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Seek After His Glory

1990 · The Pentecostals of Alexandria, Alexandria, LA

Because of the Times

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  • A. D. Spears opens at Because of the Times 1990 by leading the congregation in prayer for two men of his own church facing heart surgery and a massive heart attack, then turns to his readings: second Peter chapter 1 verse 16 — "we have not followed cunningly devised fables… but were eyewitnesses of his majesty" — and Philippians chapter 3, verse 7 through verse 14, read at length: counting all things loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, forgetting those things which are behind, and pressing toward the mark. He adds one more verse before the house is seated, Acts chapter 1 verse 8 — "ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses" — and offers his own title for the message: seek after his glory until I become an eyewitness of his majesty, whereby I may become a witness to this world that he lives.
  • The first movement is personal. He tells how a word from Sister Freeman — who had laid hands on him as a young person at a Texas campground in June 1957 — reached him again at this conference: the well is not dry, but God had taken many things away in order to add what He needed to add. He then tells the Longview story: a thriving church in a booming oil city in 1980, a new building finished in April 1984 just as the bank folded, sixty percent of the congregation's income cut, people leaving — and in those years a hunger stirred in him to know Christ better than he had ever known Him, because a filled church of people who do not know Christ accomplishes nothing. A young man in his church who did not know who he was turned out to be of the royal line of Siam: royalty in his veins, and no knowledge of the authority that rested in him. Sometimes, Spears says, God has no other choice than to take everything away from us, whereby we may find out who we are.
  • From there the sermon turns to identity in Christ. In the fourth chapter of Luke, Jesus went into the wilderness, and the devil's whole strategy was a question mark: "if thou be the Son of God." Luke 4 and 1 says He went in full of the Holy Ghost; verse 14 says He returned in the power of the Spirit; verse 32 says they were astonished at His doctrine, for His word was with power. Somewhere the question was settled. The devil can only defeat this church when a question mark gets in our mind — when we are not sure who we are, who our Father is, or what our destiny is. The world does not need another judge, jury, or prosecuting attorney; it needs an eyewitness, a visible representative of Almighty God in the flesh. God has always used three major tools — His Spirit, His Word, and His man — and once God commits something He does not back up: the gifts and callings are without repentance. In Genesis 1 and 2 the Spirit of God moved on the face of the water; Genesis 1:3 said, and God said — the Spirit prepared it, the Word produced it, but not until verse 26 was there a man to preserve what the Spirit had willed and the Word had produced, a man given authority over the sea, over the air, and over every living thing on the face of the earth.
  • The witness theme deepens through Isaiah 59 and John 1: one writer said Isaiah 59:16 — God sought and there was no intercessor, but therefore His arm would bring salvation; so God planned the ultimate anointed one, for John 1 and 1 says, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word became flesh. Isaiah 59 and 21 says it will not stop with Him: the authority passes to His seed's seed. In Deuteronomy the fifth chapter Israel begged not to hear God's voice anymore, but a few generations removed we are saying, Lord, show us Your glory. He recalls the Exodus healing — when they left Egypt at midnight there was not a feeble one among them — and returns to Acts 1:8 twice: you shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you, but the power does not come merely with talking in tongues a little bit; there has to be a divine revelation, a divine anointing, a divine intervention. A twelve-year-old boy in the temple astounded the doctors with wisdom and converted no one; knowledge alone will never do it. In Matthew the 16th chapter, at Caesarea Philippi among the temples, Jesus asked, who am I? — and Simon answered, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. My Father which is in heaven has revealed this to you: on this rock — you know Me and I know you, on this revelation — I will build My church.
  • The closing movement sets Judas against Simon: Judas knew the actions of Jesus but never knew the man, and it cost him everything; Simon blundered greatly, but because he knew who Jesus was, repentance was his — when there is no revelation there can be no repentance. Spears then closes in Longview: within the last three years he has seen more visible miracles in his church than in his entire ministry added together, most of them with nobody laying hands on anybody, as the church learned the difference between praise, which can be offered from a distance, and worship, directed to one particular thing. He tells of taking in three men everybody else had given up on — a drug dealer in a Texas correctional institute, a man in a hospital the doctors would not enter, a man sitting with a gun in his hand — and of a night of worship when the lame walked, blind eyes opened, deaf ears were unstopped, and his own daughter, scheduled for surgery in a few days, was healed. A family from Old Mexico brought their granddaughter; a woman dying with cancer called asking for his hands to be laid on her, and he is afraid he lost her because he thought the call was a joke. Two years earlier, called away from this same conference to Dallas, he stood in a hospital room and told a young mother, it's going to be all right; the baby was born premature, its legs turned out and its feet not right, its ankles the first to touch the floor when it struggled to stand. A few nights ago, at the close of a Sunday night service, somebody put Melanie and Joel's baby on the floor around the altar — and its feet snapped in place, and the baby started walking across the floor. The economy is still bad, he says, but he'd rather have what they are having now than a bank full of money, because the blind are seeing, the losers are finding God, and hope is coming for the lost: somebody has got to be an eyewitness of His majesty.

Scriptures: 2 Peter 1:16; Philippians 3:7-14; Acts 1:8; Luke 4:1; Luke 4:14; Luke 4:32; Genesis 1:2; Genesis 1:26; Isaiah 59:16; John 1:1; John 1:14; Isaiah 59:21; Matthew 16

Scripture index: 2 Peter 1:16; Philippians 3:7-14; Acts 1:8; Luke 4:1; Luke 4:14; Luke 4:32; Genesis 1:2; Genesis 1:26; Isaiah 59:16; John 1:1; John 1:14; Isaiah 59:21; Matthew 16.

Transcript

ad praise God while there is a spirit of worship in faith I would ask you to pray I just got a call a little short time ago this afternoon man in my church is waiting for me to call him back tonight doctors told him today his heart is all messed up he has to have surgery and he's waiting for an answer from the pastor and I just just didn't feel like calling until this congregation had a chance to touch God I'm going to ask you to pray for a man by the name of green in our church right now amen would you mind praying for a man in Long View Texas God you are able I ask you oh righteous God oh holy father God in your name let it please you tonight God hallelujah oh hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah Hal hallelujah hallelujah would you also pray for Reverend Howard pton a massive heart attack in Illinois let's pray right now I believe God's trying to tell us he wants to do the Miracles even right here tonight amen father in your name Hallelujah Glory touch this man Hallelujah May the will of almighty God be done hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah thy will be done hallelujah while you're getting your Bible I want to say thanks to all of my folks who driven here from Long View who have to drive back tonight and go to work and thank God for all of those that are in the church right now praying for their pastor and accessory prayer and I want to acknowledge some good friends of mine Pam and Brian Carol from this city here good friends of our family and I'm I'm so glad to welcome them here to a real Pentecostal service and I hope y'all like it so much that you'll just hang around here a while and I'd sure like for you to get to know the Mangin amen glory oh God give somebody the Holy Ghost tonight amen give somebody the Holy Ghost tonight the first 15 minutes of my message or 10 it's important that you get it let us begin reading tonight in the book of second Peter the first chapter and the 16th verse I want to join all of those who have F preceded me in saying this meeting I has changed my life I that's not just saying it because somebody else said it I promised The Long View you won't have the same Pastor next weekend I have repented I have repented I'm just being honest and open tonight oh God I got sick of myself when these men be to hold the mirror up and I saw things that shouldn't be there oh God and then something happened this afternoon I want to tell you in a minute first Peter or second Peter the 1st chapter and the 16th verse for for we have not followed cunningly devised fables when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ but were eyewitnesses of his majesty would you turn back to Philippians the 3rd Chapter the eth verse seventh verse but what things were gained to

me those I counted lost for Christ yay doubtless and I count all things but loss for the Excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and do count them but dung that I may win Christ and be found in him not having my know righteousness which is of the law but that which is through the Faith of Christ the righteous which is of god by faith that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto his death if by any means I might attain until the resurrection of the Dead not as though I had already attained either were already perfect but I follow after if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus Brethren I count not myself to have apprehended but this one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind today is different tomorrow forgetting all those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before I press toward the mark for the prize of the High Calling of God in Christ Jesus one more verse before you're seated acts the first chapter and most of you could quote this acts 1 and8 just a part of it but ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you and ye shall be Witnesses call this sermon whatever you want to but if you want to give it any kind of a title I just want to preach tonight I want to seek after his glory until I become an eyewitness of his majesty whereby I may become a witness to this world that he lives would you pray right now father father in your name hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah amen amen amen amen and everybody said praise the Lord you may be seated when coming to this conference this week I had a very unusual thing to happen to me I had ministered this message some time ago and yet I felt very impressed of the Lord that I would preach it but God began to give me the introduction to the message which was totally contrary to what my notes said it just didn't fit and God had given them to me a as soon as I got to this conference God began to deal with me what he wanted me to say in the beginning of this message and then it all came together this afternoon when that Spirit of prayer swept the place and people were praying and and in June 1957 something happened to me that changed the course of my life it was at a little bitty Gathering a little bitty building on the campground of lkin Texas and a missionary lady had come to speak to the youth group that day and there wasn't but probably about 50 or 75 of us there and sister Freeman came and spoke and that day she laid hands on me and I felt the call of God of direction of my life for since 1957 I have waited to try to tell her what happened and God every time I would ever approach her the Lord would say don't tell her now and so I would back off I have never spoken to her her I have never really talked to her she's never preached in our church since I have been Pastor there and finally today the Lord said now is the time and so I went to her and I I told her the story and I said I want you to pray for me and she said sir before I pray for you I have a word from the Lord for God spoke to me this afternoon and told me to give you a word and she said I would have looked you all across this building I would have searched till I

found you because you need to hear Before You Preach what I've got to say and she just said the Lord said not to worry that the fountain inside you or the well is not dry but I have had to take away from you many things so that I could in return add to you what I need to add to you and tonight there will come a new Fresh anointing for I will take from the altar a coal of fire and reignite you with an anointing now that may not mean anything to you but hold on just a minute 10 years ago in the city of Long View I pastored a very thriving exciting church we were on the move between 4 and five fulltime staff members the choir set on the platform on Sunday night chairs down the aisle new church plans were being drawn up money was coming in everything was good no problems nobody giving any trouble everything was totally perfect and fine 1980 one Sunday morning a man called me from Miami Florida and he said do you know what is on the front page of our paper and I said what he said they have listed the 10 exciting grow cities of the future and your city is listed number nine out of all of America and it was that we were going to be some phenomenal City Exxon planned on building a a plant the world's largest $5 billion plant 35 miles from my city General Motors had decided to build a car manufacturing plant that later went to Tennessee in our city an industrial magazine said that we would rival the industrial belt of Germany in some years our church was running over it looked like man all I had to do was set back I was going to have a church simply by the movein that didn't go over good but anyway I'm I'm talking about myself right now and I said man this this is going to be great and the things growing packed out running over everything is good the economist says it's going to survive a and everything magazine newspaper man we are on the map and while in the midst of a building program in April of 1984 two months from completion our bank folded practically every Bank in our city has gone under it was when we moved in that new building that something happened we lost our sense of direction and people started backsliding like it was the proper thing to do I had nobody likes to say this but I had almost as many deciding to quit and decide said hey we we just don't we don't care for it anymore and we just decided we want to move on or quit or whatever not only that but 60% of our congregation in the next few months their income was cut between 30 and 50% since then every family in our church has suffered some kind of defeat but I said all that to say this it was during these years that something began to happen in my heart something began to say I must know him better than I have ever known him in all of my life that if I attain and I gain everything that seems to be great if I build a church and fill it up and those people do not know Christ I have not accomplished anything and something be to stir in my heart something began to cry out I want to know him I want to behold his majesty I want to become an eyewitness of his glory I want to move in the realm of the supernatural I want something to happen and it was during this time that I began to see in the scripture in 1914 there came a tremendous revelation of the Mighty God in Christ sweeping across this country but there is a revelation that has yet to Dawn upon the Pentecostals and that is the revelation of Christ in you the hope of glory something has got to get in US of who this is and who we are and what we know and what our responsibility is it must happen to us Glory during this time 3 years ago

young man prayed through in our church I'll get going here in a minute maybe and the young man prayed through and he came in and told us he said I really don't know much about my background he said my mother says that I'm some kind of royalty from some country he said I've never seen my dad he left us when we were when I was 2 years old I do not know him and we just kind of put it on the back shaft till a few months ago phone call came through and it said we have been trying to locate you and asking you to board a plane and fly to Bangkok Thailand your father is near death the boy and his wife boarded the plane and flew there when he got back he told me the story of who he was or who he is he brought the pictures of all the family and and the funeral and all and the dignitaries that were there and he said pastor I am the fourth generation great grandson of the former King of Siam and he brought all the papers to prove it the thing that I'm saying here was a boy who had royalty in his veins and did not even know who he was or the authority and the power that rested inside of him sometimes God has no other choice than to take everything away from us whereby we may find out who we are and the authority and the glory of what we have to do in our generation Hallelujah Glory Glory it was in brother Tenny mentioned it today it's in the fourth chapter of Luke that Jesus went into the Wilderness and Satan went in to give him a hard time and so it was the devil knew that he could not destroy the Son of God he tried that in Bethlehem less than 2 years old and he wasn't able to do it he used the only thing that there was a possibility he thought that he could to stop the plan of God he tried to put a question mark in the mind of Jesus and he just said if thou be the Son of God if thou be he knew that he was wrestling with flesh and somehow he thought to inject in flesh the question I'm not sure of who I am I'm not sure of my position and my authority and my power the devil can only defeat this church when we get it in our mind we're not sure who we are we're not sure who our father is we're not sure what our destiny is but something is happening in the Land There is a revelation of the Mighty God in us hallelujah hallelujah oh yes amen praise God pardon me it is that when Luke 4 And1 and the Bible said and Jesus went in the wildness full of the Holy Ghost everybody say full of the Holy Ghost full of theol Ghost full that's all you can get when it's full is full he went in full of the Holy Ghost verse 14 of the same chapter says but he returned in the power of the spirit verse 32 said and he astonished them at his Doctrine for his word was with power Hallelujah somewhere the question was settled somewhere flesh took on the understanding that this is the mighty work of almighty God this is The Sovereign work of God God let it goone on us tonight this is The Sovereign work of almighty God and we have been chosen to present to the world Jesus Christ all over again Hallelujah it was in that time that the devil kept questioning Jesus and kept saying if thou be the Son of God and he would come back and say but it is written it's saddle boy there's no use for you to get All Shook Up about it it is settled Hallelujah there's no debate about it I'm going to tell you tonight the church cannot be defeated by hell it can only be defeated when a question mark gets in our mind that we're not sure who we are if we really have the authority if we really have the power but in this last day there's going to come a revelation to us of God inside of us reconciling the Flesh and the spirit together to do the will of almighty God hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah the world still needs a

visible representative of almighty God that's what Jesus was he was a visible representative of the glory of God this world doesn't need another judge they don't need a jury they don't need a prosecuting attorney they need an eyewitness they need somebody that can say I know who my father is amen I know who I am and I'm convinced and believe Hallelujah in the authority the world demands and deserves they deserve more than a forerunner they deserve more than another Prophet they deserve a visible representative of God In the Flesh that's where you and I come in Hallelujah we we are not just objects we are intended to be to this world the visible representative of God through this world that men can say he still lives but too many times we take the position that Jesus Christ refused to take while he was on the earth he refused to be a judge he said I'm here now as a savior and if I become a judge now then the world will have two judges one now and one at judgment and they'll never have a savior if the church loses its desire and loses its Vision we're going to become judges and Prosecuting attorneys and the world will pass this way and meet two judges and never meet a savior but if something can happen to the church if our Revelation and knowledge of who we are the world will meet a resurrected messiah in the far of individuals Glory Glory Hallelujah Oh Glory I tell you what there's a move of the Holy Ghost in This Place I feel anointed I'm wiping my face with an anointed hand that the staff and brother Manan prayed over I'm standing here tonight anointed by preachers from last night I'm standing here anointed Again by Sister Freeman Hallelujah I don't come with a hammer tonight I come to tell you if you're going through lost if when you get back home you still got some devils if it don't ring the way this does if it's not as exciting then I tell you one thing to do find you a place draw you a line and say I may not know it tomorrow but I'm going to try to apprehend something I'm going to seek after one thing I'm going to reach for it I'm going to desire it I'm going to know it I'm going to know it I'm going to know it Paul said I haven't apprehended it but I'm still chasing it I'm still reaching for it I don't stand here tonight and tell you I've gotten there but I'm standing here tonight tell you I'm running with everything I got I'm reaching for it brother Cisco I'm going to touch it amen don't tell me that my God made himself visible to this world and would treat me less than what he treat Creed that world that didn't care for him if I pursue him if I seek after him he will make hisself known unto me I will see him and know him and his majesty and His glory through signs and wonders and miracles in our day God has always used three major tools his spirit his word and his man yes sir and he still operates that way once God commits something he don't back up the gifts and callings are without repentance amen when God committed to Adam he said boy you fouled up but I will not withdraw The Authority that was given to man somewhere somebody else will come along that'll do it right in Genesis 1 and 2 said and the spirit of God moved on the face of the water Genesis 1:3 said and God

said the spirit prepared it the word produced it but verse 26 not until there was a man to preserve what the spirit had willed and the word had produced not until there was an anointed man to carry the will of the father this man Adam read it when you get home but the Bible said he gave him all authority over the sea over the air and on every living thing on the face of the Earth let me jump to the end of my message y'all just sitting there too quiet I'm going to tell you what someday brother Bourne the church is going to realize and we're going to take that Authority and say I have power over things in the Earth on the earth and above the Earth amen we have that right we have that Authority Hallelujah someday we're going to see his majesty and when we do Hallelujah the world's going to know we're passing by Glory Adam was a man who heard the voice of God and who walked with God he heard he saw he felt and he fumbled the ball but God did not cast aside his confidence Amen brother you I was going to get you to read just skip over that Isaiah 59 amen one writer said Isaiah 59:16 that God sought and there was no intercessor but therefore his arm would bring Salvation and righteousness no man can lead men back to God so God planned the ultimate he planned the ultimate anointed one in John 1 And1 says in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God and the word became flesh the spirit wi it the word produced it and the body of Jesus Christ became the anointed one to bring Salvation to this world Amen the anointed one Glory Hallelujah but Isaiah 59 and 21 don't only stop there but he said it will not only start with him but it said and his seeds seeds seed Hallelujah the authority will never pass out from there hey you are begotten of the spirit your father is almighty God therefore if Jesus spoke with authority therefore if Jesus acted with authority what's wrong with the church if we are the begotten of the father but hold on one of these days somebody is going to catch a glimpse of his majesty amen somebody is going to behold his glory somebody somewhere somehow oh Hallelujah Glory he still respects that Authority in in in 2 Corinthians 5 and 20 he said if I'm get an ambassador I can transact business on this Earth but God has so resolved himself from the first chapter of Genesis that he will not do business on this Earth as long as there is a representative here to do the bidding for him did you notice the Bible never does say pray for the devil to be cast out of somebody it just said cast him out cast him out you have the authority you've got the power it's in you but you got to know it there can't be a question there there can't be a question there oh hallelujah hallelujah I said there can't be a question there there's got to be a solid answer I'm more convinced of this Oneness message now than I ever have been before why because I've been chasing his majesty I've been reaching for it I've been trying to know it and the closer I get to him the more I understand who he is his name his authority his power and he has transferred that to us hallelujah

in Deuteronomy the fifth chapter I believe it is Israel came to Moses this is what they said we don't want to hear his voice anymore said you talk to him from now on and you tell us because we're scared of it don't let us hear it no more but oh God a few Generations removed and we're saying Lord would you show us your glory would you show us your glory Lord hallelujah and when God got a man when God got a Moses but if you want to if you want to read something to blow your mind read what I saw the other day in the scripture you talk about a mass healing there's a there's a healing that happens in Exodus that'll super anything that happened in the New Testament Church when God had a man by the name of Moses he stepped down there and he said all right we're fixing to get out of here in a few hours put a little blood here here here amen eat the lamb get ready to get out of here 400 years in slavery 400 years beaten like dogs 400 years treated like criminals 400 years of arthritis 400 years of crippled in disease 400 years of eyes being beaten out from being treated like a slave 400 years of crippled and defeated but the Bible said that night at midnight when they left Egypt the Bible said there was not a feeble one among them amen hallelujah when God has got a man when God has got a man when God has got a man he can do the unexplainable Hallelujah not a feeble one among them they get to a Red Sea Seas never rolled back but one can I say it like you one dude Hallelujah walked out there amen it don't sound right when I say it one man walked out there with an anointing he knew who he was Hallelujah I said he knew who he was he found a burning bush on the backside of a desert there was no question as to who he was he walked into Pharaoh's Palace and he said boy I've come here to tell you something amen I've come here to tell you something oh yes I have Glory we have official titles All Through the Bible there's called Patriarchs deliverers servants priests judges prophets Kings disciples Apostles evangelists pastors teachers Shepherds but he said before he left here I'm going to make you a witness Hallelujah I'm going to make you a witness a witness is somebody who can stand on the stand and say I saw it I know it I know who he is I have no doubt about it oh Hallelujah I'm convinced I know it Hallelujah now I may not get anybody up on the next one but I'm going to tell you what Jesus the Bible said brother borne went in the wildness full of the Holy Ghost and he came out of the Wilderness still full of the Holy Ghost but in the power of the spirit Acts 1:8 said you shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you oh oh Hallelujah I I dare not dwell on that one too long but I just want to tell you I don't believe you get all the power Just when you talk in tongues a little bit I knew it wouldn't get many up but there has to be a divine revelation there has to be a Divine anointing for the power to come there's got to be Hallelujah a divine intervention it's got to be and something is happening in Alex this week There's a divine intervention of the spirit amen there

is Glory Glory Glory Glory you shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you the Holy Ghost is the spirit that produced the visible representative of God to this world for the angel said that which is overshadow you is of the Holy Ghost woo Hallelujah but now hold on he was promised he was born and at 12 years old he pulled one of the one of the most outstanding things you've ever seen in life they took him in the temple said ask you a question Bo he just Zapped him he just put him out he'd say okay sir next they would stand up and come with that long philosophy and here was a little boy standing on an apple cart great amen hallelujah 12 years old he was astounding everybody everybody was just saying wow wow did you hear that man did you hear that but it's amazing when he displayed the wisdom the infinite knowledge of almighty God I find no record where one person was converted but when he came out of the Wilderness remember he was born full of the Holy Ghost he went in the wildness full of the Holy Ghost but when he came out brother lumpin he came out in the power of the spirit and few verses said and he began to do wonders and there begin to be amazement and the city begin to turn out and he walked in the synagogue and he said all right boys today is the day from now on the poor have the gospel preached the blind are going to see the lame is going to walk because I've come with the anointing I've come with the power I've come with a sanction I've got it oh hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah I don't mean to shake anybody's theology it's not what I'm trying to do tonight if you survived last night you can survive what I'm saying amen glory and I want you to know my friend it's not enough for us Pentecostals to just talk in tongues and run the aisles a little bit and jig and Shout we better find somewhere to have a revelation of almighty God and the power that worketh in us are we're going to offer to this world not a savior nothing but a judge hallelujah hallelujah hey friend your deep intellect and I'm not just trying to dwell on the subject but your deep intellect if he couldn't sway at 12 with his knowledge we'll never do it with ours if nobody got converted a 12-year-old boy preached and shut the mouth of ever scoffer in the crowd honey we're not going to do it with a jig and a shout and loud music or Screaming preachers or running the a somebody better become an ey witness of his majesty somebody somebody better reach after somebody better want to know him somebody in this crowd better go home and say hey I've got the Holy Ghost I've been baptized in Jesus name but I'm not satisfied where I am or what I'm doing I'm going to try to apprehend him that I may know him that I may know him that I may know him that I may know him in Matthew the 16th chapter I'm trying to hurry along Matthew the 16th chapter cesaria Philippi a very religious City 14 temples to bail in that one city the Greek called it the home of their God called pan Which was the god of nature the Jewish people loved it because the source of the Jordan River was there round about in cesaria Philippi the Romans had a temple built to Caesar who they considered Divine and holy it was into that City and among temples and among adles an unknown pen homeless boy from

Nazareth turned around and said who am I he went to the seat of religion and nobody could bring the answer and some of his own followers said well I I don't know I I heard you were lias and somebody said you were Jeremiah somebody just said one of the prophets and finally he looked over at one old boy and he just kind of probably shuffled his feet in the sand and and he said all right Simon who am I and he he said well nobody else is going to say it he said Thou Art the Christ the son of the Living God and you know what Jesus said somebody's been talking to you somebody's been talking to you you've been visiting with somebody he said My Father which is in Heaven has revealed this to you my God hey preachers I'm wondering what will happen in our congregations I wonder what would happen in our revivals what would happen in our meetings if somebody can stand and say I know him and I have a word from the Lord thus saith the word of almighty God hallelujah many looked at him but few have seen him they saw his shadow they saw his people they heard his story and they heard his name but very few have looked through the fog of confusion and were able to say I know him I know him I know him this is not deep but it's a little new to me anyway brother Tenny when Jesus asked Simon that question notice what happened and and and he said who am I and Simon said thou the Christ the son of the Living God and Jesus did an odd thing and he said and thou art Simon glory and he said on this Rock I'm going to build the church what rock that you know me and I know you and on this Revelation Hallelujah on this understanding oh I'm going to tell you tonight honey we're not in this thing by ourself he knows who we are he knows who we are he knows who we are he knows who we are Glory Glory Glory Hallelujah I want to tell you to not know him cost more than it does to know him ask Judas as Judas Glory we need some men who are eyewitnesses of his m Majesty not just have received the Holy Ghost we have ministers and Saints and counselors and administrators and organizers and seminar leaders and teachers and Powerful speakers but we need a personal confrontation with the almighty we've got to have it a light must be seen a voice must be heard something must happen to change us from just a tongue talker into a person of divine revelation and understanding something if Jesus Christ had to come out of the willness endowed with power to shake his generation brother Kilgore will never move our generation until some of us come out of the wildness with power oh God I'm I'm trying to hurry up Hallelujah somebody else's story is not good enough I'll tell you what happened when when everything went went wrong in Long View I began to say God I'm tired of telling stories that used to happen when I preach Revival for brother Kilgore I'm I'm tired of H hearing just what happened to brother BN up there and I preach for him or or hearing amen I want to have a personal encounter with you I'm not trying to brag tonight but we've got pep talks and lectures and sermons and homes and everything else but we need somebody to stand and say I have heard from God and thus sayith the voice of almighty God I saw your drama I liked every part of it sister uans there's only one part that I disagree with and I understand you have to do it this way it's not bad but I don't believe you could have

picked Judas out of the crowd he Blended so well nobody ever knew the disciples didn't even know M you see but something happens when a man does not have a Rel relationship with the master he had seen Jesus but he did not know him he had heard him but he didn't understand him he had a religion but he had no relationship and when the devil needed a man he needed somebody who could recognize Jesus but yet really didn't know who he was oh it's getting a little quiet right now I thought this service tonight would go in orbit and I'm sure it will when brother ston King gets up here and closes the thing out because that's the way God wants us to go home but I'm going to tell you something he knew the Empire but he never knew the man and Je and the devil needed a man who knew the actions of Jesus who knew where he was going to be but who missed out on the mission I didn't tell you where he is he's in an upper room I tell you where he's going to be praying after a while I've been around him long enough I know his actions I know where he but Judas you don't know him it cost you if you don't know him ask Judas it cost him everything and the Bible said if they would have known who the Lord Of Glory was they would not have crucified him but he was in their City he was in their streets and they did not know him he healed her sick he raised their dead and nobody call his majesty oh God I don't mean to sound negative but could it be that he walks through our congregations time after time and we got our sleeves right and we got our hair right and we got the boxes right and we got all of that right but we don't have enough personal relationship with him enough that when he passes by we even recognize he walking the room but somebody who's feeling after him says wait just a minute I believe he's here amen I believe he's here hey master I want to know you wait a minute wait a minute tell me something about you let me bow at your feet let me see who you are I've got to know you I must know you for myself I can't know it for the past generation I've got to know a fresh and new I have got to have a revelation and when there is no Revelation there can be no repentance two men Judas never knew him he died lost Simon made one of the biggest blunders ever made Glory but because he knew who he was repentance was his can I stop right now and just say and it won't be taken out of context and y'all won't ride me out on the rail but there's a lot of Pentecostal people if you could have a revelation of God and His will and work in your heart and life you talk about some guilt clouds would lift off of some of our Saints well maybe nobody here maybe I missed it but I'll say it again I pastored and preached long enough to know one of the biggest things we battle in the service is the Saints living under condemnation because the devil keeps coming in and saying if thou be if thou be if thou be if thou be if thou be hallelujah hallelujah at a youth camp one night brother Barne stood up it was years ago brother bne and you stood up and and you said God is not as worried much about the sin as he is that people are scared to ask him to forgive them when there is no Revelation but he cannot handle when you don't know him there no compatibility that's right hallelujah oh God we need a total touch

I'm trying to hurry and close Moses had a burning bush Samuel heard a Divine voice Elijah met on a mountain with God fire burned in Jeremiah Isaiah saw the Lord John was in the spirit Paul was caught into the third heaven and Peter said joy unspeakable and full of Glory Thomas said show us Mary ran from the garden saying I saw him the deciples on the road said our hearts burned within us and John said we saw him and we beheld the Majesty we beheld his glory we beheld it all Hallelujah so let me close out in Long View and I hope nobody judges me wrong for doing this but within the last three years I have seen more visible miracles happen in our church that I have in my entire Ministry added together and it didn't make sense until sister Freeman you said and I've got folks here all over this building tonight but I want to tell you you can't make them live for God you can't force it to and about 5 years ago God started saying preach to him me and for 5 years I have preached Jesus over and over again I'm not telling you what to do I'm telling what happened in Longville so don't go home say Ad said do this but I I took I took I took the judgmental law and laid it aside di for a while oh God please don't let me go too long I laid it all aside and I said all right God it's just me and you now I don't have a staff I don't have a choir now that can do a whole lot it's just me and you and the Lord seemed to say I've been wanting to do this for a long time I've been wanting to do this for a long time oh and I didn't know it sister Freeman until today he had to take everything away from me until I could become infatuated with one thing I will not build a church because others move in I will not build a church simply because my economy is good I must build a church where men come face to face and have a relationship and an encounter with almighty God I have to become a witness a witness a witness I've got to see it I've got to know it and this is going to shock you this is going to tear a lot of you theology up most of our Miracles that have happened in Long View have happened with nobody laying hands on anybody as some of my folks are here and Mike you're over there you know what I'm talking about hallelujah amen you know how it happened and God be to try to tell me something and I'm not sure I got it all right I'm going to be honest with you but the Lord seemed to say too many times y'all get in praise and you never get in worship there is a difference praise can be offered from a long distance off but worship has to be directed to one particular thing trees can Praise Him rocks can praise him everything can praise him but only only human beings can worship Him amen oh God and when we worship him we are ushered into the Avalanche of the miraculous we're ushered into the Avalanche of his glory so I said God God don't look like you're going to going to help me out of this situation so God I'm not going to be able to depend on Saints moving in so I'm going to have to do the rough thing I'm going to have to get me some losers I'm going to have to get me some people that everybody else is giving up on I said I'm going to have to get somebody some people that everybody else says they ain't worth nothing stand up

Garden pole Hallelujah a drug dealer in Texas correctional institute stand up forest in a hospital his brain fried to the doctors wouldn't even go in the room and they said he'll never be sane where are you Bobby called him one night in the middle of the night and I said you're sitting there with a gun in your hand you fixing to kill yourself and he said you're right these three men will verify in our church I picked up some losers I picked up some losers I picked up some losers Hallelujah Glory Glory somebody somebody better have a revelation are we're going to pass the poor we're going to pass the needy and all we're going to want is growth off of one another oh come on Pentecost it's time we quit growing off of one another and started having a revelation that brings the glory that brings the power that brings the miraculous that causes the lame to walk and the blind the sea Hallelujah I'll tell you what it's done it has shaken a lot of our church boy we picked up some losers brother Kilgore but God's made some winners out of them those three men are here because they feel a call of God on their life they trying to seek after the will of almighty God when they prayed through people told me they Won't Last a Day but I didn't have any other choice GM decided not to come Exon decided not to come the oil industry went bottom brother McGuire you know what I'm talking about you're 19 mil away from me amen everything went wrong oh but when I begin to pursue after him when I begin to say maybe there's something you want to show me maybe there's something you want to do I preach to the church over and over they begin to catch the view of it hallelujah oh I don't I hope y'all don't think I'm bad when I tell you we've had the AIDS patience to get the Holy Ghost in our church I didn't have any other choice I didn't have any other choice just losers but let me tell you this is and closing in one service one night as the church begin to break into worship brother borne maybe you can explain this to me every time the church would worship again another miracle would happen and I never walked out of the audience and laid hands on anybody I saw the walk that night I saw blind eyes open deaf ears were un stop incurable disease confirmed by the doctor was healed that night my own daughter here was scheduled in a few days for surgery God healed her that night and she's never had anything amen I'm here to tell you tonight the story spread and then one day into our church came a little family and I said how are you folks and they they could only speak a few words in English because they were from Old Mexico and they said we heard that some Miracles were taking place here this is our granddaughter we have driven from Mexico would you pray for her it was in a day or two I picked up the phone and a lady said sir are you the man that can heal by laying on hands do you heal with your hands I thought it

was a joke I started to just laugh I thought it was somebody pulling a big joke on me brother Fuller I said no you you guys that's just then I heard her voice and it trembled she said sir I don't know you I don't know your church I don't know anything about what you believe I'm dying with cancer and somebody told me I don't even know that they go to your church I just heard it that if I could get your hands to lay on me I would be healed sad thing about it I'm afraid I lost her she never came because I thought it was a joke since that time we have sent handkerchiefs out and have had marvelous Miracles reported am I right fellas two years ago when I was scheduled to preach here because of the times you're aware that I was called away girl in my church rushed to Dallas they called me and said get here quick possibly her and the baby both is going to die doctor says it's serious I drove as fast as I could my wife and I we walked into the room she looked at me and she said all right Pastor tell me what she said if you say it's going to be all right it's going to be all right I said it's going to be all right she looked at her husband said all right tell the doctor let's proceed boy it was hard to break the news to her when it was over with that the baby by being born pre mature its legs had turned out and its feet was not right and in a few months when it struggled to get up its heels or rather its ankles is what touched the floor first God is wanting to tell somebody in this building something that he wants to do a miracle but I still kept holding on that I'd heard from God it was a few nights ago at the close of a Sunday night service oh I don't know whether that couple is here is Melanie and Joel here in the crowd anywhere does anybody know amen if they have [name redacted] here hallelujah amen maybe not but anyway that Sunday night after the close of a service and the Holy Ghost was moving somebody made a mistake by putting the baby on the floor around the altar alter well they like to fou it up because when they put it on the floor it's feet snapped in place and the baby start to walking across the floor I had to lose a lot I had to lose a lot brother kilar but I'm want to tell you now the economy is still bad I got men here tonight that make $3 an hour and have a family we still not on top financially but I'll tell you what I'd rather have what we having now than have the Bank full of money because the blind are seeing the losers are finding God and hope is coming for the lost and they're getting the Holy Ghost somebody has got to be an eyewitness of his majesty

Scripture references as spoken: 2 Peter 1:16; Philippians 3:7-14; Acts 1:8; Luke 4:1; Luke 4:14; Luke 4:32; Genesis 1:2; Genesis 1:26; Isaiah 59:16; John 1:1; John 1:14; Isaiah 59:21; Matthew 16.