Tri-State District CampMeeting Night 1 | Evening Speaker Pastor Tim Hammond

wow wow what a privilege it is to be in the house of God tonight and well thankful for what we've already felt and what we know there's nothing like serving God there's nothing like having him on your side and I just believe the Lord's going to do a work this week you hear great preaching all the time and I have every intention of when we leave here on Friday evening whatever you are struggling with whatever has plagued you I believe God is going to deliver us I believe God's going to do a work in this place why don't you be seated thank you for standing I want to say thank you for the invitation the room the basket all the different things that you've given us and uh um I got a knife in that basket and all I'm not carrying it but uh I dug deep I thought there might be a pistol or something but yeah this is a brother can hope I guess but uh but I want to give honor to Bishop and sister McCool we love you guys and 75 years of ministry what a blessing and what a honor it is to be here in this great church pastor Mark and sister Jamie McCool The First Family McCool's and the whittley's so thankful for them the District board all the ministers thank you for allowing me this opportunity and then they are absent because they're preaching somewhere else but Bishop Kenneth and sister Carpenter and maryville's first family as well we're so thankful for all of them to Dorcas I'm so honored that she's able to be here love her and appreciate her our church family back home the Lord is doing some great things a new life and I'm grateful and thankful for that and it is a privilege I think this may be the first time in a while that we've had Zach and Lauren and Beckham and Hampton and Autumn and Elijah and Emory and Judah and Ford all in the same room with uh with me preaching so I'm excited for that they may not be excited but I'm excited that they're they're here and and Autumn Elijah's moved back to Tennessee how about that so uh we're thankful for that and I'm thankful that we can make one four four and a half four and a half hour trip and see everybody and so grateful for what the Lord is doing it's a tremendous blessing and uh quite a connection with us from Georgia and then with the Tri-State District Blake and Bethany Miller pastor here and we love them they're out of our church they grew up in our church their music director Brooke Poole grew up in our church so there's a lot of Georgia up here in Tennessee so we're thankful for that but uh we're also thankful that we've got Keith walls and Jacob Holland and we also have Chase Baker so we're excited for that that exchange but we're excited and uh and Chase anybody know Chase Baker here anybody know him and uh he's just this was he quiet here he is really quiet he's really quiet but just love so much the blessings of the lord I want you to know there's nothing like being in church there's nothing like having your family in church there's nothing like being able to train your children into fear and admonition of God and then see them find someone that loves God the way they do and then they have children and train their children into fear and admonition of God I have no Greater Joy than to know that my children walk in truth that would say it's Wednesday night that's Bible study for most of you right so let's do a little bible study Deuteronomy 20. verse 19 is where we'll start tonight everybody okay it is 8 21 what time do you guys usually get out 8 30 . that's not going to happen I'm going to tell you that right but I will try my best to get through this if you'd like to stand I see some of you standing you'd like to do that whatever your pleasure is let me just tell you I want to focus on three things this week I have three shots at this other than the men's session I want to talk to you tonight I want to talk about the gospel and I want to talk more specifically about the cross because this world doesn't care anything about it anymore they'll hang it around their neck they'll tattoo it on their bodies they'll put put it all over the place but few if any truly understand what the cross is and what it's all about then tomorrow night I have a subject I feel like the Lord's going to deliver some folks and then on Friday night the Lord is going to move so I have three things that I want to cover tonight I want to go to Deuteronomy 20 and verse number 19 it says and this is when you study Deuteronomy 20 this is the chapter that talks about the law of warfare it talks about if you're going to go into a war or some type of conflict or confrontation it tells you how to deal with it and there's a right way and a wrong way and it gives you some real Direction Deuteronomy 2019 he said when thou shalt besiege the city a long time in making war against it to take it Thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an ax against them for thou mayest eat of them Thou shalt not cut them down for the tree of the field is man's life to employ them in the siege only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat Thou shalt destroy and cut them down and thou shalt build bull works against the city that maketh war with thee until it be subdued so he said whatever you do don't destroy the trees when it's time for Warfare and there's been a besiegement against the city he said don't just don't just make a Havoc of everything look around and make sure that you use every device at this at your disposal for your good for your betterment and he was specific in saying do not destroy the trees so tonight I want to talk to us on this Bible study night do not destroy the trees say that to your neighbor do not destroy the trees you can be seated so he's just simply saying that the law of warfare is simply this he says the trees of the field is man's life to employ thee in The Siege so what he's saying is the Trees of the field can be your your greatest Ally if you will allow that to be he said only the trees which be not trees for food are meat use them as a defense he said so when you're setting up and there is a Warfare and the city is being uh they they've closed themselves in and you're out there trying to figure out how to to break through the walls and how to win this battle he said it's wise to look around and if you see fruit trees don't cut them down this battle is going to go long enough that you can if you'll if you'll if you'll trust me he said these this battle is going to go long enough that those fruit trees when you run out of provision you can eat the fruit off of those trees and it'll sustain you he said but when you see a tree that is not bearing fruit cut it down and then build you a bull work and a bull work is simply a a wall-like defense strong enough to to at times penetrate the walls of of the city you're trying to uh encounter and have victory over so he says the trees they either are for food or defense but don't just burn them don't just cut them down don't just say well I would like this space here now this is not a tree-hugging message and this is not a yeah I see somebody's like well we'll get there okay God help us look at your neighbor and say do not destroy the trees he said I want you to make sure that you use the fruit trees to sustain you cut the trees down that are not fruit bearing and I love the way he ended this he said until it is subdued everybody say do not destroy the trees Mark chapter 8 verse 22 and he cometh to basavia they bring a blind man into him but sought him to touch him he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the town and when he had Spit on His Eyes put his hands upon him he asked him if he saw ought and he looked up and said I see men as trees walking the Menace trees so quite obviously if you know your Bible and I know you do this man is not one that was born blind this was a man that had some condition that had happened to him because he knew what a tree looked like and so when the Lord Spit on His Eyes that's one of you'll you'll appreciate this later he put water on a tree you'll you'll you'll like that later so he put He Spit on His Eyes and he said what do you see he said I see men as trees I just see men as trees walking after that he put his hands again upon his eyes and made him look up and he was restored and saw every man clearly and he sent him away to his house saying neither go into the town nor tell it to anyone in the town I rise tonight to tell you that we cannot see men as trees to this extent they cannot be a disposable product could I just lean in on this first night account meeting and say it would be in the church's best interest to stop destroying people [Applause] God sent us to save them not destroy them and if you're not careful you'll get the first touch and you'll see every man like a tree and if you're not careful you'll destroy it because we cut trees down to make paper products to build houses with but I want you to know this this thing is for the Long Haul we need to see people as one of two things they need to be fruit to us or a defense for us [Applause] amen looks your neighbors say I will not destroy another person okay say it to the neighbor that you didn't want to talk to I will not destroy another person God let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart let it be acceptable in your sight God help me to be a blessing and not a curse God help me to lift somebody up let my life be something that will be beneficial something that will enhance come on we need something to happen in this Apostolic movement that reminds us that we're all in this thing together nobody's in this thing by themselves you can't make it by yourself thank you Pastor Fallon we're in this thing together and when we stop destroying people and start using them as as fruit trees or a defense because this battle isn't over and I want to tell you in this house tonight we haven't seen the worst of it amen everybody all right a little bible study tonight Matthew 3 7 but when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism he said unto them o Generation of Vipers who hath warned you to flee from the Wrath to come bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance and think not to say within yourselves we have Abraham to Our Father for I say unto you that God is able of these stones to raise up children of Abraham and now also the ax is laid to the root of trees therefore every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewed down and cast into the fire I indeed baptized with water unto repentance but he that cometh after me his mighty and I then I whose shoes I'm not worthy to Bear he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire the Forerunner said bring forth fruit therefore meet or worthy of repentance Matthew 7 15 says beware of false prophets which come in in sheep's clothing but then with their Raven and wolves you shall know them by their fruits do men gather Grapes of thorns or figs of thistles even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit but a corrupt truth tree bringeth forth evil fruit a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewed down and cast Into the Fire wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them so every person blind man that you see is a tree you need to be touched again so you can see every man clearly but what we've got to understand in this movement that even the people that are not feeding us can be used for defense amen even the people that are not being productive in our lives they can be a defense for us amen all right let's a little more a little more Matthew 12 22. then was brought into him one possessed with the devil blind and dumb and he healed him in so much of the Blind and dumb both spake and Saul and all the people were amazed and said is not this the son of David but when the Pharisees heard it they said this fella does not cast out Devils but by Bells above the prince of devils and Jesus knew their thoughts and said unto them every Kingdom divided against itself is brought to Desolation in every city or house divided against itself shall not stand if Satan cast out Satan he's divided against himself how then shall his kingdom stand and if I thou Bells above cast out Devils by whom do your children cast them out therefore they shall be your judges but if I cast out Devils by the spirit of God then the kingdom of God is come unto you or else how can one enter to a strong man's house and spoil his Goods except the first bind the strong man and then he spoil his house he that is not with me is against me gathereth not with me scattereth abroad wherefore I say unto you all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men but blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men and whatsoever or whosoever speaketh the word against the son of man it shall be forgiven him but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him neither in this world neither in the world to come and then he makes a reference Jesus defending himself like he's a tree and he says either make the tree good and it's fruit good or else make the tree corrupt and the fruit corrupt for the tree is known by his fruit so he gives this whole dissertation about who's casting out who and how they're doing it and he said by the way either make me good or bad because there can't be both either make this tree good or make it bad but I can't be both look at your neighbor and say but he can we'll get there oh generate Generation of Vipers how can you be an evil speak good things father abundance the heart the mouth speak of the good man out of the good Treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things and the evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things but I say unto you that Every Idle word that men shall speak they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment for by the words they shall be justified or by the words they shall be condemned then certain of the scribes into the Pharisees answered saying Master we have seen a sign from thee we will see a sign from thee and he answered and said an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign and there's so no sign be given it but the sign of the Prophet Jonas for as Jonas was three days and nights in the in the in the whale's belly so shall the son of man be three days and nights in the heart of the Earth the men of men of us shall rise in judgment with this generation and shall condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonas and behold a greater than Jonas is here either make it good or make it bad John 12 23 everybody okay Jesus answered and said thou has come that the son of man shall be glorified verily verily I say unto you except the corn of wheat falling to the ground and die it abideth alone but if it die it brings forth much fruit he that loves his life shall lose it he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto eternal life if any man serve me let him follow me and where I am there with my my servant be and if any man serve me him with my father father honor now is my soul trouble and what shall I say father save me from this hour but for this cause came out to this hour father glorify thy name then came a voice from Heaven saying I have both glorified it and will glorify it again the people therefore that stood by and heard it said that they that it thunder and others said an angel spake to him Jesus answered and said this voice came not because of me but for your sake now is the Judgment of this world now shall the prince of this world be cast out and if I if I be lifted up from the Earth will draw all men unto me this he said signifying what death he would die so Jesus is speaking of his death not so much buried but planted they're going to try to destroy a fruit tree by planting it he became sin so he was the curse so that we can have his righteousness but they thought that they were burying him but they were actually planning him that's the reason the Bible said when you're baptized you are planted in his likeness you're not just put in the water when you go down in Jesus name you are planted with him in baptism and when you're painted then you're able to rise up and be fruitful [Applause] amen amen amen I won't read you this whole passage but Luke 23 31 he throws this in when he's talking about tribulation and trials and how they're going to persecute them and this is going to happen and that is going to happen Luke 23 31 he says for if they do these things in a green green tree what shall be done in the dry he said if they're going to do this while I'm living if they're going to persecute me while I'm living what do you think they're going to try to do when I'm dead if they're persecuting me you think you're not going to be persecuted if they persecuted God in a body don't you know they're going to come against you but you just gotta hold on we're going to win this battle but we got to figure it out well we gotta eat from and what we got to have as a defense amen they do these things in a greed tree what shall be done in the dry if they persecuted me what do you think is going to happen to you but do I love how he would get them off to the corner and say hey if they persecuted me they're going to persecute you but greater things than these shall you do because I go to the father amen everybody all right Isaiah 53 the Old Testament says who hath believed our report to whom is the arm of the Lord reveal for he shall grow up before him as a tender plant as a root out of a dry ground you got any plants in your yard growing without watering them Jesus did because he is the water all right God bless you he hath no form of colonist Communists and when we shall see him there's no beauty that we should desire him he's despised and rejected of men a Man of Sorrows acquainted with grief we hid as it was our face from him he was despised and will seemed him not surely he hath borne our Greeks carried our sorrows yet we did esteem him stricken cement of men and Afflicted but he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities the chastise whatever our peace was upon him and with his stripes we're healed all that stuff we like to preach about the prophet Isaiah started out describing him as a tree he said he's going to grow up and it's going to be in a dry place the Bible says when the devil leaves a person he goes through Dry places and he finds no rest and so he comes back and he finds out how swept and garnish and clean and empty so he enters back in let me tell you dry places May bother you but dry places doesn't bother our God well I feel like preaching now John 14 and 15. if you love me keep my Commandments and I'll pray the father and he'll give you another comforter that he may abide with you forever even the spirit of Truth whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not neither knoweth him but ye know him for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you anybody thankful for that he said I will not leave you comfortless I will not leave you comfortless and let me tell you what he did my friend he dies they plant him he gets up on the third day he spends 40 days with his disciples he ascends into Glory he sends back his spirit and he baptizes 120 on the day of Pentecost then there's 3 000 and then there's 5 000 and then there is the the Samaritans and then there is the Gentiles and the list goes on and on and on and here we are we just heard tonight that God baptized somebody with the Holy Ghost last night because so let me tell you what Jesus did at Calvary it still works and don't you let anybody tell you any different [Applause] we need some preachers that'll rise up and say hey I still believe in an Old Rugged Cross I still believe in the death bell and resurrection of Jesus Christ I still believe you ought to repent I still believe you ought to be water baptized for the remission of sins I still believe you ought to be filled with the baptism of the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking with other tongues I still believe it there's not a greater message on this planet we don't need to dumb down we don't need it watered down we don't need a new way to explain it come on Bishop am I telling the truth 75 years in the ministry this is what he preached when he was 11 and this is why we're preaching now because it still works oh God help us I'm not getting on a soapbox but let me tell you what's happening the world is turning even the church world is turning back tax chapter 2 because they've discovered that Seeker friendly doesn't work because you can come in and make everybody feel good but then we cannot straighten out all the mess that happens Monday through Saturday but I still believe no matter what you've got going on in your life that you can come to an Old-Fashioned Altar and God can forgive you of your sins and he can put your life back together I still believe that when you go down in a watery grave an old man goes down and a new creation in Christ comes up is there anybody in this house that still believes that message [Music] it still works it still works there's there's not anything you say well we're struggling right now at our church let me tell you what you do you don't need anybody to come in and preach a seminar you don't need anybody to come in and give a word of Prophecy you need to get up in your pulpit and you need to preach the gospel out of every book you can find it in and you can find it in all 66. you need to preach the death battle in resurrection of Jesus Christ like the house is on fire because it is young people we need you guys to get a fresh revelation of who God is you need to be able to explain it when you're standing in the lunch line when you're at work in your neighborhood you need to know that Jesus is God he's not Jehovah Jr he's not the second person in a trinity he's God oh the foolish of the godhead finally dwells in Christ Jesus oh I feel like preaching this but we can't just applaud it in here we got to get it deep down inside I hardly ever do this and I don't need to do it now but I am I was at a wedding just Saturday one of the most well-known denominal preachers in our community a contemporary of my dads when I walked up he did the ceremony when I walked up and shook hands with him he'd grab me and hug me and brother McCool he said I loved your daddy son and when nobody like Douglas Hammond he was a friend of mine and he was the same every time you see him and after he got through with all the all the flowers and all the things about Dad in the church and the ministry and all those things he said can I just tell you something it's just us all right he said there is nobody and I mean nobody who can preach like you one God Pentecostals oh he didn't stop there he said I'm not talking about sermon I said I'm not talking about asking AI I'm talking about getting in the word of God and when you get through with one of their messages you feel like you could storm hell with a water pistol and get all your stuff back he said there ain't nobody that can preach come on and he added there's nobody that can preach and sing like you apostolics because he said you won this Pentecostals he said because there's something inside of you guys I said let me oh good let me tell you what it is we're not trying to tiptoe around it we understand to be baptized in the name of the father and the Son and the Holy Ghost is to be baptized in the only saving name of Jesus well well actually so he did all that sent his Spirit back they died Martyrs lives martyr's deaths for this message We're Not Afraid to take their final breath declare it that Jesus is the Lord well I got too excited told more than I was supposed to but Galatians 5 22 let's wrap this up I want you to come back tomorrow night but the Fruit of the Spirit capital s the Fruit of the Spirit the fruit of what he sent back the fruit of what you're supposed to have and notice it is singular hey so somebody said well I got that love but uh that long suffering stuff no you either have all of them or you have none of them I appreciate the gout the the golf clap but that's just as much true as the rest of it see the problem with us oh I gotta stay with my notes but the problem with us is we're out of balance and a false balance is an Abomination but it just wait is his Delight amen my father-in-law told me years ago and and I honor brother sister Bishop tonight in their sickness and not able to be out and about but he told me years ago he said Son and this is how he did me for years it still does me like this he said uh just study the dove and uh let me know what you find so if you study the dove which is symbolic of the Holy Ghost it has nine main feathers in each wing oh it has other feathers but it has nine main feathers in each wing and it has five main tail feathers so when the Holy Ghost is in balance you have the nine gifts of the Spirit and then you have the nine fruit of the spirit but that bird has no Direction without the fivefold ministry and what's wrong with the church is we'll either all gifts or either we're all fruit but if we're going to have the Revival God is looking for we've got to have everything in balance if we're going to get this thing at the end time we've got to get everything to God's got we need the gifts of the Spirit the Fruit of the Spirit and the fivefold ministry in operation in every Church no matter its size you say pastor we don't have a giant in our church then somebody get one and watch your church grow hey put that back up there that's too much preaching for that but the fruit of the spirit capital s is a love joy peace longsuffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance against such there is no law and look at what is with this scripture and they that are Christ apostrophe s belong to him have crucified the flesh with the affections and lust he says so to get the fruit you got to have a tree well I got the spirit that's right but to have the gifts or the fruit of the spirit we got to make sure that there's some things crucified for things to be crucified there has to be a tree amen if we live in the spirit let us also walk in the spirit oh we're almost done First Corinthians 1 18 for the preaching of the cross to them that perish is foolishness but unto us which are saved it's the power of God folks a lot of folks say it's the power of God to Salvation just read the scripture don't add anything to it the preaching of the cross to them that perish is foolishness but to those that are saved brother Nate is just the power of God it's just the power of God we need the power of God in our church Preach the cross well well I want to preach something that'll help them and it'll help them well I don't feel like you don't have to be educated to preach this I'm proving that point right now you don't have to be educated to preach this you don't have to have deep Revelation all you got to do is crack your Bible open Wade on into Matthew you run into it wait on in the mark you'll find it get on into Luke he's a doctor but you get it wait on into John you can find it there and just preach it I am totally convinced and the longer I do this the more I'm I'm understanding that the old-timers had had the key to it good hot Holy Ghost Bible preaching Church will save deliver heal renew revive restore it will it will absolutely take care of things than a two-hour counseling session will not you know why sir you need to bring your all your your problem to the altar because you cannot argue with God and the reason some won't come to the altar is we want to go into office and tell them why this happened and we're still upset with that one and if that one didn't come to this church then I could get then I could get Victory and if that wasn't doing this let me tell you you bring that to the altar and you see a crucified Christ it's hard to argue about who suffered what [Applause] oh yeah you can look at your pastor and say you don't know what I've been through but you can't look at Jesus and say you don't know what I've been through for he was tempted in all points like as we are yet without sin and because of that we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but within All Points scripted like as we are yet without sin so I can boldly bowling you don't have to sheepishly come boldly you say I don't want to bring that to the Lord he already knows oh God amen Luke 9 23. and he said I like this oh Dr Luke covers it he said could you help me read those next three words two them oh now let's now since you know what I want done let's do it together and he said yes guess who that includes that includes you ma'am I know you've been hurt that includes you sir I know I know I know I know I know we we got all this hurt but I wonder what would happen if we would come after him and deny ourself and take up his cross daily and follow me what if we got a notification from Heaven every Sunday morning about nine and said you spent this much time in the word this week what if you got a notification that says your time in the word was down you averaged all right in the word on a daily basis and you wonder why your lives falling apart friend in case you missed it we're fighting the adversary of our soul and To the victor goes the soul we're fighting for our families we're fighting for our marriages we're gonna have to fight for every bit of it it's not going to come easy but we've got what it takes and Deuteronomy says in 2019 when thou shall besiege a city alone time in making war against it to take it Thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing and acts against them for thou mayest eat of them and thou shalt not cut them down for the tree of the field is man's life to employ them in The Siege only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat thou shall destroy and cut down and thou shall build bull works against the city that maketh war with thee until it be subdued so let's bring this all together we're one minute from nine because I'm planning on an altar call so Jesus is the fruit tree and when you put pastor McCool tree on the cross he becomes both he's our food and he's our defense well that didn't go over too good man I preached so hard to try to get to this place and that's that was it so when you look at the cross again it's not some emblem you hang around your neck or tattoo on your body or put on the back of your card got your fish and your cross but have no power this world if you're going to profess it you need to possess it if you're going to say you're a child of God they ought to be able to call you over the corner on break and say hey I'm sick could you pray for me and you don't need to come you don't need to call nobody you need to always be locked and loaded and ready to pray you need to be always ready to give an answer to whoever asked [Applause] well we'll praise God so Jesus is the fruit and he gives life to the cross so he is our fruit and he's our defense and I love that he said until it be subdued oh Lord this is better in my head it was good A New Life One Time then all of a sudden I got to thinking I'm almost done I got thinking about Ezekiel in Ezekiel 47. and he says I want you to step out into the water let's get it going right here he's on the bank and he steps out anybody preach with me where are we at ankle deep he said I measured a little further I got out isn't knee-deep measure a little further I got out there and it's to the waist which means I'm in the water but I'm still in control because my feet is on but then he said go out a little further and then as I went my feet lifted and it was Waters to swim in I've always wondered brother Atkins what is this all about is he telling us that there's different levels and I you can preach it that way I preached the other week come on in the water's fine and and it is come on in and I preached you ought to get out here but let me tell you what the real story of Ezekiel is all about when he left the bank it was barren but when he went out then he went out and then he went out and then he was out there swimming but then all of a sudden something says come on back and as Ezekiel was making his way back it's almost as if he's going back to a different bank because the landscape has changed and the Bible says that when he gets back to the bank that there's trees of the bank and he said the fruit of those trees was for meat and the leaves are for the healing you know why you ought to not just get into ankle deep water when you come to church because nothing at home is going to change until you get a little further and a little further and a little further when you go back home if you've really give God your everything there ought to be some trees growing at the house and there ought to be some healing in the leaves and there ought to be some fruit that would change your family's life for the better amen I'm sorry my mind's running all over the place I got more stuff in his head and I can preach right now but this is my last one and we're done everybody ready everybody looks the neighbor says 904. looks your neighbor said I like this preacher there you go there you go amen now we're going to wonder why you don't come back tomorrow night amen and when I was reading this when I was reading this I heard Joe preach brother Mark I heard sorry brother McCool I heard job preaching job preaching yeah Job 14 and 7. if you've been ready to run now's your time if you've been ready to shout now now is your time for There's Hope of a tree if it be cut down that it will Sprout again and that's the tender Branch thereof will not cease though the root thereof wax old in the Earth and the stock thereof die in the ground come on now I know your preachers are here but let's preach it right it didn't say yet at it says yet through yet through the sin of water it will bud and bring forth vows like a plant so they put Jesus on a dead tree and this was not the first person that hung on this tree they had taken it up and they put it back down but when they put it on Jesus's shoulder they didn't realize they were putting a dead tree on a fruit tree and the reason I'm telling you the cross is still alive and well today there were three trees on that Hill the one in the middle was Redemption one was repentance and the other one was Rebellion you got to figure out which tree you're gonna [Music] the thing the writer said and they all drank from that same water that same Rock and that rock that water was Christ and so the thief on the left his cross won't help you here's Thee the thief on the right his cross won't help you sure you need repentance yes you need to be delivered from Rebellion but what we preach is Jesus Christ and him crucified because job said though a tree is cut down and it has no life There's Hope for a tree that at the scent of water it'll live again oh I feel like running [Music] they pierce this side and forthwith came what water and blood the blood was for us waters for the tree because when that water from that rock flowed down that tree that tree still works right now right now so thank you job thank you for preaching as you're staying tonight thank you for preaching could you put that back up for me Job 14 7. I want you to read this close I don't know what they're going to do we're just going to have a little church here he said there's hope am I messing you up There's Hope of a tree if it be cut down that it will Sprout again tender Branch thereof will what Nazis so the tree still works you're here tonight you need help the tree still works you need to go back to your church and preach the cross again you need to go back to your church and preach the death Veil and Resurrection again because it works you say oh I wish I could preach like brother so and so I wish I could explain it like so and so you don't have to be deep in scripture just preach to death bell and resurrection and get somebody to the foot of the cross and let them know that when Jesus said it is finished they pierced aside oh oh here's how my mind works when they pierce the side and that water hit that tree that'll cross nobody's ever died on me like this nobody's ever suffered and even the soldiers said no one has ever died like this certainly surely this is the Sun of God so I'm telling you tonight as I close do not destroy people they're either fruit or they're a defense and do not let any imp from hell destroy the message of the cross in your life I want to tell you the day we gather and they mentioned the cross and we don't leap to our feet is the day we're headed in the wrong direction don't destroy this tree don't destroy this tree how long have we got to do this until the battle's over till we've won the victory amen I knew his own I've struggled all all week to try to figure out what the Lord wanted to say this week and I'm really trying but but I knew I knew when Bishop got through he said hey I'm Not Dead so I'm gonna keep preaching it is there anybody in this room that wonders what Bishop believes anybody got a hand anywhere anybody here anybody got a hand I want to ask you let me tell you his 75 years of ministry has not been roses all the way it's been fights and it's been battles and what I want if the Lord tarries is to have that testimony that when I'm in a room and they're wondering what Tim believes there's no doubt because this may have come and this may have gone this may have tried me and this may have brought a test into my life but there's nothing like cross it's alive it's alive stop preaching a dead cross it's alive when he put water on it it [Applause] awakened you bow your heads and said in it shall never oh I feel the Holy Ghost you're here and you never repented of your sins you ought to run to this altar right now I don't even have to ask I'm sure the water's ready there's roads ready there's towels ready to have I don't even have to ask in an Apostolic church if you're here and you've never been water baptized in Jesus name we do not baptize for membership our public profession of faith we baptize to get your sins remitted if you've never been water baptized you're to do it this first night of camp meeting if you've never received a baptism with the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking with other tongues you ought to step out right now oh I feel something in this room stirring saint sinner Seeker would you would you step out right now go ahead and sing singers the Lord's going to do something here