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Summary prepared by Acts 2:38 Life from the transcript below — the preacher’s words follow in full.
The cut head, the text, and the title
- The cut opens mid-sentence, with the seed of the message already in the preacher's heart from standing in the same place the year before, undeveloped until he was asked to come back and felt he would preach it many months ago.
- "Bible says in Luke 23 and 32, 'And there were also two other male factors led with him to be put to death. And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, there crucified him.' And the male factors, one on the right hand and the other on the left, then said Jesus, 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.'"
- The people stood beholding, the rulers derided him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself if he be Christ the chosen of God," the soldiers mocked him and offered him vinegar, saying, "If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself," and the superscription over him read, "This is the king of the Jews."
- One of the malefactors railed on him, saying, "If thou be Christ, save thyself and us." But the other rebuked him, saying, "Does not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? For we receive the due reward of our deeds. But this man hath done nothing amiss." And he said unto Jesus, "Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom." And Jesus said unto him, "Verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with me in paradise."
- "I'm going to preach to you about the ninth train tonight. The ninth train. And something is getting ready to step into this house that is going to drive us when we leave here."
- "God wants a lot more out of Taylor Fish here tonight. I can feel that press of heaven here tonight." He prays for the opportunity, that God would remove the words he should not say and bring things to his mind he does not even know, and leads the congregation to pray, "God, I give you permission to use me again. God, I give you permission to ring me out one more time. God, I will still go anywhere. I will still do anything."
Scriptures: Luke 23:32
Nicholas Winton and the ninth train
- He has been moved, he says, by the story of Nicholas Winton, also known as Nikki Winton, told in the book One Life written by Winton's daughter Barbara Winton. Winton joined and then led an operation that saved the lives of many mostly Jewish children by transporting them out of harm's way from Czechoslovakia to Britain as Hitler's advancing army took territory.
- A letter dated December 22, 1938, signed by three volunteers struggling to rescue children in Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia before World War II, stated that over 600 Czech children were in urgent danger. This initiative was known as the Kinder Transport. Winton had been planning a Christmas ski trip to Switzerland in 1938 when a close friend called to say he would not join him; both men's plans changed, and they met on New Year's Eve in Prague, where they were introduced to the leader of the British committee for refugees from Czechoslovakia.
- Parents pursued Winton in his hotel from early morning until late at night, begging, "Will you take my baby to Britain?" He took names, photos, and details, arranged transport, and arranged foster families to care for the children until they were 18 years old. The first transport was of 20 children by plane; after the Germans occupied the nation, all further transports were by train, leaving from the Wilson train station in Prague with German soldiers on the platform.
- Winton evacuated eight trains full of children between March and August of 1939, and was responsible for saving the lives of 669 children. It is estimated that 6,000 people are alive today as a result of his operation, counting the children he saved and their descendants.
- For years Winton never spoke of what he did, not even to his own family, until his family found an old scrapbook in the attic with the pictures and records of the 669 children. The scrapbook's last pages summarize the operation, listing the numbers of children from each of the eight trains with cost, ages, gender, and religion. He later earned a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth after nearly five decades of silence.
- "Nikki Winton didn't save the lives of children so that he could be known," but because he could not unsee what he had seen, unhear what he had heard, or unknow what he knew. One survivor said it was 40 years after arriving in England that they discovered who had organized the trains.
- But Winton had another train loaded and ready to go, with over 250 children inside. It was the ninth train. Just before it could leave, World War II was declared and the children were not allowed to leave; it is believed nearly all the children due to leave that day ended up in concentration camps.
- This is the sentence that planted the message in his spirit: Winton spent years plagued by regret over the ninth train that never made it — tossing and turning in the middle of the night, walking the floors, waking with nightmares and cold sweats, still seeing their faces, hearing their voices, remembering the names he wrote down, their laughs and smiles. "Even after all that time, even after all that money, and even after all that effort that he had given himself, oh, there was something that said in him that eight trains were not enough. Oh, what a victory it was to him. Oh, 669 children saved. That sounds great. But this man was so consumed with the thought of those that were in trouble. This man was so consumed with a burden for one more train."
One more train for us
- "I've come to preach that when he had a ninth train on his heart, he had done a lot and he had given much, but there was something deep down on the inside that says there's still something else that I'm supposed to do. He knew what he had accomplished, but all of that didn't matter much to him. He couldn't shake the burden for just one more train. One more soul, one more."
- "One more soul, one more, one more saved, Arkansas camp meeting." How easy it would be to get caught up in all that has been done — all the souls won, Bible studies taught, buildings built, battles won, ministries sent out, time, money, and effort given. Many in the room feel they have given all they could give and do not know how they could give any more — "but I've come to preach here today. God has a way of getting a little bit more out of you and I."
- "God has come to drop a ninth train into your spirit." He calls for a sound bite to be played, and preaches running the devil out of his city and walking into a revival — not alone, but with something in the spirit that drives.
- "There's one more soul to reach. There's one more Bible study to teach. There's one more Saturday of street evangelism to lead. There's one more all night prayer meeting. There's one more block party to do in an apartment complex. There's one more ministry couple to develop and send out for the work of God."
- To the preacher who is tired and thinks it is time for a transition or for cruise control, he answers: that is not what God needs the 11th-hour worker to do. The 11th-hour worker jumps in the harvest, gives it all he has, reaps the greatest harvest, and receives the same that they had received at the beginning.
- "Look at your neighbor. Say, 'God wants more out of you.'" Someone who barely made it into camp meeting, dragging in, is going to run out, because "the greatest preacher that's ever came out of your church, pastor, he ain't even prayed through to the Holy Ghost yet. There's another train."
The miracles of Luke
- "I'm going to take you through the book of Luke," beginning with the Gospel of Jesus, specifically the book of Luke. "We see Jesus in Luke 4:33, he comes in contact with a man who has an unclean devil," a loud demonic voice crying out of him. "And in verse number 34, it calls Jesus the holy one of God. Hell knew exactly who Jesus was. He is the holy one, not the holy second. He's the holy one. In verse 35, Jesus cast the devil out of that man and he's completely delivered."
- "Skip three verses down and Jesus enters Simon's house," where Simon's mother-in-law is sick with a great fever no home remedy can bring down. "In verse 39, Jesus stands over her. He rebukes the fever and she jumps up onto the bed and begins to minister to everybody in that house." When God touches you, he says, it is so you can minister to somebody else. "It's in verse 40 that the sun starts to set," and many come to the door, and everyone Jesus touches there is healed of sickness, disease, or demonic possession.
- "In Luke 5, Jesus tells frustrated fishermen with dirty, broken nets to launch out into the deep and fish again" after a night of toiling and catching nothing. Simon Peter obeys against everything in him, the multitude of fishes breaks the net, and those men forsake their nets and follow him. "In verse 12, Jesus is met by a leper" who falls at his feet saying, "If thou wilt, make me clean." "And in verse 13, Jesus touches him and says, 'I will, be thou clean,'" and the man is instantly cured of leprosy. "I love Luke 5:15. It says, 'But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him, and great multitudes came together to hear and to be healed by him of their infirmities.'"
- "In verse 24, Jesus says to a man sick of the palsy, laying on his sick bed that they had just been brought in through the roof, 'Arise, and take up thy couch and go in thine house.' Immediately he rose and carried out his bed." "In verse 27, he finds a lost tax collector named Levi sitting in a tax booth and he tells him, 'Follow me.' Levi would follow him from that day forward."
- "In Luke 6 and 10, Jesus heals a man in the synagogue with a withered hand." "Then in verse 17, Jesus comes off the mountain from praying and he is met by a great multitude of people. Verse 19 tells us, 'And the whole multitude sought to touch him, for there went virtue out of him and healed them all. Every single one of them in one moment was healed.'"
- "In Luke 7, a centurion has a servant that is very near and dear to him." The centurion sends friends saying, "You don't have to come all this way. Just say the word and my servant will be healed," and when they get back to the house, the servant was made whole. "In Luke 7:12, Jesus sees a funeral procession and he realized it is the death of the son of a weeping widow. Anybody know that Jesus sees tears? He saw the tears of the weeping widow. And it said in verse 13, 'And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said unto her, Weep not.' And in verse 14, he tells the boy to arise, and he wakes up and begins to carry a conversation on the very thing that was carrying him to the funeral home."
- "In verse 37, a sinner girl comes into the house where Jesus is with an alabaster box. She washes his feet with her tears, her hair, and anoints him with oil. And by verse 48, he tells this girl, 'Thy sins are forgiven.' He said again to the woman in verse 50, 'Thy faith hath saved thee. Go in peace.'"
- "And in Luke 8, we see that Jesus and the 12 go throughout every city and village preaching and showing the glad tidings of the kingdom. He would then come across the sea and deliver a man who had over 6,000 devils speaking in his mind at once. That same man would turn 10 cities upside down with his testimony. In the same chapter, he heals a hemorrhaging woman that no doctor could fix and raises a ruler's daughter from the dead."
- "In Luke 9, he feeds what many believe to be over 20,000 people with just a sack lunch of loaves and fishes. And in Luke 10, he sends out 70 two by two and people are healed and delivered everywhere that they go. In Luke 11:14, he cast out a devil from a man that could not speak, and the man begins to speak. In Luke 13, he healed a woman whose back had been bent over for over 18 years by casting a spirit of infirmity out of her. In Luke 15, he heals a man with dropsy. In Luke 17, he cleanses 10 lepers. They go their way and one returns later falling at his feet to give him thanks. Jesus looks and says to that man, 'Were there not 10 of you? Where are the other nine?' And he tells the one in verse 19, 'Arise, go thy way. Thy faith had made thee whole.'"
- "In Luke 18, Jesus is passing through Jericho and he passes by a blind beggar. And in verse 38, the beggar begins to cry out, 'Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.' They try to shut this man up, but he grabs the attention of Jesus. And Jesus calls this man to him in verse 40. And by verse 43, the blind beggar is no longer blind, because Jesus has given him his sight."
- "In Luke 19, he finds a man named Zacchaeus and tells him this day is salvation come to this house. In Luke 22, Judas brings soldiers into the garden of Gethsemane. There they find Jesus and just before they take Jesus into custody, Simon Peter takes out his sword, swings it at the head of a soldier named Malchus, and cuts his ear off. But Jesus in a miracle of mercy destroys the proof of the entire incident, as the scripture says in verse 51. And he touched his ear and healed him."
- "And I just preached the miracles of the book of Luke. What a life of wonder and power."
Scriptures: Luke 4:33; Luke 4:34; Luke 4:35; Luke 4:39; Luke 4:40; Luke 5; Luke 5:12; Luke 5:13; Luke 5:15; Luke 5:24; Luke 5:27; Luke 6:10; Luke 6:17; Luke 6:19; Luke 7; Luke 7:12; Luke 7:13; Luke 7:14; Luke 7:37; Luke 7:48; Luke 7:50; Luke 8; Luke 9; Luke 10; Luke 11:14; Luke 13; Luke 15; Luke 17; Luke 17:19; Luke 18; Luke 18:38; Luke 18:40; Luke 18:43; Luke 19; Luke 22; Luke 22:51
John 21:25, and the passion
- "But we cannot forget what John said, because John said in John 21 and 25, and there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen means so be it. He had done so much for so many and John stated that much of what he did was never even recorded."
- "And so it is then after the healing of Malchus's ear in the garden that Jesus is then taken. He is thrown into prison. They put a crown of thorns on his head. They whip him with a cat of nine tails. Glass, tearing at his skin. He is bruised. He is beaten beyond human recognition. Isaiah wrote that his visage was so marred more than any man. No man had ever taken more punishment than him. No man had ever given more of himself willingly either."
- "And here we pick up with our opening text," where the scripture tells us in Luke 23 and 32 that two other malefactors are led with him to be put to death.
Scriptures: John 21:25
The cross, and the voice of self-preservation
- On the cross, the voices come again: the people stood beholding, the rulers derided him, the soldiers mocked him and offered vinegar. "Verse 37. And saying, 'If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.' Verse 39. And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, 'If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.'"
- "We see three different groups of people tell Jesus the same thing at the very end of his life. In verse 35, the rulers tell him, 'Save yourself.' Oh, in verse number 37, the soldiers tell him, 'Save yourself.' And then we see the one of the men hanging on the cross beside him, 'Save yourself.'"
- "This voice, it fell upon bloody ears. It did not fall upon ears of someone that had done nothing. It had fell on the ears of someone that had done everything and gave everything." "It's the voice of self-preservation. It's the voice of self-preservation that says, 'Save yourself. You've given enough. Save yourself. You're already bleeding. Save yourself. You're already bruised. Save yourself. Don't you think you've spent enough? Don't you think you've given enough? It's time to play it safe.'"
- He preaches to evangelists and pastors who have given themselves again and again, who walk into camp meeting bruised, with cuts in their backs, bloody and limping, unable to carry their own cross — and to the voice that comes when the blood is wiped out of the ear: "Save yourself now." To the pastor who baptized someone last Sunday and had a good revival, who wants to kick it into cruise and chill for a little bit, he answers: "He was not born to save himself. He did not come to save himself. He came to save somebody else. God became a man to die for all men."
- "And if hell will try to convince the God that became a man to give a little bit less, don't tell me that hell hasn't been in your mind trying to tell you to give a little bit less." He made up his mind when he came off the evangelist field and told his church, "We didn't settle down to settle down. We're going to give more than we've ever gave. We're going to pray more than we've ever prayed. We're going to reach."
- The voice is more than selfishness, he says — it is a self-preserving spirit, telling a pastor he can kick back in the office while somebody is going to hell on the streets. "God called you to that city for the city. He called you to that city because there's an addict there. There's going to be a preacher one day, but not until you find him."
- Then the other thief: "Luke 23 and 40. But the other answering, rebuked him, saying, 'Does not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?' Watch this. Verse 41. And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds. But this man had done nothing amiss. Verse 42. And he said unto Jesus, 'Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.'"
- "Something in him said, I know my hands are bound, but I'm going to reach as much as I can reach for this. All of a sudden, Jesus had a ninth train. All of a sudden, Jesus said, 'It's not just what I live for, but this is what I die for.' I've come to preach to somebody right now. He's got a ninth train for you. I know you've been bloodied. I know you've been beaten. But I want to preach about the ones who reached when he had no hands to reach."
- "Hell wanted that thief in hell. But if hell didn't want him saved, he should have took his voice box." The thief was a rascal who broke and caused all kinds of ruckus — but put next to a dying savior, his heart started talking: "I know I've been a mess, but I'd like to be on your side." He knew he was God, and mercy reached.
- "I'm preaching to somebody right now. God has a call to more. Hey preachers, I know you've got a lot of revival behind you, but I'm not preaching about what's behind you. I'm preaching about what's ahead of us. Come on, evangelist. Come on, evangelist. I know you're tired, but God says one more. Come on, pastor. I know you're winded, but God says one more."
Scriptures: Luke 23:35; Luke 23:37; Luke 23:39; Luke 23:40; Luke 23:41; Luke 23:42
One more: Mike Allen, and Pam
- He took a winning recipe from North Little Rock, he says: "Prayer and evangelism will do what social media cannot do. Prayer and a vision evangelism will do what paid ads cannot do."
- He got a call from a Baptist minister who had been in and out of nursing homes. A man who worked with hospice care told him of a man named Mike Allen, in his 70s, who had spent over a decade in prison and had stage-four cancer throughout his body. The Baptist minister had tried to pray with him, and Mike answered that years ago he had been in a Pentecostal church, and if the minister wanted him to pray, he would have to bring him a Pentecostal preacher.
- Fish went to the nursing home, sat with Mike, and heard his story: "I'm a dirty rotten sinner. I don't have no family. My family hates me. I turned them all against me. I've lived a horrible life." He talked with him about receiving the Holy Ghost. He watched Mike, stage-four cancer, sitting on his bed with hands lifted; he laid hands on him, and God filled him with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. They took him to their church and baptized him in the name of Jesus Christ.
- Mike did not attend long: he would worship as long as he could, then double over holding his stomach, sweating in pain, and walk out when he had enough. Fish assigned a man from his church to Mike, visited on Sundays when no buses were running, and prayed with him as he lay sedated in pain, crying, "Pastor, pastor, pastor, pray for me."
- Mike died within a few weeks, not the three months doctors had given. Fish searched for any family — calling every contact, even searching online — wanting to preach Mike's funeral and minister to his family, but Mike had no family; it was gone. Thinking of the sermon about heaven preached the night before, he told his wife: "My God, all I could think about was, brother Mike, that old rascal beat me there. I'm going to walk through them gates of pearl. I'm going to walk past walls of jasper. And there he is."
- "You ain't lived till you live for somebody else." Then his office phone rang: a lady on the line said, "Hello, my name is Pam. She's 83 years old. I've been in your city for the last two years. I've got roots in Pentecost. I don't have a pastor. I wonder if somebody could just come and share a Bible verse with me, just pray with me."
- He and two others went to her small apartment, saw a guitar in the corner, and asked if she played. She played and he sang, "I fly away, oh glory, I'll fly away when I die. Hallelujah. By and by, I'll fly away." He took the guitar and sang, "There is power in the name of Jesus," and she began trembling, hands lifted, saying, "Oh, I ain't felt this in a long time." She told him of a Bible study in her building where she sat through teaching that was not Jesus' name teaching, and asked how many were in that Bible study — "One phone call."
- The director of her apartments called: the lady who had taught that study for 20 years had retired, and they wanted Fish's church to teach it. "Last week, I'm sitting there with my exploring God's word chart teaching the tabernacle. Hey, I'm telling you, I don't know what part of your city that God's about to open up, but you need to understand it ain't over. You ain't had your greatest revival yet. God saying one more. One more train. One more."
Block parties, walking tacos, and buses
- "Be seated." He calls several fellow preachers up to the platform and shows the congregation how his church does block parties in apartment complexes: every month this year, a different complex, trailer park, or community, with permission, flyers on every door, and activities, because residents like things going on and it makes them think the rent is worth it.
- A young man from his church, a great Bible quizzer, was asked to learn to make balloon animals for the outreaches. On stage, Fish demonstrates a walking taco — Doritos, meat, cheese, tomatoes or no tomatoes, lettuce, sour cream — served to the preachers on the platform, "stick a fork in it," while the congregation laughs.
- "It takes so little to be above average." On one Saturday they fed everybody, made snow cones, and a kid on his fifth snow cone was told, "Number five, you're coming to church." They gave away a little scooter for registering, and asked people, "Would you like to be on the bus?" — and people signed up.
- At first they had only two buses running; a man from the church who drove a bus reported a problem, Fish said God had given him a dream and they were buying another bus, $38,000 came in, and they drove to South Houston and bought another bus.
- "Oh, you ought to just go and try something. What is it? It's an idea. It's a train. It's a ninth train that God's putting in your spirit." A lady came to his church, opened her car door, and children started coming out — "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7" — and he preaches that God will give an anointing that is a new idea to try.
The last stories, and the close
- "Last story I'll tell." A couple in his church, in Bible study with a husband and wife, held one block party in a trailer park and another in the apartment complex across the street from the church. They run a big Friday night youth service, a Saturday morning all-church outreach, a Saturday night dinner on the grounds feeding people, and link Saturday morning to Sunday morning: 35 first-timers showed up to eat on Saturday night, and 20 of them showed up on Sunday morning. People get the Holy Ghost, are baptized, and are put into afternoon new-convert classes.
- A truck driver who lived across the street, from Assembly of God roots but never having received the Holy Ghost, pulled into his apartment complex after a long drive and saw the Sunday school team doing sidewalk Sunday school, giving walking tacos and snow cones. Fish talked with him; weeks later the driver texted that he had been watching church on Sundays while driving his route, that something had gotten a hold of him, and cigarettes started going out the window.
- In revival, with a powerful evangelist preaching on a Sunday morning, Fish looked up and saw the driver with his hands lifted; a fellow minister prayed with him, Fish laid hands on him, and he began to speak in a heavenly language. "Don't you tell me this does not work."
- "I'm telling you, God wants to put something on you tonight. There's one more in my city. There's one more to be saved. Lift your hands across the room. We're getting ready to pray. And a burden's about to drop in this place. Jesus, I've delivered what you've given me to deliver. I pray right now in the name of Jesus that an unstoppable force would drop on the inside of every saint of God, of every minister."
- "It's harvest time, evangelist. The one that's come limping in tonight. I want you to lift up your hands right now. Tonight we are going to defeat that voice of self-preservation. And tonight as the army of the Lord, we are going to march forward towards a lost and dying world. Come on. Every hand lifted, every voice lifted unto the Lord. Why don't you lay hands on each other until something gets a hold of you here today? It's our finest hour. It's our greatest hour."
- He calls the congregation to yield, to find someone who does not know, and to pray: "One more revival. One more church plant. One more ministry family. One more altar call. One more soul. One more train. Let's pray." They pray for their city, its streets, and its people — the broken, the hurting, the weak — for God's kingdom to come there.
- With every eye closed and every head lifted, he asks when they last cried out and wept for their city, and cries out for his city and for Houston, believing God will do something: "Are you bothered with a burden? Are you bothered that somebody's lost? Let God put a ninth train in your spirit. What's behind you is great, but what God wants to do in the future is even greater."
- He says he will close with a message a woman in the congregation left him, then leads the congregation to pray again — not a regular prayer — to close their eyes, get anointed, and talk in tongues until something shakes and the gates of hell begin to shake. He prophesies that what has been holding them back in their city is shaking and breaking right now, and exhorts them to shout, pray with all they have, and step into their victory: "I'm reaching for more. More in revival, more miracles, more conversions" — and there the sermon span ends, before the sung worship tail (see packet.md).
Scripture index (as spoken)
Scripture index: Luke 23:32; Luke 4:33; Luke 4:34; Luke 4:35; Luke 4:39; Luke 4:40; Luke 5; Luke 5:12; Luke 5:13; Luke 5:15; Luke 5:24; Luke 5:27; Luke 6:10; Luke 6:17; Luke 6:19; Luke 7; Luke 7:12; Luke 7:13; Luke 7:14; Luke 7:37; Luke 7:48; Luke 7:50; Luke 8; Luke 9; Luke 10; Luke 11:14; Luke 13; Luke 15; Luke 17; Luke 17:19; Luke 18; Luke 18:38; Luke 18:40; Luke 18:43; Luke 19; Luke 22; Luke 22:51; John 21:25; Luke 23:35; Luke 23:37; Luke 23:39; Luke 23:40; Luke 23:41; Luke 23:42.
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that truly the seed of this message was in my heart as I stood here last year. It had not been developed but when asked to come back I felt that I would preach Bible says in Luke 23 and32, "And there were also two other male factors led with him to be put to death. And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, there crucified him." And the male factors, one on the right hand and the other on the left, THEN SAID JESUS, "FATHER, FORGIVE THEM, for they know not what they do." And they parted his raignment and cast lots. And the people and the people stood beholding, and the rulers also with them DERIDED HIM, SAYING, "HE SAVED OTHERS. Let him save himself if he be Christ the chosen of God. And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar and saying, "If thou be the king of Jew of the Jews, save thyself." Superscription also was written over him in the letters of Greek and Latin and Hebrew. This is the king of the Jews. One of the male factors which were hanged railed on him, saying, "IF THOU BE CHRIST, SAVE THYSELF and us." But the the other answering rebuked him, SAYING, "DUST NOT THOU FEAR GOD?" DUST NOT THOU fear God, seeing, thou art in the same condemnation? for we receive the due reward of our deeds. But this man hath done nothing a miss. And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, verily I say unto thee today, shalt thou be with me in paradise. I'm going to preach to you about the ninth train tonight. The ninth train. And something is getting ready to step into this house that is going to drive us when we leave here. I just want to say I I I'm there's so much that God has done here. But if you think that we have been in all of this and God does not want more out of you, you are sadly mistaken, my friend. God wants a lot more out of Taylor Fish here tonight. I can feel that press of heaven here tonight. And I want us to pray as we go into the word of the Lord. God, I thank you, Lord, for this opportunity tonight. Help me, God, to help somebody. Oh God, I pray, Lord, that you would remove the WORDS I SHOULDN'T SAY. GOD, bring things to my mind, God, that I don't even know. In the name of Jesus, somebody lift your We've been praying our guts out during this meeting and we will continue to do so. But I want us to lift our hands one more time and we're going to pray this prayer. I want you to pray, "God, I give you permission to use me again." Come on, let's pray that right now. God, I give you permission to ring me out one more time Come on. Do you mean it? LIFT THAT UP. GOD, I WILL STILL GO ANYWHERE. I will still do anything.
I have been so incredibly moved by the story of a man by the name of Nicholas Winton, also known as Nikki Winton. I am a very slow reader. Admittedly, I listen to more books than I read, but I have been listening for some time to a book titled One Life that was written by Nikki Winton's daughter. Her name is Barbara Winton. This book tells the story of how Nikki went and joined and then led an operation that saved the lives of many mostly Jewish children by transporting them out of harm's way from Czechoslovakia to Britain as Hitler's advancing army continued to take territory. ator. A letter was dated December the 22nd, 1938. It was signed by three volunteers struggling to rescue children in Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia before World War II. This initiative was known as the Kinder Transport. The letter stated that over 600 Czech children were in urgent danger. Nikki Winton, he had been planning a Christmas ski trip to Switzerland in 1938 when he received the call from a close friend, stating that he would not be joining him as planned. Both of these men would have a change of plans as they would meet on New Year's Eve in Prague and they were introduced to the leader of the British committee for refugees for for refugees from Czechoslovakia. German agents were already in Prague at this time and Hitler's intentions of war were very clear. In Nikki's writings, it shows intense emotion as he witnessed the terrible dilemma the parents faced for survival. He wrote, "IF THEY COULD NOT BE HELPED, THEN PERHAPS THEIR CHILDREN COULD BY BEING SENT AWAY TO SAFETY in a foreign land." Nikki realized that there were many child refugees alongside the children of those that had already been smuggled away, who did not have anyone concentrating on their future. Maybe they would get out of harm's way, but what happens when they GET THERE? WHEN ASKED if he could take on the task, he did so immediately. Mickey quickly decided to throw himself into the task of attempting to get endangered children out of harm's way and into Britain. There is no evidence in his letters of any hesitation or worry that he was not up to the task. Once it became known amongst endangered groups that Nikki was con was concentrating on rescuing children, he was pursued in his hotel from early in the morning until late at night by parents coming. They would beg, please, will you take my baby to Britain? Some had relatives already in the UK and they would sponsor them, but others had no such assistance at all. He spent much TIME DEALING WITH SUCH REQUESTS, taking names, photos, and details to add to his growing list. He would arrange both the transport and then upon their arrival he had arranged for foster families to care for the children until they were 18 years old. It seems from the notes of others that the first transport was of 20 children by plane. But after after the Germans occupied the nation, all further transports were by train. They left from the Wilson train station in Prague with German soldiers in
attendance on the platform. Nikki Winton was able to evacuate eight trains full of children between March and August of 1939. He was responsible for saving the lives of 669 children. AND IT IS ESTIMATED THAT 6,000 people are alive today as a result of his operation between the children he Years went by and Nikki Winton never spoke of what he did. Not even to his own family. Not even to his own life. It wasn't until his family found an old scrapbook in the attic containing the pictures and the records of the 669 children that he saved until this actually became a national story. On the last pages of the scrapbook that was found are reports summarizing his entire operation. These reports list the numbers of children brought out of each of the eight trains along with the cost, the ages, the gender, and the religion of each child saved. this man was a hero in the shadows, but later earned a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth after being silent about his effort for nearly five decades. You see, Nikki Winton didn't save the lives of children so but he did so because he could not unsee what he had seen. HE COULD NOT UNHEAR WHAT he had heard and he could not unknow what he knew. Lives were in danger, so he acted. One survivor SAID, "IT WAS 40 years after we'd been in England that we discovered who had actually organized those trains. HE HAD DONE SO MUCH. HE HAD SAVED SO MANY." BUT YOU SEE, Nikki went and had another train loaded and ready to go with over 250 children inside. It was the ninth train. JUST BEFORE THIS NINTH train could leave, World War II was declared and the children were not allowed to leave. It is believed that nearly all the children due to leave that day ended up in concentration camps. And while studying THIS SUBJECT, WHILE STUDYING THE STORY, this is the single sentence that stirred me to the stirred me and planted THIS MESSAGE IN MY spirit when I read Nikki went and spent years plagued by regret over the ninth train that never made it to In the middle of the night, he would toss and turn. In the middle of the night, he'd find himself walking the floors. In the middle of the night, he would woke he would wake up with nightmares. and he would he would wake up in cold sweats. his heart was troubled. He shed many tears regarding this. He could still see their faces. he could still hear their voices. he still remembered the names that he wrote down. he could remember their laugh and their smiles. and even after all that time, even after all that money, and even after all that effort that he had given himself, oh, there was something that said in him that eight trains were not enough. Oh, what a victory it was to ush. Oh, what a victory it was to him. Oh, 669 children saved. That sounds great. But this man was so CONSUMED WITH THE THOUGHT OF THOSE THAT WERE IN TROUBLE. THIS MAN WAS SO CONSUMED WITH A BURDEN FOR ONE MORE TRAIN. I'VE COME TO PREACH THAT MICKEY WHEN HE HAD A NINTH TRAIN ON HIS HEART. HE HAD DONE A LOT AND HE HAD GIVEN MUCH BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING DEEP DOWN ON THE
INSIDE THAT SAYS THERE'S STILL SOMETHING ELSE THAT I'M SUPPOSED TO DO. HE KNEW WHAT HE HAD ACCOMPLISHED BUT ALL OF THAT DIDN'T MATTER MUCH TO HIM. HE COULDN'T SHAKE THE BURDEN FOR JUST ONE MORE TRAIN. ONE MORE SOUL, ONE MORE, ONE MORE SAVED ARKANSAS CAMP MEETING. DO YOU FEEL WHAT I FEEL RIGHT NOW? OH, HOW EASY IT WOULD BE TO GET CAUGHT UP IN ALL THAT WE HAVE DONE. OH, HOW EASY IT WOULD BE TO GET CAUGHT UP IN ALL OF OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS. ALL THE SOULS THAT I WON AND ALL THE BIBLE STUDIES THAT I TAUGHT AND ALL ALL THE BUILDINGS THAT WE BUILT AND ALL THE BATTLES THAT WE WON AND ALL THE MINISTRIES THAT WE'VE SENT OUT AND ALL THE TIME AND MONEY AND EFFORT THAT WE'VE I KNOW THAT I'M NOT PREACHING TO A BUNCH I'VE NOT COME TO PREACH TO A BUNCH OF PEOPLE THAT are afraid to pay the price. OH, BUT AS A MATTER OF FACT, MANY OF YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'VE GIVEN ALL YOU COULD GIVE. YOU DON'T KNOW HOW YOU COULD GIVE ANYMORE. BUT I'VE COME TO PREACH HERE TODAY. GOD HAS A WAY OF GETTING A LITTLE BIT MORE OUT OF YOU AND I. GOD HAS A WAY OF OH, I GOT TO STRETCH HIM. WHAT IS IT? HE CAN PUT A KNOT TRAIN IN YOUR SPIRIT. HE COULD PUT A KNOT TRAIN IN YOUR SPIRIT THAT SAYS, "HEY BOY, I'M THANKFUL FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE DONE. BUT DON'T YOU KNOW THERE'S A TRAIN THAT'S NEVER LEFT? LIFT YOUR HANDS AND BEGIN TO PRAY RIGHT GOD HAS COME TO DROP A NINTH TRADE INTO Brother Kurt, if you're up there, play that sound bite real quick. Listen, God's come to put something in your spirit Play it again. You can't stop. There's something in me that God's about to put in me. I'm about to RUN THE DEVIL UP OUT OF MY CITY. I'M ABOUT TO RUN THE DEVIL UP OUT Come on. You're about to WALK INTO A REVIVAL. AND IT'S NOT GOING TO BE YOU ALONE. BUT THERE'S SOMETHING that's Come on. I've seen videos of 18 WHEELERS That big old 18-wheeler. And guess what? Hey, I want to tell you, oh, I come to preach the quit out of you here today. I come to preach the quit out of you today. Come on, somebody. You've been on the fringe. You've been on the edge. But I've come to tell you, there's a not train that God WANTS TO PUT INTO YOUR SPIRIT. THERE'S A NOT TRAIN THAT GOD WANTS YOU TO GET A HOLD OF. WHAT IS THAT? YOU'RE ALWAYS REACHING FOR SOMETHING MORE. YOU'RE ALWAYS AFTER ANOTHER SOUL. YOU'RE ALWAYS AT OH, I'M PREACHING TO SOMEBODY. HERE'S THE WORD THAT GOD'S GIVEN ME FOR THIS MEETING. THERE'S ONE MORE SOUL TO REACH. THERE'S ONE MORE BIBLE STUDY TO TEACH. THERE'S ONE MORE SATURDAY OF STREET EVANGELISM TO LEAD. THERE'S ONE MORE ALL NIGHT PRAYER MEETING. THERE'S ONE MORE BLOCK PARTY TO DO IN AN APARTMENT COMPLEX. THERE'S ONE MORE MINISTRY COUPLE TO DEVELOP AND SEND OUT FOR THE
PREACHER, I'M TIRED. I THINK IT'S ABOUT TIME FOR A TRANSITION. YOU'RE RIGHT. PREACHER, I'M TIRED. I THINK I MAY may need to put it in cruise control. Hey, LET ME TELL YOU, THAT'S NOT WHAT GOD IS NEEDING THE 11TH HOUR WORKER TO DO. BUT THE 11TH HOUR WORKER, HE JUMPS IN THE HARVEST AND HE GIVES IT ALL HE'S GOT AND HE REAPS THE GREATEST HARVEST AND HE RECEIVES THE SAME THAT THEY HAD RECEIVED Look at your neighbor. Say, "God wants more out of you." Come on. Look at the other one in the face and say, "God wants more out of Oh, hell don't like this right now. But somebody, you just felt purpose locked back in. Come on. YOU BARELY MADE IT IN AT camp meeting. Hey, let me tell you. Come on. YOU CAME DRAGGING IN, BUT YOU'RE GOING TO RUN OUT. Come on. YOU COME DRAGGING IN, BUT YOU'RE GOING TO RUN OUT. BECAUSE THERE'S SOMEBODY THAT WE GOING TO FIND. COME ON. THE GREATEST PREACHER THAT'S EVER CAME OUT OF YOUR CHURCH, PASTOR. HE AIN'T EVEN PRAYED THROUGH TO THE HOLY GHOST YET. THERE'S ANOTHER TRAIN. THERE'S ANOTHER TRAP. SOMEBODY BOW UP ON THE DEVIL AND SAY, "I'M NOT GOING TO GET TALKED OUT OF THIS." COME ON. I'M GOING TO TAKE be seated in the in the Gospel of Jesus, specifically the book of Luke, we see Jesus in Luke 4:33, he comes in contact with a man who has a unclean devil. It says that I ain't never seen a clean There's an unclean devil that he comes in contact with. It's a loud demonic voice that is crying out of him. And in verse number 34, it calls Jesus the holy one of God. I like that. Hell knew exactly who Jesus was. He is the holy one, not the holy second. He's the holy one. Hallelujah. In verse 35, Jesus cast the devil out of that man and he's completely delivered. Skip three verses down and Jesus enters Simon's house. There, Simon's Simon's mother-in-law is sick with what the Bible calls great fever. Her fever so high they cannot get it down. They've tried every home remedy that they could and they cannot get us get her fever down. Oh, but in verse 39, Jesus stands over her. He rebukes the fever and she jumps up onto the bed and begins to minister to everybody in that house. Anybody know when God touches you, it's so that you can minister to somebody It's in verse 40 that the sun starts to set. Many come to the door of that house. And everyone that Jesus touches there is healed of sickness, disease, or demonic possession. In Luke 5, Jesus tells frustrated fishermen with dirty, broken nets to launch out into the deep and fish again after a night of toiling all night and not catching one fish. Simon Peter against against everything that's in him obeys. and the multitude of fishes was so great that it broke the net. Those men forsake their nets and they follow him the rest of their days. In verse 12, Jesus is met by a leper. This leper falls at the feet of JESUS SAYING, "IF THOU WILT make me clean." And in verse 13, Jesus touches him and
SAYS, "I WILL be thou clean." This man was instantly cured of leprosy. And he charged him to tell no man, but go and show thyself to the priest. I love Luke 5:15. It says, "But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him, and great multitudes came together to hear and to In verse 24, Jesus says to a man sick of the pausy, laying on his sick bed that they had just been brought in through the roof, "Arise, AND TAKE UP THY COUCH AND GO in thine househ. Immediately he rose and carried out his bed." In verse 27, HE FINDS A LOST TAX COLLECTOR named Levi sitting in a tax booth and HE TELLS HIM, "FOLLOW ME." LEVI WOULD FOLLOW him from that day forward. In Luke 6 and10, Jesus heals a man in the synagogue with a withered hand. I'm just preaching Then in verse 17, Jesus comes off the mountain from praying and he is met by a great MULTITUDE OF PEOPLE. VERSE 19 TELLS US, "AND THE WHOLE MULTITUDE SOUGHT TO TOUCH HIM, FOR THERE WENT VIRTUE OUT OF him and healed them all. Every single one of THEM IN ONE MOMENT was healed." In Luke 7, a centurion has a servant that is very near and dear to him. the centurion sent his friends to Jesus saying, "You don't have to come all this way. just say the word and my servant will be healed." WHEN THEY GET BACK TO THE HOUSE, THE servant was made whole. In Luke 7:12, Jesus sees a funeral procession AND HE REALIZED IT IS THE DEATH OF THE SON OF a weeping widow. Anybody know that Jesus sees tears? HE SAW THE TEARS OF THE WEEPING WIDOW. And it said in verse 13, "AND WHEN THE LORD SAW HER, HE HAD COMPASSION ON HER AND SAID UNTO HER, WEEP NOT." AND IN VERSE 14, HE TELLS THE BOY TO ARISE. AND HE WAKES UP AND BEGINS TO CARRY A CONVERSATION ON THE VERY THING THAT WAS carrying him to the IN VERSE 37, A SINNER girl comes INTO THE HOUSE WHERE JESUS IS WITH AN ALABASTER BOX. SHE WASHES his feet with her tears, her hair, and anoints him with oil. And by verse 48, he tells this girl, "Thy sins are forgiven." He said again to the woman in verse 50, "Thy faith hath saved thee. Go in peace." And in Luke 8, we see that Jesus and the 12 go throughout every city and village preaching and showing the glad tidings of the kingdom. He would then come across the sea and deliver a man who had over 6,000 devils speaking in his mind at once. That same man would turn 10 cities upside down with his testimony. In the same chapter, he heals a hemorrhaging woman that no doctor could fix and raises Gyrus's daughter from the dead. In Luke 9, he feeds what many believe to be over 20,000 people with just a sack lunch of loaves and fishes. And in LUKE 10, HE SENDS OUT 70 TWO BY two and people are healed and delivered everywhere that they go. IN LUKE 11:14, HE CAST OUT A DEVIL FROM A MAN THAT COULD NOT SPEAK, AND THE MAN BEGINS TO SPEAK. IN LUKE 13, HE HEALED A WOMAN WHOSE BACK HAD BEEN BENT OVER FOR OVER 18 YEARS BY CASTING A SPIRIT OF INFIRMITY OUT OF HER. In Luke 15, he heals a man with dropsy. In Luke 17, he cleanses 10 LEPERS. THEY GO THEIR WAY AND ONE RETURNS LATER FALLING AT HIS FEET TO GIVE HIM THANKS. Jesus looks and SAYS TO THAT MAN, "WERE THERE NOT 10 OF YOU? WHERE ARE THE OTHER NINE?" AND HE TELLS THE ONE IN VERSE 19, "ARISE, GO In Luke 18, Jesus is passing through Jericho AND HE PASSES BY A BLIND BEGGAR NAMED BAREMUS.
AND IN VERSE 38, BAREMUS BEGINS TO CRY OUT, "JESUS, THOU SON OF DAVID, HAVE MERCY on me." They try to shut this man up, but he grabs the attention of Jesus. And Jesus calls this man to him in verse 40. And by verse 43, blind Barnameus is no longer blind Barnameus. He's just Barardemus because Jesus has given him his sight. In Luke 19, he finds a man named Zakius and tells him this day is salvation come to this house. In Luke 22, Judas brings soldiers into the garden of Gethsemane. There they find Jesus and just before they take Jesus into custody, Simon Peter with all the all of his zeal, he takes out his sword and he swings it at the head of a soldier named Malchus and he cuts his ear off. No doubt Peter should be have been in chains with Jesus that night. But Jesus in a miracle of mercy destroys the proof of the entire incident as the scripture says in verse 51. And I just preached the miracles of the book of Luke. WHAT A LIFE of wonder and power I have preached through the book of Luke and I've told you the miracles of Jesus. But we cannot forget what John said because John said in John 21 and 25 and there are also many other things which Jesus did the which if they should be written everyone I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written amen means so be He had done so much for so many and John stated that much of what he did was never even recorded. And so it is then after the healing of Malcus's ear in the garden that Jesus is then taken. He is thrown into prison. THEY PUT A CROWN OF THORNS ON HIS HEAD. They whip him with a cat of nine tails. Glass, He is bruised. He is beaten beyond human recognition. Isaiah wrote that his visage was so marred more than any man. Hear me. No man had ever taken more punishment than him. No man had ever given more of himself willingly either. And here we pick up with our opening text where the scripture tells us in Luke 23 and 32 that two other male factors are led with him to be put to death. And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, there they crucified him. and the male factors, one on the right hand and the other on the left. Then said G Jesus, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And they parted AS RAYMOND AND CASTELOTS. LOOK WITH ME TODAY AS WE SEE A DYING SAVIOR HANGING ON A CROSS BETWEEN TWO OTHER MEN HANGING on a cross. Here he is, the miracle man. Here he is the wonder the wonder worker. Here he is the one who has healed many and is now in the process of saving many. They stretch him wide and he has fulfilled his purpose and he has shed his blood
for a lost and dying world and watch the voices that come. Are you ready? And the people stood beholding and the rulers also with them dated him saying, And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar. Watch this. Here it is again. Verse 37. And saying, "If thou be the king OF THE JEWS, SAVE THYSELF. Verse 39. And one of the male factors which were hang railed on him, SAYING, IF THOU BE CHRIST, save yourself. Save thyself and us. Do you hear it? Do you hear it tonight? This is what the Lord has sent me to preach on here tonight. We see three different groups of people tell Jesus the same thing at the very end of his life. In verse 35, the rulers tell him, "Brother Andreas, save yourself." Oh, in verse number 37, the soldiers tell him, "Save yourself." And then we see the one of the men hanging on the cross beside him, "Save yourself." hear me. This voice it fell upon bloody ears. it did not fall upon ears of someone that had done nothing. It had fell on the ears of someone that had done everything and gave everything. come on. THIS THIS DID NOT FALL ON THE EARS OF SOMEONE that was lazy. BUT THIS IS SOMEBODY THAT HAD GIVEN HIS BLOOD, HIS BROW, AND HIS BACK. AND I'VE COME TO PREACH IT'S THE VOICE OF SELF-PRESERVATION. IT'S THE VOICE OF SELF-PRESERVATION THAT SAYS, "SAVE YOURSELF. YOU'VE GIVEN ENOUGH. SAVE YOURSELF. YOU'RE ALREADY BLEEDING. SAVE YOURSELF. YOU'RE ALREADY BRUISED. SAVE YOURSELF. DON'T YOU THINK YOU'VE SPENT ENOUGH? DON'T YOU THINK YOU'VE GIVEN ENOUGH? IT'S TIME TO PLAY IT SAFE." COME ON. COME ON. DON'T LOOK AT ALL THE MIRACLES THAT YOU'VE DONE ALL THROUGHOUT YOUR LIFE. COULDN'T THIS BE THE ONE TIME YOU DO SOMETHING FOR YOURSELF? SAVE YOURSELF. YOU'VE DONE ENOUGH. YOU'VE DONE ENOUGH MIRACLES. WHY DON'T YOU JUST TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF NOW? I HAVE COME TO PREACH TO THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH THAT WHEN YOU'VE GIVEN ALL AND WHEN YOU'VE HAD REVIVAL AND WHEN YOU'VE SEEN MIRACLES AND WHEN YOU'VE DRAINED YOUR BANK ACCOUNT AND WHEN YOU SPENT YEARS GETTING TO YOUR PURPOSE AND YOU'RE SEEING RED BECAUSE YOU'RE BLOODY, THAT'S I'VE COME TO PREACH to a to an evangelist. You ain't caught in that trap of compare comparison that hell's trying to put in My God. We got some mighty man of God. Men of God in here. Edwin Cicada. Come on. I know what you put in. Oh, come on. Brother Clark Copelan. Come on. I know what it's like. Mile after mile, airplane after airplane, early morning, late night, preaching our guts. Hey, I want to tell you, oh, I'm not preaching to people tonight that ain't done nothing, but I'm preaching to somebody you gave yourself again and again and again. Brother Dunn, you've given yourself week after week after week after WEEK, NO VACATION. GIVE YOURSELF AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN. AND YOU WALK IN THE CAMP MEETING AND YOU'RE BRUISED AND YOU GOT CUTS ALL IN YOUR BACK AND YOU'RE BLOODY AND YOU'RE LIMPING AND YOU CAN'T EVEN CARRY YOUR I CAN FEEL THE HEART OF GOD Here's the thing. He was born to die. He He never came to save himself with
us. Come on, pastor. involved in as many places in your city as you can. Bible study after Bible study, counseling, trying to heal people, trying to HELP PEOPLE, AND THE VOICE comes in and you wipe the blood OUT OF YOU. YOU WIPE THAT PUDDLE OF BLOOD OUT OF your ear and you can hear the voice that says, "Save yourself now." Come on. Come on. You baptized one last Sunday. Come on. Y'all been having a good revival. It's summertime. Why don't you just kick it in the cruise? Why don't you just kick it in the cruise and just just chill out for a little bit? But oh, I've got to preach, ladies and gentlemen. He was not bor He He was not born He was not born to save himself. He He did not come to save himself. He came to SAVE SOMEBODY ELSE. GOD BECAME A MAN TO DIE FOR all men. Hear me right now. AND IF HELL WILL TRY TO CONVINCE THE GOD THAT BECAME A MAN TO GIVE A LITTLE BIT LESS, DON'T TELL ME THAT HELL HAS IT BEEN IN YOUR MIND TRYING TO TELL YOU TO HEY, LET ME TELL YOU. I MADE UP MY MIND WHEN WE CAME OFF THE EVANGELIST FIELD. I TOLD MY CHURCH, WE DIDN'T SETTLE DOWN TO SETTLE DOWN. WE'RE GOING TO GIVE MORE THAN WE'VE EVER GAVE. WE'RE GOING TO PRAY MORE THAN WE'VE EVER PRAYED. WE'RE GOING TO REACH. WE'RE GOING TO STRETCH. I WISH SOMEBODY HEY, I WISH SOMEBODY WOULD CRY OUT TO THE LORD AND SAY, "GOD, GET THIS OUT OF It's more than selfishness. Well, I'm a pastor now. I can kick back in the office. Yeah. And somebody's going to hell on the streets. What are Come on. God called you to that city for the city. He called you TO THAT CITY. BUT CUZ THERE'S AN ADDICT THERE. THERE'S GOING TO BE A PREACHER ONE DAY, BUT NOT I FEEL SO MUCH, HOLY GHOST. I WISH SOMEBODY WOULD SHAKE THAT ALL THAT SELF-PRESERVING SPIRIT OFF OF YOU AND watch my savior. Luke 23 and 40. But the other answering, rebuked him, saying, "Does not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?" Watch this. Verse 41. and we indeed justly for we receive this due reward of our deeds. BUT THIS MAN HAD DONE NOTHING Verse 42 and he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom kingdom. something in him said, I know my hands are bound. I KNOW MY HANDS ARE BOUND, BUT I'M GOING TO REACH AS MUCH AS I CAN REACH FOR ALL OF A SUDDEN, JESUS HAD A NINTH TRAIN. ALL OF A SUDDEN, JESUS SAID, "IT'S NOT JUST WHAT I LIVE FOR, BUT THIS IS I'VE COME TO PREACH TO SOMEBODY RIGHT NOW. HE'S GOT A NOT TRAIN FOR YOU. I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN BLOODED. I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN BEATEN. BUT I WANT TO PREACH ABOUT THE ONES WHO REACHED WHEN HE HAD NO
HELL WANTED THAT THIEF IN HELL. But if hell didn't want him saved, come on. That thief was a rascal. Come on. He broke. He broke and caused all kinds of ruckus. But let me tell you, put him next to a dying savior. Oh, and guess what? All of a sudden, all of A SUDDEN, THAT'S THAT THIEF. HIS HEART STARTS TALKING. OH, I KNOW I'VE BEEN A MESS, BUT I REALLY I'D LIKE TO BE ON YOUR SIDE, J. HE KNEW HE WAS GOD. HE KNEW HE WAS GOD. AND THE AND MERCY I'VE COME TO PREACH TO A SAINT OF GOD. You've served and you served and you served and you're so tired you're ready to throw the throw your towel or hang your towel up. I'm not saying you're even willing to backslide, but hell, he won't make you backslide if Well, I'm I'm I'm living a holy life. Big whoop-de-doo. Why don't you get into the world and find somebody? Why don't you find a thief? Why don't you find somebody that's a mess? I'M PREACHING TO SOMEBODY RIGHT NOW. GOD HAS A CALL TO MORE. Hey preachers, I KNOW YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF REVIVAL BEHIND YOU, BUT I'M NOT PREACHING ABOUT WHAT'S BEHIND YOU. I'M PREACHING ABOUT ANOTHER TRAIN. I'M PREACHING ABOUT I'M PREACHING ABOUT SOMETHING THAT'S AHEAD OF US. COME ON, EVANGELIST. COME ON, EVANGELIST. I KNOW YOU'RE TIRED, BUT GOD SAYS ONE MORE. COME ON, PASTOR. I KNOW YOU'RE WINDED, I wasn't in Tombbo long. I'm telling you, we're hitting the streets. Open up the church for prayer. There's people watching tonight. They Yeah. I took it from this church. Thank you, North Little Rock, for giving us a winning recipe. Hallelujah. Prayer and evangelism will do what social media cannot do. Prayer and a vision evangelism will do what paid ads cannot do. Prayer Prayer and evangelism will do what nothing else can do. I got a call. from a Baptist minister. He had been in and out of the nursing homes and we had been on the streets and I've been praying, "God, give me a door of utterance. I get a call and there's a man." He said, "Hey, I work with the hospice care." He said, "I've got a man named Mike Allen." He said, "He's in his 70s. He spent over a decade in prison. He's got stage four cancer. Eat up all through his body. He said, I walked in and I tried to pray with him and he looked at me and said, "Hey, listen here, preacher." He said, "I ain't going to listen to a word you say." He said, "Years ago," he said, "I was in a Pentecostal church. If you want to pray, you if you want me to pray, you're going to bring me a Pentecostal I remember I remember walking in I remember walking into that that nursing home. Man, you ain't had ministry till you do nursing home ministry. Hallelujah. Man, I've seen I remember preaching there as a young boy. people people on their beds they they moved wrong and hit the button and they're like this going you're trying to preach and it's trying to turn into a ferris wheel or something. I remember I went in there and I began to set with him. He began to tell me I'm a dirty rotten sinner.
Oh God. I said, "Tell me your story." He said, "I don't have no family." He said, "All my family hates me." He said, "I turned them all against me. I've I've lived a horrible life." He said, "Preacher, how you get here?" I said, "Well," said that Baptist minister called me. He'd found us online. I began to talk to him. Oh, Jesus. I'm going to talk to him about receiving the Holy Ghost. That wasn't the time to say, "Here's a church card when you can come. Go I watched Mike Allen, stage four cancer, sat there on his bed, hands lifted. I laid hands on him and God filled him Come on. I took him I took him to our I took him TO OUR CHURCH. WE BAPTIZED HIM Mike didn't go to our church long. As a matter of fact, he'd worship a little bit, as long as he could, and then he'd double over and just hold his stomach. He'd be sweating in pain, and when he had enough, he'd just walk out, David Lopez, you around here? He's here somewhere from my church. I told I told David I said I am assigning you to Mike Allen because if something happens to this guy I I remember I walk I said how long you got Mike? He said I got they say about three months. It wasn't near that long just a few weeks. I remember I'd go there on Sundays. Oh god. None of our buses were running. I'd go there on Sundays. Had nobody committed to to drive the bus just yet. And I I walked in there and he's sitting in the corner. Doubled over. So sedated. So much pain. I walk over. I said, "Hey, brother Mike." He looked at me. You could tell he his eyes are glazed over. He can't really. And he says, "PASTOR, PASTOR, PASTOR, PRAY FOR ME. PASTOR, PASTOR, pray for me." He put his hand he put my hand on him. I'd begin to pray. He came a few more times after that. And I remember I I would call him. He'd never answer the phone for anything. So I'd have to go up there. It was very inconvenient. But let me tell you, soulwinning is very inconvenient. I remember I I had called. We couldn't get a hold of him. I said, "David Lopez, go up there. I want you to pray for him." He came back. He said, "Pastor, I prayed for him, but he was laying in that bed." Oh, I got the call that he had passed. I called that Baptist minister. I I went in there. I tried to talk to everybody. I said, "Hey, is there anybody that can give me a number of family?" He said, "He has no family." He said, "He has no family. It's gone." He said, "The the I was determined. I'm telling you, I I I Googled. I I did everything I could. I called every contact. I wanted to preach this man's funeral and minister to this man man's family. But Mike Allen had no one that loved him, And Jordan Copelan, all I could think about when you were preaching about when you were preaching about heaven, I told my wife on the way, I SAID, "MY GOD," ALL I COULD THINK ABOUT WAS, "BROTHER MIKE, that old rascal beat me there. I'm going to walk through them gates of pearl. I'M GOING TO WALK past I'm GOING TO WALK PAST WALLS OF JASPER." AND THERE HE IS. HEY, LET ME TELL YOU ONE MORE CHURCH. YOU AIN'T LIVE TILL YOU LIVE FOR SOMEBODY ELSE. LIFT YOUR HANDS AND PRAY IN THE HOLY phone rang. Said in my office, phone rang. Lady on the other line says, "Hello, my name is Pam." She's 83 years old. She said, "Hello, my name is Pam." She said, "I've been in your city for the last two years." Oh, God. She said, "I've been in your city for the last two years." She said, "I've got roots in Pentecost."
She said, "I don't have a pastor. I wonder if somebody could just come and She says, "Is there anybody that could just come and she said, "I don't want to lie. I just maybe somebody come and just pray with me. Myself, Brother Landry Barfield, Sister Cheryl Barfield. We went over there to her little bitty apartment. We began to talk. I looked, there was a guitar over in the corner. I said, s I said, "Sister Pam, do you play that?" She said, "Yeah." She begin to play and I begin to sing. I fly away, oh Gloria, fly away when I die. Hallelujah. By and by I fly away. I said let me try. I took that guitar began to sing. There is power in the name of Jesus. She starts trembling. There is power in the name of Jesus. Those hands lift up. There is power in the name of Jesus to break every chain. break every chain. She said, "OH, I AIN'T FELT THIS IN A She said, "You know," she said, "WE HAVE A BIBLE study that goes on here." She said, "No, She said, "I sit through and I get so mad. They they're not Jesus anything." I said, "Well, why don't we why don't we pray?" Said, "How many is in that Bible?" She One phone call." All right. I said, "All right." I said, she said, "This teacher, she I said, maybe maybe she'll quit." know this lady's taught The director the director of her apartments called us and said, "Hey, I heard that y'all were interested in teaching this Bible study." WE SAID, "YEAH, WE ARE." "WHAT DO YOU MEAN?" AND SHE SAID, "THE LADY THAT'S TAUGHT FOR 20 YEARS JUST CALLED AND SAID, "I'M RETIRED. I'M DONE. LAST WEEK, I'M SITTING THERE WITH MY EXPLORING GOD'S WORD CHART TEACHING THE TABERNACLE. HEY, I'M TELLING YOU, I DON'T KNOW WHAT PART OF YOUR CITY THAT GOD'S ABOUT TO OPEN UP, BUT YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND IT AIN'T OVER. YOU AIN'T HAD YOUR GREATEST REVIVAL YET." GOD SAYING ONE MORE. ONE Be seated. Somebody said, "You got honey but I got something better. Anybody Come on, y'all. Help me. They're coming out here. Oh, man. This is going to be good. Brother Miles Young, come up here. Brother Jordan Copelan, come up here. Brother Booker, come here. Brother Thornton, come here. I wouldn't have called you if you wouldn't have made that face, but you made that face. So, All right. What y'all know about a I'mma I'mma show you a block party on Let me tell you what we've been doing. We've been going into these apartment complexes. Hey, this works. Hey, that smells good, don't it? Some of you wish you were up here right now. We've been going to these apartment complexes. There's a young man in my church. His name's [name redacted] [name redacted]. He's a great Bible quizzer. And I called in my office. I said, "Hey, brother [name redacted]." I said, "I got something that I feel the Lord wants you to learn." He said, "Yes, sir. I'll learn anything." I said, "I want you to learn how to make an balloon animals." And he's like, really? I thought
you were going to give me some kind of like supernatural thing." Let me tell you, we go into them apartment complexes. You know what we do? We call the apartment complex. We've done it every month this year, a different one. I go into apartment complex or we go into a we we we go into a trailer park or a home, some kind of community, and we call them. We say, "Hey, listen. We're just here to bless the community. We fly every door. We get permission." And there's not one that says, "No, we don't want that." You want to know why? Cuz they like to have activities. They like to have activities. They like things going on. Why? Because it makes people think the rent's worth it even though it's high. But I want to show I want to show you how to Where's Where's the Come help me. I want to show you how to make a walking taco. Oh, man. This is going to be good. Come on. Get a camera up here. Can you see? All right, y'all. Come. You're the first one I'm serving. Come on. Doritos. Who likes Doritos? Hallelujah. Watch it. You see how I cut that? This is This is simple. You want meat? Yeah, you want meat. It's going to be good. How about How about a little cheese? Little cheese. How about that? Oh, some of you hungry right now. How you like tomatoes? No tomatoes. Oh, tomatoes. Okay. Little lettuce. Little lettuce. Okay. Try that right there, man. Come on. Come on. Crunch. Crunch it up a little bit. Come on. Try that. That ain't good. Come on. We got more. Come on. I got I got all y'all up here. Oh, we only got three. Sorry. You got to go be seated, Come on, brother Booker. Hey, what is this? I want to tell you, I had a I had a a a family I had a family walk. Oh, yeah. Sour cream. You don't Hey, some of you laughing. Oh, but by the way, this is no joke. They're Yeah. Yeah. Stick a fork in it. There we OH, SOMEBODY GOING TO WIN A SOUL. STICK All right, man. Meat. Yeah. No tomatoes. No tomatoes. Okay. Cheese. man. That is hot. That's about to burn my fingers off. Sour cream. Yeah. Look at it. Tomatoes. Preacher. What in the world are you preaching? IT TAKES SO LITTLE TO BE ABOVE AVERAGE. Give me some reviews. How is it? I love it. Give me some reviews. Unbelievable. How is it? Come on. HEY, LISTEN. IT WAS ON THAT SATURDAY. WE DONE FED EVERYBODY. EVERYBODY'S EVERYBODY'S GOOD AND FULL. WE DONE MADE SO MANY SNOW CONES. We had a kid that gets in line. He's on his fifth snow cone. I said, "Listen, man. Number five, you're coming to We say, "Hey, listen. We We giving away a little scooter. All you got to do is go over there to register. Go sign up. Guess what? They sign up and you know what the people are asking them? Hey, the bus is coming Would you like to be on the bus? Yes, there's one. Come on. I got some people watching at Faith Tabernacle that are weeping over them buses. Hey, let me tell you, WE GOT HEY, WE ONLY HAD TWO. WE ONLY HAD TWO RUNNING. BROTHER Andy Beard came to me and said, "Pastor, we got a problem." I said, "What's the problem?" He said, I was driving a bus. I got up before the church. I said, "Hey, listen. God just gave this man a dream. We're buying another bus." $38,000 came in. We went and drove down and bought another bus in South Houston. Guess what? Hey, I'M PREACHING TO SOMEBODY RIGHT NOW. IT OH, YOU OUGHT TO JUST GO AND TRY SOMETHING. WHAT IS IT? IT'S AN IDEA.
IT'S A TRAIN. IT'S A NOT TRAIN THAT GOD'S PUTTING IN YOUR spirit I have a lady walks I have a lady she Her name's Cindy. I said, "My wife's name Cindy." She said, "No, I'm the black Cindy Crawford." she she comes to our church and she opens up the car door and these kids start coming out. Listen. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Oh, God's going to give you an anointing. What is it? It's going to be an idea. There's an anointing that's going to get on your mind. It's going to be A NEW IDEA. YOU'RE GOING TO TRY SOMETHING. OH, come on. GET IT OUT OF YOUR MIND. SAVE YOURSELF. WE GOT TO SAVE We ain't going backwards. You ain't seen your greatest revival yet. Come on. God's putting something in your spirit. GOD'S PUTTING SOMETHING IN YOUR SPIRIT TONIGHT. COME ON. THERE'S SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO GET A HOLD OF YOU. THERE'S SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO GET A HOLD OF YOU. AND IT'S GOING TO DRIVE YOU. AND IT'S GOING TO PRESS YOU INTO Last story I'll tell they may be there tonight. I won't get too detailed tonight. There's a couple There's a couple in our church. Brother Kendrick, Sister Joselyn's in Bible study with them. They're here tonight. They started their first Bible study with them. We had a We had one block party going on in Sugarberry Trailer Park. We had another one going on in the apartment complex across the street from the church. Across the street from the church. Assembly of God roots, but never had received the Holy Ghost. We're doing this thing once a month. We call it where we have a big Friday night youth service. We have a Saturday Saturday Saturday morning all church outreach. Somebody say all church. All church. That means everybody. The pastors, the preachers, the ushers, the Sunday school teachers, the choir members. All church outreach. Because I don't just want to outreach Well, we'd do the Saturday morning block parties and outreach and then Saturday night we'd have a dinner on the grounds. We just feeding people. We just loving people. We just wrapping people up. And we like to link Saturday morning to Sunday morning. But I found that if we do Saturday morning, Saturday night, Sunday night, we had 35 first time show up to eat on Saturday night. We're just feeding them. And then 20 of them show up to Sunday morning. People getting the Holy Ghost. We baptize them. We're putting them in our afternoon new convert But struggling.
pulls in to his apartment complex after a long drive with a big old 18-wheeler and pulls up and he sees our Sunday school team doing sidewalk Sunday school giving walking tacos, snow cones. They come, they're eating hamburgers with us. I'm sitting with him. We're talking. He said, 'Yeah, I come from the Assembly of God church.' I said, ' Do you ever had the Holy Ghost?' He said, 'N no.' He said, I, you know, I I've I've got something, but that talking in tongue stuff, that ain't never happened for me. I said, okay. Oh, Jesus. Weeks, couple weeks go by, he texts me, says, "Pastor, I've been driving down there." He sent me he saw send me a screenshot or or a picture. I don't even think it's legal. and he's watching church on Sunday and he's driving his route. He said, "Something got a hold of me." And cigarettes started going out the window. Something got a hold of me. Something got a hold of me. We're in revival where brother Salo Kele, powerful evangelist. Sunday morning, the Holy Ghost begins to move. I look up, there's Brian with his hands lifted up. I went back there, Brother Kendrick's praying with him. I lay hands on him. He begins to speak in a heavenly language. DON'T YOU TELL ME THIS DOES NOT WORK. I'm telling you, God wants to put something on you tonight. God wants to put something on you tonight. Come on, play that train horn. Why don't you let this get in you? There's one more in my city. There's one more to be saved. Lift your hands across the room. We're getting ready to pray. And a burden's about to drop in this place. Jesus, I'VE DELIVERED WHAT YOU'VE given me to deliver. I pray right now in the name of Jesus that an unstoppable force would drop on the inside of every saint of God, of Come on, why don't you step out from where you're at? Come on, let's come across this platform right now. Come on, let's come across this platform and I want you to lift up your hands. God's getting ready to do something in It's harvest time. Evangelist. The one that's come limping in tonight. You're running out. I want you to lift up your hands right Tonight we are going to defeat that voice And tonight as the army of the Lord, we are going to march forward towards a lost and dying world. Come on. Every hand lifted, every voice lifted unto the Lord. Come on. Why don't you lay hands on each other until something It's our finest hour. It's our greatest hour. Musicians and singers come. God is wanting to use ush for his glory. Come on. I SAW YOUNG MEN ACROSS THIS platform praying. Come on. LAST NIGHT, I WANT YOU RIGHT NOW. I want you right now to yield your spirit. Yield your heart to what God is doing. Come on. This is your hour not to be
seen or to be known, but to find someone who doesn't know. Come on. It's not your hour to be seen. To be known, BUT IT'S YOUR HOUR TO FIND THE ONE THAT KNOWS NOTHING. Come on. God saying ONE MORE REVIVAL. ONE MORE CHURCH PLANT. ONE MORE MINISTRY FAMILY. ONE more altar call. One more soul. One more train. Let's pray Everybody find somebody to pray your city. These are your streets. These are your people. The broken, the hurting, the weak. Let your kingdom flow right here above us. It's your city. This is your city. These are your streets. These are your people. the broken, the hurting, the weak. Let your kingdom come right here among us. It's your city. Come on. Only you can see your streets. Only you can see the broken, the hurting, the kingdom come right here among us. This is your city. This is your city. These are your These are your peace. These are your broken the broken heart. We are your kingdom. Right here. These are these are the broken broken burning and your kingdom come right here. This is your city. is your We let your kingdom come right here among us. It's this is what we're going to do. I want every eye closed, every head lifted, and Come on. I KNOW WE'VE CRIED OUT TO GOD about a bunch of things. But tonight, God wants to know when is the last time that you cried out and Come on. WE HAVE A LOT OF THINGS WE WANT I want you to GET YOUR CITY ON YOUR LIPS. I WANT YOU TO CLOSE YOUR EYES. TONIGHT, I'M CRYING OUT FOR TOMBBO. TONIGHT I'M CRYING OUT FOR HOUSTON. I BELIEVE GOD'S GOING TO DO SOMETHING. COME ON, ABRAHAM. CRY OUT A LITTLE BIT. God will move it IF YOU'LL LEARN HOW TO CRY AGAIN. COME ON. ARE YOU BOTHERED WITH A BURDEN? ARE YOU BOTHERED THAT SOMEBODY'S LOST? LET GOD PUT A NINTH TRAIN IN YOUR SPIRIT. WHAT'S BEHIND YOU IS GREAT, BUT WHAT GOD WANTS TO DO IN THE FUTURE IS EVEN GREATER. Come on, cry out. Show us the hungry. Show us the searching. They all belong to you. We won't stop preaching. Won't stop believing. There's nothing you will do. Show us the hungry. Show us the searching. They all belong to you. We won't stop. Won't stop believing. There's nothing you do. Show us the heart. Show us the belong. I'll be stop.
We won't stop. Won't stop believing. Listen, we're going to do something tonight. I want everybody to pair up with two or three people. Come on. brother Markx. I was in that I was in that office they put you in. Brother si sister Sister Candy Holm's office. She gave me a message and I'm going to She left me some mints and candy there So we going to pray again, we ain't just going to pray a regular God's going to do it in Dallas. God's going to do it in Generette. God's going to do it in Sacramento. Come on. I want you to close your eyes and I want you to get anointed. And I want you to talk in tongues until you feel something shake. Come on. I want you to talk in tongues until the gates of hell begin to shake. Come on. Right now, I prophesy to YOU RIGHT NOW THAT WHAT'S been holding you back in your city, it's shaking right now. It's breaking Come on, door. God's doing it right now. God, there is a shouting. Pray with all you've got. Step into your victory. Step into your There's another revival. Come on. I wish you'd move your feet for your revival right now. Move your FEET FOR YOUR REVIVAL RIGHT Wave your hands for your on your side. Come on. There's something ahead and I'm reaching for it, God. I got a more in my spirit. I've got more in my spirit. I've got more in my spirit. I'm reaching for more. More in revival, more miracles, more conversions,
Scripture references as spoken: Luke 23:32; Luke 4:33; Luke 4:34; Luke 4:35; Luke 4:39; Luke 4:40; Luke 5; Luke 5:12; Luke 5:13; Luke 5:15; Luke 5:24; Luke 5:27; Luke 6:10; Luke 6:17; Luke 6:19; Luke 7; Luke 7:12; Luke 7:13; Luke 7:14; Luke 7:37; Luke 7:48; Luke 7:50; Luke 8; Luke 9; Luke 10; Luke 11:14; Luke 13; Luke 15; Luke 17; Luke 17:19; Luke 18; Luke 18:38; Luke 18:40; Luke 18:43; Luke 19; Luke 22; Luke 22:51; John 21:25; Luke 23:35; Luke 23:37; Luke 23:39; Luke 23:40; Luke 23:41; Luke 23:42.