Lord, as we come unto you tonight, it
is with great praise and thanksgiving.
We're so appreciative, so appreciative.
We thank you, Lord, for the good report
from Judith Ann Carrick.
We're very appreciative of that wonderful work that
you do with us.
We pray for each family here, Lord, that
there will be peace, there will be health,
safety, Lord, to keep us in this day,
day of days, Lord.
Now, as we proceed, Lord, you know what
needs to be said.
You know what each one of us needs.
Help us through your Holy Spirit, Lord, that
Jesus and his word will be what it's
supposed to be tonight, and I thank you
in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Oh, thanks, Lord.
I'm greatly honored to have a major bring
in my water.
It's no light thing.
All right, shall we turn to Romans 13,
verses 8 through 14, something
that has intrigued me for years, and yet
you're all familiar with it.
Romans 13, 8 through 14, and it has
to do with the program of redemption.
Let no debt remain outstanding except the continuing
debt to love one another, for he who
loves his fellow man has fulfilled the law.
The commandments, do not commit adultery, do not
murder, do not steal, do not covet, and
whatever other commandment there may be, are summed
up in this one rule, love your neighbor
as yourself.
Love does no harm to its neighbor.
Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law,
and do this understanding the present time.
The hour has come for you to wake
up from your slumber because our salvation is
nearer now than when we first believed.
The night is nearly over, the day is
almost here, so let us put aside the
deeds of darkness and put on the armor
of light.
Let us behave decently as in the daytime,
not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual
immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ,
and do not think about how to gratify
the desires of the sinful nature.
Now, the point is this unusual expression, the
hour has come for you to wake up
from your slumber because our salvation is nearer
now than when we first believed.
What salvation?
What does that mean?
Now, it doesn't mean dying and going to
heaven because this is something that is coming.
Now, we could say that it's the coming
of the Lord, but how is that salvation
to us?
What does it save us from?
In other words, what is the issue here?
In Revelation 22, 12, the
Lord says, I'm coming and my reward is
with me to give every man as his
work shall be.
But I don't think that's what this is
talking about, because I think the salvation that
is mentioned here has to do with salvation
from sin.
And see, the coming of the Lord, there's
no, the coming of the Lord is a
revelation of what has happened prior.
Because if you stop to think about it,
at the coming of Christ, the trumpet sounds,
the voice of the archangel, and so on,
and the dead are raised, the dead in
Christ are raised, and then we who are
alive and remain are evidently transformed and then
caught up to meet the Lord in the
air.
Now, I submit to you that that is
not a salvation from sin, but as a
consequence of something that has happened previously.
Because if you stop to think about it,
when you're resurrected, in order to deal with
sin, the Lord has to bring us before
his judgment seat.
The Lord has to bring us before his
judgment seat.
How can the Lord deal with sin?
How does the Lord deal with sin?
How is the Lord dealing with sin in
our lives today?
He calls it to our attention, and then
we have a choice to make.
Isn't that so?
When it's called to our attention that we
are too much in the world, and we're
convicted because we're spending our time in the
world, and are neglecting the things of God,
we have a choice to make.
When we are confronted with a real temptation
in the flesh, a real passion in the
flesh, and we're tempted to do something wrong,
break our marriage vows, hurt somebody, steal, or
whatever, that is brought up to our attention,
and we have a choice to make.
Isn't that so?
And in that period of time, the Lord,
either we go the Lord's way, or we
go our own way.
Now, we've come now, at this time, in
history, to the real issue, and by far
the most significant issue, is our self-will.
Now, when the Lord first called this issue
of death to self-will to me, it
was before we came to the Poway Church,
so that's over 24 years ago.
And it was made very real to me
about death to self, about this third death,
which is death to self.
The first death is death to the world,
and the second death is death to sin,
and the third death is death to self.
And I wrote on that subject, on the
three deaths and resurrections, before ever we came
to the Poway Church, so this is not
new to me.
But I realized at that time that there
were some deeper life people of God, such
as Madame Guion, and Jesse Penn Lewis, and
A.B. Simpson, that had mentioned death to
self, but I noticed that no one had
ever treated it in a systematic Biblical way.
It had been a kind of a personal
experience.
It certainly was with Jesse Penn Lewis, it
certainly was with Madame Guion, it was a
personal experience that they went through.
But to see it like in terms of
the Feast of the Lord, or something of
this, no, it was not in existence.
And I realized that no one had written
systematically, clearly and scripturally, on the death to
self.
And yet, as time goes on, we see
that this is the issue.
Because all sins are disobedience.
And we know that God is dealing with
this now in the church.
In fact, he's dealing with all three areas
in the church.
Well, you can't, this, these issues cannot be
faced when the trumpet sounds, and the dead
are raised, and you're changed.
At least I don't think so.
It doesn't make sense to me that the
first resurrection would take place and then we
would stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
Because the first resurrection is the consequence.
In other words, the first resurrection is the
sentence of judgment.
That is not the judgment, but the sentence.
The sentence is that you have attained eternal
life in your flesh and you're caught up
to be with Christ forever.
There can't be a judgment after that.
How after that could God give you the
good that you have done and the bad
that you have done?
How could you, after that, then make up
your mind about death to your self-will?
How could you make up your mind after
that to death to the passions of the
flesh or death to the world?
It can't happen.
See, it can't happen.
Now, I'm reasoning with you now, but I
have solid scriptural basis for what I'm talking
about.
We'll go into that.
But first I wanted to present to you
the issue.
It is my conviction from the scripture that
this day of salvation of which Paul taught
is a day that will come before the
coming of the Lord and will cause the
Christian church to make the decisions that will
either qualify them for the first resurrection or
not.
See, that's totally logical.
I submit to you further that it's not
clearly stated and spelled out that this will
happen like this in this order in the
scripture, but neither was the first coming of
the Lord spelled out clearly in the prophets,
that there would be two comings separated by
2,000 years.
And the Jews are still looking for Messiah
to come because they can't see it in
the scripture.
And if you will recall, when the Lord
was born, there was only two old people
that knew it, and all the rest of
Israel went on blindly.
Now, why?
Because they were religious people, they were accurate
in terms of the law, but they were
not in contact with God.
And I submit to you today that God
is doing something that has about it a
dispensational aspect, and I do not mean by
that the theory of dispensationalism, but I mean
an actual step forward in the kingdom, and
that it will be hidden to everyone except
those who are really seeking the Lord.
And it will pass by the rest of
the church, and they won't know what hit
them when the time comes.
And I have solid scripture, and we'll go
into that, but what Paul wrote here about
the salvation is obviously not clear to Christian
scholars, because they've never written on it, they
just assume it means we're dying and going
to heaven, or it assumes that it means
the Lord is coming or something, but on
any basis in the Old Testament or the
New, it's an assumption.
But they haven't thought it through clearly, see,
because they're thinking of heaven.
And we realize that salvation is not salvation
from the earth to heaven, but it's salvation
from what to what?
From Satan to God.
From sin to salvation in the sense of
redemption.
And redemption in the Bible is from the
hand of the enemy, and the enemy is
Satan, and we forfeited the right to live
without sin by obeying Satan, and this is
what God said in Genesis, that sin crouches
at the waiting to have dominion over you,
and so what our forefathers lost by forfeiture
was the ability to serve God without sin.
And so redemption, we didn't lose heaven, we
were never in heaven, so redemption has nothing
to do with heaven, it has to do
with what was lost in Eden, what was
lost in Eden was the ability to serve
God without being compelled to sin, or exercise
self-will, thereby earning the right to eternal
life.
So what I'm submitting to you is when
the Redeemer, the redemption that is coming, of
which the New Testament speaks, albeit not in
systematic terms, is a final redemption from sin.
And it will occur before the Lord comes,
and it will occur to those who are
watching.
Watching.
Let me give you a couple of scriptures.
Let's look at 1 Peter 1.5. In
the NIV it's especially good.
1 Peter 1.5. Those of you who
know, how many here are pretty well acquainted
with the Feasts of the Lord?
I think almost all of us except probably
Brooke hasn't had much teaching on it.
But we see the system, we see that
Passover comes, and then Pentecost comes, and then
comes the Day of Atonement.
So we see that the Day of Reconciliation
of God, which is obviously, we were reconciled
by the blood to begin with, and legally,
so now we have to be reconciled in
terms of our actual personality, and particularly our
willingness to say, not thy will but thine
be done, and so this comes after Pentecost.
And so we are on solid ground as
far as the types are concerned.
And also we'll be bringing up another one
pretty soon, another real good type, which is
the Cave of Makedah, which shows it quite
clearly.
Now, take a look at 1 Peter 1
.5. Who through faith are shielded by God's
power.
Now Colleen, that's where the whole picture fits
in.
That's where you do the best you can
to fend it off, see.
But there is a day of salvation coming
in which you'll be set free.
And this of course goes along with Hebrews
9 and 10, that tells us that Christ
was offered to make our conscience perfect, the
idea being he's not going to be offered
for us again.
The assumption is by one offering we're sanctified
forever.
The idea is we're kept under guard, so
that's what it says in the NIV, we're
kept under a shielding.
We're shielded by faith, doing the best we
can, putting on Christ, praying and everything, until
God releases us.
And what I'm pointing out to you is
that release does not come by physical death,
because after death comes judgment.
Nor does it come when the Lord appears,
because the Lord, when the Lord comes, he
gives rewards.
That's a time of rewards, that's why I
point out Revelation 22.
My reward is get with me, to give
every man of his work shall be.
So the redemption has to come prior to
the coming of the Lord, and prior to
the feast of tabernacles, that is the entering
of the, it has to come before then.
So we need to see if the scripture
is pointing toward a day of redemption that
is in and of itself, that's not our
physical death, and it's not the coming of
the Lord.
How many are tracking me?
I mean, it's a little academic, but holy,
holy.
Are you the only one that says, nobody
else is tracking me, you want to go
through that again?
No, I know you don't want that.
When Romans 13 said that the day of
salvation is nearer than when we believe, and
when it says things like lift up your
head, your redemption comes near, it's talking not
about the second coming of the Lord is
included in that, but there has to be
of necessity a prior coming of the Lord
to his church to get it ready for
his coming in the clouds of glory, and
that there is scripture for this.
And I think that our shield by God's
power were kept under the coming of the
salvation that is ready to be revealed the
last time.
Now what I'm asking you is, what is
that salvation?
See, the coming of the Lord is a
revealing of what is, and if the coming
of the Lord brings the judgment seat of
Christ, then things are all out of order,
and it won't work that way.
We can't have the Lord come, and we're
still trying to decide whether we're really going
to serve the Lord, and then have him
come, raise us, or transform us if we're
alive at the time, catch us up to
be forever with him, and then at that
time we go through the process that we're
going through now, stay in the prison that
God puts us in.
Can you see that?
So we have to see if the scripture
implies that there is a salvation that will
come to those who are looking for Christ
prior to his coming to give rewards.
Okay, let's look now at Hebrews 9, 27,
and 28, and here's where the practical, I'm
talking now kind of theologically, but here's where
the practical comes in.
I'm telling you, in the name of the
Lord, to the best of my knowledge, that
this is taking place now, and you can
miss it by being careless.
You can have all perfect evangelical doctrine and
miss it.
You can miss it by occupying yourself with
the American way of life, the pursuit of
money, the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of
material things.
You absolutely can miss it.
It requires all the attention in the world
that you can bring to it, and all
I'm asking is to seek God with all
your heart, and that's got to be right.
You can miss it by playing around with
the lust of your flesh, with office flirtations,
with a little pornography, a little risqué thing.
Yeah, it's not really in runoff with anybody
else's husband or wife, but you're kind of
playing with the fire.
Do you know what I mean?
You're kind of playing with the fire.
You can miss it that way.
It requires more.
He will give you the energy and the
desire to do it, but boy, you cannot
be distracted by anything.
And then when it comes to the self
-will thing, that means that God is putting
us in prisons today, and we have to
stay in them.
We cannot break out, and it causes us
to say continually, not my will but yours
be done, and it is not easy.
It's tougher than we realize.
I'm going to put some iron in you
tonight.
I know that's what God is saying to
us tonight.
I've got to put some iron in you.
It's harder than we realize.
The reason it is is because we've been
used to an 80% consecration, and it
isn't going to work.
Not if you want to make the resurrection
of God's kings and priests.
It isn't going to work.
Hebrews 9.27 and 28.
Now see if this follows the train, the
idea that the Lord is going to come
prior to His coming in the clouds of
glory.
Not as someone says, go here and go
there.
I'm not talking about that.
I'm talking about as you pray, as the
scripture says, He shall come unto a season,
and I'm telling you, it's a season.
Now look at it.
For He's appointed unto man once to die,
and after that what?
The judgment.
So as
man is destined to die once.
See how the parallel?
Just as man is destined to die once
in the same way.
So Christ was sacrificed once to
whom?
To those who are waiting for Him.
And that salvation, I'm telling you, is judgment
on the sins that are in us.
We are of firstfruits of God's creation.
That's in James.
Where's that?
It's in the first chapter of James.
Yes Bill.
By all means, all of you have to,
you know, I get loud, but it's because
I wanted to drive into your spirit.
That is tougher than people are willing today.
We've got all these you
can do it, but we're going for the
top.
You see?
We're going for the top.
Now I'm perfectly willing for you to ask
questions because I've got enough.
He's coming the second time to do away
with it.
In other words, He's not coming.
That's what it's talking about.
Yes.
It's a movement on God's church as a
whole.
And, of course, we know from the letters
we get on the internet, you don't get
to see these, but there's people all over
the world that are hearing God's voice and
are being turned around.
What was that one lady said today?
She's just been totally revolutionized because it's so
different, because it's like a mail goes away
from you.
So God has His elect and they're scattered
here and there all over the place.
Of course, we're dealing here with a local
church, but on the internet we're dealing with
a very select group.
I mean, it's just one out of 10
,000 that God is really dealing with.
That's the problem.
We're a little too comfortable here.
It's a little too much business as usual.
What would be heard that and now let's
get on with our life.
That's why I yell every once in a
while because I can feel that and I
know you're going to miss it if you
don't really mean business and all these little
bodies that are all over that don't have
a church to go to and that are
living off the tapes and the internet.
God is talking to them and they're ready
to go.
Eddie reads those too.
He can tell you about all right.
Any other question?
Yes, it is.
In the Feast of
the Lord cover this.
Whenever you begin to wonder, you can go
back to Feast and there's your track for
you.
Every one of them will be fulfilled historically
in a kingdom-wide fulfillment and every one
of them is fulfilled personally and unless it's
fulfilled in you personally, the kingdom-wide fulfillment
won't have any meaning.
For example, let's go back to Passover 2
,000 years ago but unless you appropriate it
personally, it will have no value for you.
The same way with the Day of Pentecost
came historically 2,000 years ago but until
you grasp it personally, the historical fulfillment has
no meaning.
Now the Feast of Trumpets is described in
the 8th chapter of the Book of Revelation
with the seven trumpets, you see, but unless
it's fulfilled in you personally, then the historical
fulfillment won't have any significance.
So every one of these will be fulfilled
in a historical kingdom-wide fulfillment and then
to you personally and of course you can
go ahead of your time and a few
have but now is God's time to deal
with a much larger segment of his church
than with Madam Guy on here and Jesse
Penn Lewis there and someone else over here.
It's time for the wagon train or for
our first fruits of the wagon train and
so we're beginning to see it scripturally.
You have to, on your question Bill, you
have to look at two or three translations
because it's a hard verse to translate evidently
so you can get the idea of what
he means without references in.
The first time he came, the whole thing
was to forgive the sins of the world.
Now he's coming to put them away.
In other words, he's not coming to be
a sin-bearer but he's coming to be
a king and deliverer is the sense.
Of course you could interpret it to mean
his coming has nothing to do with sin
but we know that that's not true because
we know that when the Lord comes he's
going to destroy sin out of the earth.
Starting with verse 19 and I mean this
is very clear.
Now remember we're not saying low here and
low there.
We're talking about the coming of the Lord
to his church in the spirit because his
kingdom-wide coming will be as the lightning
shines from the east to the west but
you see that's a time of revelation and
of consequence.
The work has to be done prior to
that and it is happening now.
You know the best way to check a
doctrine?
Go and ask the Lord.
Just say, are you dealing with me about
myself Will?
Are you dealing with me?
Just ask him.
He'll tell you.
All I do is interpret.
I'm not telling you to do anything except
pay attention to the Lord.
That's all.
I know you enjoy that part.
All right now 1419.
Before long the world will not see me
anymore but you will see me because I
live you also will live so we know
it's talking about the life of Christ in
us.
On that day you will realize that I
am in my father and you are in
me and I am in you.
Now that awareness is just now coming to
the church.
If you don't believe it you ought to
read some of the early church fathers as
they tried to describe the trinity.
I mean it's no they're trying to figure
out whether it was like a chandelier with
three light bulbs.
There's one chandelier and but yet there were
three lights and it was a three-leaf
clover and they have all these to explain
to us how God is one and God
is three.
When you begin to enter the Feast of
Tabernacles you'll know because you'll experience inside the
father and the son and you'll know the
difference between them but that but you can't
describe it with your mind you just know
it God is our father.
They're not the same person at all.
Are they one?
So of course they're one but we're being
made one in them.
Same oneness.
They're one but not one person so that
you know theologians are wrestling with that.
The Jesus name color is all broke off.
You have to experience that that day what
day that day is referring to Isaiah in
the day the Lord alone is exalted in
your life in that day you will know
about the trinity.
You'll know about God.
You'll know because Jesus will reveal the father
to you.
As it says in Matthew 11 no man
knows the father save the son and he
to whomsoever the son will reveal him.
That's the rest of God.
It's the revelation of the father and the
father is the father and Jesus is Jesus
and the Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit
and yet they're one and we're being made
one in them.
It's largely a semantic problem.
All right he who now here's the trick
of it.
Whoever has my commandments and obeys them he
is the one who loves me.
All right now that is why Satan has
pushed so hard in the evangelical church to
tell us we don't have to keep God's
commandments or there are no commands or Jesus
did it all or whatever because you cannot
go anywhere with God until you do what
the New Testament commands you to do.
Grace is that's not the meaning of grace.
It is not an alternative to God's commands.
Yes Anthony you'll see
it.
Good question though.
Now notice in verse 21 what you have
to do what the apostles commanded and what
Christ commanded.
You cannot say oh but I'm saved by
grace.
It doesn't work.
That's not the meaning of grace.
He who loves me will be loved by
my father.
He is the one who loves me.
That's how we know we love Christ when
we do what he says.
He who loves me will be loved by
my father.
Do you see the difference there?
That's two people you're talking about there.
All right he who loves me will be
loved by my father and I too will
love him and show myself to him.
Not to the world but to him.
This is not talking about his first coming.
It's not talking about his second coming.
It's talking about something in between.
There's the Bible.
Okay now look at it.
Then Judas not Judas Iscariot said but Lord
why do you intend to show yourself to
us and not to the world?
To those who look for him shall he
appear a second time without sin unto salvation
not as a sin bearer but as the
salvation talked about in first Peter 1 5
and Romans 13.
The salvation that is near to come.
Okay Jesus replied if anyone loves me he
will obey my teaching.
Okay my father will love him and we
will come to him and make our home
with him.
Now that's the fulfillment of what feast but
where does it come in relationship to the
day of atonement?
After.
So therefore the day of atonement the day
of reconciliation to God must come before this.
So I submit to you that the Lord
comes to us to prepare us for tabernacles.
This is simple and reasonable as that.
All right now let's go now to Malachi
3.
Now as I say if you don't understand
all this theology it's all right just go
home and say Lord make it apply to
me and he will.
Malachi 3 see I will send my messenger
who will prepare the way before me then
suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come
to his temple.
Now I want to submit to you this
is not the coming of the Lord in
the clouds of glory.
It's a coming of the Lord to his
temple in people.
Okay the messenger of the covenant whom you
desire will come but who can endure the
day of his coming?
Who can stand when he appears?
For he will be like a refiner's fire
or a launderer's soap.
He will sit as a refiner and purifier
of silver.
He will purify the Levites and refine them
like gold and silver.
Then the Lord will have men who will
bring offerings in righteousness and the offerings of
Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable to the
Lord as in days gone by as in
former years.
Now we turn to what Stan?
You know.
He knows where I'm going.
Matthew 3.
Matthew 3 verse 10.
Okay.
The axe is already at the root of
the trees and every tree that does not
produce good fruit will be cut down and
thrown into the fire.
Isn't that what Jesus said in John 15?
For a branch that does not abide in
me is cut off and burned.
Okay.
I baptize you with water for repentance but
after me will come one who is more
powerful than I, whose sandals I am not
fit to carry.
He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit
and with fire.
Now what did Malachi say?
The Lord will come and he is a
refiner's fire.
Now look at this.
Now just stop and think logically for a
minute.
Will this happen at the coming of the
Lord?
Is it talking about his coming in the
clouds of glory?
Is it talking about something that will happen
after he comes?
After we have been raised from the dead?
After we have been transformed?
After we have received our house from heaven?
After we have been caught up and to
be forever with the Lord?
Is it going to come then?
Well, how about John 14?
I will come to you.
And for what purpose?
To prepare us for the feast of tabernacles.
Which follows the feast perfectly.
All right.
Now look at it.
His winnowing fork is in his hand.
You know what that is where you toss
grain up in the air and the chaff
blows away and the wheat falls back into
the pan.
All right.
He will clear his threshing floor.
Now this is who?
Who is doing this?
One who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.
And who is that?
Jesus.
So when it says the messenger of the
covenant, could Jesus rightly be called the messenger
of the covenant?
Or the Lord whom you seek shall suddenly
come to his temple?
The Lord whom you seek shall suddenly come
to his temple?
It is not stretching it.
The alternatives are not red hot.
It sounds like the Lord is coming to
baptize his church with fire.
Now let me ask you a logical question
now.
Consider the Pentecostal church.
Most of you have been in the Pentecostal
or Baptist church.
What shape are they in?
I get letters from people.
They are almost unbelievable.
The things that are going on in the
Christian churches are almost unbelievable.
Now I tell you, the Bible says the
trumpet will sound, the voice of the archangel,
and the dead shall be raised and we
who are alive and remain shall be caught
up together with them to meet the Lord
in the air and so shall we ever
be with the Lord.
Now suppose that is tonight.
What about the rank and file of Charismatic
and Baptist churches?
Well, consider it.
The question is, are they ready to meet
Jesus?
Well, you have been there.
Are they?
Yes?
I am hearing all the way through everything
you are saying.
This business of self-will is at the
center of it.
Show me now.
Please, show me now.
And burn this stuff away now.
Please.
It makes sense to you, given the state
of the church.
Now maybe you are not out there, but
we get letters from people that are trying
to find it and they can't find anything.
That the Lord would come in the spirit
realm to cleanse his church and that he
would do it by his power.
In other words, he is not asking us
to cleanse ourselves so much as to follow
him in this new dispensation that I maintain
has come upon us.
It is a feast of the Lord being
proclaimed in a season.
Larry?
The priest gathered the first fruit and they
were ready to return with the Lord and
then the remaining process, the remaining of the
church would have to be purified.
When you talk about the church as a
whole, I am a little confused as to
where the first fruit is set versus the
whole church as a whole.
It is a fire process.
It is a first fruit and I will
tell you how you know.
It is because it is the army that
will put to flight the forces of hell
is a Gideon's army.
In other words, it is a remnant.
If you recall, when Gideon was trying to
get someone up enough faith, the Lord told
him to go down and listen to what
the Midianites themselves were saying.
When the Midianite man was telling his dream
to another one and Gideon overheard this, there
was a barley cake that came rolling down
and tumbled down.
The one Midianite said to the other, this
is Gideon?
Well, barley is the first grain to ripen
and in the scripture stands for the first
fruits.
What was offered was a sheaf of barley.
So barley in the scripture appears in different
places.
The Lord is coming now.
Yes, it is the first fruits of his
church.
But my personal doctrine based on the 8th
chapter of the Song of Solomon is that
the first fruits of the church will go
through this judgment and be ready to be
with the Lord.
And then they will work with the remainder
of the church for the thousand year kingdom
age.
And this is the purpose for the thousand
year kingdom age.
And the thousand year kingdom age is the
kingdom wide fulfillment of the day of atonement.
They don't rule the church with a rod
of iron.
They rule the nations with a rod of
iron.
They will minister to the church just like
it says in the 8th chapter of the
Song of Solomon.
You see there the three divisions of the
church.
You see the first fruit that says her
breasts are like towers and she found favor
in his sight and so on.
And then you see the little sister that
is a wall and it says we will
make her a tower.
And then the little sister who is a
door and we will enclose her in planks
of cedar.
Well see you have to answer the question
who is we?
And so the next thing that says but
I was pleasing in his sight and so
on.
It's just the old principle of the weak
help the strong.
It's a scriptural principle.
And as you see in Revelation 19.
Now I'm covering a lot of stuff here
but it's all in the tape and you
can look up the scriptures.
I'm giving you the scriptures as I go
along it will be on the tape.
In Revelation 19 where you see the first
fruits being married to the Lord.
In Revelation 19 verses 7 and 8 it
says she has made herself ready.
And the white linen is the righteous acts
of the first fruits and the whole thing.
It says she has been made ready.
She doesn't make herself ready.
She is prepared and she's been prepared by
the first fruits and this is my doctrine.
And it's as simple as we do today
where those of us and every one of
us in here.
Probably represents several weak relatives or Christians for
whom you are standing in the gap.
True or false?
Yes Eddie.
Pastor I understand the framework you use and
then in conjunction with Larry's question.
In Matthew 3 and John 5 verse 3.
Are you saying that fire is first applicable
to the first fruits of the church and
then to the church as a whole?
And I'm wondering where that fits in with
1 Corinthians 3.
10 and 11 where it says every man
worship a man.
The fire would be the impact.
That sounds like it's the day of the
Lord.
Yes.
God's fire.
You know in one place it's described as
a stream of sulfur.
Which makes you wonder if maybe the lake
of fire is not God.
Maybe it's all one fire.
A torment and destructive to the wicked.
Our God is a consuming fire.
And it's the same fire.
And it comes on us now.
You can think of it like a vaccination.
Where they take bacteria and they vaccinate you
with the bacteria.
Your body builds up antibodies.
And that's how you become immune.
But in actually you were given the disease.
Just like mothers used to deliberately expose their
little children to chicken pox.
So they'd get it while they were children.
To make sure that they got it while
they were children.
Because an adult is dangerous.
And I think it's that way with God's
fire.
It's a vaccinating fire.
It's making us fire proof.
Because if a fire comes up.
It has specific behaviors.
Even if they're a Christian.
It still retains authority.
And once those behaviors are gone.
The lake of fire has no authority over
you.
Getting the brush away from your house so
that the fire comes through.
And freeing fire.
It's a freeing fire.
Better to have your wood hands up over
it now.
Isaiah says, it asks a question.
Who among us shall dwell with the devouring
fire?
And then it gives you the answer.
He that walks uprightly.
Keeps his ears from hearing evil.
His eyes from seeing evil.
And so on.
Because we are called to be one with
the consuming fire of Israel.
So in order to be one with the
consuming fire.
We have to be where we can live
in the fire.
Like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
That's where we're called to be.
In the fire of God.
That's exactly.
Oh it rejoices my heart.
There you may be also.
Best place in the world to be.
Blessed are the pure in heart.
For they shall see God.
Then we'll be able to see God.
Because we'll be pure.
Because the fire has burned everything away.
So, welcomed.
The baptism of fire is to be welcomed.
Oh God, I get near myself.
Will wonderful.
Just give me the strength to keep on
going.
Absolutely.
How foolish and short sighted we would be.
To flee from the fire of God.
He will baptize you.
With his wintering fork.
And he will clear his threshing floor.
Gathering his wheat into the barn.
And burning up the chaff.
With unquenchable fire.
Now he's talking about Christ and his church.
And this is Malachi 3.
That we may do what?
That we may offer an offering unto righteousness.
But that's the Levites.
Well, 1 Peter 2 says we are the
holy priesthood.
And God wants his priesthood.
Offering, offerings, and righteousness.
And people are in church and lifting up
their hands and talking in tongues and hate
their brother.
Well, God isn't accepting that.
It's not holy.
It's not righteous.
So, the Christian church in America is in
for a bath of fire.
A real bath of fire.
And if we don't get it, we're not
going to be ready when the Lord comes.
Isn't that a wonderful thought?
And then, you all know this.
But I'll just rehearse it because it is
apropos.
Is Joshua 10.16. You all know the
story.
But as I told you, there's a lot
of scripture.
I'm not just coming up with something that
isn't in the scripture.
But you can always verify it by doing
what?
Go to the Lord and say, is that
right?
See what he says to you.
I remember the first day I went to
the Lord when I heard the message.
And I said, Lord, is there any sin
in me?
I've been confessing my sins ever since.
But then I got off to a worse
start than most of you.
Now, the story here is that starting with
Joshua 10.9. After an all-night march
from Gilgal, Joshua took them, that is the
Amorites, by surprise.
The Lord threw them into confusion before Israel
who defeated them in a great victory at
Gibeon.
Israel pursued them and so on and cut
them down all the way to Makeda.
As they fled before Israel, so on, and
the Lord helped with the battle.
The Lord gave the thing to Joshua.
Now, in verse 16, the five kings had
fled and hidden in the cave of Makeda.
When Joshua was told that the five kings
had been found hiding in the cave at
Makeda, he said, roll our stones up to
the mouth of the cave and post some
men there to guard it.
But don't stop.
Pursue your enemies.
Attack them from the rear.
And don't let them reach their cities.
Now, that's a clear typing.
Put the kings on ice.
And that's what he does with us.
We see that in Romans 13.
He says, walk in love, shun immorality.
That's the Amorites.
But as it says in 1 Peter 5,
there's a shield of faith.
But those five kings are locked up in
us.
So it shows that the Christian deliverance is
a two-fold operation.
One is where we go plugging along and
confessing our sins and getting forgiven and getting
cleansed and putting these things to death and
so on.
We're defeating the Amorites.
But the Lord says there will come a
time, showing us here typically, there will come
a time, as we see here, when Joshua
came back in verse 22 and says, open
the mouth of the cave.
That's what's happening today.
Open the mouth of the cave.
You've had these victories all along.
Now, the point is this.
This is the point.
If you don't keep after these daily victories,
you'll never get to this second stage.
It won't happen.
That's why he says, if you keep my
word, if you keep my word, if you
keep my word, if you stop and say,
well, I'll wait until the Lord comes and
does it all, it will never happen.
Because the scriptural principle is, to who has
been faithful in the least will be faithful
in the greater.
And so if you're not faithful in the
daily wrestling with sin, confessing it, getting the
victory over it, if you're not faithful in
that, you won't be entrusted with the greater,
which is this salvation that is to come.
Does that make sense?
Because you'll go on your way, and you
won't even see it.
You see, it's by revelation, isn't it?
Because here Jesus comes, God is born, the
baby is in Mary's arms, she brings him
to the temple, and they can't see him.
And this is incredible.
They're holding in their arms the God of
Sinai.
And they can't see him.
And after he died and was on the
cross, and then was raised up, there was
only, Paul says, a remnant of Jews that
saw him, yet he fulfilled Isaiah 53 perfectly.
But they couldn't see him.
And you know it's deliberate.
I told you before, when I was in
the service, I was talking to a Jewish
boy, a Jewish marine, about the Lord, and
he said, well, I've got a Bible.
I said, let me see it.
I was going to talk to him about
the 53.
And you know what it was?
A book of readings from Isaiah.
And you know what?
Chapter 53 wasn't there.
Now that's deliberate.
That means that the person that put that
together knew that Isaiah 53 hits Christ right
out of those readings from Isaiah.
Blindness.
Now you remember Jesus said why he spoke
in parables.
Why was that?
Why did he speak in parables?
So they would not understand.
So God's book is made so you can
understand.
But it's not made so you'll understand.
It's made so you can understand.
So that isn't democratic.
Granted.
But that is the way she is.
So then the question is, how do you
get sight?
Tell you 2 Peter.
Add to your faith virtue.
Add to virtue this.
Add to that.
And then your eyes are opened.
And in Isaiah, where it's talking about the
consuming fire, it says you'll see the king
very far off.
And in 2 Thessalonians, the 2nd chapter, it
says God sends them a strong delusion.
Because they didn't receive the love of the
truth.
So it's vain to argue with people and
say oh boy, you know what I'm learning
in church.
Oh it's wonderful.
The day of atonement, the peace of the
Lord.
Unless they have a pure heart and are
seeking God with all their might, you're wasting
your time.
You can't see it.
It would be like one of the people
in the temple.
It would be like Anne in the temple.
There's the Lord Christ.
Hey everybody, over here.
See the Lord Christ.
That would have been the end of it.
Anne is free rent in the temple.
Don't cast your pearls before it's wine.
Don't do it.
Don't do anything.
Just like Diane told us.
You want to be a friend?
Then wait and hear from the Lord before
you tell anybody anything.
If you want to be a friend.
That's very freeing.
Because people cannot hear and they cannot understand
unless it's given to them.
No man can come unto me unless the
Father has sent me to draw him.
And that applies all down the line.
You cannot.
You have to buy it.
You have to buy sight.
Buy it.
With intense consecration and keeping the Lord's commandments.
Otherwise, you can't see it.
So, Joshua said, Open the mouth of the
cave and bring those five kings up to
me.
And we've all got them.
See, they're in there.
We've been a Christian maybe many years and
we've wrestled with the symptoms and everything.
But then there's these great things and they
differ from person to person.
They're not the same for each one of
us.
Some of us have an awful time with
certain kinds of sin.
Maybe pride.
Maybe seeking preeminence.
There's people that have to be the boss.
I mean, they have to be the boss.
It's a king.
That's a lust.
Gotta be preeminent.
Gotta be above everybody.
Never, never would they be in a place
where they weren't foremost.
There's people that have to have their way.
You tell them to do something, they'll do
something else.
You tell them to sing the old rugged
cross and they'll sing Everyday with Jesus.
Listen, I've had this happen to me with
people.
They're not here anymore.
Because you can't...
When God begins to sift through, He's looking
for character.
He's looking for people that have an honest
and good heart.
They'll really serve Him.
And a lot of people fall by the
way.
And you can see why.
Because of this kind of thing.
Asking a lady with a nice voice, Would
you please sing this song?
It's very important at this time.
Would you please?
I can't do it.
There's people like that.
There's people that are into money.
And you can tell them, Well, you know,
we all ought to make a decent living
and provide for our family.
But beyond that, it rapidly becomes a trap.
But they can't stop.
It's just in them.
I've got to have it.
You know, and they make their first million
and they've got to make their second million.
They've got to make...
It's a lust.
Most kings are in it.
There's some people that could not care less
whether they have any money or they don't.
But they're party people.
And they've got to have a party.
Every occasion is an occasion for a party.
Friday night is always a party.
And if it's a three-day weekend, they
have a three-day party.
There's got to be a party.
If they stay off booze for a month,
then they celebrate by getting drunk.
They'd rather feed a pig than go to
a party.
But they're not.
It's just we all have different kings in
us.
And it takes a good while with the
Lord before the Lord is willing to get
at those things.
And when He does, boy, we've got to
be pretty far along the way or we're
going to quit.
Because it's too much like what we are.
Some people are very fearful and they rejoice
in their fear.
They just are fearful and they know it.
And they hide behind that thing.
Oh, I'm just a fearful, shy person.
And then God comes out and says, I
don't want you like that.
Well, that's the way I am.
I know that's the way you are.
It's not the way you're going to be.
You're going to be with me.
And then we've got a real issue because
it just about kills a person like that
to come out of their shell.
Because that's been their protection all their life.
What it is, it's an inverted pride.
Now, you may not recognize that, but it's
a very subtle link there.
But this excessive fear is an inverted pride.
Oh, yeah.
And boy, it has some people in a
death grip, I'll tell you.
So, it's there, each one of us.
It's hidden.
It's locked up in the cave.
And God says, you just go ahead and
walk in love and put on Christ and
confess your sins and do all the things
that I've told you.
You do that and the day will come
when salvation comes to your house.
Now.
This is the time for it.
And so when God begins to get into
those big guns there, don't be amazed.
And sometimes we have to go into long
prisons or fiery trials or both in order
to smoke them out.
I remember when God was dealing with me
many years ago and God has dealt with
me very hard.
The husband and the labors must be first
partakers of the fruit.
So I've had to go through all this.
And I hope I'm through with it.
But if not, Lord, have your way.
Seventy-four.
I don't know how much more it's going
to bring out of me.
But I remember one time we were living
in Rochester, New York on Princess Drive.
And I was suffering from anxiety at that
time.
And I remember I was looking at the
television and they used to have a thing
where it would conclude and then it was
and then there was a man with a
hammer and a chisel and he'd hit it
like that and it said Mark 4.
Dragnet.
Yeah, Dragnet.
And, you know, I said, Lord, that's what's
happening to me.
That's inside.
There's just nothing left but metal and fire.
That's all that's left in me is metal
and fire.
And I really empathized with that.
It just felt like it was going on
in my soul.
That's what I mean by tough.
We're not talking about kid stuff here.
We're talking about doing whatever the Lord says
no matter if it kills you.
Now, if you have a willing heart I
have been a Christian at that time for
many years.
And there's young people here, so don't reach
beyond your grasp.
Just deal with it.
Deal with the things that are before you
each day.
What I'm trying to point out is that
God is and I felt this was a
burden God is shifting gears and we need
to know that if we're going to understand
Can you realize the things that have happened
just this year?
The changes that have happened to people?
Of course, we know the several deaths that
have happened.
Not only did Ed Keenan die but now
there'll be there's things changing there with Ann
things hard to take.
Ken Nichols, the pastor of the church down
in National City that Audrey and I taught
in junior high now the cancer that was
so in an aorta next to his lung
was not operable and not spreading to his
lung.
I mean, these are radical things that are
happening and I'm sure all of you in
your own experience can think of things that
have happened just this year that have been
really radical changes in the life of people
domestic breakups various things.
Well, that is because we're shifting gears.
We're in a new time and the old
pastor in the pulpit with three points and
several anecdotes and a conclusion isn't sufficient to
meet the need for people that have a
husband who's maybe in his fifties, maybe early
sixties a pastor with an inoperable cancer you
know, and it can be any one of
us tomorrow and it's all good see, we
only see the underside of the tapestry but
the strings hanging down but see, these people
go into they've done their thing and it's
over for now and as God said to
Daniel they'll rest and stand in their lot
at the end of the days and I'm
sure Ken Nichols, if God doesn't heal him
will have a wonderful reward when the Lord
comes but it's not like it used to
be the tests are getting harder but there's
always grace for the day if we're willing
but you see the demands that were in
time past the demands on us are increasing
see, what would serve maybe in Pentecost won't
serve any longer and the Spirit of God
is saying seek my face just seek my
face just seek my face because I'm doing
a new thing and the new thing is
judgment judgment on his church and the Lord
told me that in 1950 I guess it
was, when Brother Allen was there this day
of atonement means I'm going to judge my
church 1950, half a century ago and I
see it coming to pass so, the likeness
that has been ours and of course, in
Pentecost we've loved the Lord and we have
served God and many have gone as missionaries
but even so, that doesn't do it just
going as a missionary doesn't do it you
bring your personality with you when you go
as a missionary it hits you wherever you
are and God then arranges the circumstances in
terms of your maturity not over your head,
but in terms of your maturity but he
does require because you're going for the first
resurrection he wants all of you and he
always has of his saints that really love
him he's always required like he told one
old saint if I can't have the key
to every room in your life I don't
want any of the keys gotta have the
whole thing gotta have the whole thing I
don't know what the rest of this year
will be like this first half has been
interesting to say the least he brought the
five kings out of the cave kings of
Jerusalem Hebron Jarmath Lachish and Eglin when they
had brought these kings to Joshua he summoned
all the men of Israel and said to
the army commanders who had come with him
come here and put your feet on the
necks of these kings so they came forward
and placed their feet on their necks Joshua
said to them do not be afraid do
not be discouraged be strong and courageous this
is what the Lord will do to all
the enemies you are going to fight then
Joshua struck and killed the kings and hung
them on five trees and they were left
hanging on the trees until evening five in
the number represents the beginning of the kingdom
it's the fifth feast it's trumpets, Rosh Hashanah
it's the beginning of the kingdom and it
comes as God comes to his church as
he said in John 14 you will see
me I will come to you keep my
word and then comes our time of reconciliation
to God are there any questions about that?
ok you can see it's a dispensational if
you want to look at Leviticus 23 Leviticus
23 while you're finding that up there there's
another verse we'll be looking at down here
someone read Hebrews 10.13 while they're getting
Leviticus 23 up there somebody read Hebrews 10
.13 what does it say?
ok, remember we just read that Joshua said
put your feet on their neck ok, that
tells us that Christ had to wait in
heaven until a specific time he's had to
see all the stuff that's going on in
his church the self-seeking the foolishness the
persecuting of other Christians in his church the
vain glory men seeking the preeminence he's had
to watch all this in his church but
there's coming a time when the Father says
and I believe God has spoken I believe
he spoke in 1948 I think that's when
it started that God has spoken to his
Son now I'm going to put your enemies
under your feet I'm going to start with
your church with those that are closest to
you as it says in Revelation 11 you
start at the altar of incense you start
with those who are the closest to the
Lord and measure them judge them that's Revelation
11.1 alright now notice in verse 2
of Leviticus 23 speak to the Israelites and
say to them these are my appointed feasts
the appointed feasts of the Lord which you
are to proclaim as sacred assemblies while the
King James says proclaim in their season it
doesn't matter because the rest of the 23rd
chapter shows that they come at specific points
on the calendar feasts of the Lord and
Trumpets is number 5 23 I think it's
verse 25 try Leviticus 23.25 Leviticus 23
.25 ok it's 24 say to the Israelites
on the first day of the 7th month
and this Leviticus 23.24 is the 5th
feast you are to have a day of
rest a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blast
and then now this is this feast is
the feast that comes after Pentecost which is
feast number 4 then right away in verse
27 the 10th day of the 7th month
is the day of atonement now the Jews
in their tradition call the 10 days from
verse 25 to verse 27 the what Miriam?
the days of awe Yomim Noroim and according
to Jewish tradition that's the time when God
judges the world and then if you go
on a little bit more and that day
of atonement by the way it's interesting isn't
it that we've been as far as Passover
we've been as far as Pentecost and now
we've come to trumpets on the day of
atonement so you see it's all there in
the scripture alright move it down here we
go verse 34 on the 15th day of
the 7th month the Lord's Feast of Tabernacles
and that when you reach that you have
attained the Omega of Salvation there is no
more redemption beyond that that's the end of
redemption you have been totally redeemed from the
devil salvation has an Alpha and Omega now
that doesn't mean that you cease growing in
God and in His image I believe we
will be growing in God and in His
image for eternity because you see we're coming
from what we are into the image of
our Father well you know how great He
is or do we know how great He
is well we're being made in His image
and I think it'll take billions and billions
and billions of eons but redemption has a
specific beginning at the cross and a specific
ending when the Father and the Son dwell
in us and our body is raised and
clothed over with our house from Heaven redemption
is finished and the catching up in the
air is not an act of redemption the
rapture is not an act of redemption redemption
ceases when we're raised and clothed and are
filled with God inside then we have all
eternity to serve God and to help others
to rule the nations to do whatever God
wants us to do to find out whatever
role we have in His kingdom but we
have been redeemed completely from the devil from
the guilt, three things the guilt of sin
the compulsion to sin and the effects of
sin in ourselves and our environment and those
three things have to be dealt with totally
before we're fully redeemed from the guilt of
sin from the compulsion of sin and from
the effects of sin in ourselves and our
environment and when that has been done and
God is at rest in us we are
at rest in God our chief delight is
to do His will then we are finished
it's good to know isn't it that salvation
is not open ended there will come a
conclusion He is the author and the finisher
of our faith Hallelujah so you can see
how important you see where you and I
are we're at Pentecost now we're trying to
edge forward into this trumpet's war on the
day of atonement very solemn day of the
Jewish calendar a day of fasting a day
of introspection very solemn when the high priest
went into the most holy place and if
we can just get through it it's glory
that isn't even comprehensible so hang in there
your salvation is nearer than when you first
believed Hallelujah that good?
good to go after?
shall we stand then?
oh hallelujah help us to make it Lord
of Jesus
Father in the name of Jesus Father in
the name of Jesus you have called us
Lord unto glory unto glory and unbelievable glory
Lord hallelujah oh God oh God help us
to hold steady while you're getting at these
kings Lord help us to hold steady that
you call them out of our personality Lord
all of the pride and fear and violence
and lust and all the rest of it
Lord all the self seeking get out of
us Lord we don't want it we want
to be redeemed Lord from the hand of
the enemy we want to be redeemed from
everything that is Satan we want no part
of it Hallelujah no part of self will
Lord Hallelujah we want to be completely saved
Lord completely saved by your power Hallelujah Jesus
Jesus draw near to us Lord and cast
these things out put your feet on their
neck as God said you make your enemies
your footstool do it in us Lord make
your enemies in us your footstool Lord hang
them on a tree praise your holy name
we don't want them Lord we're through with
it Hallelujah we're through with it Lord praise
your name oh Hallelujah blessed be the Lord
blessed be the Lord thank you for the
word tonight Lord thank you for your presence
among us Lord praise your holy name oh
God your blessing be on our families Lord
oh Hallelujah praise your name now Lord I
pray your blessing on each home represented here
Lord God those who are concerned about those
weak ones Lord that we stand in the
gap for bless them Lord and help us
to be faithful to be safe on the
highway Lord I give you thanks in Jesus
name Amen