A Celebration Of A Certain Man

the Lord and you maybe see it I will say this just once and I don't like to bring attention to that which is negative but I have been smelling smoke and inhaling ashes and just finished a camp meeting so my voice is extremely weak today and I will not be able unless God which he has done many times just supernaturally steps in here and gives me strength then I will not be able to really be a full force this morning although I would love to be at full force because this is one of the finest moments of my ministry I have been granted thank you I've been granted opportunities far beyond my deserving to stand in significant moments and minister platforms of prestige in admirable places that many many would be envious to do I never found them as such an exaltation of myself but as a humbling challenge of privilege granted by the spirit such as what I am in today and I have never tried to just sermonize and say well let me get my best sermon for this moment of course the best sermon is the right one at the right time it doesn't matter what your opinion of the preparation or the revelation if it's not the voice of God to the church at that time it's a mess it's a failure so I've sought the Lord about the service today and I think we could dismiss right now and say that my message has already been preached however we will be redundant and be repetitive but you haven't heard it from my voice and so I have the right to add my postured position of personal relevance to this wonderful wonderful family first let me say that it's a joy to be in church with sister Marcus our one and only child Christie was named after Christine Marcus and she has taken your giftings the inspiration that you gave to my wife and she has blessed the temple of Pentecost and the world with her musical ability and talents she has written over 500 songs and many of them are sung around the nation and I take that from her back to you and we honor you for what you meant to my precious wife thank you sister Marcus I do miss brother Marcus here today and brother green I thought well my wife was singing and I was so admiring her as she sung she's son before I preached many many times she actually son before I preached before I knew her we were at Texas Bible College and they put together us the chapel service and I was chosen to speak and they asked Pat zeal and troop to sing before I preached and I've always enjoyed having a little humor out of it brother Garrett the song that she sung

that day was I'll regret now the rest of it was I didn't give a little bit more to the Lord but all I thought about is you may regret this she sung right before me and I preached and that was my introduction or and I said I'd like for her to do that every time I preach and so God has favoured me with that and then I could not began to approach this pulpit without acknowledging brother and sister mcclain there is no way possible that I could stand here today and preach without acknowledging the influence the impact and the rich blessing they've been to our life I haven't shared this even I don't think with my wife but sister mcclain in a recent service in Raleigh and after church unbeknownst to each other two different ladies in our service came to me and said brother Huntley while you were on the platform tonight I looked at you and two different women said I saw Wayne McClain two different ladies two ladies have been raised in our church through the years different places in the church in the same service and I said that's the highest compliment I've ever been given in my life and I stand here today firmly entrenched upon that god bless brother and sister McClane brother green and brother McClane powerful friends apostolic pillars in the body of Christ they allowed my wife and I to preach revivals for them when we fresh out of Bible College and I look back now and I shall never be indebted to you and maybe at some point I could give you the offering back because I know that we got more out of those privileges than we ever contributed to those congregations it's very important and imperative that no matter where we go in life or how God elevates or blesses we never break the connection with our roots we are indebted to our roots and to those who invested in us and believed in us before anyone else had ever heard of us and I shall always by the grace of God be faithful to what I learned from this wonderful man of God and this man of God who privileged us as young people to preach in their churches their families are impeccable in their character exemplary in their purity of apostolic truth and these young men that they have raised mighty men of God in their own right and I'm thrilled just to know them if you'd like to stand for the reading of the word it'll be almost so brief you won't even know I've stated it before you're back down but I have to preach what I felt the Lord would have me to preach to brother Garrett once again privileged to be in your presence I hope that brother subscreen continue to have anniversary so I can see you every five years a wonderful man of God brother pal thank you for being here today all of our ministers and guests that are here god bless you what a testament it is of influence and impact that people will put aside their personal agendas and come and celebrate together I knew that we would be pressed to be here today present circumstances preaching engagements responsibilities but this is the highest priority right here and we're thrilled to be here we love sister green one of the sweetest most precious kind encouraging ladies in the world and we thank God for her your Bibles please to Luke chapter 15 verse number 11 Luke chapter 15 verse 11 sorry heard a groan from the next speaker Luke 15 and 11 and would everybody read with me this one passage of Scripture ready and he said a certain man had two sons I guess we could rewrite that and say a certain man had five sons I preached to you today on the celebration of a certain man the celebration of a certain man give the Lord a hand clap with you right now before you're seated

and everybody said praise the Lord you made me see that what we're doing here is directly related to who we are what we are and it is in total agreement with the Word of God we are in a generation that is dumbing down pulpit Authority the ministry is being devalued in a lot of churches the ministry doesn't even occupy a place on the platform now you do what you need to do I'm not criticizing anyone but I'm telling you there is a generation that does not want Authority in their lives but the thing that has separated this church and brought and anointing is I will share in the message is the fact that we have understood that although men are just men they are appointed and they are anointed and that separates them and that they are worthy of double honor so it's a high privilege to be involved in this celebration of apostolic legacy and continuance we're talking about 45 years the average pastor of all denominations resides in the local churches pulpit for about 18 months and they change preachers nothing can be done with a rotating door to the pulpit the thing that creates what's here today is the lifetime of commitment and sacrifice and blessing and serving so as we celebrate the history of this iconic Church I feel absolutely compelled to emphasize and exaggerate the very foundation of its success and its consistency I recently read this verse of scripture and you know the Bible is as precious tomorrow's newspaper it is so revelatory so up today and even so advanced that every time you read it you get something new from the Word of God and to get a witness and somebody said well why didn't I see that back then you probably didn't need it back then because this is on a daily bread it gives us our daily bread Ephesians 2:20 a verse at all apostolic snow and I'd like to read it for you this morning Ephesians 2:20 and we're built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets Jesus Christ Himself being the chief Cornerstone when you repeat after me the word a man we are built upon the foundation of the Apostles one more time apostles prophets Jesus Christ God and man my point is the foundation that the church is built upon 3/4 of the elementary foundations of the church is men the apostles were men the prophets were men Jesus Christ was God and man and the Bible said that's what the church is built upon three out of four was humanity so we are not Rome to celebrate what a man has meant to God and to the work of God so my point would be remiss not to celebrate the incredible undeniable influence upon the storied history of blessing apostolic revival and this church that resides in the very position posture and person of Jerry Green he is this church in flesh I know you have crapped a lot you've made him uncomfortable when you do it one more time so we gather today to obey 1st Thessalonians 1 in 3 we celebrate your work that's produced by faith your labor that is prompted by love and your endurance that has been inspired by hope we celebrate a certain man the Bible said a certain male I don't think this verse has ever been more applicable to the generation we're living in when men don't know whether they're male or female it's a sad Society so confused that you don't know whether you're a man or a woman we celebrate a certain mate who is certain about who he is certain about what he is certain about where he is certain about his conviction his commitment his calling in this world that is so full of vacillation indecision compromise we celebrate a man

who is certain about who he is and what he is now you know God put David in Goliath which I'll preach about a little later Barna means the prodigal son you know why that's in the Bible so preachers would have something to preach everyone for those stories I don't know what we do but the prodigal son is one that we've offered to what I read to you is called the parable of the prodigal son however we could also headline it the error of the elder son the elder son is one that did right but he did right wrong because he stayed home but resented both his father and his brother it's not enough to do right Saints we need to do right right and that's doing right with a right attitude let me go to sleep a father it's no time for us to hate sinners it is no time for us to resent a lost world we are not here to hate them or to resent them we are here to save them we could even bring attention to the unknown in this text and that's the whereabouts of the missing unmentioned mother now we know a certain man didn't have two sons there had to have been a mother somewhere but in our story she does not even carry enough influence to be mentioned so you got a rebellious son a resentful son and a missing mother so I choose to rather highlight and celebrate a certain father I would like to rewrite this story and call it the parable of the admirable father the parable of the admirable father in the face of all the confusion contradiction and calamity I celebrate a man who refused to sell the farm but he maintained the fences he painted the barns he planted the crops he took care of the livestock and he remained faithful forgiving and firmly commit I know brother just agree long enough to know that this church has not always looked like this it has not always appeared like this there had to be Sunday after Sunday when there was discouragement when there was defeat when there was disillusionment but God somehow put it in him to come back to the pulpit and say in the face of it all we're never gonna sail this farm yes conviction appeared to be someday my sons will want to come home and there must be a recognizable home for him when he returns it's already been said but indulge me how marvelous that when the prodigal is returned they can recognise the home they left I will be real here just a moment there's a lot of backslidden Pentecostals that are coming back to their home churches and they're wondering where did he go this is nothing like what I left this is nothing like I was raised in this is nothing like what's where my home was I'm glad that when folks come back to the apostolic Pentecostal church they find we're still preaching we're still praying and we're still praising we're still preaching one Lord one faith one baptism Holly don't speaking in tongues apostolic worship miracles signs wonders Hollis standards covenants identification with God thank God that still looks like home

just in the brief time that we lost our home to the fire it's only been over a week now maybe 10 days 2 weeks 3 times I know of I've been in the city and I started home and then I had to stop and realize it's not there anymore it's not there anymore what a horrible feeling to want to go home but home is not there how comforting to know if you get in a pigpen and smell like slop there is still a home there is still a home our backsliders to come back to the church I pastor and find at stale power that only happened because a father was certain and refused to give in give up or go back and for years maybe you got this revelation 40 years ago and I was slow coming to it bear with me for years I've heard it incorrectly sung about and even misquoted that the prodigal said I will arise and go to my father's house incorrect the Bible says in Luke chapter 15 verse 18 I have sinned I will arise and I will go to my father the thing that brought that boy out of humiliation and degradation was not the father's house it was the nature of his father he just knew if I can just get to where my father is he will not resent me he will not reject me he will not criticize me he will not condemn me but I know my father well enough to know if I can get where he is everything's gonna be all right how'd effort the story might have been had he sought beauty for an invisible mother and it would probably been even worse brother pal if he would have met his brother and maybe that's why the Bible said the father ran because he knew I got a beat this crazy other kid of mine if I don't get to this boy first he won't find his mother and his brother is not gonna welcome him home thank God for a pastor Oh preached just a moment who's had to resist some saints that were really as of the Spirit they should be but the backsliders met the father before they met the rebellious Saints then I never made it back so let me quickly show you the nature of a certain father or a certain man the Bible said that when the prodigal started home we have a walking prodigal and a running father the father was more excited about the boy coming back then the ball he was this city is full of backsliders if they just knew there was a church that would be more excited about them coming back

than they are these pews would be fooled somewhere there's got to be a church that won't set on the front porch and say bless God he left home he knows where it's at but give us a charge that will run and make them besides that they may be seen the Bible said while he was yet a great way off we can't expect them to get all the way home without our help and we can't wait til they get all the way home to love them the main point is not where he was it's where he was headed we've got to love him not because they are there but because they're headed the right way and while he was away off he fell on his neck he wasn't afraid of becoming tainted by the stink of the hope in matter of fact I've always heard this you can you can tell a true Shepherd from a fake by one thing true Shepherds will always smell like sheep so he ran to him and so when he arrived home the father turned to one of his servants and said bringing I love this bring hither the the fatted calf not just a tenth you know servant which what I'm talking about it's the fatted calf it appears to me that the day the boy left the father stalled a calf and every day he began to feed it and he said one day my boys coming back and when he comes back we're gonna butcher you and we're gonna have a celebration it was a designated demarcated separated specified Niq saved calf not for any day but for my homecoming party for my son when he comes back if you've got back sliders in your home you need to start beating attack don't live in doubt or discouragement but every day feed that calf sand one day my boys coming back and when it comes back we're gonna have a celebration my lord help us here please these young men these green men have all expressed how that you know brother bringing is renowned for conservativism for unbending unwavering commitment to standards into conviction into holiness but there is a side of him that you wouldn't know unless you were in this church it's just like one time I was preaching the camp-meeting and you know how Patsy is just gun barrel straight sup I preach at this camp meeting years ago and this guy guys he's awesome III about the sermon I rolled his stuff and he says oh I would love for you to be my pastor my wife standing right there she steps up and she says I doubt that because there's a difference in a camp-meeting preacher and a pastor and you can see somebody on the platform of a conference but that's not the pastoral

role you feel that role then you go home and feel the other role but the role that you don't know about Jerry green unless you know him personally is he is equally and even superior Lee a man of mercy and grace and forgiveness and that's why this church is what it is today you're blessed with a certain man you don't get up in the morning debating what he's gonna preach he don't get up in the morning and decide which waves gonna live every day is the same take your stand for holiness take your stand for doctrine take your stand for truth but let the reputation go forth you won't make it back to this church by yourself somebody's gonna leave the porch and while you're yet apart we're gonna embrace you and say come on back to the father's house and you may ask to be made of servants but you'll never be a servant you're gonna be reinstated a sonship I'll close with this one final to me revelatory point every preacher that's in this room today knows what it is to get a biblical principle in your mind or a thought but you really don't have Bible for it yet did we get a witness it is a certain feeling you've had a certain thought you had but really you didn't really have at this point a concrete verse to refer to I'll give you a Bible for that the Bible said in Acts chapter 1 that he gave Commandments to the Apostles through the Holy Ghost it's possible to receive biblical direction and not know the chapter in verse because the one that wrote the chapter in verse can move into your spirit and give you that principle even though you can't say thus saith the word of the Lord now I had this principle revealed to me a long time ago by observation see when I started evangelizing brother MacLean taught me this preach what you see and then God will give you what you can't see I mean if it's obvious you don't need an angel to come tell I see that these people are not praying these people are not worshiping I don't mean Michael to come give me a message I can see that well this principle I learned by observation but for the longest I had no Bible and so I was afraid to preach it Pentecost is a place where you can say what you want to say but don't expect to walk out with somebody saying would you tell me where you that and you know what I found this is sarcasm preaching is really best when you have by how much you found it's better that way I mean I've heard guys preach all kind of stuff and there was really no Bible for you know really sounds good no Bible so I noticed this and I thought I believe this is really the way it is but I had no Bible I found Bible I found Bible for something that I had come to my heart in mind that I was fearful to preach and here it is God does not bless churches north's if running God does not bless churches God blesses ministries and the church is

blessed in proportion to the blessing of the man who stands right here that's why the sign can say UPC or whatever it says they can have a staple it can have padded pews it can have carpet it can have choirs it can have drums that can have music it can have whatever it's got but the sign nor the interior decorating is what makes the church the church the thing that makes the church the church is the man that stands here you believe what you believe because of the man that stands here you've been healed because of the man that stands here you've been delivered because of the man that stands now a lot of people don't wanna receive this word but that's all right there's other parts of it they don't want to receive either but God does not bless churches God blesses ministries and the Lord bless your Minister is the more glass the church now that's challenging that's challenging but it's biblical and here's rough from the most unlikely place I found it David and Goliath first Samuel 17 and eight and he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel to life and said unto them why are you come out to set your battle in array you know what battle in array means you're lining up your army you're lining up your soldiers Israel over here Philistines over there Goliath said why are you setting this thing up army against army he said why are you come out to set your battle in our array AM NOT ayah Philistine and your services so choose you a man from you and let him come down to me read if he be able to fight with me and to kill me then we'll be your servants then we will be your servants but if I prevail against him and kill him then shall ye be our servants and serve us Goliath said this thing is not going to be determined by army against army this is one man on one man and whatever happens to your champion happens to your people whatever happens to my people's champion happens to my people in other words the only hope my people have is that I can defeat your champion that's why the ministry is under attack the devil realized that it more than we realize it that if our creature goes into bondage the church is going into bondage compromise never starts in the Pew compromise never starts in the pew if our preachers defeated the church will be defeated if I played sirs discouraged the charts will be discouraged but if our preacher is anointed the church should be anointed if the preacher is liberated the church should be liberated if the preacher has victory that charge will have victory everybody stand clap your hands that's why you gotta bless your preacher that's why you gotta pray for your pastor that's why you gotta support your pastor one more verse and they don't have it but I'll give it to you the Bible said about unity it's like the

anointing oil that comes upon the head everybody say the head of Aaron and then what does it do it flows down to the body the anointing cannot get to the body if it doesn't touch the hand it will always start in the head and the head of the church is the pastor but part Berkshire gets out there it comes through here before victory gets out better it flows through here but for daily everyone sticks out better it comes through here because the yoke is not broken but destroyed because of the anointing I wasn't gonna use this 10 the guys remain standing we're taking them on if the guys can help me here look at first samuel 26 I think I'm right if you get first time in 26 and 12 remain standing as we close first single 26 yeah and 12 notice this so David took the spear and the crus of water from Saul's bolster and they got them away so high had a David head with him ambition and Saul was in a deep sleep that God had put on him it was just a normal nap he was out probably like the map that Adam took when Eve was born some anesthesia knocking out he was gone he took a little too many militants and David and his armor bearers came up to him and Abishai said today visit let me hit him once if you'll let me smite him once I won't have to do it twice I can take him out now with one below Davidson nut so we're gonna take the spear the crews of water and then he went across the valley and David cried to the people Abner Abner your soles bodyguard where do you think I got this the crews of water I another oh my lord how did you get that close to him and I didn't know it David said you're supposed to be a mighty man of God aren't you you're supposed to be the one that protects the king and verse 16 David said this thing is not good that thou has done as the Lord liveth you are worthy to die because you have not kept your master the Lord's anointed I'm afraid a lot of churches have not realized their responsibility the ministry does have a responsibility but it could be the reason so many ministers are falling into difficulties and problems and challenges is because the church is not protecting the anointed and David said you are worthy today because you did not protect the Lord's anointing so as we celebrate forty-five years you're to be commended but you're also to be challenged that it's your job to make sure his hands are up it's your job to make sure that he doesn't get

discouraged it's your job to make sure that backsliders and and people who speak evil of him are not so granted the privilege as brother Marcus and that generation would say and I close with us there would not nearly be as many long tongues if there wasn't as nearly as many long ears now I don't say that I'm in a new generation but it's still true you need to make up your mind you're going to protect the anointing because that's your deliverance that's your healing it can not get to you without first coming through him and I have Bible and I have Bible therefore it's impossible to love your pastor too much it's impossible to bless him because as you bless him it bounces all from him and comes right back into the congregation I would like for brother and sister green their sons and their families to come stand in front of the pulpit you don't have a okay if you'd step to the front bring their family down and as they close as they come you have applauded no doubt you've given gifts but maybe right now you would could do something that you haven't done lift your hands and thank God for the anointing lift your hands and thank God for the anointing God does not bless churches God blesses ministries you know Israel recognized that one day David went out to a battle and the Bible said he was almost killed and the men of Israel came to human sin that's it buddy that's it you're not going back out anymore we're not gonna let you be killed you're the light of Israel you're the anointed and from that day you know what happened they started killing Giants David was the first giant killer but he wasn't the last giant killer but God enabled them to kill Giants because they protected the Giant Killer if you will protect the man of God in your life God can give you power to have a ministry similar to his turn around and face the audience folks not only do you need to pray for brother and sister green but these wonderful men of God and their wives and their children so much rest on the shoulders of anointed ministry and I'll just say this we apostolic preachers we don't come to the pulpit and whine we don't come and tell your woeful tales of struggles that we're having we say God's great when devastation just happened we say all is well while we got a dead boy laying at home and you need to thank God for that but nevertheless that doesn't mean that they don't have needs that God can supply place your hands this way and bless this whole family he loved our old konohana by Shia we pray the anointing of the Holy Ghost upon this wonderful family that the strength of God be theirs let the

mercies of God be theirs and let the grace of God envelop them put a fresh anointing upon their lives send the angels of mercy then camp around about them cause this church to know how blessed they are because of the ministry that stands in this pulpit I pray the grace of God to continue to lead them I pray for peace prosperity and prolong health by the power of the anointing of the Holy Ghost now lift your hands and praise God clap your hands that thank God for anointed appointed apostolic ministry