Siabonga nukbonga mkosi, lelitubo sipelona, Uguba sishtale nga
sezi nyaweni zake, Zako zitule njengo maria, Laputa
tewabo esha enyuga, Ekata zwa izi denigi, Kotwa
umaria waketo pambili, Watale nyaweni zako, wangapasa nyeswaluto,
Moga ababe ilelo nalelo kama.
We thank you for such a wonderful opportunity
to sit quietly at your feet like Mary,
Not to be hot and bothered like Martha,
But rather to sit, not allowing anything to
disturb us, That we receive each and every
word you have to say.
Amen.
Istobo setu, balega usinde.
Our theme is, escape for your life.
Onga balegi, gega sinde, Udokineshokweni nakanjani.
The one who hasn't escaped, will never escape
finally, for he will land in hell.
Seswage ngolot, God umgake, Nomi ngenozi asezulwini ngenoze
imbili, Zbaba mbabonge, Ulot, nongake, Namatotaga zomabili, Babajwe
nasistombe, God umgaloti, Wasalem ufutesuat, Kumbulan umgaloti, Wapenduga
waba intrigara saot, Unkulu unkulu amenzu, Guba usauti,
Uguba uena, Usizakale ngaye, Ungabi umgaloti.
Despite the fantastic opportunity to escape, And that
the angels were literally dragging them out, Nevertheless,
Lot's wife, as we see depicted in this
picture here, She decided to turn around, And
God changed her into a pillar of salt.
It was only Lot and his daughters who
escaped.
God made that to happen so that you
might escape.
Guba indaba, Enzimale, Unkulu kula gasveze, Akalazemuva, Gani,
Guba uena uyazi, Umakalazemuva, Uguti ukutuaini.
And Jesus made a point of it when
he said, Don't be like Lot's wife.
Now, God knows what it is that inspires
you to turn back or to look back.
We don't know why she looked back.
But you know why you look back.
Uenu yasazi, Uyayazi into yako, Ekale sisayemu.
Leontove, Yokaeta, Bubukjesutu, Obegisan lekejeni, Akalazemuva, Agafanelu
musoezulu.
You know what that thing is.
And Jesus had said, Whoever puts his hand
to the plow and glances back is not
worthy of me.
I was so pleased to hear about the
testimonies yesterday.
I was delighted to hear of what was
said and the boy who mentioned that it's
just become the norm of girlfriends, boyfriends, that
which really smells of the world.
In this experience that Lot underwent, he was
able to be a true man in that.
He just kept his eyes set to the
front.
And you too, whether it's your wife, your
husband, or whoever it may be, only forward,
never backwards.
He didn't look back, neither did he talk
back to her to check on where she
was because his eyes were set to the
front and had he asked about her, she
was already a pillar of salt.
Today, now looking, escape and be saved.
Let's look at what this escape and fleeing
means.
And we read 2 Timothy chapter 2.
Many people start with escaping but they don't
finish it and that's why I say to
you young people, what you've begun, you've finished.
In particular, those who made that decision yesterday,
even in King Chaka's time, he was a
man who would deal with any soldier who
was wounded in the back.
They were only allowed to have wounds from
battle in the front, otherwise they were seen
as cowards and they were put to death.
If you have got a wound on your
back, cry to God and see whether He
shows grace.
If you do get wounds, then they should
only be on the front, on the forehead.
2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 22.
Flee also youthful lusts, but pursue righteousness, faith,
love, peace with those who call on the
Lord out of a pure heart.
Flee youthful lusts.
Oh, the troublesomeness of youthful lusts.
Many are absolutely destroyed through it.
There is no text saying, fight against the
youthful lusts.
Neither does it say, wrestle and conquer.
There is only one way, and that is
to flee, run away from it.
It doesn't help.
If you have got a viper, a deadly
snake, that you lock yourself in the room
and then you think you are going to
escape harm, it will kill you.
But this...
With the lusts of the flesh, some fall
into that pit every day.
It's on a daily basis and they just
never escape it.
How troublesome, some even married, nevertheless still troubled
by the lusts of the flesh.
Troubled by youthful lusts where one says, oh,
Satan has infiltrated with this deadly snake.
Where a person is old already or growing
old but they are still troubled by youthful
lusts.
Maybe they are at school or college but
they are still troubled by the lusts of
youth.
Or maybe they are a child but they
are already troubled by lusts.
And the Bible says, flee from that.
Now, the Greek meaning does not imply that
you intellectually run away from it or that
in your thoughts you try and fight and
escape from it.
It means literally removing yourself out of it.
You flee bodily.
It means it in the very literal sense.
You watch out for those men who touch
and fondle.
They are another sort.
Let them flee bodily.
It means in the very literal sense that
there always be a distance between you and
him.
Although yesterday we also pointed out that there
are those who are flirtatious boys among boys,
the homosexual side of it.
So you flee from every aspect of it.
Run from it.
Escape.
When the wife of Potiphar was tempting Joseph
and then even handled him and grabbed hold
of his jacket he escaped out of that
coat.
He said, how can I sin against God?
Yes, we do live in the body and
there are the natural inclinations but the Bible
says, flee from the lusts.
For if you do not run from it
you will die.
You will not be healed.
You will not escape.
And through your fleeing many others will escape.
Joseph.
Joseph was woken up by the Lord at
night through a dream and he said, now,
take your wife.
Take the baby and flee to Egypt right
now.
He got up and he said, Mary, wake
up.
Take the child.
Let us escape right now and take up
the little that we have.
And they took that gold, frankincense and myrrh
and off they went immediately to Egypt.
Peace.
If it works out and it is in
the Lord's way that we can once we
get to heaven and the trumpet sounds and
we are met by the saints that we
can talk and listen to other stories I'd
love to go to Joseph and shake his
hand, congratulate him and say, thank you for
being obedient to God when he woke up
that night with a dream that you immediately
obeyed through that eye of the Lord and
I have the Savior.
Had he been disobedient then it means that
he would have come up with an excuse
by saying, no, I don't, it's not convenient
that's not suitable, Mary is weak.
What would we have done without the Savior?
Generation after generation has escaped because of him
and you too, by your escaping from sin
and fleeing others have escaped others will flee
with you and that God should say specifically
flee youthful lusts, why so?
because youthful lusts will hurt you wound you
they will wound you both bodily and spiritually
that your body should be healthy and well
and you've got that energy it's wonderful channel
that energy into the preaching and the propagation
of the gospel look
at the what healthy cattle healthy bulls are
like oxen are weaker than cattle if they
are normal and with that full health that
is what you need to do as well
that you are healthy and well and escape
from sin ...
...
and the bible declares that you should not
give your strength to women in other words
use that health and that energy, direct it
into the right thing, otherwise you end up
being wounded and destroyed because of the sin
and you girls you allow men just to
wipe their filth off you and you get
destroyed with it ...
...
you destroy your own health your own energy
your own fitness if you are giving your
...
if you are giving your energy ...
...
and the person who directs his energies in
the right direction that person is not worthy
you can see this person doesn't wake up
late they are not lazy having lost all
their energy in this sin but instead they
have preserve that energy for God.
Don't take your energies and distribute it for
evil but take it for God.
And such a person has a health about
them in every way in their words or
something that come with honesty and integrity instead
of the opposite where it's
the the awful stench of promiscuity and of
whoredom that comes out of a person's mouth.
And that's why
I
say it comes and it is despicable.
It's just an abomination to those who hear
that person and that sin destroys people's energies
and nations.
I've for a long time told you how
civilizations are totally destroyed like the Roman one.
Your spiritual life can never survive if you're
wasting your thoughts and you're all about you
that you're thinking always and you're on that
topic and I told you yesterday about that
man who even ended up committing suicide.
The body cannot survive the attack of lust.
Have a
look
at those who walk in purity.
Note their face.
Note even their step.
There's just something different about them.
On the other hand the one who's promiscuous,
even 12 years of age, they look worn
out and tired and they just it's self
-evident.
My own mother, the one who gave me
birth once many years ago, I remember we
were sitting in a tent and it was
visible just from the flap down that you
could see these girls walking by and you
could just see them from the lower half
and she would say that one just in
her step she's a Even
the way a person gives themselves over as
in making a statement about their clothing and
their swing or their strut you can see
this person is promiscuous, they're sexually loose.
Girls, why don't you
invest in the right thing instead of being
picked up by any old body who comes
by on wheels or the lorry or a
bicycle or tractor and you don't know where
they come from, where they're going to and
you allow yourself to be abused in that
way.
Instead rather turn your attention to Jesus and
speak to that person about the Lord otherwise
it's just a pit for you.
But just look at the huge amount of
babies being born out of wedlock, just illegitimate
children at homes and these are children born
in the image of God.
Why should it be like this?
It's never been as bad as now.
And you behave worse than cattle, worse than
animals.
At least a cow has a sense of
duty towards its calf.
It'll rear it, it'll look after it.
Animals will do anything to protect their young
but you are worse than animals.
In fact you should be making an apology
to the animals because you desert the baby.
The father has no sense of duty, he
deserts the baby, denies that it's his and
one becomes lower than animals.
I think of first Corinthians chapter 10.
Let me read it for you.
From verse 1 to 5, that despite them
being delivered and drinking of the same spiritual
food, with most of them God was not
pleased and their bodies were scattered in the
wilderness.
And verse 6, now these things became our
examples to the intent that we should not
lust after evil things as they also lusted.
And not become idolaters as some of them
were, as it is written, the people sat
down to eat and drink and rose up
to play.
Nor let us commit sexual immorality as some
of them did, and in one day 23
,000 fell.
It says it's written as an example for
us.
In recent years, you heard about the tsunami
that happened with these huge waves that happened
there in the east?
Many drowned because the waves grew into an
enormous size, up to 10 meters high and
more, reaching heights like this auditorium.
Now there's a certain island in the Indonesian
direction, it's called Simulu Islands.
Just on that island, or those islands, there
were 75,000 people.
Just 7,000 died.
How did so many escape while most perished?
How
did
so many escape
while most perished?
The tsunami, the tsunami.
75,000 people died.
They had been taught, how
many of those 7,000 that did perish,
whether they were just old people or what?
Seven.
75,000.
Only seven.
Only seven, sorry, not 7,000, but seven
people only perished.
All the others remembered what they had been
told, and they escaped to the mountains.
Out of 75,000, only seven perished.
They had felt that earthquaking, they had seen
the sea retracting, and they knew the message,
and they fled to the mountains.
Only seven of them died.
They all escaped, because they were obedient to
that escape for your life.
If you listen to the Bible, then
you will escape If you heed the Bible
message, you will escape.
You will also escape disease and dying prematurely
because you have listened to the words of
the Bible.
And child desertion, previously I mentioned as well,
how can you behave like that, deserting a
child made in the image of God, where
cattle and animals have that instinct to protect
their young, but you just desert them and
maybe those illegitimate children also grow up.
I've seen many people with grey hairs because
of the awful things that happen in those
circumstances.
But how wonderful it is when we see
the father with the child, the mother with
the child, they're propagating the gospel, we want
to bless such a child, we say this
is part of heaven and we identify with
that child.
I also had children, six children, they've now
grown up and they've got married, my youngest
one is here and we rejoice that they
have gone in this direction.
What an awful...
What a disgrace on the other hand it
would have been to me had there been
illegitimate children brought, some calling me grandfather and
they've just been brought there and the children
hadn't been married, just illegitimate children.
Don't take the flesh lightly because if you
just ignore and you don't take seriously this
it will cause you destruction.
Where you'll have to apologise to the cattle
and the animals and dogs because even a
female dog will look after its young.
So, escape youthful lusts, that means don't try
and wrestle with it or try and just
resist it and fight against it, no, escape,
flee, remove yourself.
Now, the lusts of the flesh are not
only sexual lusts, some
are bound by the lust for drink, they
are bound to alcohol, they lust after it,
they destroy themselves and their families because of
it.
And it causes you to be destroyed in
every way that you become dumb, even little
children laugh at you, you can't even bring
bread to the table because you spend your
last penny on alcohol.
Physically you are devastated, you think that you're
putting this into you with no consequences but
it's not like fuel which makes a car
go, like petrol, instead it gets into you
and it starts to destroy you, your liver
after a while is corrupted, you vomit blood,
you are destroyed.
The lusts of the flesh are destructive that
even little children can recognize it and you
as an older person, you have no control
over your bodily functions anymore, the children have
to wash your clothing and it is just
utter devastation.
And then that woman, as she gets older,
she can't control herself anymore, she can't control
herself because she has to have her alcohol,
she drinks not only at home but she
goes to these pubs and shebeens, she can't
control herself, she wets herself, what a terrible
thing so that it brings destruction even upon
your children.
I am not going to say anything, I
am not going to say anything.
And the lust for alcohol causes that you
cannot live normally, you can't hold a job,
you can't wake up in the morning, instead
you wake up with a headache, with bubblers,
with a hangover, and you need a rec
market to try and get you on the
way again, and it's just absolute destruction.
And it brings poverty, you might complain that
others have taken away your wealth, but it
brings poverty in your family, despite that you
maybe still have a TV, and that brings
the whole world and wickedness into your heart.
And you complain as a woman now that
your husband has deserted you and doesn't send
back money for your children, your children don't
help you, well if you fed them on
the things of the devil, what do you
expect to reap?
And if you make your children hungry, how
can you expect that child that through your
habit of alcohol you've made hungry to respect
you, instead they go out to steal, and
you have pushed them into the sin of
stealing.
They cannot work, they can jump around and
dance, but that's it.
They don't have brains in their head.
And instead of brains in their head, you
see that they're bound just by habits and
instinct, if they hear just a bit of
a beat, their body starts to jerk in
different directions, they can't hold a job, they're
unemployable, and instead that's the type of thing
you have brought it about.
And
we should...
Those who bring dancing, the dancing of the
world into the church, that's what we've repented
of, we shouldn't be dancing in the church,
that comes with a completely different spirit.
Now, it says that we should escape, but
it's not just stressing the negative, it means
while doing good.
Look at what Peter has to say.
Verse Peter 2 from verse 11.
Beloved, I beg you, as sojourners and pilgrims
abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the
soul.
Having your conduct honourable among the Gentiles, that
when they speak against you as evildoers, they
may, by your good works which they observe,
glorify God in the day of visitation.
There will never be a shortage of mockers,
there will always be the wicked who will
laugh and be arrogant against the gospel, but
you are told to live differently, you should
be the one escaping from evil while doing
good.
There will always be the seven who refuse
to climb the mountain and to escape, there
will always be those who refuse to climb
the mountain of Calvary to go up that
hill, but as for you, you escape, you
escape for your life and you've heard how
there are many different types of lusts from
which we should flee.
For instance, flee from bad talk, foul mouthing,
and tell that person that's not the way
to talk.
Instead of stealing, you do the opposite, now
you're working, you're beneficial to others, if you've
got extra clothing you can help others, instead
of depriving others, you're assisting them now.
And when there's bad music around, you need
to know how to correct it, and you
tell them what is wrong about it, you
speak to them.
Now your life becomes different, and you are
now beneficial to society, instead of messing around,
you're busy helping.
I'm so glad about our school children who
can go to other school children and proclaim
the gospel, that's what we need, otherwise Africa
is dying, the world is dying of starvation
for the gospel.
I'm so glad about our
school children who can go to other school
children and proclaim Even as we are here
this week, there are others who are not
here, other young people who are busy preaching
the gospel down in Cape Town, Smithfield, up
north in Pumalanga and different places, they say
it's a pity we're still at school, that
we can't be full time in preaching the
gospel.
The Lord willing, in a month's time or
so, next month, there's a man who wants
to come, and that I should host him
and take him around to primitive areas where
you cannot walk, where rather by helicopter you
can take people, so that people can hear
the gospel.
That person said, I've heard how you are
so desperate to get the gospel out, and
how the I've
asked Uncle Joe to assist in finding landing
areas, there are some places where it is
absolutely cut off from civilization, some places I've
never seen a white man before.
And there are some people who have just
never heard, I've been told by different people,
I remember Reverend Mabizela telling me a while
back that there are some places that they
are totally uncivilized, even cannibalistic.
Our energies need to be directed towards what
is good, propagating the gospel, spreading the gospel,
not giving it out to sexual lust, but
instead towards the kingdom.
Satan's intention has been to swallow the world,
but God has come with his gospel.
Jesus Christ.
I've got many people There
are many people, and even sick people, who
are so in my heart, so dear to
me, and remember, the Lord said he hasn't
come to bring the gospel for the healthy,
but for the sick.
And even though it is said that these
people are terminally ill and that they must
die, but the Lord works mightily.
We have a place called Mseni, and that
we see as a place for life.
We're not reckoning with death, but we see
how the Lord works.
Others asked, well, where's the graveyard, before we
had even built it?
I said, we're not reckoning with funerals, we're
reckoning with life.
By the Lord's grace, no lady has died
there yet, and we are busy with the
matters of life.
And even in the worst of conditions, the
Lord is able to touch.
Despite open sores, as they confess their sin,
the Lord is even able to, and he
does close sores.
This is the gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ.
You may stay with your lusts of sexual
lusts, or the lusts of the drinking and
other narcotics, and that you will be destroyed,
but we want to be busy with matters
of life, propagating the gospel.
We thank you, Lord Jesus, that you've come
with your gospel into this wicked and corrupted
world.
That you've opened the way of escape, so
that we can escape to Golgotha.
So that we would not be destroyed, body
and soul.
But instead have life, and that abundantly.
Work Lord, continue with your working.
Amen.
The day before yesterday, I phoned somebody who's
down there, in Cape Town, and who has
access to Parliament, who said, get the Minister
of Health to come and see what the
Lord is doing.
She said, what mootie do you have there,
what medicine?
I said, the medicine we have is the
gospel, and good nutrition.
Thank you.