The Bottom Line Is Evangelizing A Lost World

welcome to beuse of the times 99 Hallelujah as Apostolic leaders we must ask ourselves what it will take to meet this Challenge and to prepare ourselves for a new century and a new millennium the turn of the Millennium is a time of great opportunity to reflect on our past to assess the present and to make new commitments for the future welcome to because of the times 19.99 thank you and you may be seated the Legendary Green Bay football coach name Vince Lombardi once when his team team was on a losing streak Lombardi called a team meeting and he announced gentlemen today we are going back to the basics and holding up this object he said men this is a football distinguished church leaders my general superintendent and district superintendent brothers and sisters this is a lost world our single purpose of life our reason for living that's right is to evangelize a lost world the bottom line is I do not exist for any other reason it is our Command to declare the whole gospel to the whole world that's right it is our Mandate of the lord of the Harvest it is our Apostolic Legacy of an unforgettable people in the book of Acts it is not only possible but it is demanded right and we have everything we need to do it yeah but the bottom line is we haven't done it the year 2000 now is only 11 months away it Looms on the Stark Horizon attracting every eye to its mystical significance the so-called universal church is making strategic plans both in Rome and Jerusalem for The ecumenical Gathering of all religions and Reformation churches including Muslims Hindu and Eastern religions to join in celebrating the mystical year 2000 in the face of this rapidly changing World in this Gathering storm it is time to get serious about the business of the church we cannot and we will not accept business as usual we've got to make radical right revolutionary changes and how we plan to evangelize the world in the next 11 months the road to the future is always under constru ruction so because of the times

1999 is a reconstruction meeting to make plans for the future and we cannot move into the 21st century and leave one single soul behind our world stands in the path of coming tribulation when the wrath of God is getting ready to be poured out without mixture upon them who do not know God and have not obeyed the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ we must issue a warning that will be heard around the globe right many Apostolic Jesus name Believers have missed the purpose by a million miles we are so saturated with our selfs serving theology that we have evaded our responsibility of reaching a lost and dying world and warning them of a judgment that is to come the fact that three billion people now live on this planet who have never one time received an adequate presentation of the death burial and Resurrection seems to be of no apparent consequence to our church programs and if this book be the infallible inherent inspired word of God which indeed it is there is a lot of blood on our hands and God said because because you have failed to warn and to save lost souls and rescue the perishing Ezekiel 3 their blood will I require at your hand probably the greatest negligence in the church today is our failure to evangelize the world brothers and sisters this is not a party this is a lost world I didn't put these things up for us to come and just celebrate tonight we will do that tomorrow and tomorrow night and other occasions but the keynote tonight is these are lost people so we're kidding ourselves if we think we're in the midst of a great Revival when half of our churches have gone to sleep when it comes to evangelizing the world come on now somebody's going to get up here and make you feel good but I have some thought-provoking things for you tonight you may be seated well over 80% of the United Pentecostal Church people have never witnessed the gospel to a living Soul let alone LED them to Jesus Christ and most spend more time Hunting Fishing golfing shopping cat food and dog food than they do on evangelizing a lost world the church that was begun in Acts chapter 2 which we claim to be counterpart it was the hottest issue on planet Earth there was a handful of committed people with singleness of purpose and urgency of times abilities that could not be explained by material resources they covered their then Known World and turned it upside down and broke the Roman Empire to its knees and one them run out of Caesar's house household if that great movement and Revival would have continued to gain momentum unto now the whole world would have already heard the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ what's sad is the book of Acts ends with chapter 28 verse 31 and is waiting for somebody to write verse 32 11 months shy of the New Millennium

three billion have never heard his name Prince D two years ago killed in an automobile accident within 30 days every nation in the world knew the name Prince died yet 2,000 years later have still have never heard the name of Jesus Acts chapter 13 a Greek physician named Luke writes about the church located at Antioch it's a city of a half a million people the capital of Syria where 100 or so years earlier anticus epiphanes was born it was the great Metropolis that great book of Acts Believers were first called Christians the church at Antioch was this kind of church it was Dynamic it was praying it was fasting it was mission giving it was evangelizing it was a world changing Cong conation they were convinced that they had a reason for existing more than 90 minutes on Sunday morning spiritual Giants came out of that church the missions movement started in that church with two men by the name of Paul and Barnabas the church at Antioch changed the course of Christian history it is the story of Revival fasting prayer evangelism and missions it is the pattern of the same kind of activity in our generation it is the continual story of the apostolic Jesus name Mighty God in Christ and the rise of the church all over the then Known World the bottom line is this we haven't followed their pattern to evangelize the world even though we adamantly declare the obedience to the apostolic message and we should we are so very glad to have people worshiping with us tonight that are not of our belief are not of our Doctrine persuasion we're so very glad to have them you may be seated Dr tikle and your friend we're so very glad to have you but if you would spare me just a moment I need to say something to we Pentecostals I'm going to barge out of my message to the younger generation have we come to the last hour and all of a sudden decided that repentance and what baptism in Jesus name and the intial of the Holy Ghost is no longer needed are we're going to fail what began 2,000 years ago in the upper room then water it down when we get to the most powerful time of our history you may be seated the kind of Revival I'm talking about will still allow you to be separated from the world are we going to get here at the end time and think that the Revival I'm preaching about tonight is lowering our standards with hair and makeup and jewelry and modest apparel the things that we have stood for for years and get here young preachers and lay them down that's not the kind of Revival I'm talking about you may be seated having said that brothers and sisters and you understanding we not to lay none of that aside the Church of the 21st century has got to be the same kind of apostolic church that that church at Antioch was that's the kind of church if these people want me to Pastor the them that I attend this church to be it's going to

be a dynamic church it's going to be a Praying church it's going to be a fasting church it's going to be a witnessing church it's going to be a mission giving church we gave our largest offering to forign and Chiefs this church gave 62,000 of shees for Christ and I promis this man he said please help us at Christmas I said we're in a a building program but I said we'll do 15,000 at least what we did last year Jack I promise you we took our Christmas for Christ offering and I just wish I could stand on my tiptoes and tell you what a great offering it was this church gave $4500 to Christmas for Christ I was smoking upset I was so upset at those people that choir I was so upset at this church because God will close us up in Revival I walked into the church secretary I said you take $133,000 out of the building program you don't ask the trustee board you don't ask anybody else you tell them Pastor said so if they're not going to give to missions I'm going to give our bill stent program the mission I want saan and his deadly demons to know that there's going to be a church in Alexandria whose altars are going to be fleshly stained every day with the tears of the saint I want him to know there's going to be intercessors I want him to know there's people fasting every day I want to know there's going to be people that's going to believe in an Apostolic Revival it's a lost world they matter to God lost people matter to God I'm tired of just talking about evangelism oh yes we've got the brother Billy Co that goes over there Pentecost didn't have anything like it I'm not going to take away from nothing happen there and we're going to Rejoice over that and we need to but the bottom line is the church in America isn't getting it done and we are in the Redemption business we can talk about Ethiopia all we want to but with brother Cam doing everything you do we've had the greatest numbers in the history of the United Pentecostal Church the United Pentecostal Church is having the greatest Revival it's ever had compared to the past but when when you look at what we should have done we're behind in the race you may be seated so let me lay it to you straight pastors let me just lay it to you straight if this church leads the doctrine it's nobody's fault but mine if this church goes worly or lose the consecration issues of this church don't blame worldness or carnality in congregation it's a weak pull pit I knew you would shout over that so let me finish if the altars are empty and the bapistry is empty it's also the fa of the pull pit don't blame the Ley if we're not winning Souls it's the F of the pullit not preaching wining not preaching Revival not preaching prayer not preaching evangelism not preaching fasting and not loving a lost soul so I ask myself brother beckon I continually ask myself what is the purpose of this church chir you sang so good wasn't that choir tremendous Don't Clap I got all the time to preach but wasn't that great but what's the purpose why don't we have a youth ministry why don't we have Sunday school why don't we have a Family Life Center why don't we come to church what's the purpose of it all what's the process what are we trying to do who are we trying to impress why are we trying to get numbers most churches in America are growing by transferring of letters or who's ever having the hottest preacher or the hottest singing group has the largest number in Sunday school americ Christian churches has lost the basis of

going to the homeless and the dope addicts and the drugs addicts and the homosexualities and the dopeheads they've lost the desire to reach a lost and Dying World so everything we must do I looked at our minister of Music how brother Howard I looked at this choir as we begin the new year I don't want them singing if they can't win a soul I don't want a Sunday school teacher teaching a class if they can't win a soul I told our ministry team they're right here I said get your carcass off of this platform don't tell me how many cards you have in your pocket or how many Revival you preached or what you're doing if you can't personally win a soul and I'm going to look at you preachers and tell you you haven't got big enough that you've excused yourself from winning a soul you don't Pastor a big enough church that you don't need to win a soul never has the Harvest been riper never has there been a greater day for Revival and about four blocks down this road when I was six and seven years old my dad then a much younger man would walk to that pull pit with his black hair flashing and Braille cream swinging everywhere he would walk to that pull pit and he'd say in 45 years is the year 2000 the Lord is coming the Lord is coming it's just 45 more years and when we turn this new year it don't only me there are no more years to the year of 2000 we are not speaking of the year of 2000 now in years we're talking about it in months and weeks and days and whatever the church is going to do you say it's going to bleed the Rapture I'm not telling you that but here's what I am telling you I'm preparing to go and I'm preparing to stay but what I'm going to do is I'm going to be prepared for either one I told this church I said you quit referring around this city to come to church you start calling our church a hospital that's what it is a hospital it's not a country club it's not a place for clicks to come meet together it's not a place for a family to run it it's a place where people come that are sick that need to be healed and need to be touched and need to be saved and need to be delivered look at this man my dad baptized him 40 years ago in the name of Jesus Jesus he sat back there and looked at me for 30 years of preaching January the 11th God baptized him with the Holy Ghost and he spoke with tongu the spirit gave him the utterance we going to win them kind you going to get those in your congregation that's been coming that hadn't got the Holy Ghost they going to get the Holy Ghost this year they going to be Revival this year I walked home from school every day with this boy he lived two blocks with me he was a good old Catholic boy he loved the Lord this was his wife he came to me about a year ago he said I got a boy he said I know you were good when you were a kid and he said I don't know what else to do we've tried everything he can't do anything can you help me I said yes bring him to me he came in with a earring in beard long hair all messed up came in there and said H I started witnessing to him and he said I'll try it if you say it I'll try it this kid repented of his sins Hallelujah and God baptized him with the Holy Ghost you may be seated his mom and daddy couldn't handle it so they started coming to church couple months ago three weeks ago I baptized them in Jesus name both of them got the Holy Ghost this is Lee he was a dope addict he was a cocaine Pusher he ended up one time Lee I'm going to let you say a word you got to do it quick I'm preaching he was in a a drug hospital he's ready to take his life say something about the Lord I love the Lord so I came here two years ago I was in a drug rehab and U my friend of mine had witness to me and I came I had earrings in both ears blond I was 55 lb lighter than I am right now I was hooked on needles 55 lbs God fill me with the Holy Ghost and I got

baptized in Jesus name tell i't now listen listen tell them what's all happened now I started pushing buggies at Kmart after it happened and witnessing in a red vest I didn't care I didn't care a year ago I got hired on I'm a deputy sheriff now only God can do that only God can do that last Sunday last Sunday you may be seated last Sunday we baptized his brother and sister-in-law two Sundays before that his mother and daddy both got the holy ghost in the last 4 weeks called so these two men here I'm very proud of them it's called Soul winning every Sunday morning this man right here who is a deputy he goes to the jail halfway house he picks them up these are called Souls these are people that nobody wants these are the incourage bles why don't you ask your Rich folks to move over and let the poor come in and those that are less fortunate I'm not used to seeing them like this they got their Messiah look I'll take care of them after Messiah but they getting ready for the drama come up here bring them quick come on I got to have everybody quick let me tell you this is you may be seated this is the crew I love they call themselves Anthony's kids oh I love you hey Pam I love you P I love you P this is Anthony's kids right here roll them on the I'm going out roll them on AC cross here let me tell you it's hard you see this fell right here and you see this fell right here look at him get a good look at him that's a soul yeah they're in your community they can't put $100 week in the tie and envelope it'll cost you $100 a week to go get them but it's a s thank you Randy hey buddy roll them across I want everybody to see them these are my kids here do they call trouble yeah sometimes I'm preaching on Sunday morning they just start hollering out over there I have to send the police and everybody over there tell them to shut up but that don't matter Souls hey yeah yeah yeah man Souls Souls then here's our Grace house guys we went down and took a house that we owned we were going to sell it I said why sell it so we gutted that house all these men were living on the street just a few days ago now out this church takes around $2,000 a month and we support These Guys these are our homeless men that the Pentecostals sponsor that they have to come to church learn the doctrine know who they are what they are what they doing it's called souls and every one of these are in your community and let me tell you something you need to get rid of your stinking Prejudice some of you don't have have a black person in your church all the world all the world may be seated the church is not a country club for this SP and span crowd the church is not a concert hall where singers and musicians strut their stuff it's not some architectural Showplace the church is far more it's a hospital for lost people and hurting people that's got to have their lives changed Jesus said on the Jericho Road that notorious Highway between Jerusalem and Jericho he said there was a House of Mercy he called that house the church he called it a glorious church built along the dangerous Highway of life where Good Samaritans travel every day despite the danger reaching the wounded bleeding half dead victims binding up their wounds and pouring in oil and wine and placing them in the hands of the inkeeper but what there was only one between Jerusalem and Jericho according to history what if there would have been been no House of Mercy no hospital no

church with love and compassion to which he could take his half dead victim the bottom line is this great church Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost and it's that one-on-one encounter with your fellow man that is in desperate need of help today and the bottom line is Jesus came to build Upon This Rock his church and the gates of hell shall not Prevail against it and my sweet brothers and sisters it takes more than Sunday morning Worship Hour to build a church it takes a lot more than singing songs and holding hands and singing Kumbaya to build a spiritual Army there's more to it than tapping your toes and lifting your hands and going through Pentecostal calisthenics to build a church there's more to Building a Church than brick and mortar the church is the body of Christ it's the Blood Washed redeem of the Lamb it's those that have committed their very lives to the propagation of the gospel and Jesus Christ is going to build his church and he is going to do it hear me close with us or without us and I finish that part with two statement we can't stop it but we can miss it we have been raised up for this moment in time in history the 21st century will be a new kind of world and the whole world is getting ready for the 20 first century 300 32 days 4 hours 25 minutes are you ready for it are you ready for the new Millennial to be ready for that it's going to be another Pentecost the only way we can do it between now and then is we got to have an outpouring of the Holy Ghost in fire we need that Supernatural to touch Our Lives the evangelization of our world can only come when we've been Leed on by the Holy Ghost I wish tonight we' take everything out of here in one of them old brush Harbor Pentecostal Apostolic meetings I wonder what would happen if the general board would leave here drunk on the Holy Ghost I wonder what would happen if the preachers would leave their drunk on the Holy Ghost I wonder what would happen if every one of us became a flame of fire in this place we need another Pentecost right now we need another Holy Ghost outpouring right now we need another blessing right now I don't everything talk in tongues a minute go ahead talking Tong something may happen to you let the holy ghost touch you right now let there be fresh fire fall in this place right now that's it that's it come on Fire come on Holy Ghost come on Holy G fall carry us out of here drunk on the Holy Ghost let us leave here tonight God slain

under the spirit of power let us have another Pentecost tonight you may be seated so pastors what are you pastoring for all but Shepherds begat Shepherd we love that to protect our laziness don't we when did God ever teach us that Shepherds beget Shepherds and sheep beget sheep our churches aren't winning Souls because we as pastors aren't winning Souls Hallelujah we'll collect the yellow envelopes on Sunday morning but don't disturb me about that Soul winning business what's your purpose what you plan how can we sleep at night with empty altars and babies how can we sleep you sweet evangelist thank you brother Cunningham for bringing these great evangelist in life we love you we sorry we underpay you we sorry we treat you like stepchildren on but I want to say something to you that shouldn't affect your burden your soul cause is to edify the body that's right bring Revival to the church and then snatch Souls Out of Hell an evangelist if you don't have the burden of yanking Souls out of hell you need to turn your card in and go home and sell shoes people and I'm closing but people are lost hell we had heard of that when's the last time you preached on Hell when's the last time you preached on Hell when's the last time you preached on Hell when's the last time you preached on Hell when's the last time you know why because it's hard we got people that's living in hell when they come to church we feel guilty about preaching on hell but the fact is there's people beside us that's marching to the Lake of Fire and we talk about how many gods there are and we better and we talk about our Doctrine how powerful it is and it is but the fact is brother Kil Gore they're still marching to Hell people lost lost lost line up the lost people in this world in one line that line would reach around the earth 30 times and the line would grow 20 miles longer every single day assume that we started tonight and we started to drive that line of lost people and we would give every lost man in that line a new testament if we drove 50 mil per hour for 10 hours a day it would take us 4 years and 40 days to get to the place where the line ended on the day we began but the line would have grown 30 m longer during the trip right stop the clock at noon let time come to a standstill lock the cemeteries don't let anybody die close the OB section of the hospital let no one else be born and until we win those to Christ that are alive right now at the rate of all evangelical church now I am not speaking of apostolics I am talking about if for five minutes we could ecomize with every denomination Church you know the rate that the Evangelical churches have been going it

would take us 320 years to win the Lost In America alone it would take us 4,000 years at our present rate to reach the lost world I ask you are we fulfilling the Great Commission Dr Paul James pictured two automobiles leaving the expressway in New York City both headed for Los Angeles one traveling 10 miles an hour and one traveling 100 miles an hour in James illustration the 100 m n car represents the expansion of the human race the 10 m n car represents the expansion of all Christianity together it is estimated that 1 million Village and towns in the Free World alone are without an Evangelical voice in the meantime our churches increased their Barns and missed the Harvest the world is craning into hell at a frightening speed and the Great Commission is further from being obeyed than ever before he that winth Souls is wise I think I learned that from an old book and then I think the man that is the book told us you do it one by one God expects a Believer to bring another to Jesus and the plan has set the operation in a generation to equal its sense a pagan intolerant selfish rotten within 30 years the plan by those men that Jesus instituted successfully challenged both Israel and Rome it worked by I'm doing it one onone in fact Jesus gave him a name he called them Fishers of man and he began his organization with these trades people whose names was Peter James and John and others and he said that they were to catch men so what have we done we're so blessed I'm better off than I have ever been these people love me I drive the best I live in the best and they would like it to even be better so the fact is we've traded our fishing boats in on Excursion ships and we're enjoying our cruise to Heaven complete with our deck chairs our Sumptuous meal our great organization and leaders that we have what a great organization entertaining singing entertaining preaching complete with cabin service deck games and cozy hours it must really shock the fishermen of Galilee when they look at the church that's bringing a close to the 3,000 year millennium are you basking on a sunshine deck or are you fishing for men the law of the sea is s o which is sold for Souls its presidents is over everything cargo profit difficulty language barrier shipping company and any other signal last year Hollywood's biggest producer was the movie Titanic the story is this 10 Mi away from where the Titanic was slowly sinking after scraping her giant Hull against the spur of an iceberg was the SS California the SS California was only 10 miles away 1,53 passengers perished 2,224 people were on board the Titanic of whom 885 were crew the SOS went out the air was filled with the message the Titanic is sinking what happened to the SS California that ship was close enough to have saved all 1,513 who perished why were they lost one Simple Man the wireless operator of the SS

California had left his post did not receive the signal and though the Rockets were shooting into the sky for some unexplained reason they did not take the distress signals and the stricken ship Mankind's momentary Pride sank at 2:15 in the morning her kill hoisted high in the air it sounded as great and terrible as a collision they set of 20 trains it was reported by the 71 who were rescued that though they were in distant boats after the Roar of the crash of the vessel there came across the waters the cries of 1,000 513 victims and then there was silence forever and ever and ever oh brother gedrose when I was a kid in the early 50s preached a message death march to hell and he stood there and he marched and he marched and he marched and he marched H hell bake a fire Bernie you love acts 238 how much is all you want to do is run around and debate it with those that don't believe like we believe or why did he give it to you what's the purpose of Acts 2 38 what is repentance what is baptism in Jesus name what is the infilling of the Holy Ghost what's it for there was a boy working at a filling station here and he was filling up his tire with air and it blew up and brother Mahan had decapitated him dead instantly the story is this his mama was an Apostolic mama and at that funeral she could cried my boy oh my boy my boy wasn't saved my boy wasn't saved my boy wasn't saved oh my boy my boy my boy for the next 3 weeks she lost it she quit eating she quit drinking they had to get her professional help she lost pounds after pounds after pounds and I wonder Ed sister why didn't you do that 3 weeks before he died instead of 3 weeks after he died hell and in hell they lift up their eyes and they see the United Pentecostal Church shouting and dancing and no one's been baptized in weeks and nobody cares and nobody's knocking doors and nobody's handing out tracks and it becomes not a way of life it's just something else and in hell they're lifting up and in hell they're saying to because of Time come on preachers come on churches somebody care about the Lost hell what you going to do about it preacher somebody will get your feeling better tomorrow so brother Ur he he'll preaches a great message but I can't stop tonight till I get your attention there's people going to hell there's people in your city God didn't set you there just to take care of the Saints he set you there to reach that community and people that are lost there's a lost world there's a lost world there a lost world preacher was driving back into New Orleans and I'm through and brother kilgary saw this man he said it's a guy trying to rob me it's a guy going to kill me this man's in the middle of the punch of train breathe stop stop so this preacher said I just decided I'm going to go around him so he said I took my car and I sore the other land the man threw his body over front stop and he fell out in front of my car I stand on my brakes my drilling began to pump I jumped said what do you want to do you want to rob me Rob me why why you do that he said sir sir a barge broke loose and knocked

a span out of the bridge and the Greyhound bus went over and I climbed up the bridge to stop you from plunging in like Pat a train he said I looked at that man and I hugged him I said oh sir what do you want what can I do for you I'll repay you I'll give you anything and Jesus looked at we apostolics and as the Good Samaritan he said I'm going to give them to you now I've called him and here's what he said you spend everything you got on them and you spend more and when I come back I'll pay you everything you've ever spent on a lost every Mission dollar every time every door every witness he said I'll repay you so who's going to hell from your city when you're not coming evangelist who's going to hell while you're preaching your pretty sermons preachers how many he's going to go to hell while you worry about the things and the stock market and the CDs what you can do people are going to hell in your community people are going to hell in your community you never mention Jesus to me you have a place toay to see I am yourself a place to pray