The heaven that we are bound for is inaccessible to those who worship both Aluah and other gods! Let Yahuah alone be your Aluah!
Whether you are asleep, awake, suffering or in danger of any magnitude; no matter how great an enemy you may have, you should know that you can report everything only to Aluah! Let Yahuah become your father, your mother, your brother and your sister! Le He be your everything to you!
(Sermon dated 23 January 2015: Rev. M.P. Mpanza).
HYMN 195
1. I love it as I hear about it
That land to come
I will be comforted and see it
O my heart!
2. How joyful will I be
When I see that land
Which I love without seeing.
O my heart!
3. O my heart
Do not leave Yahuah
He is the rock of my heart
He is a shade of refuge.
4. It is He who loved me
As I love from being told
Of that land to come
O my heart!
5. O my heart, help me
Cling to Yahuah
The first trumpet’s been sounded
I wait for the second one!
1.Psalm 31:6-8: “I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
2. I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities; And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.” – King James Version.
3.Psalm 27:3-6: “Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
4.One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
5. For in the time of trouble he shall hideme in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me upon a rock.
6.And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.” – KJV
7.In the nation of Yisra’el, there was a chap who ended as a monarch of this nation. The name of that lad was David!
8.David was a very wise monarch, having everything, having many wives, cattle and huge houses, being abundantly wealthy!
9.But no monarch feared Aluah in Yisra’el as much as David did. Many pious people do not even know why they should be pious!
10.But David knew why he was pious; though he, as a king, had everything, but he feared and cherished nothing as much as he did Aluah!
11.On account of piety, David became a prophet, not because he was a literal prophet, but his faith ended up making him a prophet who spoke with Aluah on his own.
12.Since we are here, nothing could be as dangerous as having piety that is just as good as sheer fanatism.
13.Fanatism is senseless but passionate piety. One would just become passionate about faith though they have no idea about its origins and purpose; such a person is called a fanatic.
14.On many occasions, whenever one approaches aperson of that calibre, they simply do not pay attention to whatever is communicated to them because they lack wisdom; more often than not, their thinking processesare governed by emotions and emotions do not operate at an intellectual level. Such a person also thinks on the basis of emotions instead of intellect.
15.I would be truly excited if I could lead an assembly of people whose thoughts are not determined by their emotional state, but those who have a sound thinking capacity because quite often, a person’s emotional tendencies do not grant them access to heaven, but one gains access to heaven through their intellectualprowess, knowing ins and outs of their faith orientation.
16.If you do not know pros and cons of your faith, that simply means you are just a fanatic and you can defect at any point because your faith is not based on understanding, but it is based on senseless emotions, and you have not discernment concerning the validity of the essence of your belief.
17.You first need to figure out how valid your belief is, how safe it is, how secured is my life both in my current, material mode of existence and in the hereafter?
18.If I do not that understanding concerning how valid my faith is and how secured is my life is during myearthly life and also after my demise, then, I am in serious trouble!
19.We have two lives: there is earthly life and spiritual life.
20.But fools concern themselves only with earthly life! That is how a fool reason!
21.No matter how intelligent a person may seem to be, but he is foolish if he has no vision of the future!
22.One should set earthly life on a valid foundation; one should prepare for another life that will succeed this current earthly life in an appropriate way.
23.There are many biblical figures who are said to have been wise, but I say David was an extremely wise person because he wrote all his wisdom and we can see it!
24.We have somebody who, though he really lacked nothing since he had many wives, abundant livestock and great wealth, regarded all his wealth futile and dedicated most of his time to worshipping Yahuah!
25.But today, all clever fools who have not attended today’s service, think that they own great wealth which is more important than seeking Yahuah!
26.An educated and respectable fool who is wealthy, owns cars reckons that they should spend their time on getting puffed up with arrogance or simply enjoying those material objects; they dedicate no time to worshipping Yahuah!
27.Despite the fact that David was a wealthy king, he spent all his time worshipping Aluah, teaching the people about Aluah!
28.Here he says: “I have hated them that regard lying vanities, but I trust in the LORD. I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities; and hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.”
29.David is demonstrating that the foundation of the life of a wise man is worshipping Yahuah in this earthly life.
30.But many people believe that they should seek Aluah only when they experience problems; they do not seek Him to worship Him. They seek Him so that he may come to their rescue. People do not have a true mental image of Aluah!
31.They cannot imagine the exact kind of life that they need whilst here on earth or even after their deaths. They consider what is relevant a bit far removed from them, and they consider what is irrelevant and far from them as much closer and accessible to them!
32.That is what Lord Galilee Shembe said; he said things that we think exist in the material realm are unreal and non-existent, but those that we think do not exist are real and do exist in the spiritual realm.
33.King Shelomoh says all is vanity of vanities; earthly pleasures are vanities of vanities, seeking material wealth is also vanity of vanities, but what truly exists is heavenly wealth because it does not cease to exist!
34.In the past, I once mentioned that we were in the company of Evangelist Sithole. He stayed here, we came with him to the holy assembly, I used to give him the communion right here in January, we used to dance with him right here.
35.But where is he now? Has he entered a state of non-existence? No, he has vanished only in our earthly eyes, but those with heavenly eyes can still see him. Truly, death of a human being does not exist; what dies is the physical body.
36.This is what the angel said to us, she said ‘what you consider your body, is not real; it is like an overall, but what truly exists is what is invisible to you. That is what truly exists, but what you think is your essence is just your corruptible dimension of existence which will gradually be worn out, decompose and disappear.
37.She said your body that will go up to Aluah will remain intact; it is the one that will go and appear before Aluah, and what will decompose and be consumed by maggots in the pit is not real.
38.I said Sithole’s body was kept in the mortuary, but within a few months he would have disintegrated, as this is the case now, having been consumed by worms and ants. But Yahuah will judge his immortal soul!
39.Now, I am making an example with Sithole so that we may realize that what I am articulating here is close to us.
40.But his real body, which the angel was referring to, will not be eaten up by worms, as his ultimate fate will be determined by the kind of life he led whilst in his material body!
41.let us remember that Sithole’s current life is now eternal! He died still young, probably only 45 years old, even counting years that he could still live, but those years were just the temporal remainder of his life before his demise.
42.If he did not conduct his earthly life in a righteous way, he will suffer eternally, but if he did well on earth, he will live in eternal glory.
43.If you cannot meditate on what I am saying, you are a fool. If you came here searching for life but cannot consider what I am saying, you are a fool!
44.On the other hand, David was not like that; he had everything, and he would leave his wives, cattle and children and go to talk with Aluah at sunset. He sinned just like everybody, but he always said: “Lord, I have sinned!”
45.That is what Shembe is saying, he says ‘I love it as I hear about it, that future land, I will be comforted when I see it, O my heart.’ Sithole has seen that future land that we love just from hearing about it; Sithole who was with us, is now in heaven!
46.While we still say we love it from hearing about it, Sithole has seen that future land; we do not know whether he rejoiced when he saw it, but he has reached it!
47.While we are sojourning here, we do not know the order of our individual departure, one by one, but we are all on our way; all of us here are bound for heaven!
48.We are all leaving; the challenge is that we do not know the order of our departure in relation to each member and how many years are left before the departure of each person!
49.This is what Shembe says, he says: “I love it as I hear about it, that land to come, I will be comforted when I see it, O my heart!”
50.Love the future land, but you will not love the future land without worshipping Yahuah. Firstly, you must have foundation of your faith.
51.The first thing that you need to observe is not to have any other gods; you should have one Aluah, and that should be Yahuah only. That is the first requirement!
52.The heaven that we are bound for is inaccessible to those who worship both Aluah and other gods! Let Yahuah alone be your Aluah!
53.Whether you are asleep, awake, suffering or in danger of any magnitude; no matter how great an enemy you may have, you should know that you can report everything only to Aluah! Let Yahuah become your father, your mother, your brother and your sister! Le He be your everything to you!
54.Why? Because whether dead or alive, He is a friend that is closer to your flesh and soul; even when your parents and friends are not capable of assisting you, but He is always close to you!
55.When you truly know Yahuah, get to know what Aluah likes and what He does not like! You should know what actions may offend your heavenly Father whose name is Yahuah and what kind of dithering may make Him sad! Whatever affects your parents due to your conduct also affects your Aluah!
56.Should you happen to have another god who is lower than Aluah, you should know that Aluah does not want to see you in sin.
57.There is a difference between deserting Aluah and
committing a sin! All of us commit sins, but forsaking Aluah means something else. If you worship another false god and Aluah at the same time, the latter regards that as apostasy and hates you!
58.In Exodus 20 verse 3-6, Aluah says: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.”
59.It’s Aluah who said so; I have never heard human beings saying Aluah hates somebody who does not observe His law, saying they are His enemy.
60.But such a statement is in the Ten Commandments, meaning that if you do not observe them, you are Aluah’s enemy; when Aluah punishes you, that also affects your third and fourth generations!
61.Therefore, since you do not keep His commandments, He hates you, He will strike you, your children and even your grandchildren.
62.He will strike you just for the sin that you commit by worshipping Him together with other strange gods!
63.Aluah continues, saying: “And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.” This is profound!
64.Such a statement contradicts other congrigant’s doctrine though they also claim that they keep the Ten Commandments.
65.Other congregants say we have no sin; our sins have been washed away, but here Aluah says you still have a sinful nature due to your ancestors’ iniquities!
66.Shembe is teching us about Yahuah’s Law when he says we are bearing the sins of our progenitors, the sins of Dingane and Senzangakhona.
67.That was said by Aluah; He cannot be persuaded by anyone to change His position. And we can witness that we are still bearing our ancestors’ sins, what we do not see is that we are now sinless!
68.If we were wise enough, we would search for a way of removing our ancestors’ sins. But after doing away with Yahuah’s faith system, whites taught us that we had no sin, we are still bearing the sins of our ancestors!
69.This collection of teachings of mediums and other sooth sayers is not known in heaven, but your parent’s and grandparent’s sin is still upon you!
70.Here we are clarifying what we need to do right in the beginning so that we may be loved by Aluah. Let usfully cut ties with cultural practices that contradict Aluah’s Torah. Let us refrain from cultural practices that contradict Aluah’s Torah and fully follow Aluah’s cultural tenets. We have no leeway regarding to this requirement! If you want to fully dedicate your life to Aluah, do whatever is wanted by Him!
70.That is what David says in Psalm 27:4: “One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life…”
71.How many, among us, have ever said, ‘Lord, may I ask to please dwell in your house all the days of my life?’
72.How can you dwell in Yahuah’s house if, one day, you are found standing with a goat at your family shrine, calling upon your ancestors?
73.How are you dwelling in Yahuah’s house while you are, at the same time, found reporting your suffering to your forefathers at your family shrine?
74.Dwelling in Yahuah’s house means something else; it does not mean that you will see Yahuah’s house and literally enter it whilst here on earth.
75.Dwelling in Yahuah’s house until the end of your earthly days means leading a heavenly life while you are still here on earth!
May the Lord bless His Word!