Welcome to the from the pulpit and classic
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modern preachers, too This week we have Hans
Wubvogel with this message.
Ye shall be as gods was not Christ's
ambition Bible says examine yourselves That doesn't mean
that I should examine somebody else It's a
bad bad sign when I examine everybody else
Shows that I haven't seen myself.
I have lost sight of my own great
need You know, that's the mark of a
true Christian He examines himself in the presence
of God and he judges no man Jesus
was like that, but it would be good
and it is good and it must be
good for us to examine ourselves Or to
let God Examine us Examine yourselves whether you
be in the faith Whether Christ be in
you I've been sitting here praying for this
one thing That God might help in these
days for us to See our great need
What is our need?
Well, we're a perishing lot perishing Woe is
me.
I'm undone I'm a man of unclean lips
and I dwell among a people of unclean
lips I'm in a poisonous atmosphere Who shall
deliver me from the body of this day?
There's no deliverance except the thing that our
brother spoke of to be made new absolutely
new Long as we try to fix up
the old will only make an awful job
out of it But all of Jesus Christ
has his way he'll go his way We
will go his way and his way is
just one way Learn of me.
I'm meek and lowly in heart.
Oh Is that my desire?
I Come to learn to play the fiddle
or the bass fiddle why when I come
to this teacher I Had a teacher for
two years who didn't know himself how to
hold the fiddle and he was teaching me
bad habits and when he finally Got too
old to teach me any longer.
I got another teacher.
He said play something for me.
So I took my fiddle Boy, he said
that's rotten.
The first thing I had to do was
to get another kind of a fiddle He
said this fiddle is not for you I
had one that was made for a man
and I was just a little boy, you
know, and I couldn't That's rotten He made
me start all over on new principles.
That was the best thing that ever happened
to me And what does the Bible say?
Don't be conformed to this world, but be
ye transformed the turning upside down a beginning
on a new foundation Let this mind be
in you be Transformed by the renewing of
your mind.
What is my mind this morning?
How am I minded?
I'll soon find out I'm choking because of
the atmosphere around about me and coughing and
barking Why I haven't gotten down.
I read of a place where there was
a fire and Many people died from suffocation
Asphyxiation the smoke choked them to death and
there were two or three that were saved
alive And I tell you how it happened.
They knew what to do When the smoke
filled the whole building and they were up
somewhere on the third floor They got on
their stomachs and they put their nose to
the ground They had been informed that there
was always a certain layer of air on
the ground the smoke rises and Whatever oxygen
there is and whatever air there is drops
to the bottom and so they had enough
air to sustain their lives and For them
to get out and to save their lives
and all the others with all their fuss
With all their fuming they choked to death
and if I want to find a way
of life There's only one way learn of
me for I am meek and lowly in
heart Let this mind be in you What
is that mind?
Why Jesus wanted to humble himself?
When he was reviled he reviled not again.
Well, we don't do that either We're too
cultured, but we get sour on the inside.
We don't like it.
Jesus liked it He said I delight to
do thy will.
Oh God he condemned sin in the flesh.
He said no He was tempted in all
Points like we are like Adam why you
shall be like God.
We heard it quoted a while ago Why
don't let them do that to you?
How quickly Jesus Christ showed what mind was
in him what mind controlled him get thee
behind me Satan All to have that mind
in me, which was also in Christ Jesus.
That's a wonderful Monitor that will guide me
in the right direction It'll guide me down
What I find Jesus when I breathe a
heavenly atmosphere and I'm not choked by the
poisonous gases of pride and conceit and self
-seeking and self-made spirituality Beloved there's no
salvation.
I tell you there isn't any salvation.
Our hearts are too deceitful We become Spiritually
minded and all the while we admire ourselves
My God who shall deliver me from this
Satan that now puts on delivery of heaven
That now is transformed into an apostle of
life How we praise Ourselves how we admire
ourselves simply because we have not been turned
upside down Our minds have not been transformed.
We have not the mind that was also
in Christ Jesus How do I feel when
I'm judged?
When I am misjudged, that's one thing the
Lord had against me when I first came
into Pentecost You're doing my will along every
line except one you don't like to be
criticized I didn't God held that against me.
Why that's the mind of the flesh.
Oh Beloved the thing that will help us
very very greatly is to seek Jesus and
When we seek Jesus, we will soon get
down the Holy Ghost will see to it
The unction that you have received of the
Holy One will teach you all things Teaches
you to keep your mouth shut.
I always say it teaches you French Ferme
la bouche.
It does with a vengeance.
Have you learned to keep your mouth shut?
Have you learned to keep your heart with
all diligence lest these thorns and thistles spring
up I I found out that one can
be very spiritual on the outside and still
have a sour heart and Still have a
root of bitterness in the heart My there
was a time when I'm shaved under it.
I couldn't deliver myself I couldn't get out
of it.
It was choking me.
The only thing to do was to get
down really Get down and I mean get
down.
I had to go to people that had
harmed me That had hurt me that had
sinned against me and humble myself before them
that did it that helped me Oh when
that mind that is also in Christ Jesus
controls me beloved.
That's not my own mind it's his mind
and Jesus Christ offers to think for me
to feel for me to be my own
life Also he that hateth not his own
life Also, why beloved when we do that,
we will welcome this is the truth.
We will welcome Someone has said we ought
to consider the people that harm us and
that do evil and ill to us We
ought to consider them our very best friend
It isn't praise that blesses me and lifts
me but blame Blame is far better than
praise but until I like it and experience
one time when I was Awakened to my
great need of humility.
I wish I had that awakening today.
Oh, I shaved I thought my god my
god my god First I cried to God
to show me myself.
I had learned that from another brother in
In Kenosha, we had a habit of walking
up and down and walking up and down
praying and he did It was during the
Depression when the men had no work and
so they spent eight hours a day in
prayer and sometimes 12 hours Didn't do them
any harm and this young fellows walking up
and down and said Oh God show me
my abominable my lord Show me my abominable
self.
I Did you ever pray like that, you
know, you'll get to the place where you
think everybody has wings and you have horns
The strangest thing what happens when you really
want to know the truth when you really
Want to know the truth and you realize
that you're dying.
You're choking to death You begin to pray
like that and I prayed I prayed I
prayed I prayed And all the vision that
God gave me at that time the awful
Awful condition why that is salvation when we
realize how?
deceitful above all things and Desperately wicked our
own hearts are Why was Adam and Eve
that were Deceived by that angel of light
Lucifer.
He shall be as God Isn't that a
wonderful ambition?
Why today's being preached in Pentecost from one
end of the earth to the other why
you shall be as God You can buy
phonograph records They come from California and they'll
tell you who you are why you don't
know you're sons of God you are You
ought to have your pockets full of money
You ought to stick out your chest.
You ought to tell the devil where to
get off at Beloved it's that same poison
of Lucifer and It's not surprising because the
devil knows his time is short and if
God Almighty can get his people down with
a transformed mind With the renewal of the
mind when Jesus Christ can possess the minds
of his people then Satan will be in
the pit That's where Satan reigns in the
church That's where the man of sin spreads
himself in the church In the place where
it ought to be Christ and Christ alone
And if it isn't Christ alone, I will
never meet the great.
I will never find that throne room of
heaven And where am I am I on
the way well, I ought to examine myself
I will soon find out how do I
like it when things when people do outrageously
mean things It was at that time that
God allowed people to do that to me
I Chased under it.
I wanted to forgive and I did the
best I knew how but there was something
in my heart that rose up within me
and one time when one man railed on
me I Rose up against it.
I didn't rail back.
I knew better than that.
I knew I'd only get it worse but
in my heart There was something there was
something created.
I knew that was poison I knew it
was thorns and thistles God says you can't
get into the kingdom They that do such
things shall not inherit the kingdom of God
Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Then you shall prove.
What is that good and acceptable and Perfect
will of God what is that?
Why if any among you seem us to
be great or wants to be great?
Let it be the lowest of all I've
given you an example that you should do
as I have done to you.
I've washed your feet Blessed are ye if
you do those things and so I had
to learn my lesson and I remember how
Desperately I prayed and one day like brother
Gardner said the other day the Lord checked
me and said look out come Sure enough.
It came again that day But all the
transformation God had wrought in my soul The
more they railed on me the more I
rejoiced inwardly.
I was just laughing.
It was like honey out of the rock.
I Knew that wasn't myself.
I knew that I could never have done
it up to that time I would get
inwardly very wild and mad and now so
sweet So loving and the more they railed
The more I rejoiced and glory to God
I knew God was answering prayer God was
Transforming me praise God.
My mind was gone and the mind of
Christ was beginning to possess me What does
he mean when he says blessed are the
poor in spirit theirs is the kingdom of
heaven God has a kingdom prepared before the
foundation of the world, but he has no
takers that Kingdom is not going to be
given to the old Adam nor to his
son But to the last Adam who is
made the Lord from heaven who said all
things are delivered unto me of my father
And this is now come learn of me
for I'm meek and lowly in the heart
Oh to be like the blessed Redeemer We
think of the glory of heaven and how
we're going to be transformed into the same
image from glory to glory But we don't
realize that that glory of the only begotten
of the father was full of grace and
truth It was his humility that Constituted his
glory his lowliness his utter meekness Not my
will but thy will be done.
That's where the father was glorified in the
son that's where the Veil was ranked and
the way was open for you and for
me to become sons of God Learn of
me learn of me Learn of me if
we're wise at all beloved.
We're going to do one thing alone.
I do one thing alone And holy give
myself to one who gives himself to me
Sir, Sagan wrote that song.
Where is the school for one and all
where men become as children small and Little
ones are great Where to unlearn all things
I learned from self and from all others
turn One master here and see I learned
to do one thing alone One thing alone
and holy give myself to one who gives
himself to me and You know that transforms
every Every little thing in life into a
throne room where I meet my king We
heard a while ago about the kitchen sink
How wonderful when that kitchen sink becomes a
meeting place with God Every item in all
the world Becomes a throne where I bow
before the king But I humble myself before
the king And our sister talked about the
sink how it became a throne room I
remember in a faith home a dear sister
who sought God with all her heart and
how that When she had fasted five days
one day she came down into the Kitchen
and you know some of the Saints Don't
like to wash dishes and here was a
pile of dishes and she hadn't she had
fasted she hadn't eaten for five days And
when she saw that pile of dishes, what
did she do going to a dump and
say where are all these?
lazy Saints They eat like Butchers three times
a day and here I've been fasting and
waiting on my Lord for five days Where
are these lazy?
creatures and then Grow up her sleep.
No sweetly singing she did the dishes Never
letting on at all.
I Tell you that sink became a throne
room of the king.
I Never liked to do dishes unless George
was helping her My what a sanctuary that
kitchen sink became How different it was now
why that was the Lord Why Otherwise you
didn't like it at all, but my goodness
You know marriages are made in heaven But
often the sink is started a sort of
a way to heaven My how marvelous oh
how a wonderful because you come to me
Hold the horse the nines are coming wounds
around the waist.
Oh Yes, that was the Lord I tell
you that was the Lord I am holy
Glory to God And so they went to
the altar And because you come to me
with no faith love No beloved these hearts
of ours are deceitful of all things desperately
wicked Who can know them?
But when I am minded like Jesus Christ
was minded, I'll be on the way I'll
not deviate I will not seek myself Nor
do things that satisfy the flesh and then
blame the Lord and blame all the holy
angels in heaven For having led me that
way But I will follow the Lamb with
us wherever he goes That will be my
guide.
It'll be the cross of Christ.
Oh Jesus Show me the way Follow me
Hallelujah Praise the Lord Oh Beloved to get
down to humble myself to really be transformed
by the renewing of my mind to prove
what is that good and acceptable and perfect
will of God That's it It isn't the
way the gale blows, but it's the way
the sail is set that determines the way
she goes And when my sail is set
in the right direction Oh Jesus this mind
in you which was also in Christ Jesus
that you may prove what is that good
and acceptable and perfect will of God Oh
My father when I learn to get down
Really get down and really humble myself.
I And that house full of Smoke and
full of fire they got down.
They found out that along the ground There
was a certain layer of air and they
got out alive and all the others spoke
to them Oh, let me learn my lesson
to really Be transformed by the renewing of
my mind that I may prove What is
that good and acceptable and perfect will of
God?
And the Lord will draw You've been
listening to the from the pulpit and classic
sermon series this week You heard Hans Wadvogel
with his message you shall be as God's
was not Christ's ambition Tune in next week
to hear Bruce Wilkinson.
Talk about walking in the spirit.
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