There Is No Substitute For Sons
by Wayne Huntley
2006 · The Pentecostals of Alexandria, Alexandria, LA
Kind: conference session
Scripture: 1 Samuel 1:2-8, Psalm 87:5-6, 2 Samuel 18:18

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would you welcome brother Huntley to come preach the word and everybody shouted hallelujah hallelujah thank you brother Williams for refocusing our vision and helping us to get a far away look it certainly helps every once in a while just to look way out there and to see what good things are ahead for every child of God I stand here tonight overwhelmed by the presence of the Lord and the power of the spirit and the potential of the Apostolic Pentecostal Church unlimited if you would indulge me a moment just let me say thank you to all of those of you that prayed for me during a totally shocking startling surprising what I term Health event it was a health event it ruined my testimony in this sense I used to always enjoy testifying to doctors when I went for physicals that I had never been in the hospital in my life they messed me up yeah I I had to stay a few days yeah messed me up bad the worst part of it all is I only attended because of the times in my pajamas it's better in a suit and I want to tell you I watched all of the services and I want to thank you for your prayers yes I am especially blessed to stand here tonight by the mercies of God the grace of God and I am overwhelmed by the love of this organization right the kindness the cards the calls it was humbling humbling to see so many of you take time to call or to let me know that you were praying for me and I give thanks I appreciate my son-in-law being here on the front row here tonight my son Pastor rony's first United Pentecostal Church the driver that took me to the hospital and the nurse said whoever brought you here saved your life I thank you Brian for being there with me you know it's a crazy time to die when you're trying to bury somebody else right right funeral you need to let everybody have their day you know don't barge in here let everybody have their own time don't try to double up here but I I thank God for his kindness and when you walk through these doors after situations like that it has a whole different meaning and it all looks different and just to be able to stand here and see you and and to be able to preach tonight I had no fears except would I be able to preach is this it that was my only concern I didn't want to I I my my wife was trying to slow me down and all after I was rehabilitating a little bit she was trying to get me to do this do that and the other I said you are trying to get me to quit and I'm not yeah amen yeah right but she wasn't she was trying to keep me alive and and she's a great reason that I am alive tonight and I commend her enough of that thank you for this invitation to be here tonight and I feel privileged to stand what preaching we have heard every man of God God is speaking into this body yes he is and I appreciate it 1 Samuel chapter number one I do not come to you tonight with what I wanted to preach I come to you with what I felt the Lord said I had to preach and I'd whole lot rather do that than what I want to do 1 Samuel chap 1 verse 2 thank you to the Pentecostals of Alexandria for all of their impeccable first class Hospitality kindness it's marvelous isn't it we rejoice in their kindness the first book of Samuel chapter 1 verse 2 and he had two wives the name of the one was Hannah and the name of the other panina and panina had children but Hannah had no children and this man went up out of his City yearly to worship and to sacrifice un the Lord of hosts in

Shiloh and the two sons of Eli hfni and finaz the priests of the Lord were there and when the time was that elaa offered he gave to panina his wife and to all her sons and her daughters portions but unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion for he loved Hannah but the Lord had shut up her womb and her adversary also provoked provoked her sore for to make her fret because the Lord had shut up her womb and as he did so year by year when she went up to the house of the Lord so she provoked her therefore she wept and did not eat then said elaa her husband to her Hannah why weepest thou and why eatest thou not and why is thy heart grieved and the source of my message tonight is the next question am not I better to thee than 10 Sons am not I better to thee than 10 Sons I preach to you tonight there is no substitute for Sons no substitute for son there is no substitute for Sons would you repeat that after me there is no substitute for Sons just a little bit louder now clap your hands and thank God for his goodness and mercy to us Lord I bless your allmighty name tonight and give you praise Hallelujah give you glory Lord and everybody shouted amen God bless you and you seem to know what to do I would like for you to note with me the scriptural profile of Hannah the description we draw right out of the word of God of Hannah the Bible used terms like this it said she wept it said she wept sore it said she would not eat it said she was grieved in her heart it said she was in bitterness of Soul the Bible said she prayed unto the Lord she was provoked of her adversary I pause to say I believe what that really means is she was made fun of okay she was ridiculed the Bible said she was of a sorrowful Spirit the scripture said she was misunderstood and she was also marked by the ministry one understanding of that is that the man of God literally slapped her face she was marked by the ministry the scripture said she was afflicted the scripture said she was a woman of complaint the scripture said she was desperate enough that she treaded unto the uncertain Arena that is greatly warned of in the scripture in so much that she made a vow right yes to God and every bit of that was rooted in the fact that she was barren

she was Barren to Hannah maternity exceeded marriage come on what I'm preaching is just being saved is not enough we must have sons we must have sons because there is is no substitute for sons I believe what the Holy Ghost is doing in this meeting if you will listen to the ministry and put your ear to the pull pit and to the voice of the spirit there is a definite refocusing and redefining of the purpose of the church in this moment of time hear me as I redefine the church for you just a moment people dance here but this is not a dance hall and I know there are some folks that don't feel like they've had church if they don't get their dance and we need our dance but this is not a dance hall people Fellowship here but this is not a fellowship hall that's right well he didn't even shake my hand no yes this is not a fellowship hall people sing and they play music here but this is not a platform for Nashville rejects this is not a platform for the demonstration of human ability to make a living without taxation people are entertained and find Recreation here but this is not a recreation center this is a recreation center the ship of Zion needs to drop anchor one more time at the original Port of purpose of the New Testament Church and that is it is a Soul Saving Station the church is a Soul Saving Station clap your hands and shout hallelujah in the Old Testament barrenness was considered a reproach I declare to this Apostolic church tonight that spiritual barrenness is a reproach it is absolutely it is a reproach empty parking lots are a reproach empty pews are a reproach empty altars are a reproach empty baptistries are a reproach and it ought to be something we cry over and something we complain about and something we're grieved about and something we're grieved about and something we will vow about barness Disturbed Hannah barness Disturbed Rachel for she said give me children or else I die the only hope of life for this Apostolic church is spiritual children without new converts we are destined to die without new converts in enthusiasm dies Faith dies praise dies evangelism dies the only way we're going to live is to have sh and if we don't have new converts we're going to be destined to profession robotical

traditional Pentecostalism if there's anything I oppose it's traditional professional robotical Pentecostalism ELCA represents a voice that is speaking subtly strategically and subversively to the Apostolic Church in this hour this is what I sense is happening in this movement right now ELCA tried to appease Hannah's displeasure Hela tried to defer her disturbance and the way he did it was by saying just be satisfied with gifts just be satisfied with portions accept your sterility and give up on your novel dream of having Sons but we're going to rise to our feet tonight to shout there is no substitute for s since God the Bible said had shut up her womb only God can open that womb there's not a program that will open the womb of your church there's no fleshly scheme that will open the womb of your church because when God shuts it only God can open it and when God opens it nobody's going to shut it the New Testament opens with two angelic annunciations forecasting predicting and prophesying two Supernatural births two sons would be supernaturally born Jesus and John would be supernaturally brought forth one of those boys would be born of Mary the other of Elizabeth yeah Mary Mary is the Virgin right Elizabeth is the old married lady but has never been able to conceive she's been exposed but never conceived and the angel said not one woman is going to have a baby but two are one's going to be a virgin the other's going to be an old lady that hadn't been able to conceive Mary represents the Foreign Fields where the Virgin gospel has not yet entered she's the whole missionary front where the preacher hadn't got there yet but she's going to have a son we're going to have Revival where there's never been Revival Elizabeth represents what we in North America probably are more confronted with Elizabeth represents the Old Baron elderly exposed but never had conceived Elizabeth represents the

churches that have never had Revival but the angel said not just Mary goad but Elizabeth is going to have a son too I've come to tell you folks are going to be saved in churches that hasn't seen people saved altars are going to be live baptismal tanks are going to be full parking lots are going to be overflowing because there is no substitute for Sons El kaaa exposed his ignorance of women right the fact that he was clueless when it comes to women when he said am not I better to thee than 10 Sons up you got it there's a reason my wife is not here tonight she's at home with a grandbabies so brother and sister ballero could be here tonight I love you I'll be praying for you but I'm going to stay with the babies you might as will wake up and realize elaa there is no substitute for Sons I'm going to make a statement when I do you shout no substitute ready thank God for Cathedrals no thank God for crowds no subtitute thank God for collateral no subtitute there is absolutely no substitute for sons being born at the apostolic Altar and until that happens nothing ought to make you happy and until that happens nothing ought to make you eat and until that happens nothing ought to make you smile and until that happens nothing ought to PE you we are in an hour of the onslaught yeah of substitutes PR symbolism for substance fables for truth Che for the expensive convenient for the commandment and the imitation for the original but this is what the Holy Ghost has been talking to me about here's the substitute that is buying for Acceptance in the apostolic church and that is that the church being substituted from a mother to a babysitter yeah from a mother to a babysitter a babysitter knows only how to provide entertain and preserve somebody else's babies somebody else's children she knows nothing about Labor she knows nothing about pain she knows nothing about delivery and the devil's trying to turn this Apostolic Church into a babysitter instead of a mother I Rise to shout there is no substitute for

silence now hear this part very carefully because this is what I'm concerned about I fear the model of ministry outside the apostolic church and the pseudo icons all right of congregations of massive proportions on are perverting the philosophy and the concept of church growth in some of our younger ministers and pastors I'm not calling any names you know who they are you drive around their buildings You Preach their sermons you shallow over their crowds but let me set the record straight tonight those places are not about reaching the devil possessed they are not about delivering the addicted they are not about liberating the Sinners they don't grow their churches out of bars and Drug dens their crowds come from other congregations and other churches they don't have converts they've got prided people and you kick yourself and you wonder why we can't do that why we aren't that way they're not even in the same business we're digging the homeless out we're putting marriages back together we're getting liquor out of their hands we're getting sin out of their hearts and too many of you are saying I want to be like them hear me when I tell you they're not mothers they're babysitters our only true growth comes out of our altars repentance water baptism in Jesus name and the infilling of the Holy Ghost we must not become content to babysit the floating Church of every region to babysit the move ends everybody has got some the movein the transfers or the church Hoppers but hear me when I preach to you tonight it's not about the transferred it's about the transformed don't shout over a mov in like you do somebody that's moved out of sin I have preached places where they boasted great Revival great move of God phenomenal increase and it have been better if I have had blinders on because when I surveyed the audience I couldn't see anybody that look like a new convert if you're having Revival there going to be some makeup there there going to be some earrings there there's going to be some ladies with cut hair

there's going to be some looking people and if that's not the way your church looks you're a babysitter and not a mother there's no substitute for Sons there's nothing God can give me to get me off of my knees I won't Sons I want daughters I want babies let's not be guilty of of using our Superior personalities Superior giftings Superior skills to entice other Christians I'm talking about real Christians I'm talking about Apostolic Christians but let's use our personalities our gifts and our skills to reach reachs the Lost H it's amazing to me how comfortable some preachers are around other people Saints and very uncomfortable around Sinners we must not celebrate our increase by a Brother's demise and call that Revival and if that's your case you're not growing you're swelling because when somebody builds a bigger building than yours and gets a little more fire than you got it's got a better choir than you got your swelling's going to go down but your sons and your daughters will not leave you no matter what's going on anywhere our addition must not come from someone else's subtraction you got you're right but I'm afraid some elements in our movement are being impressed but you got to have a big church oh Lord there's a difference in a big church and a growing church I'm not interested in a big church I'm interested in a growing church and if our converts become so many we've got to build another building let's build it but not off a bunch of movein that have been lighted from somebody else my God don't shut your schedule to pray on your brother and don't set your standards to pray on your brother shame on you if you fill your churches with somebody else's compromisers I don't care if you put on

your Marquee this month special TI 7% who are you designing your church for who's your program for what's this all about it's to bring a beer guzzler in it's to bring the prostitute in it's to bring the liar in it's to bring the murderer in not somebody else's Saints notice this Psalm chapter 87 verses 5 and 6 and of Zion it shall be said this and that man born was born in her and the highest himself shall establish her the Lord shall count when he writeth up the people that this man was born there when God counts he only counts the ones that were born there let's have Revival with sons and daughters there is no substitute so since the Bible said God would only count those that were born there if God only counts those that are born there how large is my church if God only counts the ones that were born there yeah then really how large is my church you want to know what kind of church you got go home next Sunday and say if you came to the Lord here if you obeyed acts 238 here stand up are you mad enough to do that you'll find out if you have in Revival or not if there's more movein and transfers than there are those that were born there come out now Tom Foster told me he was going home the other day early from this meeting I said Tom I need you cuz ain't nobody helps a preacher like brother Tom Foster I said I need you stay here and help me you see him on his feet here because he hasn't built a church with a vacuum cleaner and just because you're smarter than somebody else doesn't mean you deserve their Saints and just because you got a better program doesn't mean you deserve their Saints you might have a bigger house with a swimming pool but my babies ain't going home with you and if you want to build a church count those that are born there count those that are born there there is no substitute for Sons I'd like for every

Pastor to push your way out of that chair and Shout that right now if I've got a 100 more next Sunday than I had last Sunday but I didn't pray them through and I didn't baptize them I'm going to keep on crying and I'm going to keep on complaining and I'm going to be grieved in my spirit until I get my own son the devil is doing his best to substitute this church brother Libby can I use you for an illustration might as well I've preached it all over the country I might as well use you I appreciate that permission what a willing Soul I'm going to brag on you I wouldn't embarrass you this guy comes from way out somewhere to the east coast where brother Libby has been laboring how many years you been there2 32 years yes sir praying fasting discouraged encouraged excited depressed roller coaster greatest Church in the world buch of devils and ding bats 32 years this preacher calls him and says I wonder brother Libby could you spare Saturday with me he said' I'm interested in coming into your area and starting a church always are would you have time to show me some of the diverse areas around your city brother Libya Kingdom Minded man brother man got a Kingdom Minded man say God told Abraham to look so brother Libby spends the whole day with him they go north they go south they go east they go west Sons beginning to sit on the day of interview and they're having a meal together and they're as they eat the guy says well brother liby let's just bottom line this today he said I want to know if I come into your area how many Souls can I count on you giving me that's elaa he's Clueless yeah I love what brother Libby said brother liby leaned across the table in his own unique way with extreme tact and diplomacy and said brother how big of a zero can you draw if you're going to build a church don't go next door to a big church build a church go somewhere where people are not being reached go somewhere where there's not a lighthouse I hate on everybody shout there is no substitute for Sons miracles signs and wonders must not be a substitute for sons the best I know God doesn't count healing I didn't say they didn't matter I didn't say they weren't wonderful I just stay in the book and and said God only counted what was

born I'm afraid there's a deceptive spirit that wants us to go to shies after church and brag about how many got healed we don't need to get all wrapped up in telling pregnant women whether they're carrying a boy or a girl nine months they'll know we don't need anybody reading Social Security numbers at the fair they tell me they can guess people's weight and age that now I know you're getting quiet on me because you can preach anything but so when it get folks excited I told Brother Baker you say Miracles angels and they go nuts you talk about souls and and I'm not against that but I'm telling you they're not to be a substitute the greatest Miracle is salvation the greatest opening of blinded eyes is when somebody shouts I see Jesus as God I see Jesus Is God I see Jesus is God devil chasing I was telling my wife what I was going to preach and she said I said I don't know why I got this job she said I do she said you're the only one crazy enough to say it too many of our churches are opening up spiritual karate classes tondo W whatever it is talking in t coming to church in fatigues teaching how to chop the devil God doesn't count how many Devils were cast out he counts how many repent and how many get baptized in Jesus name and how many get the Holy Ghost the only time I'm going to fight the devil Hallelujah my soul the devil the only time I'm going to fight the devil is when he gets between me and somebody I'm trying to reach for God I don't care about being a professional devil defeater devil chasing spiritual warfare is no substitute for Sons Holiness come on is no substitute for Sons God forbid that I should ever be little minimize or make fun of some might is walk with God and if you don't like how holy they are just be quiet about it leave them alone that's between them and their God don't use a pull pit apostolics to make fun of standards and Holiness and separation from the world but my estimation is this we spend way too much time washing Nets and not enough time fishing

God does not compliment clean Nets God does not celebrate clean Nets fish is his wish and he wants it smelling like fish looking like fish sounding like fish our churches ought to be fishy something fishy about this church in the parable of the talents the man commended was the one that gained five but the secret of his success was that while he gained five he did not lose the five he was originally given he didn't trade the old five for a new five no he was only commended because he got five new ones but kept the five old ones if growth causes us to lose what we were originally given it is not true growth Lord that was his I said that heart attacks helped him you know why help me I ain't got nothing to lose I ain't trying out I ain't hoping for something else out of this I don't have any ulterior motive but just to say this is what God said this is what God Said second Samuel chapter 18 and verse 18 a unique verse of scripture now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar which is in the king's Dale for he said I have no son to keep my name in remembrance and he called the pillar after his own name and is called unto this day absalon's place since Absalom had no Sons he built statues since absolum left no people he built pillars since absolum left no men he built monuments look at this building I ask you tonight how will you be remembered statues or Sons pillars are people monuments are men because he had no

Sons he built statues to be remembered you will be forgotten if you're not a soul winner there is no substitute for Sons don't let your gifts and your portions satisfy your empty altars and your empty baptistries and you leave bragging about the increase of the tithes or the talent that is now on your pews instead of sons there is no substitute for Sons would you bow your heads I feel like the Holy Ghost would like to root somebody out of these seats on their feet saying thank you for the gifts but I got to have sons yes thank you for your kindness but I got to have sons thank you for the portions but I got to have sons thank you for the blessings but I got to have sons thank you for the numerical increase but I got to have sons thank you for those that have come to help me but I've got to have sons Hanah why why why I've got to have a son don't be satisfied with just good church don't be satisfied with just a lot of shouting don't be satisfied with just everybody feel good when they go home don't be satisfied with everybody bragging about your sermon give me children or I'm going to die only Sons will keep your church alive there is no substitute for Sons thank you for my Cathedral thank you for the crowd thank you for the collateral but I got to have sons turn around to somebody and say pray for me I've got to have sons I refuse to be satisfied with movein I refuse to be satisfied with being in a good part of the country where everybody wants to move I refuse of having a climate control church I refuse to be satisfied with a strong financial environment to draw people to me I've got to have some there is no substitute for sons