The Believer's Inheritance

Zacharias Tanee Fomum

(a sermon given by Brother Zacharius Fomum at a conference in  Maryland)

First session, Friday, November 18th

Before you become a Christian, you must come to a head-on collision with God, not barely skimming him, not passing him by. When you collide, you are entirely crushed. You are trampled like a dirty rag. You have reached the end of yourself.

Then you are "free from sin, slave to God," (repeat this joyfully 10 times, hopping around on one foot and then the other). The believer's inheritance is to be "Born of God Alone" (BoGA -Z.T. Fomum). When you are BoGA, you are 100% God's work and 0% man's work.

Second session, Morning, Saturday, November 18th

Read Romans 8:28-30.

 He glorified me



He justified me


He called me


He predestined me


He forknew me


God does not give up against Satan. He does not say "Oh, the wiles of this Satan are just too tempting." He does not fail. He will win.

Start reading God created
2: God was
3: God said
4: God saw
5: God called
6: God said
7: God made
8: God called
9: God said
10: God called
11: God said
12: God saw
14: God said
16: God made
17: God set
18: God saw
20: God said
21: God created
22: God blessed
24: God said
25: God made, God saw
26: God said
27: God created
28: God blessed
29: God said
31: God saw

Chapter 2

2: God had finished
3: God blessed
4: The Lord God Made
... (etc.)

God is the subject of almost every sentence in Gen. Ch. 1,2. God is the center of the world. Man is at the periphery. God is the focus. Man is an afterthought.

God is the focus.  Man is an afterthought

But we Christians these days have turned this view inside out. We ask "God bless me" "God give me a good home" "God give me a good wife" "God give me money" "God bless me" "God bless my family" "God give me a car" "God make me smarter" "God help me." This is idolatry, the worship of self. It is not Christianity. It is Christianized paganism. It puts man at the center and God on the periphery.

Christianized paganism
The goal of this is to find happiness, exaltation, blessing, and success of man. Man is lost in self. Man asks God to be his servant. True conversion dismantles the man before rebuilding him. The saved man can't love the same girl he loved when he was lost because everything has changed. His motives, his desires. He was only using her before. He is lost.
Lost man, saved man

Conversion is a radical encounter with the living God

Conversion is a radical encounter with the living God

Conversion is a radical encounter with the living God

Your old plans are crushed, your old motives are trampled, your old values are grounded. The converted says "Lord, hide me in some corner where only you can see me." The converted man will lose friends, goals, companions. Only Jesus can satisfy him. The converted says:

The president's driver is just as important as the president himself is. The nurse is just as important as the doctor. A new heart gives new testimony, new values, new ambition for Jesus. The love of money in America will cause it to burn.

When you have beheld Jesus Christ, nothing that the world offers can ever satisfy you. Are you in America for the glory of God or for your own glory? Lost men keep their money in this world while people go to hell who could have been saved if there was more money. Lost man wants to guarantee is future and the future of his family. Lost man ducks in his imaginations. Lost man keeps Earthly things and allows people to go to the lake of Hell. Lost man has his treasure on Earth

The scripture says: "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." And The scripture cannot be broken. See also Luke 12:27-31.

Money has only one value, to win souls for him. There is only one real value for time: to win the lost. A study shows that Americans give 3% of their money to the church. Conversion dismantles you financially. Sell all that you have and give to the poor, then you will have treasures from heaven. The richest are pastors, missionaries, evangelists. Buy Jesus at the cost of everything you have. Whether it is $1, $100, $10,000. Without God, the poorest poor are the lost. Without Jesus, Bill Gates is poverty incarnate. Zaccheus gave half of his wealth, 50%. Assuming he cheated people to gain 12.5% of his wealth, and he paid them back 4 times what they owed him, then he paid 100% of his wealth! If you store up money, you will have your personal Katrina/Rita come to you because you allowed people to go to hell. Year in, and year out you have held back your money and people have gone to hell.

How dry your heart is. How wicked. Your prayers bounce off the ceiling and return to you. The word gives you no revalation. All lovers of money are lost. True conversion means bringing the maximum amount of people out of the lake of fire.  For that, the saved man lives. Everything darkens for you and becomes colder for each soul that you didn't save. This could be your last day.

Jesus asks you not to allow one person to perish who could have been saved. The brightest minds are to preach the Bible. No one should give his services to serve any worldly thing unless the church has rejected his services 7 different times. You are not to give your services to any worldly cause unless you have tried to give your services seven different times to the church. Give 18 hours per day to winning the lost. God wants the service of men, and not the money. True conversion sees a radical raw investment of the energy of a person. The investment of a life. The best minds, looks, emotions are invested into the task of rescuing men from hell. There is only one thing for people who are not insane-give all that we have to save the maximum people from the lake of hell. Resign your job and preach the gospel for the rest of your life. What you choose, you choose for yourself, your children, and your grandchildren. When you choose the world, you have cursed your children. Be a personal ambassador of Jesus, a representative of God.

When you get to the top in your profession, what do you become? A nothing! God doesn't want your weekends, your evenings. Give God 7 days a week. Don't ensure your own future, ensure the future of the lost. I was called when I was getting my PhD (= Poor homeless Doctor). The Lord wants you:

What is the believer's inheritance?

It is Jesus

Jesus is our inheritance

Jesus is our inheritance

Jesus is our inheritance

Jesus is our inheritance

My dying father said "I don't have any money to leave you, but I give you Jesus for your wealth"

There is a Living God and he is the leader of those who seek him

I have been giving 1 hour/day to my chemistry research, and I was invited to Britain to receive high honors for my work (an honor given to no other from central Africa). I declined to travel to receive my reward, because it would have been a waste of the time that I could have spent saving the lost.

A man I knew from the U.S. traveled east. He was an oil engineer, but he went to do missionary work. They discovered oil near by where he was working. They wanted him to work with them to retrieve the oil. They offered him £500, he refused. They offered him £1000, he refused. They offered him £1500, he refused. They offered him £2000, he refused. They offered him £2500, he refused. He had gone as a missionary! They asked him is £2500; a small amount of money? He answered: "No, your money is not small. Your job is small." Your children will make the choices you made. Think carefully before you do the best or the worst thing for your progeny.

Third session, Evening, Saturday, November 19th

What does God want you to do with your life? There is lots of "Holy drifting" in the world today. Some people in Africa want to get to Europe at all costs. People know that they want in the world, not what they want in the Lord. Lord, what do you want me to do with my life? God has an eternal blueprint of what you ought to do with your life. Lord, what would you have me do with my life? The answer may be different from what your parents want. The Holy Spirit moves when people are with the will of God. If a car crashes into a bush on the side of the road, it won't move. After coming to Jesus, you have new values, new motives. You must seek and ask what God wants you to do.

There was a man, a university professor. God called him to China, but he decided to stay at home and he gave his money to God. And he cried out at age 64 "Oh, I wasted my life." God does not need my money, it's me he needs, and he needs me in the center of His will. Are you in the center of his will or are you in the permissive region of God?

Nine out of ten men I've talked to believe they married the wrong woman. 90% don't know what God wants them to do with their lives. The Church is sick-people don't know what he wants them to do with their lives. Why take another step without knowing what God wants? The problem is that you are ruining the lives of others. There are two who open doors-God and Satan. Every believer should be so united with God that he knows what he called him to do. So that he can say "I did the will of God in my life."

If Satan leads you through an open door, you must turn to the cross and return to the path.

If God wants you to be a taxi driver and you pursue a career as a computer engineer, you are a computer confusionist.

Part of the believer's inheritance is the privilege of knowing God's will and walking in it.

(say it with me)

Part of the believer's inheritance is the privilege of knowing God's will and walking in it. Part of the believer's inheritance is the privilege of knowing God's will and walking in it. Part of the believer's inheritance is the privilege of knowing God's will and abiding in it. Part of the believer's inheritance is the privilege of knowing God's will and obeying in it.

A wise person looks from the perspective of eternity. A fool looks from the perspective of this life. America is the country where people go and never come back.Who sent you here? God or Satan? There is no third sender. All that this country can give you cannot substitute for one hour in God's presence, in the center of his will. Say this out loud: God, you are my joy! God, you are my fulfillment!  Go on a retreat all weekend. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Ask God, "What I should do with my life?" Don't fear that he will let you know if you have been wrong. Jesus can only be had in fulness if I am in the center of his will; not where I chose to be, but where he sent me. Pray for a radical return to seeking, knowing and doing God's will. The will of God must be sought.

AM I IN THE CENTER OF GOD'S WILL OR NOT?

There is a joy in shepherding the flock, in winning the lost, in God answering your prayers, in the peace of God. You want to lead people to Christ? First lead yourself! If something falls in your whole story-your professional story, your marital story, your financial story, then repent! There was a man who came to the U.S. He left his wife and pretended to have another in the U.S. We asked him, "How many wives do you have?" Truth is the testimony of God. Walk with a clear conscience. Say I have nothing to hide. One of our missionaries went to a European country and declared himself as a refugee in order to get a Visa. They removed him and flogged him. So he left and told everybody "I lied." A liar cannot win anybody to the Lord Jesus Christ. The mission of the liar is to lie. The liar cannot move from lies to truth. Believer's inheritance is to know the Truth and do it; the ability to do what God wants. Many people can do worldly things extremely successfully (study engineering, make money on the stock market, etc.), but when it comes to spiritual things, they have spiritual paralysis, they are spiritually BARREN. They cannot win the lost. How can you explain it? It is a deep problem. Are your neighbors and your colleagues in your church? Are they active? When a man cannot bring his colleagues to the Lord, then he is pretending. They see you 8 hours/day!! Then he is living a lie. A person can only lead people into the thing to which he himself has entered.

In the last 10 years, how many people have you yourself lead to the Lord?

Your incapacity to lead people to the Lord yourself tells you that you are sick spiritually. If you are not leading people to the Lord every 12 months then you have parted ways with Jesus. Yet you go to church and sing and dance. Monkeys can sing and dance, but they cannot win souls. Those who are far from Jesus cannot win the lost for him. Write down how many people you have won to the Lord so you don't fool yourself.

The purpose of the Gospel was that God would lead believers to win people to Christ. The Lord strengthens me. Every believer can be fruitful. In our church in Yaounde, Cameroon, to go to the mission field, you must first win 12 people to the Lord Christ. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. One of those things is to win people for the Lord. Are you the end of the Gospel?

If you are not winning the lost to Christ, and you consider yourself a Christian, then you must be the end. How can you explain the fact that you don't lead people to the Lord? Do you expect angels to do it? Your neighbors and coworkers are lost. And you think you are going to heaven? For 10 years, a "Christian" who hasn't led anyone to the Lord? It cannot be. Where is the fruit of your ministry? Where are the souls won and kept? I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me

I see so many young people today reading books about "Christian Dating." They see the extent to which your flesh can burn. There should be no touching before marriage.  Or she is already dirty and he is already dirtier. They have already sinned. Repeat: I have the power to get married in purity. I have the power to have only one woman in my heart. You may be married to one, but you may have one or two others in your heart. May the Holy Spirit convict you that you are not pure. There is no Christian polygamy. Repeat: "I can be pure through Christ who strengthens me. I can have only one woman." Blessed are the pure in heart. If you are impure as a bachelor, you will not be pure in marriage. There will be girls dangling before you before marriage and after marriage. "I can walk in purity. I can walk in strength. I can walk in integrity. I can give away what I don't need immediately. I can stop loving the world and I can follow the Lord. I can through Christ who strengthens me. I can know very deep contentment through Jesus Christ, my inheritance."

Amen

I include below my overdue notes from Brother Zach's 4th message on "The Believer's Spiritual Inheritance," delivered at the Maryland CMFI assembly on 20 November 2005. It is mostly a collection of quotes from Brother Zach as I was able to record them. Many of these quotes were repeated twice by Brother Zach, during the course of his message, to emphasize the following points. -Peter

"The mission of CMFI is to commission 10,000 missionary couples to the 200 nations to make disciples of all men."

"The work of CMFI originally had no name, but it was so named Christian Missionary Fellowship International to help the missionaries gain entrance to countries that would ordinarily refuse them."

"To give Jesus less than your all to win the Lost for Jesus is the greatest evil. The cross of Jesus demands your all."

"Since God gave His all (in Jesus), He likewise demands OUR all - first, our very being, and then every one of our possessions."

"Let every man that names the name of Jesus depart from INIQUITY: sin in heart, sin in thought, sin in words, and sin in action."

"The American church sins in the following 7 areas:

  1. Fortune
    Brother Zach related the following story (paraphrased): "There was once a brother in Yaounde, Cameroon, a fruit farmer, who began a farm. To his disbelief, the yield from his crops that first year greatly surpassed all of his expectations and surpassed all of the yields from the surrounding farms. He profited much from the yields, and even sent some of the fruit to the churches in Douala and Yaounde, Cameroon. This brother approached me, to share of the way the Lord had so blessed his crops. I asked, 'Brother, have you given 40% of your crop to the Lord?' The brother looked surprised, said 'no', and ultimately did not give the increase of his fields to the Lord. The next year, this brother's entire fields were barren. All of the other fields around his crop bore much fruit and were blessed, but this brother's fields went bankrupt. Nothing grew. In his fear of the Lord, he got out of the business of fruit farming, and has been a much better Christian since."  "The only way to take riches to Heaven after you die is to send it all ahead of you before you die."
  2. Female/Male relationships
    "How many of you are married to one woman in law and married to 3 or 4 in your heart?"
  3. Fame
  4. Food
    "You think about food when you wake up, when you're eating, when you're finished eating, and while you wait for the next meal.""Your god is your belly!"
  5. Falsehood
    "If there is one area in your life where you can lie, there is a worm eating deep in your heart. Kill it, or it will kill you." "You must be able to pray as follows: 'God, you know I am true. If there is anything false in my life, show it to me, and I will repent of and forsake it.' "
  6. Faithful
    "How many promises made to God and man are outstanding? Unfaithful servants!"
  7. Freedom - free to do the will of yourself
    "Be under authority, accountable to others. How many of you have someone in your life who will rebuke you when you do wrong?"

    "Studies have shown that when a man is accountable to himself, he improves his work-related performance 25% from when he is accountable to no one. When a man is accountable to others, he improves his work-related performance 50%."


"I command you: DEPART FROM INIQUITY IN THE NAME OF THE LIVING GOD!"

"Once you hear truth, you either move far away from where you were in obedience, or you move far away in disobedience."

"There are three types of people.

LOST - This person has his self reigning in the throne of his heart, and Jesus has not entered. He is lost.

DOUBLE-MINDED, CARNAL CHRISTIAN - This person exists in two states. One is where his self reigns on the throne of his heart, and Jesus stands underneath his self. The other is where Jesus reigns uncontested on the throne of his heart, and his self is crucified below the throne of Jesus in the heart. This person acts in the arbitrary, permissive will of God, where nothing is guaranteed.

CHRISTIAN - This person exists in one state. Jesus is enthroned in his heart, and his self lies forever crucified below Jesus. This person acts in the known will of God, where all the word of God is guaranteed."

People rose up to pray that this message might be true in our lives.


This is the end of the message on "The Believer's Spiritual Inheritance. Below are notes from Brother Zach's commissioning of Brother Robinson as the CMFI missionary to Maryland. -Peter
Mark 3:14-15 Jesus designated apostles so that:
  1. They might be with him, to know him
  2. They would be sent out to preach, cast out demons, heal the sick

Apostleship

"It is the call to bring God to the people. You must live in God's presence until he imparts himself to you, so when you go to the people, you will bring God with you.

"If not, you have BETRAYED them."

Brother Zach recommends the following 24-hour schedule to all who would call themselves "Full-Time Ministers":

8 HOURS - Leave your house, and lock yourself up alone in a room with just you, your God, and your Bible.

8 HOURS - Do the work of God, ministering to the people.

8 HOURS - Time for your self.

Only after working such a day will a minister be able to enjoy a well-deserved rest. Anything less than this makes a man not a "Full-time minister", but a "Fool-time minister".

Prayed for Brother Robinson and his ministry to Maryland.


"The body of Jesus was broken for our healing, and the blood of Jesus was shed for our cleansing."

Prayed for physical healing, for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit to be poured out on us.

Prayed for young people in the ministry, that they might be married as a result of a 100-night prayer vigil for marriages held in the Yaounde church.

Amen.