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- A guest sermon at a local church: Barnes names no place for this service, and no token settles its session. The channel overlay head (a Proverbs reading and a John 1:29 fragment) and the material after his close (altar fragments and a Bible-symbols glossary) are other material, seamed out of this record (see packet.md). A stretch of platform talk late in the service (42:51–44:49) is heavily garbled in the captions and is summarised only where its sense is plain. He directs one reading, John 6:61-66, and returns to the chapter's wording twice more as he preaches.
- He opens on John the sixth chapter, reading from the sixty-first verse: when Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you that believe not — for Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him — and no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. That verse is his text: many of his disciples went back.
- He is not preaching the same sermon he preached last Sunday night, but he reads from a little article he cut out: the charismatics say doctrine divides and love unites, and one of their leaders fellowships even with people who do not believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God, because he is not preaching doctrine. Barnes answers: we are not against people — we are against false doctrine. Jesus loved people, but he fought false doctrine, and anybody who would sacrifice Bible doctrine for unity is crazy. These folks remind him of the crowd boarding a big jet airplane whose pilot announces that today they will cut off all the radar and fly by feelings and messages: pardon me, before you take off, I am getting off — I want something I believe, something to stand on. Going overseas he wants his passport in hand, his ticket in hand, and his money belt on. The Bible is the instrument that will tell you when you are on course and tell you when you are off course, and it says the way to be saved is to repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. He has to have that: he knows he has been baptized, he knows he is filled with the Holy Ghost, he knows he has been born again and is living right, whatever his feelings do in the trouble and darkness down here.
- And they left the world's greatest: they left the world's only healer, the world's only Saviour — and Jesus let them go quickly; he was not about to compromise these great foundational doctrines. They did not leave him because he was a respecter of persons: it did not matter whether a man was an adulterer, a doctor, a lawyer, the blind beggar or the rich young ruler, everybody got it exactly alike. They did not leave him because he was rich — he was broke about half the time: the foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head. We have lost a lot of people because of what we preach, and we preach it out of the book — and on that great judgment morning God will judge them out of this book. People are always looking for the easy route, the way of least resistance; the happiest people in the world are the ones who came up the hard way and stayed together. When you love Jesus with all of your heart, soul, mind and strength, it doesn't matter what he asks you to do, you'll do it. These folks preach love because love unifies, but they are not telling the truth; Jesus said, If you love me, you'll keep my commandments — and the commandments are doctrine: you'll preach my doctrine, you'll teach my doctrine, and you'll still teach it even if it takes you out to sea, because you're not a bunch of weaklings.
- He tells of the first charismatic preacher he ever met, who said if a hundred people came into his church and ninety-nine of them were devils and one was a saint, he would fellowship all of them to get the one: you let down the bars, and the goats come in and the sheep go out — that is exactly what they did, and wound up with a big love team. He saw the hippies running around with love written all over their cars, and there was dope and immorality with it. Then he comes back to what they were reading: after they went away, Jesus asked, Will ye also go away? I am not backing up; if every last one of you walks off, I am going to preach this gospel till he comes. Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. That is his own stand, and he gives his testimony: when he was a nobody standing in the gutter, Jesus came by and got him out of the mess; he picked him up, filled him with the Holy Ghost, covered him with the blood, and has kept him clean until now — and he is not going back, like the prodigal son. If you want to follow Jesus you will not find an easy route: he died on an old rugged cross, and there will be persecution.
- He is looking out for another world; this world is not his home, he is just passing through. He restates the text — from that time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him — and names one who went back: Demas, who forsook Paul, having loved this present world. People will follow for the loaves and fishes while it is easy, but Jesus has gone to the hard doctrine: unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you cannot be my disciple, you have no eternal life. He has known some of our own preachers who were once great, then left the truth, let down the standard, and drifted: they said they were always going to believe, but now they are here saying people can be baptized either way or not at all, it doesn't matter. We are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone.
- He says he wants to read an old story here today in Matthew 25 — and tells instead of Sodom and Lot. This year, he says, holds much: so many prophecies are being fulfilled this year; this is the year of the Jewish celebration of their fortieth year in the land of Israel, a year the Lord could come back. It could have been a morning just like this in Sodom, the sun shining, the people talking — and suddenly there was fire and brimstone, and those old bright rocks lying up and down the Dead Sea looked like they had been burned. Abraham had prayed for the place, but Lot had too much of the world in him; in the morning his wife looked back and turned to a pillar of salt, and the whole city was turned in one hour. Judgment is upon this world now: he speaks of another bill passed, of homosexuals in places of influence, of the Antichrist spirit behind it all, of humanists and atheists organised in America, and of our freedom soon coming to an end. To whom shall we go? I am not going to leave him; I want to go with him forever and ever. It is time to get down to business — your own praying, your own Bible study, your own holy living; the young folks must get the hold of God and be convicted themselves, instead of falling from the standards just because they have seen mom and dad do it.
- He was amazed today, looking at the many names of people connected with universities who believed in one God and denied the Trinity — many of them Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists; he reads the closing words of a book written over a hundred years ago by the Presbyterian preacher John Miller, who denied the Trinity all the way through. False doctrine clogs the wheels of the church: if the church had never gone into trinitarianism, this world would be a different world today — the church would be one, and she would have power. But even a Pentecostal who has had the revelation can shelve it until it is just another doctrine of the past: it needs to be preached, it needs to be studied, it needs to be prayed over, it needs to be witnessed about.
- Many walked with him, but many are still walking with him. He tells of one of the great charismatic leaders writing to urge him to level down on baptism; then the platform talk turns to worship, and to churches where you cannot feel free to lift your hands — some of those folks, twenty years ago, would not obey the scripture: the Bible said come out, come out, and they said no, and he does not hear them praising the Lord anymore. He closes commending the church he has been preaching in: we leave this apostolic doctrine, this church, today — and it should preach the same things the first church preached: water baptism, the Holy Ghost, holiness, everything the first church practiced and taught and believed is taught and preached here, and if you find one thing in there that the apostolic church practiced and taught and we are not teaching and preaching here, let me know, and I will teach it. That, he says, is where our stand is.
Scriptures: John 6:53; John 6:61-66; John 6:67-68; John 14:15
Scripture index: John 6:53; John 6:61-66; John 6:67-68; John 14:15.
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finally today who John the sixth chapter st. John six chapters and reading this chapter here the Lord had laid down some facts that the week could not receive would not and beginning here at the sisters first place when Jesus blew in himself that his disciples murmured at it he said unto them justice offends you what and if each would see the Son of Man ascend up where he was before it is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing words that I speak in you their spirit and their life but there are some of you that believe not or jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believe not and who should betray him and he said therefore say I unto you that no man can come to me except it was given unto Him of my father from that time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him taking my text here from this verse and many of his disciples went back meaning of his disciples went back that's dead but many of them went back last Sunday night I'm preached on good doctrine and I read a little article here I'll cut out of a bad disfavor I'm not going to place the same sermon but I want you to know that has the one blaze and Bible doctors and I want to know this that we're not against people who against false doctrine we love people Jesus loved people but he fought both doctors and here the charismatic the same in this article this bad paper they had in tight lists ship docked and be satisfied a unity and he said the charismatic say doctrine divide and love unites direct Humbert said he fellowship was a Jewish faith with the Catholic Church because he's not preaching doctrine and he said some evangelist criticized other relations are communism they always fight in somebody but he said I don't
fight anybody now a fellow this don't fight communism not what salt roses where and any part of the sacrifice Bible doctrine for unity is crazy
I thought what judge you're going to do to be worshipping together he left here I want to go in the rapture now these folks remind me live crowd the people getting on a big jet airplane to fly halfway around the world and the pilot says we asked a very gifted men and when it on just playing today so we're going to cut off all the radar and we're going to go by feelings and caucuses today and whenever we get off course will somebody bring a message tell us which way to Kurt and we didn't the storm well there's a storm here somebody will bring a message cause interpretations they turn to the right there's a storm over here and the pilots informs all the packages and I'm on there and I say pardon me before you take off I'm getting over I want something I believe the puffs a reading song interpretation but I have no other human beings making the station now the Bible is overtaking it whenever God actually speaks there's no mistake there and I trust him totally but I don't trust everybody else I want something to stand on there's one thing and I always held on to well it's two or three things from average going overseas I want my passport here not the street right here and I want my ticket right here and I want my money belt on with a few hundred dollars in case I get robbed I'd like to have a few things didn't hang on dude I don't like the IDB and just blast it out into sleep there's a great big out jungler and dogs ever word you have you know that he says it's his face he's ever worth but I'd like to have a guy down here and up there and wherever I'm at I'd like to know when I'm on course is one of all sorts and you find that the general barber dr. Turner to tell you when you're on course is tell you when you off course it'll tell you how to be free and some anthem of the Kings don't know forget me or all the rest of them he said the way to be saved is to repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ while the remission of your sins when you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost now I gotta have that Doctor Who I'm just out there lost in space don't look away in a world where I'm doing I like to feel comfort under my feet every once in a while something I can hang on to because you don't she'll always down here this is fear there is valid there's mountains decline a time when you don't feel nothing trouble and darkness but if I got this truth I know half a penny now know I've been baptized and I know I'm filled with the Holy Ghost I know I've been born again I know I'm living right I don't have to me too now I tell you oh my lord too much I thought about these folks here walking off and following him the more and I want you to know before we get into it that they left the world's greatest fastest it never has been one come up but they left they left the
world's greatest and only here how they walked off for discipleship we followed him no more the world's best Isis the world's only healer they walked off and left the world's only stranger I want you to take a look at Ruben sweet human beings and he's so ages and crazy sometimes we got to have our foundation now you see those are sellers it doesn't believe in doctrine because when he raised the doctrine down playing and hard unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood you have no part in me and they got offended as they walked on so Jesus let him go quickly he wasn't about compromise he wasn't about to stop placing these great foundational doctrines if you want to go you can go but all right I'm gonna keep preaching the doctor praise the Lord
now he had made it the world's and everything around the bottom yes they will go with God manifested in the flesh and I know some people just about that bed now one thing about this pastor he was no respected hook it doesn't find that it's all it didn't matter to him whether they was adulterer fornicator doc whoever he go and stomp and try his best to save them Dave Randy wood and it didn't matter if this doctor lawyer who they might be it was the same gospel to the blind beggar so the rich young ruler everybody got it exactly the life so he was no respecter of person they couldn't leave him for that reason they couldn't leave him because he was hipped rich off over tax a state broke about half the time he said the foxes have hold the birds has air have nests but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head so they didn't they didn't walk off and leave him because he was making 150 million dollars a year they left him the cause of 43 we've lost a lot of people but because of what we preach and we preach it out of the book and you just well to make up your mind you're going to face the book somewhere another you can dodge it here you've got a right to say I won't listen to your preacher but all that great judgment morning when God dragged them all out of the graveyard and stands there but some part of him he's gone all for this book and he's gonna get him out of it now there's always has been the people looking for the easy route the way of least resistance they're always bothered me you know be last sometimes about somebody saying they looking for a rich husband a rich wife you know how are their to be everything all lovey don't have to worry about nothing well I don't happen too often most colors and I'll tell you the people that the habits are those that come up the hard wing and lay off from hands and mouth stayed together we're just family they didn't have britches but they stayed together they loved one another we it's all said and John they're the happiest people in the world so they left guard and they left eternal life the wolf dog heaven's gift now when you love Jesus with all of your
heart soul mind and strength it doesn't matter what you ask you to do you'll do it now these folks here talking about we preach love because love unifies ah they're not really telling the truth whenever they save it because they have wrote a fellowship the Jews that don't even bleed Jesus Christ is the son of God savor the world in the fellowship on I in that screen here's the difference in us and the Jews the Jews don't please he is the son of God at all we believe he is athletic spirit will worship with the Jews but not with the oneness we know they believe that he's more than we say he is they say he's God manifested in the flesh and he is but we changed all that far we'd rather go back the other way and worship with some folks they don't even blame he's the son of God and you see and meet yourself coming back here then they say we don't fight anybody we just preach love we don't preach doctrine we preach love but Jesus said and I believe it some Matthew I mean yeah it's young 1450 if you love me you'll keep my Commandments as the commandments art doctor and I'll eat one and bring that's just doctor and he said if you love a you lovely lovely hope it loves everybody and everything except the fruit church why don't you listen what we're seeing here if you love me you'll keep my Commandments you'll preach my doctrine you'll teach my doctrine and you will fill the whole town like the Apostles in was your doctrine and you'll keep on evil to put you in jail that you'll still teaching and you will still teach it even if it takes you out to sea you're still standing part because you're not a bunch of weaklings you got the backbone you got some will you're going to stand with the Bible and not repealing if you
love it you'll free taxes are ye I was betting one day in a county and I miss my first charismatic preacher now I'm not talking about all Ted some of them is walking closer to the truth than you illa I'm coming into it but I was tricked Marian I heard something he just blew my mind this week it was up there and he said I want to tell you one thing he said we need to stop treating doctor we need to just freak love he said if I saw well been coming in to my church level of them was Devils and one was a saint that I fellowship all of them to get the one source I was the next thing it's follow me to send when you get you know what I think how'd you go get in you let down the bars you read on the bars and the ghosts of all come in the sheets all zone out that's exactly what they did they called it liner rains in they let the bars down let the ghosts in the sheet fall left so the wound up letting the goat but I guess they had a big love team I saw the hippies running around the love written all the cars back years ago but you know what there's love both hot and more cocaine all elephants is rid of what is lesson well I slipped again here now if and what we were reading Jesus
was laying down here for good film and he he said after they went away and walked with him the mall then here's head under the quail we also go away in other words I'm not backing up Inc if every last one of you walk off lady send me a bomb intense pain I'll tell all of you that one's little students table last one you will call 3:19 I'm gonna pitch this outfit our gospel till he come let's demand that later he gave the cheese who said since Simon Peter answered him Lord to whom shall we go so that's the worst of eternal life where the world is gonna go if you're not going to follow the Bible who are you going if you just want to be a happy-go-lucky somebody rev it up well why don't you just go on and do that and forget about church don't hanker show me now what I want to talk to you from my heart here right now is my guest here zesty Jesus cuz I want you to know this one thing it never has been anyone like him in and never has been and I'm not about to leave him because something crosses the drain I love him he has the words of eternal life he's the only one I've got to meet him I've got to obey Him and I I want to die out to my feelings my desires and my wishes and lived to clean him the thing I love about Jesus when I was an old tenant and what must've salt it went my bread just standing in the gutter he came by and told me that's when he got me out of the man all the people who get him out of a mess and they'll go back to him I ain't going back unlike the particle son he gave the whole pan of hominid way it was goodbye that's exactly the way I feel about it he just picked me up when I was a nobody fill me with the Holy Ghost Jamie is named to where so the devil chase jump on me and have a bend of the road covered me with the blood the watch to stay clean until now am i after he made the sacrifice he made for me went through hell on earth ever devil in hell is time to lose on him Jim died on an old rugged cross and I might be saved and then for me say I'm looking for easy ways there'll be no persecution that's it all whenever you hum directed for me on the old rugged cross and then here I come listen for easy route if you wanna follow Jesus you're gonna cover come please what's it's very foggy what would you add when he told me what an honor to be called one of his we are indebted to him as long as we live one thing I like about Jesus he's always time to bring the best out of it take a just stir us up and get us to pray and to walk with Him always trying to lift you up not push you down always hit coming to me all right then they've got a gorgeous power project if you think and grow rich and all these things but it only goes so far so that's the one I'm Colin whenever this thing closes down here I got
another place to go I want you to know I'm looking out for another world this world is not my home I'm just passing through please God but you could have left this straight in their way or whoever they might be I want you to all you ever going to get here there's nothing waiting on the other side that he Colonel punishing I'm going to a home well this fellow never said he'll be the Sun praise God I love him I'm his death to him hold him more than 1/10 demise I'm always my life please God I don't know about you but when the troubles loom up and the going gets tough is something about walking the hands ridin with him that the storm clouds just doesn't go away and the Sun begins to shine and you begin to feel different that's because you're walking with him now I'm indebted to him because everything I've ever got initialized I don't have to give him credit for ever blessed ever summon all the things he's done he has caused me to really make up my mind to go his loss not money give it his way all right from that time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him hereís what back he walked rewarding one night the demon from hell he named he couldn't take it belongs in the committee said dealers altered has forsaken me having loved the things of this present world he saw he don't back away so many of his disciples had followed it that is what's in he'll escape and raise a dead and open blind eyes and that's the chapter 3 or leaving him now normally it's deputy inside of either one a flower-mobile amen he can't just fall into the loaves and fishes when it's easy we'll follow him but when the going gets tough you can follow this doctrine your Christian Jesus has gone to cause division we can't go there unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood you cannot be my disciple unless you do it to have no eternal life we keep doing that Lord there's a lot of things he's done that I would have suggested he do another way but that was the only way to do it so he did the hard way for me now like this to whom shall we go what are you going to where are you going Dimas Tomales it's in Hell today I want to walk away who are you going you leave is it cursed where you going going out is then back into the world some of us because we're going to feel me what we always leave but after the devil get to hold over a few years it changed Duncan it began to drift I've known some of our pieces were once great then left the truth to get the cloud they let down the standard you get the cloud and they said we always going to believe that 2:30 but now I'm here they're baptized in either way or not at all doesn't matter
you see there's something about it the devil said feel these marvelous food and make a man think he's all right because there's a few sick people getting healed new people getting saved he's done all through the to foundation we are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and the public Jesus Christ Himself being the chief Cornerstone now this is an old story but I want to read it here today in Matthew 25 this year holds the much for the parish there's so many prophecies being fulfilled this year this is a year of the Jewish celebration of their Fortas year in the land of Israel this is a year that the Lord could seem to come back because of all the problems with fulfilling this year's kind the time another sunshine in his hood and it was probably trying like this just hours before God stuff to go along in the club scene it could have been shining like this your son coming up listen here hold and all the people in problems in tomorrow was talking well Oh lock he let his religion finally get the best of him and he's gone in his wife and two daughters hell of a wooden gold and everything was good but suddenly there was an explosion oh and brimstone listen some of those old bright rock lying up and down the dead he looked like they had been burned they have four years of years this will burn one morning it was all pretty and everything fine but he sees the Sun was going to go to shine until rock dust far enough away it's all hey bruh had prayed for rocks was in the back ribs condition abraham played ball jobs was listen abraham prayer finally that went over the last Hill and this is luck had too much in the morning she looks back turned to a pillow song and something that was a great explosion and all the city turned in that one hour the Sun time the next hour million people did he that's the way from the beat Bible hitting the enzyme sudden disgusting the thing will be going on just like it always yes all of us touch and when you look at world editions in the shins you couldn't blame Gaza minions today this world is what and if he don't hurry up the injuries when after the pants the problem in your mom now they've been another bill passed
you probably been reading about it they're going to begin to come into our libel suit anywhere was a gentleman has anything to do with it there's a homosexual you can't get rid of it he's choir directors when you find it out in these places I hope it hadn't got right down to us cursed anything for government grant any money why can't they wake up to judgment is upon those people why don't they wake up and say look you fellers you need to turn the road Jesus Christ and repent you think of it if all those homosexual at one time would have
a revival and repent and turn their face from the wickedness God within a bee and he'll now they will like the judge if this come back with eggs already this child of the zoo see you know what's behind it all at the Antichrist spirit and anything that pleases the devil the Communists in America will turn the million letters overnight all of just to do see that fellow going down our lows back him up at the television all this rose it's already all this knows and of course the lose me you don't know who all it is right now we want to comment the box of home assessment it's a bunch of humanists it's a bunch of 80 it's all organized they're well organized in America now your freedom and mine is soon coming to an English much soon as anything the whom shall we go I'm not going to even I'm going woody I don't want to leave him I want to go with him forever and ever and ever face of God if there ever was a time you need to get down to business and do your own play in in your own Bible study and your own living holy you say well I've read that in the Bible preacher but I don't see it it's just matter what you feel it enough you need to read and play over until you convicted we got a lot of young folks around here that you're just falling these standards because you've seen mom and dad do it it's time you was playing through and getting the hold of God get your home convicted where you can preach it yourself did you preach the fiction if you don't have it how can you witness the people if you'll will have it in here first witness let's tell the world about now I'm told was in here I have a book I was amazed today as I was looking at the many names of the people creatures of universities that breathed in one God to denied the Trinity and many of them were badges Presbyterians Methodists I didn't realize that over the years was from the apostolic time that was so many it was always a life it was always somebody fight against this here is the Presbyterian preacher John Miller this book was written over a hundred years ago his daughter Trinity and he denied it all the way through whose so beautifully along with Philip Hall and others but this is what he had to say here at the end of his book and any rate anybody will admit that it's the Trinity be a mistaken heresy it will give us a new life Huan T will give us a new life - on paint and that's house with among African lakes east was among the Muslim yes and among the unit air into her own land among Jews all over the world the doctrines of one great dog and he incarnated in one man our Tabas would give us a loo power to work and give us all together a note a noble form in which we in cash the enterprise of the doctor so you see where a lot of people says it don't matter I believe that any group matters and if we have air and false doctrine it clogs the wheels the products of the
church and has the whole world state with apostolic doctors never going into trinitarianism this world would be a different world today the church would be one the church would have power the plate charge would be stinking hole Linton but she's divided whatever wins and ever gotten but the Lord in the end times are crying to wake us up get back to the Apostolic doctors just firmly established on the truth and look all together and Bri one job one name one Lord then we gonna steal new freedom even a Pentecostal has had the revelation if we're not careful it could be a thing of the past we can throw a shelf it is just another great doctor this but it needs to be preached it needs to be studied it needs to be played over it needs to be witnessed about Hell the world here is on Haven what a frame the strangers were closing what a friend we have in Jesus he's not playing the game please and they walked with him but many
are still walking with him and love have one of them please stop this will assure the world I was reading one of the great leaders among the charismatic to hear his over one of the great eating management and settle down to the curtain and just to level a to the one dog baptism anything any missionaries blank letters to me he said the lamb life has been taken confetti tells the world back into Oliver turn on the platform together all the way here always one of the pants and we all want we're going to present to the Lord against of 130 years in town that have to wanted me I read in my Bible was to come out this way and stay in but the Bible could come out I've told him over and over here and then and I said if you say India lose your worship you lose Johnson I spoke but they said we feel and go back and say that and win some but some of them 20 years ago was doing it I don't hear them plays in the Lord anymore and then Florida if you just described elation just after worship or the strength of Almighty guarded relief you got the ones within a church where you can feel free to lift your hands and worship God speaking Tom a man or you're prepared to quench the spirit we must worship and tears and just take through that and some of those choices they will cheat you out the door if you started what to binge on and they go back there just obeyed the scripture the Bible said come out come out they say no we believe staying in right outlays County today I am we leavin this apostolic doctrine we leave this church today to the exacta license
for search to leave the church debate should preach the same things were stirred please lieutenant water baptism Holy Ghost ticket song holiness everything the first dose cream we breathe and followed that pattern now if you come to churches you won't find us falling email the pattern but this this is it and if you find one thing in there that the Apostolic Church practiced and taught and believed and we're not teaching and preaching here let me know woody and the next Sunday morning a Sunday night our people anything the first church preached and taught I'll teach it if ever last one of you also where our stand is saying is what a plan we haven't
Scripture references as spoken: John 6:53; John 6:61-66; John 6:67-68; John 14:15.