The Prodigal Son
by Marrell Cornwell
2006 · Alabama Revival Conference
Kind: conference session
Scripture: Luke 15:11-12, Luke 13, Luke 13:6-9, Jeremiah 2:13

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brother God wouldn't tried to run off the Lord brought him back hallelujah brother Emory we will know he is reading my notes and when he gets to where he's talked about the turbo morons hallelujah I used to think people can be really stupid now they are turbo stupid and so I have to update my notes every once in a while amen now I'm gonna go to the Book of Luke chapter 15 and I am going to continue a little bit about what I started yesterday and I'm very glad to have my daughter and son-in-law brother and sister chance pastoring in Jonesboro Arkansas they drove all the way down here just to hear his father-in-law preach and I'm glad he got to come because he got to hear brother Emery and brother Clark last night and brother Godwin I don't know if y'all know it but I believe brother Godwin has the highest IQ of any evangelist that I know I like to tell people my IQ is only eighty and brother Godwin's IQ is 120 I like to say we have an average IQ of a hundred Alleluia amen the Book of Luke chapter 15 and verse number 11 and he said a certain man had two sons and the younger of them said to his father father give me the portion of goods that falleth to me and he divided unto them his living the prodigal son lived an extravagant you may be seated lived a very extravagant and wasteful lifestyle it has not said anything at all about the elder brother until he comes home but in this story is it's not the story of one prodigal it is the story of two prodigal 'he's the younger son wasted all with riotous living the second son done nothing with his and so they both were equal in that the money was wasted in one and it was hidden under a napkin and another and before you overly condemn the prodigal be careful that you do not hide your talent in the ground and when the master comes and he gives a we give a rendering of what we've done with it that we haven't hidden what God has given to us because he has divided unto us his living can I have an amen and there I would like to think that the prodigal son just suddenly jumps off the page in Luke chapter 15 but the truth of the matter is you do not become prodigal overnight I haven't heard it said it was preached to me when I first got saved that you do not backslide overnight and the more I study the word and more I have revelations from the Lord the more I am convinced that backsliding is so subtle and so slow that many times we do not even recognize that we backslide and in the United Pentecostal church in particular I cannot speak of other groups because I'm not a member of other groups but in our churches across North America the horrible truth is that we have more backslider sitting on our pew in leadership than we have on fire people

of God the problem is we do not know nor understand that we are backslidden and when we do not release our pulpit and allow the man of God that we bring in to preach without fear or favor are compromised there is a danger and only having people preach that you like Amen you will never have revival only preaching people that you like almost say that again you're not listening you're not hearing me early on amen praise God if you only allow preachers to preach for you that you 100% totally agree with you'll never have apostolic revival you will never have revival always wearing the silk neckties slick suit preacher that will only preach what you want him to preach amen praise God and as long as we have pulpit committees hey I'm 56 years old I'm gonna say what I want to say if y'all want my card y'all can take it but as long as we have pulpit committees that look that that sit around and discuss me and who they want the preach and one man has a veto power cuz he doesn't like this man and this one doesn't like that man and we only have to have generic preaching at our conferences we're never gonna have revival we need to hear what thus saith the Lord and I got a feeling God got his hand on this boat and he's gonna rock the boat if you fall out a boat you just better have a life preserver on because we're moving on I was preaching installation service and in a district north south east and west of here and the man was out of my church and it was his first pastor it and he was voted in as pastor the church lacked a lot of doctrinal beliefs and he was going to have a rough road to hope and he asked me to come install him as the pastor preached the installation service and so I prayed and I went and lo and behold there were three district superintendents that was at this particular installation service the district pastor was there and two other visiting district superintendents that this man had some kind of relationship with they showed up for the installation service and I found myself between a rock and a hard place and because I was not expecting I mean I was invited to install him but I it was a small insignificant Church I was not expecting three three bishops to show up or three superintendents to show up and until I realized and I didn't even realize that that there was a world-famous golf course pretty close to the church I don't play golf I have ADHD and I can play three holes and that that I just want to get in that cart and run all over the golf course riding that golf course a lot more fun and trying to hit that stupid ball phrase got it and and I do wonderful four three holes and then my mind gets the wandering praise God it's the boringest game ever invented and I'm gonna tell you got to have a TD to pastor a church and if you don't have a DD what a boring life you must live praise God and so I they had the preliminaries that I set this young couple down on the front row and I cleared off the front row and I said I want y'all to sit here alone on this front row and I said you have asked me to install you and you have asked me to give instructions on what it's going to take for you to have revival in this particular city in this particular setting and and so on and so forth and I said I I appreciate all of you that are here you're gonna have the privilege of listening to me preach to this family alone and I said now I want

the church family to come and get in the few pews right here behind of this pastor because I in particularly want you to make sure you understand what I am saying to your pastor he has said that I am his bishop and that he has submitted himself to me and I have some very pointed things that I'm going to be saying I'm not saying these to our visitors I'm not saying them to you as the congregation I'm only giving instructions to this man and this woman and so I started and I talked about first of all you need to be concrete on what you believe because I said the people behind you they have scattered remnants of doctrine and and and you're gonna have to solidify the doctrine of this church and make it very clear what you expect and what you stand for and I don't want you wavering off of what you've been taught and what you know and what you know in the spirit I said because the first time I catch you wavering on what you have been taught I'll be on you like a duck after a junebug you're not gonna compromise to grow this church you are baptized in Jesus name you are filled with the Holy Ghost you believe in holiness and I'm expecting you as your Bishop to preach what you have been taught you're to do it with wisdom and grace and knowledge and mercy now if more of us would install pastors like this we would have much stronger churches in what we have but when you take a church under a compromised situation you're gonna compromise your ministry the rest of your life and and I've talked about that and I said now you have many friends it is obvious that you have many friends and I said I'm wondering if you have these many friend because I doesn't meaning hears that I pastored you I never knew that you had these friends because they never come to see you but I said suddenly you are now pastoring and all these men are interested in coming to see you I said are you sure they've come to see you or is there a Golf Course next door I said I'm forbidding you to pick up a golf club for the next three years I don't get with you play golf or not but I said the first three years you're here if you don't have revival I want you to resign and go take another Church someplace else because you got three years to prove whether you're called here are not called here and you cannot find that out playing golf course whatever Tom Dick and Harry that shows up in your town I said it's gonna be amazing you're in a vacation area you're you're in a world-famous golf place and and I said obviously you gonna have friends come out of the woodwork and and they gonna take a vacation they gonna show up in town they gonna want you to take them to dinner and they gonna hand that you should take them golfing and you'll be playing golf four and five days a week so and I installed him along I was only talking to him I wasn't talking to everybody else they just had the privilege of listening and so after the service was over and the Holy Ghost did fall and that church fell on their knees and and God has started giving that young man great revival he has solidified the doctrine he didn't lose anybody by solidifying the doctrine he has gained a great number of people and the church is growing and and and so on but I never will forget as we left them the platform and we was going back to the pastor's office for the reception I had three reactions from the superintendent's that were there first of all one superintendent came to me with tears rolling off of his face that's just if they were dripping off on his shirt and and he grabbed me and he said pastor he said would you please come preach that message to our entire district he said oh my god I've never heard anything like that would be such a help to our own district pastors he said please he's a jerk that his book he said I need you to give me a date right now he said he said I'm going home and we gonna start advertising he said I'm gonna have every pastor every advantage that I can get at this meeting and I was I was deeply moved by that and then the second superintendent I went around the corner headed to the office and he grabbed my arm by the elbow and swung me around

he said has anybody ever called you a loose cannon I said a loose Kent what is a loose cannon I said no nobody's ever called me a loose cannon I'm calling you all loose cannon I've never heard such a degradable sermon in my entire life I said sir I wasn't preaching it to you I said I was preaching it to my own kids you had the privilege to listen he said I want you to know you'll never preach in my district I said that's okay I've been kicked out of other districts before like work my feelings I'm gonna tell you something there comes a time when you get so old that you feel like you got a right to preach wherever you go and I'm not gonna change my message no matter what district I'm in or who lights or who doesn't like it I'm not trying to be arrogant I'm trying to say there's long we got a little pulpit committee so that can select and choose generic preachers to preach for us we're never gonna have revival and we'll never have revival with only our Friends of preaching for us and the third superintendent shook my hand nice walked out no comment he's already forgot the sermon forgot the service he it was just he was just out of there at a performance didn't move him either way one way or the other so preaching has a way of stinging you blessing you are you ignoring it it all depends on what you want from God and how carnal you are I want God to speak to me if it takes us a memory calling me a then brother Emory call me a if it takes brother Godwin to point his finger at me and say you lazy pastor get off your haunches and get to work then that's what I need but I need something too big under my fifth wheel but until I am moved by the Spirit of God it is so easy in this hour to become shells up to become numb to what's going on around us right now one of the greatest crisis is going on in the Middle East in the last 23 years it's about to break out into an all-out war China is going to get involved Russia is going to get involved other nations are going to get involved it's about to plunge us into one of the worst economic chaos is in the history of mankind but we're shell-shocked we're numb because it happened so many times it's just another time and we hear so many sermons that we don't hear a sermon anymore and we live in a world that nothing shocks us anymore it doesn't matter who turns into a queer who's adulterer or who's a monger it's just life as it is but if it is a we need something to stir us we all need to hear the voice of the holy spirit in this hour because we do not know ourselves okay you're missing a good point right here we need men of God to point out to preach straight and narrow and under the anointing of the Holy Spirit because we do not know our selves we are numb to the things around us and we need the Holy Spirit to point us how dig us up and shake us loose we must have revival in this hour can I have it amen and we're not going to have revival list of your things that we only want to hear we got to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is concerned about your city he's concerned about your church he's concerned about this state and God is concerned about the condition of America wake up ladies and gentlemen we're on the verge of revival and we're on the verge of destruction at the same time men of God stand up and preach in this hour now this is not the hour to let down now I'm gonna give you a concrete example of what I'm talking about in 1967 when I went away to college I took a a world history course and the professor was not religious by

any means for fact he was probably agnostic and but I never will forget a lecture one particular lecture that this professor gave and he had done a study of 3,000 fallen societies 3,000 societies that have been in existence that are no longer in existence today and he said we tried to find trends that caused societies to fail and to be destroyed he said all of us on the research committee came to the same conclusion because there was only one single thread that wolve its way through all 3000 of those societies because we're taking notes and and and I'm just a very young college student and I didn't realize the impact that the next statement was gonna make on me he said every society of antiquity that has fallen it was when they was an acceptance of homosexuality and I thought what he said there are a lot of mitigating circumstances involved in all of these societies but the only single thread that wool its way through all 3,000 societies was the acceptance of homosexuality and and so I just put that in the back of my mind and I kept it there because at that time homosexuals are not everywhere perfect I went to high school and we only suspected one boy of being a homosexual and turned out he wasn't a homosexual and but we made his life miserable praise God and we wouldn't have the hold of you we wouldn't compassionate back in those days and but as society has gone along and the sexual revolution happened and the drug culture has become a great part of us and liberalism has taken hold of America all of a sudden we're faced face to face with same-sex marriages and-and-and the homosexual thought they had made such inroads into America that that they could take over America with their laws and and and that we would just simply accept homosexuality as an alternate lifestyle you cannot discriminate against them and don't be meaner I'm not gay bashing here this morning I'm just not just giving you some facts here but something started happening somewhere in the in the early 90s revival started coming back to America we never heard of megachurches and all of a sudden the mainline denominations started going down and the Pentecostals of all persuasions started rising to the forefront the largest television ministries of on television are now Pentecostal quote/unquote I'm not saying that I agree with their doctor I'm just making a point here okay and all of a sudden people started praying and and in these kind of confidence started springing up all over America we never used to have Alabama revival conference in Kentucky revival comforts and impact and because the times and and and and on gold conference and this conference and now almost every district is having them and now almost every church is starting to have revival conferences and we're becoming aware and all of a sudden we started waking up as Christian America and we started blocking our brakes and said we have gone as far as we're going to go one of the reasons I believe that there's gonna be a nationwide outpouring of the Holy Ghost and a nationwide revival is because now our legislatures of our legislating that gay marriage is not the order of the day and they're voting it down praise God and we have turned the tide limit listen to me America has turned the tide don't look around at what's going on individually around the other nation but look at the whole thing we have turned the tide and said we have gone as far as we are going to go and when that happens the pendulum starts swinging the other way the second phenomenon that's happening among us is that look around at your young people that's coming to church many of them are coming to church without their parents and they are living for God they are adjusting to the standards and they're saying look I know my mother and dad have a lifestyle but it didn't work for Helena and I don't want to follow the same route they're going I wanna live for God and they're becoming preachers and evangelists and pastors and we have turned the tide of liberalism and God is going to bring revival to America but it's not going to

combine and beep and be preaching it's not gonna come through Milko sermon it's gonna come through strong men of God then I stand in the pulpit and not compromise and not give him but say God's on my side please listen to me God is not our enemy he is on my side amen now I said there were 10 steps that the prodigal son took on his way down number one he listened to the wrong voices show me anybody that has dropped out of the United Pentecostal church has gone liberal gone the ways of the liberal Pentecostals they always say that our wholeness is keeping it small our doctrine is to define it's too narrow on and on if we let down we're gonna grow by leaps and now there's not one preacher that has ever left us that has gone up not one it never will happen praise God you can't leave reveal truth and go back to darkness and see your way through life they all when it all comes down to it they got to listening to the wrong boss because they had hangups in their own they was offended they got hurt whatever they had a hang-up no I and and I don't want to reap reach what I preach just a but to say this you need to search out what hangups that you have and you better deal with those hang-ups before those hang-ups take you to the wrong voice secondly there was a home set of covetousness and they began to covet things like they had never coveted before and number three they changed their priorities in life there are some priorities that cannot change my family is too important for my priorities to change I love my family I want my family to be saved I want my family to know the truth can I have a witness somebody my doctrine is too important to change here o Israel the Lord our God is only one Lord I'm not changing that I'm not gonna veer off of that can I have a witness praise God my church is a priority in my life it is my job to make sure my church stays strong for my children and not only my children but my grandchildren I do not want to wake up one morning when I'm 80 years old and and my great-grandchildren and my grandchildren come in with shorts on and halter tops and half-naked with earrings hanging all over their body and their body pierced and tattooed all over and say praise the Lord grandpa it's your job to make sure church stays strong every time you attack your church you are sending your kids to hell I said every time you speak against your pastor and against Authority you are sending your grandkids straight to hell huh I didn't get near admitting a mess I thought I'd gonna get out of there praise God you better be careful about leaving a church and starting a church someplace else and then building your church out of your home congregation by your proselyting you better be careful about somebody telling you how bad your preacher is because they're setting you up for reprobation they're setting you up for apostasy they're trying to sheep steal that ain't about right that's exactly right and then the fourth one that I mentioned yesterday was the onset of pride when they tried to compare themselves with people who are having calamities Luke chapter 13 says of that do you think that they were worse sinners because the Tower of Siloam failed or become a pilot maker of their blood with their sacrifices he said you think they were sinners above all sinners because such things happened to them he said nay but except you repent you shall all likewise perish now when

you start comparing yourself with your brother when you start comparing your church with your neighbors Church when you start comparing your ministry with your neighbors ministry and you have as always yours is always better than your neighbors you're always better than your brothers and sisters you sent your own self up as a sole authority of what is and what is not and that simply indicates that you can no longer be pastored you say well preacher who's over you I thought she was never going to ask that because I do have mentors in my life I have people of strong authority in my life I was I was evangelist for a number of years and the Lord has struck to me to take the church in Lake Charles Louisiana and the church in Lake Charles was in a nosedive and had gotten down to about 70 people and I showed up as pastor and immediately started to work and praying and and fasting and door-knocking and Bible studies and in less than two years we had taken the church from average in about 70 to averaging about 355 I think that was our average the month that I resigned and we was rockin and rollin we for a fact we prayed a good number of pastors through that are pastoring now in the United Pentecostal church and and so one night after Sunday night church I was in my office and the phone rang and a an evangelist call me he said brother Coyle I am in town across the river from you he said I need to meet with you tonight he said I want you to come along don't bring your wife I need you I got some serious thing I want to talk to you about and so I sent my wife and children home and I drove across the river we sit down at a Pizza Inn and he was a very grey person and I it looked like he was worried about something and I sit down and we had a pizza and we were talking and I said okay what's on your mind he said I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you something he said you are to resign Lake Charles Wednesday night why'd y'all get quiet I knew this evangelist I knew he was a man of God I knew him very closely and I said why do you think I ought to resign I said I'm not arguing I said I just want to know why he said I've been praying for you for days and he said the Holy Spirit spoke to me and told me to call you and meet with you and tell you you need to resign Lake Charles Wednesday night we have taken a church from 72 averaging over 350 in two years we was rocking and rolling and do you think I'm gonna listen to some pipsqueak evangelist that keening preached good enough to Pastor a church what a shame I can't pastor by myself I'm not going pastor without me and a God coming and preaching to me and I said are you sure the Lord spoke to you he said he said this is nothing to me he said I'm just telling you what the Lord spoke to me and he said I don't know why God wants you to resign and he said you're doing well he said I'm not gonna rush in and try out the church I'm an evangelist I don't want a church he had no ulterior motive and so I went home and I told my wife I said here's what the man of God told me he said I was to resign on Wednesday night and I said what do you think you know your wife is your partner and the Bible says obey them to have the rule over you you ought to start listening to her I was faced with the fact am I still able to be pastored and she said if the man of God told you there must be a higher purpose and so Wednesday night we went to church

and wouldn't you believe that everybody and his neighbor showed up why wouldn't everybody absent like they normally are on Wednesday night and I got up and I sang my two favorite song there is joy and muscle since the Lord made me whole gave me peace that the world couldn't give I rejoice evermore and I sang solo two songs I'd never done that before and they knew something was up and so I got up and I said I'm gonna do something it's the hardest thing I've ever done in my entire life but I must resign tonight the Holy Ghost says I've got to resign and we did and we walked out we got in our car and we drove out of town because I could not handle the emotional trauma when I got back to town on Saturday morning there was a phone call on my recorder deal Stanford said brother corn well I need you to return this phone call immediately and so I did not know who deal Stanford was I did not recognize the number didn't know where he called from and so I I called the Elle Stanford he said brother corn well we want you to come and try out for Wichita I said how did you know that I had resigned my church he said I did not know you'd resign you see I have this personal conviction that you do not try out for a church when you're pastoring one that's like committing adultery you don't like the woman you went out with dumped her and come back to your wife you fall in love with her all over again I said how did you know I read he says I did not know I said you what word you want me to try out he said Wichita Kansas I said well where's Wichita Kansas I had heard of Wichita Falls Texas but never what you're talking I did never dawned on me that there was a Wichita Kansas and and so I said okay so we went to Wichita and we got outside the city limits of Wichita that was a sign that said Wichita Kansas 300,000 and God had spoke to me two years but for before I took the church in Lake Charles that he was going to send me up to a city of 300,000 and there I would find my life's work and God was gonna pour out the Holy Ghost and when I saw that sign I started weeping and I knew now why the man of God came and told me to resign I would have never resigned on my own but I thank God that I had a pastor in my life I didn't say any Tom Dick and Harry came by I said a man that I had submitted myself to k-9 praise God we all need a pastor I don't care how long we pastored how long we live for God you do not get too old to need a pastor a man of God you need a pastor more than to bury you you need a man of God to lead you and to guide you the prodigal son has just fired his pastor we all have a preacher in our life but we are fired our pastor you better be careful about firing the pastor and just having a preacher in your life somebody that feels the pulpit in the congregation where you go to church that's not the church that's not the will of God you've got to have a pastor a shepherd cannot have a witness somebody now here's what happens in the next step and I'm gonna I'm not gonna preach very lengthy here here's what happens in the next step when we lose our ability to be pastored we lose our productivity we are people sitting on our pews that have never invited anybody to church all they know how to do is tell the preacher what they can and can't do in Luke chapter 13 verse six he's picked this parable a certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard and he came and sought fruit thereon and found none

then said he to the dresser of the vineyard behold these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none cut it down why comer if it the ground and and the man said unto Him Lord let it along this year till I shall dig about it and dung it and if it bear fruit well and if not then after that I shall cut it down I have people that I pastor in my church that are non entities they are not going to be productive they cannot be pastored they do what they want to do when they want to do it they seem to all migrated in one corner of the church called the carnal corner you there's not a preacher I've had preacher after preacher I've had the greatest preachers in Pentecost and and they still will not move out of that corner you cannot get them to the altar I do not ever see them bowing their knee they have never shed tears you know what happens is that if that they came a time when the Lord came to find fruit on he didn't find fruit and God said cut it down and somebody pleaded with the dresser let me dig about it for one more year but the digging and the fertilization did not help them and they are nothing more than living dead Saints when you cannot be pastored you will lose your ability to produce fruit we need some fruit producers today can I have an email everybody may not teach a Bible study everybody may not drive a bus or have a bus route it might not be a follow-up visitation everybody might not teach a Sunday School class or whatever but you got to be involved in the work of God in some way it's not the will of God come on Sunday morning and sit in church for one hour and walk out and leave and think you have done God a good service you are a non fruit producer and sooner or later somebody is gonna dig you out of the church and you're gonna be left high and dry especially at a time when you need God the worse now let me talk about our production for just a moment if I can give me about three more minutes here praise God number one one of the things that we lose in production is our prayer life changes when I got saved we prayed all the time praise God for a fact we depended on prayer we depend on prayer to pay our car payment we depend on prayer to have groceries on our table can I have a witness somebody I don't have to pray about groceries anymore and I don't have to pray about pay my car payment anymore but that doesn't mean I still don't have to pray I have to pray God we've got to have revival God we've got to have an outpouring of the Holy Ghost gonna we've got to do this and God we've got to do that you got to help us God I'm on a higher plane than I was then but I'm still in need of prayer if I lose my pastor I won't have a need to play anymore when I went to Wichita one of the main meaning of our church became very agitated our church had had three church splits in a six-month period of time before I came and we had lost more than 3/4 of our congregation and and the people that was left was very very depressed and old pressed nobody came to church and smiled anymore I cannot stand for people to come the house they got without putting a smile on their face if you're going to be a Christian at least show it sometime and if you're happy inform your face that you're happy I watch some of you when I said that you was trying to smile and I said it hey who told you you could borrow that Missouri mule can I have a witness and so I started calling it all I got to do is pray so I called prayer meeting we had prayer before church and we wouldn't get any results and so I started calling Monday night prayer meeting and we still would get results so I had his Saturday night / Mead so was having church but a prayer before church on Monday night and on Saturday night and we started having a breakthrough very slight at first but we started having a breakthrough you cannot reach people God has to move in before you can reach them and this main man came to me and he was very agitated he said he's a brother call he said I'm tired of all of these prayer meetings and I said well why would you be tired I haven't seen you at any of them he said

I don't have time to go to prayer he said all this praying is foolishness and I and I got to realize it 1 2 3 4 I had seen the steps now of his life and I realized that that I was not his pastor and the previous pastor was not his pastor he was like a while as the snuff at the wind at his own pleasure you better be careful about being a wild ass that sniffs the wind that's your own pleasure that's Scripture by the way Jeremiah 2:13 hallelujah we are not Islands into ourself we are a body fitly framed together I'm talking to pastors and churches and saints you are not an island out there by yourself you better join up with some more preachers you better join up with some more churches and realize that if you have revival by yourself you'll die by yourself we are a body fitly framed together we fellowship on the basis of common ground a baptism in the name of Jesus the outpouring of the Holy Ghost and a wholeness tendered that we all agree on praise God you better be careful about thinking you're the only one right because you're the only secondly we lose our burden for our church to grow and win souls to God we no longer are productive our church we don't care what our church grows or doesn't grow I'm gonna tell you something it bothers me when our church not growing it eats my lunch when my church is not growing I don't know about you but I get weary with preaching the same old cabbage head Sunday after Sunday that won't move praise God if they won't move and you move them pick up the pulpit throw it out there blend it bust in a thousand pieces take a few chairs off a platform flip them out in the congregation kick over the sound system my god get mad but do something to help your church move praise God what if they fire me then then by you well these tripod deer stands and set up just off the property praise God and buy you a 500 watt PA system and get you a single microphone and you stand up that deer stand and you preach hail fire and brimstone until the pain is called off that building but don't let just die and go to hell without at least trying we got to have revival we've got to revive our dead churches we've got to revive our dead Saints let's all stand together I'll be seated I got two more things here number three missions becomes unimportant and it isn't you don't have a right to exist unless you give money in the offering plate for missions I don't care if your church runs 15 or 15 thousand if you don't have a burden worldwide you don't have a burden at all amen it's a shame that our missionaries have to travel 18 months to 24 months and sometimes 30 months to raise a P I am pledged to get on a mission field well we got more money than we've ever had not a lot but we won't give a dime commissions I thank God for our missionaries they go where I cannot go they go where I don't want to go but they go where I've got a burden to go and they'll go for me praise God if they're gonna go for me I've got a support mission praise God you say I cannot afford to support a missionary you cannot afford not to support a missionary because when God when God wants a missionary to go and we send him we are going to be blessed of God for it somebody said amen number four we no longer care about helping others you know let's Stan I'm quitting I'm me rephrase it I'm stopping I'm not quitting we have we have eight men in

our church that claim to be and they wear neckties and suits every Sunday and they look as normal as you and I I give the altar call they all stand up in unison they all turn they all march out of the pew and they all come to the altar they all come up there with a grin on her face they're mentally they are and so every service they was at the altar and and and they'd come up while I was preaching they didn't they don't want to altar call this or they don't understand that I'm better than Billy Graham and so I have a man sitting on each side of them and I tell them I said keep them in the pew till I give the altar call then get out of their way here they come praise God and I noticed some of our people in the carnal corner it was disturbing because we got eight men in our church actually we got more than that that's the ones that claim to be I got I got a heavyset girl in our church she's very very overweight and and she is a little bit her elevator got stuck between floors and she's very large and she wears skin tight stretch pants now you can imagine the worst and it's worse than that and she sits on the front row and I got another boy that he's just semi-retarded and he sits a little ways from her and you know to the average person it looks pretty shambled and so I had a committee a self-appointed committee came to me and said we need to do something about these people that's coming to our church I said what do you mean said no those guys are instead our bus picks them up and in that fat girl on the front row she's embarrassing us I said she doesn't embarrass me I said why she should embarrass you I said what do you think we are I said you think this is a local Golf Club you think we're who's who in Wichita I said nobody else loves them if we don't love them who's gonna care for and I said we're not only gonna love them we're gonna treat them right and you're not gonna mistreat them and I said when they have to leave I'm out of here folks we're not trying to be the top society Church in town God called us to love people and one of the signs you have lost your productivity is when you don't have a gut gall grits and grace to minister to people that's not like you and you know what as long as I'm treating those folks right God's just keep sending the good folk praise God he keeps hitting peoples got money he keeps hitting people's got cash he keeps people sending people's got tire than to pay I get so sick at some of our fancy churches it's just absolute makes me nauseated we all got the same color folks in our church and nobody else is welcome my god we had a Filipino lady move to our church and got the Holy Ghost and got baptized and she started reaching Filipino people and I thought my god in the next life I want to come back to the Filipino and then we have a black lady that came to church and and and and she Jukes and my god she gets with a program and she leads our choir and and and I thought no I said I want to come back and sister zine the next time and then we had a bunch of Mexicans pray through praise God thank God from Mexicans praise God and we had so many Mexican come that are illegal and and so on and so forth we devised a plan to get them out in case immigration comes and and and and found it we found it pray to a guy through and he and he could preach a little bit and so we shut our gymnasium down and we built an auditorium and I gymnasium and now we have a hundred and forty five Mexican horsemen in our gym on Sunday morning we have a Filipino Church with over a hundred Filipinos 40% of our

church is black and the rest of us are all things in between this is not an Alabama Church this is God's church reach for the Hispanic reach for the person that's not like you reach for the Filipino did you know that the greatest worldwide revival in the world is taking place among Filipino people the church in Spain is Filipino the church in Italy is Filipino the church in Europe is Filipino we gotta reach everybody any way we can for Jesus father I pray for the great state of Alabama well this district has made more changes than any district I have ever been in god this that this district is so easy to preach to and God the people are so hungry for the spirit I pray now but you would move upon every pastor every sane of God that not only is here buts gonna listen to this tape open a heart God remove Oh God anything that's not like you Oh God let me have a pastor again god I don't want to be rebellious or stubborn but old God I want to be clay in the hands of the Potter take me back to the potter's house Lord take me back let me turn around before I find myself in the Pigpen Oh God please Lord in the name of Jesus Lord let me turn around let me turn around let me turn around let me turn around oh god I don't want you to divide inheritance with me oh god I want you to keep the inheritance in tax and oh god I'm gonna receive it one day but oh God let me fall let me follow you hallelujah if you're here and you got a burden for souls if you got a burden to reach somebody if you got a burn for you to get to heaven I want you to come and stand around the front with me for just a moment praise God hallelujah both inaudible sorry inaudible Korea kilo motor vehicle a bush under the Arabic or a tiara hallelu halleluya praise God praise God praise God praise God praise God you see when we lose our productivity we then lose our compassion hallelujah when we lose our compassion on the poor when we lose our compassion for the afflicted when we lose our pet compassion for missions and outreach and bus ministry and Bible studies when we lose our compassion then we become blind God lets blindness city and I don't want to lose my compassion I don't want to become blind Lord there's no use to see if there's no compassion hallelujah hallelujah when we lose our compassion we turn blind and we become blind we become critics and judgmental but test something some of us are already at step number eight we're already critical and judgmental of everything that's going on I'm gonna taste them you didn't just aren't being critical you went to all the other steps before you got there praise God you better turn around before it's too late I said you better turn around before it's too late I said you better turn around before it's too late and after you the next step is that you start getting preeminence you start feeling like everything got a sinner around you around your church around your family just arounds you I don't want the spirit of preeminence I'm here because you asked me to come I'm not better than you telling I wanted minister to us today we don't need the spirit of preeminence and after preeminence comes death and what you it's too late I want you lift your head and say God find that in the mouth of two or three