The Failure of Modern Christianity - 3 — Zacharias Tanee Fomum

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There are new testaments in the back there. If you're here and you don't have a Bible, Frederick Johnson will give you a copy just in 3rd or 4th from verse 15 to 18. If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer, or thief, or any other kind of criminal, or even as a meddler.

However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed. But praise God that you are there in thy name. For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God. And if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?

And if it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner? It is verse 17 that struck us as we were looking at the urban scene. For it is time for judgment to begin in the family of God.

There is a judgment of God. And it will begin with everything that is called the house of God. So, those of us who say that we are Christian and we are the house of God, we better we better know it. A judgment will not begin by those who do not claim to be Christian.

They will be judged certainly.

And it will not begin in the bar.

But it will begin somewhere in the family of Christianity. And on those who call themselves Christian, will go one after the other to be weighted on God's balance. So, there is what our churches say, that you are a Christian, you did by pleasure and comfort, so now you are a Christian.

And there is another verdict more important, of the judgment seat of God, that will begin in the house of God. For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God. So, by all those who call themselves Christian, any which begins with us as the apostles of the earth, where will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?

So, in this one verse, the apostle is addressing both those who claim to be Christian and those who are ungodly. God will weigh in his house those who want to call themselves Christian. And he will go outside the church to weigh people there also.

We must ask ourselves a question. Because the apostle Paul says, if you judge yourself, you will not be judged. It's important that we judge ourselves. And that we ask ourselves the question, what I call Christian living, what I call Christian, in God's eyes, is it not a failure?

Is my Christianity not falsehood? Will God acknowledge it as a genuine Christianity? If not, I am deceiving myself very deeply. And I will be very sorry on that judgment day before the judgment seat. But if we judge ourselves now, it might be that we'll have time to correct our condition.

It might be that we'll be able to correct the situation and go from failure to success and go from a false Christianity to a Christian Christianity. So we've invited an authority on this subject and the people who are under it are to study the way of Christian service, the way of obedience, through repentance, freedom from the sin of fornication and adultery, to explain what true Christian living is in a straightforward way and without hypocrisy.

So that when you read them, you can ask yourself the question, that you're not deceiving yourself. It might help you to save yourself. Before this judgment day begins and the house of God will begin. Because Jesus said that if you're walking with someone and you have a problem with them, solve it while you're still on the way, before you reach the court.

If between you and God, he will tell you, OK, your Christianity is as I taught it, as I wanted it, I approve it. Before we end it all, I would ask that one song be sung in French. So that our Lord, who is God and who does what he wants us to be, will guide us tonight.

You are the one who sent Jesus Christ. Accept what you want with compassion. So that on that day, before that judgment seat, I will be happy. The brother from Austria will come forward.

Lord, I'm strongly troubled by the fact that Jesus is the answer for the world today.

I thought he is a little more than Jesus is for me. God bless you.

Luke, chapter 3, verses 11 through 24.

Jesus continued, And he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country who sent him to his field to feed his pigs, to feed pigs. He longed to fill his stomach with the products that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

When he came to his senses, he said, How many of my father's hired men have food to spare? And here I am starving to death. I will settle and go back to my father and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired men. So he got up.

And went to his father. But while he was still a long way off,.

His father saw him and was filled with compassion for him. He ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. The son said to him, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.

But the father said to his servant, Quick, bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Bring the feathered calf and kill it. Let's have a feast and celebrate.

For this son of mine was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found. So they began to celebrate. Praise the Lord. This father has two sons. And a younger son has his own ambitions. I want you to imagine down the way some day in a village far away from here.

There was work to do. There was farming. There was all that had to be done.

And the father was strict. And he was a statistician. Everybody had to work. And the mother was strict. You could not bring girls and take them to your room or chat with or talk with her in the sitting room.

Everything was strict. There was no beer. There was no alcohol. Everything was in order. The younger son his heart was twisted. Oh, his heart was in the seat of one child. Oh, his heart was in the seat of one child.

His heart was in the seat of one child. He said, well, when Papa dies he will give me my own portion of the wealth. And I will go to Montreal and he will be high life. And he will be high life. But year in, year out the father seemed to be getting younger and stronger.

Every year the father seemed to be going more straight. Since today this is trouble. I have this kind of father who seems to be getting younger with passing years.

He said, look, you need money.

When you are young when you move like that you can say, that's a guy. So who wants money? When you are old you are living on a stick and you have money. What is the use of it? Oh, you need money when you are young.

When you can respond to high life. And the years went back. The father worked and was younger and younger. And he was more and more strict. Finally the son said, this kind of father can make you miss all of life.

It's better to keep the iron while it's hot. After he had waited. He said, well, papa is not getting old. He is not getting sick. I'll do something about it. He said, papa, it is settled by law that when you die part of your wealth will become mine.

Papa, give me a second. Give me my portion now. No, no, no, no. Let me enjoy it. While this youth and life flowing through my veins. Now, now, now, now. Now, now, now. It is of the sinner.

To seek pleasure. Now, now, now, now. The sinner says, let's go to bed. We'll think about marriage afterwards. Now, now, now, now. Let me touch your breast. Let me touch your body. Now, now, now, now.

I guess I'm late. Please, go and talk to my parents. No, no, no, now, now, now. Parents, you can be seen afterwards. It is of the sinner to say now, now, now, now.

The sinner goes to university. He's not studying. He says, now, now, now, now. Now, now, now, now. He says, let's enjoy now. We'll study afterwards. In our graduate years, we had a classmate.

The scholarship was given every month for the Sierra Leoneans. When he took the scholarship,.

He would disappear from school until it's finished. When the money is finished, he'll come back. He said, let's go and study. When it's finished, he'll come and study. How can one study when there's money in the pocket?

The sinner says, pleasure now, now, now, now. Let's take the money now, now, now, now. So this one says, Father, give me my portion now, now, now, now. Now, now, now, now. He will not think. Now, now, now.

Now, now, now. The thing that is interesting is that the father did what he asked. Whether there were cows, he divided them and gave the portion. All three he divided. All three he divided. He took it.

He sold. He sold everything. And put the money in. He opened the coat and sewed it inside. He had not been to a town like this. He had a village look. Village mentality. Well, he sold everything. That night he could not sleep.

So one night I... So one night I heard of him. Montreal. In the morning. He came out and took some transport. Where he landed. He saw the lights. He saw the streets. He saw the shops. Oh, he saw the girls.

In miniskirts. With their breasts half open. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's life. That's life. That's life. That's life. That's life. Ha, ha, ha, ha. That's why Papa almost made me miss. Oh, Papa almost.

He entered the Baba shop. He said, give me a modern head shirt. That's like a show guy. They gave me a haircut. He entered a shop. What suits?

Where he dressed. What the most expensive shoes. He looked at him in the middle. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's me. That's me. That's me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Then he checked it. What's the most expensive water in town? Is that your senior? Yes. The Sheraton. He booked them took a number of suits. When he was in the village he was called not musical. And it will not work here.

From now on. My name is James Brown Junior. James Brown Junior. Then it was this guy, it was that guy, it was this guy, it was this guy, it was this kind of alcohol, it was this kind of drink, it was this kind of whiskey, it was this man, it was this man, it was this man.

Sin is spending and spending and spending and spending and spending. Sin is spending and spending and spending and spending. Spending and spending and spending. Spending and spending and spending. Spending and spending and spending.

I want to ask you, how long have you been in this city? How much money have you earned? Where is it? What can you show for all the money you have earned in your life?

Sinners keep no records. They spend, they spend, they spend.

I want to ask you again, what can you show for all the money you have earned in your life? Spending, spending, spending, spending, spending. Spending, spending, spending, spending, spending. I want to ask you, how much money is in your account in heaven?

Look chapter 12, verse 33 and 34.

Sell what you have.

Sixty little sheep, because the other father found it good to give you the kingdom. Sell what you have and give it to our world.

Tell your possessions and give to the poor. Tell your possessions and give to the poorest of the poor. Who are the poorest poor? Anyone without Christ is absolutely poor. He is poor and bankrupt beyond description.

He may be a head of state, but he is poor. He may be the richest man he found, but he is poor. Because in 200 years from now, you will have nothing. You will have the lake of fire. So it says, sell your possessions and give the gospel to those without the gospel.

Because those are the poorest poor. Sell what you have and give the gospel to those without the gospel. Sell your possessions and give the gospel to those without the gospel. And in that way, you provide purses for yourself.

Purses for yourself. A purse, a purse. A treasure in heaven. As you invest in the possessions of men, you provide a treasure for yourself in heaven. You provide a purse for yourself. The Lord said we should provide purses for ourselves in heaven.

The Lord said we should provide purses for ourselves in heaven.

That cannot be stolen, that will not wax old. Money in heaven, that cannot be devalued.

All money dies on earth. It's actually nobody's money.

Because you can lose it.

There was a time in Cameroon. From one month to the next two, my salary went from $2 ,000 to $500.

From one month to the next two, my salary went from $2 ,000 to $500 in the space of two months.

Salaries were reduced and the currency was devalued. So my salary that was equivalent to $2 ,000 became equivalent to $500. As university professor of the highest grade on the super scale. From $2 ,000 to $500.

That's what happens to many soldiers.

Every day they are being devalued. Every day they are being devalued.

Money that is invested into the perishing source of men.

Money that is invested into the perishing source of men. Is re-evaluated every year. Is re-evaluated every year. If in 2007.

If in 2007 You invest $10 ,000 You invest $10 ,000 You invest $10 ,000 Into a perishing source of men That money in 2008 in heaven.

That money in 2008 in heaven. Will become Will become $100 ,000 $100 ,000.

In 2009 Will become $1 ,000 ,000 Will become $1 ,000 ,000 In 2010 In 2010 In 2011 In 2011 $100 ,000 ,000 And so forth... That's what is happening with money that is invested in heaven.

That's what is happening with money that is invested in heaven. If you forget. Every year there's a new note added to it. Every year there's a new note added to it. Every year there's a new note added to it.

But... Now when you look about earth.

It does not match. Because even the interest based. Does not match the valuation. Because even the interest based. But the money that is put in heaven, in the bank of heaven, by investing to a perishing source of man, every year, it barely becomes higher and higher.

That's money in heaven. It takes a fool to keep his money on earth so that it is going down, going down, going down. In addition, by investing to a perishing source of man, people will be saved and the number of people will be increasing.

I want to tell you, it takes a fool to keep his money on earth. It's not yours. There could be a problem in Wall Street. There was a time I was in the US. There was a certain brother. He had a hundred million dollars.

They told him to give a tithe. They told him, they told him. The brother, he calculated it. It was too big. Ten million dollars. He refused to tithe. I knew him personally. He even flew me in his personal plane.

When I was going to preach in Louisiana, then there was a problem in Wall Street. At the end of the day, he told us he had lost ten percent. One brother told him, that sounds like a tithe. This is not fiction, it's reality.

He didn't give it to God. In fact, during that problem in Wall Street, the richest American then lost one billion dollars. It's in the book on Bill Clinton's biography. Because the rich man went to visit Bill Clinton that time.

But this brother lost ten percent. Ten million dollars. But he did not give to God. He gave to the air. I want to ask you. What have you done with all the income of your life? Spending, spending, spending, spending, spending, spending, spending, spending, spending, spending, and you have nothing to show for it.

Have you confronted the fact that anyone who invests on earth has lost his capital? There was a time in Germany. When the money was in such large quantities. It was carried in wheelbarrows. I know that.

You keep money in wheelbarrows, they will throw the money and steal the wheelbarrow. Because the money was useless. I went to Sierra Leone. With my man Ebrahim, some years ago. Went to a bank. With 50 ,000 CFA.

That's a hundred dollars. The money was so much, they gave us the biggest unit. It was so much. I removed my Bible. And we filled this Bible cover with the money. A hundred dollars. And we ran quickly home.

The money had been devalued, devalued, devalued. In a country I won't call the name. When I went to visit the missionaries seven, eight, no, eight years ago. It was six, it was six of the, one US dollar was six of the local dollars.

After seven years. It was 30 ,000 local dollars, 30 ,000 to one US dollar.

30 ,000 local dollars.

He who keeps his money on earth. Has decided to lose his capital. Those who bank in heaven. Their money re-evaluates. If the Lord says, provide persons for yourself. We shall need many in heaven. If not, the Lord will not be saying, provide persons for yourself.

You don't provide persons for the pastor. When you give your money to the church. It is not recorded in heaven in the pastor's name. It's recorded in your name. If the pastor wants money in his name, the pastor has to give his money to go to church.

The angels are recording accurately. Provide persons for yourself. We shall spend endless years in heaven. We are here for 120 years. What portion of your income are you saving to heaven? Keeping for those endless years.

Compared to the portion you are spending here. A man who saves 10%. To spend it for trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions of years of endless eternity.

And spends 90%. For the 120 years here. It's not wise.

For me, I said, Bazar, this 10%, is it before taxation or after taxation? He was afraid this got to sick. At least he gives a bit too much to God. I told him. If you are so threatened. Give it after taxation.

I was afraid that his heart would fall out. Provide persons for yourself. A treasure that will not be devalued. He cannot steal it. I want to ask you. Are you strategically investing your accounts in heaven?

Or you think that you are cheating God? You can't cheat God. You can only cheat yourself. Because the account is yours. The account is yours. You will need to draw from it. So this fellow spends, spends, spends, spends.

Spend it, spend it, spend it, spend it, spend it. Spend it, spend it, spend it. Wasting, wasting, wasting. There are three types of people. There are those who waste money.

That's the lowest class. They waste money. The next class. They spend money. On rent, on food, on transportation, on clothes. They spend money, they spend money. The highest class. They invest money. They invest money.

Are you spending money again? Take some money. Where the prodigal son. He spends, spends, spends. Waste, waste, waste, waste. There was abundance in the city. There was abundance in the city. The money was going in.

It was going in. It was not coming in. It's like the car. See the damn hole there. You put it. And you press. That hole is everything. The minute you open it and.

A ten dollar note falls out. Open. Open. That's how to spend money. But to invest is to plan strategically and put it in certain projects that have eternal consequences. When the boy was enjoying high life he was gone.

He was not great. Today was fully in line. One girl after another, one club after another, one tobacco hole after another, one hurry. The money was going, but it was not coming back. Then he discovered that nothing was left.

Then he stole out of the hotel. Then he scrolled to get him torn. He could not replace them. It was finished. The money was finished. He was told out of the hotel. No, he was told out. He was afraid that the police may follow him.

He was afraid that the police may follow him.

I am no longer James Brown, do you know? My name is Aaron. That is the name my father gave me. He was enraged. He was hungry. And there was no money. He went and saw somebody had a pig. And wanted to feed swine.

So he may eat pig's food. But they told him, You are worse than a pig. Pig's food is too good for you. You shall not be eating it. We will not give it to you. When the money was gone, family detailed that country.

Family is timing the sinner. It is waiting when you will be in need. Then timing will come without warning.

The stomach was making requirements. The stomach was complaining.

Then one day, he saw Mary. She was not with another man. She was with another man. This man was the oldest man who ever existed.

James Brown, do you know who goes there? He says, Hello Mary. James Brown went to Mary and said, Hello Mary. Mary said, what is wrong with him?

He said, let's go, let's go. He said, let's go. There are mad men in the city. Who are going to know one's name? He meets Pauline. He says, Pauline, hello. Pauline looks at him from left to right. Then he meets his drinking mate.

King of youth. King of youth. He is well dressed. James Brown, do you know when they say king of youth? I am coming, I am coming. The girl does not want him. The king does not want him. The men do not want him.

The pocket was empty. The stomach was making requirements. Oh sin. Oh sin. The Bible says the wage of sin is death. It is when, in some places, like in Cameroon, when you start to work, they give you the salary advance.

After you have worked for some time, they calculate and give you your full salary. Sin has salary advance. All the problems that sin causes. The problems that sin causes to a sinner. All the diseases that go with sin.

All the problems that go with sin. And then, sin has the full pay. Where you will be in the lake of hell. That will be the full pay. Some classmates of ours told us that all the good, great musicians will be in hell.

So there will be a lot of high life in hell. Oh it will be high life. When we were studying, they were saying, it was soul music. You two girls and first on your hopelessness. They said in hell, there will be soul music.

There will be night club after night club. Then they said in hell, you two will be singing sins. I wonder. They were deceived. There will be no high life in hell. There will be no music in hell. Music is of God.

Although it is distorted by Satan. There will be no music in hell. There will be no high life. There will be no dancing in hell. People are to dance for God. Although some deceived people dance for Satan.

There will be no dancing in hell. There will be suffering in hell.

Suffering in hell. There will be no community life in hell.

Every sinner in hell will be locked in his own world.

Every sinner in hell will be locked in his own world.

So that he may suffer.

To the fullest for having rejected God's love. That is given in Christ Jesus.

Hell will be a place of suffering, suffering, suffering. Oh, the whiskey drinker. Oh, one whiskey. Well, you now have a drop of water. The sinner in hell.

He will want sexual morality. He will want Mary. But he will not even see a woman to make a difference. The desire shall, he shall be consumed by his passion. Consumed by his passion.

But there will be no doer whatsoever.

By which the passion can be quenched even for a second.

He shall be suffering, suffering, suffering. Suffering, suffering, suffering. And every request from hell.

Will receive only one answer, no. You know the story of the rich man and Lazarus. The first request of the rich man who was in hell was that they should send Lazarus to dip his finger in water and come put it on his tongue.

If somebody has to dip his hand, if somebody has to dip his hand and come and put your finger, how much can you have? But that one was really nice to him. Then he said, I have five brothers. Seven brothers.

Send someone to go and preach to them. He thought about his brothers because his brothers were like him. There are family tendencies. Everybody in his family was as lost as him. Even that one was injected.

He was said he has Moses and the prophets. And he said, if they will not believe Moses and the prophets, even if someone went from the land of the dead, they will still not believe. There was a woman in a place called Banga.

A woman. But she was true to the decadence of the church there. She had cancer of the uterus.

She went to a reference hospital in Douala. They did the chemotherapy and all the therapies. Her hair fell off. But the cancer didn't move a bit. She was a very godly woman.

I met her in Douala. I said, come to Yaoundé. God will heal you. She went and told the husband. The man told her, if your former man heals you, I will believe in God and join your church. She came from Banga to Yaoundé.

I called some other brethren.

I called some other brethren. We prayed for her.

When they examined her again, the cancer had disappeared completely. It's now 10 years. There has been no recurrence. Of course, the husband has not believed. What we have in the campaigns in Douala, I told him, remember your promise.

He told the wife, he is not ready. But this same sister, she bore a child. He had HIV -1 and HIV -2. This child. There are two viruses. He had HIV -1 and HIV -2.

He had HIV -1 and HIV -2. There are two viruses. He was carrying HIV -1 and HIV -2. She gave the child to our campaign. We had HIV -1 and HIV -2.

The child was tested. It became HIV-negative. We prayed for the child. He was healed. But that's his husband, I don't believe it. Listen Ben, miracles do not compensate. And that doesn't complain. I carried seven torches back yonder.

But none of those seven people is in the church in Douala. We had a campaign back then. A totally blind woman was killed. We started an assembly there. She kept going to her, I don't want to call the name of her church.

Her children told her, you no longer belong there, you belong where your eyes were open. She told the children, don't trouble me. In fact, Bradley Atogo's driver became the missionary in that case. As a result of that campaign.

Miracles confirm God's power, but they do not compel belief. In the church in Douala, there was a woman who was married for twelve years, no child. She came to a church, I'm going to attend the meeting.

After eighteen months, she had her baby in her hands. Then she told the other, I am going. If I stay here, I'm not being honest. I did not come for God. I came for a child. I've lost my child, I'm going.

And she went and she never came back. So when the Lord told this man that even if you go from the land of the dead to tell his brothers, they will not believe. It's a matter of fact. Listen, Ben. The Lord raised Jesus from the dead.

And then the Jews decided that they wanted to kill Lazarus. Because of Lazarus, people were going and believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. They wanted to kill a man who was raised. In order to abolish the evidence.

We thank God for his miracles. But faith is a gift of God. You have let God heal the sick. As an act of his compassion. Because God is a God of compassion. When everything was finished, the prologue song popped.

The Bible says he came to himself. You see, a sinner is like himself. He is like drunk. He is insane. Sin is insanity. Sin is insanity. He came to himself. And he asked, How many of my father's five servants have enough to eat and to spare?

And I'm there dying in need. He said, I will rise. I will go to my father. And I will say to my father, I have sinned against heaven. I have sinned against you. I am not worthy to be a son again. Take me as one of your servants.

He had a proposal. He came to himself. And he said what he would do. There are some people who say they will repent. But they never repent. They will repent. But they never repent. They say I will change.

But they never change. I will come to God. But they never come. I will abandon my sins. But they never abandon their sins. I will go back to my wife. But they never go back to their wife. I will go back to my husband.

But they never go. It's like a vehicle that shows that it indicates that it is turning right. But it never turns. Such vehicles cause accidents. They have been saying I will repent. I will repent. You have been saying.

But you have not repented. It's our abandonment. But you are still in it. I will start to see God. But you are not starting to see. I will give to God. But you are not giving to me. I will become a missionary.

I will become a missionary. But you have not become a missionary. But the political song was not like that. I will rise. And I will go to my father. All this while. They have gone away from their father.

From their father. It's a foul country. He hit rock bottom. And he he repented. With 10 hands. It's a change of heart. Followed by a change of gist. A change of heart. Followed by a change of gist. A change of heart.

Followed by a change of direction. So he turned. And he began to go to his father. He was going to his father. He was in disorder. But he was going to his father. He spoke a ton. But he was going to his father.

He was thin with hunger. But he was going to his father. He was going to his father. To come back to the Lord. If you are a backslider, or to come to Him for the first time, you don't need to wait till you are better.

The Hymn writer says, If you wait till you are better, you will never come at all. All the sickness He requires is that you see a need of Him. This He gives you, this He gives you, taste the Spirit's passing flame.

What He gives you is the flame of the Holy Spirit.

I will rise, I will go to my Father, and He turned, and He began to go to His Father. That's how it was, that's how it was. He did not wait to improve. If you wait to improve, you will never battle. It is not possible to improve when you are in a bad country.

You cannot improve away from the Father. You can only became Father, and became Father, and became Father, and became Father. There is only one place of change, in the arms of Jesus. And so you need to go as you are.

So it was going as it was, as it was, as it was. It looks scandalous, it looks frightful. But it was going to His Father, it was going to His Father, it was going to His Father, it was going to His Father.

All these years, while He was gone, His Father was seeking and wanting Him back. God has been waiting for His long lost child. God has been waiting for you, His long lost child.

God has been waiting for you, His long lost child.

God has been waiting for you, His long lost child.

From the day the peregrine went away, there was no rest in the Father's arms. The Father was constantly looking, constantly looking, constantly looking.

I am constantly waiting, I am constantly waiting, I am constantly waiting.

The greatest sufferer for sin, is not the sinner but God. Sin is a knife in the God's hand. Sin is a knife in the God's hand. God is the greatest sufferer for all sin committed. Some think about what their sin does to them.

Others think about what sin does to theirs. Others think about what their sin causes to man. But sin is a disaster against God. It is a knife into God's hand. It is an attack on God's holiness. It is war against God.

God suffers the most. That is why the Prodigal Son said, I have sinned against Heaven. David said, When he sinned, He said, God has sinned against you and you only. Every sin is against God. God is the sufferer.