Our Heritage — Part 1
by Lee Stoneking
1987 · The Pentecostals of Alexandria, Alexandria, LA
Kind: conference session
Scripture: Hebrews 6:1-6, 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12, 2 Corinthians 11:12-15, 1 John 4:1

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enthroned in this room today there is the King of Kings and the Lord of lords who deserves in our presence a standing ovation let's do it again unto him and shout unto the Lord with a voice of Triumph you can do it better than that you can do it much much better than that for he is worthy of our praise and our worship and our adoration for of his kingdom there shall never ever be an end Hallelujah Jesus the Lord has spoken to me I have Lain awake at night Str struggling in my heart and in my soul with one of the most perilous issues in this hour I would like for you to turn in your Bibles with me today to the book of Hebrews chapter 6 beginning at verse 1 Hebrews chapter 6 beginning at verse 1 the Bible says therefore leaving the principles of the doctrines of Christ that us go on unto Perfection not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of Faith toward god of the doctrine of baptisms and of laying on of hands and the resurrection of the dead and of Eternal judgment and this will we do if God permit or is impossible everyone say impossible for those who were once enlightened and have tasted say tasted of the Heavenly gift and were made partakers say partakers of the Holy Ghost and have tasted say that word again the good word of God and the powers of the world to come if they shall fall away to renew them again unto repentance seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God aresh and put him to an open shame I want to entitle this today our heritage would you pray with me sincerely before you are seated Lord Jesus today we stand in a magnificent atmosphere because you have graced it with your divine presence we have already heard from the word of the lord and there is great Contrition that has come upon our minds and our hearts we find ourselves today facing the end of the age and there are perilous times upon us and there is Cy a foot in this hour we pray now that because greater is he that is within us than he that is in the world that a spirit of Revelation and understanding will come in upon this congregation today and that the gift of faith in all of its power and perspective will be released here that angels will begin to walk among us and touch us individually and conglomerate we pray pray today in the mless resplendant name of Jesus Christ and everyone said amen the Lord bless you you may be seated I'd like us to clap just one more time because I like it and God likes it hallelujah hallu hallelujah

hallu hallu the reason that I ever came to God the reason that I ever came to believe in Jesus Christ as the Messiah was because a preacher preached it but that is not the thing that caused me to really believe it the thing that caused me to believe it was as he preached I felt the convicting power of the spirit of God and I was convinced by the convicting power of God that Jesus was God and that I needed him I was convinced by a conviction the reason that I came from another church to this one and was baptized in the name of Jesus Christ was because it was preached to me and the convicting power of God in that service persuaded me that I needed to be baptized in the name of Jesus it was not brother butcher it was not the local assembly that coerced me into it or forced me into it it was the spirit of God the convicting power of God persuaded me this was right the reason I began to raise my hands and seek the Lord for the baptism of the Holy Ghost even though had been told something different in the Evangelical Free Church the reason that I forsook that and began to reach for this is because it was preached and when it was preached the convicting power of God began to rep persuade my thinking and my mind and he told me it was true and it was necessary and so I received it the reason that I believed in Divine Healing is because it was preached and I had been terribly hurt in a car accident and because it was preached among you the spirit of God by his convicting power opened my heart and mind to the truth that healing was in the atonement and that it was not Antiquated but it was a reality in our day and I got it the reason that I began to pay ties consistently and give offerings is because it was preached to me from the word of the Lord and the convicting spirit of God in my life upon me individually persuaded me that this was a Bible precedent and a truth the reason that I began to practice Holiness in my life is because it was preached and what was preached was so different from what I had come out of it took me about a year to get it together even when I was in Bible School some of the faculty members tried to reers me from going in some of the directions I was going but it was not the church or the school that was doing this it was something that had been preached and the Holy Ghost opened my mind and my eyes to the need of Separation to come out from among them and be a separate people unto God and touch not the unclean thing and the promise was that he would receive me so what I saying today is this that everything we have ever received from God or everything that we ever will receive from God Has Come To Us by the convicting power of the spirit of the lord we are doing what we are doing today because the convicting spirit of God persuaded us mentally and emotionally that this thing was true that it was righteous and so we have forsaken houses and lands and mothers and fathers and positions and advocations and Lifestyles and we have come to a place like this to do one thing to give attestation to give Credence to give veneration to give loyalty to give worship to the king

of kings and to the Lord of lords whose name is Jesus of Nazareth of whose kingdom there shall never ever be an end in other words this that we feel today is going to go on and on and on and on and on it is never ever going to stop if you believe that clap your hands again and this time shout unto the Lord with the voice of Triumph for he is great and and he is greatly to be praised Hallelujah Jesus I have heard it preached during the years I have been in this 24 now I have heard it preached that the text I cited for you and read for you today means if a person ever really really backslides and by that they meant to really go out and just do it all they told me that you could never ever get back to God however I have lived long enough to understand and know that that is not really what the scriptures are dealing with there because I have seen too many people who really went out and did it all I have Stood Beside too many caskets and knew that they made it in the end resolved so it cannot mean to backslide it may be applicable but it is not the Crux of the matter it is not what God is trying to tell us there was a man who came to my church I pastored him he lived for God for a time he backslid when he backslid it was obvious right away to the fellow workers on the job that he was no longer living the way he had had once lived and they picked up on that and they will they picked up on that and they began to make fun of the church and he joined in with them and made such statements as there was nothing to it the Holy Ghost never really did anything for me just a bunch of jibber jabber and he marked this and he walked away from it willingly of his own valtion time came and went we had revivals people came through this man came back in atmosphere of faith and power he came to the altar again and he did what we call pray through weeks passed and suddenly he was missing again and he was gone he did not stick there was another woman who came to one of the churches I ped this girl lived for God for quite a while suddenly she backslid in the interum between my pastoring when I was evangelizing she came back to God but the reason that something happened for her that did not happen for this man is that when the fellow workers on the job picked up on her and began to make fun of Pentecostalism and our lifestyle and our dress modes and all of this she stopped them cold and she said I'm not living it she said don't you judge me she said but what they stand for she said and don't judge them by the way I'm living because they really have what they say they have and it really is real it's just that I'm not living it anymore time came and time went in a Revival she came and she gloriously prayed through and she is still living for God today why why did she make it and why did he not make it the reason is so because he committed the unpardonable he lost his convictions he lost the convictions that this thing was true and he mocked it and made fun of it and walked away but though she did not live it she never ever forgot that it was real she never stopped believing that this thing was true in her heart the convictions remained and she knew though she was not living it that this was the truth and when she came back she prayed through and she made it there was a woman who came to one Revival where I was she looked to me like a saint of God for all appearances she was a saint of God I did not know the congregation she came to the altar at the end of the preaching and for a moment I thought she was just a saint

the preacher came running to me he said brother the stone King that woman has been backslidden for 25 years I said you're kidding he said no I knelt down it took about 30 minutes but all of a sudden that woman began to pray through and she began to speak with tongues the thing that threw me was this that though she did not live it she still believed it in 25 years a pair of scissors had never touched her hair she had never stopped dressing this way she believed it her convictions were sound they were true she knew what God had told her one ear had been deaf from birth and when she began to speak with tongues that deaf ear snapped open and she was able to hear why does God do things like that he does things like that because we hold to his precepts and to his Concepts because his truth is from Everlasting to Everlasting it is amazing to me it's amazing to me this is the most treacherous hour that man has ever lived in but it is the greatest hour that man has ever lived in because as the forces of Darkness become darker the light is beginning to shine brighter and the glory of God is upon us but I warn you as a man of God if you ever lose your convictions if you ever allow anybody to talk you out of what God has painstakingly taken the time to teach you in the privacy of your own home at your bed with tears and groanings if you ever of your own free will lay down the Revelation and understanding of the Oneness of God baptism in Jesus name the Holy Ghost speaking with tongues or modesty and Holiness if you ever let go of it friend of mine it is impossible to ever renew you to repentance once you have ever let go of your convictions not backslide but once you let go of your convictions they will be gone from you forever and forever and forever and you will never ever get them back I have made up my mind this past year that no matter what anybody else does no matter what anybody else says no matter who says or doesn't say it this boy is not going to let go of one thing I'm going to hold on to everything that God has ever whispered in my ear more soundly more profoundly than I ever had in all of the years I have served God I'm not going to let go of it I don't care what you do but I know what I'm going to do I'm going to hold on to this because there is nothing like it that never has been that never will be again this is it this is it this is it this is it this is it I am persuaded I am persuaded that when God look how long he has worked with some of us to get us where we are what extense God has gone to to help some of us the years that he has painstakingly work with us put up with us been patient with us suffered with us and then all of a sudden one day you have so and so over tea or coffee or a hunting trip or whatever it is your thing is and God passes by and he hears you chatting talking I don't know if brother so and so is right I don't know if all this stuff is really necessary I don't think we have to do all of these things or he comes by and here's a couple preachers talking and after all he has done to help them after all he has done to raise them up after all the times he has picked them up and helped them years are working with us a couple preachers get together or two or three or four or five and he walks by and he hears them say I think if we just let down a few things we could build a church of a thousand I think if we just let go of a few things and we're not quite so strict here that we could just attract more people and God stops and he listens to that and there is an anger that rises up in his face there is something that begins to rise up in him and God becomes so provoked with that type of thing that one day he walks by and he says okay buddy you want to believe it I'll help you to believe it and he will send a strong delusion and you will believe a lie

there are five million people in this world and most of them have never heard the name of Jesus and but we fuss over dos and don'ts and I'm not going to there are over 125,000 Souls today that have dropped into the fires of hell a terrible scripture is written in Thessalonians 2 Thessalonians 2 says beginning at verse 9 even him speaking of the Antichrist whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish because they receive not the love of the truth people it's not enough to have the truth you got to love this it's not enough to have received it you got to love this we have got to love this because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved and for this cause what cause because they did not love the truth God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie that they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness people hear me it is one thing to be deceived by a fellow man you can come out of that you can work your way out of it you can pray your way out of it it's another thing to be deceived by the devil you can be delivered from that we can lay hands on you and you can be delivered but if God ever deceives you you're finished it's over if God ever deceives you it's over there is no hope toward the end of that hippie ERA with all the frumpy clothes and the beards and the mustaches and the long hair and everything else that went with it I was preaching evangelizing brother the Dunns I think who was here was with me at that time he was with me in that meeting I preached for brother Frank polling in Tage Ohio we were there the first week only eight got the holy ghost in the last meeting the first week 40 some had received the Holy Ghost and were the pulling I could tell was distressed because there were not as many people receiving the Holy Ghost in his meeting as in the meeting we had just conducted and the only reason the preachers ask evangelist to come preach for them is because they want the same results in their Church you got in the last Church you just left that's how it really is and so I knew that he wanted the same results that I had just received we fasted just as much we prayed more and we were doing the same type of thing I was preaching as hard as I could and working in the altar like I always do but nothing was happening and so I went to Brother paing I said brother paing you the pastor here you are sovereign this is your church I'm only an evangelist but I know what the problem is I know what the problem is I said if you will let me preach what I feel we will have a move of God I said if you would rather I didn't I said it's all right I can close it Sunday night and I have someplace else I can go I said but I know what the problem is he he said brother ston King you do anything you want to boy have at it that's all I need that's just all that I ever need I want you to know those people had no they were not prepared for what was coming I mean for the next two nights I went at it I went through everything that was sinful and worldly and I wiped the situation out so to speak by the end of the second night you see that whole crowd there were a bunch of new converts they had their frumpy clothes on they had their beads they had all kinds of St stuff and they had mascara and they had makeup and they had beards and they had mustaches and they had all of this stuff all of it the whole congregation looked that way at the end of the second night those men did not even wait for the barber shops to open the next morning they got together with brushes and shaving lather and razors and scissors and they began to go at it and the next night I didn't even recognize the crowd I mean they looked totally different but I can promise you as a man of God that week 64 people received the baptism of the Holy Ghost speaking with tongues why because God God God doesn't have to do that he doesn't have to put his hand of approval upon things like that but he does you know why he does because he wants it because he desires it because he has always desired it wherever there is God there is Holiness wherever God walks there must of necessity be Holiness he will not stay where there is unholiness he only walks where there is holiness what do you think would happen here in

Alexandria if brother Anthony Mangan came to this Pulpit God forbid and announced to this whole church after we're all gone we're going to do things differently here we are going to rip out all these beautiful pews and we're going to come to church and we're going to sit cross-legged on this floor and we're going to shave our heads and we're going to grow these long hairlocks from the top of our heads and we're going to wear orange kimona robes and we're going to pass out flowers now we're still going to carry our Bibles and we're still going to speak with tongues and we're still going to baptize in jesus' name and there's only one God but we're just going to change the rest of the format and we're going to come here and sit like this and we're going to sway and we're going to go back and forth and we're going to do all this stuff what do you think would happen I'll tell you what would happen the spirit of harri Krishna would come to this assembly the spirit of harri Krishna would come to this assembly and you would fight Devils unlike anything you have ever fought when we bring that that is out there into the sanctuary when you bring this world into the sanctuary you bring the spirits of the age into the sanctuary when you follow the trends and the Fashions of this world you bring those Spirits into the house of God and you're going to have to fight Devils we are not fighting people we are fighting spirits we are not fighting people we are fighting Spirits David werson wrote a book entitled purple violet squish he said quote to all my Minister friends around the world who want to reach the runaway generation you cannot win Rebels by being like them put away your childish talk God is Not groovy or hip and Christ is not a cool cat jargon does not make the gospel relevant it is still the simple preaching of the cross of Jesus Christ that leads to Redemption Take off Your Love beads and cookie clothes if you become a mixer you will get mixed up you'll not reach this generation by what you say but by what you are and by the way that you live may I say to you today there are people among us who are mixed up and others are becoming mixed up you cannot mix with the mixers and stay straight you cannot do it you will get mixed up because there are spirits that buy for this church there are spirits now trying to take us over but I am here to declare for this generation we will not be taken over we will not be taken over we will not be taken over we will not be taken over 2 Corinthians 11 beginning at verse 12 says but what I do that I will do that I may cut off occasion from them that desire occasion wherein their Glory they may be found even as we for such a false Apostles deceitful workers transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ he's talking there about Humanity but he goes on and says and no Marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of Light we don't think of the devil as being an illustrious ethereal gossam or mysterious angel of Light that is attractive we think of him in other ways Red Tails horns whatever we don't think of him being an angel but then listen to this therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be trans formed as the Ministers of righteousness whose end shall be according to their works we don't think about the devil having ministers ministers like Jesus has ministers going out and preaching we don't think of that but the Bible says that he does would you like me to tell you where you'll find a lot of them you will find them on quote unquote Christian radio and other places and the world the world is just reeling with all kinds of ideas the thing that is so devastating to us is that there are so many kinds of Christi Christianity in the beginning you were

either a Jew a heathen or a Christian and there was only one kind of Christian and if you said you're a Christian they knew automatically that you believe This Man Called Jesus was the Messiah that he was the one true God robed in flesh they knew that you also had been baptized in his name because the Christians have said he had risen from the dead they also knew that they spoke with tongues and the Believers laid hands on the sick and they went everywhere and nothing could stop them they knew what a Christian was in the beginning but you may not know what a Christian is in this hour if a person says I am a Christian you're going to have to ask them questions what kind of a Christian what kind of a Christian are you there are so many different kinds and people come along and say I have the truth and we say we have the truth what is the truth pilate want to know the Bible says in 1 John 4:1 try the spirits and see if they be of God I have never worked with that until this past year but I have worked with it I have worked with it I have worked with it let me tell you there are a lot of things that sound right there are a lot of things that look right but they are not right they go through the motions but they are not right I asked brother tww Barnes who is my wonderful friend he's a mentor to me brother Barnes I said brother Barnes how can some men whom I have heard preach so powerfully and so gloriously how how can they carry on when we have now discovered that they are living in sin he said brother Stone King when the Holy Ghost leaves a powerful Ministry there is another spirit that comes that replaces the Holy Ghost and he said that Spirit looks a great deal like the Holy Ghost and unless you are gifted in the spirit he said you will not realize it and you will not recognize it and they will carry on for a season God forbid God forbid that any of us God is in this place in this conference in a way he's never been so far and he is here to do something and he's going to do it I want to propose something to you if an army can capture a city why can't the church capture a city for Jesus the apostles turned their cities upside down Hitler of the most diabolical men Whoever has ever lived in History Adam Hitler if one man thre under the power of Satan could change the world for evil if Stalin under the power of evil forces from the region of damnation could March forth to enslave one half of the world's population weaving a 100 million Souls into the Vortex of Communism it is not it is not it is not unreasonable not presumptuous for me to say to you today that a man of God under the anointing of Faith inspired by a vision of God's power can stand forth to change the world world for God and right but I'm going to tell you how it will come it will come to those who stand for the simple truth that God has whispered in our ears through the centuries and through the generations that his people will be a peculiar people a treasure unto him above all the people of the earth popsy is it possible that your generation told us incorrectly is it possible that the things you have always stood for are now Obsolete and modernism should creep in on us I say nay and yay Amen to the Lord it is not it is not wrong what you have taught us it is not wrong what brother kilgore's father taught us it is not wrong it was right and it is still right ad uran was right and he is still right his son is right and he is still right for the ten you are right and you are still right we are right in this place let's clap again for the Lord and worship Him Hallelujah Jesus Hallelujah Jesus there is now a deported Guru who left Oregon who owned a fleet of rolls-royces I have seen his converts on Jets as I have crisscrossed the northern

part of the country in their frumpy clothes wearing these medallions with this guru's picture on their chest hanging from leather thongs around their necks when he would come on the scene they would fall to their faces full grown men and women and worship as he walked by they gave every scent that they had to him they sold their houses and their lands and they gave it all they were attracted to a power the Mormons you meet one you've met them all because they all feel just alike they've got the same Spirit the spirit of Moroni and yet their young people are a credit to this world they do a shame in some areas they come knocking on your door and knocking on my door and those kids save enough money in their high school years to putot their bill for two years on this soil and other soil they save their money they do not squander in hamburgers and hamburger joints they save it to support themselves for two years to do missionary work to propagate that damnable Doctrine they do it and they walk your streets and they walk my streets and they ride bicycles and they eat macaroni and cheese because it will sustain them for two years we do not ask you to do what that Guru ask his followers to do we do not ask our young people to save their money and to propagate for two years at their own expense crisscrossing this country and the nations of the earth we do not do it that Jehovah Witnesses believe that unless they go door too there is no way for them to be saved it's connected in New York an old man he is an albino his skin is white his eyes are pink like a rabbit he wears a huge hat in the summertime and glasses to protect himself I met him on the street one day I said to him what are you doing he said oh I'm a witness I said no you're not I'm a witness I'm the real Jehovah Witness you're not I am and that's how it really is they're not the Jehovah Witnesses we are the Jehovah Witnesses we are the real Jehovah Witnesses and I began to testify to him he said but sir I've got to do this he said I've got to do this he said because if I don't my soul will be lost we do not command you to go door too and then the har christas which I've already given you a mental picture of them they dress the way they dress shave their heads and if you've ever seen pictures of them they've got this yellow streak going down their forehead you know what that is liquid calor because they worship the Brahman Bull and their leaders pour that stuff on their foreheads and it runs off their nose that is Darkness that is Darkness how is it that people will do all of these things for these other religions I'll tell you why they do it because there's a power there are spirits of power that get a hold of them and it persuades them to live the way that they live they give up everything the power of demons gets a hold of them and I have met some of them they attract the children of the wealthy the int seual college students go through all those things and dress that way I was in New York City in Manhattan a bunch of them were dancing on the street corner beating drums one boy's eyes were glassy and he was beginning to froth with the mouth it was in the summertime he was chanting just out of his Head har Krishna har Krishna beating a drum and dancing up and down I walked over to them and I said what are you people doing here they said we're bringing peace to the city I said manam this is not peace this is mass confusion I can bring you peace because I know the Prince of Peace I know the one I know the one who is the Prince of Peace his name is Jesus they did not want to hear that people if there was ever a day when we ought to come out of our shell and out of our places and out of our hiding situations we ought to come out now and stand up straight and call and say I am one of them I believe I believe you've got to repent I believe you've got to go to water in Jesus name yes Jesus is the Messiah he is the only true son of the Living God his name is Jesus he is the invisible made visible here oh Israel the Lord our God is one there is only one God his name is Jesus yes you've got to go to water in Jesus name you've got to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost speaking with tongues you've got to have it you've got to have it this is the hour to do it what we need and I have said all of that to say

this what we need now is the power of God we've got everything else and everything else is not even sufficient for some of our people they're tired of the barriers they're tired of the fences and it's not enough the power you see a lot of things that we have termed as revivals in the past really were not revivals they were reformations within four walls Revival is when the spirit of God goes out into the streets and highways and begins to tug at your neighbor's heart in the night time and they cannot stay away from the house of God and they begin to come and when the preaching Goes Forth they begin to repent and cry and they are converted that is Revival likewise a lot of things we have in our services we think sometimes because people leap and shout and run and speak with tongues and clap and fall out that we've had a powerful service and we probably have not had a powerful service at all we've only had a joyful service the joy of the Lord will cause you to leap for Joy cause you to dance to wave your hands to worship God the joy of the Lord will do that and we've got to have it because the joy of the Lord is our strength we need to clap we need to to walk we need to pray in the spirit we need to suddenly just explode go 40 directions yeah because it strengthens us it helps us but what we really need is the power of God when the power of God comes into a service when the real power not the joy but when the power of God comes into the service what happens is sinners begin to convulse with Contrition conviction they begin to cry and give the back ofus because they feel something and they can't fight it they can't fight it and the devil begins to loosen his tentacles on individuals and they begin to run to an altar and they begin to cry out to God the power of God will cause people to suddenly stand at their feet out of wheelchairs the power of God God will cause people to throw down crutches the power of God will cause Saints to fall on their faces and begin to moan and groan as the glory of the Holy One walks among ush as the power of God begins to sweep through ush what we need in our day is not more joy not more dancing and shouting but we need now the real power of God to come in Among Us we need the gifts of the Spirit in full operation we need the gift of faith and by that I mean when the spirit of God become so pleased with our platform that he himself is now free to walk into the sanctuary and to do his own ministering among the people he can walk the aisles himself there's no Acclaim brought to any individual it's just him out there and you it's just him out there in you right there where your seed suddenly he comes in on the scene and suddenly the pain disappears and the leg begins to grow and the arm be become straightened and the headache goes away and Angels begin to filter in when that type of thing happens when the real gift of faith begins to operate Angels suddenly come through the walls let him bother to come through the doors they just come to the walls and through the ceiling and they begin to walk among you and minister in among you and suddenly where you are seated with your own faith something touches you and a spine straightens I'm telling you it is beginning to happen all over this country all over this country in this hour the gift of faith and the laying out of hands is becoming Unleashed among our preachers and among our people because it is the end of the age and you're going to see one of the greatest moves of God you have ever seen in the history of mankind because the building of the latter house is going to be greater than the former and the latter rain is going to be seven times greater than the former rain it's not going to be 3,000 it's going to be 21,000 it's going to be 21,000 in one day receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost I'm telling you tonight we are not going to have anything less than a real book of Acts Revival which timeses and wonders following would you clap again and loosen yourself for what is about to happen in this