1 00:00:00,900 --> 00:00:03,320 Welcome to from the pulpit and classic sermons. 2 00:00:04,020 --> 00:00:05,480 Each week we bring you a different message 3 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:07,520 from some of history's greatest speakers in the 4 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:10,340 Christian faith and powerful sermons from modern preachers 5 00:00:10,340 --> 00:00:10,600 too. 6 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:13,580 This week we have B.H. Clendenin with 7 00:00:13,580 --> 00:00:15,260 his urgent message to God's elect. 8 00:00:16,860 --> 00:00:18,960 I've come to you at this very very 9 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:20,020 critical time. 10 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:23,920 I have a message I believe if ever 11 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:25,400 my life is from God. 12 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:28,640 I want to read 1st John chapter 1 13 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:31,320 verse 9 and 10 that if we confess 14 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,720 our sins he is faithful and just to 15 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:37,960 forgive our sins and to cleanse us from 16 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:38,600 all unrighteousness. 17 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:42,140 If we say that we have no sin 18 00:00:42,140 --> 00:00:45,840 then we make him a liar and his 19 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:47,880 word is not within us. 20 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:50,940 Now most of you in this vast audience 21 00:00:50,940 --> 00:00:54,360 around the world know that I personally am 22 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:57,520 passing through one of the most difficult times 23 00:00:57,520 --> 00:00:59,840 of my life at this very moment. 24 00:01:00,180 --> 00:01:03,519 But I'm sure there's a purpose in the 25 00:01:03,519 --> 00:01:03,840 whole. 26 00:01:04,620 --> 00:01:07,800 I have for some time begged God to 27 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,060 not let me die until we've shown this 28 00:01:11,060 --> 00:01:13,560 generation his power. 29 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:16,360 This poor deceived generation his power. 30 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:21,140 Somehow I feel that this all is connected. 31 00:01:21,140 --> 00:01:24,720 Now the reason I feel so strongly about 32 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:29,340 this is because the attack on me has 33 00:01:29,340 --> 00:01:32,060 produced a worldwide prayer meeting. 34 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:37,760 Calls are coming from around this world from 35 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:42,060 churches, individuals letting me know that they're fasting, 36 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:46,940 praying, believing in God that for total absolute 37 00:01:46,940 --> 00:01:47,500 victory. 38 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,740 Now I sincerely believe that this prayer meeting 39 00:01:51,740 --> 00:01:56,000 could produce the final move of God that 40 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,300 you and I have been praying for. 41 00:01:58,660 --> 00:02:03,180 Now understand that in my present physical condition 42 00:02:03,180 --> 00:02:06,240 if God does not give me a miracle 43 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:09,979 which through your prayer I believe will happen. 44 00:02:10,140 --> 00:02:13,060 But if not this could very well be 45 00:02:13,060 --> 00:02:14,940 my last communication with you. 46 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,800 Therefore you can be sure I weigh every 47 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:20,920 single word that I speak. 48 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:24,400 First of all the Spirit of God is 49 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,480 dealt with me very strongly that for that 50 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:31,880 revival to come there must be deep confession 51 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:35,580 and repentance on the part of you and 52 00:02:35,580 --> 00:02:37,620 I the elect of God. 53 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:40,580 The river of the Holy Ghost must be 54 00:02:40,580 --> 00:02:41,920 able to flow through us. 55 00:02:42,660 --> 00:02:46,320 Therefore there must be nothing in us that 56 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:49,460 would prevent the flow of this river of 57 00:02:49,460 --> 00:02:49,820 life. 58 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,520 We must humbly come before our Heavenly Father 59 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,400 and ask his forgiveness. 60 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:01,040 Hear me ladies and gentlemen and earnestly seek 61 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:02,620 his direction and guidance. 62 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:07,240 We know his word said, woe unto them 63 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:08,860 that call evil good. 64 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:13,200 But that's exactly what we have done by 65 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:16,040 allowing the flesh a place in our worship. 66 00:03:16,660 --> 00:03:20,320 We confess before God that we have lost 67 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:24,320 our spiritual, we must confess before God that 68 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:28,800 we've lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our 69 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:29,260 values. 70 00:03:29,820 --> 00:03:34,420 We confess that we've questioned the absolute truth 71 00:03:34,420 --> 00:03:37,460 of the Word of God by preaching so 72 00:03:37,460 --> 00:03:39,900 many other things. 73 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:44,020 We professed a love for the Word but 74 00:03:44,020 --> 00:03:45,080 have ignored it. 75 00:03:45,580 --> 00:03:48,780 We arrogantly have given ourselves the title of 76 00:03:48,780 --> 00:03:53,080 Pentecostal, professing more power than all others yet 77 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,420 lack the power to witness to the lost 78 00:03:56,420 --> 00:03:59,040 let alone live holy lives. 79 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:04,040 We worshipped other gods and called it prosperity. 80 00:04:04,780 --> 00:04:09,900 We've learned more from religious TV stars than 81 00:04:09,900 --> 00:04:11,580 the Bride and Morning Star. 82 00:04:11,940 --> 00:04:15,860 We've ranted against perversion in our street but 83 00:04:15,860 --> 00:04:19,899 refused to confess that it was the compromise 84 00:04:19,899 --> 00:04:22,140 in the Word of God in the church 85 00:04:22,140 --> 00:04:25,380 which produced such perversion in the first place. 86 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:29,800 Romans chapter 1, 25 and 26, by remaining 87 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:34,940 silent we've empowered the purveyors of perversion in 88 00:04:34,940 --> 00:04:38,420 the pulpit, in the voting book, yet dare 89 00:04:38,420 --> 00:04:40,360 call ourselves holiness. 90 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:43,920 We've murdered the unborn with our silence in 91 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:44,440 the pulpit. 92 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,960 We've prostituted our values because of our loyalty 93 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:52,020 to our party, our union, our ancestors, our 94 00:04:52,020 --> 00:04:53,220 prejudices. 95 00:04:53,700 --> 00:04:57,400 We've committed the sin of racism by condoning 96 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:59,720 the wrongs of the past and the present. 97 00:05:00,340 --> 00:05:03,880 Others have committed the sin of racism by 98 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:06,800 their unforgiveness and search of revenge. 99 00:05:07,500 --> 00:05:10,600 We've neglected the poor in lieu of the 100 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:12,540 appearance of more spiritual goals. 101 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:17,640 We've lazily prepared to preach, satisfied with replacing 102 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:19,140 anointing with noise. 103 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:22,680 We've rejected to train up our children in 104 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:24,940 the way that's right, then blame the devil. 105 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,940 We've complained because prayer is not allowed in 106 00:05:28,940 --> 00:05:31,700 the school, yet a vast majority of the 107 00:05:31,700 --> 00:05:35,400 church members have no altar in their home. 108 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:39,380 We've abused power and called it apostleship. 109 00:05:39,380 --> 00:05:43,520 We revere the high and mighty among men 110 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:47,340 and disdain little men who are much more 111 00:05:47,340 --> 00:05:47,700 holy. 112 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:51,720 We've closed our lips to the concept of 113 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:55,020 holiness to be more sensitive to the appeal 114 00:05:55,020 --> 00:05:56,360 of the lost. 115 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:02,120 Not since the Pharisees accused Jesus of being 116 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:07,880 the Elzebub has Christ been more dishonored than 117 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,440 with this usurp-friendly gospel. 118 00:06:10,900 --> 00:06:13,800 We become usurp-friendly without confessing it. 119 00:06:14,180 --> 00:06:17,500 We've shunned the past as archaic, have accepted 120 00:06:17,500 --> 00:06:19,420 the trends of the modern church. 121 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:23,360 Our worship is guided by the top 40 122 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:27,560 gospels instead of truths embedded with the gospel. 123 00:06:28,060 --> 00:06:31,920 Our arrogance drives us through the night, oblivious 124 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:35,160 to our ineffectiveness and our disdain for learning. 125 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,620 Others trust in their learning and forget their 126 00:06:38,620 --> 00:06:39,000 living. 127 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:44,220 We hastily judge other groups, presuming our perfection, 128 00:06:44,900 --> 00:06:49,620 preferring our unique tradition over unique relationship. 129 00:06:50,140 --> 00:06:53,900 We've lost the vision of God as results 130 00:06:53,900 --> 00:06:54,980 for the most part. 131 00:06:55,280 --> 00:06:59,980 We're unconscious of the destructive process going on. 132 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:03,600 We don't know the way back to reality 133 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:07,780 because we've lost the vision, my God, of 134 00:07:07,780 --> 00:07:09,040 where we've fallen from. 135 00:07:09,500 --> 00:07:14,400 We've confused noise with power, flamboyancy with anointing, 136 00:07:14,820 --> 00:07:16,140 charisma with calling. 137 00:07:16,580 --> 00:07:21,040 We've replaced conviction with counseling, sin with tolerance. 138 00:07:21,380 --> 00:07:24,880 We've erased the reality of hell from the 139 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:27,840 Bible to be loved by those who hate 140 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:28,520 our God. 141 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:31,940 We ascribe on paper to the second coming, 142 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:35,040 but it's rarely preached, taught, or expected. 143 00:07:35,540 --> 00:07:39,140 We go on our merry way, driving past 144 00:07:39,140 --> 00:07:42,440 the lost, preaching weekly to those who have 145 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:43,320 already heard. 146 00:07:43,540 --> 00:07:47,440 We've created a climate where we are more 147 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:51,480 interested about our own needs being met than 148 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:52,940 the needs of the community. 149 00:07:53,380 --> 00:07:57,280 We're pastors with a maintenance mind, designed to 150 00:07:57,280 --> 00:07:58,440 make everybody happy. 151 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:01,320 Their commitment is not to the Great Commission. 152 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:06,540 It's to clean restrooms, neat bulletins, deluxe potluck 153 00:08:06,540 --> 00:08:07,060 suppers. 154 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:13,000 We have young pastors who are more discontented 155 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,880 what others have done, but have no problem 156 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:17,420 with what they have not done. 157 00:08:17,820 --> 00:08:21,360 We have pastors content with no progress, using 158 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:24,160 the excuse of doing everything they know, but 159 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:25,380 unwilling to learn. 160 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:28,920 We have too many people who grovel over 161 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:33,080 TV religious stars, who squander your money on 162 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:38,480 limousines, mansions, airplanes, and evangelism goes undone. 163 00:08:38,820 --> 00:08:41,520 We have more people buying proposition than we 164 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:43,340 have sign for souls. 165 00:08:43,740 --> 00:08:46,680 We drift toward compromise, call it tolerance. 166 00:08:47,020 --> 00:08:49,600 We drift toward disobedience, call it freedom. 167 00:08:49,780 --> 00:08:52,720 We drift toward superstition, call it faith. 168 00:08:53,100 --> 00:08:56,160 We cherish the indiscipline of the lost, self 169 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:58,140 -control, and call it relaxation. 170 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:03,280 We make light of perilousness, and delude ourselves 171 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:05,940 into thinking which take legalism. 172 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:12,360 We slide toward godliness, and convince ourselves we've 173 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:13,080 been liberated. 174 00:09:13,580 --> 00:09:17,160 Due to discontent, we've replaced the presence of 175 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:22,900 wisdom with carelessness, thinking all risk is better 176 00:09:22,900 --> 00:09:23,520 than none. 177 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:27,040 God help us to turn to God. 178 00:09:27,420 --> 00:09:30,860 Listen, if we're going to see revival, then 179 00:09:30,860 --> 00:09:34,920 there's going to have to come repentance and 180 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:37,700 confession on the part of the church of 181 00:09:37,700 --> 00:09:38,220 God. 182 00:09:38,460 --> 00:09:41,340 If we'll separate the vial, that is the 183 00:09:41,340 --> 00:09:45,080 flesh, from the spirit, God said we can 184 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:48,700 be his mouth, and that's all that's necessary. 185 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:51,180 I beg you today church, hear me. 186 00:09:51,660 --> 00:09:54,540 I'm talking to a people, maybe my last 187 00:09:54,540 --> 00:09:57,840 message to you, but there must be individually 188 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:02,180 and collectively a repentance on the part of 189 00:10:02,180 --> 00:10:03,380 the elect of God. 190 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:07,920 Hear me today, God purify our hearts, turn 191 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:11,900 us back to the truth and reality of 192 00:10:11,900 --> 00:10:13,600 the Lord Jesus Christ. 193 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:17,400 Oh God, let it be so today. 194 00:10:21,900 --> 00:10:24,980 I've been driven by the Holy Spirit to 195 00:10:24,980 --> 00:10:27,200 stir the hearts of the elect of God, 196 00:10:27,620 --> 00:10:30,160 to call us back to the altar, and 197 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:33,020 to allow God to search us deeply as 198 00:10:33,020 --> 00:10:35,020 our every desire, every motive. 199 00:10:35,540 --> 00:10:37,220 If God is to move, he must have 200 00:10:37,220 --> 00:10:40,280 a vessel through which he can manifest himself. 201 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:43,580 You and I have come to the kingdom 202 00:10:43,580 --> 00:10:45,500 for such a time as this. 203 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:48,760 If we fail, deliverance will come, but our 204 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:50,280 houses will be destroyed. 205 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,640 Thus saith the Lord, stand you in the 206 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:56,520 way, seek and ask for the old paths 207 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:59,680 where is in the good way, and walk 208 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:02,000 therein, and you'll find rest for your soul. 209 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:05,340 But they said we'll not walk therein, Jeremiah 210 00:11:05,340 --> 00:11:10,000 6.16. Now Jeremiah is admonishing Israel to 211 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,280 ask for the old paths, where's the good 212 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:12,580 way? 213 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:14,920 Walk in, you'll find rest. 214 00:11:15,220 --> 00:11:19,340 That is a perfect picture of today's gatewayward 215 00:11:19,340 --> 00:11:20,960 church God is calling. 216 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:23,620 But they're saying we'll not walk therein. 217 00:11:24,060 --> 00:11:25,960 They're saying out there today is this is 218 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:27,880 not your grandfather's Pentecost. 219 00:11:28,560 --> 00:11:31,360 God is once more talking to his church, 220 00:11:31,860 --> 00:11:34,640 calling her back to the old paths wherein 221 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:35,920 dwelleth righteousness. 222 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:39,400 His word is repent your way back to 223 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:40,400 where you left him. 224 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:43,700 We must not leave any high places or 225 00:11:43,700 --> 00:11:47,320 we'll find ourselves like Israel falling away again. 226 00:11:47,560 --> 00:11:50,260 We must pray our way back to God's 227 00:11:50,260 --> 00:11:53,400 altar and find ourselves on that altar as 228 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:54,600 a living sacrifice. 229 00:11:55,140 --> 00:11:57,540 The fire never falls on an empty altar. 230 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:01,200 Christ must become our life again. 231 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:03,340 For a moment I want to take you 232 00:12:03,340 --> 00:12:06,340 to Joshua, for there is a revelation. 233 00:12:07,100 --> 00:12:10,040 Gilgal, as you know, is the new ground 234 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:13,500 gained and occupied by the people brought over 235 00:12:13,500 --> 00:12:17,100 Jordan and is a type of resurrection ground 236 00:12:17,100 --> 00:12:19,980 upon which Christ has brought us. 237 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:22,720 That we are risen with Christ, seated with 238 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:26,700 him in heavenly places must be constantly remembered. 239 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:30,400 But before they could advance a number of 240 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:31,480 things had to happen. 241 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:34,020 First we read a fear that took hold 242 00:12:34,020 --> 00:12:35,240 of the kings of Canaan. 243 00:12:35,580 --> 00:12:37,640 Now they were the instruments of Satan. 244 00:12:38,300 --> 00:12:40,400 Their fear denotes Satan fear. 245 00:12:40,740 --> 00:12:43,100 He knew the power of Jehovah which had 246 00:12:43,100 --> 00:12:44,700 brought them into the land. 247 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:49,340 Satan's only antagonism is the Holy Ghost filled 248 00:12:49,340 --> 00:12:52,440 church walking, living in union with Christ. 249 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:55,540 The enemy is defeated by the death and 250 00:12:55,540 --> 00:12:58,820 resurrection of our Lord being in Christ risen, 251 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:01,100 seated in him, the heavenly places. 252 00:13:01,620 --> 00:13:03,460 We can look upon him as conquered. 253 00:13:03,860 --> 00:13:06,140 Yet we must know it's only in the 254 00:13:06,140 --> 00:13:07,940 Lord and the power of his might we're 255 00:13:07,940 --> 00:13:08,420 strong. 256 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:11,220 Apart from him we become the easy prey 257 00:13:11,220 --> 00:13:11,800 of the enemy. 258 00:13:12,300 --> 00:13:15,960 But we're translated from that darkness into the 259 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:18,040 kingdom of God's wonderful Son. 260 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:21,740 Circumcision is next commanded by Jehovah. 261 00:13:22,220 --> 00:13:24,280 Jehovah at that time the Lord said to 262 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:28,860 Joshua, make these sharp knives, circumcise again the 263 00:13:28,860 --> 00:13:30,240 children the second time. 264 00:13:30,540 --> 00:13:33,040 The command was carried out at once and 265 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:35,940 the reproach of Egypt was rolled away. 266 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:39,500 Therefore the place was called Gilgal which means 267 00:13:39,500 --> 00:13:39,960 rolling. 268 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:43,840 Now the circumcision was carried out on all 269 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:45,920 males who were born in the wilderness. 270 00:13:46,460 --> 00:13:49,680 Circumcision stands for the carrying out of the 271 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:52,380 sentence of death to the flesh, the death 272 00:13:52,380 --> 00:13:55,700 of Christ and for the people a circumcision 273 00:13:55,700 --> 00:14:00,700 in him in whom you are circumcised with 274 00:14:00,700 --> 00:14:03,180 a circumcision not made with hands. 275 00:14:03,620 --> 00:14:06,060 But this fact that we're dead to sin 276 00:14:06,060 --> 00:14:09,480 by the circumcision, the death of Christ must 277 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:11,060 be carried out practically. 278 00:14:11,560 --> 00:14:14,220 The sharp knife must be laid to this 279 00:14:14,220 --> 00:14:16,340 flesh and the things of the flesh. 280 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:20,460 Gilgal therefore stands for the judgment of self. 281 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:22,900 This is a place of our strength, our 282 00:14:22,900 --> 00:14:23,420 power. 283 00:14:23,860 --> 00:14:26,220 Israel had always returned to Gilgal. 284 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:28,800 When they did not they were defeated. 285 00:14:28,980 --> 00:14:29,800 It's a parable. 286 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:32,900 Ai, the city means ruins. 287 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:34,720 Ai is another type of the world. 288 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:37,580 But the source of defeat was Achan sin. 289 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:41,280 We're always tempted to look outside of ourselves. 290 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:42,880 The problem is within. 291 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:47,660 The shekels of silver, gold, Babylonian garments blinded 292 00:14:47,660 --> 00:14:48,160 his eyes. 293 00:14:48,300 --> 00:14:50,900 These things were to be accursed. 294 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:52,880 Joshua said so. 295 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:53,700 Amen. 296 00:14:54,380 --> 00:14:57,120 This obedience would bring trouble upon Israel. 297 00:14:57,540 --> 00:15:01,100 So Achan sin was responsible for the defeat 298 00:15:01,100 --> 00:15:01,780 of the people. 299 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:05,680 He confesses, I saw, I coveted, I took 300 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:07,640 the evil in the midst of the people 301 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:09,120 of God unjudged. 302 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:12,300 Becomes the most powerful agent against the people 303 00:15:12,300 --> 00:15:15,560 of God and withholds God's power and blessing 304 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:17,220 and so it is still. 305 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:20,160 As soon as we cling to the things 306 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:22,620 of the world then the enemy gets an 307 00:15:22,620 --> 00:15:26,680 advantage over us and we have little power 308 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:30,360 and cannot advance in the things of Christ. 309 00:15:30,740 --> 00:15:35,580 But Achan sin discovered, forced confession, lifts judgment 310 00:15:35,580 --> 00:15:38,740 from Israel and falls upon him and his 311 00:15:38,740 --> 00:15:40,720 house the heap of stones. 312 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:43,520 The valley of Achor where it was stolen 313 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:45,200 was a place of hope. 314 00:15:45,460 --> 00:15:47,700 Not only a place of national repentance and 315 00:15:47,700 --> 00:15:50,800 national repudiation but it was also the place 316 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:53,840 of a great tragic national expiation. 317 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:57,200 Israel had sinned so Israel had suffered but 318 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:58,920 it is the sin of one man, my 319 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:01,780 God don't let it be me, that had 320 00:16:01,780 --> 00:16:03,580 brought judgment on the camp. 321 00:16:04,020 --> 00:16:06,360 Now observe the sin of a single man 322 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:11,100 imputed to Israel became Israel's sin and because 323 00:16:11,100 --> 00:16:13,880 of that imputation the wrath of God was 324 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:14,580 on the nation. 325 00:16:14,980 --> 00:16:16,460 That is what has happened to the church. 326 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:20,140 But when the sin of that one man 327 00:16:20,140 --> 00:16:23,820 was discovered, when it was confessed, then it 328 00:16:23,820 --> 00:16:27,320 was imputed to him and lifted from Israel. 329 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:30,560 Thus the penalty due to national sin was 330 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:34,980 actually carried upon those whose guilt had involved 331 00:16:34,980 --> 00:16:36,640 the nation in such a thing. 332 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:37,440 Amen. 333 00:16:37,740 --> 00:16:40,600 That man in death was not only reaping 334 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:43,880 the reward of disobedience but the sin of 335 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:47,340 the nation being expiated in his death of 336 00:16:47,340 --> 00:16:48,120 this individual. 337 00:16:49,100 --> 00:16:52,100 Thus was opened the door of hope, the 338 00:16:52,100 --> 00:16:54,560 valley of Achor, the valley of trouble. 339 00:16:54,900 --> 00:16:58,100 If we will purge ourselves then God will 340 00:16:58,100 --> 00:16:58,580 come. 341 00:16:58,980 --> 00:17:01,000 A study of the life of Paul reveals 342 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,680 the power of the Christian faith to excite 343 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:05,079 the worst passions of men. 344 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:08,780 But we become so familiar with it externally 345 00:17:08,780 --> 00:17:11,560 that by our own spirit and demeanor we 346 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:14,280 cast a doubt upon this veritable proposition. 347 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:16,880 Set it down as the saddest fact that 348 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:21,800 has become possible for nominal Christians, believers to 349 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:23,380 care nothing about their faith. 350 00:17:23,839 --> 00:17:26,839 They degraded it so that it now converses 351 00:17:26,839 --> 00:17:30,160 with infidels, doubters, even mockers. 352 00:17:30,540 --> 00:17:32,960 The faith that used to hold no parley 353 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:35,800 with unbelievers is now walking on the common 354 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:41,380 road, begging, asking leave, holding discussion, apologizing for 355 00:17:41,380 --> 00:17:43,400 the suggestion of its own faith. 356 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:46,440 This age is seized with the horror of 357 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:47,380 dogmatism. 358 00:17:47,860 --> 00:17:49,920 The gospel has been reduced to a point 359 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:52,200 that the message is not you must be 360 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:56,560 born again but rather through inoffensive preaching, house 361 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:59,880 group fellowship, we assimilate the lost into the 362 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:00,220 church. 363 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:03,560 Christianity is nothing if it is not dogmatic, 364 00:18:03,940 --> 00:18:06,560 has no reason for existence if it is 365 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:07,300 not positive. 366 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:08,980 It is not one of many. 367 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:11,440 If it is one of many it is 368 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:12,740 not what it possesses. 369 00:18:13,060 --> 00:18:16,380 The gospel of Christ is complete, final, positive, 370 00:18:16,500 --> 00:18:17,160 unanswerable. 371 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:20,020 Paul writes to the Romans, I am not 372 00:18:20,020 --> 00:18:21,840 ashamed of the gospel of Christ. 373 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:25,080 That word ashamed means to disfigure. 374 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:28,520 He said I will not disfigure this gospel 375 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:31,940 to make it acceptable to a world that 376 00:18:31,940 --> 00:18:32,460 hates him. 377 00:18:32,780 --> 00:18:35,940 We must ever keep in mind that at 378 00:18:35,940 --> 00:18:39,420 this very moment Christ represents us at the 379 00:18:39,420 --> 00:18:42,400 throne of God and we represent him on 380 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:46,200 this earth and we must not represent him. 381 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:46,920 Amen. 382 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:50,640 We must not represent him to make him 383 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:51,980 acceptable to a world. 384 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:55,960 In proportion as any religion is true it 385 00:18:55,960 --> 00:19:00,260 cannot stoop to the holding of conversation with 386 00:19:00,260 --> 00:19:00,780 anybody. 387 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:07,220 Christianity reveals, proclaims, announces, thunders, not a suggestion 388 00:19:07,220 --> 00:19:09,800 it is a revelation, not a puzzle to 389 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:13,380 which has a dozen answers but it is 390 00:19:13,380 --> 00:19:14,280 an oracle. 391 00:19:14,740 --> 00:19:16,540 Please understand what is meant. 392 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,360 The dogmatism of truth is one thing and 393 00:19:19,360 --> 00:19:22,160 the dogmatism of the imperfect preacher is another. 394 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:26,940 Truth must be dogmatic, that is positive, absolute 395 00:19:26,940 --> 00:19:28,460 without ambiguity. 396 00:19:28,980 --> 00:19:31,940 Truth must be clear in its own conception, 397 00:19:32,500 --> 00:19:35,620 clear in positive demands, clear in its rewards 398 00:19:35,620 --> 00:19:36,540 and punishments. 399 00:19:36,860 --> 00:19:39,520 It is not lawful to have your brother's 400 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:41,520 wife was God's message to the king. 401 00:19:41,900 --> 00:19:45,200 It cost John his life but to say 402 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:47,020 it differently would have been a high treason. 403 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:50,380 Can you wonder then that a religion namely 404 00:19:50,380 --> 00:19:53,140 the Christian faith which claimed to be the 405 00:19:53,140 --> 00:19:56,580 voice of God should have encountered such awful 406 00:19:56,580 --> 00:20:00,340 hate if it could have come apologetically and 407 00:20:00,340 --> 00:20:02,920 said I think, I suggest like the 21st 408 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:05,680 century Pentecostal it might have been heard at 409 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:08,460 the world's convention but it came otherwise. 410 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:11,920 It came with a voice saying this is 411 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,960 my beloved son, hear him. 412 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:19,060 God help us church, look at yourself, look 413 00:20:19,060 --> 00:20:22,580 at myself, let's repent, let's get ourselves on 414 00:20:22,580 --> 00:20:26,780 God's altar and we will see God's power. 415 00:20:30,940 --> 00:20:33,960 The problem is they never saw the kingdom 416 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:34,600 of God. 417 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,780 I pastored a long time before I realized 418 00:20:37,780 --> 00:20:39,780 why you have to beg about half the 419 00:20:39,780 --> 00:20:41,160 church to come to church. 420 00:20:41,540 --> 00:20:43,660 You know you got to mail them out, 421 00:20:44,060 --> 00:20:46,100 you got to call them on the phone, 422 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:48,040 you got to plead with them to come 423 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:48,800 to the house. 424 00:20:48,940 --> 00:20:52,160 They're going to be absent if somebody isn't 425 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:52,720 on them. 426 00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:55,580 It took me a long time to understand 427 00:20:55,580 --> 00:20:56,360 the problem. 428 00:20:56,820 --> 00:20:59,300 They have not been born again. 429 00:21:01,380 --> 00:21:02,620 It's not their nature. 430 00:21:03,740 --> 00:21:05,980 You know Joe never had to send no 431 00:21:05,980 --> 00:21:08,200 postcard to get me to a bar. 432 00:21:08,700 --> 00:21:09,760 He knew I'd be there. 433 00:21:10,140 --> 00:21:12,060 Money wasn't going to keep me out because 434 00:21:12,060 --> 00:21:12,860 he'd give me credit. 435 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,940 He'd do something bad wrong if I wasn't 436 00:21:15,940 --> 00:21:17,420 there because that's my nature. 437 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:20,100 I can tell you a man born again, 438 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,220 he still says I was glad when they 439 00:21:23,220 --> 00:21:25,640 said to me, let us go to the 440 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:26,520 house of God. 441 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:30,400 Nobody ever had to beg me to go 442 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,440 to church, anymore to have to beg me 443 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:33,140 to go to bar. 444 00:21:33,260 --> 00:21:35,660 Just tell me where Christ is functioning. 445 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:37,880 I'll be there on the front pew if 446 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:38,440 you let me. 447 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:39,840 I'm going to be there. 448 00:21:39,940 --> 00:21:42,360 You see we've got to come back to 449 00:21:42,360 --> 00:21:43,080 the reality. 450 00:21:43,620 --> 00:21:46,960 God dealt with me so strongly about you've 451 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:48,500 got to go back to the basis. 452 00:21:48,980 --> 00:21:51,460 You can't build the kingdom of God on 453 00:21:51,460 --> 00:21:52,360 tariffs folks. 454 00:21:52,820 --> 00:21:53,760 It won't work. 455 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:55,980 They have to be born again people. 456 00:21:56,120 --> 00:22:00,260 You cannot build this kingdom on people that 457 00:22:00,260 --> 00:22:02,660 do not have the kingdom in their lives. 458 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:05,480 God took me back, made me to realize 459 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:09,620 that before we ever, ever move any further, 460 00:22:09,780 --> 00:22:12,740 we've got to come back to understand the 461 00:22:12,740 --> 00:22:16,340 greatness of that fall and the greatness of 462 00:22:16,340 --> 00:22:16,960 this redemption. 463 00:22:17,340 --> 00:22:20,960 That is the roots of Christianity and unless 464 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:22,840 you have roots you bear no fruit. 465 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:26,080 A tree can't live without roots and you've 466 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:29,920 got to understand, you hear me, the depth 467 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:30,900 of that fall. 468 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,480 God said in the beginning, let us make 469 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,100 man in our image. 470 00:22:36,460 --> 00:22:40,320 God made Adam and mirrored in that man 471 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:43,520 you could see the Father, the Son and 472 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:44,500 the Holy Ghost. 473 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,340 In the fall that was what was lost 474 00:22:48,340 --> 00:22:52,420 and a man is never born again until 475 00:22:52,420 --> 00:22:55,080 there's a birth of that Son in that 476 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:59,320 life, until God can see again in that 477 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,640 life the mirror of himself. 478 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:05,660 There is no birth without that ladies and 479 00:23:05,660 --> 00:23:05,980 gentlemen. 480 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:10,460 We don't believe in Darwinian evolution but we 481 00:23:10,460 --> 00:23:12,640 sure taught it in the Pentecostal church. 482 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:16,060 We made men believe that they could grow 483 00:23:16,060 --> 00:23:19,740 and be educated into this life. 484 00:23:20,100 --> 00:23:25,160 You don't grow into life when biogenesis become 485 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:27,780 a bona fide scientific fact. 486 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,140 There ought to have never been another mention 487 00:23:30,140 --> 00:23:32,480 of evolution on this planet. 488 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,200 That just says life comes from life. 489 00:23:35,420 --> 00:23:36,920 It don't just happen. 490 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,660 Life only comes from life. 491 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:42,500 We've turned the Sunday school around. 492 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:46,120 I know I'm talking about the sacred cow 493 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:46,880 at this point. 494 00:23:47,140 --> 00:23:49,560 I'm a believer in the Sunday school but 495 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:51,540 I'm not a believer in much it's become 496 00:23:51,540 --> 00:23:55,620 today because it's no longer teaching new creatures 497 00:23:55,620 --> 00:23:56,940 how to walk with God. 498 00:23:57,020 --> 00:24:00,900 It's teaching ungodly people how to be religious 499 00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:03,660 without ever coming to know the Lord Jesus. 500 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,180 I preached one Sunday night. 501 00:24:08,580 --> 00:24:11,800 I preached on a born again believer or 502 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:13,640 a product of a religious system. 503 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,420 In that message, this has been 30, 40 504 00:24:16,420 --> 00:24:19,720 years ago and right here in this church 505 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:20,740 I preached. 506 00:24:20,740 --> 00:24:24,380 We in the assemblies of God have young 507 00:24:24,380 --> 00:24:27,880 men who are pastors in a pulpit came 508 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,700 up through the Sunday school, the CA department 509 00:24:31,700 --> 00:24:36,100 and now preachers and have never been born 510 00:24:36,100 --> 00:24:36,580 again. 511 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:40,540 Oh, I thought that night is difficult. 512 00:24:41,020 --> 00:24:43,500 Brother Graham was our superintendent at that time. 513 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:45,280 Very, very great man. 514 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:46,440 Godly man. 515 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,880 Always for 40 something years I've had this 516 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:51,920 prayer meeting every morning at 5 o'clock. 517 00:24:52,340 --> 00:24:54,300 God dealt with me about seeking him early. 518 00:24:55,180 --> 00:24:57,980 Once in a while he'd drive from Houston 519 00:24:57,980 --> 00:24:58,400 over. 520 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:02,180 Well, that Monday morning after I preached that 521 00:25:02,180 --> 00:25:05,140 message I heard that old gravel voice somewhere 522 00:25:05,140 --> 00:25:07,520 in there and I knew the superintendent had 523 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:08,620 come to pray with me. 524 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:10,680 He was a great man of God. 525 00:25:11,140 --> 00:25:13,780 We always had breakfast walking across the parking 526 00:25:13,780 --> 00:25:14,160 lot. 527 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,000 I said to him, Brother Graham, I preached 528 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,760 something last night and maybe I pushed the 529 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,600 button too far, stretched the band too wide 530 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:23,120 and I told him what I said. 531 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:24,620 He said, if you have to deal with 532 00:25:24,620 --> 00:25:26,880 what I have to deal with, that calls 533 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:31,360 himself preacher with the adultery, the immorality, you 534 00:25:31,360 --> 00:25:33,240 know you can't preach it too far. 535 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:35,740 I'm telling you folks, you don't grow into 536 00:25:35,740 --> 00:25:36,100 this. 537 00:25:36,380 --> 00:25:42,800 You're born into this kingdom and there's never 538 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,120 going to be a revival till we bring 539 00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:45,680 her back. 540 00:25:46,100 --> 00:25:47,940 The greatness of that redemption. 541 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,160 Christ must be birthed in that human being 542 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,940 and if that Christ is birthed in him, 543 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,340 then the house of God is a wonderful 544 00:25:56,340 --> 00:25:59,500 place and the church of God is the 545 00:25:59,500 --> 00:26:01,840 body of Christ and the place that we 546 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:03,600 want to come and want to be. 547 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,180 The kingdom of God, what is it? 548 00:26:06,460 --> 00:26:09,040 Jesus told a certain group of people that 549 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,440 some of them would not see death until 550 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,960 they saw that kingdom come in power. 551 00:26:15,180 --> 00:26:19,040 Looking back now, I know you know he 552 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,800 was talking about the day of Pentecost when 553 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:25,100 that wind blew through that upper room, heaven 554 00:26:25,100 --> 00:26:27,560 came into the hearts of men and women. 555 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,120 The kingdom came in power on the day 556 00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:31,880 of Pentecost. 557 00:26:32,360 --> 00:26:35,780 When the wind blew through that upper room, 558 00:26:35,980 --> 00:26:39,040 then the kingdom of God took up its 559 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:40,820 residence in the heart of a human. 560 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,120 It's not meat and drink, but Jesus said, 561 00:26:44,340 --> 00:26:48,600 joy, peace and righteousness in the Holy Ghost. 562 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,960 Again he said, the kingdom of God cometh 563 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,640 not with observation, that is with the physical 564 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:59,160 eye, but the kingdom of God is within 565 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,420 us and if that kingdom is within you, 566 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:04,280 then you know it's there. 567 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,180 Years ago a man called me from Houston 568 00:27:07,180 --> 00:27:09,440 and he said, Pastor, I watch you on 569 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,400 television, I'd like to come to Beaumont and 570 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:13,200 talk to you. 571 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:15,220 I need some counseling. 572 00:27:15,540 --> 00:27:17,480 I said, well that's fine, it's an hour 573 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,200 drive, you're already on the phone, maybe I 574 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:21,240 can help you now. 575 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:23,120 What do you want to talk about? 576 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:25,680 He said, well I want to see if 577 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:27,800 you think I have the Holy Spirit. 578 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:29,860 I said, no you don't. 579 00:27:36,050 --> 00:27:38,310 My, my, such discernment. 580 00:27:41,090 --> 00:27:43,250 I said, I didn't know discernment, sir. 581 00:27:44,390 --> 00:27:46,890 The God that inhabits eternity can't live in 582 00:27:46,890 --> 00:27:48,510 a man without a man knowing that. 583 00:27:51,790 --> 00:27:54,310 You may be here, somebody taught you a 584 00:27:54,310 --> 00:27:55,190 little prayer language. 585 00:27:55,530 --> 00:27:56,590 They lied to you, mister. 586 00:27:56,970 --> 00:27:58,990 The miracle wasn't that I talked in tongues, 587 00:27:59,090 --> 00:28:01,010 the miracle was he lived in me and 588 00:28:01,010 --> 00:28:02,130 gave me something to say. 589 00:28:07,300 --> 00:28:10,060 I've watched him reduce this great, I've watched 590 00:28:10,060 --> 00:28:12,320 such a ecumenical thing as it spread back 591 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,440 in the 60's, just old and dead religious 592 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,760 bodies joining themselves together for some kind of 593 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:19,840 a political reason. 594 00:28:20,260 --> 00:28:21,820 I said to the folks here in this 595 00:28:21,820 --> 00:28:24,180 church, I said there's no harm in that, 596 00:28:24,260 --> 00:28:26,820 there's nothing to it whatsoever, but the day 597 00:28:26,820 --> 00:28:29,900 it takes on a Pentecostal context, it'll go 598 00:28:29,900 --> 00:28:31,060 straight to demonism. 599 00:28:31,420 --> 00:28:32,600 I've watched it, mister. 600 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,100 Let me tell you something, this don't mix 601 00:28:35,100 --> 00:28:35,760 with anything. 602 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,760 Christianity is not a lucretian of everything. 603 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,720 It is Christ, I said it is Christ. 604 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,200 It is Christ, Jesus the Lord. 605 00:28:44,700 --> 00:28:47,620 This kingdom in a man separates him from 606 00:28:47,620 --> 00:28:49,620 whatever there is of this earth. 607 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,400 You don't mix Baal and Christ, mister. 608 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:54,160 There is no mixture. 609 00:28:54,540 --> 00:28:58,140 It's Christ and Christ alone that's a savior 610 00:28:58,140 --> 00:28:59,360 of us all. 611 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:01,060 Hallelujah to God. 612 00:29:02,380 --> 00:29:05,380 Jesus on this earth, he talked much about 613 00:29:05,380 --> 00:29:07,080 a kingdom outside of this one. 614 00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:10,060 He talked about a kingdom of darkness where 615 00:29:10,060 --> 00:29:15,160 disembodied spirits dwell, where demons walk to destroy 616 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:19,260 and disturb man, but he also spoke of 617 00:29:19,260 --> 00:29:22,460 a kingdom of light and power where God 618 00:29:22,460 --> 00:29:25,980 and angels live and invited me to walk 619 00:29:25,980 --> 00:29:26,820 in that kingdom. 620 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:28,860 Oh, if I could run, I'd do it 621 00:29:28,860 --> 00:29:29,220 now. 622 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:31,580 I said he invited me to walk in 623 00:29:31,580 --> 00:29:32,140 that kingdom. 624 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,460 He told me about a world where God 625 00:29:35,460 --> 00:29:39,660 was real, where angels walk, where miracles happen, 626 00:29:40,020 --> 00:29:41,980 where it's commonplace with God. 627 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,820 I'm talking about the kingdom of God. 628 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,720 Oh yes, hallelujah, hallelujah. 629 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,240 A kingdom in which the church was to 630 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,580 move and live, that's what he said. 631 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,100 You're to demonstrate on this planet what heaven's 632 00:30:00,100 --> 00:30:00,820 all about. 633 00:30:00,980 --> 00:30:03,780 The Bible said the word of God is 634 00:30:03,780 --> 00:30:07,260 forever settled in heaven and then Jesus come 635 00:30:07,260 --> 00:30:10,540 along and said whatever's settled up there, I 636 00:30:10,540 --> 00:30:12,180 want it to happen down here. 637 00:30:12,660 --> 00:30:15,900 Your prayer must be thy kingdom come. 638 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,160 He also spoke of a kingdom of light 639 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,880 and power where God and angels live and 640 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,340 invited me to walk in that kingdom. 641 00:30:25,820 --> 00:30:27,380 Oh, if I could run, I'd do it 642 00:30:27,380 --> 00:30:27,760 now. 643 00:30:27,980 --> 00:30:30,100 I said he invited me to walk in 644 00:30:30,100 --> 00:30:30,660 that kingdom. 645 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,980 He told me about a world where God 646 00:30:33,980 --> 00:30:38,180 was real, where angels walk, where miracles happen, 647 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:40,500 where it's commonplace with God. 648 00:30:40,860 --> 00:30:44,320 I'm talking about the kingdom of God. 649 00:30:46,860 --> 00:30:50,240 Oh yes, hallelujah, hallelujah. 650 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:52,760 A kingdom in which the church was to 651 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,120 move and live, that's what he said. 652 00:30:55,500 --> 00:30:58,620 You're to demonstrate on this planet what heaven's 653 00:30:58,620 --> 00:30:59,360 all about. 654 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:02,300 The Bible said the word of God is 655 00:31:02,300 --> 00:31:05,780 forever settled in heaven and then Jesus come 656 00:31:05,780 --> 00:31:09,060 along and said whatever's settled up there, I 657 00:31:09,060 --> 00:31:10,700 want it to happen down here. 658 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,480 Your prayer must be thy kingdom come. 659 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,880 Thy will be done on this earth, not 660 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,740 in the millennium but right now in us 661 00:31:20,740 --> 00:31:22,500 that know this great God. 662 00:31:22,860 --> 00:31:26,240 This gospel never changes because the God that 663 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:27,680 brought it never changes. 664 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:32,140 The people that walk in God's spirit are 665 00:31:32,140 --> 00:31:34,660 the same as the first century people that 666 00:31:34,660 --> 00:31:35,760 walked in the spirit. 667 00:31:37,580 --> 00:31:40,160 Hallelujah to God, amen. 668 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,820 This was powerfully made real to me in 669 00:31:43,820 --> 00:31:46,520 a camp meeting about 72 miles from here. 670 00:31:47,060 --> 00:31:49,680 They called me 1958, come in in 56, 671 00:31:50,220 --> 00:31:51,360 begin this church. 672 00:31:51,820 --> 00:31:55,020 The semblance of God in East Texas had 673 00:31:55,020 --> 00:31:57,360 a camp meeting out in the field, built 674 00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,240 a little old brush arbor kind of a 675 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,480 place, only it had a metal roof instead 676 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:02,140 of brush. 677 00:32:02,700 --> 00:32:05,660 I preached for seven years at camp meeting. 678 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,500 I saw it come from 150 to 1 679 00:32:08,500 --> 00:32:10,560 ,000 people out there in those woods. 680 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,320 You'd go up there folks and the men 681 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:14,920 would go out along the fence row. 682 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:16,960 You could hear them for a mile as 683 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:17,460 they prayed. 684 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:21,380 Women stayed under the tabernacle for an hour 685 00:32:21,380 --> 00:32:22,460 before it started. 686 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,280 Oh, what times, what times. 687 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,920 One night I was preaching, the old PA 688 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,720 system wasn't nothing like this, but I pulled, 689 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,260 there was 1,000 people scattered out there, 690 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:36,860 pulled the microphone out, didn't even know it 691 00:32:36,860 --> 00:32:37,540 was cut loose. 692 00:32:37,900 --> 00:32:40,500 I was so caught up in God, I'd 693 00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:43,340 walked out dragging that dead microphone with me, 694 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:45,420 proclaiming Christ, preaching. 695 00:32:45,740 --> 00:32:47,660 All of a sudden they went mad, you 696 00:32:47,660 --> 00:32:48,080 hear me? 697 00:32:48,420 --> 00:32:51,120 I mean people jumped up, began to fall 698 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:52,000 over each other. 699 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,020 Some fell out in the sawdust. 700 00:32:54,340 --> 00:32:57,020 Over 100 people were baptized in the Holy 701 00:32:57,020 --> 00:32:57,420 Ghost. 702 00:32:57,660 --> 00:33:01,540 I said over 100 people falling out, amen. 703 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,220 When I saw what has happened, I retreated 704 00:33:05,220 --> 00:33:06,340 back to the platform. 705 00:33:06,980 --> 00:33:08,320 One man come a running. 706 00:33:08,740 --> 00:33:10,940 I went over, laid hands on him, not 707 00:33:10,940 --> 00:33:12,500 to bless him but to keep him off 708 00:33:12,500 --> 00:33:14,060 the platform, amen. 709 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,140 I got over, I stopped him. 710 00:33:17,420 --> 00:33:19,680 Minute I laid my hands on him, he 711 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,240 just began to pour out of him the 712 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:23,460 language of heaven. 713 00:33:23,900 --> 00:33:27,280 Oh, he spoke in the most beautiful language. 714 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,620 While I'm there with him, Brother Thomas come 715 00:33:30,620 --> 00:33:31,660 up by me, a pastor. 716 00:33:31,660 --> 00:33:33,620 He said, what's going on? 717 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,500 I said, listen to him, he's talking in 718 00:33:36,500 --> 00:33:36,900 tongues. 719 00:33:37,300 --> 00:33:40,540 He said he can't, he's my nephew, born 720 00:33:40,540 --> 00:33:43,080 deaf and dumb 35 years ago. 721 00:33:52,510 --> 00:33:54,550 He can't even say mama. 722 00:33:55,350 --> 00:33:57,270 I said, well he's saying something now. 723 00:33:58,450 --> 00:34:02,450 For 20 minutes he spoke in the language 724 00:34:02,450 --> 00:34:05,690 of God, but when the Holy Ghost lifted, 725 00:34:06,130 --> 00:34:07,770 he's still a deaf mute. 726 00:34:08,449 --> 00:34:11,090 Life is deeper than conscience. 727 00:34:11,489 --> 00:34:13,690 There's somebody in me. 728 00:34:14,230 --> 00:34:15,850 Come on, worship God. 729 00:34:15,989 --> 00:34:16,870 Don't worry about it. 730 00:34:17,290 --> 00:34:18,670 Oh, hallelujah. 731 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:22,480 That's all I'm saying. 732 00:34:24,739 --> 00:34:28,840 Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. 733 00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:36,159 You've been listening to the From the Pulpit 734 00:34:36,159 --> 00:34:37,420 in Classic Sermon series. 735 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,219 This week you heard B.H. Clendenin with 736 00:34:40,219 --> 00:34:41,800 his urgent message to God's elect. 737 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:43,940 Tune in next week to hear Carter Conlon 738 00:34:43,940 --> 00:34:47,060 speak about deal with sin, Christ is coming 739 00:34:47,060 --> 00:34:49,760 on From the Pulpit in Classic Sermons.