Reach To The Past
by Abel Aguilar
1997 · The Pentecostals of Alexandria, Alexandria, LA
Kind: conference session
Scripture: Isaiah 43:13, Isaiah 46:9-10, Deuteronomy 32:7, Psalm 73

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can we clap our hands under God let's give him some praise this morning all the accolades and all the praise go to Jesus ha ha ha ha she thought oh boy oh can we just lift our hands and give him a wave offering give him the best ho Shara Baca kyobashi terrible praise God praise God praise God praise God couple numbers I want to glorify God first of all I believe that is priority I want to glorify Him I am beyond nervousness I have been enveloped by the glory of God since the start of this conference I think every speaker has butterflies if you don't something's wrong but it's beyond that there's there such an aura last night we could not come down we were in our after we had dinner we went to our room and and something just kept motivating us I'm not even sleepy this morning I think that I only got maybe three hours sleep but there's something powerful it transcends our physical needs nothing matters anymore nothing is more of importance than God co-pilot positive I want to honor pastor Anthony Mangan and his precious wife the video we saw the first night of the presentation at the president's prayer service was you could just feel the anointing come out of thee of that service bishop Mangan and his wife we were stirred and changed because this is all we have and we want to recognize the superintendent brother tinnie and also brother Kol who has been a mentor to many of us my president sends regards and greetings in the name of Jesus Christ I spoke to him yesterday from Los Angeles and he says greet the Brethren in Jesus name Amen praise God praise God we have made friends with a few of you I see brother Scott here yato DeLoss hispanos los que conocen espanol les salud ahmo's and el nombre del signore hey soos a man many of your brother know how to speak Spanish fluently that is good amen brother Scott and I have become good friends amen and we were conversing in Spanish yesterday and somebody walked - uh-huh that's right hey man I'm gonna read a portion of Scripture I just want to say that I remember brother tinny back in around 1966 preaching at one of our youth conferences and I still remember the message and back then he was the conquerors president if he was good back then he is even better now praise God amen I I feel just a tremendous honor to be here I don't deserve this place but I just want to leave you with a word of encouragement let's turn to the Book of Isaiah and we're going to turn please to chapter 43

and I'm gonna read a scripture from there and then turn to chapter 46 chapter 43 verse 13 yay before the day was I am he and there is none that can deliver out of my hand I will work and who shall let it chapter 46 and verse number 9 remember the former things of old for I am God and there is none else I am God and there is none like me declaring the end from the beginning you know it should read declaring the beginning but God always begins and says declaring the beginning the end from the beginning from ancient times the things that are not yet done saying my counsel shall stand and I will do my pleasure praise God I'd like to speak to you for a few moments on the subject entitled reaching to the pass to confront the present and the future would you please raise your hands towards this platform and pray for me father because I am flesh my lips and my heart Oh huh praise God there's such a sweetness you may be seated in Jesus name I would like to honor also every man and every vessel of God that has stood behind this pulpit over the past three days we have heard from God we have been thoroughly saturated with what God has for us in this hour of time I am definitely going back and I am going to go back with the passion and with the burden if anything that I have received it is that I'm going back with the passion and with the burden and I thank God for all that he has done and for a few moments I would like us to consider the fact that God is going to do what he's going to do there is not anything that anybody anything or anything in heaven on earth or under the earth is going to stop God's plan I want to reach back and I want to draw from the past and bring it to the present and get ready to go to the Future the Bible speaks to us and tells us that we must remember the former things I am NOT talking about going back and remembering our old sins we know what the Bible tells us we are supposed to forget those things in the past and reach towards the mark we have been forgiven we have been saved I thank God for the oneness message I thank God for the baptism of the Holy Ghost I thank God amen for separated living I praise God for that I'm not speaking about remembering our own sins I've had enough failures I've had enough

disappointments what God has given me and this time is I'm going forward I'm not going to stand and be accused by the devil anymore I thank God my family and I my wife and my children who joined me we're going to go back and we're going to tell the devil we're going to say to our community we are going to have revival we are having revival we will have revival there is nothing that is going to stop us hallelujah I said there is nothing that is going to stop us there is absolutely nothing that is going to stop us how host a terrible shot am I the book of Deuteronomy says remember the days of old consider the years of many generations asked thy fathers and he will shew thee thy elders and they will tell thee there is something about the past that is glorious there is something about the former days that we can bring to this day there is something about the past that is powerful there is something about the past that the devil will say no keep it buried keep it under but I plan to expose it today and to let you know that our past is glorious our and then we'll bring it to the present and also take us to the future I'm not gonna hold back anymore I'm gonna let them know what God has done for us has thou not heard long ago how I have done it and of ancient times that I have formed it haven't you heard long ago what I have done the psalmist David said God has done great things with us tell ye and bring them near yay let them take counsel together who had declared this from ancient times I want you to understand something I've understood it clearly this is something that transcends time it is something that transcends all that has been established something that is powerful something that cannot be put in a building or a boxer or a fracture God Farah I will do it and none shall stand in my way who have declared this from ancient times and who had told it from that time have not I the Lord and there is none God else beside me my god so many times over the past 31 years the devil has tried to bury me and he has put the last shovel fool over my grave and he is said this is it this is here Tom but I have news for him today somehow or other through all the dirt and the debris of trial and tribulation I stuck my hand out Oh beneath that dirt and fader for the grave cannot praise the death cannot celebrate the they that go down into the pit cannot hope for that truther but the Word of God razza the living on the Living ah he

shall praise thee as I do that stag he has told you revival kanakamma but take yourself out of that climate sale the lever surprised he thought he buried us he thought he buried us all but the living are here today for somebody shot estee I will praise their you may be seated for a moment more I couldn't understand the brother Arnold I couldn't understand then it began to make sense declaring the end from the beginning who's going to give God counsel who's going to give God counsel my god I've received so much revelation here goes more revelation hears more revelation first of all God can do whatever he wants you ain't and he is the reason he says that is declaring the end from the beginning is because his word the events that he is predicted from the future says this is what's going to happen and then he has the power to develop his plan over the next millennium or hundred years whatever he wants to take and says look I said it would happen ah and it ah the skeptics said it would never happen ah but what is happening today the skeptics said it will never happen but the holy cows are yes Tom and ow we have a god that can fulfill every protection we have a card that gets fulfilled every prophecy and it doesn't matter what house as a the word of God well be fair if he wasn't able to do it he would've written about it ha but he already knows what's happening he already saw it and it's happening this day this is proven by Revelation chapter 19 or Revelation chapter 19 they began to shout hallelujah first of all there is hallelujah for salvation this reminds us and delineate of Christ who has delivered us from so great of death and do it deliver in whom we trust that he will deliver us let me tell you something because of this we are delivered from the penalty of sin God said he would do it we are delivered from the penalty of sin second of all we are delivered from the power of sin thirdly and this is the catch we are delivered from the presence of sin follow me now from the presence of

sin can you imagine going to a place where there's no more need of doctors where there's no more need of painkillers where there's no more tears where there's no more death where there's no more cancer where there's no more tumors where there's no more diabetics hallelujah from the presence of sin you know what God has already seen this in the future he's already seen you in the presence of God do you know why I'm shouting today it's because I'm ready ready to sound he's already seen you in the presence of God let me tell you something God is absolutely sovereign and let me tell you no doctrine is more despised by the natural mind than the truth that God is absolutely suffering what does this mean God is sovereign this means that human pride loathes the suggestion that God orders everything God controls everything and God rules over everything the carnal mind burning with Md against God abhors the biblical teaching that nothing comes to pass except according to his eternal decrees most of all the flesh spirit hates the notion that salvation is entirely God's work huh and I want to remind you here this morning you and I deserve no credit ah so what is happening all deserves the glory nor they honor that's why this morning we stand to our feet at which I God but you are let me go on and lay this foundation just a little bit more this is from ancient times you don't mess with this this is from ancient times I was taught well by my father's in the Lord this is power law you don't need to change my god and for the past 31 years I'm telling you I won't change I won't change because this is from ancient times you got to bring it my friend let me tell you something if I'm going into the 21st century I'm not going in there with some type of hocus-pocus mind positive thinking position you're not going to be able to positive thinking your way into the 21st century ha ha ha ha nothing like that is gonna watch ah give me all your programs give me everything that you have but they always think that's gonna work in the 21st century here's the flower ha ha ha

I'm gone and under the assumption that I'm gone in with the power of Almighty God why because we are facing things that we have never faced before in this present time all of it and let me tell you what the greatest challenge is is that the devil is out to deify man and demote God that's why I said at the offset God is sovereign he doesn't know what kind of power he is dealing with when God speaks horrible she'd hurry up strong holes are brought down two years ago in a revival a man of God prophesied over me and said the devil is going to attack you he said he felt of God but he said I'm telling you this because God told me he's gonna bring you through but it's not going to be attack of the church variety he's going to try and attack your family and when he said that I shuddered because I know so well what the devil can do and I know there might be pastors and pastors wives but there are also moms and dads out there they take off one hat on the in the church and they have to put on another one at home I want to tell you right now that we took us one year and a half to go through everything the devil threw at us he threw everything he did and somebody mentioned the Tyson fight then the Holyfield fight the other night and I was remembering in my own mind I said the devil had me in the ring he was slugging me right and left he'd Hibbing up he'd hit me again finally about the last round he gave me the wallop that was too knocked me out and when he did I went boom I looked up and said a devil is that all you can you're gonna have to do better than that because my car is a draw he'll hit ya he'll catch ya but you gotta stand up and say devil is that the best you can do I got a daughter that is more powerful a dear father Oh somebody's out this morning I got area ah why don't we give him a thunderous ovation right now he deserves that he deserves he's all about your God knows about you he is in control here Sabra you may be for a moment more I just want to know let you know that I empathize with you I didn't say sympathize I don't want to lament you know what I told the devil Bishop I said you've made me cry long enough I told him I refuse to shed one more tear on what you are causing me I am NOT gonna cry one more tear for you I'm gonna pick myself up and though I get a lump in my throat I'm not gonna

cry but if the Lord would touch me if the Lord would anoint me and lift me up let me go on to this part here this is most important you know we've got witchcraft and tarot cards and Ouija boards and I could give you all kinds of testimony but you know I'm sick and tired of that we need to exalt Jesus the Hispanic culture is given into that a lot of witchcraft and herb burnin hey let me tell you I've got testimony I've got living testimony in the church who Chicano Cappadocia they've tried witchcraft they've tried herb burnin but every time they've tried it it has blown up right in their face because I'm going to tell you something there is nothing greater than the power a woman was having problems with her husband she didn't know that there were certain forces against her one day she showed up at her husband's job and there she found a certain situation very unpleasant and she found a group of people burning herbs against her marriage but when she stood and confronted them thank God for godly women full of the hope so terrible Katya Aram AHA she looked at the him and gave them a cold stare from heaven you thought I was going to say hell he gave them a cold stare from heaven ah all of a sudden they backed away from their little pot and they looked at each other and said let's get out of here we cannot contender with the power that is inside of her we've got something greater than which laughter we've got something greater than all the power of the enemy God a sovereign I said God is sovereign ever since the dawn of time Satan has tried to peddle this lie he has tried to sell this lie peddle it like some cheap salesman Fuller Brush I hope nobody sells Fuller Brush he tries to peddle this lie that we can become as gods hear me now his seductive hiss you will be like God first heard in Genesis three has reverberated across the millennium he has sold this lie in whatever size shape or form you choose to believe it in give me that one give me this one it's like the testimony I heard a few years ago about the woman that went into a pet shop amen I tell you women can't stay away from stores my wife found them all here my wife has a ministry gift like the brother was saying she knows exactly where the malls are now she's a wonderful woman of God I think every wife is like that they just have a certain gift magnetite they just go this way no no let's go this way she said sure I want a dog well what kind of dog do you want well he brought her all kinds of dogs small dogs big big dogs short dogs spotted dogs we need augs chihuahuas Mexican hairless finally got tired he was like a shoe salesman piled high with dogs she said ma'am I brought two Everett dark in the pet shop

she said just kept me one that'll match my living room rug and that's the way people are I don't need anything that'll match my humanity I need something that'll match the need of my heart ah and all a god and Jabba Tama don't give me a religion that'll try to satisfy my human side up I need something from God I need something from God nothing less will do you may be seated for a few more moments let me tell you what's happening we are constantly being bombarded by the doctrine listen now all is one all is God and man is God that's where he's going that's where it's going man is God it's humanism friend open up your eyes and smell the coffee that's more revelation let me tell you who dares to compare himself to God didn't you hear me read from the beginning there is none beside me it didn't say none beside us I said he said none beside me implying singular not plural attained I don't need to go to the first or the second or the third person in the Trinity my goddess of fashion and his name s I can't hear you loud somebody shot No personal as you return to your communities this is what you'll be facing let me tell you what happened last year as I quickly run to the close here we had Rickey Poe and his ministry come by the Kilgore the young man mentored by brother Kilgore anybody mentored under him is going to be a soul winner praise God amen not very loud but that's the truth and we went and made an appeal to the Santa Ana Unified School District and we said honorable board we would like to come and make a presentation to all the junior high and high school principals of the city and to our surprise they accepted our request and in the first meeting held of the Unified School District in our community headed by a woman dr. rice we were the first ones on her agenda now this is a secular system understand this and when we got that I was nervous I was I'm being honest I was nervous these are men people with PhDs that have worked at this profession for many years but I stood up straighten my tie and I said my name is pastor Aguilar I am from Christian Tabernacle here in Santa Ana and I wish to present to you this ministry called influence assemblies we are requesting that you

will give us permission to come to your schools and present this to your student body in general I thought they were going to pick us up by the seat of our britches and toss us out but to our surprise they heard our request and we presented them exactly let me tell you something the schools don't know what to do anymore this is from ancient times past a friend of mine you don't need a psychiatrist you don't need a couch for somebody to soothe your psyche you don't need that $50 fee that they're gonna charge you with this the sociologists or the psychologist huh we need an old-fashioned anointing of God and saying God you need to take LA a few days later instead of us knocking on their door they were calling us and saying pastor would you bring this assembly to our school and we thank God that we were able to witness to over 6000 Unified School District students and I said praise God because the schools were calling us and saying pastor we don't know what to do with the drug problem we don't know what to do with all that is going on but it seems that you have an answer and I said I don't have the answer but there is a book if you will open a table that is from a time I'm all they gonna go into the 21st century I'm like Moses up if you're not gonna go with my god I'm not moving out but if you tell me to go forward I'm going out if you tell me the buffed on the right although I'll jump it up to the left arm over this is the time now we must drop on that power to confront the present and the future hallelujah you may be seated for a moment more I've got about four minutes I'm gonna tell you something I'm not going to steal anything that belongs to God I've learned this from a long time ago it all belongs to God belongs to him I can truly say that after 31 years he took his full cycle I told my wife and my family I don't know what we're going through and as they got I remembered Psalm 73 many times by the Col David the king of Israel puts it turns a but God the sinner seems to be prospering more than I do but then all of a sudden that's why I'm saying this is remains David said I never understood none of this until I went into the inner sanctuary my feet almost slipped how many times as your feet almost left then David said I remembered how one day the Spirit of God came upon me and I took the bear and tore him to pieces I remember one day when I took the mouth of the lion and I tore it to pieces he said my feet almost lip but he said I remember I remember

how good god is to Israel believe me I had something else planned and he said I'd rather be a gate keeper a lot of people misinterpret that they think it means I just rather be an usher and I'm not minimizing that ministry it's a power but listen here what it means he says if I can be a doorkeeper a gatekeeper in the house of God that would satisfy but you know why because translated from the Hebrew to our English language it literally means the keeper of the gates of Israel what he said was as if I can just get to the gate of the house of God I know that the keeper of the gate will bring me by God I remembered let me finish here now in just a moment I looked at the great revivals of time starting from Pentecost through Asia Minor through Europe England and across the ocean to the North American continent and my mind raced and said God could there be a sign from the past to remind us of the future that will take us excuse me to the present that will take us to the future and he said Azusa Street Azusa Street some of you young ones do not know but these older elders know what happened on Azusa Street let me tell you what Dylan hated the great revival in Azusa Street you know what the first thing the historians say brother Cole but you've been telling us for the past 20 years they just started listening there was a hunger for God at the time Azusa revival came there were many churches good preachers good services solid fundamentalist doctrine people was a simpler lifestyle but the Azusa revivalist were driven by one force and that was that they were hungry for God I'm gonna tell you something the way we're going to break the backbone of the devil is to get hungry for God you might say you're a young whippersnapper yeah and maybe 46 years old but I'm not losing my hair for nothing they were driven not to know about God but to know God don't give me no more seminars about knowing how to know God I need to know him they tell us about God about God I don't want to know about God I want to know I don't want to hear about God I want to hear God as I close what W J Seymour did a man that was blind in one eye history says that he would hide behind boxes one head praying until the spirit would get a hold of him and then he would speak thus saith the Lord oh my god let me say this as I finish record says that the place had one time been a Methodist Church but it had been converted in part into a tenement house leaving a large and plastered barn like room on the ground floor it was in the vicinity of a tombstone shop ironic isn't it some stables in the lumber yard

a vicinity where no one complained about all-night services or give me some of those services where we have to drag the saints out intoxicated under the power of the Holy Ghost another one said I bless God that it did not start in any Church in this city Los Angeles but in a bar so that we all might come and take part in it if it had started in a fine Church back then the poor black would not have been allowed in the writer says the Spanish this whole Mexican boy would not have been allowed in come on now thank God didn't start in a church in the city thank God that God has a wife you stand I'm not whipping out of lamentation or sympathy I'm hungry for this that's the only thing that we can hang on to if the church is still here in three years Isis from agent he's trying to declare the end they said Howry side what's the problem Azusa never left more revelation we're just catching up that's the problem somebody said we need another señal azuz has always been there the churches finally caught up with the end oh this is God's plan I'm telling you the end from the beginning I only think you can hang on to and believe me when you've got nothing else and you seem like everything's falling apart it's only gonna be the power of God that's the only thing I feel right now if we can be driven to hunger this place can be like one of those services I would have loved to have seen that wouldn't you have loved to have seen that a lot of people have dreams I dream of having been at Azusa during one of those all-night services my god I have seen the power of God I will not stop would you just lift your hands and before I tell you to pray before I tell you to pray I just don't want you to pray aimlessly I want you to pray with purpose I want you to tell God with this I am going to demonstrate my hunger to know you and you shout it if you want to do fall on your face but just do it with all of your strength I'm gonna leave this in pastor Megan's hand