You know, there's two things I want to
just stop and say.
I praise God for His presence here the
way it is right now.
And I praise God for you loving the
Word and loving the Lord and letting Him
minister to you, as He's doing right now.
I praise God.
Folks, do you know that we've gotten His
presence again?
Are you aware of it?
Right now?
What He's saying, He's not saying what a
nice fellow I am, or the man coming
to town, and he's confirming this Word right
here.
He's sending this for him wanting you to
walk.
That's what He's speaking to your hearts right
now.
That's what you're hearing in Him.
He's showing you where you've been, and He
wants you to repent of it.
Are you hearing me?
See, if you don't repent, you never have
changed.
He's going, Hey folks, He set you free
from a lot of stuff last night.
How many realize that?
Hold up your hand.
He's doing it again tonight.
He's doing it because of His Word, and
you're taking the Word into your heart.
He's doing it because of mercy and grace.
He could be letting you live like the
whole town out there is dying.
It's mercy and grace.
He wants you to be honored and loved.
He wants you to know He said, I'm
the Creator.
I created you for good, not evil.
We haven't learned what it is to have
God to bless us.
We get little crumbs of bread.
Folks, let me ask you something.
Instead of being hard-hearted, does it make
you want to just kind of get on
your face before God and say, God, let
me tell you something about Him, folks.
You know what He's really saying right here?
He said, I don't mean no harm to
anyone.
I love you more than anything you can
comprehend.
And you can't do this thing.
He said, that's reason.
I said, Jesus, but I want your heart
to be willing and obedient so that I
can do it for you.
And then the only thing, if you can
just spend a whole eternity boasting in the
grace of God that just loves you beyond
anything you comprehend.
But see if your heart is looking back
to family, friends, children, theology, are people who
still love these things.
They're not going to understand a person trying
to change and walk the world because to
your promise, folks, you're going to be persecuted
by the world and the world and the
church.
Why have you never seen persecution before?
Honey, there's no persecution for anybody that walks
and talks like the world, like we've been
doing.
The persecution comes when you start repenting and
turning from it.
And then you're not singing the song of
the world, you know, walk and talk like
them.
But then see, you're blessed.
And then you let your light shine in
love.
And then people see it and the Spirit
of God gets all over people around you.
And then you get to snatch people out
of the fire.
But as long as we're going out and
trying to do all these things, you know,
Jesus, we're called into rest from our labors.
Don't get in big no hurry, don't get
in strife, you get a demon that way.
Rest.
You know what?
Get your mind on God.
When God says get up and go back
there, do it.
There's something good at the other end of
it.
And then you know it's a part of
you.
Don't want to do that?
Overcome it.
Get up and do it because you learn
every time you do it, He loves the
fire out of you because everything He asks
you to do, I'm close to a fit
right now.
Folks, let's be honest about it.
Folks, I want to ask you something.
Haven't we been getting our brains beat up
while we hang in there and keep a
stiff upper lip and let the rough end
drag, right?
Just like the world out there, huh?
And now we've got, see, we can't boast
to no more folks, no more men.
Can't honor no more men.
You start honoring men, you're on your way
to hell.
You boast because God's here.
Mercy's here and grace's here.
You know, at this point in my life,
I'm more aware of the mercy and grace
of God in my life than I am
His love.
That's because I moved to a different place
and so I'm aware of His love.
Don't misunderstand me, but I'm aware because I
know me so well.
I'm aware of His mercy and grace, you
see, at this point.
Amen?
And I'm becoming more aware of His love
all the time.
I'm going to tell you something, folks.
Now, let's just be honest.
We don't know too much, okay?
But let's know the one that knows it,
the one that was sent here to save
us.
His name is Jesus.
And when you start honoring Him, there's no
telling what He might do.
And if He does something here, we're not
going to boast in no man's ministry or
nobody or no man.
We're going to say we had Jesus in
our midst.
Amen?
Glory be to God.
Can I do some of that I did
this afternoon, just kind of tell Him how
much I love Him?
Lord, I love You.
I love You so much.
I just thank You, Lord, for what I'm
seeing right out here in Jesus' name.
I thank You, Lord, that what I'm seeing
in the hearts of these people, I thank
You for what I'm seeing in Your grace
and mercy right now, in Your Word and
Your Spirit.
What I'm seeing right now, no man or
nothing on this earth can do but only
You.
You are the only God.
Lord Jesus, You are the only way.
You are the King of kings and Lord
of lords.
Hallelujah to the name of Jesus.
Praise God forevermore.
Now, so what did Jesus come here for?
He came to put a heart in you
like Him.
You know why?
He came here and He loved the Lord
with all His heart and He loved His
neighbors as well.
And He came to show you and I
how to walk.
He also came to make a place through
Calvary in the blood.
If Jesus did not come, I want you
to understand something about Him.
If Jesus did not come, glory be to
God in His name, if He didn't come
and go to cross this wrath of God
that we hadn't understood much about, if He
didn't come and make a place for your
and my sins under this blood, there'd be
no hope for you.
There's no hope except Jesus.
And He's a living hope.
Glory be to His name.
He came here and I'm telling you what,
He carried the cross the whole time He's
on earth.
And you know what?
As a matter of fact, He's talking about
taking up your cross before He ever went
to cross.
You take up your cross when you die.
You know, but folks, it's a joy when
you get around fellowship with people coming to
the Lord with a pure heart.
It is a joy.
Every time you suffer, you get a joy.
That pleases God.
Because every time you please Him, you get
promoted.
You sure do get promoted.
And He just shows it.
This is how you become strong in the
Lord.
If you're not strong in the Lord, you're
strong in the devil.
And the powers of darkness run all over
you.
When you get strong in the Lord, you
say things and things happen.
The angels are watching over those and serving
those who are inheriting salvation.
Amen?
Salvation is overcoming.
Glory be to God forevermore.
Praise His precious name.
Boy, I'm glad I don't have to do
it.
Faithful as He had called Him, He'd bring
it to pass.
But if you don't, if you come in
the wrong way, coming in, you never do
follow Him.
You get out here with all this sin
in you, you don't know what to do
with it, and your conscience starts getting defiled,
and you just worry yourself out, and you
can't do enough to help God out.
And your conscience gets defiled, and then finally
you just say, you start getting hard, and
your conscience starts getting seared.
And you say, well, I've done all I
can do.
This is just the way it is.
It's that way when you're walking in death.
He put the laws on your heart so
you'd obey them, and when you break one
of them, condemnation is on you.
The law condemns.
And when you break them, your heart's condemned.
You don't have peace.
You don't have peace until you repent and
put it on the blood.
Jesus is right there, and the blood's right
there.
You've got a place to put it.
And you confess it, but it doesn't get
put there if you don't confess it.
Those who walk in the form of God,
it says say on the front end, see,
if you come here, and you receive the
Spirit of God, what does the Spirit of
God come into you for?
It comes to lead you, to show you
the way.
But then you may get an experience right
there and say, bless God, you can't tell
me that back there in that corn patch
that I didn't get saved.
Yes, sir?
At the very beginning of it.
But then, see, when you stop right here,
you'll never go on to obedience to the
Lord.
You never talk to beasts led by the
Spirit of God.
And you never do overcome.
You stand right there and get killed by
the power of the darkness.
Let me see that.
Hold up your hand.
Now, here's what Jesus is coming for in
Ephesians 5, verse 27.
That he is going to present to him
the church in all her what?
She's going to have glory.
Why?
She's going to have no spot.
She's not going to have no wrinkle or
any such thing.
But she's going to be what?
Holy and blameless.
Now, look at me, folks.
The Lord, the Spirit of God, leads us
to overcome and put to death the deeds
of the flesh, the character and nature of
Satan.
Are you hearing what I'm saying?