The Oneness Of The Body

thank you praise the Lord it is so wonderful to be here tonight this is such a beautiful building and I arrived today when I walked in I felt the glory I beheld the glory and I heard the anointed preaching and I want to say to brother both brother Mangin brother Gerald Mangan and sister Vesta brother Anthony sister Mickey I love you folks very much and you have been a great inspiration to me brother Mangan perhaps does not know this but when young people are beginning their Ministry there are certain folks that Inspire them greatly and in those days brother Mangan inspired me with his tremendous Zeal to come into a city like this and say I'm going to build a great church for God knocking doors working hard I I've come to the position or the belief that things don't just happen you make them happen in Jesus name and I thank God for leaders such as this that have set the example for us younger men and I appreciate it very very much and our general superintendent brother oan God bless him we appreciate him so much and brother Tenny our district superintendent here and all the wonderful Brethren members of the general board and Ministers of the Gospel tonight I am teamed up with the most dynamic man that I know and he is God has brought this man to the Forefront for this hour and I believe that one reason I said all that is this that our ministry is going to be totally different tonight but I believe when this convention is over that every message will fit into the scenario of the end of the times or because of the times that we're all going to have a little part in the contribution of changing lives and I will not go over my time periods so from that standpoint why don't you just relax a little little bit I'm going to give it my best shot I do have a message for you tonight and I it's not a warmed over message I've never preached it before okay but some of the material that I'm going to try to inject in it I have but the Lord how many of you folks are Oneness tonight okay we're going to talk about a Oneness here if you have your Bibles let's go to the 17th chapter of The Gospel according to John oh praise the Lord and verse 11 and now I am no more in the world but these are in the world and I come to thee Holy Father keep through thine own name Those whom thou Hast given me that they may be one as we are Verse 18 as thou Hast sent me into the world even so have I also sent them into the world and for their sakes I sanctify myself that they also might be Sanctified through the truth neither pray I for these alone but for them also which Shall Believe on me through their word that they all May be one as thou father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us that the world may believe that thou Hast sent me and the glory which thou gavest me I have given them that they may be one even as we are one i in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one and that the world may know that thou Hast sent me and has loved them as thou Hast loved me and when I said Oneness you were thinking perhaps of the doctrine of the godhead but I'm talking about the Oneness tonight of the body the Oneness of the body the Oneness of the body Our Father in Heaven I ask you to reach down and touch us tonight by thy Holy Spirit

and anoint Quicken the hearts of men and women we are dying men and women oh Lord with a course of Destiny I pray that you will help us to fulfill the wish the commission the plan of the almighty God I pray that the anointing of God will not only rest upon the pulpit and the preacher but on the Pew and on men of God that are here tonight May our hearts be challenged and we will give you praise in Jesus name we ask it amen you may be seated hallu Glory praise God it is the will of the father that there be unity in the body we will never you know today while brother Wright was preaching I brother Wright has a way of he's my good friend he has a way of just provoking you to want to do more for God that's right of telling you what we're not doing you know we I after I listened to these testimonies tonight I was wondering if I really had the will of God because this place was so power packed and we were talking about miracles but I will tell you this God is on the throne and we're living in the hour of Miracles but I want to tell you we have not reached the dimension in Christ in Apostolic power that is the will of God for this day there are 5 billion people on planet Earth presently by the year 2000 we will press and go beyond the 6 billion Mark we have an awesome task to reach this world and I'm going to say this tonight and I don't want to be misunderstood but more organization is not going to get the job done come on more organization itself is not going to get the job done we have to have a dynamic infusion of something we've got to have Revival nothing short of oldfashioned Revival I know it's a loose term I know we talk about it we've talked about it for years but folks I'm dead serious tonight we have to have Revival something has to happen to the United Pentecostal church and I'm going to tell you that I do not believe God can have his way we can preach prayer and fasting and as I said we're going to get the scenario of the whole plan of God through this convention prayer fasting the word all these things my little part for this message tonight or for this part of the convention is simply this then until the body can be brought together in unison it doesn't matter how much praying and fasting we will not have the to shake this whole world we're going to have to have more than you know High powerered evangelism services and Crusades we're going to have to have something that's going to get the early church literally shook their world they shook their world because every member of the body felt the responsibility to evangelize the world but there was something in the early church that we need in this 20th century and must absolutely have and that is we need a rebirth of love one for another Jesus said by this shall all men know that you are my disciples now you you go you can I'm going to be a little defensive here I guess I shouldn't do this but you can walk out of here and you can say brother Haney come back here to this convention and he told us to throw away all of our standards and everything that's in the manual now if you say that I know where you're going cuz the Bible said all liars are going to hell I didn't say it I'm going to tell you this but I will say this Christ addressed the issue of love he did not say that all men are going to know that you're my disciples by the long dresses and the long hair and the no jewelry come on now it's not there I know I'm shaking you just a little bit but I'm going to tell you something that is a byproduct of a right heart we want to dress the little fell up before we get the Heart Change when my kids were growing up we had a little record there that told the story the Storyteller told about this little pig that they tried to clean up all the time and and they'd wash him give him a bath put a ribbon on him but just go right back down to the mud hole and Waller in it and come out muddy one day a surgeon come along and said I can fix that he put Pig to sleep took

his old pig heart out and put a sheep heart in I know it's just a little story don't get carried away what we really need is a new heart all the legislation in the world our manual can be that high it's not going to save us folks it's not going to save us what we need is a Revival of Holiness that will literally change change us this body needs to become one in unison to shake the world in purpose in love one for another we need it desperately and until we reach that point we are not going to save our world Jesus dealt with the spirits of men the hearts of men and very little did he deal with the exterior of man and yet we know it's vitally important how we look how we dress modesty long hair all those things that we teach but Christ dealt with the spirits of men we spend all our time dressing up the out man woo man we spend hours but if we had oldfashioned Revival we had oldfashioned anointed preaching and we had love in this body I'm telling you if we had love you know some folks I'll tell you what I believe I believe God is moving in the United Pentecostal Church like he has never moved before and I believe I'm going to go on record that I believe God had his way at the general conference this year I know what some of you saying I I've heard some of your gossip you know it was manipulated and it was that you don't know what you're talking about God intervened and moved in that convention and until God intervenes and moves in our lives as a movement we're just going to be another organization we need to move with the Holy Ghost and be sensitive to the power of God the unity of the body is the only thing that's going to save us bring us together draw us together rid us of sism our little clicks I said our little clicks you know we have the higher asons the Upper Crust you're in the no you're you're with a certain crowd when you get to heaven it's going to amaz some of you folks who's in God's crowd that sort of thing is you know that God's not pleased with that we're one family one body nobody's greater than anyone else as far as God is concerned we need to learn how to love one another we need to learn how to love one another and break the walls down bring this church together until it happens we'll never have the kind of Revival that God wants to send us we can talk about Revival we can have because of the times landmark and all the conventions we're having across our fellowship but that's not not going to bring Revival until there's a rebirth of Love within our hearts now if you want to follow me tonight I am preaching about the body and I'm going to call bring you to the 11th chapter 1 Corinthians and I want to read some of the words here of the Apostle as he addressed the Church of Corinth the Apostle Paul was saying in verse 28 but let a man examine himself that's it and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup for he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh Damnation to himself now here's what I want you to hear not Discerning the Lord's body suddenly we're all seeing a table on the platform covered with a white cloth with cups that have the fruit of the vine and the unleavened bread and we're saying this is a communion service but this goes just a little bit deeper than a communion service again you have to take the total context of the scripture and you have to understand that when the Apostle addressed these thoughts to the church at Corinth and this letter it was man that placed the chapters there and if you will follow it on through I'm going to show you that the Lord's body is more than what's in a cup

and what's in unleavened bread that's right amen I'm going to show you and prove to you tonight that every man and woman boy and girl in this building that has the baptism of the Holy Ghost as a part of the Lord's body say Amen say amen amen all right and he goes on the Apostle is saying for if we would judge ourselves we should not be judged but when we are judged we are chastened of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the world I'm slipping over to chapter 12 and verse 12 and please remember man place these chapters here God was the author of these writings for as the body is one and ha many members and all the members of that one body being many are one body so also is Christ for by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body whether we be jew or Gentile whether we be Bond or free and have been all made to drink into one spirit for the body is not one member but many oh Hallelujah if the foot shall say because I am not the hand I am not the body body is it therefore not the body and if the ear shall say because I am not the eye I am not of the body is it therefore not of the body if the whole body were in an eye where were the hearing if the whole were a hearing where were the smelling but now hath God set the members every one of them in the body as it hath pleased him and if they were all one member where were the body but now are they many members yet but one body and the eye cannot say un the hand I have no need of thee nor again the head to the feet I have no need of thee name much more those members of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary can I tell you something brothers and sisters this body belongs to Jesus Christ we are sitting with the body of Christ tonight and the Apostle Paul is saying there's a problem in the church and the problem in this church is a result of men and women not Discerning the Lord's body and as a result of that there is sickness there is weakness and there is premature death and it is not all literal but it is spiritual and we need a healing of the body we need a healing of the body brothers and sisters a love in the body we need to be strong in the Lord we need to have the power of His might we need Revival and until the body is brought together in Oneness we cannot have the power of God as we wish to have can you say praise God would you lift your hand and wave it tonight and say that's right preacher it is my feeling that we can circumvent this issue this topic and refuse to address it and go right on having high-powered meetings and I'm I love the choir Brother Davis I love the music but it's going to take more than choirs to bring a worldwide Revival I thank God for our Bible schools and the institution but it's going to take more than Bible colleges to bring Revival to this world and I thank God for our churches that we're building in cities as we are such as this beautiful edifice but when God sends the Revival that belongs in this Latter day you will not build buildings large enough to house what God Almighty wishes to do and sometimes we act and we preach as if it God was waiting on us or we're waiting on God when God gets ready he's going to do it I don't believe that God is waiting on his church to be brought together brought together in love the bond of Love of unity where barriers are broken down so easy h i I'll be leaving in a couple days so but I'm going to say it anyway so easy for us to be I'll tell you God's sick of judgmentalism sick and tired of judgmentalism you have to dissect every man of God that comes before you and preaches a camp meeting or conference and a general conference and it takes some of us almost 2third of the message through to find out whether the guy

straightened the doctrine or not so we can say an amen and you know it's so but you don't want to admit it but I want to tell you something there needs to be a bond of unity in this Great Fellowship that will bring us together we need to have trust in one another we need to have confidence in one another we get our little book out and we check them out and when we inquire around to see what's what about this fell we haven't heard from him before you know who is he he's not one of the major 39 names that we know I'll tell you what God's got some great preachers in this Mo movement that have never great the pulpit yet and God's wanting to bring him to the Forefront I said I'm preaching my maybe my Alpha and Omega tonight but God is wanting to bring men to the Forefront and anoint them and use them for the glory of God a little more love in this body and understanding would go a long ways well let's go over to James praise God I feel like I'm right on it tonight I'm hungry for the Revival I want Revival more than anything I can think I I don't I hope that the church that I Pastor cannot begin to accommodate what God is going to do I'd like to have 10 sessions on Sunday and one every night of the week in prayer every morning and the building full and folks standing out in the crowd you say how would you Pastor up don't worry about it what's wrong with your mentality to think that way let God handle it God's on the throne it's his Revival it's his church it's his world he think so little I was talking about building a church and and you know you know we we really limit ourselves and one preacher was saying he said man you're going to have I don't you couldn't Pastor all those people he said that you have to have binoculars to see who's out there that good and I'd like to tell him a few things there's folks that have a 100 people that can't Pastor all of them and I want to tell you something else God's the pastor anyway we need to increase our vision and quit talking so negative oh Hallelujah now James said is any among you Afflicted let him pray is any merry let him sing Psalms is any sick among you let him call for the Elders of the church and let them pray over him anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord and the prayer of faith shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise him up and if he has committed sins they shall be forgiven him he's talking to the church he's talking to the church yes he's talking to the church Paul was talking to the church too see we get after all these denominations when they go over into the poing Epistles and the general Epistles and pick out a verse of scripture and say believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and we say heyy that's to the church right if you want to find out how to get saved go to the book of Acts but then we're guilty of things certain times because it's talking to the church and we try to make out like it's talking to some old reprobate clear outside take verse 16 confess your faults one to another we don't do that what's wrong with you h any plenty I need help I need help but it's time that we learn how to be open with one another and it's time that we as members of the body when somebody is open with us learn how to close our lips there are many that would love to talk to somebody but they dare

not there needs to be an openness now my best way to talk about some of this is to talk about I have to do this about me not how great I am about my weaknesses okay going to get an earful right now 87 brother Wright as you said I have been pastoring in Stockton California for 16 years this month but 87 was one of the most devastating years of of my pastor I second it and I could not put my finger on it but it drove me to my knees time and time again I begin to weep and I'd cry to God I'd go to prayer meeting every morning at 5: and I said you know Lord it seems like we since we we've always had prayer quarterly prayer Round the Clock prayer for several years but since we really got into this early morning prayer it seems like all the Devils of Hell have broke loose surely we could have a little comfort with our effort but one morning I just threw myself on the floor and I began to cry out to God it was when the the pressures AR that's when you get close to God you know the Lord knows what draws us the closest to it just begin to pour my heart out to the Lord and I I started weeping and crying and and spilling it all out I said what is the problem God I haven't sinned that I that I know of I'm the pastor better tell me what's wrong the Lord said the problem is you okay let's have it now he said you've had a little blessing your way and it's gone to your head and he said you won't believe this part but this what he said he said you are becoming so professional about the way you handle everything you everybody knows me knows I'm not professional but up here I was I was thinking I was and he says you have this professional Heir about you you're you've got everything so organized and he said you know because you've taken on that attitude your whole pastoral staff has developed that attitude and it said some other things you haven't really been preaching an under the anointing and and you know you know just really letting the hammer down on sin and you've let a lot of things get by well and then he took me to the scripture and I'd never preached on the Lost coin before I alluded to it in messages but never preached it and he said to me he said that's where you're at you've lost it you've lost the coin and you need to find it so I got to reading in that story how that little woman found that lost coin how that she lit a candle and the word of God was that candle and it got the word of God begin to search where where did we lose it and and she the Bible says she sought diligently not just until she was tired but until she found it and I said God I'm here till I get it back and I began to weep and cry and the Lord said you know the number one thing you've got to do Mr Kenneth Haney is get up there before your whole church on Sunday morning and tell them you lost it I said now wait a minute this is it's ridiculous you know I've been programmed against that I was born into a preacher's home I've carried credentials with this movement for 30 some years and I've never heard anybody at a fellowship meeting District conference camp meeting General Conference anywhere else stand up and say I lost it and if you think I'm going to start a new trend he said well if you going to get back you're going to do it or the day was over I said I'll do it but I got dramatic about it because I built two houses one on each side of the church hey I've never preached a dramatized sermon in my life but I became very dramatic I had one house on that side of the platform one house on that side of the platform put Furniture in it and when I walked to that popit that morning the first thing I did I said church I want to talk to you I have some things I need to say from my heart to you and some confessions that I need to make and man

it was so still I thought I was in a morg you know you need a little help and encouragement about then you wasn't getting a bit of it but as I begin to talk to the church about my prayerlessness my lack of faith my professional he how I had not really preached the word to them as I should have and let certain things go in that congregation and certain things get by I watched those men big old men pull their handkerchiefs out and begin to sob I watched people begin to weep all across that we went on for about 15 minutes then I started preaching about the lamp the word of God I said we've lost something church and we're going to find it and the lights went out and we turned the spotlight and I had a couple assistants they took brooms and they would throw things out and we found prayerlessness in the church we found pride in the church we found worldliness in the church we found so many things in the church and we'd throw it out and I'd preach on it a while then at the end of the service to make a long story short the glory of God begin to fall and there was young people begin bringing me boxes and in those boxes were the gifts of the Spirit the fruits of the spirit and I determined we wasn't going to have the operation of the gifts in that church until we got rid of a few things and we wasn't going to have the fruits of the spirit until we clean the house out out now I can tell you that that was the turning point in my life but I had to stand before those people and admit to them that I had failed them I have not lost respect with my the congregation the people that I if anything my respect has been built among them I believe that God wants his church to be open today I believe that United Pentecostal Church God wants minister to go to minister until there's a there's a clean feeling in the body I don't think any of us are too high and mighty Even in our own mental attitudes but what we can go to a brother and say I want you to forgive me for those feelings I've had what I said what I thought what I did would you please forgive me until we can do that we're never going to have the Oneness that we need of the body to bring great Revival in this last hour God wants to bring Revival I'm going to go a step further I do not want somebody else to take my place at this end time move I don't intend for it to happen I want to be right in the big middle of this thing I believe God's going to send a Revival what I really believe folks I'm going to tell you tonight I want to expand your imagination a little bit tonight I believe that the Baptist churches in our town are going to be turned into prayer rooms and the truth of the Oneness of God is going to be brought to to them I believe that God is going to be bring Revival of Holiness to the Assemblies of God and the Church of God and the Nazarene Church I believe it I want to live that believe and I want to tell you something else about it I don't want to get embroiled in such a fight with pastors throughout my city over the doctrine that they lose respect in my Christian walk with God I believe I can preach the truth and hold my head high without batting him in the head and interrogating them and destroying them and calling them ugly names and having an ugly Spirit do I need to say that again I believe God wants us to preach the truth in love so we can have the respect of men in our city believe that just 5 weeks ago pastor of the largest assembly God Church in our city was at a funeral in our in our service and at our church and after about about 3 or 4 days later I got the nicest letter from him and he said pastor Haney he said I was at that funeral it was a funeral of a little six-year-old boy and several of the staff spoke he said it's hard for me to believe that a little six-year-old boy could affect as many lives as that little boy did he said something else I want to say he said I have observed you for several years and he said I want my church to contend for Holiness like your church is contending for Holiness I don't approve of the way that his people dress I don't approve of the doctrine that he preaches but neither do I have to stand stand up there and kick him and turn my back on

him I think it is time that we if we've really got the truth what's the big complex about I'll tell you what I think the problem is some of us are not so sure where we stand I know where I stand there's no question question about this book Hallelujah there's no question about the Mighty God in Christ there's no question about water baptism in jesus' name there should be no question about separation from the world why do we have to make an issue out of it just preach the truth and let them into the truth preach the truth and love them into the truth the issue is the false doct we're right in line with the word of God oh Hallelujah church I want you to know that this is our day it's the greatest day that the church has ever had it's our hour it's the finest hour that we've ever had and God wants to bring Revival to the United Pentecostal Church like we have never known before I tell you I would the day you know I don't know how some of you'd handle it but I would to day that at the general conference there were so many denom ational preachers coming that some of you would lose your little places to sit that's one way we'd empty out the lobbies brother Shan there'd be something so exciting going on if all these folks want to know what's going on in the United Pentecostal Church surely we better know what's going on in the United Pentecostal Church can I tell you God is doing a great work in this hour brothers and sisters don't be guilty of saying they're not interested in truth and they're not hungry for I know there's some that way but there are others that are seeking and searching and hungry for the word of God I'm going to say it just a little bit more little strongly we've been guilty of driving a lot of those folks away I'm going to say it again it's my last shot we've been guilty of driving them we need to love them to truth you say hey that's compromise if that's compromise we need to compromise oh Hallelujah in conclusion I'd like to say that I'm glad to be a United Pentecostal Church preacher yes sir I'd like to say brothers and sisters don't walk away from the doctrine we've had some that have walked away to what is perhaps a charismatic type of religion but after five and 10 years they're no better off their congregations are no larger I'm going to tell you stay with the truth I'd like to say something one of those that left some years ago who's a good very good friend and I still love him to this day and he will always be a friend so if you see me sitting with him at a general conference table I dare you to try to Brand me with everything that he believes friendship is bigger and broader than building walls but he said to one of my rightand man he said when is your pastor going to come on out here with the rest of us you know he's not going to get anywhere where he's at and I sent word back to him and I said some of you chose to go

out because you didn't agree with us and there's things in our movement that I don't agree with but I'm not going to change it out there and have I believed that so strong that we need a change I'll stay right here and fight for it preach it as long as I have the right spirit I can lift my voice and tell my brethren what I believe is going to be a more effective method and that's a little bit of what I'm doing tonight if you're just a little discontent with what's going on don't be foolish and throw in the towel stay with the movement pray and learn how to love and together we're going to shake our world for Jesus Christ