Bearing Fruit Out Of Season
by Ray Johnson
1988 · The Pentecostals of Alexandria, Alexandria, LA
Kind: conference session
Scripture: Revelation 2:1-3, Revelation 3:14-16, Joel 2:1, Joel 2:15-17, Joel 2:22-27, Isaiah 53:5

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w I you remain standing for the reading of God's word please very briefly but sincerely let me say brother Anthony how much I do appreciate this invitation to address this wonderful group today I do not take this lightly but it is a very very great honor I join brother Mangan and said with all of you how much we appreciate the word of God and appreciated the good word of God going forth last night brother Williams and brother uren Lord have mercy I told brother brother Chester Wright I said tomorrow night I'm going to park cars out there rather than said on the platform I don't feel worthy to be among such great men and especially to stand before you today I realize I address the most sincere people in Pentecost if I say all the things that my wife wants me to say then I'm going to be the sweetest person in the whole world if I say everything that Ray Johnson wants to say I'm going to make a mess amen there's no goodness in Ray Johnson he's full of mischief if I say everything that God wants me to say then you're going to be a blessed people because God is good that's right and he wants the very best for his people he loves you praise God Amen the Lord bless you and today I'm reading from The Book of Revelation chapter 2 verse one unto the angel of the Church of Ephesus write these things saith he that holdeth the Seven Stars in his right hand who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks I Know Thy works and thy labor and thy patience and how thou Hast canest not bear them which are evil and thou Hast tried them which say they are Apostles and are not and has found them liars and has borne and has patience for my name sake has labored and hath not fainted and then in the The Book of Revelation chap 3 and verse 14 unto the angel of the Church of the leod Deans write these things saith the amen the faithful and true witness the beginning of the creation of God I Know Thy Works thou are neither cold nor hot I would that thou were cold or hot so then because Thou Art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot I will speak spew thee out of my mouth Lord bless you you may be seated you will notice here that there is a striking contrast between the two churches described in the seven Church periods of chapter 2 and three the church at Ephesus all of us agree today represents that church that began in the 1 Century ad the Feast of Pentecost ad32 and for approximately 60 years we have recorded in the book of Acts and in the New Testament a day by day Page by Page paragraph by paragraph verse by verse thrilling experience a description of a church that was red hot that was powerful you will notice that it shook its World in its times with works that holds us all in awesome admiration of that great church and then five periods between that flaming beautiful Dynamic Church in the book of Acts

and then you hear the description and you read the description of a church that is at the opposite end of the spectrum she is cold lukewarm without the spiritual Dynamics and luster that you find in the book of Acts something happened something articularly designed and precisely carried out by some enemy that brought her from that lofty place of spiritual Dynamics to that lowly place where she was stripped and hardly has any resemblance to that that we read of in Acts of the Apostles but the secret of it all you will find in the Book of Revelation in Chapter 30 13 there is described there a beast that brings in upon its back in chapter 17 a woman a woman in lustrous extravagant array that when the Apostle I remind you ladies and gentlemen he had the name he was Spirit-filled he was an apostle he was a disciple he was a writer of New Testament written in scripture but he said when I looked at her I was dazzled I was I was astonished I Marvel with great admiration and wonder he was held in such dazzlement that the angel came to him and shook him and said John why do you w Wonder at that woman why are you Dazzle at her beauty and at her extravagant well I remind you John that this Harlot is drunk on the blood of the Saints in Martyrs and she has arrived at that lofty place of extravagant wealth because of her murders and because of her confiscations and her thefts but he says John I remind you that because she is drank and have become drunk on the blood of the Saints and martyrs I'm going to give her blood to drink John hallelujah hallelujah and he shook John out of that dazzlement I'm preaching today that if you read the scriptures carefully John was intimidated by the spirit of that old girl that roded arride on the back of that horrible Beast that took the cup filled with the filth of her fornication and pressed it to the Kings and the men of the earth and got him drunk on the filth of the cup of her fornication Hallelujah if you read history you will find that it was her hard employ preacher Minister if you please her carefully selected leaders that are articul and very carefully took the doctrines the holy sacred truths of this book that I contend for today for the truths that you and I believe those precious truths that the apostles died for Hallelujah and they carefully changed those doctrines yes sh in 125 ad about that time amen Justin Martyr took the doctrine of one God and he changed it very carefully and declared that Jesus is an apostle and Prophet sent from God the Father just just making him un separate entity from God the father and then carefully and articularly they changed water baptism and all the doctrines until they got to the place

that there was no resemblance between that Harlot church and the church that we read about in the book of Acts of the Apostles it got to the place that such corruption and filth and dirt ring in that Harlot Roman Church until they married children in their infancy just to protect the sacred offices of the church they sold indolences amen you could buy an indigence which was nothing more than a permit Amen to commit any sin you wanted to commit and the money went to the church and the hierarchy of that church took all of that money amen and liveed extravagantly amen and it brought the church into such a place that the church was looked upon not as the holy place but a place of corruption that's where it was ladies and gentlemen and it was done carefully it was done with intent it was done with one purpose to interrupt that that God had ordained for this world for these times you believe what you will but I believe the devil used that instrument Amen to do one thing it was in his plan all that you read about in history that was extracted and eroded from the precious truths of the word of God Amen through all of the roots and through the production and reproduction of our harly daughters it was all done with one purpose of the devil in mind and that was to intercept and to interrupt and to hinder that that God had planned for this our times Hallelujah I believe that Joel chapter 2 promised us amen an outpouring a harvest a work of God second to none but sovereign to everything that hell could ever produce to stop this church I'm not preaching this today sir because I stand on the platform and is a part and supporter of because of the times but I preach this Hallelujah when you didn't know R Johnson I believe this amen when I wasn't wearing exotic skin shoes I preached this and believed this and preached this and continued for this when I didn't sleep in fine motels hallelujah hallelujah but hey it's your Jesus name Holy Ghost fill one God come talking praying shouting our running you got to believe I said you got to believe that in these days there a Revival and the Harvest of char for us hallelujah Hallelujah the Holy Ghost spoke to me the other day and said go to that meeting and help take dominion over a spirit that plagues my people and I'm going to tell you what it is it's not inferiority of logic in Doctrine I declare with amen the men of God today that we have the truth and the whole world lies in darkness I say that not presumptuously but humbly and gratefully hallelujah hallelujah so it's not those things that we're fighting against without tell you the enemy of Pentecost today it's intimidation we've had the tuck head too long we've set back on the backside the tracks and been satisfied with us for and no more right Hallelujah praise God and we've heard about those big time

preachers that's jellied all over the country and we've Sat by all moday and bicycles amen and been satisfied with that I'm saying Pentecostal it's time to cross the track it's time to arise and claim that that the book says is available to you read Joel 2 verse one read ye the trumpet is you hear that it's time for the men of God to blow the trumpet in Z read blow ye the trumpet in Zion sounding alarm in the Holy Mountain yes let all the inhabitants of the land tremble for the day of the Lord cometh for it is nigh at hand verse 15 come on yeah okay blow the trumpet in Zion blow the trumpet in Zion sanctify fast sanctify fast call a solemn assembly call the solemn assembly gather the people gather the people sanctify the congregation sanctify the congregation verse 16 read gather the children now gather the children let the bride bridegroom go forth of the chamber read and the bride out of her closet let the priest and the Ministers of the Lord yeah weep between the porch in the altar let them say spare thy people oh Lord and give not th Heritage toare my people oh Lord and give not thy inheritance to the Heathen it don't belong to them no it it don't belong to them no it doesn't Holy Ghost Revival don't belong Amen to them that belong to the bride Hallelujah the children of God those people of the name those people of the blood those people of old time holy ghost power I'm not preaching to offer you today I'm not preaching to Cast Away I'm addressing the Bride of the Lamb Hallelujah those Lambs why if anybody has the right to a landslide Revival if anybody has the right to pack out churches if anybody has the right to sit on the Thrones it's the Jesus name people verse 17 Hallelujah let the priest weep between between the ports and the Altar and let them say spare thy people spare thy people oh Lord give not thine Heritage to reproach read that the Heathen should rule over them no wherefore should they say among the people where is their God where is their God now verse 22 verse 22 says Be not Afraid now ye beast of the field now listen to me amen John don't look at her Daz in deceitful bloody Beauty read read for the pastures of the fields do spring I'm going to do something for you I'm going to make the springs and the the fields spring up for you read the tree beareth her fruit yes the Fig Tree and the vine do yield their strength yes be glad then ye children of Zion come on children of Zion be glad yes read and rejoice in the Lord your God and rejoice in the Lord your God for he gave you the former rain modly and he will CA everything in the book of the acts shout about he said I did that moderately the former rign that's the former rain and the latter rain in the first month but the latter rain that that I'm serving to the end yes that that I'm serving for the last Hallelujah is going to be without moderation yes read on brother Anthony come on read and the floor shall be full of wheat your BS are going to be full of wheat we're here to curse empty fuse Cur to curse empty buildings curse empty buildings we here to curse unsuccessful Ministries yeah it's time for the people of God am on of claim that that belongs to

you read not only shall the floors be full of wheat but the B shall overflow with wine and with oil more than you can handle come on read and I'm going to restore to you I'm going to restore it that years that the Locust have everything that's been taken away and the can of worm that oh mother h and the caterpillar keep it for itself and the P bringing it back to my people my great Army which I sent among you wait we ain't through yet verse 26 read ye shall eat in plenty now people of God yeah not of the Harlot movement uh-uh not of some pseudo Pentecostalism no but my people yes my people yeah you are going to eat in and planted you not only eat but you will be satisfied you're going to be satisfied and you will praise the name here of the Lord your God your God that has well PR the name of the Lord your God hallelujah now this is a part I like right here read for Anthony okay you will praise the name of the Lord your God that hath dealt wondrously with you and my people shall never shall never be ashamed ashamed come on get your chin off your chest yes sare your shoulders yes you're not off friends yeah you don't have to be intimidated but my God said I'm going to do it for the CH yes I'm going to do it I'll make your BNS full yeah I'll make your one F great make your feels produc when everybody said they can't produ when I get through with you you're spr your shoulders and you're my chin you're talking just right Hallelujah God bless you I feel the Holy Ghost here today God bless you you may be seated I preached this nobody knew Ray Johnson and I believe this our church didn't have $225,000 remote control computerized signs I preached it when I slept in a Sunday school room yes sir and my little wife God bless her heart today we divided some bunk beds she and one baby slept in one and I and the other slept in the other bed Sunday school room nothing this plush brother Anthony frame walls bear insulation curtains hanging for the doors when the wind would blow on a cold one a day those curtains would wave you farewell one morning I had Billy my oldest son in the bed with me it was cold and I woke up I was freezing no why was so cold and looked at the foot of the bed and there was snow on my feet it blowed through that window window It Blow the the the the cardboard and the newspaper out the windows the snow about 6 in deep on my feet amen and every preacher in town said preacher what are you going to preach how you going to get that church out of $150,000 debt you know with only about 25 supportting members how are you going to save it from reproach now that doesn't serve papers on me honey take me to jail and sell this church at a Sheriff's sale Hallelujah and those big shot across the track Floy doy you guys drove by not our people but I'm

talking about the nominal people shake my hand at the bank and just tell me how they jetted all over the country and what are you going to preach preacher to save that church I said I'm going to preach one God Jesus name Holy Ghost all running tongue talkinging Gun Barrel straight Holiness I'm going to name sin and call it by name and get it out the church if AP possibly can by the help of the grace of God I'm going to preach Miracle Revival I'm going to preach Apostolic truth couldn't preach that I'd pick peas and run rabbits Hallelujah Hal hallelujah hallelujah but there's power in the gospel I preach I'm in love with this truth today hallelujah hallelujah and one of them grin and clasps my hand and said you won't last till the water gets hot I squeezed his hands a tight I heard the bones pop and I said in my heart and he was trying to intimidate me I'll take the gospel spade and bury you one day for the book said I'll make your Fields bare when the ain't supposed to Bear I'll make your Vineyards bear grapes when there's a trought in the land I'll make your borns full when they supposed to be empty Hallelujah hey Pentecostal you've got the little end of the biggest thing that heaven ever produced Hallelujah you don't have to take a second seat could be intimidated come on Jesus name people cim in your grounds hallelujah hallelujah I make a long story short but time's running out I went home fell on my face before the Lord and began to pray while I was praying and seeking the Lord across our parking lot one day drove a fine cor I recognize it to be not a denominal preacher but guess who one of ours that car was so big and long it had trouble getting in our driveway it was so plush and comfortable you could barely see the driver and I thought last guest of the elite and Royal has finally graced our humble abode so my wife holled her honey we got company you know our country folks do they all run to the window and Peep through the curtains we thought J all had come to town hallelujah hallelujah amen my wife's the excellent cook she give Paul prudom some lessons in French cooking excellent Hostess full of hospitality we would have gladly gave that man our best that day cuz we thought he came to bring us good news glad Tage and encouragement I run to the Wi and from my side see nothing but cardboard and use paper and rags to keep out the cold looked into that fine plush car to watch him point at our old rundown buildings and point at our broken windows and he and his evangelist laughed until they all but

cried and just before he drove away I waved at him and smiled he drove off Hallelujah I had every right to be intimidated I had every right to cash my chips in because when I could have gone out and I was offered to have my way paid out of this movement I chose to stay in because of men like this men like this men like this men like this right here hallelujah but I heard from God that week five days later when I locked myself in the church and told my wife and everyone don't bother me until I hear from God I'll either break this thing or die God came to me and said I'm going to take away your reproach I'm going to take away your shame and from this day forward I'll make your Vineyards to Bear grapes when they were not supposed to bear oh I love this gospel brother Timmy five days later in walked a hippie carrying a baby whose feet were Twisted 50° angles from birth and the doctor said she'd never walked straight never wear anything but braces amen that hippie man brought that baby to the altar when I got through preaching and said Reverend do you believe what you preached I preached from Isaiah 53 that night Hallelujah he was wounded for our transgressions he was Bru for our iniquities the chastisement our pieces upon him and with his stripes we are healed Hallelujah you can take that one scripture and tie not in the Devil's Tail anytime you want to Hallelujah Glory brought that baby forward the church prayed for it while we stood at the altar praying the bones began to snap and pop and crack and those feet turn straight again amen Nicole it's 16 years old now and she's never wore another bracelet her feates is straight today and and a day that hip it Dad him Hallelujah was amen is preaching the gospel today Hallelujah come on P cost come on it's time to reap the Harvest that my God has promised us and some of you going to start today right now you thinking to get started and launch into a dimension of ministry like you've never known before you don't have to be intimidated last year brother Malcolm dyes left this meeting amen I just preached for him you may be seated this preach for him he told me brother Johnson my Church said sits in the middle of nowhere everybody in Mississippi makes fun of him because he got a church in the middle of a corn patch Hallelujah said I don't have the people to draw from like some cities has but I preached for him I said brother Dykes I feel in this church a powerful Revival something that's going to shake this whole part of the Mississippi District he left this meeting last year amen was driving home amen right at the other side of Mobile on the way home he drove by a Baptist Church that was having a singing convention told the driver said Whoa stop right here fantas I want you to start all over from where my text oh that story that story

put that on him didn't I brother Malcolm Dykes stand brother Dykes right over here wave your hand all right he was in this meeting last year driving home going through mobile to the little town he lives up in North Mobile Alabama in south Mississippi he was driving by a Baptist Church they were having a singing convention he felt the Holy Ghost tell him to stop and go in toly Schauer said stop brother I said we're going to church that's the Baptist Church said we're going in walked in brother Dyke said I felt the Holy Ghost more never felt it in all my life he said he said for reasons known only to God the MC of that program said I feel like that there's someone here that has something else to say like said I stood and said it's me sir right here I I've got something to say we always have something to say and said I feel like that there's a miracle among us somebody's going to get the healing and there was a musician there a very talented person who' had an accident and had some of these main leaders and ligaments cived in their hand that person's hand even after surgery was all shriveled and drawn the best surgeons in that country said that they would never play again and brother Dyke said somebody's going to get their healing and that person raised that drone hand with SED ligaments and leaders and said would you pray for me Hallelujah brother Dy said of course in that Holy powerful Almighty name of Jesus I command you to be healed and Hallelujah it wasn't supposed to happen the V was dead the field was dead and Barren but God said in the last days and going to make your Vines spare grapes when they ain't supposed to I going to make your Fields bear when they ain't supposed to are going to make your barns full with they're supposed to be empty God if we can only understand and realize and recognize the power that works among us we turn our nation upside down I'm saying this and I'm going to quit you may be seated if you ever do anything for the lord it's going to be in spite of and you've got to be used to the idea of being lonely and call everything but a child of God they'll first said it can't be done and then they'll come around when you've done it and said anybody could have done that but Columbus put one on them and I'm going to share it with you Columbus I understand that that there are two types of prophets in the bible there are those prophets of word and are those prophets of deeds and works two types of men those of word and those of works right two types of labors all the way through history those of addtion history says those great reformers few of them was Men of dition writers most of them were men that could do it by works very few affluent you know courtsan type speakers most people are men of works now Columbus was a jail

bird and Queen Isabella offered him a deal to sell and fulfill a dream he always thought was possible he always figured the world was round not Square we never had the opportunity to prove it until he was a jailbird and then Queen Isabella reached into prison and pulled him out and said okay Columbus if you sell for me and claim everything that you find for the for the king and for the church so I'll let you out so he did open up a brand new world prove his point that the world was actually around rather than Square came back to Spain and was greeted by his old critics that first said he couldn't do it but he did so sitting in a Tavern one night his critic said Columbus anyone could have done that you merely just sail straight west and end it up East come said okay and he ask the owner of the tabern to bring him an egg he held that egg in his hand and said gentlemen can anyone here make this egg stand up on his end and so all of them tried and it tumble over so someone said Columbus can you do it said give me the egg he took the egg and gently cracked the end of it flattened it and made it stand there and someone said anybody could do that and columus said but someone had to do it first brother Mangan I'm going to bring you some brand new news that you don't even know about critics had said you'd never do it you didn't know that y'all weren aware of that but after it's here beautiful fantastic now they're saying anybody could have done that but somebody had to do it first pal and that's where we are Pentecostals when we sing about the Spirit of David is more than song it's Spirit somebody anybody could have kill that giant but somebody had to do it first somebody had to say I'm coming in the name of my Lord don't need your armor don't need your chariots all I need is a touch from heaven and I'll bring the Giant's head back come on Pentecostals we steal the originals we're going to do it first I'm preaching to some young men here today that has stood in the shadow of what seeming to be tall Giants of denominationalism and you feel intimidated and rebuking that Spirit today I want you to go home get a hold of the word of God get some promises Touch Heaven and M have r bival h