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Summary prepared by Acts 2:38 Life from the transcript below — the preacher’s words follow in full.
Welcome, greetings, and the lesson announced
- He opens already speaking as the cut begins (the fragment of the host's welcome stands outside the span; see packet.md), praises the conference — at other conferences you say what a preacher, at this one you say what a Christ — and greets the general superintendent, the state superintendent, the board, the staff and the host church. He tells of his parents: his father, a Methodist bishop, held that 35 minutes was long enough for a good sermon and too long for a bad one; his mother taught him to say as much as he can as quickly as he can.
- He announces the lesson for today and reads its four texts aloud: Proverbs on good news from a far country; Mark's go-ye-into-all-the-world, with verse 16 thrown in at his direction (the saved and the damned, as he puts it); Romans on not being ashamed of the gospel; and Ephesians on opening his mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel. The subject for the lesson, he says, is the chemistry of the Gospel.
Scriptures: Proverbs 25:25; Mark 16:15-16; Romans 1:16; Ephesians 6:19
Words defined: chemistry and gospel
- Two words in the subject call for definition, and words can trick you — a lesson from his mother. The buffet story follows: a sign at the dinner the bishop took him to (as captioned) put him in mind of what the Bible said in 2 Corinthians, Paul's messenger of Satan sent to buffet him; he ate so much, he says, that he got "Buffett" and "buffet" mixed up (the citation is shipped as spoken; see packet.md).
- Chemistry, he says, is a science — and science is knowledge gained by observation, proven by demonstration and refined by classification (the dictionary citation as captioned), which is why, he argues, evolution is not science and special creation, while also unobserved, cannot be discredited. Chemistry deals with substances and the way they interact. Gospel, from the Greek lexicon he cites (names as captioned), means glad tidings or good news — and the gospel he means is the good news of the pre-existence, virgin birth, holy life, incarnation, death, burial, resurrection, ascension and soon coming of Jesus Christ, the only message that will save a lost world and the one message that works the same way on everybody.
Scriptures: 2 Corinthians 12:7
The texts applied: good news from a far country
- He applies the Proverbs text at once (its wording and the Mark wording are recalls of the opening readings, not new citations): the thirsty soul is the lost sinner, the far country is heaven, and the message for the lost soul is the gospel — preach the gospel to every creature.
- He tells of being a student in 1955 at the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World Bible college (school and president named as captioned in the texts), when a visiting bishop prophesied that a time would come when it would almost be impossible to hear the gospel preached in a Pentecostal church. He wanted to shake the man then; this is now 1999, he says, and he has lived to see the prophecy come through. If you want revival, use what works: the gospel gets the job done, and it works because of its chemistry.
The nine components
- He gives the skeleton and tells them to put their own meat on it at home: the author of the gospel is God; its axis is the cross; its activator is the blood; its authority is the name of Jesus; its applicator is the Holy Ghost; its appointment is holiness; its atmosphere is love; its announcer is the preacher; and its attraction is Jesus Christ.
God the author
- The gospel is called the gospel of God — he names Romans and 1 Thessalonians for the designation (both shipped as spoken; see packet.md) — and nobody could author a message like it but God, which is why it works the same everywhere: he pairs cities across the world (Alexandria Virginia and Alexandria Louisiana, London England and London Canada, and more, names as captioned) and says it will do the same thing to anybody anywhere. Paul's word stands behind it: it is the power of God unto salvation — saving power, keeping power, and power to get you out of the ground when Jesus comes.
- He returns to the Ephesians text — for me, that utterance may be given unto me (a recall of the opening reading) — and to Paul's wish to preach in Rome: he names the verse in Romans (its content is stated in his own words without the verse's wording; priced in packet.md and not indexed), pictures Rome as the sin headquarters of the world where Christians were killed for sport (the atrocity account is told in general historical terms; see packet.md's minors pass), and says that is the very place Paul wanted to preach, because he knew the power of the gospel.
Scriptures: Romans 1:1; 1 Thessalonians 2:2; Romans 1:15
Methods of proclamation
- Homiletics is the art of preaching, hermeneutics the science of preaching, apologetics the proof of preaching (the first term as captioned in the texts) — but you will not get them by any of the three. It will take the gospel of Jesus Christ: this age is in a mess, and the message for the mess age is the gospel.
The witness in the Seattle airport
- Laying over in Seattle with a book to read and meditate (he speaks only to the meditating brother, he says, in the run of "-tate" brothers as captioned), he saw a Muslim man reading the Quran and walked over: my book is better than your book. Back and forth they went, his Bible against the other man's book (the Quran references are that book's, quoted inside the story for contrast; they are not scripture-index material — see packet.md): Genesis on God creating the heaven and the earth, against the moon-god charge (the Deuteronomy prohibition is stated under a named chapter and verse whose spoken number does not match the prohibition's own place; ruled and priced in packet.md, not indexed); Job's question — if a man die, shall he live again — asked in the other book and answered in his, by Jesus in John, I am the resurrection and the life; John again, I am the way, the truth and the life, against the messenger who is nothing more; 1 Corinthians on every man his own wife, against four wives; and Galatians — neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male nor female, all one in Christ Jesus — against the passage he had the man read in his own book about faces saved and condemned.
- The man, whose name before his conversion James gives in the story (an adult; see the texts), took the name of Jesus instead: baptized in Jesus name and filled with the Holy Spirit, and has since, James says, reached 120 young men with the gospel. James's own ground for it is in the story too: he became a Christian and got the name Jesus, on the Ephesians word he quotes — of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named.
Scriptures: Genesis 1:1; Job 14:14; John 11:25; John 14:6; 1 Corinthians 7:2; Galatians 3:28; Ephesians 3:15; Genesis (book-only, as spoken)
The cross the axis
- Calvary is the axis of the gospel: on the cross and in the resurrection and ascension, he says — citing Hebrews for it — without the shedding of blood there is no remission. The blood shed on earth and sprinkled in heaven (the 1 Peter place is named but its wording is carried in his own paraphrase; priced in packet.md and not indexed) got us off the hook and God off the hook, and now you are right and God is right. He piles up a quoted preacher's praises of Calvary (the name as captioned in the texts), then Paul's resolve in 1 Corinthians: determined not to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified — not all he knew, but all he knew worth preaching.
Scriptures: Hebrews 9:22; 1 Peter 1; 1 Corinthians 2:2
The name the authority
- The name of Jesus is a composite name: in his January Bible readings he marked over a thousand names and titles of God (the count as captioned), and God took all those names and put them in one name — call on Jesus and you get everything God is, ever was or ever will be. A title is a what and a name is a who; a title describes and a name identifies.
- He tells of an Apostolic airline pilot whose trinitarian co-pilot kept insisting names don't mean anything — until, over a city at night (Albuquerque, as captioned), the pilot described the place in full and refused its name on the same principle. It got so quiet in the cabin, James says, you could hear a rat licking ice; on final approach into Dallas the co-pilot asked to be taken to a United Pentecostal church and baptized in Jesus name.
The Holy Spirit the applicator
- No preacher's preaching avails if the Holy Spirit does not apply the gospel to the sinner's heart — not Randy Keys, not Mike Williams, not Jeff Arnold, not the superintendent (names as spoken). Pray for the Lord to draw them in: John's word, no man can come unless the Father draw him — and the guarantee with it, I will raise him up at the last day. He preaches that guarantee through the chain of his mother's burial: the worms, the birds, the crow, the raven, the hawk, the buzzard, the eagle, and the dust itself must all give up the dead in Christ, because Jesus promised it on the authority of the gospel.
- Better to bring a sinner into this anointed atmosphere than to explain theology in the mall: God does not come in here, he lives here — this is his address. And John's second word: when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin — not correcting a saint's behaviour but breaking the stubborn will of a sinner until he has to come.
Scriptures: John 6:44; John 16:9
Holiness the appointment
- Holiness is sanctification, purity, separation from the world: John's word, love not the world. What makes a thing worldly, he says, is that everybody unregenerated is doing it. He tells of a young man (an adult, unnamed) who came to Christ wearing rings in his ears, eyelid and lip, and three months later wore none — not because the Bible names the earring, but because God saved him out from them to not be like them.
- He warns of the times, in his own blunt catalogue (as captioned in the texts): sin called by soft names is still sin, and the gospel was designed in eternity to work in time. In the Ontario airport he told a young man (an adult, unnamed) who said he was born as he was: Jesus said you must be born again (the wording is voiced with Jesus named as its speaker but no place cited; priced in packet.md and not indexed). The Genesis creation account is retold in compressed form in this movement (the book named, no chapter; priced in packet.md and not indexed). Born again, the appointment is holiness: moderation and temperance, women and men looking as God made them — and nobody, he says, looks as good as a sanctified woman.
Scriptures: 1 John 2:15
Love the atmosphere, and Jesus the attraction
- You can love more people into the kingdom than you can beat into it. Love, on the definition he credits to Bishop Tenny (as captioned), is unconditional positive regard: God saved you knowing you would mess up five times before you straightened up. Then John 3:16 entire, taken apart piece by piece — God the person of love, so loved the degree, the world the object, he gave the proof, his only begotten the uniqueness and value, that whosoever the scope, believeth the simplicity, in him the location, should not perish the preventive, but have everlasting life the guarantee and the quality.
- In conclusion, the attraction of the gospel is Jesus: preach Jesus Christ, lift up Jesus Christ. If he had the power, he says, he would turn every twig into a pen, every river and ocean into ink, every fog and cloud into a writing tablet, and bring down the angels of every heaven to sit at the silver desk of immortality and write about Jesus — through the mounting years of his closing catalogue (the number-words as captioned in the texts) — and they still could not tell the attraction that is in Jesus. The gospel works because it is God's gospel, and because of its chemistry. That is the chemistry of the Gospel.
Scriptures: John 3:16
Scripture index: Proverbs 25:25; Mark 16:15-16; Romans 1:16; Ephesians 6:19; 2 Corinthians 12:7; Romans 1:1; 1 Thessalonians 2:2; Romans 1:15; Genesis 1:1; Job 14:14; John 11:25; John 14:6; 1 Corinthians 7:2; Galatians 3:28; Ephesians 3:15; Hebrews 9:22; 1 Peter 1; 1 Corinthians 2:2; John 6:44; John 16:9; 1 John 2:15; John 3:16; Genesis (book-only, as spoken).
Transcript
that praise the Lord in Jesus name everybody and please be seated this is some kind of a worshiping experience I was talking to somebody on the telephone last night back home and I told them that the difference between because of the times and other conferences and I've been to a few other ones with some know bigname so-called people like Mr TD ja the rest of them I said but the difference between because of the times and any other conference that I've been to is at those conferences you hear outstanding speakers and you leave and you say my God what a preacher but at this conference after you listen to these people you say my God what a Christ if if you want to rate conferences on a scale of 1 to 10 this this conference is a 20 I so I feel so honored to be invited back again to and to worship with you and to help you to celebrate Jesus and to also share with you from the word of the Lord I guess you could say that last year I was kind of in shock so this year I'm not in shock and I'm more nervous this year than I was last year but I promise pastor Anthony I won't tell you how nervous I am I greet all of you I greet the general superintendent Bishop Nathaniel ersan and the state superintendent outstanding ecclesiastical Craftman and a theological technician a Bible scholar of the first rank Bishop Tenny I greet all of these members of the board all of the staff this church host Pastor the preachers and teachers and leaders and feeders and pilgrims and strangers and brothers and sisters from everywhere I greet you all in Jesus name they're very generous in giving us 15 minutes my daddy was a Methodist Bishop he was a Methodist Bishop that never did find out what the method was and my mother never had a class in accounting but she was a CPA a Christian Pentecostal Apostolic my father told me that 35 minutes was long enough for a good sermon and too long for a bad one and my mother told me she said son when you get up to speak say as much as you can as quickly as you can and I taken that advice from both of my parents so the lesson for today is found in Proverbs 2525 St Mark 1615 Romans 1116 and Ephesians 6:19 the Bible says in Proverbs 25:25 as cold Waters to a thirsty Soul so is good news from a far country and the Bible says in St Mark 16:15 and he said unto them go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to Every Creature let's throw in 16 he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved he that believeth not shall be damned see that don't you two bees a saved bee and a damned bee which bee you going to be the Bible says in Romans 1:16 for am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believe to the Jew first and also to the Greek and the Bible says in Ephesians 6:19 and for me that utterance may be given unto me that I may open my mouth boldly and make known The Mystery of the gospel and the sub for the lesson is the chemistry of the Gospel now there are two words in this subject that call for definition I was raised and my mother was a Garian and she always taught me to pay strict
attention to words because words can trick you they can throw you off I was here Sunday and the bishop with orders from his son the son in whom the bishop is well pleased the son told the bishop to take me to dinner at the holiday in and I saw a sign out said bef Fe T open and I thought about what the Bible said in 2 Corinthians 12:7 St Paul said a messenger of Satan was sent to be you FF me I ate so much I think I got Buffett and Buffet mixed up but there are two words the chemistry of the Gospel chemistry and gospel these two words call for definition now chemistry is a science and chemistry is one of IND three branches of science there are three there are life there are physical and social sciences chemistry is a social science now the thorn DIY dictionary said on page 716 column 1 and paragraph 7 that science is knowledge that has been gained by observation proven by demonstration and refined by classification so now you can go back and tell your biology Professor that evolution is not science because science is knowledge that has been gained by observation proven by experimentation and refined by classification and when your great great great great granddaddy went from a chimpanzee to a PhD was nobody there to observe the process and write it down and make a science out of it evolution is as much science as Santa Claus coming down the chimley at Christmas time you have the right to remain silent special creation is not science either because nobody observed that phenomenon but may I argue the proposition that the the theory of special creation is superior to the theory of evolution as a scientific evaluations of Origins relevant to the modern scientific world because Evolution can be falsified but special creation cannot be discredited you can't prove it you can't improve it and you can't disprove it and all the facts of science harmonize with the theory of special creation so chemistry is a science chemistry is the science that deals with liquids gases solids their atomic weight and number and the way these substances correspond and interact with each other that's what chemistry is so gospel Dr Joseph Henry fa the great Greek Garian said on page 257 column 1 and Par one of the Greek English lexicon of the New Testament that the word gospel is from the Greek noun Yuan Gillian and the Greek noun yuang Gillian means Glad Tidings or good news so I guess that means then if Pastor Anthony mangun would give his goodlooking good singing wife sister Mickey about 10 pictures of Benjamin Franklin printed on green paper and tell her to go shopping that would be gospel because it's good news to sister it might be gospel to her but that ain't the gospel I'm talking about this gospel is the good news concerning the pre-existence the Virgin birth the holy life the Incarnation the death burial Resurrection Ascension and the soon coming of Jesus Christ and I got news for you I got news for you the gospel is the only message that will save a lost world or as p as sister Vester man says the gospel is the only message that can reach them in Reach In Hell and get them and put them out so I'm encouraging all of you if you want to see results use the gospel and the gospel works because of its chemistry and you know there's no message nowhere like the gospel the Republicans have a message message and the Democrats have a message the Liberals have a message and the conservatives have a message the
feminine have a message and the chauvinist have a message the gays have a message and the Straits have a message everybody's message opposes the other message I got a message will work the same way on everybody it's the Gospel of Jesus Christ right the text in Proverbs says as cold Waters to a thirsty Soul so is good news from a fire country now you know how it is in the Old Testament the Old Testament has got to be interpretated and Illustrated and applicated before you celebrate it we ain't got time for all that let's applicate it immediately as cold Waters to a thirsty Soul so is good news from a fire country The Thirst soul is the Lost Sinner the far country is heaven and the message for the lost soul is the Gospel of Jesus Christ so Jesus Jesus says to go into all of the world and he said preach the gospel to Every Creature it's the gospel that needs to be preached in 1955 I was a student at enan bible college which is the Pentecostal assem of the world Educational Center and the professor and the president of the school was the early Bishop Carl Franklin Smith call him early cuz he's dead dead things are late they went to heaven early you late you ain't got there yet the professor was the early Bishop Carl Smith and one time we had a visiting minister to come through Bishop Samuel Grimes and all the students came into the assembly and we listened to Bishop Samuel Grimes talk to the students and Bishop Samuel Grimes made a statement he said the time is going to come this is 1955 when it will almost be impossible to hear the gospel preached in a Pentecostal church I wanted to go to him and Shake him but I was just little old brother Johnny James he was a bishop and I couldn't do that but this is now 1999 and I've lived to see the prophecy come through very little gospel is being preached in the Pentecostal world if you want Revival if you want results use what works the gospel is the message the gospel will get the job done now you see the gospel works because of its chemistry I I know I won't be able to finish all this and don't want to but let me explain it like this I'll give you the skeleton when you get home put your meat on it here's why the gospel Works here's the chemistry of the Gospel the author of The Gospel is God the axis of the Gospel is the cross the activator of the Gospel is the blood the authority of the Gospel is the name of Jesus the applicator of the Gospel is the Holy Ghost the appointment of the Gospel is Holiness the atmosphere of the Gospel is love the announcer of the Gospel is the preacher and the attraction of the Gospel is the is Jesus Christ so let's use what works it's the gospel the author of The Gospel is God but the Bible says in Romans 1 And1 1 Thessalonians 2 and 2 that the gospel is called the gospel of God nobody could author invent or think of a message like the gospel but God so the gospel is authored by God God is the author of The Gospel that's why the gospel works the same way everywhere the gospel Works in Alexandria Virginia like it works in Alexandria Louisiana the gospel works in London England like it works in London Canada the gospel Works in Rome Georgia like it works in Rome Italy the gospel Works in Minnesota like it works in Malaysia it works in Indonesia like it works in Indianapolis it works in calata like it works in Connecticut it works in South Africa like it works in South Carolina and the reason the gospel works everywhere is because the author of The Gospel is God God is the author of The
Gospel the gospel will do the same thing to a black Muslim it'll do to a c clut Clansman the gospel will do the same thing to anybody anywhere because God is its author and if the gospel is preached the gospel will get the results the gospel works because of its chemistry if God can't save anybody from anything he can't save nobody from nothing Saddam Hussein don't need killing he need saving and K nothing save nobody but the Gospel of Jesus Christ so St Paul said it's the power of God the gospel is the power of God unto salvation what you mean saving power quickening power keeping being powered and the gospel is powerful enough get you saved powerful enough to keep you saved and powerful enough to get you out the ground if you go that way when Jesus comes and when you understand the gospel you ain't a you're not afraid of death I don't care if I die or if we fly it don't make no difference I'm all right because I know what the gospel will do that's right that's right so St Paul tells the Church in Ephesus he says and for me do what you want to do but for me that utterance may be given unto me that I may open my mouth boldly and make known The Mystery of the Gospel when he said make known The Mystery of the Gospel he wasn't talking about how it works but rather what it does he was talking about the saving power of the gospel Paul said he make known The Mystery of the Gospel he noted in Romans he said I want to preach in Rome verse 15 chapter 1 can you imagine that he want to preach in Rome Rome would make San Francis Cisco look like it's Sanctified Rome was the sin headquarters of the world Rome was the place where they killed Christians for sport Rome was the place where they took Apostolic women with child cut them over open ripped the child out and bashed the child against the concrete or the ground Rome was the place where they burned them on hot plates and say Paul said that's the very place I want to preach he didn't say I want to preach in Alexandria where they got 3,000 people on a 300 Voice Choir singing five-part Harmony I want to preach in Rome why because he knew the power of the Gospel the gospel has the power it's the power of God because God is the author of The Gospel that's right htics is the art of preaching hermeneutics is the science of preaching apologetics is the proof of preaching but you're not going to get them by htics hermeneutics and apologetics it's going to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ The Gospel is the message for this message age this age is in a mess and we got the message for the message and that message for the message is the Gospel of Jesus Christ The Gospel has that chemistry it's got that stuff in it that makes it work because God is the author of The Gospel I was traveling from Anchorage Alaska I was going to Los Angeles and had a little layover a long layover really in the Seattle Airport well whenever I'm laying over in an airport I always carry something good to read so I can just get quiet and meditate cuz the med meditator is the only tape brother I speak to I don't speak to dict tap he trying to tell the pastor what to do I don't speak to irritate he rub you the wrong way I sure don't speak to hesitate he won't come to Sunday school on time I ain't going to speak to agitate he keep something stirred up and you know I ain't talking to regurgitate I don't care how good the message is he go out in the parking lot and throw it up the only T brother I want to speak to is meditate cuz he meditates on the word of God so in the Seattle Airport looking for a place just to relax and meditate and read I looked over in the corner of the airport and I saw a black man who was a Muslim reading the Quran I said he's a good candidate for the gospel so I walked over to this Muslim
brother who was reading the Quran and I just stood up over him after I stood there maybe 30 seconds he must have felt the heat from my presence cuz he looked up and when he looked up I extended my hand to him I said sir what is your name he said my name is Yousef Nuri Muhammad I said well my name is Johnny James Jesus I said I notice you're reading your book the Quran and I had a little small Bible just like this only was black on that day I had my little black Bible I was wearing a black suit a black turtleneck black shoes black hor RM glasses and I'm black I was caring my little black Bible I took my little black Bible and I laid it right on top of his Quran and and I said to the Muslim my book is better than your book I said my book is better than your book now if you know anything about Muslims you know they don't play that he stood up I didn't know he was that size he was tall like tree and black like bear he had muscles everywhere I said sit down brother it's going to be all right brother Yousef new Muhammad I said but my book is better than your book I said read in your book the six Surah verse one the Quran calls the chapter suras it has 114 suras the Quran calls the verses a it has about 6,3 39 a years I said read the sixth Surah verse one he was fumbling and he took too long I got nervous so I said look man it says all praise be unto Allah the creator of the Heaven and the earth when he found it he said that's what it says I said I know that's what it says that's your book I say but my book said in Genesis 1 And1 in the beginning God created the Heaven and Earth he said he said ain't that the same thing I said no man your book said Allah mind said God I said don't you know that Allah came out of heathenism Allah was the name of the Pagan Moon God why do you think the Islamic flag has a moon slice and a cuz they worshiped the sun moon and stars and Islam was founded on that principle and Allah was the Pagan Moon God and God told Israel in the fourth chapter of Deuteronomy verse 32 don't worship the sun moon or Stars I say your book your book your book has a false name for God but I said my book is better than your book and in my book it said in Genesis 1 And1 in the beginning God I said God is from the word or the noun in the Hebrew Elohim L is the strong one and Elohim is the strong one that created when all the weather was going all wild they said it was El Nino they had the L right drop the Nino God somebody said back home how come they blame all the this bad weather on that black man I said what black man he said El negro I said no you got it wrong it was El Nino I said to the Muslim brother read in your book the 19th Surah verse 66 he turned to the 19th Surah and before he could read verse 66 I jumped the gun and I beat him to the punch and I quoted it for him the prophet Muhammad says when I am dead and buried in the ground and go back to dust is that all or what's going to happen to me I said but my book said now remember I said my book's better than your book my book said in job 14:14 if a man die shall he live again he said that's the same question I said I know it is but your book asked the question and your book never gave no answer my book don't start nothing that it don't finish if my book started my book will finish
it the question if a man dies shall he live again the question was an asked in 1520 BC and 1533 years later the question was answered by Jesus in St John 11:25 five Jesus said I am the resurrection and the life he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live again I told the Muslim I say read in your book the third Surah verse 144 he took so long I had to jump the gun again the third Surah verse 144 the prophet Muhammad is speaking again and he says I am only a messenger of Allah and nothing more I said but in my book Jesus said in John 14:6 I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the father but by me I said read in your book the fourth Surah verse three he turn me the fourth Surah verse three and he was so slow had to jump the gun again it said men marry as many women as you like 1 2 three or four I said man your book says a man can have four wives I said but my book said in 1 Corinthians 7:2 to avoid fornication that every man have his own wife Brothers you don't need but one wife and you'll do good to take care of her you'll do good to love her and keep her and nourish her and cherish her and I took him back and forth back and forth as long as it was fun but finally was no more fun the Quran the Bible the Quran the Bible showing him the superiority of the Bible over the Quran CU I got to finish him off I said turn to the third Surah verse 105 and 106 he took all day but he found it and let him read it and this black Muslim not a mo not a follower of farakhan but an orthodox Muslim read in his Quran the third Surah verse 105 in the great and final day of redemption only white faces will be saved and all blackened faces will be condemned and I said to him have you looked in the mirror lately I said you just read it in your book I said brother what is your problem you belong to a religion and your own book says you can't be saved I said are you see not do you have Alzheimer's are you do you have brain damage or do you smoke dope I wouldn't belong to a religion if my book said I couldn't be saved but I said be encouraged be uplifted I have for you a most marvelous competent encouraging and gospel announcement my book said in Galatians 3 and 28 there is neither Jew nor Greek there is neither Bond nor free there is neither a male nor a female We Are All One in Christ Jesus the gospel can reach them all doesn't matter who they are and from that point I don't I took him to the I took him to the cross and I tried to point out the efficacious work that Jesus accomplished when he went to that cross that Friday not not Friday but that Wednesday not good Friday that blood Wednesday when he went to the cross and shed his blood and to make a long story short I said let me ask you Yousef no Muhammad when you became a Muslim I said you took the name Yousef no Muhammad what was your name before then he said my slave name was Charles David Johnson I said I see your slave name was Charles David Johnson so you took an Arabic name I said brother you need a history lesson it was the Arabs that first took Africans and put them in slavery and you wouldn't got an Arabic name I said but you became a Muslim you took the name Muhammad I became a Christian Ephesians 3 15 of whole the the whole family in Heaven and Earth is named I got the name Jesus I said I showed you already my book is better
than your book my name is better than your name and my man is better than your man I said do you know Muhammad he said no fool he's dead I said you made the point you don't know Muhammad cuz he's dead but I know Jesus cuz he lives he lives and to shorten a long story Yousef nor Muhammad don't like nobody to call him that no more he likes you to call him brother Charles David Johnson Jesus baptize in Jesus name and fill with the Holy Spirit got yes sir and El lady Vester Mangan that Muslim ex-muslim has reached into hell and snatched out 120 young black men who are in isra and he did it with the gospel the gospel is the power of God the gospel works because the author of The Gospel is God the axis of the Gospel is the cross Calvary is the axis of the Gospel Jesus Christ came into the world and he went to the cross and when Jesus Christ came into the world and he went to the Cross here's what he did on the cross and resurrection and Ascension Hebrews 9:22 the Bible said without the shedding of blood there's no remission then the Bible explains that Jesus went into heaven and appeared in the presence of God for US 1 Peter 1 and2 Peter said the blood was sprinkled in heaven the blood was shed on earth and the blood was sprinkled in heaven the shed blood got us off the hook and the sprinkled blood got God off the hook and now you're right and God's right because Calvary is the axis of the Gospel the axis of the Gospel is the cross Calvary J syo Baxter said Calvary is the superlative wonder of the universe he said Calvary is a picture of the ugliness of sin and the beauty of Holiness he said Calvary is a portrait of the love of God painted on a human canvas Calvary is the rainbow of government Calvary is the behavior standard of the world Calvary is a ran day teer it's the reason for our existence the cross is the access of the Gospel no wonder St Paul said in 1 Corinthians 2 and 2 for I determined not to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified that don't mean that's all he knew that meant that's all he knew worth preaching the gospel the access of the Gospel is the cross and the authority the activator of the Gospel is the blood and the authority of the Gospel is the name of Jesus the gospel has its Authority because of that name I know folks ain't nothing to a name I know it ain't to mine and yours I know it ain't to our names they're contradictory they're paradox IAL but when it comes to his name it's something special about that name that name is the authority of the Gospel Jesus name is a composite name every name God has I don't know how many in one of my January Bible readings I selected marked or pointed out every name or title of God I could find in the Bible you understand that all names are not titles but all titles are names a title is a what and a name is a who a title a position a name of person a title describes and a name identifies but I counted over a thousand different names and titles 1,24 to be exact and look what God did took all those names and put them in one name and now you can call on the one name Jesus you get everything God is now ever was or ever
will be all wrapped up in Jesus name right there's an airplane there's an airline pilot I I think he belongs to the United Pentecostal church or the assemblies this airline pilot Apostolic brother was flying on American lines from Los Angeles to Dallas his co-pilot was a trinitarian and the trinitarian brother had been telling the apostolic brother all week you are radical names don't mean nothing ain't nothing to a name on that flight the weather was bad and the plane went Slightly North over Albuquerque and the co-pilot trinitarian said to the Oneness pilot Captain hey man it was a evening flight early night it got dark out as they went over Albuquerque he saw those lights he said what's the name of that City down there I'll get on the intercom I'll tell the people what city we passing over and the pilot said tell the people we're passing over one of America's great cities it has a Metroplex population of about 1.5 million people is an educational and a cultural and a sports center tell them this city alone contributes over $4 billion to the United States of America gross national product but the city's name ain't worth mentioning cuz names don't mean nothing just tell them we passing over a city it got so quiet in the cabin you can hear rat licking ice and when they were on the Final Approach in the Dallas the co-pilot said to the apostolic brother hey man when we get to Dallas can you find me a United Pentecostal church and take me and get me baptized in Jesus name the name is the authority of the Gospel the applicator or the applier of the Gospel is the holy spirit I don't care if Randy Keys is preaching I don't care if Mike Williams is preaching I don't care if Jeff Arnold is preaching I don't even care if superintendent Tenny is preaching if the Holy Spirit doesn't apply the gospel to the heart of a sinner they cannot come that's we need prayer warriors like sister Tenny and sister mangun who will pray that the holy spirit will work on their hearts of unbelievers and make them receptor to the gospel the Holy Spirit applies the gospel you need to pray for the Lord to draw them in St John 6:44 Jesus said no man cometh unto me unless my Father which I sent me draw them I will raise him up at the last day look at that guarantee in the gospel Jesus said if he responds to the gospel I will raise him up at the last day that means he dies and goes into the ground like my dear precious mother my mother is the author of that song we sing when I think of the goodness of Jesus I told somebody one time I said my mother died and they put her in the ground I said in the worms are going to come in the casket and eat my mama up then the birds are going to come and eat up the worms and the crow is going to come and eat up the birds and the Raven is going to come and eat up The Crow and the hawk is going to come and eat up the Raven and the Buzzard is going to come and eat up the hawk and the greatest of all birds the eagle will eat up the Buzzard and fly off in the mountain somewhere and the eagle will die he will decompose and disintegrate and go on back to dust but when the Trump of God sounds in the getting up morning I got news for you Jesus said I'll raise him up at the last day I got news for you the ground can't hold them if they under the gospel the gospel is the power of God that's right that's right that's right that's right Jesus said I'll raise him up at the last day don't you know in that last day the dust got to give up the eagle and the eagle got to give up the Buzzard and the Buzzard got to give up the hwk and the hwk got to give up the Raven and the Raven got to give up The Crow and the crow got to give up the birds and the birds got to give up the worms and the worms got to give up all that dead in Christ because Jesus Promised on the authority of the Gospel
I'll raise him up at the last day and it takes the Holy Spirit to apply the gospel to the heart of a sinner so be a prayer Warrior and pray for the Lord to draw Sinners and you invite them and bring them to your church don't you know you better bring a sinner to your church than trying to be a Theologian in the mall your theology explaining sanctification and justification and glorification won't get it but when you bring them into this anointed atmosphere when you bring them into this place where we worship not a place where God comes in so I said God came in last night what you mean he didn't come in he lives here this is his address he didn't come in when you bring him in here we had an old preacher said the gospel was God's spell and when they come in this place in this anointed atmosphere the holy spirit will break down their stubborn will and they will come the holy spirit will apply the gospel to their heart St John 16:9 Jesus said when he has come he'll reprove the world of sin that is not referring to correcting the behavior of a saint that's referring to the Holy Spirit breaking down the stubborn will of a sinner and making that sinner receptive to the gospel why do you think people come to Christ crying cuz the Holy Ghost done broke them down they don't want to come cuz dope make them feel good all that sex and partying is fun and they don't want to give it up but the Holy Ghost has got the whole of their heart and applied the gospel and they got to come the holy spirit is the app fire of the gospel and I got to tell you this the appointment of the Gospel is Holiness Holiness is the appointment of the Gospel in a Biblical context in a Biblical context Holiness is sanctification or Holiness is Purity or Holiness is separation from the world 1 John 2:15 the Bible says love not the world here where people miss it what makes something worldly is where everybody that's unregenerated is doing it that makes it worldly monkey see monkey do come on you can do the monkey too if you want to do your own thing you get in Christ you have a thing in Christ and nowhere else and the world is all doing the same thing Holiness is separation from the world they can come to Christ I saw a young man come to Christ had a earring in both ears and a ring in his eyelid and a ring in his lip 3 months later I saw him didn't have no rings nowhere ain't nowhere in the Bible it says Thou sht not wear a earring in your eye but that's worly what makes it worldly is everybody else is doing it you don't want to be like them God saved you out from them to not be like them and here in lies the power of the Gospel the gospel is powerful enough to convert a sinner and the gospel is also powerful enough to make a saint grow and mature and be what they're supposed to be and when you come to Christ under the spell of the Gospel you'll grow men will look like men and women will look like women the Bible said in the Book of Genesis when God created Adam that he put in asleep took his rib and made the woman somebody said Adam's Rib and Satan s Adam's Rib and Satan's F brought about the woman's live no but God took the woman out of the man that means then they had it right Beware of the times we in some treacherous times now Beware of the times we live in a time now when men two men four Rusty knees want to get married and got the nerve to call it an alternative lifestyle we living in a time now where they abort and kill unborn babies and call it the woman's choice we're living in a time now where over there in youo salivia and India and Africa they're killing millions of people and calling genocide ethnic cleansing they committing adultery and fornication and calling it an affair a wher and a adulter is referred to as a Playboy call
it what it is cuz what it is is what it is it's that anti- God monstrosity called sin and in these times because of the times in these times we got a message that will change them oh yeah the gospel can change anybody the gospel will work on anybody because God was the designer of the Gospel the gospel was designed in eternity to work in time what happened in eternity is primary what happens in time is secondary and if God designed it in eternity it's got to work in time so tell all of those limp wred behind switching high pitched voice e feminine men you need need to come in contact with the gospel I just left California and I witnessed to a young gay man he wasn't gay he was a homosexual I witnessed to a young homosexual in the Ontario Airport I told him he needed to be saved he said I was born gay I said so what Jesus said you must be born again I ain't talking about how you were born I'm talking about being born again and when you're born again the appointment of the Gospel is Holiness it will make men look like men and will make women look like women and that don't mean you can't look good sister and that don't mean you can't be fine what that means is God don't want you being extravagant and way out don't come up in here all painted up looking like a pagan female Goddess that inherited the Cosmetic Department of a Kart store don't come up here looking like a Las Vegas show girl cuz the Bible teaches moderation and the Bible teaches temperance don't don't nobody look good as a Sanctified woman no way them them them worldly women give me big scare is black the roots and short to hair eyelashes false face all paint the pads is wear the woman she ain't her dress is so short you can see it all it don't matter whether she's short or tall she flashed them eyes she love to flirt she wiggle and Shake in a minis skirt she jit a bug when she should walk I even think her name is false but the Pentecostal woman Don't Take No Mess she got Jesus on the inside she know how to address the apostolic woman the apostolic woman she looks so nice she know who she is she bought with a price the sanctified woman is good a lot cuz what you see is what you got God called you out from the world not to be like them but to be separated from them and the appointment of the Gospel is Holiness and the the atmosphere of the gospel's love I'll tell you right now you can love more people in the Kingdom than you can beat up on them and being mean to them into the kingdom the atmosphere of the Gospel is love and I like I like the definition somebody gave a definition of love I believe it was Bishop Tenny in a Biblical context from the Greek word Agape that we refer to as agapy love from God's perspective to us is unconditional positive regard God saved you and before God saved you he knew you going to mess up five times before you was going to straighten up and fly right and he saved you anyway that's Love The Gospel works on love and if God loved us when they come to us you want to win them love them love is powerful the gospel is centered in love St John 3:16 Jesus says for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life for the
purpose of love God the person of love so the degree of love love the act of love the world the object of love that he gave the proof of love his the possession of love only the uniqueness of Love begotten the value of Love son the gift of love that whosoever the scope of love believeth the Simplicity of love in the location of love him the attraction of love should not perish the preventive of love but the contrast of Love have the guarantee of love everlasting the duration of love life the quality of Love The Gospel is a gospel of love love the atmosphere of the Gospel is love and in conclusion cuz I can't tell time in conclusion the attraction of the Gospel is Jesus preach Jesus Christ Lift Up Jesus Christ Jesus Christ is the attraction of the Gospel if I had the power if I had the power I would take every twig of every branch of every limb of every tree and every oce every Orchid and every Forest every woods and every jungle and I would turn that twig into a writing tablet or a writing pen to write about Jesus I would take all of the water every river crook Brook Lake ocean turn that water into ink to write about Jesus I would take every fog every cloud every Vapor every mist and turn it into a Writing Tablet to write about Jesus I'd go up into the first heaven and get the guardian angels I go into the second heaven and get the ministering Angels I'd go up into the third heaven and get the arch Angels i' go up into the fourth heaven and get the seraphim fifth Heaven get the cheerans sixth Heaven get the living creatures seven heaven get the worshiping angels and tell all of them come on down and sit down at the silver desk of immortality let's write about Jesus I give each one of them a pen that was made from the Twigs of the limbs of the branches of the trees in the jungles the woods the orchids and all the forces and tell them dip that pen in their writing ink made from the water of every river Brook Creek Lake and ocean and take a writing tablet made from every fog every vapor and every mist and tell them right about Jesus till you tell it all and from now throughout eternity after they had written a th000 years a million years a billion years a trillion years a quadrillion years a quillion years a sextilion years a seon years a oilon years a no million years a Dillion years UND sillion years a Duo dilon years a trade Dillion years a Quattro dlion years a quint dlion years a sex dlion years a SE Kim dlion years October 3lion years a November 3lion years a vision klion years a sin klion years look my throat's tired a z that Dillion years and they write on and on and on and on and they couldn't tell the the attraction that's in Jesus so the gospel works because it's God's gospel and the gospel works because the attraction of the Gospel is Jesus and it works because of its chemistry that's the chemistry of the Gospel
Scripture references as spoken: Proverbs 25:25; Mark 16:15-16; Romans 1:16; Ephesians 6:19; 2 Corinthians 12:7; Romans 1:1; 1 Thessalonians 2:2; Romans 1:15; Genesis 1:1; Job 14:14; John 11:25; John 14:6; 1 Corinthians 7:2; Galatians 3:28; Ephesians 3:15; Hebrews 9:22; 1 Peter 1; 1 Corinthians 2:2; John 6:44; John 16:9; 1 John 2:15; John 3:16; Genesis (book-only, as spoken).