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- **Rich people, and all that matters is Jesus.** Pugh opens standing in praise, overwhelmed and thankful — for the meeting, for the church and the Mangun family, for a heritage of believers cut from the cloth of God's will. He honours the younger preachers who have already worked through problems that took him years, and the fellowship's rising hunger: less preaching of prejudices, more lifting up of Jesus, with no compromise of doctrine or holiness. He tells of his own beginnings — a revival in Shreveport, knocking doors, a farmer who never spoke a word while his dog gave the invitation an adequate reception — and says he knows Jesus better now than he knew him then.
- **The subject announced, and a covenant among brethren.** He is going to address a need present in the congregation: rejection, and the problems some there face now. His subject is the removal of humiliation, and Satan's use of such things to beat people down. Fresh from a retreat where brethren laid hands on him and prayed for him — a loner learning to receive love and strength because he needs it now and will need it tomorrow — he tells the men around him of the covenant he has entered: he will never tear them down, and every chance he gets he will build them up and be their friend. He appreciates the messages preached before him that morning, and turns to read.
- **The text: God devises means for the banished.** He reads his text — the word spoken to David by the wise woman: we must needs die, and are as water spilled on the ground which cannot be gathered up again, yet God does not respect any person, and he has devised means so that his banished are not expelled from him. Beside it he sets the invitation he quotes at the head of the reading: come now, let us reason together — though your sins be as scarlet, he will make them white as snow, and though they be red like crimson, white in the same washing. The house is seated, and the sermon unfolds from those two words: banished, yet not expelled.
- **Humiliation is the root that must be removed.** A book by a man who spent much time in the Middle East gives him his frame: there will be no lasting solution to that crisis until there comes the removal of humiliation — and it is the key to almost any problem, in a nation or in a bosom. The trouble began with Hagar and her son driven out with a cruse of water and a little bread. More death is not the answer, and more humiliation is not the answer; Hitler tried the second to the nth degree and the problem remained. The root of humiliation is rejection and failure. Where there is no place for forgiveness, people are bent back on themselves and travel the same path of hate again and again. He points to a religious city whose young people destroy themselves under a standard they cannot live up to, to children crushed by expectations they cannot fulfil, and to Satan's business of shoving a face in the mud and keeping it there — the possessed man among the tombs, naked and cutting himself, whose lonely cry was heard across the water; the drunken older woman on a Memphis park bench at midnight, somebody's mother, somebody's grandmother; whole peoples humiliated by rulers and by circumstances they did not choose. He speaks, he says, to people who have known rejection and humiliation — out of his heart, because he has been there himself.
- **David's house: seven years that were never fixed.** David, at war with the house of Saul, took a wife whose two children were a prince and a princess — he states their ages as twenty-one and eighteen. The son lusted after his sister, got her into his apartment by a device, and raped her; she came stumbling home in shame, forever marked, her future snatched away. Her brother waited for their father to act, watched her waste under despair, and let anger grow until the bloody day he saw the man killed and fled the country himself. Three years passed; a wise woman was brought to the king with a made-up story of her own two sons, and drew from him the very words of the text — the banished must not be expelled. The young man was brought back to the city but not into fellowship; two more years dragged by without his father's face. Seven years of humiliation sat on that handsome head, and the end of it was a war and the death of forty thousand men, a scar on the nation to this day.
- **The bent woman, and people made whole.** Jesus, teaching in the synagogue, saw past the men's side to a hump on the women's side — the bent back of a woman who could not straighten herself, who saw only the waste and filth of the street and never a bird's flight or a sunset. He called her forward and addressed the root of the matter: the spirit of infirmity came out of her. Somewhere far back there had been a seed, a deed of humiliation never fixed and never addressed, and the devil had heaped humiliation on humiliation until she was bent double. Body and spirit are not separate: couples who could not have a child have conceived after adoption relaxed the anxiety. We are whole people — and Christ came so that everyone in the building could be made every whit whole. So the apostle's prayer is quoted with approval: may the God of peace sanctify you wholly, body and soul and spirit; God wants a person standing strong and confident, a total person, sure in his faith and his calling.
- **He took our infirmities; the boy whose legs were broken.** The prophet's chapter is named and its word applied: he took our infirmities, whatever the infirm situation in a life may be. We are humiliated not only by circumstance but by the actions of other people. In the chapter he names, there is the account of a wounding a man never recovered from — Jonathan's grandson, dropped as the nurse fled, both legs broken, growing back crooked and grotesque; for sixteen years he lived with the pain, the ugliness, and the humiliation of it, though the war that caused it was none of his doing. Against that stands the Christ who can relate: hung naked and in shame, tasting betrayal's dregs, drastically humiliated — he took the cup.
- **Guilt, and the dream that lied.** Satan does not care whether what he condemns a man with is a lie or the truth, so long as guilt destroys faith, for faith and guilt cannot live together. Before Pugh understood justification and the grace of God, the devil used his many failures against him worst of all through his mother, whom he loved and kissed coming and going. He tells of the family cemetery in Noble, Louisiana, unchanged since his father was buried when he was four — and of the recurring nighttime dream: people digging up a grave past the cedar tree, because the woman buried there was believed killed by her son; the name spoken in the dream is the one the captions garble; and the impression would fall on him — you killed your mother — with a nameless guilt he could not answer, though everything was under the blood. The devil is a liar, and a liar from the beginning — and the Holy Ghost witnesses in the service that the same trail is being laid for somebody present, against whom he declares his compassion and love.
- **Love that moves laterally, and accepted in the beloved.** Some blessings cannot come perpendicularly, straight down from God; the body is joined by bands and joints, and nourishment reaches a member through its relationships — blessing often has to flow back and forth through the flesh of his body. Rejection, meanwhile, is a common lot: it starts on the sandlot ball team and goes on through life, and what matters is how a man meets it. He tells of going to the office of a man he knew hated him, praying beforehand to be filled with love, and turning the love valve on across the desk while the other man ran out his hate — because love is stronger than hate. The ground of it is a scripture he came across in the chapter he names: you are accepted in the beloved. Accepted before the foundation of the world, an accepted man — and no one's rejection can undo it.
- **Counted out: fifteen blessings and forty-five curses.** At his direction the house turns to the chapter of blessings and curses, and he walks it verse by verse without reading it at length — it is a long chapter, sixty-eight verses. The blessings he counts one by one: set on high, overtaken by blessing, blessed in city and field, in the fruit of the body, the basket and the store, in coming in and going out, enemies smitten, rain in its season, made the head and not the tail — fifteen blessings, all hanging on the one word "all": hearken diligently, and do them all. Then the conjunction drops at the fifteenth verse, and he ticks the curses off verse by verse with the same care — forty-five of them, three curses for every blessing. That, he says, is the place where he lived: under the law he could not claim to have kept, Satan walked a broad road into his life with loads of guilt, and his answer to every charge was yes, I did it — I'm a failure.
- **Grace versus law.** The house turns again, to the chapter where he takes his position: let the Bible speak, and let every man be a liar; let us stand at the foot of Calvary and be accepted in the beloved — if God be for us, who can be against us? From the verse he names, he reads the law's sentence as performed: as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; it is written, cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the book — and he did not continue. But no man is justified by the law; the just shall live by faith, and the law is not of faith — faith worketh by love. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. The only way out from under the law is not by keeping it better but by coming to Jesus, who lifts a man above it. Our problem is not to defeat Satan — he is already defeated — nor to keep paying for what has already been paid for.
- **Restoration through love.** He closes with a little church he was once associated with, where two families walked home together at night, dropping a bucket of well water at the first house on the way. One night, on that walk, it was alleged that a boy of one family raped a girl of the other. The boy was sent to the penitentiary; the church split down the aisle, and the work of God came to a screeching halt. Years later he came home determined to hold his head up, met hostility and reality, and was soon paralysed from the shoulders down; people said there was nothing wrong with him, until a storm blew the little house they had built for him across the yard and he could not help himself. Then one night a mother of one family crossed no-man's land — that aisle — put her arms around the woman who used to be her dear friend, and said she accepted her and was sorry, and wanted it back like it used to be. Love moved laterally through the congregation. A few weeks later the other mother, making biscuit dough, heard a step behind her — and there stood her son, smiling, walking, not paralysed anymore: because of the removal of humiliation. He ends with a pastor he names — a good, educated man who battled his weight and his shyness from boyhood, who once could not make himself turn his car into a farm lane — whose answer, asked how he had managed so much for God, was: I faced all of my realities in Jesus. If he is not the answer, there is no answer; he will never leave you, never forsake you. The sermon ends in worship.
Scriptures: 2 Samuel 14:14; Isaiah 1:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Isaiah 53; 2 Samuel 4; Ephesians 1; Deuteronomy 28; Galatians 3:10-13
Scripture index: 2 Samuel 14:14; Isaiah 1:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Isaiah 53; 2 Samuel 4; Ephesians 1; Deuteronomy 28; Galatians 3:10-13.
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amazing let us give the Lord thanks dear all over again praise the Lord goodness and his blessing thank the Lord for his Mercy thank God for his graciousness We Appreciate You O Lord so much today thank you sir thank us praise God praise God if you remain standing here just for a moment before we read the good word of God I am so overwhelmed by the spirit and so full today of of the emotions that are growth in their root and purpose outflow and so thankful to be here to be a part of our family and of our heritage praise God we are rich people today yes we're rich and I'm so thankful to be a part of the this body of believers that is so unique and so different and cut with the scissors of God's purpose from the cloth of his will praise God and I appreciate it so much thank God I thank the Lord for this meeting the cause of the times I appreciate so much this church and my dear friends the mangans and the hand of God that is upon brother Anthony I appreciate what I see in the lives of many of our younger preachers that some of them are so hungry and sincere some of them already have come past some problems that I had and did not work my way through until I was older in age some already know what True Values are and what true priorities are and know that as brother brothers Shoemake preached today what really counts and I'm thankful for that now they can get on with it and I'm very thankful for that all that matters is Jesus praise God he's all that matters that's all that matters to know him thank God is to have life eternal praise God and we want to look full in his wonderful face praise the Lord and I appreciate so much the drive the hunger that is rising like a irresistible tide across our fellowship and the meetings that are helped about our fellowship are accenting that and we are less and less preaching and accenting prejudices and things of this nature but we are more and more lifting up Jesus and we are being gathered to him to him and around him and I'm very thankful for that and I don't believe that for one moment that we will we will compromise Doctrine nor a Holiness standard praise God and the principle but that we are finding these centered in Jesus Christ and we are grateful for that very very grateful for that we appreciate it so much and I am hoping and trusting that never again that we have another General Conference that are like so many used to be I am trusting that we will always have the early morning prayer and that we will reach for God that as brother tinney has said we will make the main thing the main thing amen and this is our reason for being and for the purpose that Jesus Christ died and I I'm thankful that we are getting our eyes open to that and I have so muchly appreciated the feeling of evangelism and I have me and the men that are still on their feet now that had their beginning at the time that myself and the mangans the Deeds the brother the urchins and and so on had their beginning were men that believed in evangelism the loafers and whatnot are not here anymore not the ones that started when we started only the fellas that pressed the collar only the ones that gave it their best consistently are still on their feet and still around today you can't Loaf and survive there's no way to do it amen it is always continuously pouring pouring
yourself out and all the thrill of it all praise God praise God I remember leaving a Old Pa JC conference in Milford that was the year that brother hush was elected brother Blankenship was was not elected and I left there and went with brother Cullen Heyman back to Louisiana brother Heyman was my first superintendent and district superintendent I preached a Revival for brother Heyman and he had just opened the church on Drexel Street in Shreveport the church was still very young and I didn't know anything about knocking doors but in prayer I felt like I should went out and knocked doors and remember so well stepping over a fence and the man was picking potato bugs off of his potatoes and dropping them in a tomato can that had coal oil in it some of you folks don't know what coal oil is but yeah yeah that took care of the potato bugs so I walked over to invite him out to church he never was grunted never said a word to me never spoke to me not one word did he speak that a big dog underneath the house gave me a adequate reception he came storming out from there and I saw him coming I extended my hand to him as a gesture friendship and he obligedly took it kept it for a while and when I got it back it was covered with his saliva and with blood and I dried it off with my handkerchief and then again i x and in my my invitation to the man to come out to the Revival he never said a word he just still after those bugs and but those were the days it's not like that anymore old-time Pentecost and things of this nature I know something about some of it and where I am now I like better praise God amen God's still the same the doctrine is still the same the separation is still the same thank God Lord I know Jesus better now than I knew him then thank you Jesus and I'm so thankful for that praise the Lord oh praise the Lord I'm going today to from I'm going to address a need that is present in this congregation it might be a little different from the trend of thought this morning but nevertheless it's what God wants for now and it has to do with Rejection it has to do with problems that some here in this congregation face now and my subject is the removal of humiliation the removal of humiliation and Satan takes various things to beat us down and destroy us in our Retreat that just finished lately I some of the Brethren suggested that they put hands on me and pray for me and I was so glad they did I have been more or less independent in my activity and I have taken care of my own self and I've been a kind of a loner in some situations but things in life come along sometimes and they make you appreciate the real things of God more and as these men came and laid their hands upon me I appreciated it so much much more than I would have some time ago and I cried out to God and I said God I receive this I receive the love that toward me because I need that love so badly I receive the strength that is moving from them toward me God because I need it so badly and I need it now and I'm going to need it tomorrow I felt somewhat the same kind of spirit while ago when several of we Brethren join hands and we pray together and we helped one in the sand for some length of time now I feel actually awkward holding a man's hand I don't really care for it too much and but I just I held on to those fellas hands while ago they because that I I felt the need of that and and I felt so such a need and I told them and I told several later I said I promise you that I will never talk about you and I will never tear you down that every time I have a chance I'm going to build you up and I'm going to help you and I'm going
to be a friend to you and I have entered into Covenant with several around here already that you can count on me as your friend and you can count on me for a good word and I'll say good things about you and I'll never say anything bad about you praise God praise God let's pray praise God glory to God thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus glory to God glory to God glory to God glory to God thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you oh we love you God we glorify you so much Lord we glorify you so much thank you Jesus such wonderful things are happening in our fellowship we have have had District superintendents on this platform and they're in the congregation they love Revival they are for the move of God they want to know more about Jesus things are changing so much I can remember when we used to be so tremendously impressed by an office and this just overwhelmed us it's not so much that way we are making the main thing the main thing praise God hallelujah you might come up on General board members now at conference talking there is a very good chance that if you walked up you would find them talking about God and about their service and about the work of God and the move of God praise God and I am so grateful for that I appreciate so much the message from Brother Tenney and from brother shumate and so on and I'm grateful for that I know that brother tinny wants a move of God I know that he loves Revival I know that and I'm grateful for that and I see that in other places of our fellowship I will read here today from second Samuel chapter 14 verse 14. I would quote Isaiah 1 18. come let us reason together though your sins be a Scarlet I will make them quiet as snow though they be red like Crimson I will make them white as well 14th verse of chapter 14 II Samuel for we must needs die and are as water spilled on the ground which cannot be gathered up again neither that any God neither God respect any person yet he devised means that his banish be not expelled from him for we must needs die and are his Waters built on the ground which cannot be gathered up again neither doth God respect any person depth he devised me that is banished be not expelled from him you may be seated praise God the removal of humiliation some time ago I read a book that was written by a man that spent much time in the Middle East and as a result of that he put together this book a very good book about the Middle East anyone being an authority owned this because of experience Affinity I would I would accept him as such and he spoke about the solution to the Middle East crisis and the bottom line of it simply was this that there will be no solution to the Middle East crisis until there comes the removal of humiliation until there comes the removal of humiliation this is the key of almost any problem whether it be something that is a storm raging in your bosom or whether it be a problem that exists between people in this world no problem can be solved lastingly effectively and really as long as there is humiliation which is not taken care of and where restoration has not truly been accomplished I think we are learning that more and more all the time the humiliation which is a part of The Cauldron of death there in the middle course had its beginning with the that the fostered upon Hagar and her son a cruise
of water and a little bread get out of my house leave and don't come back and taking the boy she went into the Wilderness and thus there was spawned and born the problem that is still with us today according to the expert that has no solution without the removal of humiliation the answer to the Middle East of course is not more death because that has gone on for some length of time and yet it is not solved anything the answer to the Jewish problem is not more humiliation Hitler tried that he drugged them down he he broke them or tried to he humiliated them to the nth degree and still thy remains in the belly of the Nations the Jewish problem which is not resolved the only solution for any problem Arie of course is the removal of humiliation the root cause of humiliation always comes from rejection and also from failure a person being rejected or an individual feeling like that they have failed or perhaps that they have actually failed and so this is the reason for the Despair and for the hate and the anger and frustration that drives people in the Middle East to death and to Carnage The that particular motivation they have the first five books of the Bible and that's all there is no place for forgiveness there is no Calvary no Gethsemane no soft words gently spoken father forgive them for they know not what they do this is not a part of their Heritage they have books of judgment and only five and consequently there is no way out of the Jungle of their trouble they've been back upon themselves they are inverted in every respect and they they travel the same path of hate again and again if you won't wish to a day to know the city that has the most suicides for kept them in the entire United States you would go to the most religious city of America someone a city that puts up the biggest fraud a city that seems to be the most religious that City Salt Lake City this the group of people that claim to have the most perfect home life and so on have more of their young people killing themselves destroying themselves and other people killing themselves why it's simply because that there is pressed upon them a standard and a system which when they trying to live up to without the baptism of the Holy Ghost they fail to live up to it and moreover beyond that they see in the lives of their Bishops and Elders discrepancies as they grow on up that just just don't come together it don't pan out they are filled with tremendous frustration they have a great sense of failure and thus they they take their lives because there seems to be no other answer they live in a climate of failure and of humiliation the very system itself tends to humiliate and they they react by taking their own life I've seen in the homes children that were constantly pressured by expectations that they could not fulfill and finally getting to the place that they've gave up on it and retired into a shell and to an attitude of sullenness and resentment and Etc I witnessed that in my life and perhaps you have too and as it's been said here already it is a devil's business to put us down and to humiliate us and to take us and shove our face in the mud and keep it there and I really appreciated that scripture brother tinny from Isaiah where that people could be made of regular robe for the devil to run on and so on this is exactly what Satan wants he attempts to humiliate the man of gadra is a good example of that I suppose that he was intellectual that he had a lot of things going for him but in time he ends up in the tombs he ends up in the caves he ends up in the most despicable unwanted place of all the country and that's where he lived hating himself to the point that he tried to destruct and to cut himself he despised his body he was naked he was filthy he was stinking his spittle hang in his beard he was an evil man his lonely cry rent the night and startled the fishermen that were near the the coast close enough to hear and there he was running and racing
he is a very animal of a man until in some of his most Lucid moments and rational times that came from him that lonely wish oh God help me and that ear that is attuned to hear the Cry of the Lonely heard just a mere whisper beyond the hills and the Sea and came quickly across the waters to find him there this man is an example of satanic humiliation and that goes on and on it's been quite a few years ago we had quite a gathering in Memphis and my wife and myself walking back from the convention that night downtown we turned the corner by a park on our way to our room and a woman was sitting on a park bench it was around midnight she was an older woman her head was tight with a scarf and beside her was a brown bag which I assumed held her liquor she was already very very drunk the gray hair showed out from under her scarf she had a Shabby coat on which was buttoned and she drew around her and she could barely sit up erect and as we came by she relieved herself and this ran down and splattered up on the ground and I looked at that woman Somebody's Mother somebody's grandmother and there she sat shame of it all and there she was this is an example also of how that Satan likes to take people and humiliate them put them down make an animal out of them push their face in the mud and do all that he can to discredit them and Satan takes entire masses of people and humiliates them behind the Iron Curtain there are rulers that hold millions in captivity that turn them into to Oceans of Despair where they Prey Upon one another and the suspicions that are engendered in them are not easily dropped even when they come into a free Democratic Society they are still filled with their suspicions and Grave misgivings and have no use for an authority figure because they have been put down and humiliated us so much and so no it goes people are humiliated by circumstances over which they have no control things that you can't help things that you didn't bring about and things that you didn't want and I am speaking today to people in this congregation that have known in your lifetime a certain measure of rejection a certain measure of humiliation this is the role that Satan likes to all this is the door he tries to come through to get into me and to you and to cause you to be less a person than what God wants you to be and what you could be in him and I speak here this morning to out of my heart to people that I can relate to because that I know what I'm talking about because I have been there myself and also I am superintendent of a district that I have seen Satan come to very good men in our district and to put them down I grieve so much over the little struggling churches over a wide geographical area that have never known victory that have known nothing but Despair and defeat and I pray and I pray so much for every preacher and for every one of those churches for I know it is not God's will that his churches be forever cast down it is not God's will that his ministers no defeat ever and always it is not God's will that you always are driven into some corner of dark Despair and Wade through the the oceans of Darkness spawned that is not God's will no it's not God's will the Devil is a dirty devil he will take every opportunity that he can to put you down and to humiliate you and that is his business and he's very very happy to do it in the European 1053 David lived in Hebron and was in war with the house of Saul and during that time he took himself a Woman by the name of mayaki and she was the daughter of tal Maya and talmaya was the king of geshire David was in the vicinity and he married tal Maya and to that marriage there
were two children that were born they only had two children one was named Absalom and the other was named Tamar and when Absalom was 21 years of age and tomorrow was 18 there was a very shameful thing that happened in their life now this was a prince and a princess and they had their own house to themselves and they had enough assignment to take make them comfortable and everything was all right with them and everything was fine but during that time of course Ammon lusted after this beautiful girl this was two of the perhaps the most handsome and beautiful people in Israel Tamar and Absalom they stood out they were stately and they were beautiful and so Ammon lusted after tomorrow and of course you knew the know the device that he used to get her into his apartment and there he raped her this beautiful girl this young 18 year old girl left his apartment her clothes disheveled perhaps torn she pulled her cloth up over her head she was in shame she was in shock and and she stumbled back toward their own house and when she came stumbling in that day into the presence of her brother Absalom and of course she spilled out to him what had happened to her now she would be forever marked she would never have a home like other women she would never be given in marriage like another woman would be given the curtain fell in a meaningful way upon her that day and much of the good that every woman would want now was snatched away it would never be forthcoming again and so she poured this story out and you could imagine Absalom being in a rage at this particular thing a young man 21 years of age and yet he was the member of a princely of kingly family and he had his limitations and there was something very little he could do maybe he had faith in dad dad will take steps and he'll correct it and it's going to be all right but he waited and he waited and nothing happened nothing was done and he saw his sister lose weight he saw the ravages of Despair in case her he saw all of this happen to this beautiful woman and her turn being turned into an old stumbling Crow even in her her youthfulness and her beauty was taken away and there was anger that grew up and up and up inside of that man until finally there was the bloody party in which he saw that Eman was killed and he himself fled the country and went back to the home of his grandfather in gesture and there he stayed there was nothing for him to do he and it's just stayed there in three years passed by and time drug upon him and the sower festered and hate grew and grew and grew and finally joab saw that David really wanted his son back and so he's he got a woman up to KOA to come a wise woman living nine Roman miles from Bethlehem in the wilderness he brought her to the king's Palace and she came in robed in Black in satcloth and fell before the king and she said I need help ah my husband is dead I only had two children both of them were sons and they got in a fight there was nobody to part them one of the boys killed the other and now the rest of the family has risen up in their demanding the life of the Survivor of this encounter and if they take his life that means that there is no Heritage left of my husband my deceased husband and I don't want that the king said bring him home nothing will happen and she got out of that King a very great binding promise that not one hair of that man's head would be touched and when she got that said this you are at fault because you would bring home my son and yet you will not take care of your own son we must all needs die and we are as Waters built upon the ground and yet God does divine devised means whereby his banish be not expelled from him forever this is one of the greatest Masonic predictions of the Old Testament praise God and so joab saw to it that absent was brought back happy ending no it wasn't because there is no
no so Epsom comes back it's one thing to be in the city it's another thing one thing to be in a house but it's another thing to be in real Fellowship he was not in Fellowship that's right and so the king didn't even say how to do to him he didn't say it and two more years drugged by and he didn't even see the face of his daddy and so it was that joab again there was interaction between Absalom and joab and joab brought salt to it that that he was brought into the presence of his father it didn't mean head was never really truly fixed it wasn't and so a total of seven years of humiliation was put on the top of the handsome head of this man now he's 28 years old he is a man in his own right in some way or another there was something that was went wrong in his young life that was not addressed in a good sound solid Christian way and we see the result of it was the death of forty thousand men a war that scarred Israel until this very day until this very day yes sir Jesus knew something about that it was only a hump that he saw on the woman's side of the petition and the synagogue that's day as he taught the men were up on one side and the women were up on the other as accustomed was on the woman's side there was a little space it seemed unoccupied but looking back he saw only a mound of the Flesh and he recognized it as the bent back of someone that could not straighten themselves he stopped his teaching and asked her to come forward this woman was discriminated against inasmuch as she was a part of the put down that belonged to women at that day and time also she was discriminated against by the circumstance of life she was so bent and she only saw the waste and the filth and the trash of the city she never saw a bird take its flight she never saw the rising of the sun she never saw the sun set she looked at the dirty Street into the feet to Filthy feet of people and because she could not straighten herself out and so it was she followed to the beckoning of the voice because she had never seen the face of Jesus and was never predicted to see his face but she came until she stood and looked upon his feet and it was then that he touched her her bit back felt the the tense muscles he felt the misshapen bone structure he felt that and then he did something he addressed himself to the root of the matter and he said thy Spirit of infirmity come out of her he knew that there was a reason why her face was only about one foot from the ground he knew there was a reason why that no sunshine came into her life and no Beauty was beheld by her eyes he knew that and I don't know how it started it must have started far back in her life with some seed some ACT some deed of humiliation that was never fixed and never addressed and it grew and this was a tool that the devil took to heat humiliation upon humiliation and drive her down down down until she was so shamed and bent until she could not straighten herself it was a spirit certainly it was don't tell me the psychosis and the spirit in an individual has no effect upon their physical how many of us sitting here to they know that there's couples after couples that wanted a baby and couldn't have a baby not until they adopted a baby and when they brought this baby into their home and the love that was there and the certain relaxing of anxiety and so on it also affected their their physical and they were able to produce children yes sir we are whole people my friend we are whole people and I have news for you today Jesus Christ came that everybody's sitting in this building could be made every whithole praise God hallelujah the prayer the Apostle Paul says may the God of Peace sanctify you holy both Body and Soul and Spirit praise God the Lord wants you to stand strong and in confidence a whole person a total person praise God that is confident and sure in your faith in God and the calling that he has given to you praise the Lord yes he does yes he does praise God
Isaiah 53 said he took our infirmities yes he did how whatever infirm situation might be in my life or your life rest assured that the Lord stepped forward to take that and assume that he did we are humiliated by the actions of other people not only circumstance over which we have no control but we are humiliate some 80 sometimes but the action of other people in the fourth chapter of the second Samuel you will find the account of the wounding of a individual that they never recovered from the falling of Jonathan's grandson and so that his legs were broken both of those legs were broken it must have been a tremendous fall he and the nurse were running and the record has it that he fell down and both of his legs were broken and in the process of time of course they grew back but there was no way of splinting they didn't know that I can see that fella as his legs were twisted and and they were pain and they they swelled and it looked like that he was going to die or he's going to lose them again green or something the screams the screams the screams of those broken legs and find this somehow or other the bone takes hold and grows back in such a crooked grotesque way and he is very very ugly and for 16 years he puts up with that the pain of it and the humiliation of it and the ugliness of it and he lived like that now he had nothing to do with the war between the house of Saul and the house of dated it was a circumstance that over which he had no control and it was because of someone else and so on but whatever has happened to you my friend I preach about a Christ that and relate to what to that and he knows he understands he hung naked we see him modestly with a loincloth dropped draped about him but evidently it was not so they hung him up with nothing and Jesus was modest he was righteous he was good he went about doing good he hung in shame he hung with every violation of of his values being violated the cup was Sour he tasted the dregs of betrayal and all of these shame and ignotomy that could be brought to the lips and the being of a human it was pressed into his mouth and into his life he took the cup yes he did he took it he was humiliated he was drastically humiliated yes he was yes he praise God you know Satan has a way of coming to us in such Insidious devious ways sometimes and and to take out our faith away if our heart condemn us not we have covenants toward God now the devil don't care what he condemns you with it could be a lie or or truth it doesn't matter just so he condemns you and he if he can get guilt into you he has destroyed your faith because you can't have faith and have guilt at the same time and so he he goes about to do that a good time before I came to know the meaning of the justification and the righteousness of Jesus Christ and the grace of God did the wonderful Heritage that we so much enjoy Satan took advantage of the my failures and I have so very very many failures so many failures and he would condemn Me by that and because of that and one of the things that he would bring to me at times that I just couldn't cope with was something that that it was the worst thing that he could have put in my mind now my I loved my mother very much and I just really truly did I never left the house if I was going somewhere the town and whatnot without kissing her I came home I kissed my mother I think that's a great thing for all children to love their mother praise God and my teaching my children I have took the position I don't know that you'll ever love me and that's not for me to worry about my place in the home is to have order and to see that you respect your mother and you respect certain things about this house and I'm not to worry about whether you love me or not later on when you get older you will love me when you get to whether you can rightly evaluate things but you must love your mother and I have observed that boys
that love their mother never wander very far praise God if they truly love their mother praise God hallelujah could we say praise the Lord thank you Jesus thank you Jesus and so I remember the cemetery so vividly in in Noble Louisiana that Cemetery hasn't changed so little in the last 6 years it's it's just it's like it was the I remembered it when they pulled my dad through there when I was four years old and my dad was buried when my mom came along later and she was buried there same Cemetery same lettering above the gate was there when they buried my dad the same cedar tree is just to the left of the gate that was there when they buried my dad there it is same old Cemetery so little so little change now my mom and dad is buried to in the corner Cemetery just to the right as you go into the gate and that is the old that's the family plot there and but there used to be times that the devil in my nighttime would put a dream into my mind that would would just shame me and bother me I've dreamed that I was in the noble cemetery and there was a cluster of people about six and there would be digging up a grave and uncovering a grave same number of people same place it wasn't in the corner but it was over to the left just past the cedar tree and here they would be uncovering that grave I would be on the periphery I would look and I would say and after a while I'd say what is happening here what's going on and then someone would volunteer to me they're uncovering this grave they're digging up this carbs what well what why because that they believe that this woman that was buried here was killed by her son and they are digging her up into verify it and well who is the woman and then they would say that woman is lucipio and then it would come to me I killed my mother and the impression would come you killed your mother and all the shame and the guilt that would come down over me that would just take sleep from my eyes and it would bother me the guilt nameless guilt guilty about what man I couldn't think of anything I'd put it all under the blood I didn't have but it didn't Jesus said the devil is a liar and that he was a liar from the beginning the Holy Ghost witnesses to me right now somebody here the devil is on your Trail to heal to help you to push you down to lie to you and to take from you the highest and the best that God has for you praise God I want you to know that I feel within my heart today such great compassion for you I feel in my heart today such love and that love is not moving just this way there is love that moves laterally across this building here today praise God did you know that some of the blessings of God just can't come perpendicular and just my relationship with God the Bible speaks about the members of God's body being joined together by bands and joints and that's of course our relationships we are joined by our relationships and the Bible said that nourishment is brought to that member because of the bands and the joints of course between her the end of our finger and our shoulder there are several bands and joints that find the link that finger onto the hand and every one of those relationships is important if that member is to survive so it is sometimes my good people I cannot receive from God what I ought to receive unless it be emulated and demonstrated through the Flesh of his body and so sometimes blessing has got to flow this way back and forth through the body sometimes I feel the spirit this way and sometimes I feel it coming this way and this way and moving through me to somebody else and there is a cleansing in it and there is a strength in it praise God yes there is rejection is a common lot of individuals and it is a way of life someone says I've been rejected friend join the club who hasn't and if you haven't you're going to be amen because in school that when some were chosen and some not chosen for The Sandlot ball team and so on you begin to learn something about rejection then and that's going to go on it's just the
process of life and it's not the fact you have it I don't have it it's how you meet it and how you cope with it praise God I went to meet a man the other day and I knew this man hated me I knew he hated me and so he didn't have any reason to hate me but but I knew that he did I received enough feedback from other sources of his remarks and all to know that he did and so I prayed before I went and I said Lord fill me up with your love oh God Fill Me With Your Love flow through Me O Lord with the love of God praise God so when I came into that man's office he was a he was a tough guy he provided he he prided himself in his physical ability I could take one look at him and know that he was he would have been a a fearful man to encounter either in karate or wrestling or boxing or whatnot and there he slept and he he's a fellow that he's just kind of sick inside on that thing and and there he likes to glare people down so I came into his office he didn't rise from his chair and he glared at me and he turned the hate valves on and he ran out to a good stream of hate there just sit there you know and run out his hate and then I turned the love Val on praise God hey and I loved him and I smiled at him praise God and I just loved him and I felt love pouring through me across that desk I felt love flowing toward him praise God praise God I thought to myself oh buddy you're going to get a whooping today praise God Hallelujah Hallelujah because love is stronger than hate and all of those lies and all of that crud that the devil has fed me all of my life you know about rejection and so on I came across a scripture one time that in the first chapter of Ephesians and it told me something and I never have forgotten it and I remind myself it said simply that that you are accepted in and the Beloved praise God ma'am don't try to reject me I'm accepted praise God no way and that's in heaven and you can't do nothing about that praise God I am an accepted man and I thought about that and I looked across that to that fellow I thought to myself you poor fella you're trying to reject me here and man I was accepted in the Beloved before the foundation of the world and nothing you can do about it man I'm an accepted man praise God praise God praise God thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus hallelujah hallelujah sometimes we are humiliated by our own actions and of course the Fallen state of man is utter it is so absolute and it's awful and there's no way that you can describe how utter it is I know that I'm incapable of any sin that anybody else is and I'll tell you what friend I'm I'm tired of the Judgment seat I'm tired of that I don't have any I don't have any place there there are some things that I have to do and all like that some things I've got to do in District work and that I don't enjoy but I tell you I can say of a truth that I love I truly love praise God and I like it that way praise God let's Worship the Lord glory to God praise God thank you hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah I would like for us to turn in our Bibles and I'd like for you to turn to the 28th chapter of Deuteronomy Deuteronomy chapter 28 28th now in the 28th chapter Deuteronomy there are there's two divisions one part of Deuteronomy has to do with the blessings it comes to people if they obey the law and when you read it it sounds so good
and it is good and I would like to be absolutely included in all of that I won't have time to read that entire chapter it is a long chapter it has it has a total of 68 verses in it but he starts off he said and it should come to pass that if and let's all say if if Thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God to observe all let's say all all in all now that's that's important you do them all and if you do if you do and he starts listening I'll set you in high places verse 1 and that's the first blessing Second Blessing and all these blessings shall come on thee and overtake thee if hearken under the voice of the Lord thy God verse 3 is the third blessing blessed shalt thou be in the city and blessed shalt thou be in the field and right on down four and five blessed shall be the fruit of thy body blessed shall not be thy Basket in thy store blessed shalt thou be when thou cometh stand blessed shalt have you and thy goest out the the eleventh blessing verse 7 the Lord shall cause thine enemies to rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face to ripping and and then coming on down to the ninth verse if you will keep the law these things will happen and then the 12th blessing in the 10th verse and the 13th blessing in the 12th verse you're going to get all the rain you need and finally the 14th blessing in the 13th verse and the Lord shall make Thee the head and not the tail and thou shall be above only and thou shalt not be beneath if Thou shalt hearken unto the commandment and so on now that that's great great great great great but then he drops down to the 15th verse and there is a that shocking arresting conjunction but it shall come to pass if thou Wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God to observe to do all his Commandments and his statutes that I command thee this day that all these curses now here comes that word all again it was all blessings now it's all curses shall come to you contingent on you doing all these things and then he starts ticking off the curses so versus The First Curse 7 17th is the third curse in the fourth 18th is a fourth curse and the fifth curse and the sixteenth curse is in the 18th verse in the 19th verse has the seventh curse and the 20th verse has the eighth curse and the 21st verse the night curse and the 22nd a verse that the tenth curse and the 23rd verse the 11th curse and the 24th verse the 12th curse and 25th verse the 13th curse verse 26 the 14th curse the verse 17 to 15th curse verse 28 the 16th occurs and the the 29th verse the 17th curse the 18th curse is in the 30th verse 19th curses also in the 30th verse the 20th curse is in the 30th verse the 21st curse is in the 31st verse 22nd curses in the 31st verse 23rd curses in the the 31st verse 24th curse in the 32nd verse dear God the drop down to the 47 first you find the 32nd curse and then in the 42nd verse the 33rd to occurs in the 43rd verse the 34th curse let's go to the 53rd verse there you'll find the 38th curse and then finally in the 54th verse the 39th curse the 45th curse in the 56th verse the 41st curse and the sixth verse the 44th curse in the 64th verse and finally the 45th curse in the 65th verse there were 15 blessings and 45 curses there were three curses for every blessing and that's the place that I lived where I got three for one that's right and I was under the law and if you keep them all you'll get the SE you'll get one blessing if a disadvantage you're going to get three curses you're gonna get it you're gonna get and friend I cannot stand here today and tell you that jtq 's Lily white and that I have kept the law consequently what happened I lived in a state of humiliation of defeat to failure or put down I had a road right into my life that Satan walked freely coming in with his tough loads of guilt to Duff on me and saying you get it you did it you did it and I'd have to say yes I did yes I did I'm a failure I'm a failure I'm a failure I'm a failure I'm a failure and I live like that
I live like that praise God I'd like for us to turn to the third chapter of Galatians let the Bible speak praise God and let every man be a liar praise the Lord let us take our position in the scripture let us let us take our place at the foot of Calvary let us be accepted in the Beloved if God be for us who can be against us praise God praise God third chapter of Galatians verse 10. for as many as are of the works of the law under the curse that's where it was that's where it was and I was there even after I received the Holy Ghost because I just simply didn't know any better and they didn't teach me that and they didn't preach that to me then and the end we weren't it was inferred that if you get good enough you'll go to heaven if you get good enough you'll get the Holy Ghost if you don't get it it's because there's something wrong with you you haven't repented off yet and so on and so we we were under condemnation constantly same Doctrine same standard as far as salvation is concerned no compromise let's all say no compromise friend it's all in Jesus let's say Jesus say it again let's read some of the good word again for it is written cursed is ever one that continued not in all things which are in there's that word all again all things written in the book of the Lord friend I didn't continue but that no man is justified by the law and I never was and I never did feel like I was good enough to go to heaven and I'm not good enough now to go to heaven and my face stands in my relationship with Jesus Christ praise God all of the ground is seeking sand all of the ground is sinking sand Glory for the just shall live by faith and the law is not a Faith No it isn't you know what faith half Faith Comes Faith worketh by love that scripture Faith doesn't work by law Faith Works by love the man that doeth them shall live in them Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law hey Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law question redeemed Us in the curse of the law Glory I'm accepted friend don't try to reject me I'm accepted Glory I'm accepted Glory hey man Hallelujah or it is written cursed is everyone that hangeth upon the tree the only way to get from under the law is not by breaking by not breaking the law but by coming to Jesus and he will lift you Above the Law and you can eat the law better than you ever kept the law when you were under the law praise God praise God you'll never solve your problems by looking at it but look to the solution which is Jesus Christ he is the solution God he was made a curse for me praise God our problem is not to defeat Satan he's already been defeated praise God you don't have to keep on paying for something that's already been paid for hurry thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus praise God I was associated with the church one time the small Church say this in closing here they people knew each one other real
well too well yeah they there's a lot of pluses and a lot of minuses and in a situation like that and one family and another family were very close together they walked back home from church together so in the country no not even a light you kind of looked up through the trees and you mapped your way according to the skyline of the trees and I remember when knee action came out on cars they thought they really had something but we knew knee action back then we'd step off in holes and we knewed how to compensate and that we just keep going there's some fall down and folks they went home that way and it was a long way home and when they got to the first family's house they would stop and they'd drop a good cold bucket of well water and get them a drink and sit down on the porch a little bit and then they'd pick up the kids if they had any sleep by that time and get on down to the next place and home and one night you're in the process of getting home caring the children dragging the others well it was alleged that that one of the boys that raped a girl of the other family I don't know whether it was so I don't know what in a way that was a horrible situation it was a court situation and and that boy I was sent to penitentiary and he stayed in there and it was a horrible breach that came in that church and half the folks sat on one side the aisle half on the other ones that were sympathetic to what not and there it was so the work of God for that little seminar came to a screeching halt and and it was that way hauls awful and that went on for years and the boy came home he was determined to have his head up and everything's going to be all right and he came back home and I remember so well when things were tight tight and he was a handsome fella he was a good he was a good man he was a good man and he met hostility and he meant reality and bruised improved him bruised him he hadn't been out of the penitentiary for a while until he paralyzed from somewhere up around the shoulders the rest of his body paralyzed and so the family had to take care of him and people said there was nothing wrong with him they made the remarks and and they laughed and they built in my little house because nights and days were mixed up and he put him in the corner of the yard in that little house so that he have his own schedule and they said that it was really nothing wrong with him but there's a big storm came up one day and blew that house away and tumbled him across the yard pile him up against the fence on the other side partially covered him with hail he never helped himself he just couldn't he was paralyzed drag him out of there and get him cleaned up and saw them pretty well convinced people that he was paralyzed and that continued until one night one of the mothers of one fan one fan cross no man's land that aisle you're in the process of service walked over across the other eye came to the woman that used to be a very dear friend put her arms around her and said I accept Blaine and I'm sorry I want it back like it used to be and let's let's please forgive and so on they're moved through the congregation laterally love now this is this is why the body needs to be healthy because there needs to be this this flow sometimes because people can't help themselves and so it was such a time of rejoicing and then it wasn't a bit a matter of a few weeks after that the mom in the kitchen making up the biscuit dough you ever see a big wooden dope pan and you ever hear a woman make up a lot of biscuit and you could hear and putting that dry flower on the outside and then after while you start pinching those biscuits off and putting them in me well she was busy with that she heard a step behind her turn there stood that son of hers smiling hi Mom I'm walking in I was not paralyzed anymore
because of the removal of humiliation praise God praise God praise God praise God praise God for the BH McCoy pastors the church that I Pastor for 17 years in Port Arthur he's done a good job the age McCoy is a good man and he has tremendous amount of ability he has a good education he told me he said I was talking one day he just opened his self up he said I've always had a problem with weight and I don't eat all that much but I battled weight since as far back as I can remember and I was made fun of in school we lived he said way out in the country that it was anyone a road to our house when you got to the end of a particular Lane you looked over the Ridge and you could see the top of our house and there was actually a fence and we had to put our Grocers through the fence and walk through another man's corn field and pack our stuff over to our house and said I battled with a lot of that finally he said when I got my first job and I was selling feed chicken houses and sentences and I was so beat down and so shy and cowed and my weight and everything until he said I remember one particular farm that had quite a few chickens at would mean a lot to be able to get their order he said I drove my car back and forth across the front of that lane there and I just didn't have courage to get my foot on the brake and slow it down and turn that car into that lane because I was so cowed sore I have run somebody's bail right there you said I would like to go meet so and so I would like to do this and I would like to do that and the other but the Old Devil keeps running a big wagon load of something right into your life over and over again hey my brother you are accepted I've got news for you you are accepted praise I said brother McCoy you've done so much for God and you you just got a good head and all of that and I said how have you managed all of that now listen to his reply listen to his reply he said I faced all of my realities I faced all of my realities in Jesus friend if he's not the answer there is no answer he's been a friend to me yeah never leave you never forsake you praise God praise God praise God let's worship Him glory to God thank you Jesus thank you Jesus oh thank you Jesus thank you Jesus oh thank you Jesus praise God praise God praise God praise God glory to God
Scripture references as spoken: 2 Samuel 14:14; Isaiah 1:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Isaiah 53; 2 Samuel 4; Ephesians 1; Deuteronomy 28; Galatians 3:10-13.