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- Johnny James opens with his signature greeting: a litany exalting the name of Jesus over Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, the nation, and the universe, followed by a roll call of the preachers he is glad to be living alongside — Anthony Mangun and G. A. Mangun, Denver Stanford, J. T. Pugh, Mike Williams, Randy Keys, Wayne Huntley, and Roland Baker, who pastors some of James's own children and grandchildren. Then he reads his preaching texts in a chain — Jonah's commission to Nineveh, the Great Commission in Mark, Luke's "let the dead bury their dead," Paul's charge to Timothy, and the scattered saints and Philip in Acts 8 — five expressly located texts with one key word: preach. In a preachers' conference, he says, he wants to preach about preaching. Preaching has fallen on hard times in America; the church has grown cold and apathetic, and only preaching will straighten it out.
- He states the homiletics rule — a subject must be contained in the text — and announces that he means to violate it: his subject is how to preach and help nobody, how to preach and save nobody, heal nobody, convert nobody, because that is what is happening in a whole lot of pulpits. Jonah is his first exhibit: the prophet who would preach anywhere but Nineveh, swallowed by the great fish, vomited up glad to preach, whose preaching saved a whole city of sixty thousand — preaching saved Nineveh, not its politicians or educators — and the apostles' own resolve to give themselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word. The Luke 9 encounters follow: the man who would follow Jesus anywhere until he learned Jesus had no place to lay his head, and the man sent to preach the kingdom of God instead of burying his father — the kingdom being righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
- Then the ironic instructions begin. To preach and help nobody, make popularity your chief aim: be worldly, be like the world in dress and talk — against which he sets a chain of located texts on the believer's separation from the world, and a sung contrast between the worldly woman and the apostolic woman who knows she was bought with a price. Talk about yourself, though only Jesus is qualified to say "I" without qualification — the Jesus who said "come unto me," who promised to come again, and the God who told Moses "I am that I am," expounded in a rolling chain of tenses. Copy the televangelists and big-name preachers and you become Reverend Nobody, a copy of a cat you are not; God made each preacher an original. Use big words and be deep — preach Elisha's bald head in thirty-one words of cranial anatomy and nobody will know what you said.
- Never pray, never fast, and never study, for prayer brings the anointing, fasting brings humility, and study gives a man something to say. The anointing is not a feeling, as he proves from his own mirror on the last night of an eight-day meeting. Jesus taught no class on hermeneutics or apologetics, but he did teach his disciples how to pray: James recites the Lord's Prayer entire and expounds it phrase by phrase as a chain of perfections — the perfect parent, the perfect name, the perfect government, the perfect forgiveness, the perfect duration. The preacher is a VIP, bought with a price no sum of money can reckon, the precious blood of Jesus. Never preach doctrine either: never preach how to be born again, never preach baptism in Jesus' name or the Holy Ghost, and you will miss the whole point — Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. The sermon climaxes in his account of a neo-theologian who argued that "for" in Acts 2:38 means "because of": James answers with the Greek preposition, a named commentary, and more than thirty English translations, none of which render it "because of," and warns the preachers not to lighten up on baptism in Jesus' name. In between, the soap-opera catena answers the preacher who ties up his days watching the stories: the real Edge of Night, Guiding Light, Search for Tomorrow, Young and the Restless, Bold and the Beautiful, and Ryan's Hope — Christ in you — each tied to a located text, ending with the everyman Ryan, who has no hope unless he is baptized in Jesus' name, receives the Holy Ghost, and lives holy.
- The close turns the coin over. Never praise except when you are leading, never live holy, exalt everybody except Jesus — or flip the coin: go home and preach. Praise will not go alone; in Judges, Judah — praise — refused to go up without Simeon, hearing and doing the word. Go home and preach the word, preach the gospel, preach the doctrine, and the church will double and triple, because the word works.
Scriptures: Jonah 3:1-2; Mark 16:15-16; Luke 9:60; 2 Timothy 4:2; Acts 8:4-5; Jonah 1:17; Matthew 12:40; Acts 6:4; Luke 9:58; Romans 14:17; 2 Corinthians 12:7; Galatians 1:4; James 1:27; 1 John 3:1; Romans 12:2; Matthew 5:14; John 12:31-32; Matthew 11:28; John 14:3; Exodus 3:14; Matthew 6:9-13; 1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Peter 1:19; Proverbs 16:18; Proverbs 6:16-17; Psalm 30:5; Psalm 119:105; Proverbs 4:18; Exodus 32:6; Isaiah 47:2-3; Jeremiah 31:3; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Hebrews 9:27; Hebrews 13:5-6; James 5:14-15; Isaiah 8:18; Ecclesiastes 1:9; Colossians 1:27; 1 Timothy 1:15; Isaiah 40:8; Hebrews 13:8; Acts 2:38; Judges 1:1-3
Scripture index: Jonah 3:1-2; Mark 16:15-16; Luke 9:60; 2 Timothy 4:2; Acts 8:4-5; Jonah 1:17; Matthew 12:40; Acts 6:4; Luke 9:58; Romans 14:17; 2 Corinthians 12:7; Galatians 1:4; James 1:27; 1 John 3:1; Romans 12:2; Matthew 5:14; John 12:31-32; Matthew 11:28; John 14:3; Exodus 3:14; Matthew 6:9-13; 1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Peter 1:19; Proverbs 16:18; Proverbs 6:16-17; Psalm 30:5; Psalm 119:105; Proverbs 4:18; Exodus 32:6; Isaiah 47:2-3; Jeremiah 31:3; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Hebrews 9:27; Hebrews 13:5-6; James 5:14-15; Isaiah 8:18; Ecclesiastes 1:9; Colossians 1:27; 1 Timothy 1:15; Isaiah 40:8; Hebrews 13:8; Acts 2:38; Judges 1:1-3.
Transcript
greetings in Jesus name everybody and please be seated I greet you in Jesus name because Jesus name is the greatest name in Alexandria I greet you in Jesus name because Jesus name is the greatest name in Rapides County Rapides Parish I greet you in Jesus name because jesus' name is the greatest name in Louisiana I greet you in Jesus name because Jesus name is the greatest name in the United States of America I greet you in Jesus name because Jesus name is the greatest name in North America I greet you in Jesus name because jesus' name is the greatest name in the Western Hemisphere I greet you in Jesus name because Jesus name is the greatest name in the world I greet you in jesus' name because Jesus name is the greatest name in the solar system I greet you in Jesus name because Jesus name is the greatest name in the Galaxy I greet you in Jesus name because Jesus name is the greatest name in the universe I greet you in Jesus name because Jesus name is the greatest name in the Spyro Nubia I greet you in Jesus name because there's no name nowhere like jesus' name greetings in Jesus name everybody and please be seated somebody said to me brother James how would you have liked to have been living when Peter Paul and James and John and them and the Apostles of the Lamb were preaching and my response was not necessarily I said like this on this order I'm glad I'm living when Anthony manangan is preaching I'm glad I'm living when that's the man man is preaching and I'm sure enough glad I'm living when G manangan is preaching cuz he trained both of them I'm glad I'm living when Denver Stanford is preaching I'm glad I'm living when JT Pew is preaching I'm glad I'm living when Mike Williams is preaching I'm glad I'm living when Randy Keys is preaching and Wayne L is preaching I'm glad I'm living when you guys are preaching I'm glad I'm living at this time here and now I'm sure enough glad I'm preaching living when Roland Baker is preaching cuz Roland Baker is pastoring some of my children and some of my grandchildren and he's putting some good word in them I'm glad I'm living when John Hopkins is preaching cuz John Hopkins is preaching down there in Panama and he's telling them they you speak a spirit tune hey deos and comes here and tells us God is a spirit Jesus Is God Apostolic brother I am glad I'm preaching when you are preaching you are the greatest preachers ever the preachers of the apostolic who are preaching right now I want to thank Pastor Anthony Manan and the board for the great invitation TF Tenny and the board and all of you the invitation to be here and my wife accompanying me and be in this outstanding word worshiping experience it is something else it is extraordinary it's just a delight to be here and I'm here in jesus' name well the Bible says In Jonah 3 1 and two and the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time saying arise go into Nineveh that great City and preach unto with the preaching that I bid thee and the key word is preach the Bible says in St Mark
16:15-16 and he said unto them go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to Every Creature he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved but he that believeth not shall be damned again the key word is preached and the Bible says in Luke 9 and 60 Jesus said unto him let the dead bury their dead but go thou and preach the kingdom of God and again the key word is preach in 2 Timothy 4:2 it says preach the word be instant in SE and out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all longsuffering and Doctrine and again the key word is preached let me throw one more in the Bible says in Acts 84 and 5 therefore they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word and verse 5 says Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ unto them and again the key word is preached and preaching and this is a preacher's conference and what better time than in a preacher's conference to preach about preaching I want to preach about preaching I'm I'm thankful for coming to because of the times 98 nothing has changed my life like that meeting and preaching for me from because of the times 98 I have preached in over 200 churches that I didn't even know existed and have received at least two phone calls every week since that time thank you Pastor Mangan for bringing me here to be cause of the times and this is this is a preachers conference and that is that is exactly why I want to preach about preaching I'm a traveling preacher and the Lord has blessed me to preach in every one of the 50 of the United States of America I'm not too much overseas inclined I like to stay in the United States of America and I have noticed a trend in preaching in America and I'm not talking about them I'm talking mainly about us preaching has fallen on Hard Times preaching is going through a difficult period America is an a moral mess the church has grown cold some of us are apathetic lukewarm like a leaking faucet ain't turned off ain't turned on don't love nobody don't hate nobody don't care if you do and don't care if you don't and I got news for you only preaching will get us right only preaching will straighten things out we need preaching preaching will do what nothing else will do but the devil has deceived and tricked a lot of us apostolics and we are falling into this thing where we are doing everything but preaching under the disguise of preaching that's exactly why I want to preach about preaching is because everybody that is supposed to be preaching is not preaching and the reason we are having the problems in our country and in our churches is because preaching is not in its proper place and I want to preach about preaching now there are three disciplines Under the Umbrella of of theology that deal with preaching these three disciplines are hermeneutics htics and apologetics hermeneutics is the science of preaching htics is the art of preaching and apologetics is the proof of preaching so a preacher should be hermeneutically accurate homolytically natural and apologetically convincing in other words the preacher should exit the scripture correctly use their own natural style convince the Saints to straighten up and fly right and convince the senat to come clean or stay away dirty that's what preaching will do but we have been watching them other cats them teller evangelists and them Soul husters them ecclesiastical pimps them Messengers Satan and then the angels of hell and some of us think that we are supposed to be doing like they're doing now in homo letics there's a rule there's a rule in htics that says if you preach a subject your subject must be contained in the text you can't take a text about one thing and then announce a subject about something else like we have seen you haven't seen it here everybody here has been homologically
and homolytically correct but you've seen that where they read a scripture and don't even come close to that scripture that in homo letics that is called Isa Jesus that is not to be done you are supposed to have a subject contained in the text and the reason I'm telling you that is because I want to violate that rule cuz all the verses that I've given to you have shown you the value The credibility the authenticity the blessedness the sacredness of preaching and I want to talk to you from the subject today how to preach and help nobody how to preach and save nobody how to preach and heal nobody how to preach and convert nobody why am I talking like this cuz this is what's going on in a whole lot of pulpits apostolic breth you better go home and preach you better go home and preach the folk in your church don't need counseling they need preaching they need the word you better go home and preach cuz preaching will do it somebody asked me say brother James you got too many verses when you preach let me tell you why I like a lot of verses that way if the sermon don't go over and is a flop you can't go home and say we didn't get no word I give you enough verses if I don't bring out nothing you have already heard the word and the word of God is good for everybody cuz the word of God will lift your spirit the word of God will stretch your mind the word of God will thrill your soul the word of God will warm your heart you ain't living right the word of God Will T Your Hide we need preaching we need word on Hallelujah you know men men divide horizontally when men divide is high class middle class low class God does not divide horizontally God divides perpendicularly when God divides his sheep goat is save lost is right wrong it's Heaven hell it's dead didn't but in the division of men high class middle class low class I don't care what category they put you in you need preaching and you need to hear the word I challenge every preacher don't be like them cats who have gone to the same Seminary and study under the same professors and and they have learned their lesson well and they have learned how to preach and help nobody it ain't no problem in your church that preaching won't fix it ain't no situation that preaching can't deal with if you'll just preach you got a problem in your church you don't need to bring in no Behavior scientist with a PhD talking 13 Cinder triple jointed KN action words just preached preaching don't do it cuz God designed preaching to do it just look at here for a minute God told Jonah to go to Nineveh Jonah didn't want to go to Nineveh he didn't mind preaching but not in Nineveh Jonah wanted to preach at the National Conference Jonah wanted to preach at because of the times he didn't want to go to No Place Like Nineveh and preached but the Bible said Jonah 11:7 now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah let me tell you something preacher If You Don't Preach what God Said like he stated God got a wh that won't swallow nobody but you you better do what God said you better go back home and preach when that sea monster Jesus alluded to that in Matthew 12:4 and Jesus Jesus said for as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whales belly CH shall the son of man three days and three nights in the heart of the earth when that sea monster vomited up Jonah he was glad to preach and the Bible said that Nineveh was an exceeding great City three days journey and when Jonah entered one day journey into the city that is not saying he made a three-day trip in one day non Nineveh was an exceeding great City walking on foot Pat and Turner patch your feet and turned the corner it would take you 3 days to walk across n but Jonah entered one one day journey into the city about 10 miles and when he got into the city
Jonah began to preach Nineveh had a population of 60,000 people Jonah preached in Nineveh and the City of Nineveh was not saved by the politicians it was not saved by the Educators it was not saved by Behavior SS the preaching of Jonah saved n the whole city was saved by preaching that's why the devil don't want you to preach that's why the devil wants you to do everything in your pull pit but preach don't be like that preaching saved the city of Nineveh the devil don't want you to preach the Bible study in Acts 6 and4 we will give ourselves continually to prayer to the ministry of the word prayer and preaching go together like baking and eggs hot dogs and mustard apple Pine ice cream and Nashville and country music Don't Let The Devil receive you you pray and you preach preach and save Nineveh Nineveh had as many people as Alexander Louisiana and the city got saved by preaching Jesus said unto them in St Mark 16 Jesus said go into all the world and preach the gospel to Every Creature Jesus told you what to preach the gospel Jesus said he that believeth and his baptized shall be saved but he that believeth not shall be damned if the word damned offends you je the modern translation says condemned but the Bible we use says damned if you be believe preaching you be saved don't believe preaching you'll be damned anybody can see that that's clear as the Sun at noon day it ain't but two bees it's a Sav bee and a damn bee and preaching will determine which be you be and if you want folk to be the right be you better preach them and in Luke 9:57 a man came to Jesus and the man was overwhelmed with the magnitude and the immensity of the ministry of Jesus and the man said to Jesus in Luke 9:57 I'll follow you anywhere you go and in Luke 9:58 Jesus told the man foxes have holes birds of the air have Nest but the son of man have not a place to lay his head see that man thought that Jesus was staying at the high Regency or the Hilton with Mark hamy and TD Jake and them guys and when that man found out that Jesus lived on the street he didn't want nothing else to do with Jesus and he must have left running cuz walking was too slow but another man popped up and said I'll follow you let me first go Bury My Father and Jesus said to him listen Luke 9 60 Let the dead bury their dead let the spiritually dead bury the physically dead and you go and preach the kingdom of God well what is the kingdom of God Romans 14:17 the kingdom of God is Not meat and drink but righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Ghost you can't eat your wind and you can't drink your wind you got to have the Holy Ghost you got to be born again so last night brother Dale he's the blessed man thank you for brother Dale he took my wife and I and my grandson to the seafood place he said he said brother James they got a buffet I said that's the very place I want to go cuz I like that word it's in the Bible 2 Corinthians 12 and 7 1 Corinthians 12: 7 St Paul said the messenger of Satan was sent to be you F Fe me oh where we ate they had a Buu ffe hold it wait a minute over at the restaurant b u FF T is a noun and in the Bible b u FF T is a verb at the restaurant is buffet and in the Bible is Buffet but to make sure that I had all the bases covered brother Paul pamer when I got over there I buffeted the buffet we were we were sitting at a table behind Jack Cunningham in miral Union I was trying to keep up with them we buffeted the buffet but the kingdom of God is Not meat and drink you can't eat your way in you can't drink your way in you got to be born again so Paul told Timothy a young clergy he said in 2 Timothy 4:2 preach the word said be instant in season and out of season out of season and look what
preaching does he said reprove folk think that preaching is only supposed to get you happy he said reprove rebuke exhort with all longsuffering and Doctrine all of those verses show you the goodness of preaching Acts 8:4 says therefore they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ the value of preaching well why is it this trend is trying to come in among us where we trying to be like them other folk and not doing it like it's supposed to be done so here is what you need to do then if you ain't got no better sense than that I'm going to tell you now how to do it here's how to preach and help nobody how to preach and bless nobody how to preach and heal nobody here's how your preach and help nobody make your chief aim popularity make that popularity the number one thing on your agenda whatever you do seek to be popular understand brothers and sisters popularity is the status quo popularity is the general opinion popularity is what everybody likes and in in reality all that popularity is is worldliness so when I say Seek to be popular I'm saying seek to be wory if you want to preach and help nobody make popularity your chief aim be like the world monkey see monkey do come on you can do the monkey too if you want to be popular that's the way to go didn't the Bible tell us in Galatians 1:4 we're delivered from the world then the Bible say in James 1:27 we to be unspotted by the world then the Bible say in 1 John 3:1 we are not known of the world then the Bible say in Romans 12:2 not be conformed to this world the Bible didn't God didn't save you and call you out to be like the world he calls you out in Matthew 5:14 to be the ligh of the world he called you in St Mark 16:16 to preach to the world he called you in St John 17:15 to witness to the world and not be like the world if you preaching help nobody be worldly be popular worldliness is easy to Define don't be like them all you got to do is look around you and however they doing don't do like them whatever they wearing don't wear it or whatever they saying don't say it our preachers are trying to look like them dress like them and talk like them they must not want to preach and help nobody don't be wory you a Sanctified Apostolic man you work on a job go to work tomorrow and look around you and all the guys on your job the way they look and act and talk just don't be like them and I guarantee you you won't be you'll be not being wory you a Sanctified woman go to work tomorrow and look in your office and look around you and look at the women in your office and just don't be like them hold it sisters I got news for you it ain't no sin to be sexy foxy attractive and fine but God don't want you all painted up looking like no Pagan female Goddess that inherited the Cosmetic Department of a camear store God don't want you looking like no Las Vegas show girl God wants you to look Godly and he wants you to look holy he don't want you to be weily to be popular is to be like them that that worldly woman give me big scare when it come to dress she take no dare everything false her face all pink the pad 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 no tall she flashed them eyes she loved to flirt she wiled and Shake in a minis skirt she Jitter bug when she should walk I even think her name is false but the apostolic woman she's so fine she know who she is she one of a kind the apostolic woman she look so nice she know who she is she bought with a price the apostolic woman Don't Take No Mess she got Jesus on the inside and she know how to dress don't be like the
world if if you want to preach if you want to preach and help nobody go back home and do everything it takes to be popular and I'll guarantee you all you'll get some followers but your church ain't going to be no church it ain't going to be nothing but a Sunday morning club that starts at 10:00 sharp and gets out at 12:00 door if you want to preach and help nobody aim to be popular if you want to preach and help nobody use I and me as much as you can and talk about yourself all the emphasis place it upon your own self cuz the time you talking about yourself is the time you ought to be talking about Jesus and what can but has anybody got to say about their own self anyway when we are not but 7 minutes and 2 quart of oxygen away from Death if Jesus don't give us strength we ain't got the strength to crack an egg on Easter we can't measure and bust a grape or Tire chicken if you want to preach and help nobody talk about yourself don't you know nobody is qualified unequivocally with no strings attached to talk about themselves but Jesus no wonder Jesus said in St John 12 31-32 now is the Judgment of this world come now shall the prince of this world be cast out and I if I be lifted up from Earth I will draw men under me Jesus said in Matthew 11:28 come unto me all you that labor in heavy laden and I will give you rest Jesus said in St John 14 14 and 3 and if I go and that if is not if in the if sense that's since I go if I go since I go to prepar place for you I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there ye may be also only Jesus Christ is qualified to say I so don't be if you want to preach and help nobody talk about yourself armies have marched navies have sailed Air Forces have flown writers have written singers have sang players have played philosophers have philosophi theologians have theologized but Jesus Christ is the only one capable and competent and able with no strings attached to sayi all by himself when when God Called Moses he was 10 years older than me he was 80 somebody said to me when they when I turned 70 they said Johnny how do it feel to be 70 I said 70 they said age ain't nothing but a number I said if age ain't nothing but a number King Kong wasn't nothing but a monkey and this brother who was 69 said I feel like I did when I was 17 I said you done forgot what 17 feel like but God Called Moses he was 80 Moses had five complaints but age was not one of them and Moses said well when I get down there and talk to Israel what shall I say to them who shall I say sent me God told Moses Exodus 3:14 tell the children of Israel e as e have sent you now when they translated that into English they didn't have enough space to put it in there in its fullest intent so they just translated it I am that I am God is saying I am who I was I am who I is I am who I will be I am that I am I am what I was am what i is I am what I will be I am that I am I am where I was I am where I is I am where I will be I am that I am I am why I was am why I is am why I will be I am that I am am which I was am which I is am which I will be I am that I am tell your school teacher that's bad grammar but it's good theology he can be anything he wants to be if you want to preach and help nobody seek to be popular and talk about yourself if you want to preach and help nobody copy the styles of the teller evangelist and the bigname preachers and I'll guarantee you your church will not
be blessed and you won't help nobody you see here's the problem with copying folk every copycat is in nobody cuz you ain't the cat you copying cuz they them and you're not yourself cuz you're trying to be them so if you copying some tele evangelist or some big name preacher you are Reverend nobody you are brother nobody God wants you to be you not be a copy cat there was a tombstone there was a tombstone that said he lies the body of Billy poppy he was born in the original but he died a copy don't you know Apostolic brother Apostolic woman God created you to be an original that night that your daddy said to your mama can I and your mama said yes darling but be gentle and your mama got together with your daddy and conceive you don't you know God programmed your deoxy wh nucleic acid genetic cating and then told the Inna do what the DNA told you to do God Made You To Be You You by yourself and then God got gave you the Holy Ghost and blew on you God want to use you in a unique way like God ain't going to use nobody else but God can't use you when you trying to beat somebody else if you want to preach and help nobody copy the big name preachers or preaching that's falling on hard times we going to turn it around and we going to straighten it out here's how you preach and help nobody use big words and be deep oh folk love that people love it when you use those 13 cylinder triple jointed knee action words so if you want to preach and help nobody use big words and be deep and they will walk out and say he showed it preach and won't know nothing you said if you are preaching from 2 Kings 2:23 and you are preaching about Elisha the prophet who was baldheaded don't tell the folk Elisha was baldheaded tell the people you want to preach about the prophet who had no folicular appendages on the cutaneous Apex of his cranial structure anterior to the Zito suture and posterior to the lamb Doo suture where the ful appendages do habitually germinate 31 words can be said in two words bhead but don't say baldheaded see if you say baldheaded even the little kids didn't know what you talking about but you don't want to help nobody you want to be deep and impressive here's how you're preaching help nobody here's how you're preaching help nobody never pray never fast and never study cuz if you pray you'll be anointed if you fast you'll be humble and if you study you have the message and you have something to say and look if you pray you'll be anointed you don't want to be anointed you want to be popular if you fast you'll be humble you don't want to be humble you want to be proud and if you study you have something to say and you don't want to have no message cuz you going to use all them gimmicks to act like you got a message when you ain't got one that's how you preach help nobody don't you know my grand son James L the brother the big black brother you see with me with around here that's my grandson in the gospel he's a powerful calary preacher sister bester we went back to the hotel he said to me he said grandfather how can that woman preach like that I say best man is one of the prayest women who ever live I said prayer is what gave her that power you cannot be much for God and not be much with God how do you think God going to use you at night when you done mess up all all day long prayer gives you God's anointing of course in this Apostolic World a lot of us don't know what the anointing is some of y'all think the anointing is the Hammond Oregon and the lle speaker some of y'all think the anointing is Mob psychology and mass hysteria some of y'all think the anointing is a feeling you can feel the anointing but the anointing is not a feeling I preached for a brother who got
a hold of me from this meeting and this brother in the town I was preaching I don't know if there's any even any black people in the town I preached for this brother8 days and I was there so long I didn't even feel black no more and on the last night of the service I went down in the basement of the church there's a long mirror along the wall I went down and I looked in the mirror and saw myself I said hey a black guy going come out to church tonight looking at my own self in the mirror I didn't feel black but that didn't stop me from being black you ain't got to feel the anointing to be anointed if you are anointed you are anointed and the anointing com through prayer one time a fell introduced me to another fell he said this is Johnny said he happens to be a preacher what you mean I happen to be a preacher I didn't happen to be a preacher Jesus found me in sin raised me from the Dead saved me called CH prepared and Sh me to preach that ain't no chance or accident you ain't preaching by accident you're not preaching by chance you are preaching CU God called you God chose you and God wants to use you and if you want God's anointing you'll be a personal prayer have you noticed in the Bible Jesus never taught a class on apologetics hermeneutics or htics he never taught a class on philosophy of religion exical theology or none of that stuff all but Jesus did teach a class he set them down in St Matthew 6 9 through1 13 and he taught them how to pray if you want the favor of God you be a person of prayer there are no great people only praying people that God will use greatly God will use you greatly if you will pray somebody said practice makes perfect that's dumb those guys in the NBA practice three hours a day during the offseason and they practice 2 hours on off days and 1 hour game days and with all that practicing the best shooter in the NBA is now shooting 48% from the field meaning every time he shoot the ball 100 times he missed 52 you call that perfect how would you like to go to a doctor who said I only lose 52 people out of every 100 I treat and the other 48 Live you wouldn't go to that do practice don't make perfect practice makes you good reading makes you smart study makes you ready praise makes you happy fasting makes you humble eating makes you fat but prayer makes perfect prayer makes perfect if you want to see Perfection then you better pray see you a VIP thank you again you a VIP the Bible said in 1 Corinthians 6 and 20 you ain't your own you bought with a price 1 Peter 1:19 the price was the precious blood of Jesus how much is it worth $100 a pint not enough $1,000 not enough million dollar not enough trillion dollars not enough quadrillion dollars not enough Quinton not enough sextilion not enough seon not enough oilon dolls not enough no million not enough dlion not enough undon not enough Doo dilon not not enough Trey dlion not enough Quattro dlion not enough Quint dlion not enough septim dilon not enough Octon not enough Zab Dillion still not enough you couldn't buy one drop of the blood of Jesus and he bought you with his blood you are a precious preacher you are somebody special you belong to Jesus Christ you are a VIP a very important person and a very important preacher don't let them trick you don't fall into that trap you belong to Jesus he called and chose you to preach and it ain't your choice of what you preach either the federal government says you are a taxpayer the politician says you are a voter the attorney declares you to be a client The Physician says you're a patient school teacher says you're a
student the retailer says you a shopper the bank calls you a depositor the airlines call you a passenger Hotel calls you a guest TV station calls you a viewer radio station calls you a listener the folks next door call you a neighbor the church calls you a parishioner hope they can call you a tither but Jesus calls you mine Jesus say you mine mine are God mine thine or mine you belong to Jesus Christ you ain't got no say in this you better preach and you better preach God's word prayer will give you God's favor the anointing the anointing is the power and the authority and the favor and the blessing of God upon you that make you effective when you are anointed you ain't got to do cartwheels and flips and holler when you are anointed you can speak it and it's there when you got the anointing it happens and the anointing I like what way way hutley said last night you got to Faith it and not fake it you cannot fake the anointing to Heaven you can fake it to folk folk might think you are anointed but you won't be and fake anointing does not work want to be anointed you in a relationship with Jesus you belong to him the relationship is prayer he said pray like this Our Father which are in heaven Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors and lead us not into temptation but Deliver Us from Evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever amen the relationship with Jesus gives you his Perfection you are be anointed you'll be an anointed preacher Our Father the perfect parent which AR the perfect existence in heaven the perfect place hallowed the perfect holy H be thy name the perfect name thy kingdom come the perfect government thy will the perfect legal document be done the perfect service in Earth as it is in heaven the perfect contrast give us the perfect petition this day the perfect timing Our Daily Bread the perfect provision and forgive us our Debs the perfect forgiveness as we forgive our debtors the perfect reification and lead us not into temptation the perfect God but Deliver Us from Evil the perfect Deliverance for thine is the perfect owner the kingdom the power and the glory the perfect property forever the perfect duration amen the perfect benediction you got Perfection with Jesus but it comes through prayer so if you want to preach and help nobody don't never pray and don't never fast cuz f will sure enough make you humble the Bible said in Proverbs 16:18 Pride go before destruction and a hearty spirit before a fall the Bible says in Proverbs 6:16 these six things that the Lord hate seven are an Abomination unto him and the number one thing on God's hate list is a proud look arrogant and up this ain't going to make it you can't do it like that that's how you preach and help nobody don't let that Spirit get in you and don't let it get in your church they trying to preach and help nobody they are egotistic they are humanistic they are capitalistic they are materialistic they are heathenistic and paganistic all wrapped up in themselves anybody wrapped up in themselves is wrapped up in the smartest package in the world don't be like that cuz you will not bless people that's how you preach and help nobody and don't study please or if you study you have something to say I don't know how anybody can think that God's going to bless on them they say open your mouth and the Lord will fill it he'll fill it with air have y'all have y'all noticed tfny every time he opened his mouth whether it's casual conversation preaching or whatever something good comes out of it that didn't happen by chance that man has put that stuff in there Kenny and JT Pew know stuff they don't even know that they know they know so much stuff the Holy Ghost got to bring it back and recall it but they put it in they did it in their formative years I got a I got a preacher friend and he has an organ player he carries with him cuz he's an evangelist his organ player got sick and he canceled all of his meetings I said man if you a fast pray and study you'll find out you can have Revival and don't have to have a special organ player to make up for what you ain't got he said to me all Johnny I know what's happening he said I've been holding revivals for 13 years years I said if you fast and pray and study
you'll stop holding it and release it the Revival has been hell too long it's time for the Revival to be released and if you fast pray and study the Revival will be released and and we we happen to meet up in St Louis I had just preached for my friend Reverend Steve willford and he was preaching across town for Bishop James Johnson so we got to we said I said I'll get together man and have breakfast with you he said all right I'll meet you at 8: I said no man I don't do mornings I said let's have breakfast at 1 he said that's lunch I said man let me explain to you breakfast is break fast I don't care if it's 4 in the evening and I don't care if it's steak and potatoes if it's the first meal it's break fast it's breakfast he said well I can't he said I can't do nothing he said because at 11:00 to 3:00 I'm tied up I thought he was going to be in prayer and study he said my stories come on I said man you ought to be whipped with an ignorant stick he said he said you don't watch the stories I said man I ain't got time for that dumb stuff I said you needan to tell me I'm a traveling preacher preaching 1 hour a night got 23 hours a day to do what I want to do and I'm going to waste that valuable time I could be praying and getting in the word and reading some good books I'm going to waste that time watching the Soaps I said I ain't thinking about that I said furthermore the Bible said in the 30th Psalm verse number five weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning and that's the real edge of night and Psalms 119 105 it said Thy word is the lamp unto my feet and the light unto my path that's the real Guiding Light and Proverbs 418 says the path of the just is as The Shining Light that shineth more and more un the perfect today and there's your search for tomorrow look at them out there standing on the edge of night holding The Guiding Light and they searching for tomorrow the Bible said in Exodus 32:6 the people sat down to eat and drink and Rose up to play you know who that was that was The Young and the Restless and the Bible said in Psalm 473 she uncovered her thigh made bear her leg you know who she was she was The Bold and the Beautiful and the Bible said in Jeremiah 31:3 God said I have love thee with an Everlasting Love Therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee to me that looks like love of life but 2 Corinthians 5:17 I got good news for you if any man be in Christ he is a new creature where are you now you in another world and Hebrews 9:27 the Bible say it is appointed unto men once to die you got to straighten up and fly right cuz you ain't got but One Life to Live and the Bible say in Hebrews 13 and6 Jesus said through the writer of Hebrews I'll never leave you nor forsake you how long is that all the days of our lives and if you if you get sick if you get sick and you ain't got White Cross Blue Cross Medicare Medicaid you ain't got to panic and Fallout cuz James 5:14 God got a medical program God said call for the Elders of the church and the Bible said when they show up they will anoint you with oil in the name of the Lord keep your priorities straight ain't nothing happening with the oil the power is in the name you can use motor oil transmission oil C liver oil any kind of oil you want make sure you use the name of Jesus the powers in the name and the Bible said the prayer of faith will save the sick and the Lord will raise him up and you won't end up in the General Hospital looking up at the doctors and Isaiah 88:18 said behold I am the children whom the Lord ha given me that's all my children and Ecclesiastes 1 and9 said the thing which has been is the thing which shall be there's no new thing under the sun to me that looks like your As the World Turns and Colossians 1:27 the Bible said Christ in you is the hope of glory and if Ryan don't get baptized in Jesus name and if Ryan don't get the Holy Ghost speak it in tongues and if Ryan don't live holy Ryan ain't got no hope they're standing on the edge of night holding The Guiding Light searching for tomorrow The Young and the Restless and the Bold and the Beautiful are looking for a love of life in another world they know they ain't got the One Life to Live all the days of their life and they don't want to end up fting their flat on their back in the General Hospital away from all their children looking up at the doctors As the World Turns and Jesus Christ is the Hope Ryan's Hope is Jesus our hope is Jesus focused on Jesus Christ if you a preacher and want to preach and help nobody you watch that old dumb stuff tie up your time in dumb stuff and you'll never preach and help nobody he won't
have no anointing he won't have no favor here's how you preaching help nobody never preach about how to be born again and what it takes to get saved just tell people believe on the Lord Jesus and you'll be saved never preach baptism in jesus' name that offends people never preach and them they got to have the Holy Ghost cuz if you preach that you will offend people anytime you are a preacher and you are preaching to people and you don't tell them how to come out of sin and get into heaven I don't care what they get healed from from I don't care what they get blessed with you miss the whole point 1 Timothy 1:15 this is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation Christ Jesus came into the world for you to be healed no Christ Jesus came into the world for you to have a Cadillac or Lincoln no Christ Jesus came into the world for you to have a spit level ranch house with a hydronic spr Zone cooling system and a step down den and a fulllength mink coat no Christ Jesus came into the world to save Sinners and if you don't tell Sinners how to be saved if you don't have a passion for Souls you miss the whole purpose you need to go to General Motors or General Dynamics or AT&T and get you a job you don't belong in the ministry cuz you're helping nobody you're blessing nobody you're healing nobody oh was talking to a Neo Theologian and he said to me are you still preaching the baptism in Jesus name I said the Bible said in Isaiah 48 the grass wither the flower Fai the word of our God shall stand forever the Bible said in Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever the word ain't changed and Jesus haven't changed but I since you have I said since you have changed all I want to know is was you crazy then or are you crazy now cuz you couldn't have had good sense both times and he said to me let me explain baptism I said explain it he said in Acts 238 where it said for the remission of sins he said in the Greek that means because of he said you see Johnny I know a little greek I said you do I said how tall is he I said he must be about 4 foot one cuz I know a big Greek he's 10 ft tall he's fre feet T and Shack his name is Marin tce and I said he said in his book the literal word acts verse volum on page 78 paragraph 2 that when it comes to the discussion of the preposition for in the Greek is Epsilon alter Sigma ice he said it means not because of or for the purpose of or to accomplish and there are over 30 translations of the English Bible that every everybody reads and none of them translate acts 238 because of how come cuz the grammar will not allow it don't you let them fellas trick you into lightning up on the baptism in Jesus name don't you let nobody jve you into not preaching this truth cuz you robing people of a chance to go to heaven that's good and here's how you preach and help nobody I'm winding down he said he said all of us have 55 minutes that's all right my mama told me 45 minutes was long enough for a good sermon and too long for a bad one somebody said suppos the Lord came come in supp the Lord come in you must be [ __ ] this is because of the times the Lord don't come in he lives here this is his address he's always here in between meetings he's still here how you preach and help nobody never praise and worship except when you leading we are turning out a we are turning out a generation of young preachers who ain't nothing but praise Hustlers if you a real praiser you are praise over in the corner all by yourself if you want to preach and help nobody sit up and look stiff like a Texas mule in Arkansas and then when they turn it over to you all of a sudden get a praise fit they they got they got praise so far the context is the same they preaching now all you got to do is praise you can
smoke cools and praise you can smoke dope and praise you can live any kind of way and praise you can be a homosexual and praise and they preach that praise is the Cure All for every dilemma of a saint if you read in the Book of Judges 1 it said after the death of Joshua it came to pass the children of Israel as the Lord saying who shall go up Force against the Canaanites first to fight against them and the Lord said Judah shall go up Judah is praised they say send Judah first wait a minute you ain't reading enough read verse three Judah said to Simeon and his brother come up with me and to my L that we may fight against the Canaanites praise is Judah Simeon is hearing and doing the word and praise said I ain't going nowhere if word don't come with me so you better tell every place H you better be in the Bible class get you some word PR and word go together how do you preach and help nobody here's how you preaching help nobody never live holy just preaching that way you'll be the hypocrite of the year here's how you preach and help here's how you preach and help nobody exalt everybody except Jesus cuz after all he only went to Calvary we have got to turn preaching around now if you take the coin how to preach and help nobody flip the coin over if you don't do that go on back home and preach and if you preach God a blessing he cannot lie and if you go home and preach the word go home and preach the gospel and preach the doctrine yes your church will double yes your church will triple yes your church will come will do it because the word works but if you have fallen into that dumb Trap by them fellows went to the same Seminary and studied under the same professors and they learned their lesson in well and if you want to be like that go ahead cuz that's a bunch I don't want to be nothing like I'm trying my best to not be like them I'm trying my best not do like them I'm doing my best like not to think like them we call people charismatic charismatic is good it means gifted that's the wrong word worldly is what the word should be used when folk CH that ain't charismatic to be charismatic means to have Charisma and you gifted and we use the word that to represent worldliness don't be like that don't be like that they learned well and they doing it well and people are getting exploited hustled and tricked because they have all learned well and God do not want you to do that that is not your assignment don't be like that they have learned it what did they learn they learn how to preach and help nobody
Scripture references as spoken: Jonah 3:1-2; Mark 16:15-16; Luke 9:60; 2 Timothy 4:2; Acts 8:4-5; Jonah 1:17; Matthew 12:40; Acts 6:4; Luke 9:58; Romans 14:17; 2 Corinthians 12:7; Galatians 1:4; James 1:27; 1 John 3:1; Romans 12:2; Matthew 5:14; John 12:31-32; Matthew 11:28; John 14:3; Exodus 3:14; Matthew 6:9-13; 1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Peter 1:19; Proverbs 16:18; Proverbs 6:16-17; Psalm 30:5; Psalm 119:105; Proverbs 4:18; Exodus 32:6; Isaiah 47:2-3; Jeremiah 31:3; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Hebrews 9:27; Hebrews 13:5-6; James 5:14-15; Isaiah 8:18; Ecclesiastes 1:9; Colossians 1:27; 1 Timothy 1:15; Isaiah 40:8; Hebrews 13:8; Acts 2:38; Judges 1:1-3.