The Predicament of the Last Day Church

thank you brother manga I guess I'll be here all afternoon race god I don't know what I'm doing here and I don't say that anything except I believe that personally but fact for the Cisco and I were talking the other day and brother Hirsch and asked us to be the co-chairman of the conquest situation and we were and he won't he said he wanted somebody from the grassroots to help us lead us etc and I said to brother Cisco the thing brother Ocean doesn't understand he didn't get to the grassroots yet he just got to clods to dirtballs that's all he got and whether you believe it or not that's what I believe I don't know what I'm doing here I was totally outclassed last night to be very honest with you I you know when you get used to being on the front lines and I don't mean this isn't the front lines but it's just so far beyond you maybe you don't understand but really so I'm not making any sense right now Oh God just preach I would do better with that I think possibly but anyway I told the Lord I had an out I told brother and today Mangan last night I had it out it wasn't going to come I found out the other day that I have a couple of they're not sure whether it slipped or ruptured discs and my neck from an accident I had a couple of years ago now they think I've got a couple of vertebrae in my spine that I messed up and they want to put me in traction all that stuff that's why I was dressed like I was last night I got in late because the scheduler point where the neurosurgeon yesterday it's not time yet thank you I appreciate your love and all of that and it's certainly an act of faith but Lord's got something he's doing for me in that and I'm not going to be healed one day early I refuse to let him do it excuse me it's not like a faith we prayed for back Sunday night was about seven or eight people whose crooked spines were straight I believe it leave it for me and I know God's going to heal me i'll never go under the surgeon's knife but I want God to do something to me want God's to do something to me I want to be broken so completely that there is nothing left in me to trust and accept Jesus and I told the Lord that I was not going to come here just to preach unless he was going to give me a word I wasn't going to come I've got these pieces of paper laying here so I feel better I doubt seriously I use any of that but the Lord the Lord wants to do something here today and while I feel very awkward following all the tremendous people that have already preached here today and last night I feel like God's doing something in succession and it it started a while ago okay it just while ago down here it started and I'm just foolish enough try to finish my part of it God wants to do something here today we talk about miracles but there's something in me that says with Gideon you know brother Kilgore I love to hear the stories about your dad about brother and your dead brother ocean and I there's there's something about all of that that does something to me but there's also something inside of me that says where are the miracles and don't try to soothe and save me and say oh well we're having them come on who are you kidding you've got to be joking if this is the miracles I wish I was still in the Navy

if what we're having is revival and this is all there is to it we sure we should save the lights and the electricity if this is if this is out pouring on all flesh spare me please but God's ready he's waiting to do something and he wants to do for strengthens one see I don't fit see I already have just got you on edge brother Arnold is over there been making fun of me and me not being able to sit still for all morning I'm gonna be that way when I get through preaching it's not that it's not waiting to preach I just you get me in this kind of atmosphere and what's already there it gets pumped up about 10 times higher when sister mang was about halfway through I was ready to go catch a plane I want to go home I have things to do what I need to sit around here for do it for yourself I'm going home you know hey I believe God's trying to do something and I want to have my party first Corinthians chapter 1 I'm not going to have you stand any longer just one verse I may read a little more after you sit down for Christ verse 17 where Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the gospel not with words of wisdom lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect I'd like to preach to you the predicament of the last day Church the predicament of the last day Church you may be seated in Jesus Christ hallelujah I realized the majority of this congregation is preachers in fact last night today I've looked over this congregation and seen faces I have very good eyes not too good a ears sometimes but I hear what I want to hear sometimes but I Mahana up there let me preach for him I can't believe he he put put himself through that let me preach for him years ago and I just got started preaching others I shouldn't started calling names you know guys that I feel like I should be sitting out there letting you preach so you know and brother Huntley I appreciate what you had to say you know I'm finally the son of a preacher finally we prayed my dad through a couple ago and at 64 he's taking his first church I know the feelings brother I understand that exactly and I'm not trying to come off as humble Joe by any stretch of the imagination God knows how I feel that's all that counts isn't it but I'm talking to the little guy here my face down here after sister Mandy got through I remember that first Shack that we rented because we couldn't afford any place else we went into Annapolis Maryland and and I remember the floors that were so uneven they covered them with carpet lest you break your ankle in the low places on the floor and and I remember that place I remember it well I remember the grant I should have gotten from urban renewal for fixing up all the old buildings in Annapolis we were in we were in our 22nd building when we moved in our present building it was 22 buildings in 12 years that is not an exaggeration you want a tour come by sometime I'll show them to you they're there I remember the humiliation this fact this shape auditorium is not new to me we rented a restaurant that was 16 feet deep and 64 feet wide and when you walked in the back door you were staring the preacher right in the face it was four rows deep then an altar than me and the people sat on the sides and I remember that was about the seventh or eighth or ninth building we had fixed up and painted and cleaned up a filthy mess and just trying to have church and I remember painting in that building one night and I said God is it always going to be like this are we always going to have to go through this is it got to be like this and right now we're in a building 33,000 square feet an auditorium it seats about 1,100 comfortably we're adding 42,000 square feet by the end of the year with an auditorium it's going to seat 2,000 comfortably just closed just closed Friday on 6 acres more ground to give 1700 foot frontage owner on a four lane right outside of Annapolis at 65,000 cars a day drive by at $300 in my pocket when I went to Annapolis Christmas for Christ supported us for two years at $225 a

month hallelujah let me taste something friend this is real and it works and you're going to have to get off your pity party and get your Pentecostal chip off the shoulder and let's believe that God wants to do something he's trying to do it here the last couple of months we've had probably the greatest move of the Spirit we've ever had the deepest move we've ever had and and it's produced the greatest amount of persecution we've ever faced and I've come to find out that you can't hardly go in a place in Annapolis without knowing somebody knowing about Antioch that's name of our church and and they know all of us you know most everybody's Catholic and Methodist and that they know all of those things they know the way we live and you cannot invite anybody into that auditorium without them noticing immediately there's no makeup on the faces none zero nothing and I would like to have this Holy Ghost preacher I've heard heard this last Wednesday morning from a navy captain's wife she's that's one rank below an admiral he's the captain class of 65 I was class of 68 and she is a commander in the naval Navy Reserve been coming to our church would sit and weep on Sunday morning and I wanted to know why she had not the Holy Ghost and she said well the problem is I noticed I'm different than everybody here and I'm not sure I can change like that well that's the third time that we got heard that and and you have all of that battle just this week I've been called Jim Jones twice you know and here we're called a cult and what a predicament we're in and leave it was brother ocean or someone that said already and forgive me for not remembering that within 10 or 20 years there won't be with two groups of people the Pentecostals and the Catholics what a predicament wearing it what a difficult situation and by the yacht's told this morning if you were here about the New Age movement about the way it's sweeping the world we are in a predicament my friend if you think you and I are going to reach this world with our present state of affairs and Pentecost you can forget it it is not going to happen it is not going to happen I didn't want to get up here I knew it's going to be like this God mercy I wish I could have gone first and then everybody else could have spent the day putting the pieces back together ha I want this I want this this has got to happen if this has got to happen this is everything in the world I'm not looking for an income I'm not looking for a living I'm not here because I need something to add to my prestige I don't want it I'm not interested in making a name for myself I want people to know the power of the name of Jesus Christ it has got to happen it's not a question of I'd like to see it happen or I would hope it would happen it's got to happen and I don't mean this negatively but I'm going to tell you something I wanted to happen so much that if it's not going to happen with this I'm ready for God to move on if he's not going to do it among us find somebody and do it quickly hallelujah my god hallelujah hallelujah he said that he was going to preach the gospel not with wisdom of words lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect my lord I've got a burden on my heart here today and I believe that God would confirm the word before it's over with I believe that God has brought to this meeting preachers who are tired of the status

quo who are willing to change some things in their lives and in their thinking even if it's long held things I have tried to be a student of revival I have studied and read all and and and would listen you want to talk about your dad I guarantee I can out listen you talking you want to talk about your dad mother should I guarantee I can out listen your stories I want to know but let me tell you what I feel today about these pioneers about the Apostolic people of the first half of this century I owe a debt to them do not beat to be paralyzed and stuck where they were they did not bring it to a place and expect us to camp there they did not bring us to the Mount of Transfiguration and expect us to build Tabernacles there they brought us to a place where we can see the glory of God and they expected us to come down off the mountain and go to work I don't believe for one minute bad thought revelation was going to stop with him brother I don't believe for one minute they thought they had all the revelations they were in the babe they were saved and they live for God during the period of time where revelation in the move of the Spirit was a frequent thing it was an expected thing you expected to grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Savior Jesus Christ you expected to be guided by the spirit and all truth but here we are today the reason we're not growing in number is we're not growing in Revelation God Jesus name we are absolutely so stymied we're afraid to preach afraid to move afraid somebody's going to accuse us of betraying an elder let me tell you something I believe with all my heart if I am going to be do honor to the memory of 80 Ocean and CP Kilgore I'm going to have to have the same hunger in spirit the head to find everything from God that they got and everything more than God's willing to do you Jesus hallelujah you may be a historian but I want to write some history I'm not interested in history except to tell me what God did for somebody else so that I can go put a claim on him for what he's going to do for me I've come here at a bad time I've come here out of one of the most powerful weeks in my life I've come here so keen so geared that I can't even hardly sleep at night I was supposed to catch a plane yesterday couldn't even go to bed end up over the church till three o'clock in the morning pray it couldn't sleep I wasn't going accept anything I'm not accepting anything less than this is there anybody here I'm talking to today I'm not going to take anything less than this since the manga you kept pointing your finger at me whole time you freak I every time I looked up at you us yeah I'm going to hold God I'm listening Lord I thought I was trying but if this isn't good enough I'm going home and do better it's got to happen it's got to happen I'm just sharing my heart with you I'm not even div looked on no one yet you got to understand something there's a world waiting on us grace God I'll tell it I'll tell it brother and sister Ewing preach for priests our camp meeting in July of 1986 on Sunday evening before camp meeting started I was talking to the Lord I said God I got to have some answers I want you to talk to me I want to know where I am and what's going on I want you to

talk to me I want you to change me for five nights brother Ewing preached me five nights he poked me he shook me he looked at me got so close he spit on me I said right there and 590 preach to me we went home and that weekend we had a breakthrough people receive the Holy Ghost we talked about a breakthrough sometimes a breakthrough has to take place in us sometimes it's a breakthrough of expectancy because we get what we expect so I'm in accept going I miss a summer slump right five straight weekends last weekend of July all four weekends of August every weekend somebody's getting baptized to see the Holy Ghost new TV specials vacation first Sunday of September something really awesome was happening I didn't understand it so I was at the church real early Sunday morning I was walking and praying we have a long middle aisle the pulpits here organism there I was walking this middle aisle all the lights were out except for right over the pulpit and they were on a rheostat turned down and when I turned at the back of that road to come back this way I saw to my left in the dark over beyond the drums I saw a form out of the corner of my eye moving on a collision course with me was coming toward the pulpit and I was going toward the pulpit and I didn't look over there I've been taught to if they appear in front of you look at him if they don't doom so I watched this form and as it got to the edge of where the light was I didn't see any more so I kept walking and I got down and stood at the front row of the pews where I was where there was room in the altar area between me and the pulpit and I felt him coming very gradually one sudden very gradually apparently as he was walking this way the hairs on my body it's just one sudden at all it was justice he was coming they slowly reached the peak and I knew he was right in front of me he didn't he didn't turn he didn't stop and say anything he just kept on going and as he went on by very slowly all the hairs on my body just went back down to wherever they stay I don't understand this I thought angels usually brought a message or something I don't know so I turned and I went back down the aisle he left and I mean he'd going on his way and so I said now god I don't understand this said you don't send angels for just no reason at all they're not here he's not here to keep me company I understand that angels are messengers and what's the message the Spirit of the Lord spoke to me and said he is the angel of revival and I have sent him to abide here if you will please me and obey me he will abide here until I come I went to my office and the spirit of Lord directed me immediately to the scripture about having a visitation of God and not knowing it and I studied what a visitation of God and it was a special specific move of God to accomplish some specific purpose so I can't I call the sunday school superintendents that cancel all the classes today having everybody's come in the auditorium we have evangelistic service on Sunday morning from 10 to 12 and we have Sunday school for 12 and down I wanted everybody in the auditorium and I preached the visitation of God and nothing move they set there just like you're sitting there right now the whole time I preached and the devil said you're a fool you're an absolute fool you're these people think you're liar you're a fool see where's God you just thought you saw something you just thought you made that up you want this so bad you begun to imagine things so I just kept on preaching when I got through gave the altar call and 11 received the Holy Ghost that morning I don't know and I'm going to be avenged elastic and say five weekends it's really three but I'm going to say five because I don't want to lie I want to

make sure I haven't inadvertently forgotten a weekend but no more than five weekends have passed since the first last weekend of July 1986 that we haven't had somebody receive the Holy Ghost or and/or get baptized every weekend in our church since then well 87 was a rough year for a lot of people we prayed people through them but man everything in the world broke loose I mean you name it it was bad bad bad it was tough rough everything you can say about it and the Lord so it got tough so I just took it tougher for four straight months I preached three services a week for every week four straight months a priest relationship with God that working for God is not living for God they are not synonymous firms they are not equal terms working for God is not living for God at all so after a couple of months of that they finally withered under the heat and began to pray and have a relationship with God things started to get better well in this in January the Lord was slowly bringing us to this tremendous place of climax of breaking through and our thinking and lives of some things and spirit I felt that the Holy Ghost on the 24th of January that God was going to do something mighty and I was praying Sunday morning on the 24th of January and I said to the Lord now I haven't asked you about this angel in a long time and I haven't really seen or felt him you know okay thank you all these people to see the Holy Ghost but please don't be upset with me God but is he still here well it wasn't gradual this time instantaneously my hair stood at attention and saluted I mean I know what Holy Ghost feels like I and I've also you know of feelings I know what angels feel like and I what the Holy Ghost that was Angel's I mean that place was covered with them I'm not kidding you they were all I said jokingly if you like if you can believe that I said to God what what is he here with a company he's not by himself anymore and the Holy Ghost poked to me and said I have sent him with a company if it is a company of both warrior angels and reaping angels there is such a thing you know some angels that primarily deal with warfare and some that primarily deal with reaping was a reaping angel it went to Cornelius it was a warrior angel to talk to Daniel y'all better come up knees check it out because looks at your face we're different there we might be in the same organization a lot we believe this y'all believe this or not so I mean it's been going Godsman blessing that's been fantastic and last Sunday morning I was at church praying and I was walking I usually do and how round at the back corner pew and the Holy Ghost spoke to me and said tell my people to come to the church to pray the church to pray he said because my angels are here awaiting the instructions of the prayers he said he said I am omnipresent and as far as your devotion and your needs you can pray anywhere but as far as my kingdom is concerned I have sent my

angels to be ministering spirits and they must be instructed in what you want them to do tell my people to come to the church this is my focal point for warfare and reaping I've never read that never heard of that never thought of that brother Sisko was there and I said we were praying together I went to him I said guess what God just told me of course he and our good friends he believes me he he's one a few people doesn't think I'm off the wall you know and that he said well then you talk to sister Ewing Avenue and I said yeah but about what he said what she said if he thought it was a dream she said last night was a vision said well she said a dream just like that you ever talk to her it's not about dream he said she's what she told me last I was a vision that she saw he's angels marching in order in the town deploying themselves all over town and that God said they were waiting for his people to pray and instruct them of what to do and where to go to do God's work hallelujah you see what I'm saying here's the predicament of the last day church we won't revival but we want it through respectable logical explainable defendable means so that we can look good and all men will speak well of us we know old old sister so-and-so jump it up and run around with our war hoop we don't want all of that stuff we want to be accepted by the world and we want to do it so that they won't think we're weird my lord Paul said if I preach the cross of Christ with the wisdom of men I'll make a course of none effect that statement excuse the vernacular blows my mind the cross that can save men from sin when nothing else can change a man can literally be totally made of no value simply by attempting to do the work of God through the flesh and the wisdom of the line pop you know I really hesitate talking about stuff like this at Magento but listen listen and I don't want to come across wrong with you but I'm gonna tell you something right now some of y'all and me are going in the opposite direction because you you feel like you're nobody and you're trying to become a somebody and I've spent years when people try to tell me I was somebody and gods trying to make me a nobody the greatest tenders to revival a necklace Marilyn is standing in these shoes I said the greatest revival in Annapolis Maryland restore revival in Annapolis fountain is standing in these shoes right here the truth several years ago I was just struggling and struggling with inconsistency of Prayer and all that's just just irritated with me tore up with me didn't know how to be free from me and took in the Lord led me the

scripture when they said one dead said without me you can do nothing and I said there is Lord there's my problem I don't believe that my mouth says I believe it but my actions prove I don't and you know what I'd say two-thirds this congregation doesn't believe that either I can prove it you pray in proportion to your revelation of that verse the more I believe I need God the more I spend time praying and not doing other things but when I spend a half hour 45 minutes praying and two or three hours scanning sermon books and listen to tapes to try to get me a message so that I can sound good and look good I have missed the point alaa Luke I'm gonna taste something right now Jesus said it it was true when he said it and it's still true today it is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing nothing nothing nothing I spent four years for them trying to tell me I was the cream of the crop that there was nobody like me and the rest of my classmates that we were it we were going to do it etc etc and they put us in uniforms that made us stand straight we spent a whole year as a plebe the first year doing what's called rigging up so you have to stand up straight if you run around like this all day long for 11 months you'd stand up straight - and I'm not exaggerating we ate like that we went from our rooms to class like that the only time we weren't like that was only athletic fields in our rooms or in the in the classroom at meal in the passageways in any other professional activity we were called braced up and God's trying to prove this oh boy you're not smart enough you're not wise enough you're not eloquent enough you don't have the ability you don't have the words I'm the one that has the words of eternal life you don't have it you will never preached a message good enough to save anybody you will never Wow anybody enough for so that they'll fall down as your feet and get saved if I don't do it it's not going to get done Oh God but a prayer meeting Monday night we joined hands well some of us stood with our hands on each other's shoulders we joined in four or five groups four or five and a group had several groups they're praying for revival Monday night we were just calling names we just went around the circle the person would say who's on their heart we pray God save that person Lord let your angels gone defeat every spirit that's worn against that purse being saved the next morning one of the guys we prayed for came to that to the church he'd been back stood in five years came a blue just came to knocked on the doors they don't see your brother so what's going on he said I said I said things are just don't satisfy me anymore something thought something's going on he said and last night I was driving along a road and I just had to pull over I said what time he told the time I said we were praying for you last night he said you were he said the next day we had prayed again on Wednesday I walked into the house or into the church and it was had some things to do and I got an emergency phone call from heaven right in here there's a man who that was baptized in our church to see the Holy Ghost about five years ago who was a junior at the Naval Academy at the time he won five or six of the greatest guys you'll ever meet in your life one of them is jutting his gun license and is now in New Jersey building the church just went up there a couple of months ago there's another one going for license in April the other three are on the way brother Ocean and this guy's now company officer at the Naval Academy the youngest company officer to ever be at the Naval Academy

and he's back so is his wife and I'd been praying for him and I found they didn't want me to know they were in town I found out about he sent me word don't pressure me brother right so I didn't I just prayed we were praying and Wednesday I got an emergency call from heaven the spirit spoke to me as strong as it's ever spoken to me and said go see Brian now I wouldn't see my wife I said I cancel everything I won't be back for a while where are you going the Lord said go see Brian now I got in my car and I thought I got a phone call I couldn't have driven any more like was an emergency it was like somebody was dying I got to the house and he wasn't there I was a little reluctant to go to the door and all this stuff about being alone with ladies and all this kind of stuff but I felt so him impelled and I didn't want to put myself in jeopardy or nothing but the Holy Ghost said go to the door I knocked on the door and his wife came to the door she said she looked so shocked she said come in brother right and for two hours the Lord told her everything she didn't know anybody else she fussed with me but it was unbelievable what God did at the end of that two hours she said to me at eleven o'clock I was reading a track somebody left on my door her husband are separated their marriage isn't a mess their lives are a mess and eleven she said eleven o'clock I was reading this track and I said oh god I give up god I give up god help me it she said I felt God they're so strong that I expected to see him when I opened my eyes and when I opened my eyes and he wasn't there I was disappointed she said oh I I guess it didn't work I said well I don't know what you wanted me to do the only way I could have gotten here any faster was been translated transported I drove as best as I could because I heard her say that God responded to it said go now but that was her to say I said to her well and I don't understand this the Lord told me to come to see Brian she said well we're separated he's living here I said but I already felt like I was going to see him here she said well we have an appointment at 3:00 to see a counselor this was 2:15 and she said we're supposed to meet there I said well I don't know what to do I thought he was I thought I was supposed to see him here phone rang Brian said I'm gonna come by and pick you up she got off the phone she said I don't believe this this isn't like you we had already agreed to meet there I said well it must be the Lord I'm trying to prove a point be patient with me a little bit here so I saw talk to him he's coming the next night Thursday night we had revival service brother Cisco was supposed to be there and he had snowed in some place and didn't make it I had to preach the Lord gave me a message about God sending Philip to the desert did you Theo peon eunuch interrupting a revival interrupting revival for one person I understand this God this doesn't fit I want to preach to somebody else I wanted you know I don't understand this gotten the pulpit we began to worship 15 minutes after service started she walked in I said oh lord I can't hardly believe this and I preached her that night she came the altar receive the Holy Ghost Sunday morning we prayed through that Navy captain's wife and an American Indian among others son and I would pray through a DEA agent cast the devil out him for an hour and a half Sunday afternoon I was pretty into the Lord said to me because I've sought for spiritual ministry I've desired I realized I couldn't do it myself I realized that the word alone will not do it especially when it's not when it's preached strictly in man's wisdom

so I have sought for a move of God and miracles and signs and wonders and the Lord said to me the great apostolic true apostolic revival is not a mighty move of God in miracles true apostolic revival is a mighty demonstration of God's love if the motive isn't right if the motive isn't right you can have the miracles but according to first Corinthians 13 there there's no value that's why we're afraid of spiritual ministry that's why we're afraid of somebody call him a sick-out that's why we're afraid of seeking it that's why the devil torments us because we haven't gotten the motive right yet we haven't gotten the basis for which to seek Him we're not right yet we want God to work miracles to vindicate us we want God to work miracles to confirm our word that we preach but God works miracles because he cares God works miracles because he loves God works miracles in response to need that he has compassion on the conviction in our services the last couple of weeks has been incredible I have never seen it where it is right now and there hasn't been one fear message preached we haven't preached about the coming of the Lord once we haven't preached any but we haven't freaks about Hell once and I'm not I'm not saying there's anything wrong about preaching that but I've always thought and in my exposure to Pentecost as a kid I equated conviction with scary messages health i brimstone damnation but I'm going to tell you something the conviction and the drawing power of the Holy Ghost the last couple of weeks with God just ministering the needs because he cares has melted and changed more hearts than any to see preaching I've ever heard Oh Paul said I would not have you to be ignorant concerning spiritual gifts the Greek word there is spirituals it's charisma word gifts as an italics it's not the original the word charisma comes from one word and a suffix the word is curry sits the word grace the word suffix ma means the results of spiritual gifts are the results of grace they're the results of grace they're people sitting in this congregation right now and God moved a while ago we're so geared in our thinking and our being is set right they're suffering they did not move because because there's such pressure been put on us to perform and see it happen because it's become such a success or failure thing it's become such a reputation thing of who can do it and who can you can't do it it's become so tied to the man and and you know once you begin to seek out and begin to move in that then your big get branded and you get set apart over there and it's okay to be weird then because everybody knows that your that's the kind of guy you are but you know you're a little bit different than the rest of us over here and now we're except you you fit into our little niche for you now once you finally make it brother to the niche you can be weird it's okay I mean you know for years brother Barnes and brother Billy Cole and men like that I mean they practice stuff you know that hardly nobody was doing but was okay because we accepted they were different but don't anybody else try that lesser names Barnes or gold because we don't trust you we know your motive you trying to be somebody

you trying to be you trying to make a name for yourself let me taste them you can't operate charisma for yourself we can't do that it can't be done there may seem to be some things but God wants to do something because he cares people sitting in this congregation right now in pain God is so full of mercy and grace and love that he'd heal right where you're sitting but we we don't we don't want to step out because now faith becomes a failure or our success beyond we grade it we want to do percentages what your batting average Paul said I brother when I came to you came not with excellency of speech or wisdom declaring unto you the testimony of God for I determined it was a decision he made not to know anything among you say Jesus Christ at him crucified I'm not interested in you being awed by my revelations my eloquent see or my diction my hermeneutics or homiletics he just said all I want you to know is there's a cross I don't want to mix me in with a cross he's saying I want to lead let the cross stand on its own I want to let the love of God the power of God speak for itself work for itself I don't want to get it involved where God can't work because he doesn't want to glorify flesh when I get me mixed in so much with it that God can't work because it glorifies flesh then I frustrate the grace of God I'm sorry but there's a frustrated God I don't I'm not trying to be critically you or me or anybody well it was a powerful service here last night there was a powerful day today but there's so much of so much of our listening to preaching and ministry that is just to hear who can do it so we can put our thumbs up I didn't want to come to this meeting because I knew God was going to do this to me I'm telling you I knew it I tell you some names of people I'm not just saying that I weeks ago I knew God was going to do this to me I didn't rule to come here because I knew he was going to put me in this position did everybody get up else to get up here preach it not a nothing act like they knew something I understand up here and just wander around all over the place like an idiot but I'm going to tell you something I believe everything they preached but they still didn't preach today and the folks that are gonna print aren't here looking for a route section so you could go bragging too right because of the time and boy did we have a time if you get a time here than go home and prove it oh you know I went to the deeper live meetings I went home frustrated I've heard the comments oh we all want to get that started again you know all they did was to condemn us and tell us that have been they'd have a big Church you weren't doing anything you know why because guys would go home and try to produce it in their own selves I agree with you brother Huntley you can't make God do anything but you sure can't hang around and remind him you believe it he's going to do it right now in ICU University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore Maryland there's a young lady sitting there she talked the other time of the day for the first time in three months and her first words were I want to go to church her and her boyfriend were on their way to church had a wreck she was

thrown out of a truck and the truck fell over on her she was flown to shock trauma unit in Baltimore by the time she got there she had lost four pints for her blood still had eight the doctors told the family we've never had anybody arrive here alive in this condition we were called from the scene of the accident we were in church we stopped immediately God moved in that place the Holy Ghost moved in that place and God told us to believe him he wasn't going to let her die listen to this I have this marked I just turned it this blows my mind Ezekiel 16 and 6 the Lord gave this verse to one of the sisters in the church when I passed by the and all be polluted in that own blood I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood lil yeah I said of thee when thou wast in thy blood lil the doctor said she's got to live and I don't know you know I was down that night fortunately that night we had a missionary with us and I left the service in his charge my wife I went to the hospital though girls dad is in the church her mother's never been in the church wouldn't everything to do with us she'd been praying two weeks before that whatever you got to do Lord save my mother that night for the first time her mother let me have any kind of relationship with her spiritually three times in the hallway of Shock Trauma I prayed for her that night I was her pastor we prayed and we kept praying and they said she can't make it she had all of these ribs were crushed her lung was punctured in many places all of these ribs were fractured they were nothing but splinters the doctor said there was nothing in there to grow back together he was afraid up the right arm was broken the collarbone was broken the shoulder blade was broken the neck and the back was broken she lost four pints of blood they said she can't make it the Lord said she's gonna live the Lord spoke to me and said tell the church I'm going to teach them how to have the next breakthrough in revival with this girl as she goes so goes to revival brother Arnold came in there within a week or so that right in the big middle of that thing I mean it was it was tense then she was laying up there she was the most seriously injured people person in the most critical care part of Shock Trauma University of Maryland Hospital Baltimore Maryland then she had a complication set in called AR AR D s and adult respiratory distress syndrome where the whole body rebelled against itself and the blood refuses to take the oxygen she swelled up bigger than me and she was a little girl they said there was no way she could make it two weeks another thing they called the family in the hospital and I rushed up there I walked in that bedside laid my hand on the arm of a girl her arm was bigger than mine she was so swollen her face was not recognizable she had four tubes down her throat her heart was hurt her blood pressure and everything was was just above dying I said to the nurse how's she doing that nurse looked at me like I was crazy she said she's dying I was searching in my spirit for something to say to comfort this family because on the night of the accident I told that Center mother everything's going to be all right and now I'm trying to figure out God you gonna give me something to explain this that's exactly where we are we accept failure while God still won enough we believe it we accept failure we give up the things that we've got promises for my god I walked up to her made my hand on that fever she had 105 fever she was a mess I stood there over right to my right on the wall was a picture of her taking just a few months before and I looked back at this girl there was no resemblance between the two and she had no head damage at all no injury to the head at all and yet she was not recognized and I'm said old God and the Spirit of God revealed to me and he said only believe and you'll see my glory

right oh yeah he he explained that to me as I stood there in shock I don't ask you to do anything I don't ask you to keep this girl alive I don't ask you to heal her I didn't I don't ask you to fix her body when it's which she's well all I asked you to do is believe is that too much to ask you to do just believe if you'll just believe me I'll take care of the rest all I want you to do is be pray with her awhile well father brother and I went to the hospital to the hospital chapel you'd have thought we were there rejoicing over the birth of a baby it's to the dot death of a girl we worship we sang we shouted we praise God I kept searching my spirit for any hint and the Holy Ghost that this girl was dying and the Lord kept saying trust me it's gonna be all right trust me it's gonna be all right they had her medically paralyzed for over two months that means she was motionless she couldn't even swallow on her own she was totally unconscious and the Lord said put her in that position because in this condition her faith is irrelevant I will miss Church to see that it is totally up to their faith we had around the clock Prayer going for believe in God and I told the church if she lives it's up to you you don't have to make her live all you got to do is believe that God said she was going to live that's all you've got to do that's it I don't have to make revival happen all I've got to do is believe God said it was going to she was the sickest person in the worst part of Shock Trauma for two months and they never believed she was going to live but God said but God said she was going to live she comes home next week they said it was going to take a year to rehabilitate her she's already walking they said that had the feeder intermediacy for a long time because her throat muscles that had provided she couldn't swallow she's already eaten your theological dissertation won't do that brother we want revival but we won't we want the pastor to get the pat on the back for it Oh God no flesh is gone glory in his presence he said my speech was not with enticing words of man's wisdom but I came to you in weakness and fear and much trembling came to you in demonstration of the spirit power that your faith would not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God we're afraid of the fanaticism of the spiritual ministry Paul was more concerned about the formalism and the impetus II and the pride of a ministry generated by the wisdom of mankind a couple of years ago and I won't say how long ago or timeframe had a man come to our church and he did turn the service to him he stepped up there and plug in who and he had Pentecostal speed and volume from the moment he stepped up

there and he did if he was telling if he was just sneezing he sneezed at Pentecostal sneeze speed and power I mean it was just 90 miles an hour and your mind was a blur you didn't even know what he was saying there were nope there was no time to rest there was no up Peaks there were no valleys it was just he was like one of those declan guns that they used in Vietnam that would just absolutely obliterate everything in its path thousands of rounds a minute would come out of them that was him five services like that when it was through my folks came up to me and said what was that What did he say brother right what was he trying to do no I guess he just enjoyed preaching so much he didn't care whether anybody else got anything out of it or not I said I guess he just enjoyed preaching so much and got such a thrill out of it himself he didn't care what anybody else enjoy dinner got anything out of her mind praise God we're in a predicament we're in a predicament we're at a crossroads the United Pentecostal church has got to make up its mind whether it believes this book or whether it believes its traditions whether it's in love with truth or love with in love with the ways we've developed to do things and that we're imprisoned by I'm not talking about new birth and won us a garden holiness a bit of conquest meeting in st. Louis in the first night we had a church and move of God for four hours and not the first note of music was played we didn't sing the first word of a song I'm not against music and and singing I love to do but but that night it blew people's minds brother that you could ever kind of move of God and not have any music I mean you can't have revive without a hammer and if you don't believe we believe that for commissioners they go out and try that start a church without a hammer they know you can't start a church without a hammer and they'll tell you right now how much of a disadvantage they're at at without a hand hey folks will we in this far but what do we do it who we trying to glorify do we want them to know the name of Jesus or the United Pentecostal church or even worse yet the name of your local church or get this one or the name of the pastor it is a spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing that which is born of the is ever tree that the father has not planted he's going to root it up and if you can do it yourself you can get them in the order you can get them in church through the flesh you can get them in the altar through psychology and even if they do talk in tongues they're not going to make it and they can shake your hand and brag on you to kingdom come friend but if God doesn't do the work you can forget it do you know what the problem is sister Mangan it's not we've done nothing but learn a shortcut so we could get around praying it is easier to find a way around praying and around dying and around anion than it is to do what needs to be done and have the real thing the real thing the real thing I'm in a county of 400,000 people 20 minutes to the north

of the church I'm out of my County 10 minutes to the east amount of my County 15 minutes to the West I'm out of my County and 20 minutes to the south and I'm out of my County there's 400,000 people in that County and I would hate to be a lost soul in that County knowing that there was a bunch of people there believed I was going to hell if I didn't get baptized in Jesus name and fill with the Holy Ghost and weren't doing anything significant to see he reached I would hate to be one of them I hate to be there is an imperative command to the gospel let's go I don't know if this is made any sense there knock-knock doll I really don't thank you I'm not fishing for approval I mean I'm just telling how I feel about it to me it doesn't make any sense hasn't just been anything there and I knew if God want to bring me Louisiana make a fool out of me if I needed it God blessing god bless God god bless me but God loves us today and I've already made a fool of myself and so I'm not going to stop now if you're in this place and you're sick in pain right now stand wherever you are you're in pain right now now brother Huntley you talk about it'd be an easy give gives glory to God okay that's our problem we have to shake them and quake them scream and holler and it it's the only way we can do it and believe something's happening he's got sister does the Lord love you you're sure that absolutely sure you really think he wants you to be in pain you know he loves you and if you don't think he wants you to be sick and in pain did you receive the Holy Ghost what's go what is the Holy Ghost to call yes but it's called a Kim to gifter did you earn the holy ghost did you deserve the holy ghost how did you receive it accepted it was a gift if I brought you a gift what would you say to me thank you if I said I'm gonna give you a gift and I'm standing here what would you say thank you even for the gift got there you'd say what thank you what is saying thank you me that means you have faith confidence in me that if I said I was going to give you something I was going to do it so you're thanking me in advance right now I want to show you folks our problem I told you brother I fine y'all see this my hand is bigger than he is they'll see that look at that why my hand sticks at least an inch below him and two or three inches above it my hand is bigger than he is because my hand is between the two of us but if I get over here near him and I put my hand on his chest which is bigger it's a matter of perspective here's why God doesn't move miraculously very often in our churches because it's a matter of perspective as long as I keep my problem between me and Jesus my problem looks bigger to me than

he does because of my perspective but the nearer I get to Jesus the smaller my problem gets and the bigger Jesus gets till I get so close to him I don't even see my problem anymore all I feel is his love his care his concern somebody's being healed right now wait a minute Bridger you can't get here with that land on hands and anointing don't you understand there are three dimensions to the manifestation of the works of God first dimension is the dimension of the believer these signs shall follow them to believe there is a dimension of the miraculous that all believers can participate in praise God somebody's receded second if that doesn't work if the problem is too tough then what do we do we call for the elders of the church unknown with all lay hands on them in the name of the Lord the prayer faith state saves the sick raises them up but if that if that doesn't work then you go to the final stop hands off you don't do anything all you do is inform somebody that God loves them enough to eat them if they receive a gift of healing from God you have the Holy Ghost sister raise your hands if the Lord loves you and he does there's a gift of healing there right now it's right there that's it see how simple it is ha ha praise God now if I go pray for all you call you out go through all that which I'm not opposed to that third time you see there's two ways that God works he either doesn't privately or he does it publicly there are two different reasons for that the reason he doesn't publicly is for demonstration and for edification he does it to demonstrate his power he does it to edify the church in faith but when he does it privately he does it simply for love and compassion he doesn't love and compassion like this but it's also to confirm his word to demonstrate his power and to edify the church now and all even put your hands down I just want you to begin to thank God for healing your body get your eye off the pain we're not playing mind games now get you out of the problem get your mind on God and begin to worship Him just love him just thanking him for who he is and what he is how great he is and when your pain is gone raise your hands and praise God hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah God's healing right now God's healing right now it's a gift it's an act of his love it's not there to fire anybody it's not them to pop your eyes somebody he's not trying to do something with somebody's reputation he's doing this right now by himself hallelujah it's a gift from God it's a gift it's a gift it's a gift hallelujah come on praise it if you've been healed praise God if God's done it hallelujah see that's the problem if I could get brother so-and-so to lay hands on me I'll be healed if I could go to such and such a church I'll be healed let me tell you something friend the focus of our attention is in the wrong place Jesus Christ is in this place right now working miracles

about believe God's bleep God believe God there's nothing too hard for God come on get tomato gondol stare at me talk to God I don't know what you think you're gonna see hallelu hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah you remain standing if you will I'm going to quit my time is long since up folks don't you see what the problem is we have become so dependent on flesh and on feeling that we cannot just simply believe God and let him do for us because He loves us Jesus is there somebody here in need of a miracle today in your life I'm not calling anybody out I'm not gonna wait my time for that God doesn't need to do that if you believe that God will work you I'm the miracle for you today don't you squawk down this aisle as a demonstration your faith and thank God just comes to end we're not gonna pray for we're not laying hands on this between you and Jesus he loves you he loves you he loves you no stand please stand please brother stand please praise God no we're not begging we've come boldly with as sons come on we've come boliya sons we've come accepting we've come receiving we've come faking we have not come begging in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus we thank you Lord thank you Jesus you're bigger than these problems Lord you're bigger than these problems God you're bigger than these needs your grace is sufficient your love is unlimited in the name of Jesus Christ in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus hallelujah hallelujah receive it in the name of Jesus believe it in the name of Jesus thank you for don't beg in thank you for it praise God praise God