The Hardest Part of the Harvest
by Wayne Huntley
Camp meeting
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Ruth 3:2, Matthew 3:11-12, 1 Corinthians 9:22, John 3, Acts 3, Acts 4:22, Galatians 4:19

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well it feels like friday night at camp meeting all the field and the beautiful part about this is it has felt this way all week we've enjoyed the wonderful presence of the lord and beautiful response of the people of god and i do feel that marvelous things are in store for the texaco district the bible doesn't promise blessings to everybody it doesn't it's very restrictive but it does say blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled in other words i believe if you want it you'll have it if you want it you will have it would you clap your hands with the lord one more time give him thanks let me once again express my sincere gratitude for the privilege and the honor of your selection and allowing me the opportunity to be here and preach to you the word of the lord it is a high high honor and i do not take that lightly i acknowledge that this is one week out of your year and it is a most significant week and that we have thousands of preachers and that you could have selected anyone that you would have wanted to and they would have been highly complimented and privileged to be here therefore i take it with great humility that you would extend that honor to me and give me that place of significant concern for the work of god

and i feel highly honored and privileged to be with you and your hospitality has been second to none your kindness and it's wonderful to be able to renew acquaintances with old friends and then also to be able to enlarge our realm of friendship and that's one of the greatest things i enjoy about preaching the gospel is the family of god it is said that a man made this statement one time he said i love the church he said it's saints i hate i got a message for you you can't love the church and hate saints and i want you to understand you're a part of a blessed fellowship tonight and we are all privileged by the blood of jesus to be a part of this wonderful family of god if you appreciate the church of the living god would you clap your hands right now i mean that to me one of the highest compliments that is ever given to me is when somebody introduces me as brother to be a brother in the family of god is an esteemed high privilege i give honor to your district superintendent whom i feel very confident is ordained and anointed of god to take this district to the next level if you continue to cooperate and serve the lord and serve him in the capacity that i've seen manifested in this meeting there is absolutely no way this building will house your future camp meetings and your churches are going to be multiplied and your individual congregations are going to double and triple by the good hand of god

i have respected brother burns from a distance but it's been my privilege to spend a few days and get to know him better now i'm going to tell you something folks it's just a little trivial and i'll get right into the word here i know you're maybe a little warm tonight and whatever and it's friday night and i'll get right to the word but um at home we enjoy i tell folks if you don't have fun don't come to our church i mean i think church ought to be fun i have a wonderful rapport with our congregation and and we enjoy one another i enjoy our church and they act like they enjoy me if they don't they're they're kind and we do this thing about ford and chevrolet you know ford and chevrolet and i'm a chevrolet man i i tell our church jesus was a chevrolet man when he transformed peter he turned him into something that was like a rock and so we're always going back and forth about that in our congregation but i think we ought to have a good time in the house of the lord and i said that because brother burns is like ford the closer you look the better we are there are some folks it's good to see them from a distance but the real people of god the closer you get to them the greater your admiration will become and such is your superintendent i give honor to brother oliver such a kind man in his hospitality has been second to none this district board i'm so happy to meet so many of the board members of course brother roy sounds has been a hero of mine for many many years and i have deeply loved him and respected him and appreciated him his brother is our district superintendent and one of my very best friends and one of my great great cohorts i deeply love the elms family what a rich heritage they have now it is friday night and normally on friday night we throw down we shout we heal the sick we we just go crazy and dance as much as we can dance and everybody goes home wiped out i told you the first night that i came i did not come here for a cotton candy camp meeting and i don't want to take advantage of the energy in inertia that is released in this building and just spin our wheels and keep our motor in neutral and see how high we can rev it up i want to put some transmission in the power that god has given us so we can drive it back to your churches and it'll make a difference for you next sunday and next wednesday and every time you come together i could probably pull from my portfolio of past sermons and preach some exciting enticing messages but i want to preach to you the burden of my heart that i feel will advance texaco in your church growth revival plus evangelism plus maturity equals church growth i'm looking at the bottom line of this and we want our churches to grow so i will not be preaching a normal friday night sermon but i will be preaching what i feel to be the burden of my heart and the word of the lord for you at this time you do not have to stand but we will read out of the book of ruth chapter number three thank you all for

your encouraging words you are all so kind to your guests when they come here to speak and i thank you for your kindness the book of ruth chapter 3. and verse number 2 ruth chapter number 3 and verse number 2 and now is not boaz of our kindred with whose maidens thou wast behold he went with barley tonight in the threshing floor he went with barley in the threshing floor matthew chapter 3 and i will read a couple verses here matthew chapter 3 verse 11 and 12. john said i indeed baptize you with water unto repentance but he that cometh after me is mightier than i whose shoes i am not worthy to bear he shall baptize you with the holy ghost and with fire and in my experience with the word we usually stop right there as pentecostals but there is a revelation that we need to draw from verse number 12. whose fan is in his hand and he will throughly purge his floor and gather his wheat into the garner but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire i believe this district is interested in entering into an unprecedented time of harvest i believe you're on the verge of seeing more people receive the holy ghost than you have ever seen receive the holy ghost i believe god is preparing you for things that you thought could only happen for somebody else somewhere else but it's texaco's time god's got a ready hearts

so i preached tonight desiring to encourage our pastors affirm our churches and deal with one of the most debated discussed issues in the pentecostal church tonight my message entitled the hardest part of the harvest the hardest part of the hardest my message is significant tonight because i believe it is the source of much frustration that i have seen in the ministry across north america it can be the root of discouragement to sow winners and saints if you don't have a biblical revelation i find it to be the stronghold of doubt and negativism i'm going to scope in the target tonight on what i feel to be the heart of why some people struggle with reports as i gave last night of 103 people receiving the holy ghost in a week why some people sit with doubt and unbelief and even get to a point where they don't even want to hear it i want to touch the heart of that matter tonight i want you to know my subject if not dealt with can eradicate and eliminate evangelism if the subject is not properly dealt with i want you to know in my observation my subject has become the object of the blame game where pastors blame their churches and churches blame their pastors and the senior saints blame the new converts and the new converts blame the senior saints i'm going to address the subject tonight that may be the very thing that will loose somebody to once again believe god

and so i come now to what i will be preaching about and that is dealing with the alarming shrieking rate of retention what i'm talking about is the fact that we are not seeing the numbers statistically of people remaining in the church that we personally want to see and the devil wants you to get so upset about it that you quit witnessing and you quit evangelizing and you say what's the use i've come to tell you there is i know what some of the old saints are saying and this is what they're saying they didn't get it like i got it or they'd do this and they'd do that or that be this and did that be that i want to tell you tonight that just because a person does not stay in the church does not mean they did not get the baptism of the holy ghost god does not give good better and best born-again experiences as a matter of fact the bible said in john chapter 3 that except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom you see a sinner has no idea what it means to live for god until they're born again once they get the holy ghost once they get baptized in jesus name that doesn't mean they have to live for god it just means now they've got a choice and if they don't stay in the church a lot of times it means they made the wrong choice how many of you are glad you made the right choice to stay in the church you may receive it there is nothing simple easy or comfortable

in the production of a successful crop there are innumerable variables that play into its success some of which is not governed by the physical hand of the husbandman by the environment of the earth the elements often referred to as nature and it is in the scripture a parallel of the spiritual harvest of the souls of men there is nothing simple easy or comfortable about sowing ask jesus somebody's gonna have to die if somebody gets saved so i preach tonight on what is the hardest part of the harvest is it the preliminary strategy and approach to an area some of our folks are like the mule that i heard that starved to death standing between two luscious large bales of hay he couldn't make up his mind which was the biggest that he could eat and he starved to death standing between two meals a lot of our folks are saying well i'm right now in the in the purpose of analysis i'm trying to decide am i going to have a bus ministry am i going to do home bible studies am i going to have an axe program am i going to have street ministry what kind of ministry and the whole time they're standing there they are caught in the paralysis of analysis and they're dying there is only one thing that won't work nothing god won't bless laziness god won't bless laziness god won't bless laziness you gotta do something and the bible said in first corinthians 9 22 that we should be all things to all men that by all means we may save some what that verse is saying is to save some it's going to take a 300 percent effort if you give it a 300 effort you're still just going to get some and if we're not doing anything what makes us expect a heart it's not going to walk in off the streets to our church it's got to flow out of the church into the city is it the preparation of the land some folks spend all their time busting clods they're just clodbusters every time they come to the pulpit they're busting clods

breaking ground every sunday plowing every sunday jesus walked up on the shores of the lake and he saw a sad scenario the first thing you saw was the ships were on the shore this ship of zion does not belong anchored in the bay it needs to be sailing on the high seas of sin rescuing the perishing the second thing is the fishermen were washing their nets when fishermen wash nets that means it is a obvious demonstration that we are through fishing it was a declaration that we're not going to fish i'm here to tell you in my knowledge of this apostolic church we spend way too much time washing nets and not enough time fishing jesus christ is not coming back after clean nets he's coming back after saved souls some folks give more attention to how clean their carpet is to how many sinners they got on the pews sinners are dirty sinners are nasty sinners don't know how to act in church it's time to quit guarding your church and open the doors to a world that needs god now i know some of you gonna not appreciate this statement but that's okay i want to tell you jesus is interested in fish not clean nets we spend too much time polishing our nets when jesus wants them to stink and smell like fish we need more beer breath on our pews we need more cocaine and marijuana we need a smell of cheap perfume we need cigarette smoke on the people that are in our pews we're not here to present a clean myth we're here to reach people jesus ain't coming out after your beautiful carpet he ain't coming after your lovely pews he coming after your floral presentation he coming after your stained glass windows he's coming after souls that have been washed in the blood and filled with a spirit we need to be in the people business

jesus said drop your nets go fishing if jesus has got one word for the church tonight is get out there and fish fish fish fish fish jesus said get in the deep drop your nets peter said we fished all night taking nothing i want to encourage you last night's nothing means nothing to today's jesus standing with you you might have had empty nets last night but you can leave camp meeting drop your net sunday morning and start peter said we've told all not taking nothing but at your word we'll let down have you play pay close attention to the scripture jesus told them to drop nets peter said we think it's over but just because you said so we'll drop a net now in case they're not biting we don't want to have a bunch of dirty nets to clean so we will risk one but you gotta know the one that said drop nets is the omniscient one who could see under the water who knew where the fish were and he said you're going to not you're going to need more than one net you don't see what i see you're going to need more than one net drop your nets there's more under there than one net can hold and they had a net breaking they called their buddies their ship was about to see come help us they had a net breaking ship seeking revival i wonder how many shows we're missing because we really aren't fully anticipating the kind of blessing that god wants to give the church you may be seated let me say this quickly and move on on that point preparing the land

jesus has never enjoyed the luxury of a perfect church and he doesn't need it well we're just not ready yet well we're just not prepared yet well we're just not there our church is just not there while peter yet spake these words the holy ghost failed god said it you think it ain't altar called time i do you think it's not time for folks to come to your church i do you think it's not time for your baptistery to be full i do you think it's not time for your parking lot to be full i do i gotta hurry is it is it plowing is it planting is it patience you know you don't plant a crop today and tomorrow go out and dig it up and see if it's growing you got to have patience and the bible said in your patience possess ye your souls i want to add a little something to that thought tonight in your patience possessing other people's soul the reason some of our churches are not growing is because some of our people have forgotten what it took to get them where they are to hear some of you folks you would have me to believe that you prayed through one night and your hair was down to your knees later the next night you would have me to believe that you prayed through one night and the next night you looked like a model mystery and mrs pentecost would somebody acknowledge with me that ain't the truth it took a lot of preaching it took a lot of praying it took a lot of loving it took a lot of bible studies it took somebody having patience freely you have received freely you are to give nobody charged you to get in this church you have no right to charge anybody else

the bible said in acts chapter 3 the first miracle after pentecost that there was a lame man brother i believe you're the youth president aren't you what's your name brother carrington would you help me uh would you brother step back just a little bit i got to preach fast here but the bible said there was a lame man that was carried to the gate of the temple daily the bible said he was laying from his mother's womb the scripture says i believe in acts 4 22 that he was 40 years old sometimes it takes a while to get a miracle and the bible doesn't say who it was but it said they laid him at the gate of the temple daily see that little boy there smoking that cigarette or whatever he's doing it he just playing pick him up will you help me preach tonight buddy he ain't gonna hurt you just pick him up bring him up here set him right there oh that's not it that's not a cigarette that's a bag of m m's all right go back take him back i'm gonna make this quick we can go on forever here take him back bring him back shut him down take it back bring him back send him that for 40 years they carried him for 40 years but one day he woke up the church has got to carry our cripples because one day they may walk one day they may walk and i like this too i'll quickly move on they laid him at the gate of the temple you know why this man was crippled and the law did not allow him to come into the temple but even knowing the law that the chances were he could never go in and let me just throw this into he was coming for the wrong purpose he wasn't going there for legs he was going there for arms if i was jeff arnold i'd say y'all miss that one alms money he was going there for arms he got legs well my wife don't like it either he was going for the wrong purpose quit being so holy a fair circle that you say i ain't giving away a hot dog they just coming to get a hot dog i'm not giving away prizes they're just coming for who cares they didn't care they knew their job was to get him as close as they could they could not get him in but the purpose of the church is to get people as close as we can if they ever get in it's gonna be gone just go get them and get them as close as you can you may be seated well i don't want that kind coming to my church well i don't want them people being on my peers well i i don't want them people being in where we're having church first of all come on it's time for you to realize it ain't your church you could buy every pew and it's still not yours paid a church note and it's still not yours buy the carpet and it's still not yours it belongs to the one that's got nail prints in his hands it belongs to the one who gave his blood

is it you may be seated the protection of the fledgling plants is that the hardest part of the harvest from the insects the elements and the fowl and the diseases now let me tell you this and our church knows it i love you but don't go messing with my converts it aggravates the daylights out of me that people that ain't never taught a bible study in their life they never brought a soul to church but when service is over they're lining up all the new people they're making sure they know all the standards they're making sure they know all the things they got to give up i want to tell you something about those people you know why they're like that they don't like what they're doing and they don't want somebody else maybe to get by without doing it if you don't have a problem with holiness you ain't gonna cram it down somebody else's throat the problem is you're struggling with it yourself either that or you don't trust your pastor if you're going to have revival and growth you've got to trust your pastor he's not going to compromise he's not gonna let down the standards but you gotta be patient with soul i move quickly forward so i lay the foundation what is the hardest part of the harvest is it the preparation the planning the plowing the planning the patience the protecting what is the hardest part it's a small portion of scripture that you may never have looked at i read it as my text the hardest part of the harvest is winnowing w i n n o w i n g bow ass was winning the harvest the barley what does that mean it mean after their preparation after their planting after their plowing after their planting after their patients after their protection after getting up early fighting the elements staying out late finally getting a wonderful harvest in they took huge shovels and they throw it in the air knowing that a lot of that that they had pained over and pined over would not come back ruthlessly roughly throwing it in the air it was the separation of the wheat from the chest

john said he's going to baptize you with the holy ghost but it ain't going to be long afterwards maybe a year maybe two years he's going to walk into your church and he's going to take your congregation one day it looks like you're about to go over the top it looks like you're gonna have to build a church but all of a sudden you hear him coming and you know what john said he's mightier than i am let me tell you what i mean by that i mean like every pastor here i guard my converts i shield my converts i tell the church what to say to them i tell the church what not to say to them and i tell them if you say the wrong thing you have me to deal with can i give you a crazy illustration of that i hadn't been in raleigh very long till i taught a bible study and i i had gotten these worked on them and worked on them and worked spent gas time hours went out to their home weekend week out prayed when crime one sunday they came to church the man got the holy ghost the lady was praying for it this lady that hadn't been in our church very long i saw her go up beside what i call my new convert and i saw the lady crying and praying and the new the other lady came up beside her and suddenly she just quit and went and sat down i said what in this world this lady i went back and said debbie what happened you were praying so good she said well brother huntley that lady came up and told me said reason you're not getting the holy ghost because you got that ring on he said if you take that ring off god would give you the holy ghost right now i fought my way through the crowd lady i want to see you in my office honey come back here did you say that to her why sure i did what's wrong with that i said did you know she may not ever come back to this church and if she doesn't your her blood is on your hands and if you don't want to be a part of the judgment you shouldn't be a part of the preaching

we do you made me see we do new convert studies we do special classes we do fellowships and as a pastor i'm a you're doing so good i can't tell you how proud i am of you honey you are doing wonderful everybody look at my baby you're doing so good oh man he's growing he started coming on wednesday night i even saw him in prayer meeting the other night i saw him paying his tithes get up brother and i think they're doing great i just got them married they've been living together i just got them all cocaine they're doing so good and all of a sudden i hear something stop come this way now now because john said the one is coming after me you think i'm a tough preacher he's mightier than me and all of a sudden i'm trying to say wait a little longer dear jesus i just got them halfway straightened out and i know what's fixing to happen he's fixing to take his shovel and throw him in the air roughly rudely crudely without seeming care without seeming concerned i can't keep him off of him i can't keep him away from him i'm preaching to you the hardest part of the harvest it's not what we do it's what god does the reason some people are not in your church is not the pastor's fault the church's fault or anybody's fault it's the fact they could not survive the process and i can baby them oh you're doing so good yeah yeah don't y'all do that at y'all's church look at that is my baby doing good or what well last sunday i saw him run the aisles and then i hear him coming just about the time i think we're ready to build a new church i want to remind you that jesus is the lord of the harvest and the reason you get discouraged you may be seated when you see compromising churches liberal churches packing their place out parking lot full buildings flowing building emphasis you get all discouraged you get mad at the preacher get mad at the other saints get mad at god hear me when i tell you we're not building a club we're not building a sorority we're not building a lodge it's the church of jesus christ the lord of the harvest we're building a one god apostolic tongue talking holy living church

see you think the hardest is over when they talk in tongues a little bit when you baptize them see one preacher was down praying he said oh god god i don't understand it god help me here jesus i get my church up to 200. and before i know it it's down to 100 god help me i'm so discouraged i get it up to 200. shortly it's down to 100. i don't understand it he said god spoke to him and said it's simple you got 200 in your church i got 100 in mine we're not building a compromised church he don't want compromise in his church he don't want sin in his church he don't want carnality in his church and so every once in a while he's going to come with his fan and he's going to start blowing on your church and it's going to look like everybody is going to leave here let me tell you about the church i pastored and i know it's not any different than yours brother helms or sunday nights i go home and i say this has to be without doubt the greatest church in the world and i am blessed to be their pastor next sunday night i go home and i'm thinking there ain't gonna be nobody here wednesday night cause i noticed when i said that he got mad and he's a brother to him and he's first cousin to her and her uncle's on the board and they got 15 kids there ain't gonna be nobody here so wednesday night this thing's fixing to come apart but i had to understand the wind was blowing the lord of the harvest was throwing it all up in the air let me set your mind at ease when the wind stops blowing the saints are going to land on their feet running the aisles talking in tongues paying their ties serving god great peace have they which love thy law and nothing they one message gonna run them off there ain't one devil gonna run them out you may be seated sorry for the myth but in case you don't know pentecost makes a mess you know the day of pentecost it was wind and fire both of them make a mess they do two things when moves stuffs and fire changes stuff that's that's another sermon now i have preached and gone home now let me tell you about your pastor don't blame your pastor if people quit church

i will say that again don't blame your pastor if people quit church some folks say well we get them in he runs them off now brother davis was here he'd say don't get quiet cause i'm preaching good the bible says i was looking for the verse and i went prepared to say this tonight it says it if any man despises holiness he despises god and not man don't come here with that good stuff but brother huntley they're good people you got a problem with jesus not me he said my sheep will hear my voice and you don't need you may be seated you don't need to support rebels and you don't need to sympathize with carnality and worldliness you need to stand with the man of god i hadn't been in raleigh very long until some folks started getting upset about my preaching of course there was nobody there when i went so i was telling the superintendent today i really felt great when i got elected pastor and raleigh all five of them wanted me i got it a hundred percent all five voted yes brother ellis i fought pride five people want me to be their pastor hadn't been there long until we started growing said revive somebody said we'd have more brother huntley to settle down quit preaching so hot and so hard i caught rumor of that and i don't usually respond but i felt like i need to address the subject i said folks let me tell you something if i wanted people in raleigh to go to hell i'd stayed on the evangelistic field i didn't come here to send people to hell i came here to preach what it takes to be saved you need to support your pastor hey sit down a minute let me say this everybody can jump on their feet when he's preaching the sweet pie and candy and cake and hobby horse you believe he really don't need you then but when he's coming down the line that's when he needs you to stand up and say we're behind you pastor when he's really towing the mark that's when you need to come to your feet and let your guests know you're with the pastor

you may be seated just another few minutes here every pastor in this room i'm no different than they are there's times you got to preach it you don't have to preach it like that every sunday and you don't have to preach it when the house is full of guests but there's times you got to preach it you got to teach it not only that you don't operate on folks until they got some anesthesia i do most of my cutting not from the pulpit but in the altar while they're shouting while they're talking in tongues that's when i ease up to them and say son whoa hallelujah leave that whirly girl alone get that arrow hair off your ears hallelujah hallelujah get up high in the holy ghost they won't even feel it when you cut them get them high in the holy ghost they won't even know they've been cut the purpose of a surgery is not to cut people the purpose of a surgery is to save people's lives you made me see i go home from church sometimes i don't even tell my wife and i say oh god i'm the biggest dummy in the world am i the only preacher feels that way sometimes i may be the only honest one here tonight i go home and i say that was a good message and you blew it when you said that and they probably won't even come back next wednesday night now i want to tell you it may not bother you but it bothers me when people quit church i cry over people quitting church i lose sleep over people quitting church i can't say well bless god they just didn't have it i've gone from sunday to wednesday it seemed like a month i'm saying oh god i hope they'll be there wednesday night give me another give me another chance jesus i'll be nicer and i see that door open on wednesday night and here they come and they don't even know what i've been thinking how i've been feeling and i run back there it's so good to see you here because i want them to be saved i want them to stay i want them to make it but there comes a time gentlemen help me again i guess i'm going to share this offering time i get through working these men like this jesus starts coming oh no i hear it please he says get out of the way it's my church you didn't die for them you didn't bleed for them you don't have nails in your hands and there's almost nothing i can do about it there comes a time brother oliver when i'm helpless because he's mightier than me and i can try to stop him but i i know it's not going to work he just shoves me out of the way and he says it's my church stand with me just now don't leave the most important parts about to happen

there is one area i feel the apostolic church has not adequately understood there is a ministry that we have not participated in and that's why we've lost so many of our converts galatians 4 and 19. my little children of whom i travail in birth again until christ be formed in you the first travail brings them to repentance water baptism in jesus name and the holy ghost and we hear them speak five words in tongues and we run off and next week we condemn them if they're not there and we criticize them if they're not dressed like we are and we run them down if they don't look like they had the holy ghost 20 years when paul said there is a second trivale just like you travailed to get them in the kingdom you must travail that christ be formed in them so what are you talking about brother i'm saying instead of giving them many bible studies every time they come to church instead of pounding them in the ground with the standards every time they come to church there's a ministry the church has got to get a hold of and it's like this i will call some of the names of my converts oh god i thank you that lewis and johnny sue just got the holy ghost but give them a desire to come wednesday night and god put it in their heart to pay tithe and god calls her to want to get rid of her pant suits and wear dresses cause her god not to want to wear makeup move on her god and cause her to want to let her hair grow and not cut it instead of pounding them instead of preaching to them get on your knees and try them we would keep more people if we were less critical and more prayerful i shout when people talk in tongues at our church programs i shout when they get baptized in jesus name but my greatest joy is when they say six months later a year later three years later one of our trustees in our church today he and his wife came to our church for three years before she ever acclimated to the standards of the church three years today he's a trustee and she's a marvelous saint of god somebody needs to go to that prayer room see the problem with us is saints god bless me god give me a better job god give me a better boyfriend god give me a better car god i want 3 000 more square feet in my house god i want 12 more feet on my yacht instead of the church going to their knees before service after service god help them not to have any problems with the standards help them not to have any problem with separation help them not to have any problem with holy living and paul said it's a travail when they walk in my office and they say we want to be members i say do you understand what it means we go through the list of membership requirements when they sit there many times with tears screaming down their face i want it pastor yes sir i have no problem with that i want to live for god i want to be a part of this body i shout more than than i did when they talked in tongues because without holiness no man shall see the lord i've got to travail the second time until christ be formed in them the hardest part of the harvest is when god comes in and says i got to separate the wheat from the shaft and you can't do nothing about it it's my church i know it's a strange way to end the camp meeting

but we're not start we're not ending a camp meeting we're starting a revival and we're starting an evangelistic thrust how many of you know people in your church right now that are coming they've received the holy ghost they've been baptized but they're nowhere near what you know god wants them to be would you raise your hand you don't have to acknowledge this but let me ask you how long has it been since you've prayed about it right how long's it been since you prayed about how long has it been since you said god i love johnny sue and i love you lord and i'm not gonna compromise your message lord but i warn her to receive it this little lady i'm talking about it wasn't long until i saw her coming to church i taught a bible study in their home they live right down the street from me in a little mobile home when i moved into that area a man told me don't ever have anything to do with them preacher there's the meanest people in town i taught him a bible study and i watched him walk down the aisle get baptized his name get full of the holy ghost and i've seen her throw away all her pants i've seen her putting her hair up i've seen their teenage daughter dressing the same way because when i told the bible study it wasn't just god fill them with the holy ghost i travail in birth again until christ before help them lord help the lord help them alone put it in their heart put it in her mind it in their spirit i want them to be saved we will keep more of our converts if we will initiate the second travail why don't you lift your hands right now try call somebody's name