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- Elias Limones — a bilingual pastor, preaching in English with a Spanish accent he apologises for more than once — preaches a morning message on the difference between carrying the cross and being crucified on it: carrying is the kindergarten of Christianity, impersonal and external, something anyone can do and even help another do; crucifixion is personal, internal, and the only thing that produces salvation and revival. A host's introduction and the opening praise he leads open the recording and are seamed out of the span; everything after them is Limones's own voice.
- **The two texts, and the curse.** He thanks the Manguns and the officials and elders, says last night's move of God left him ready to pack up and go home with no more tears to shed, and takes his text: if any man will come after Jesus, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow him — and one more scripture, the crucified-with-Christ text: nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. He leads the congregation in prayer over the word. Then he describes the crucifixion itself, which he will not picture adequately in Spanish or English: the Old Testament speaks of crucifixion as a curse, and Paul's quotation of it is read — Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it is written, cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. The condemned were stripped, whipped with the Roman cat until the inner organs and bones were exposed, bound, nailed, and lifted between heaven and earth; the thieves crucified with the Lord owned that they received the due reward of their deeds while this man had done nothing wrong, and Pilate, who desired to release him, found no fault in him. Peter's clause stands over it — the just for the unjust — and the rulers-of-this-age text is cited in the act: which none of the princes of this world knew, for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
- **What kept him on the cross.** His first question: where was it that kept Jesus nailed to the cross? Not the nails — a Sunday school boy's sincere answer — because if the nails could talk they would have cried out from those precious hands and feet; not the Roman soldiers, because the Lord told Peter he could call legions of angels to his cry for help. It was his great love for the masterpiece he created with his own hands six thousand years ago: the God-so-loved-the-world wording sounds, and thank God he did not come down, or eternal death would have been our final destination. He bought the church with his own blood — he did not create it, he purchased it — and humbled himself to become obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. We do not have to endure the same sacrifice: he paid the price once for all, and all our deeds are as filthy rags before him; what we need is the blood of Jesus Christ to cover us again, from the top of our heads to the bottom of our feet.
- **Carrying is not enough.** Today the Lord wants us to identify ourselves with him through a spiritual crucifixion of our flesh: the crucified-with-Christ text read at the head returns as the pattern — I identify myself with Christ by the crucifixion of my flesh, my passions, my carnal desires, and letting the Lord live inside of me — and those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts. Our greatest enemy is not the world, neither the devil; it is our carnal nature. The Lord's own words make the distinction: carrying the cross is the first step of the Christian walk, but if our Lord would have only carried the cross and not been willing to be crucified on it, he would have carried it in vain — salvation was not produced by the cross being carried; it was him being crucified on it that generated salvation for our souls. To carry is impersonal, religion, external; crucifixion is personal, relationship, of the inner parts of the soul. Even the Lord received help carrying his cross — Simon took it on his shoulders to the mountaintop — and anyone can help us carry ours, and thank God for people who do; but the crucifixion I have to do for myself. Even the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Mormons, and the Muslims carry crosses, with twisted doctrine; carrying is the kindergarten of Christianity — before Calvary it was enough, after Calvary crucifixion is the only thing that satisfies the heart of God. The act of carrying does not identify us as children of God; it only identifies us as religious people. And the flesh text is cited in the act: they that are in the flesh cannot please God. We sign the affirmation form every year and need to believe, preach, and practise it — but that is only carrying; some have dropped the cross and gone the way of the world because they tried to obey the scripture without the power of the Holy Ghost.
- **Die daily.** Worldliness is killing its thousands, but carnality is killing its tens of thousands: practise the holiness standards to please the human eye while serving God in our own energy, and we fall into hypocrisy — whited on the outside, full of dead men's bones within — while the crucified flesh kicks worldliness out of our lives and homes with joy. We Latinos need to put prejudice under the blood, and so does everyone else: John's vision saw a multitude of people from every language and country, and our churches' doors are open to all — his own church is bilingual, preaching in Spanish and translating every service into English, because there is only one church. How many times do I need to die? The apostle's answer is cited in the act and repeated until it lands: I die daily — fifty years in the Lord or one, preacher or apostle, you can never trust your flesh; every day take this body and present it a living sacrifice. And do not come down from the cross: he was tempted like any human being, asked for water and got gall and vinegar, and remained nailed; many have come down when life gave them vinegar instead of water. Paul's longing sounds through it — that I might know him, in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings.
- **The heart, and the three things.** Sometimes we are so superficial, so external-minded, that our hearts are far away from God — and the word the Lord spoke through the prophet Isaiah to Israel is voiced on its author's name: these people honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from me. It is something internal, of the heart; God is not impressed with clothes, cars, houses, talents — he cares what is in there. Until our flesh is crucified — jealousy, pride, prejudice, backbiting — we will not see the revival we want, because except the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it brings forth no fruit. And when the Lord bowed his head and yielded up the ghost, great things happened. First, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from top to bottom and the Holy of Holies exposed — the veil represented the flesh, and when we crucify ours, pastors, ministers, and congregations will see the glory of God back in our churches as it was seen here last night; we cannot pack him in a box, but we can take the glory to our cities by crucifixion. He testifies from his own childhood: in a small country of Ecuador, Sunday school teachers who came prayed-up and fasted, children receiving the Holy Ghost in the classroom, people in the temples until eleven and twelve at midnight — no wonder Ecuador shook, and had the glory of God in its churches though it had nothing material. Second, when he gave up the ghost, many miracles took place: the earth shook, the graves were opened, and many bodies of the saints which slept arose — and when we crucify our flesh there will be a resurrection in our cities and our churches: the drug addicts and alcoholics resurrected by the power of the Holy Ghost and the preaching of the word, and dead saints who will not pray, fast, or win souls raised inside the churches. Spend time with God; take the flesh and crucify it one more time. Third, the Roman centurion, watching all these things, feared greatly and confessed that truly he was the Son of God: a revelation of the oneness of God that nobody had to beat into his head with a Bible — it came by the love of crucifixion. As the hart pants after the water brooks, so his soul thirsts after God. And the warnings close the movement: the foolish-Galatians wording — having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? — the flesh's own list sounded (adultery, fornication, uncleanness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions), Paul's resolve to glory only in the cross of Christ, and the reason: that no flesh should glory in his presence.
- **Where is the sacrifice?** He closes with Abraham going up the mountain, Isaac his teenager with him, looking at the wood and the fire and asking the question the church must answer: you got plenty of wood, you got fire, but where is the sacrifice? We have the best singers, the best preachers, the move of the Holy Ghost — young ministers waiting in line for a church to open while hundreds of cities have no church that preaches the truth: get up and present your life; where is the sacrifice? These elders paid the price for us. Brother Daniel Scott came to Ecuador when Limones was only six years old — a young man with black hair, his wife, the kids small, knowing neither the language nor the culture, leaving a good church in Charleston, West Virginia; he died to the commodities of this blessed country, preached and prayed and laughed and worked day and night until his life was poured out and he got so sick, up early weeping and crying after God while everybody slept — and that gripped the boy's soul: if I am going to do anything for Jesus, it will take sacrifice, crucifixion. He honours Brother Scott and his wife in the room. And from the missionaries he learned of Brother Larson in Colombia, whose wife died giving birth, whom the people would not let bury her in the cemetery, who could not even buy a coffin — he bought wood, built the box that held what had been for many years the temple of the Holy Ghost, dug the ditch himself, and placed the body seven feet under; and when the United Pentecostal Church called him to come back to the States, he refused: I came to this country with a purpose; I crucified my flesh. Today there are almost a million Jesus-name baptised people in that country, only because a man refused to come down from the cross. Our greatest need is crucifixion, to identify with Jesus Christ through it — and he brings the congregation to its feet and then to its knees: let's kneel where we are and pray; God has spoken to us this morning.
Scriptures: Matthew 16:24; Galatians 2:20; Galatians 3:13; 1 Corinthians 2:8; Romans 8:8; Revelation (book-only, as spoken); 1 Corinthians 15:31; Isaiah 29:13
Scripture index: Matthew 16:24; Galatians 2:20; Galatians 3:13; 1 Corinthians 2:8; Romans 8:8; Revelation (book-only, as spoken); 1 Corinthians 15:31; Isaiah 29:13.
Transcript
Jesus I will take my text this morning from The Book of Matthew chapter 16 verse 24 and while you turn your Bibles there i' like to express my thanks to brother Mangan sister Mangan and brother Mangan and sister Mangan I'd like to give honor to all the officials all my elders that I respect and not submit to it thank you for the opportunity to be a part of this great meeting after last night I was ready to pack up and go home I'm telling you I I don't have any more tears to share to shed this morning I'm telling you he was powerful move of god let's read the word mat Matthew chap 16: 24 then Jesus said unto his disciples If any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me then one more scripture Galatians chapter 2 verse 20 I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I leave yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me can we pray one more time before we oh God thank you for your word hallelujah we praise you we give you honor oh God Touch Me Oh in the name of Jesus hallelujah thank you God hallelujah hallelujah let's clap our hands unto the Lord hallelujah thank you Jesus Hallelujah Hallelujah you may be seated I know that I'm speaking to men and women of God that has a great understanding of the scriptures some are even theologians with many years of experience in the ministry so I know that I don't have to elaborate in detail about the agony and the pain and the shame that involved the process of crucifixion so I will es skap certain details for the sake of time but I am sure that you agreed with me that the crucifixion was a horrible way to die I do believe that we all agree that the crucifixion was a very shameful death I don't have enough words in my vocabulary whether it's Spanish or English to a picture of what really took place in Calvary as great as is the production of messah Messiah that is put together by the Pentecostals of Alexandria probably the closest thing that giv us a clear idea what it took place in Calvary it still is not enough for us to completely understand what crucifixion is all about and this morning I'm not coming to impress you with a great message and with a lot of cliches but I just want to talk to you about crucifixion cuz I truly believe that that's the key to the Revival that we heard last night and that we want to experience it in our hearts and in our churches in our cities the Old Testament speaks about crucifixion as a curse and the Apostle Paul quotes from the Old Testament in Galatians 3:13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law having become a curse for us for is written curse is everyone who hands on a tree those who were sentenced to the dead on the cross were stripped of their clothes exposing their shame their bodies were whipped the Romans used a whip called the Roman cat that consisted of leather strips with metal pieces attached to the ends every time this whip touched the body he opened the skin in such a way that that the inner organs and and Bones were exposed while the crows was lying on the
ground they bind their hands and their feet with cords but to increase the pain they used nails to penetrate their hands and to penetrate their feet and after finishing this process they rise up the cross up suspending the criminal Between Heaven and Earth this was the most cruel and horrible dead only the antisocial the most fierce criminals of that day were put through this type of death the thieves that were crucified with our Lord one of them recognized that they deserve such a punishment and we indeed justly for we receive the due reward of our Deeds but this man talking about our lord Jesus has done nothing wrong and even pilot and he desire to set the Lord free he said he has done nothing wrong I find no fault in him this morning I feel the same way I don't find a fault in my Lord he has been so good to me I find the fault in him and the Apostle Peter he said the just for the unjust Paul once again 1 Corinthians 2 and8 which none of the rulers of this age knew for had they known they would not have crucified the Lord Of Glory Jesus our lord Jesus Christ had the power to come down from the cross his flesh and his Humanity felt the sharp pain of the most cruel and horrible death that a man could experience he could have anti himself from the cross and come down from it and at this point of my message I like to bring to you the first question where was it that kept Jesus nail to the Cross maybe someone we respond the same way the Sunday school boy responded to his Sunday school teacher the boy said teacher it was the nails but I'm sorry little boy you answer is sincere but it was not the nails that kept Jesus nailed to the cross because if the nails could talk even the nails would have cried out the touch us from you precious hands and feet someone else might say it was the Roman soldiers but once again let me submit to you that it was not the Roman soldiers because the Lord himself told Peter that he had the authority to call to a religious of angels and they immediately with answer to his Cry for Help brothers and sisters it was not the nails not the Raman soldiers that kept Jesus from descending from the cross let me tell you what it was it was this great love it was his great love for the Masterpiece that he created with his own hands 6,000 years ago that kept they na to that wooden cross for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son thank God thank God that he did not come down from the Cs because if he would have decided to come down from the cross today we wouldn't be the recipients of such a great salvation we wouldn't have hope Eternal death would have been our final destination but because Jesus preferred to do the will of his father the flesh submitting to the spirit today we have life on this Earth and Hope For Eternity he bought the church he bought the church with his own blood he did not create it he purchased the church with his own blood he loved us more than any other thing in this whole universe and he Pro to us his love by paying the price with his own blood and this morning I know it's early I know some of for some of us that come from the west coast is extremely early but it's never too early to give thanks and adoration and praise to our Lord Jesus Christ because he was willing to humilate himself and become obedient unto death even the death of the Cross all these other person clapping in your hands this other person jumping
in your feet knowing that Jesus was willing to stay on the cross we need a revelation of what Jesus did for us in Calvary we need a new touch of Calvary this morning brothers and sisters he loved us that's not the problem he paid the price now we don't have to endure the same sacrifice or the beating of our bodies physically to be his disciples the Lord paid the price for me and for you once for all and I can do nothing physically I can do nothing in my in the energy of My Flesh to justify myself before God because all of my Deeds are his filthy racks before him the thing that we need this morning it's the blood of Jesus Christ to cover us once again from the top of our heads to the bottom of our feet and today the Lord want us to identify ourselves with him through a spiritual crucifixion of our flesh the Apostle Paul is saying in Galatians I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith in the Son of God Paul the great Apostle Paul he said I identify myself with Christ by the crucifixion of My Flesh by the crucifixion of my passions by by the cruci of my carnal desires and letting the Lord live inside of me this doesn't work this doesn't work in based in talents and abilities this don't work just based on and and your ability and your El eloquencer inside of us and those who are Christ have crucified the flesh with his passions and desires our greatest enemy is not the world neither the devil our greatest enemy is our Cardinal nature brother and sisters this morning carrying the cross me have to put this carrying the cross is not enough the Lord said if anyone desires to come after me let him deny himself take up his cross and follow me the first step of the Christian walk is to carry the cross unfortunately many Christians only want to carry the cross but God good it does for me and for you to carry the cross if you are not willing to be crucified on it if our lord Jesus would have only carried the cross and would had not been willing to be crucify on it he would have carried the cross in vain salvation was not produced by the cross being carried it was him being crucified on the cross that generated salvation for our souls brothers and sisters to carry the cross is impersonal but crucifixion is something personal carrying the cross has to do with religion but crucifixion is a relationship carrying the cross is something external but crucifixion has to do with the inner parts of our soul because even the Lord Jesus received help carrying his cross the Bible says that Simon of sirene took the Lord's cross and carried it on his shoulders to the Mountaintop to carry the cross is something impersonal why because any person could help us to carry our crosses oh I thank God for people oh they helped us to carry our cosses oh thank God for brothers and sisters they helped me to carry my cosses Through The Years there's nothing more refreshing when someone comes and put their arms around
you and praise with you there like a loud to come off your shoulders oh it's nothing more beautiful and precious when someone comes around and help you to carry your cross the Lord teaches the strong needs to help the weak and the bible teach us to carry the way one to another anybody can carry the cross but not everyone is willing to crucify himself on it but is the crucifixion that produces salvation and not the action of carrying the cross if our Lord will have only Carri the cross and have been willing to be crucified on it today we will be lost oh but thank God he was willing to pay the price and this morning if few are only willing to carry the cross and not willing to crucify your flesh and your passions you carrying the cross in vain I can't help you to carry your cross and you can help me to carry mine but the crucifixion I had to do it for myself I had to Crucify My Flesh no one can do it for me is something personal there are a lot of caring cause religious people in this world carrying the cause is an act of the human strain or human ability a human effort and you cannot serve the Lord successfully based on your carnal energy you need the power of the Holy Ghost living inside of you Hallelujah and this might shock you this moment but even the Jehovah Witnesses the Mormons and the Muslims even though their Doctrine is Twisted they are still carrying crosses don't you think when you see those people on saturs knocking doors and doing all those things that way they have to dress in all the standards you don't think that that's carrying caes yes it is to carry the cross is the first step carrying the cross is the kindergarten of Christianity before Calvary carrying the cross was enough but after Calvary crucifixion is the only thing that satis first the heart of God oh Hallelujah the act the act of the carrying of the Cross does not identified us as children of God he only identified us as the being religious people is the crucifixion that makes the difference and not no believers who have deep convictions regarding regarding moral standards and all the things that has to do with a human effort and this displine but had never succeeded in crucifying their flesh and that is not pleasing unto God because Romans 8 and6 says they they they are in the flesh cannot please God and I believe everything that is prescribed in our Manual of the United Pentecostal church we sign every year the affirmation form we need to believe it we need to preach it and we need to practice it but brothers and sisters that's only the first step that's only carrying the cross and sometimes the cross gets heavy and Som have dropped the cross and gone the way of the world forsaken the truth because they tried to obade the scripture without the the the power of the Holy Ghost and the life and the love kth but the spirit give life the only way the only way that we are going to be successful serving a lord are en reaching this lost and ding world as to the crucifixion of our flesh and I don't think the Lord cares how good I look this morning and I don't think the Lord cares and how good I'm preaching this morning I don't think he cares how good I sing if your heart is rotten if your heart is dirty filthy full of Envy full of Pride full of prejudice and because that's another thing we need to deal with we Latinos need to put the Prejudice under the blood and you whatever cure you comfort you need to do the same and we need to unite our efforts to reach a ding
world when John saw in in Revelations the vision that he saw he saw a mtit of of people from every language every country it's not only going to be white blue eyes and bl her it's not only going to be dark and black hair no there's going to be all kinds of people up in heaven some of you are going to be surprised who knows but to our churches everybody ought to be welcome and we can only be successful reaching this world when we crucify our flesh oh Hallelujah let's clap our hands unto the Lord oh Hallelujah that's the only way we're going to reach this lost and Dying World crucify your stinking flesh oh my language might not be perfect this morning I might have a horrible accident before you but I'm telling you I want to reach my city and the doors of the church that I Pastor are open I don't care what where they come from I don't care the color of the skin our church is bilingual we preach in Spanish we translate all our services in English because there is no two churches it's only one church and in it's big church there's all kinds of nationalities in it you are my brother you are my sister we've been washed in the blood of the L we've been baptized in the same name and we got the same Spirit brothers and sisters worldliness is killing his thousands but carnality is killing his tens of thousands because if we practice the Holiness standards to please the human high and we serve God in our own energy without the crucifixion of our flesh we will fall in hypocrisy oh and if there's something the Lord Jesus Stu very strongly in the scriptures what's hypocrisy we will be a seers why outside but inside we will be full of dead bones but in the other side of the coin if it we crucify our flesh we will be willing to kick out of our lives in our homes all our worldliness all Filthy videos all Filthy magazines we'll be willing to kick TV and makeup and we'll do it with joy in our heart and only then we will be able to live up to what we say we are because you are dead to the world and dead to your fleshly desires and when you are dead to the world and dead to your flesh you are are alive in the spirit and when you are alive in the spirit the only thing that matters is pleasing God now maybe you say brother Lon how many times do I need to die Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15:31 I Die daily I don't care if you came to the Lord 50 years ago 30 or 20 or 10 or five or one you need to Die daily you can never get to the point that you can trust your flesh every day I need to take this flesh and lay on the cross and crucify it every day the great Apostle Paul says I Die daily oh but I'm a preacher I'm a minister I don't care who you are even if you are the Apostle Paul he says I Die daily and if he died daily I think we need to do the same thing every day you need to take this body and present it before the Lord is a Living Sacrifice holy and acceptable unto
him do not come down from the cross don't you think that while Jesus was hanging on the cross naked shame before the world with a multitudes yelling if you are the Son of God come down from the cross don't you think that he was tempted to come down from the cross like any other human being and take revenge on his enemies I course his Human Side did he was 100% God and he was 100% man he was not man tring to be God he was who became man but the Lord put his flesh under sub ction and make himself obedient to the death even to the death of the Cross where he asked for water instead of water the gigl and vinegar but he did not come down from the Pinnacle of Shame he remained nailed to the cross there are many who while being crucified had come down from the cross when problems and trials had come into their lives and life instead of water had given their vinegar many have not been able to withstand the presses and have come down from the cross their flesh had won Paul says that I might know him that I might know him in the power of his resurrection but also that I might know him and the fellowship of his sufferings and if there's no problems in trials and Temptations in our Christian walk then how do we identify ourselves with our Lord and the fellowship of his sovereigns oh when precious of Life Christ out come down from the cross please don't do it stay stay there maybe some of you have come with idea I can't have Revival in the city where I am I'm going to have to come down from the Coss and go do something else don't do it it's stay there God's going to give you the Revival if you stay faithful and stay PR up and fill with the Holy Ghost our lord Jesus gave us the example he had the power he had the power of the whole universe he had the authority of the whole universe but he stayed there because he loved me and he loved you and today we going to say Jesus we love you Hallelujah but the best way to tell him that we love him is showing him that we are going to stay now to the cause because actions speaks louder than words and sometimes we are so superficial we are so external minded that our hearts are far away from God and the Lord spoke to the lips of the prophet Isaiah and told Israel these people honor me with their lips but their hearts are so far away from me and what I'm talking about this morning morning is something internal something of the heart if your heart is Right everything else is going to be okay something that man cannot see you can fool me and I can fool you but no one can fool God and today he's looking to all of us and he's not impressed with the clothes that I wear he's not impressed with the car that I drive he's not impressed in the house that I leave he's not impressed with my talent and abilities the only thing that impresses God is your heart he cares what's in there and last night the spirit of God came into this building brother man can preach like I never heard him preach before Oh God God busit us last night anything that I had to take care of my life is been taken care of I want to go up there I want to keep teaching Bible studies I want to keep reaching I want to work I told Brother Canam I approached him and I told him I said there's nothing matters nothing matters the only thing that counts is what we do for Jesus everything is trash everything is pry and vanity only thing that counts is what we do for Jesus and I truly I got it hurry I truly believe that until our fesh flesh is crucified and be jealousy Pride Prejudice and backbiting we will not see the Revival that we want to see because exact the grain of whe falls in the crow
and dies only then it will bring forth fruit because it was not until our Lord bow his head and yielded up the go the great things happen the greatest obstacle for Revival once again is not the world nor the devil it's our flesh and that's why we are lacking sometimes of passion for the things of God for a evangelism for prayer and fasting and worship unto our God because he was until the Lord yielded that is Ghost the things happen one of the things that happened the ve and the temple was rent and Twain from top to bottom the holies of holies was exposed last night the holiest of holies was exposed in this place they saw the glory of God the ve represented the Flesh and the flesh was ramped and to from top to bottom and when we crucify our fles we pastors and ministers and congregations we going to see the glory of God back in our churches just like we saw it last night let's not lift this glory in Alexandria Lana let's take this Glory with us to our cities but unfortunately we cannot pack him up We cannot put it on the box we got to take it and when we get there the only way we're going to see what we saw here last night is by the crucifixion of our flesh oh that's the only way the veil of the temple is going to rent in Twain when I was growing up brother Scott is my Elder thank you brother Scott in Sunday school when I was just a child back in the small country of Ecuador in South America oh I remember remember getting the holy ghost in the Sunday School the kids are speaking in tongues it didn't need to be on Sunday night it need to be at the big service it was the teachers with passion in their hearts and their souls they came to the classroom prayed up in fast they fast and they pray because they were ready to teach this children this truth and I remember the holy ghost coming in filling the classroom children you get the Holy Ghost you walked in the temples and it was 11: and 12 midnight and people are still there crying out to God no wonder the little country of Ecuador shook by the power of God and God gave us a great Revival we he have anything in regards of material things but we have something greater and that's the glory of God in our churches and I don't want to lose it God has blessed me God has blessed me but I don't want to forget what I come from I don't want to lose the glory and when we crucified the flesh when the Lord was hanging there gave B the ghost the bell repped in the glory of God was Expos the second thing that happened when the Lord was crucified and gave up yielded up the ghost Mary Miracles took place the Bible says that the Earth shook the earthquake and the graves were open and many bodies of the Saints which slept were resurrected ah when we crucify our flesh there's going to be a great Resurrection in our cities and in our churches there are a spiritual de people in our cities are going to be resurrected the drug ads the alcoholics are going to come in to our churches they're going to be resurrected by the powerway of the day and the powerway of the Holy Ghost and the power of the preaching of the word of God there going to be a resurrection that's going to take place in our congregations go ahead Saints they don't want to pray they are dead go ahead they just sit there and watch yeah if I'm getting out of line you correct me here go ahead get in Saints they are dead won want to pray don't want to fast they don't do and they let don't let anybody else do anything those that are dead yeah it's going to be a a resurrection inside the churches when we take this body when we
take this flesh and we we crucified brothers and sisters it's going to be a resurrection in our churches pastors it's going to be a resurrection in your church you've been praying you've been struggling with Saints they don't want to pray they don't want to S wi Souls they don't want to give that's the thing you need to do take this body crucify it that is good Hallelujah I don't mind if you play golf I don't mind if you do Sports because I do some of that too my Lord if you're spending more time in all these entertainment things and let's start in the prayer run you need to take the Flesh and curf fire one more time that's why you're not seeing what you going to see there nothing wrong when you go and do those things but my Lord you need to spend some time with God fire you flesh it will be an Awakening it will be an Awakening great resur spiritual resurrection and the third thing that happened and it does not happen by carrying on the cross this happened by crucifixion by the way of crucifixion carrying the cross cross was not enough the third thing that happened and when the Roman Centurion saw all these things that were happening he feared greatly and he said truly truly he was the Son of God the Roman Centurion done and in that moment when Jesus was crucifying yield up his GS he received a revelation of the Wess of God nobody had to beit him on the heck with the Bible try to make him understand the oness of God no it was the love of crucifixion it was the love of crucifixion they th bow a revelation of the truth brother KY if you want to war the people that don't have a full Revelation don't knock it on the head just crucify you flesh and love them and God going to bring about a revelation of the wers of God this did not come about this not come about by cry on the cross he come about by CR affection sometimes I don't want to pray sometimes I get so busy sometimes I get distracted take this body put him on the cross I'm going to search I'm going to seek after God as the penth go after the water books so oh my soul oh God after thee I'm thirsty of you oh God I'm hungry I'm put in this place at this rejection the cross there's no Beauty on that cross but at the same time it's beautiful what a contrast there's no Beauty but it is beautiful he brought about salvation foolish Galatians having begun in the spirit are ye now made perfect by the flesh and if we want to see let me wind down here I run out of time we want to see the glory of God we want to crucify our flesh along with your passions and desires adultery fornication uncleanness lens idolatry sorcery hatred contentions Paul says if in anything I would Glory I'm going to glory on the cross of Christ I'm not going to glory in how big my church is I'm not going to glory in all the abilities and talents that God has giving me I'm not going to glory on all the diplomas that are in my office I'm not going to glory in any any of those things but if I'm going to glory on something I'm going to glory on the cross of Christ why so no flesh should glory in his presence that's why
no flesh to glory in his presence whatever thing that I might obain whatever thing that I might do for Jesus my Ministry I will not take glory in any of that the only Glory that I will get receive as in the Cross of Christ and Abraham was going up to the mountain I closed this he was going up to the mountain Isaac his teenager was with him and Isaac looked at him and says father I see you got the wood and I definitely see that you got the fire and I'm telling you I thank God because we got a lot of wood in our United Pentecostal church we got the best singers brother the Cunningham preached last week at headquarters got the best singers we got the best preachers we got the best in the the world recognize that we got fire we got moved to the Holy Ghost we crank at the music everybody shouts Isaac said you got plenty wood you got fire but where is the sacrifice and that's where we are right now oh there's some young ministers in this building that who knows are waiting online waiting for a church to open where there's hundreds of cities around the United States that is a church that preaches the truth but you are waiting you sitting there why don't you get up and say Jesus here is my life I present this body as a Living Sacrifice where is the sacrifice these Elders paid the price for me and for you Brother Scott came to Ecuador I was only 6 years old there's a a young man that got there black her youthful his wife the kids were small they did not know the language they did not know the culture they left behind a good church in Charleston West Virginia but he left all died he crucify his flesh he crucified the Commodities of this beautiful country that has been so blessed by God yeah we are so blessed here he left all that behind him and then he flew to South America people think can even know you neither the language neither the culture but he was there and I saw this man it's a young man preach pray and laugh and work day and night until his lie was P out he got so sick he left it all over there we experienc Revival I heard the thing that impressed me about this man was he's praying as he's sinking after God early in the morning and K meetings when everybody was asleep he'll be up early in the morning and you'll hear at the distance don't weeping and crying some mour oh God yeah and that grip my soul yeah and I learned if there's anything I'm going to do for Jesus it's going to take sacrifice it's going to take crucifixion that's what it's going to take there's no glory on these there's no glory the only Glory that we have as the C of Christ I don't know about you this morning I know it's early I know who knows my language is not perfect but oh God I have a burden inside of me our greatest need is crucifixtion that's the greatest need that we have cuz we're going to identify with Jesus Christ to the crucifixion let's stand in our feet to our crucifixion brother so I give honor to this man brother Daniel Scott and his wife this morning thank you for coming to Ecuador many years ago and helped us and help me today probably under the result of his ministry and you never know who you're going to impact you never know you never know and I learned from those missionaries I learned from Sister Lucille farman I learned from Brother Larson that this story is been told time
after time we had the privilege to have in our house at one time L and he was in Colombia he was a Canadian man we all hear the story we read the books I had the privilege to have it in our home and the man went to Colombia his wife Catholicism is strong over there he prayed he weit for Revival in Colombia Sister Larson die while she was giving birth to her child and the people in Colombia did not let her let brother Larson bury her in the cemetery he could not even buy a coffin so he had to build a coffin he bought some wood he did whatever he had to do build that box made out of wood put the body inside the box with for many years was the Temple of the Holy Ghost he did a ditch himself he placed the body 7 ft under the ground with the United Pentecostal Church calling you need to come back to the states revation he say no I came to this country with a purpose I came to the this country with a reason I crucify in My Flesh and he reject the offer because he had a burden inside of a to reach the country for Jesus Christ and today somebody say this almost a million Jesus name baptized people of the country only because why may refus to come down from the cross he said no I'm going to stay now and I'm not coming down from let's kneel where we are and pray let's kneel where we are and pray God has spoken to us this morning
Scripture references as spoken: Matthew 16:24; Galatians 2:20; Galatians 3:13; 1 Corinthians 2:8; Romans 8:8; Revelation (book-only, as spoken); 1 Corinthians 15:31; Isaiah 29:13.