So Great Salvation

amen I want to thank the Lord for what I'm hearing in this conference I came here and prior to coming I prayed I said Lord I want one thing out of this conference I want to go into a place in the spirit that I've never been I am so hungry for it I have to have it praise God I want God to use my life like never before beyond my imagination I believe this is our hour I believe this is our day amen amen the Lord is moving mightily and I want to be a part of it I want to thank brother Anthony for inviting me here and the wonderful hospitality and we want to invite him publicly to Black evangelism conference in New Orleans in August this year amen we want him to preach the word of the Lord there amen I believe he's doing a great job and and we really respect this man and look up to him amen is the Lord good is the Lord wonderful I'm telling you after brother Tom Fred Tenny finished this morning I'm wondering why I'm going to preach here I really don't mind going after brother Tenny but I wish I could have went before him amen praise God but the Lord is good amen he's a great God it's so good to be here and I want to get right into the word of the Lord I want to greet bishop and sister Mangan and thank sister Mangan for that powerful message yesterday my Lord have mercy praise God we've been hearing some wonderful words of the Lord amen turn your bibles if you have them with me to the book of Hebrews chapter 2 amen are you going to help me preach you going to have to help me preach cuz brother Tenny just preached everything praise God Amen Hebrews chapter 2 and we'll start our text in verse number one therefore we ought to give the more Earnest heed to the things which we have heard heard lest at any time we should let them slip for if the word spoken by Angels were steadfast and every transgressor and disobedient received a just recompense of reward how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation which at the first began to was to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him God also bearing them witness both with signs and wonders and with diverse Miracles and Gifts of the Holy Ghost according to his will For unto the angels have he put ha he not put in subjection the world to come whereof we speak but one in a certain place testified saying what is man that thou art mindful of him or the son of man that thou visits him thou makest him a little lower than the Angels thou crown him with glory and honor and Des set him over the works of thy hands I want to talk to you just for a little while this morning simple subject that I believe the Lord laid on my heart for this meeting so great salvation oh yes would you pray with me one more time father thank you and we need the anointing Lord m just as on the day of Pentecost send the anointing father that will destroy the Yoke release Us in the power of the spirit we thank you this morning we Praise You In Jesus Name clap your hands one more time and you may be seated according to US News and World Report and I quote 100 years ago scientists were grappling with the new knowledge that the energy emanated from radium could create images of people's bones that Adams were not in fact the smallest units in the universe since then we've learned that space and time are relative

terms we flown at Kittyhawk smashed Adams stepped on the moon vanished small poop and wired the world to the internet it would be easy to presume that the last 100 years were the Golden Age of Discovery but they say well you ain't seen nothing yet according to historians Church historians 100 years ago Believers were grabbling with this new knowledge according to the book of Acts that once you receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost you spoke in tongues yeah shortly after that came the revelation of how to be baptized the revelation of the name the Revelation that all that would be baptized would be baptized not in the name of the father or the son or the Holy Ghost but in the name of Jesus that name which is above every name oh Hallelujah since then we've come from brush Harbors to the state house from storefronts to the White House from having Church in North America in one language to having church just last week in 45 languages that great clap your hands somebody clap your hands everybody oh Hallelujah oh since the merger we've come from something like 113 foreign missionaries to over 500 foreign missionaries we have over 700 700 home missionaries and I say well you ain't seen nothing yet oh good God Almighty you haven't seen anything yet we're just cranking up we're just gearing up we're just getting ready to get ready to get ready for the main event oh my god oh I believe it's showtime I believe it's time to show the world what the Church of the Living God is all about oh clap your hands somebody look at your neighbor and say you haven't seen anything yet woo I believe like you believe that this is our hour I believe God is going to give revelation of his greatness to his church Paul said in Hebrews 1 and3 he said who being in the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person and upholding All Things by the word of his power the word of God is eternally fixed in heaven it is dynamic it is powerful the word will accomplish great things the word of God is the creative word according to Creation God spoke his word and things that were not not so became so oh thank you Jesus in other words God spoke to nothing and nothing became something oh yeah chaos heard it and became order God said to Darkness let there be light and there was light honey this is our hour this is our day he's not going to give the ball to another group he's going to give the ball to those that believe in the power of the apostolic message oh yeah the invisible became visible and of course this process is summarized by what the psalmist wrote by the word of the Lord for the heavens made Paul said through faith through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God through faith we understand Two Worlds the natural world and the spiritual World we're

trying to get connected into the spiritual world we want to see things we've never saw before we want to feel that which we've never felt before and I believe we're feeling things we've never felt before I know if you're like me you can't wait to go back home and and release the power of Faith in your community for such a time as this oh Hallelujah clap your hands everybody let's have a little church around here hallelujah oh let's have a little church we we've heard we've got the theological Renditions you've heard powerful preaching You' you've got the word of God you've got a word tucked in your heart we need to have a little church around here this morning we need to have a little demonstration this morning about how much we believe God we need to I'm not coming with enticing words but I'm coming in a demonstration of the power of our God oh I'm telling you what our communities need they don't need your they don't need our arrogance they need a move of God they need the power of God they need to feel the church rocking in your community oh good Lord of Heaven hallelujah oh that's it that's it come on clap your hands I'm here for something and I'm not leaving until I get it I'll wrestle all day I'll wrestle all nuh until He blesses me thank you thank you Jesus you may be seated the Bible says in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God two schools of thought beginning in word beginning signifies duration prior to cre creation there could be no measurement of duration and consequently no time time was produced by God's power for man to demonstrate or Express his glory or his greatness to man sister Mangan preached yesterday that life is but a vapor it's here and it's gone oh you've got to use your time well I give I concur I give my vapor to God I'm giv everything I have to God in this hour because I believe that that this is the age of Revelation that God's going to open up his greatness and to those that are able to go beyond you've got to go beyond where you are right now you've got to be hungry to go beyond where you are now as the preacher preached last night I've got to go beyond I've got to go to a place that I've never been woo come on clap your hands oh clap your hands what kind of church is this a Sanctified Church you may be seated I'm almost finished I know you know that brother Keys the word God is revealed as an infinite Eternal self-existing being who is the first cause of all that is and all that ever will be never was there a moment when God did not exist God is theocentric God is in the center of himself never needing to leave himself to become himself and he can see about you anytime he desires cuz he sits on the circle of the earth he can come to you on the wings of the wind that's the kind of God I serve that's the kind of God I worship that's the kind of God I look up to oh power is in his hands God will allow you to go to the edge of Despair have you ever been there have you ever felt it and it looks like you're going down and you won't be able to get up but God can speak to despair God can say to despair stop you've got to get back they belong to me he's got all power in his hands

and he's working on behalf of his people what a great salvation oh somebody said God is not a man that he should lie neither the son of man that he should repent honey God can't lie when God speaks his Truth if God came in here right now and said everybody's got on pink friend he wouldn't be lying cuz it would turn pink when God speaks it becomes truth H I heard from God I know we're in the third day it's a Resurrection time it's revival time it's time to get up and have Revival talk Revival eat Revival live Revival pray Revival oh Moses said before the mountains were brought forth and before you form the earth and the world even from Everlasting to Everlasting Thou Art God oh praise His holy name hallelujah praise God I'll tell you what the other night when brother Mangan was preaching and I want you to know you you your that message just made it easy for me because it said the precedent it set the stage it was my God that was a message praise God Of Heaven Hallelujah and and and something happened to me when he brought those those black children out here on the platform and I was sitting back there and and and something went through me I began to shake and my Palms started sweating because my whole life flashed before me I thought I'd gotten away from it I thought that it was all healed and and covered and and then I was reminded by God of where he brought me from oh my God I was reminded what God's done in my life and how good how good God is you know we sing a song back home Can't Nobody Do Me Like the Lord he healed my body touch my mind and said go on anyhow I'm telling you can't nobody not the doctor not the lawyer can't nobody not the hitting the lottery not hitting the Quick Fix Can Do Me Like Jesus Oh Hallelujah Oh Glory my whole life flashed before me and and and I was remembering about my childhood came up and and I I will tell you because I'm he that I didn't have a pleasant childhood I have no pleasant memories that I can tell you about I lived in an environment where I was afraid all the time that I was going to get hurt or get mentally abused Christmas was far away from us we had no Mickey Mangin that would give gifts it was just an empty day another day another passing day there was no nurturing and no affection and no love oh God and when those children children came out brother I'm telling you when those kids came out praise God God had reminded me once again of where I brought you from we were poor and I was clothes that we wore I was it they were ragged and torn I was teased and my stepfather that stayed with us for a few years he he he marred my soul more than I could imagine he was abusive mentally and physically he was the cruestv ever met on the face of the planet Earth and when those children came out God reminded me of where he brought me from and but he said I got some more business with you and he begin to reach back down deep on the inside and begin to scrape out all of that hurt scrape out all of those insecurities he begin to help me to hang my hangups where I don't need them he begin to help me put them up and as I laid there sobbing I laid there crying I said something said it's going to be all right it's going to be all right the Holy Ghost is making it

right took me telling the honest the goodness truth 10 years after I had received the Holy Ghost to even before my belief system would even allow me to believe that I could be somewhat of a small blessing to someone I never believed that I could never believed that I was really worth anything because of that life that's why this salvation is so great I'm like this I'm like the song that they sing I went to a meeting one night and my heart wasn't right but something oh Lord something oh good God Almighty I said but something woo got a hold something got a hold of me and it's keeping me alive and I'm hungry for more of it I'm desperate for more of it oh God help us Jesus Oh Praise the name of the Lord go ahead let's have church around here hang up those hangups what a great great great salvation great salvation my story is Your Story come on cuz your story is my story sister Mangan was telling her story yesterday that was my story cuz one day I'm going to look up here and say to my son when did you lose your hair oh I'm sorry one day I'm look my my wife called her and say we made it yeah she told me in high school cuz she knew what kind of life I had yeah she said I see something special in you oh my goodness I told her I said I married you cuz you you you smart after I received this beautiful Holy Ghost I I was God I'll do anything Hallelujah this is no comparison to where I came from Hal my God I didn't know it was this good whatever you want me to do God I'll do I'll go wherever you want me to go and let me tell you something I've got an addendum to that you can't run me off I'm here to stay I was born into the United Pentecostal church and I'm going to die in here you can't legislate me out you can't preach me out Holiness is now you you better come better than that there hadn't invented the creature that's going to cause me to leave this position in the kingdom of God I don't understand why people get upset this is God's salvation God brought us to this hour to this place for this time hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah H oh I read in Isaiah 28 where the Lord said whom can I teach knowledge teach me something Lord teach me knowledge about the Spirit I want to walk after the spirit I want to move in the realm of the spirit whom can I teach Doctrine teach me Doctrine Lord I'll hold on to it I'm not letting this thing go just to get a bigger Crowd Oh I could care less about the crowd but I believe the crowd is coming all I've got to do is hold my position all I got to do is hold my place I'm not letting my Holiness standard down I believe in Holiness I believe in uncut hair I believe you got to live right I believe you got to live holy I believe that and I'm not letting it down so I can get a

crowd I'm like I'm like the salesman two salesmen went to a remote country and and one of them they wanted to sell shoes and and one the first salesman reached the country and he looked around and all of the locals were not wearing shoes so he he he wired back and said cancel that shipment of shoes simply because they don't wear them over here the second one entered into the same country he looked around and said oh my goodness he called back home said send me a double order of shoes because no one here is wearing shoes when God called me to New Jersey I arrived there and there's 8 million people close to 8 million people were not wearing Apostolic shoes our radio to headquarters our radio to God our radio to the father via prayer send me a double portion of anointing because nobody in New Jersey is wearing Apostolic shoes Glory oh hey this is not the hour to talk about they don't want to hear it if they're not wearing it they want to hear it if they're not wearing it they should hear it come on let's take this Here gospel to those that have not let's take it to them this is our hour this is our day you said did you get the did you get the anointing the double anointing I believe whatever you ask for in faith you get it in faith your problem is you're waiting for something physical to happen you're waiting for something physical to transpire you're waiting to see blue scar stars or blue smoke when you receive by faith he transfers it into your spirit and you know you got it I got it because the father wants me to have it raise your hands right now and say father I want a double anointing for such an hour as this put your hand on your neighbor and say God give my neighbor a double anointing a double anointing in oh with a great salvation Hallelujah Hallelujah to the lamb Hallelujah to the lamb go ahead you got it go ahead you got it go ahead clap your hands signifying devil I got it devil I've got it devil I've got it I've got it and it feels mighty good doesn't it feel good there's nothing like the anointing there's nothing like the anointing flowing through you there's nothing like it can't compare to it oh Hallelujah clap your hands one more time oh hallelujah thank you Jesus I was having Church one day and the power of the Lord was moving in amongst the people and and and in walked a young man that set through our service after service I struck up a conversation with him his name was John and John had an IQ of about 160 he was quite an eccentric fell and he he said I've been walking past this church for several weeks and I've always wanted to come in but I was afraid but tonight I came in he said says I I like what I feel he said now can you instruct me to read anything in the Bible before I come back next week and so I said okay John read the book of Acts you you you just read the book of Acts and so John evidently read that book of Acts five times and so he comes to church Sunday evening and I figure well John's here I know he's going to come to the altar because I talked to him so on alter call John was the first one so I was there put my hand on him started praying for

him John looked up at me and said this he said Jesus I know that's what he said Paul I know and and and when he while he's saying that I'm like whoa and and then he opened his eyes and looked up at me and said and who in the devil's name are you and about that time I was fired up spiritually I spiritually fired up and I had my hand on his head and I just pushed it a little harder I said devil I am the son of the King of Kings and the Lord of lords I rebuke you I command you to shut up right now and when I said this John fell back on his head I'm telling you there's power in that word there is power and author Authority in the word stop speaking the word in a negative way start speaking the word according to the word it's time for the church to live up to who we are we're apostolics I said we're the apostolics oh and the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God they're waiting on us to take authority clap your hands one more time oh Hallelujah I don't want to finish this oh are you with me from a theological perspective the book of Hebrews was written with with a twofold intent to confirm Jewish Believers by showing that Judaism had come to its end through the Fulfillment of the Lord Jesus Christ then of course there was a danger lingering among the Jewish Believers that some of them were going back to Judaism and then some of them were just coming short the true faith of the Lord Jesus Christ it would only go so far they wouldn't go beyond so Paul in to write talk about the things you've heard youve got to practice you've got to do talked about how great this salvation is talked about being confirmed with signs and wonders oh praise God you you see the reason we're not having the breakout is because when God spoke to Moses at the burning bush that Supernatural visitation Moses and said I I want you to go back to Egypt and have Revival in essence Moses should have contemplated or discovered the great salvation of God he was alive because of the Lord when he was at when he was a baby at three months he was a good child that means he didn't whine he didn't whine but after three months he became a whiner he got the taste of milk baby that's why that's why apostolics wine they caught up on milk instead of the meat of the word oh apostolics love the whne and complain and and bicker I know that's not here but it's where I come from they whine that you can't even hardly get good Fellowship cuz they're whining they're whining when they ought to be dining on the goodness of the Lord Jesus Christ they ought to be dining at his table and God orchestrated the Deliverance of Moses the one that gave the order to have the males killed Moses ended up being raised in his house and his sister was the handmaiden of Pharaoh's daughter she says you want me to get you a Hebrew maid Hallelujah and so she ran home and said mother guess what just happened God performed a miracle Moses is aive Al and you are going to nurse him praise Jehovah or

praise our God and then at 40 he went out and killed a man and God orchestrated a safe passage for him he should have realized that he was in the hands of God he should have realized that God could protect him but the problem was this he never considered what God wanted the problem is always about us it's always about what we want what we want to do we're going through something because we didn't get a loan we're going through something because we didn't get that land oh it's quiet on me now y'all y'all don't want to have church now you just like to shout huh oh hello we're going through something cuz our building is not big enough that's not a bad problem oh we're going through something because I can't do what I want but what about what God want want God wanted Revival Moses this is not about your inadequacies this is not about your lack of finances this is not about my God who you are it's about who I am I'm the god of Heaven and if we're going to have a breakout we've got to consider what God wants Moses didn't know that God had heard cries he heard groaning and moanings and cries he heard the cries of his people I believe God is hearing the cries of our society of our world my God I know we're sined up abound Grace did that much more that's why this is our hour this is our day we held our positions when some left compromised preached Prosperity do preach go on whatever they want to go on we held our position and now guess what it's our time open up the doors open up the closets cuz here come the apostolics and we're armed and we're dangerous I said we're armed and dangerous let me get finished this I want to get finished cuz I want Wayne brother Wayne Huntley coming but I want to US News and World Report says this that this 21st century the new age of innovation breaking generic codes bold ideas from Big thinkers they say at no time in memory have Americans felt more optimistic about the future and it says with great reason because our great grandchildren may live in a time when cancer is cured people rightly sensing that we could be on the verge of another golden age of Discovery they are elated by all of this Scientific Technology I don't want to get into all that but Paul said in Ephesians 1:3 blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who have blessed us with all spiritual blessing in Heavenly places in Christ oh Lord help me you the the he the in crisis in his environment the Heavenly places is a place a place Faith a place that I believe and when I believe I discover what God can do have you ever stopped to think about what makes us ordinary and what makes some extraordinary in the Kingdom I think the those that are extraordinary I think they see what needs to be done and it's in the will of God but it's unpopular because nobody has ever done it before like that lady that went down to the AIDS place and bring in AIDS patients here that's never been done people will say who wait a minute now we've got some extraordinary people here I believe Jack cudham is extraordinary being in a position of Home missions he's got to do things that's never been done and that's unpopular and take a risk that it that it's in the will of God and it'll be successful but you know what I think what makes them extraordinary and gives them that character is the fact that they're willing to try they that when they get in the trial when they get in the trial they say I count it all glory they say I count it all glory because they know that at the end of the

struggle that at the end of the trial there's going to be some victory there's going to be some shouting there's going to be some praising there's going to be some leaping friend if you're in the valley right now you ought to clap your hands because the miracle of the valley is that the Lord prepares a table for me in the presence of my enemies come on clap your hands somebody what is man if man can discover what he can achieve I say it's time for the church to discover what God wants us to achieve in this hour clap your hands somebody clap your hands everybody and I'm closing but after we got in New Jersey we had some growth I laid everything out a 10year growth period based on the past I had growth numerically spir numerically and financially I had it laid out look good I show you go Oho man that's impressive that look good it never did happen that wasn't what God wanted it was what I wanted I was planning on just letting the church grow God said we going to let the churches grow we're not going to let just just not just this church grow but we going to start some other churches and let them grow it threw mine right out but you've got to be willing you've got to be willing I said you've got to be willing it's not always about you my friend that trial you're going through it's not your battle it's God's battle it's a great salvation you know what I've discovered living for God that when I'm in the Valley when I'm going through something I just look up and say Lord how you going to work it out I said how you going to work it out cuz I know that my God is able he's able to do anything he's able to part the Red Sea He's Able he's able to lift you to higher Heights to take you beyond where you stand he can do anything hey hey hey hey not bad for an old torn bruised broken boy raised in the ghettos of Philadelphia when when when they want when they want in the city that we live in when they want somebody to give a speech for for Memorials Day or for Labor Day they call our church when they want prayers at the Senate when they want prayers at the mayor's meeting they call our church they call the apostolics are you're not hearing me when they want people on those City boards guess who they call they call our church they say you've done a great work ah you've done good such a great salvation oh it's great M he gives us friends hey Jimmy Jimmy come here I'm getting ready to close I'm sorry just give me a few minutes man you almost 50 man cut that out for nine years he and I walked the co the east side of New Jersey became good friends praise God babysit at each kids Hallelujah argued prayed together we would have fought but he was scared I was going to beat him up but this has been a good friend to me introduced me to the Mangin I didn't even know anything about them told me they pray all around the clock they've got it going on Hallelujah I'm telling you when you get in this you get a good friend God gives you people that'll pray for you God gives you people that'll help you if you'll only submit like he said and listen Hallelujah glory to God and now that we're separated by Geographics we're still buddies hello everybody we're still holding on oh don't be too fast to run off Hallelujah but God gave him Revival up there in New Jersey I'm telling you friend what a great great great great great great great great great great salvation look at your neighbor and say this is a great salvation come here sister in-law come here sister in-law come here come here come here hallelujah praise God my wife for don't you try to jump up here for 24 years Hallelujah when nobody else believed in me she was right

there Hallelujah after we had Revival after we start having Revival she says you know everybody in the world knows you and nobody knows me I want somebody to know me I want somebody to know me not his sisterin-law but it's Vanessa in-law I said M it sounds good Hallelujah and and and when she married me she was going to college to be a lawyer but she married me had to quit we had kids she said well I'm going back to school went back to school walked up in that University and this last May graduated valedictorian gave a speech they say we want you to give a speech we want you to talk to us so after graduation exercise oh Lord they they thought she was nervous so they said Vanessa don't get scared if they don't clap because they never remember these speeches anyway she got up there for 15 minutes and you would have thought we were in a Pentecostal Service that place went up in smoke that place went up and allowed my God standing oration Hallelujah and I'm telling you she was on the front page of the paper the next day just last week they had their they had their fall the semester start the president of the University spring semester the president of the University gives the speech to all the faculties follow those phds Master degrees they asked her to give it praise God Hallelujah they just put her on the Board of Trustees my God we're getting ready to have a Revival among phds College professions what a great what a great salvation I'm telling you this is our day this is our hour there's nothing that God doesn't want to give us he wants to give us all the good things he wants to give us Rev Revival Revival Revival Revival and Revival belongs to the apostolic prep your hands everybody and Le for Jo