The Privilege of Being a Shepherd

One, two, three, four. Are you searching for biblical insight, wisdom and enlightenment? Is your Christian walk in need of direction? Do you want to go deeper and do more for God? If so, you've come to the right place. Here on the Bishop Richard I.E. podcast channel, powerful sermons are regularly uploaded that will certainly take your relationship with the Lord to higher heights. Bishop Richard is the pastor of the Eskatoch Church in the United Kingdom. A denomination founded by prophet D'A'Q ad-Mills. Eskatoch is a vibrant community of Christians on fire for Jesus. And if you'd like to fan or even reignite your own passion for the word of God, be sure to grab your Bible and denote book, open your ears and your heart as you tune in to this powerful message. Let us pray. Father, we want to thank you for today. We thank you for the month of February. Thank you for the year 2026. Thank you for your goodness towards us. We believe because your words say that your message are new every morning. Thank you for new message, new graces, new blessings, open doors, favours. Give us wisdom today. Give us understanding. Touch our hearts, soften our hearts. Let your will be done amongst us today. Thank you for this amazing privilege to be in your holy presence. A prayer for light, revelation, direction, Lord, to enter into the hearts of your people and your children. Let your will be done amongst us. Thank you for saving us. Thank you for choosing us. Thank you, O God, that your eyes are on us, helping us every day, Lord. I give you thanks and I give you praise. In Christ Jesus, they might pray with thanks given and the saints of God shall say, Amen. Amen. God bless you. Take your seats. Good to see all of you as well. And I know I've been talking to you about the perfect will of God, but since you told me you stop fast then, so I've stopped that. I'll start something else. When you tell me you start fasting again, I'll come back to the will of God. Because you listen about, you listen, you seem to listen to the will of God better when you are hungry. Today you all look full. You look at your feet in beggars, your feet in oats, you've eaten everything. So I'll talk to you about what I feel you should hear while you are not hungry. It's also a very important subject, but once you are not hungry, you pay. It's so, it's so, the subject is so dear to me that I want you to have eaten before I talk to you about it. So since you started eating, I've been waiting for you to start eating so I can talk to you about it. Yes, so I'm going to start talking to you about it. Okay. 10 year bibles to 2nd Corinthians and use NIV. 2nd Corinthians chapter 8. Are you ready to hear the word of God? Do you like hearing the word of God? You're excited about the word of God? That is a blessing. That is a blessing. That is a blessing. Last week I wasn't here, I was in Southampton. Do you know Southampton? Yeah, I was in Southampton. I was somewhere preaching in Southampton. I was not on the picnic. I wish I was on the picnic though, but it wasn't. Fortunately or unfortunately. Okay. So 2nd Corinthians chapter 8, I'm reading from this one from the NIV. Do you have NIV on your phone? You must have different translations on your phone. Okay. Hmm. So I want different things on your phone. It says that in our brothers and sisters, we want you to know about the grace that God has given that Macedonian churches. All right. In the midst of a very severe trial, they are overflowing joy and their extreme poverty, welled up in rich generosity. Okay. For I testify that they gave us much as they were able and even beyond their ability entirely on their own. And they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the Lord's people. You know, the name of our churches, it is a great thing to serve the Lord. You know, it's a great thing to serve. As soon as you have a new pulpit with a new stick, yes, it is a great thing to serve the Lord. It is serving the Lord certainly a great thing. You know, it is, it's, it's, it's, it's greater. It's greater than getting married. It's greater than getting a 102 K job. Yes, receive good jobs. Yes. Bless with good jobs. Yes. They will all make you comfortable. Yes. With good jobs and nice jobs. Not, not, you will not be a straggler. Yes. You will not be a straggler, any hustler. And someone always cracking your brains, a guy collecting, where where is the next bill coming, next meal coming from. When is this coming from? Because give you the grease and the wisdom to have bread, to have bread to eat. You have it. You have it. Yes. So I'm saying to you that it's serving God is one of the great things that you must desire and aspire to enter into. That's just a serving God. It's a being being a servant of God, that your function, your role, whatever you do in this life is you are a servant of God. You know, let me tell you one of the, one of the two, two notice, should I tell you what can help you see what is important? Okay. I'll tell you. I'll tell you to see what is important. Notice what is always under attack in your life. Notice what is always under attack. Some notice the thing that you always feel like giving up on. You know, the person you always feel like giving up on is perhaps the greatest blessing in your life in terms of a human being. In terms of a human being. The best thing you're always under temptation. Let me leave this person. Let me stop relating with this person. Let me stop talking to this person. The greatest, the greatest heaviest attack and temptation is usually placed on the thing that is important because God doesn't tempt. It's certain who tempts. It's certain who would want you to leave something. It's not God. God wants you to have it. He says, I wish above all things that that may as prosper. Then it's a God, God wishes that you prosper and do well. So you see where there is a test and this special episistent continues. Test and pressure. You do the loud pressure. Some say, even the loudness and the strength and the intensity of it should even tell you that it's not because the Holy Spirit, if you know the Holy Spirit, is a very gentle spirit. Gentle but gentle but firm. His convictions, his convictions are not loud and it's like without a choice. It's like it's like so. It's subtle. It's quiet but it's there. That's a who does you know that this is the Holy Spirit that's speaking to me. It's different from the loud, angry outbests, temptations and precious and reactions. Do you feel reacting in a very angry way to prove a point? It is not the Holy Spirit. It is Satan attempting to destroy something good in your life. It's something that is supposed to be a blessing. That's why you have that extreme reactions. No extreme. I'm leaving. I'm working up. That is Satan. The Holy Spirit is a teacher. He will teach you. He will teach you all things. He will get your attention. He will teach you the convictions of the Holy Spirit. It's strong but it's not loud and violent. vaust at ni na ktoś�� bizarre. So you have to be able to see the things that are important to you, because those things will be under constant attack. I'm the constant attack. And that's where you develop the resolve that I am not leaving this thing. I am not going anywhere because this thing is a blessing to me. It's of great help to me. It's a great blessing in my life. Imagine some of the things in your life now if you don't have it. Imagine how your life would have been. How your life would have been. How you feel like giving up on your education. Giving up and going to do what? Go and do what? Imagine the job you have, the job you have as a student. Is that what you want to keep to your 89? God forbid. You can do it for seasons. You have that job because you are a student. So even the bills you have are different from when you grow up. Growing up bills are different from student bills. What else is student? What was my bills? My bills were to buy a toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, cooking oil, rice. I was a student. There were no phones to pay. Then two bottles and then what? Yes. Then can't fish and can't meet. These are my bills. And you have any other bills? I don't have a bill of looking after somebody. And you have a bill of clothing somebody even even clothes, even clothes, and then you have a bill of clothing. Love to say, "Daddy, mommy, you should." Then you get to somebody, you get told off a little bit. You don't know how money is made. You know at the end they will give you the money. They say, "Thank you." As you go, you say, "A small shit came to us." You talk plenty. It's not even a problem. But as you grow up, you say, "Your bills are different. Your bills are no longer soap." So I'm saying to you, we should know the things that are important to us, the things that help us so that you protect it well. And one of the things that I'm introducing to you today is your service to God and your working for God. It's such an important thing that I shall yourself into the rank of not just someone who warms chairs or comes to listen to messages. They say, "The preaching was good." You know, the preaching was good. The teaching was good. But embrace the privilege of serving the Lord. It's a privilege. It's a privilege for us. The privilege of sharing in this service. It's a privilege. It's a privilege to serve God. I'm very privileged to be called a pastor. To be called a pastor. The God will consider me as a pastor and say that you can preach. You know who you got? You can pastor my people. I'll give you some of my people for you to care for them. It's such a privilege. It's such a great opportunity. One thing you should know, how would you know that it's a privilege? You say everybody doesn't have it. You say, "When you have access, that everybody doesn't have." You should know that it's a privilege. When you are given assignments that everybody doesn't have, it's a privilege. You have to be able to see it. You know, the things that I'm being asked to do. This access that I have, everybody doesn't have it. And when you lack a precision of privileges, sometimes you lose it. You lose it because you tend now to be ungrateful. This is how you can't even see that it's important. You feel it's nothing. No, but it's something. It's something. And I really want you to see the service of God as a privilege. Never think when you are saying, "If God ever gives you the opportunity to serve Him, to sing for Him, to drum for Him, to arrange chairs for Him, never, never allow Satan to make you think. Make you think that you are doing someone a favor." Because when you are doing someone a favor, you're doing favoring. You're offering favors, doing favors. At the point you get fed up and tired. At the point you say, "Look, I'm tired. I'm tired. I can't do it anymore." But when you see it as a privilege, nothing can blow you away. Why have people lost their position and lost their place? How did Lucifer Satan, today that we're always binding and kicking him? How did he lose his place? Because he didn't see what he had as a privilege. Never feel too important. Having an opportunity to pass the church a new castle is a top privilege for me. It's such a blessing to me. It's such a great blessing. No matter what other congregations I've seen before, other people have seen before. For God to give me this, I see it as an opportunity. An opportunity, it's like a chance that you've been given. It's something, it may something that you didn't have before. And something you're not going to have forever. When you see it as a privilege, your attitude and your response towards it is very good. It's very good. You have the right attitude towards something. When you're asked to do something, you shouldn't think like you're doing someone a favor. Any time you think you're doing someone a favor, the service you're offering changes, the nature of it changes. It's no longer enjoyable. Is it being said food by smiling waiter or waitress? And being said food by an angry waiter or waitress, they are two different, the food is different. The food is different. I don't know how many airplanes you've been on, but I can tell you some airlines, the air hostesses are always angry. You don't even, you don't even want to, you don't even want to listen to what they are offering. They are other ones, they are other ones that they are very, very nice, very, very nice. I mean, we don't like to fly that aeroplane again. Not to fly aeroplane again. It's of the person that is passing by and saying, what one you want to drink, is it cook? You can't even want to drink that cook. Because the person feels as though they are doing you a favor. It's like you are a bother. You are a bother, you are disturbance. You are disturbance. Imagine the time you are going to your pastor, you feel like I'm going to bother him. You won't talk to him. But when you feel that, no, I can't talk to him. I can't relate with him. I can't go to him. I can't tell, I can't call him 10 times. It's not a problem. You become very relaxed. Are you related better? You know God should be able to feel that you see him relating with you as a privilege. A privilege. Let me give you definitions of privilege. Okay. Yes. Are you still here? Are you going to see the service of God as a privilege? Yes. Many homes and relationships are not, it's not like a prison. If you don't see that as a blessing, this person feels like I'm doing this one a favor. This one also feels I'm doing this one a favor. So you hear, you hear them talking, they say, you will leave, say, you are even lucky that I'm with you. You are even lucky. What if God also says that you are also lucky that you are alive? So you can be replaced. Somebody say, you are even lucky that I'm with you. You are lucky that I came to judge today. Hey! I. A. You're lucky. I'm lucky that you came to judge. Thank you. Please make me lucky every Sunday. I beg you to keep me lucky. It is a great thing to save the Lord. It is a privilege. Okay. A privilege. Let me give you a couple of different. How many definitions would you like? Hmm. A privilege is a special opportunity to do something. It's a special opportunity. In the prime minister, President Trump is coming to a very month hotel. And you are told, just stand down. Stay. Say, what comes and we've many people consented privilege of the king. akster adrenalina aqulaudha resurrection ganis captorman y yof ahr nor bar i o gl y g ganis ganis captorman yof ganis captorman yof ganis captorman yof ganis captorman yof ganis yof ganis yof ganis yof ganis yof ganis yof ganis yof ganis yof ganis only by certain people. 5. A privilege is a special exemption. Granted to certain people. When you are exempted. It's a privilege. If I enter into a church on a no matter how full they place it, I will be exempted from the places full. You can't come. Don't be a seat for me. Stop being a seat for me. So it's a privilege to me. It's a privilege. Because of the call of God and the grace of those who will come. Come. What is the problem? Come. Yes. Of course. Yes. Yes. How many definitions you have? 5. OK. I'll give you the sixth one. It's an advantage or source of pleasure granted to someone. Yes. It's an advantage. So when God, when God blesses you, when God blesses you, I'm trying to let you notice the blessings of God. When God blesses you, you see that you are you are you are a shepherd, you are a pastor, you are serving him. When he blesses you, something that when he blesses you, it means that you have thousand pounds in your account. When God blesses you, you will see that you have the opportunity to teach others, to guide others, to know him, to save him. You have a opportunity to sing for him, to play drums for him, to arrange chairs for him. It means that God is blessing you, giving you the privilege to do something in his house, something in his house. I've been seeing those little children that walk with the football as they are coming to the field. Hold your little child's hand. I mean, it's such a privilege for them. I'm holding, I'm holding the hand, the hand so fair. No, mention real names. No. Well, you don't know new castle players. You don't know their names. Bruno. Is that how God brought Bruno? No. Bruno. Bruno. That's how God brought Bruno. Who is that, the tall defender? What's his name? Ben. Yes, done. Ben. Yes. Holding. Holding done. Ben. I mean, that boy won't sleep. That boy won't, when he goes to, he won't sleep. He'll be asking all his friends. When he goes to school, ask all his friends. Did you see me? Dan Ben was holding my hand. It's such a privilege that amongst all the children in the Newcastle, you're being selected. They'll walk with these people onto the field. Yes. I mean, you are a grown-up. I'm sure some of you grown-ups would like to. Would like to be seen. Would like to be seen holding their hands and coming onto the field. They're grown-up men. You'll be very, very happy. Yes. So, one amazing, one amazing reason. Okay, Tudakang just give you one reason. Because it's almost time to close. I've ever been blessed already. The privilege of saving God. The privilege. It is a great thing. I'm telling you, it's a great thing. I can't even pretend. It's a great thing to save the Lord. It's a great thing. It's an amazing privilege. Amazing privilege to save the Lord. That you have something to do for God. That you can sing for Him. That you can dance for Him. That you can play drums for Him. That you can ring chairs for Him. It's such an amazing experience in this life. Amazing experience in this life. So, one of the privileges that can be bestowed on you is to be called. It's the job of a shepherd. Yes. The privilege of being a shepherd like Jesus. It's a great honor to be called. likely to be like him Knue ton yeah his he's got someone protect she protect someone from the world be on him be on the person some of you I'm sure have been shepherded by someone Sure someone has been you know you didn't even understand what the person was doing the person was shepherding you to a good place to Green pastures maybe the person was didn't tell you that no, you know you have bad friends you're gonna destroy your life If the person wasn't even talking so much. I was like the best was guiding you guiding you in the particular direction before you realize your green pastures You're in the good in other words you're in the good place The other the person wants to it's for you to have a good relationship with God That means that you've met a good shepherd you experiencing a good shepherd just like Jesus Just like Jesus that's what has made you that's what has made you stable in church So now my own duties up who else can you also guide So that you become a good shepherd You have to step up your crystal life you've been around for a while step up your Christian life and become a shepherd Just like Jesus. It's a privilege It's a privilege to be a shepherd like Jesus Look at Matthew chapter 9 and verse 36 Matthew chapter 9 verse 36. He says that when when he saw that's when Jesus saw the crowd He had compassion on them Compassion someone define compassion as loving action Yeah Not just sending a text and say I love you that you are the red heart Your accent shows your compassion you have So the people say he had compassion on them because they were harassed and helpless Like sheep without a shepherd You know when you start developing the shepherd's heart That's the heart that Jesus had you see when you see people you don't say all these pull our sinners You see you see that they are sheep without a shepherd They need someone to guide them to Christ. They need someone to guide them to church They need someone to leave them to the house of God to feed from the way to go to feed from the good way to God When you see young people going astray Becoming perverted Entrown it also of perversions Delighting themselves in all sorts of crazy things You know what it is There are people without a shepherd There people without a shepherd because if you have a shepherd the shepherd will guide you to a place and give you good exercise It's like let's pray Let's pray let's learn a song Let's learn a dance, but Jesus let's practice a dance That's a shepherd that's a shepherd that's a shepherd because if you were not there It's almost like you'll be a sleeper tomb you'll be doing other things If you are at home you'll be doing other things on your phone So you need a shepherd to tell you let's learn this song Let's memorize this verse Let's practice this dance Let's go on outwards. Let's see if we can win one soul today Compassion is the compassion that does driven the person to guide you away from the evils of this life Others are also waiting for you Your friends are also waiting for you Your friends are the way they are Because you haven't become a shepherd You haven't become a shepherd to them. You have become the good shepherd that Jesus was You have become that thing to you to be like Jesus And to even be more like Jesus Is to take on what Jesus said I am I am a good shepherd You are five minutes for Yes So it's a it's a great privilege to join Jesus in shepherd in duties What are the what are the shepherd in duties number one and shepherd is privileged to help people prosper That's some 23 and there's one the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want when your shepherd comes to your life. You see up. There's provisions There's provision There's provision Number two is shepherd is privileged to provide good food for the sheep I'm preaching to you today. It's my message a good message Am I feeding it with good food or junk food It's a privilege for me It's a privilege for me to come to church and share the way No, I'm just sharing the way of God trying Trying it's this try this try that Try that like a good wife will be trying to feed the husband Drive this you don't like this or has too much pepper. Okay, try this one. Try this try that and be trying trying to to feed him It's nice Niceness looks good on you Softness looks good on you don't be too hard don't be a hammer No aim to be a hammer to be some difficult human being Soft softness is nice Softness is nicer than hardness Won't you like to have friends won't you won't you like to have three friends five friends I used to sit with them on a Wednesday on a Thursday and have bible study and feed them with good food Because what people what affects them Faith comes by hearing Faith comes by here what people hear what people see is what they do Good food helps you the preaching will help you that's what you have to listen to messages I'm telling you I recommend messages to you. I recommend read your bible and pray every day And I recommend strongly to you as well listen to messages all the time all the time be listen to messages it will transform and And make your Christian growth and development faster and better I know people used to listen to messages and stop that's what even makes me stronger Because when people stop listening as they used to they become different Listen to messages number three and shepherd is privileged to lead people Leadership is provider you need leadership To provide leadership Are you there? Leadership Won't you like to lead people to Christ to Jesus to know God more? It's not a great privilege As shepherd is privileged to restore the souls of people that's some 23 verse three. He restored my soul Yeah, a lot of people who are who are messed up Messer you know what we're most most of the most or if not all Mental health problems is a soulish a soulish disorder That the word of God can correct You need you need you need you need to be counsel the person with the word not with common sense and reason with the word of God Talk to people with the way many start the way to to them pray for them counsel them good faces to assure them vices Give them give them give them audio bible to listen to The soul will be restored Will be restored to factory setting as God made it and as God intends it to be Your departure you see your departure from God It messes you up. It messes a family up. It messes a nation up departure from God The departure from the word of God departure from the council of the word it messes and individual up It messes a family up and it messes a nation up To for restoration to bring it back to factory setting you need a shepherd who point you to the word of God What's your word of God? You say when precious the life's precious becomes normal. You don't have time to read your bible You don't have time to pray You'll become a different person You've become a different person It is number five Number five is As shepherd is privileged To be with the people in the time of their difficulty Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I will fear no evil. So I watch with me Don't watch with me that rodent. I stop. They come for to me Hmm Six I A shepherd is privileged to help the sheep overcome their enemies He promised they will be forming the presence of my enemies Elements are full of hatred people hate you. Well, this like you By the experiences when you have a shepherd all you're doing their work of a shepherd They helps you to overcome you help you help others to overcome 'Dia enemis, 'diadifikaltis' in 'diadia' 'diadifikaltis' I the number seven The shepherd is privileged to anoint the sheep Thou anointest my head with oil My cup, runeth over There's a privilege to be a shepherd You get to help people People need help I'm if you realize you need help The souls, others also need help Others also need help You've been helped a bit and you're still being helped So start helping others with the things you have linked The things you just have helped in others The skit has you helped people To overcome their difficulties Overcome their problems You know people, someone just needs someone who understands them I'll be better someone just needs someone who understands your problem This one of the blessings of meeting a doctor Because when you meet a doctor, you describe the symptoms And the doctor understands your problem And gives a name to your problem And therefore is able to prescribe medication to solve your problem When you go and see your doctor, you do 80% of their work for them Because you have to accurately describe the symptoms And tell them what you've described, this is what is called Take this and to be so That's what it is For the soul of people The Nissan who can understand their problem and give them a face You say, "Oh yes, they are also using to a message or when I was in church The pastor could take this face and think to solve your problem To shepherd people, shepherd people Shepherd the people Prescribe, prescribe right things to them As your mind is renewed That now you think difficult when you say, "When you meet your old friends, they think you are still the same" And the red eyes have no, you've changed And if you met an old friend, they said, "The old friends have changed" Okay, someone met you and the red eyes, you have changed You prefer that question, isn't it? Here is the story of my soul Here is the story of my soul It's not the beautiful thing to see people's lives change it As you share the word with them, as you teach them You know, over the weekend, where somewhere we're praying It was so beautiful for me to see people praying I just stand on the stage and I'm looking at them and say, "Wow, those people are praying, they are praying for long hours, they are not tired, they are not sleepy, they are just praying But at other times, they will be doing something else If they are not doing something, if they are not in church praying They will be somewhere else It's just beautiful to see people praying praying to God, believing in God, calling on God It's not a great blessing It's not a great privilege to be a shepherd I pray you become a shepherd as well We continue next Sunday, stand to your feet Yes Thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus I want to close your eyes and just pray for your servants, they Lord It's such a privilege to know you, it's a privilege to know in you It's a privilege to know in you privilege to know in you, just talk to him Just talk to him, privilege to know in you I want to save you more I want to be more like Jesus, let it be your prayer today, I want to be more like Jesus I want to be more like Jesus, make me that shepherd frodi awoke o dinimar motivations, o aros i Babek mistress, o Worbisa. 不好意思, Theresa. help me long. help me long. help me long. help me long. 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