the Lord. What your position is to switch. And credit them with honor. As soon as you credit them with honor.

[31:26] You trigger what they carry to work for you. Okay. As soon as you honor them. You authorize what they carry to work for you. When you dishonor them. You unauthorize.

[31:38] You say. It can't work. It can't work. So there are. Somebody can lay hands on you. And be screaming. Ah. And. Mary receive it. And you are shaking. Your hairline is moving.

[31:49] And people. But it's not going to work. He doesn't know. That's the mystery about this whole thing. So we are praying. Because we don't know what you are doing.

[31:59] But the grace knows. Yes. You. You can be a partaker of my grace. You can be a partaker of my grace.

[32:11] We are called to partake people's grace. Okay. You can be a partaker of my grace. When you. You. You are treating. The carrier of the grace. In a certain way. They might. Whether they know it or not.

[32:22] It's not an issue. That's right. That's right. You can. You can demonstrate. From full respect. Hey. Hello sir. Hello sir. They will pray.

[32:34] In your critical. Most critical moment. There are oil. They will refuse to respond to you. There are oil. They will say. No. No. No. I don't know this one. He's like. Oh God. Oh God.

[32:44] Oh. I don't know this one. There are people who have. Who have died. And their church brethren. And their pastor. They're all confused. Why? We prayed. We prayed. We did everything.

[32:56] Please. Sometimes. Because there are things he won't tell us. And he doesn't have to tell us. Yeah. Because we don't show him who. Where the oil must work.

[33:06] That's right. Jesus. A whole God on earth. Could not do mighty things. Wow. Because of the issue of dishonor. Wow. And he said.

[33:16] He quoted. He said. A prophet is not without honor. That means that. A prophet. Generally speaking. Must always be with honor. Wow. And Satan's job. Is to attack your attempt.

[33:27] To honor a prophet. Because if he attacks. Just like I said. If Satan can attack your attempt. To honor a father. He has actually finished you. It's not a father.

[33:39] The father may be. Oh. You talk to me like this. Oh. Oh. The mother will say. Hey. You spoke to me. You did this to me. The mother may be hurt. But you think that. Yeah. Yeah. I've said my mind.

[33:52] Yeah. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. You have been capped. You have been capped. There are people. Who have been capped in life. Do other courses.

[34:04] You still not going away. Capped. They've capped you. They capped you. People who explain everything.

[34:17] With the. Based on the natural occurrence. They might be explained. But they don't. Every struggle is traceable to dishonor. Oh my God. The cause of death. For your lack of promotion.

[34:28] The cause of death. For your lack of elevation. The cause of death. For your beaucoup struggles. Dishonor. Dishonor. Dishonor. Dishonor.

[34:40] You want me to lay hands and say. Receive it. No. Someone must tell you. Because after the receiving. They can't change the word of God. We can't lay hands to nullify what God has said. He does it.

[34:52] I lay hands on you. Hey. Hey. Take it. We brought her. Pa-pa-pa. Pa-ha. Shua. And then because of that. Okay.

[35:02] God has suspended his law. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Are you listening to me? Yeah. We are laughing. But it's a very serious matter. Very, very, very serious. Any community that is struggling.

[35:15] Generally. Check it. The issue is dishonor. Yeah. Even at workplaces. Because there's lack of honor at home. They take you to workplaces. Yeah. They take you.

[35:25] Sometimes you regret employing such a person to your place. In your company. Because of this stinking, disrespectful attitude. Wow. Some of you can just get up and say.

[35:36] I'm tired. This two straight things. Walk away from the work. Walk away from workplace. Walk away. I'm tired. Right. Every day. I'm not happy. I'm not happy. Who told you to go to work to be happy? Is it an amusement park?

[35:50] That's a good one. Work is not an amusement park. So. And largely, we might credit it.

[36:05] Or we might blame it on policies. But it's not policy. There's a certain policy. If that policy is in place. No human being can keep you down. This is a higher policy.

[36:17] Where others are going down, you'll be going up. You can't be a victim by accident. Who are you honoring? Who are you honoring? I put it to you.

[36:29] Who are you honoring? Tell me. I'm asking. Just tell me. Who are you honoring? God is so good. God is so good that there's no human being without a father. There's no human being without a mother. So at least, by the time you are arriving, he has put some objects of honor in place already.

[36:45] He has put them in place because you can't say you don't have a mother. You can't say you don't have a father. When you come, by the time you are arriving, there's somebody to honor. There's always somebody to honor.

[36:58] Some of us, you have to go back to repair. Repair that relationship. You are destroyed. You are budgeted because of a bad boy you want to follow. A girl you want to follow. Usually friends. We follow friends to dishonor our father and mother.

[37:11] That's even very bad. You burn in the hottest part of hell. This one is good for young people.

[37:22] It's very important. It's very important. So you are destroying this beautiful future God has prepared for you. You are destroying it. You take it and throw it away because they've told you you are so talented.

[37:37] They've told you you are so gifted. You are so smart. You are so academic. You are amazing. And so you think I don't need anybody. No, no, no, no.

[37:48] If you needed somebody to show up, then you always need somebody to stay up. You always need somebody. You always need somebody. If you want to enjoy God, look for a man.

[38:01] Yesterday I was teaching. You want anointing? Don't go to heaven. How can you get to heaven to go and collect it? No. Where is the anointing? It's in the anointed.

[38:12] What's the anointed? When you say someone is anointed, that means anointing is on him or in him. So go there for the anointing. If you want to enjoy what anointing can do, look for the anointed.

[38:27] Paul came on the scene. He laid his son. The Bible says that a one in ladies and Holy Ghost came upon them. Ha! Holy Spirit came upon them. Psalm 11, verse 18.

[38:38] He said, when he saw that the Holy Spirit was given. Say given. Ha! I feel like... I like this Holy Spirit thing too much. When he saw that the Holy Spirit... When he saw that through the name of the apostle...

[38:50] The Holy Ghost was given... Was given God himself. A whole God was given by human beings laying hands on other human beings. When he saw that...

[39:02] Ha! He said, this is a good one. He saw what was happening. And he saw that he laid hands on this one came. He laid hands on that one came. The ones he didn't lay hands, they didn't come. So it looks like the thing is under the sleeves. He's there.

[39:13] He's the Holy Ghost. He saw some people. The lay hands on that one came. The other people. You disdain them. You disdain your opportunity. World people tell you...

[39:23] All these... All these people... It's all pride and ego. Paul said you are the evidence of our epistles. Yeah.

[39:33] Yeah. Yeah. The credibility of a ministry... Our anointing. It's evidence in the changed lives. How God anointed Jesus Christ with the Holy Ghost.

[39:46] Acts chapter 10 verse 38. How he anointed Jesus Christ with the Holy Ghost and power. Who went about doing good and what? The impact was on people. Healing all who were oppressed of the devil.

[39:57] For God was with him. For God was with him. He was doing it. He showed up in the synagogue. In Luke chapter 4. Verse 1. There's a spirit of God always upon me. For he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.

[40:10] To heal the broken hearted. Recovery of sight to the... Not him who fought the people. There's anointing for some people. But until you learn how to honor... You must learn how to tap what a person carries. Through honor.

[40:22] Through honor. Through honor. You can be the spouse of the person. And still not be entitled to the grace he carries. Wow. Yeah.

[40:36] Well. Let me end by giving you the four eyes. Of honor. Number one. How do you honor? Thank you Jesus. Somebody learning something.

[40:48] Yeah. Number one. How do you honor? You have to identify. Identify. So you have to... Recognize that...

[41:00] Hmm. Like Jesus. They said... Mark chapter 6 verse 2. They said... What manner of wisdom is given to this man? And where is he coming?

[41:11] Where is he getting... That distance... They notice that there's something. Yeah. Don't turn a blind eye. Identify. Because to honor somebody means... To recognize what they carry. Hmm.

[41:21] Sometimes jealous people behave like they haven't seen it. Yeah. They behave like they haven't seen your... Ring.

[41:32] Wedding ring. They haven't seen it. If you come there, they behave like they haven't seen you. They will smell you. Recognize.

[41:43] One of the problems of a lot of people who are not rising... Is because they fail to admit others have done well. Yeah. And to celebrate those who have done well. If you don't celebrate marriage, don't think of getting married.

[41:56] It won't happen. And even if it happens, it's going to be a problem for you. It will be your biggest problem in life. Yeah. Last Sunday, I said, don't expect what you don't respect.

[42:09] Yeah. So you have to identify. And admit. Recognize that. I know this guy. We were in school together. Don't get too familiar.

[42:23] Identify that. This person... I mean, I can't be talking to... Boris Johnson. He says, hey, Bojo. No. No. Let me... He passed. He passed, yeah. He passed.

[42:33] Oh, yo, passed. How are you? Oh, look at you. Hey, today, you are awful. They trivialize your mother's uniqueness.

[42:49] You trivialize your father's uniqueness. You trivialize your father's uniqueness because you are comparing him to somebody who has owned a private jet. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[43:01] Today, you are close to that great man of God. So you are seeing so many mistakes. Yeah. When you were far, look at the way the anointing was working for you. They prophesied. It changes your... Identify it.

[43:12] That's the way to honor a person. And ignore... Those who don't know, ignore them. Yeah. Because some people say, why are you always about your pastor? Ignore them. Because it's not their pastor. Yeah.

[43:23] Yeah. Yeah. You know what... Identify. Identify. Identify. Identify. Number two, quickly. Huh. Number two. This is interesting. Isolate. Isolate. Isolate. So when you recognize isolate, to isolate means to elevate.

[43:39] You see, this is X15. This is X12. This is X8. I can't say they are all speakers. I bring them to their level.

[43:51] They are all... No. They are not all at the same. They are all speakers, but not at the same level. So I have to isolate this. Because the power it takes to drive this is different from the power it takes to drive this. So I isolate him.

[44:02] Separate this one from that. So that when I'm treating this, I treat it accordingly. So you have to isolate, separate him, and don't allow anybody to tell you we are all the same.

[44:12] They are all the same. No. Your mother is not the same as somebody's mother. Can I become your next mother? No. Not the same. She might not have all the money or whatever, but they are not the same.

[44:23] Isolate your mother from the other mothers. And when your mother is talking to you, know that this is my mother. It's different from all the other women and all the other mothers. This is my father. I isolate the person. Other than that, you'll be making a mistake.

[44:33] That's how to honor. Put them in a different class. Number three. Quickly. Invest. Invest. Number one, identify.

[44:45] Number two, isolate. Number three, invest. What does it mean to invest? Demonstrate that you actually respect these people. Reward their uniqueness. Reward their uniqueness.

[44:57] So when you are rewarding somebody, you are rewarding because you are unique. Because of what I've identified on your life. And I separate. That's how to honor a person. You are honoring a prophet. I'm doing it because I know you are a unique man of God.

[45:08] I know. I know. If people don't respect you, me, I know what your life has done for me. I know what your ministry has done for me. And I won't forget. I use that as a point of reference. And I use that to reward you for that.

[45:20] So to reward a person, it can be pray for the person. Give to the person. Gifts are easier ways to show honor. Jesus said, when I'm sending you, whichever house you enter, when you go, they receive you.

[45:37] Whatever they give you, it's ah. So when they receive you, they will give you. Into what diversity you enter? And they receive you. Eat such things as they said before you.

[45:48] One of the translators said, whatever they give you. Yeah. Some people can give you a gift, they confuse you. Because you didn't know that they value you like that.

[45:59] The kind of gift you give to a person is a reflection of your value to them on a person. The value you place on a person. Some people, they will try to reduce you under them. Yeah.

[46:11] They will reduce you under them. What they will buy for themselves, they will never buy it for you. Even though you are way above them. They will never buy it for you. And they will actually buy something lower version to bring you lower.

[46:29] Some people, when they give you a gift, you are wondering about... God, I thank you. I'm not complaining about gifts. I'm talking about...

[46:40] Let your... Rewarding your mother, rewarding your father... I'm about to say something. It might not look... Sounds spiritual for some of you, but... Let your rewarding your father, rewarding your brother, rewarding your prophet... Pass all the other colleagues.

[46:53] You must... Based on your strength. Target that... It's my mother's 17th. I know my brother has this. My brother will do this. My sister will do this. Make sure you do better than all of them. Target that you push yourself.

[47:05] That... That... Secure something unusual over your life. Yeah. So don't... Reward the person by investing. Investing. And then let me add the last...

[47:17] Oh, yeah. It's very important. So reward means to pray for the person. To serve the person. Service. Serve the person. Be happy to do things for the person.

[47:28] Forgive the person and forbear. Forgiveness. When they step on your toe, you forgive. And then they step again, you forgive. Step again. Some of us, we are good at forgiving, but not for bearing. It gets to a time you realize this person is good at stepping on toes.

[47:44] Yes. I'll take it like that. When it happens, I'm not surprised. I'll just take it like that and still continue. You understand? So it gets to a time. Take the forgiveness higher. Okay. Because you don't like the way your mother talks when family...

[47:57] Friends come around. You don't like the way your father behaves when he sees your friends. And he sees your children. Or sees your wife. Or says, you don't like the way he does. It is given really. You forgive him the other time.

[48:07] You forgive him. It gets to a time, you know what? Forbear with him. So you can continue to honor him. When he starts talking, you say, God. When he finishes, you know that he'll do it.

[48:18] And then continue. It doesn't interfere with the way you relate to the person. The last one. So number one is what? Number two. Number three.

[48:30] And number four. Be intentional. Intent. Intent. Don't wait for how it happened. No. You look out for it. You actually do it.

[48:41] You intentionally go out of your way. This is what I want to do. You have to be intentional. I'm preparing. I'm not saying this for myself. I'm preparing. I am preparing.

[48:53] You set it upon yourself. I'm doing this purposefully. Purposefully. Honor must be intentional. It must be incidental.

[49:05] It must be intentional. So sometimes it might inconvenience you. But it's because it's intentional. You purpose that. This is what I want to do. Until you purpose it. You stop doing it.

[49:16] Because the humanness will get involved. The familiarity or the humanness. Can easily interfere. With the principle of honor. Did you receive something out there?

[49:27] Thank you for listening to this message by David Entry. When God speaks. Works show. And the works will surely show in your life. To hear more from David Entry.

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