May God be glorified.
May his name be exalted.
He has been exalted far above all principality
and power and might and every name that
is named.
But he is yet to be exalted in
the hearts and lives of God's people in
a way that we have never known.
When it thundered there, I was thinking of
the time when Jesus was on earth.
And there was a great sound from heaven
when Jesus said, Father, glorify thy name.
And there was a great rumbling from heaven
and some heard it thunder.
Others said, oh, it was an angel speaking
to him.
The voice was very clear.
Jesus prayed, Father, glorify thy name.
He said, I have glorified it and I
will glorify it again.
And so we need to have our ears
tuned into him that we will hear clearly
what he is saying.
Not that it will just be so much
thunder or noise.
Not that we should just hear the voice
of angels, though that would be good.
But we want to hear that clear voice
from heaven.
I have glorified my name and I will
do it again.
Do it again.
He glorified his name all the time Jesus
was here on earth ministering.
For everything that Jesus did or said or
taught or worked, it was the Son yielding
himself that the Father might speak through him,
work through him and bring forth his mighty
works through the Son.
And God was glorified.
God's name was glorified because in all that
he did through the Son, that glory went
back to the Father.
Everything he did or said or taught, all
the works he did brought glory to the
Father.
Not to himself as the Messiah, as the
Son of God on earth, but the Son
was here to be the instrument through whom
God would be glorified.
And you'll notice, therefore, that Jesus was cautious
to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.
He did on a few occasions.
I'm the Christ.
But he was cautious because they were ready
to receive a Messiah, a king who had
power and authority to deal with the present
situation, which was the occupation of their land
by the Romans.
They hated that and they were waiting for
a Messiah to come and deliver them.
I know you're taught sometimes Jesus came to
be the king of Israel and they rejected
the king and so God turned to the
Gentiles.
They never rejected the king.
They rejected the man, the Son, who spoke
the words of the Father.
They tried to make him king on one
occasion.
After the multiplying of the loaves and the
fishes, they got together and said, We're going
to draft him.
He's not going to get out of this.
He's the king and we know it.
When Jesus heard about it, he went off
in the mountains to be alone because he
knew that they just had a carnal concept
of the kingdom.
A king who would deliver their nation and
sit in with their present program and enlarge
it and beautify it still more.
He came to be king all right.
And when Pilate said, as Jesus stood before
him, his accusation was, Jesus, king of the
Jews.
That was his accusation.
Are you a king then?
Are you a king?
And finally he said, Yes, I am a
king.
To this end was I born.
And for this purpose I came into the
earth to bear witness to the truth.
You can only understand the nature of the
kingship of Jesus.
He came into the earth to be king,
yes, but to bear witness to the truth.
To speak only those words that the Father
gave him to speak.
To do only the works that the Father
gave him to do.
Not because he was the king they were
looking for.
Not because he was the Christ, the Messiah.
But because he spoke the truth.
That's why he wanted them to believe on
him.
Because he spoke truth and if their hearts
were after the truth, then they would receive
him.
So they received Moses.
Jesus said, Well, if you really received Moses,
you'd receive me because he spoke of me.
It's a rather sad thing that though God
does send forth great and mighty ministry in
the earth, in his church from time to
time, very often the people do not really
hear the true message that comes forth, but
rather they applaud and give applause and glory
to the messenger.
And God's prophets need to learn somehow.
God helps his people everywhere to learn, no
matter what your ministry.
That if God does not receive all the
glory, he will not be satisfied with just
giving him part of it and part of
it to someone else.
He will not share his glory with another.
And yet, he shared his glory with his
son.
He gave all glory to Jesus.
Simply because in giving it to Jesus, he
was the vessel in the earth that God
ordained and sent into the earth.
The son who would, in God putting his
glory upon him, it came back to the
Father.
It never retained.
He never retained it.
He wouldn't retain that glory because he came
to glorify the Father.
Not only that, but he came to be
a pattern.
The patterned son.
The one who would be our example because
the whole origin of evil came about because
there was one who was bright with the
glory of God who stole that glory.
Began to say, I will be like the
Most High.
I will ascend into the heavens.
I used to puzzle quite a bit about
the origin of evil until one day I
was writing one of my writings.
Actually, when it came clearly, I know there's
a teaching that God made the devil like
he is, full of murder, hate, everything.
God couldn't do that.
It's impossible.
He who is full of total light, in
him is no darkness at all.
He cannot lie.
We're told that he made Satan a liar
and a thief and a murderer.
God can't lie and yet he can make
a liar and the creator of all lies.
But he said, I'm going to be like
the Most High.
He cut himself off from light and he
dwelt in darkness.
Still a little light outside.
If we turned off these lights, there'd still
be a little glimmer of light in here.
But with all total darkness outside, we have
light here.
Turn off the switch, we're in darkness.
Where'd it come from?
Did it start coming in the windows?
No, it's the absence of light.
Darkness is simply the absence of light.
Evil is simply the absence of God.
Hatred is the absence of love.
Every weapon that Satan has is the absence
of light and darkness and truth.
That's why we're told to walk in light.
That's our victory.
Walking in light.
Walking in truth.
Walking in goodness.
Overcoming evil with good.
So with this room in total darkness, I'm
going to drive out the darkness.
Turn on the light.
And in him is light, and there is
no darkness at all.
There's none in him.
So even when he casts his shadow, does
God cast his shadow?
Well, I think the psalmist says under his
shadow we have made our refuge.
God being total light, the shadow of God
upon his people is a shadow of light.
And when we see that, it gives us
a whole new concept of this matter of
good and evil and how to overcome the
evil.
I mean all through church history.
Those who profess to have the truth would
rise up in arms to oh, destroy the
heretics or whatever.
Come against us with weapons of hate and
revenge.
It's unthinkable, but it's happening.
The Reformation.
God gave a great light.
Nations aligned themselves with that light.
But there was so much politics mixed with
religion that they went to war, one nation
against another, because one was Protestant and the
other Catholic and trying to destroy one another
in the name of God.
It is just walking in the light that
is in Christ Jesus.
Using the weapons of darkness and hate and
cruelty and murder to propagate the Gospel.
I told one of the reformers, and it's
sad, I don't want to even mention his
name.
He fought in battle and was found dead
with a clenched sword in his hand.
We're not condemning those men who did bring
the great light.
We're just saying, God, bring us to the
fullness of light where there be no darkness
at all.
You say, well, of course, you start talking
that way and you're getting into perfection and
you know nobody can come to that.
I know we can, that God can bring
us to it.
Jesus said that the light of the body
is the eye, therefore I be single, pure,
unto Him, devoted to Him, seeing Him only.
Whatever it means by being single.
My whole body shall be full of light.
And in one of the Gospels it says,
having no part dark.
No part dark.
The true light of God wants to drive
out all darkness.
Not just enough so people can say, well,
of course, as long as we're on this
earth we've got to have a little sin.
We couldn't exist here unless we had a
little.
I remember way back, Sunday School days, one
preacher said, well, if we come to perfection,
God would have to take us.
I don't know why people come up with
things like that.
And heaven, oh yeah, it would be perfect
love in heaven.
But not down here.
There couldn't be anything else but perfect love
up there.
It's down here that we need that perfect
love.
This world of hate and sin and malice
and wickedness and all kinds of covetousness.
You name it, it's all realms of darkness.
It's all realms of darkness.
It's all that which is contrary to the
light.
Opposite to the light.
This is where God wants the light to
shine in this world of darkness.
So you say, yeah, we're doing our best
to get the message out that Jesus is
the light of the world.
Let me tell you, Jesus is not here
yet, now.
And He said, as long as I'm with
you I'm the light of the world.
And as He was about to go away,
He said, you're the light of the world.
He went away not to leave the world
in darkness but to make the light more
brilliant than when He was here.
For He came to bring about the redemption
of man.
And having accomplished the work of the cross,
having finished the work of the cross, God
was able to receive them back.
No more reason for Him staying here, having
accomplished the work of the cross.
They were hoping He'd set up this kingdom.
For though He had told them clearly, they
couldn't really understand it or receive it.
And from that day until this, men have
not been able to receive it.
That the kingdom of God came to set
up is a kingdom in the hearts of
His people where grace might reign through righteousness,
that just as sin reigns unto death, so
the grace of God in His people might
reign in life by Christ Jesus.
And that reigning as kings simply means having
total authority over all the realms of darkness.
You say, yeah, that's what this world needs.
I know.
And that will happen somewhere we know.
It's so difficult for God's people to believe
that that kingdom we're talking about and the
kingdom that Jesus talked about cometh not with
observation, for lo, it is within you.
It's the work God does in the hearts
of His people.
Oh, don't spiritualize the kingdom.
Would you, God?
He'd send forth a word that would cause
all truth to be spiritualized.
It's the breath of heaven.
You want to carnalize it, don't you?
God wants to spiritualize truth because He brings
forth a spiritual people in the earth.
Because the natural mind receives what is not
the things of the Spirit of God.
For they are foolishness unto Him.
Neither can He know them because they are
discerned spiritually.
How hopeless we are.
How helpless we are to receive any knowledge
concerning the kingdom of God in our darkened
condition.
And so He came to bring a light.
The kingdom of life and of light and
of truth and of righteousness.
But first of all, He had to deal
with the sin of man.
And He did that at the cross.
And having finished the work, He went back
to the Father to rule and reign from
that heavenly throne.
He could have ruled and reigned on earth.
But God said, No, not enough that you
have dominion over Caesar and the kings of
the earth.
I appoint you to have dominion over all
those principalities and powers in heavenly places.
And so having learned obedience by the things
which He suffered and having gone to the
cross in that final act of obedience to
the Father, He finished the work on earth,
died on the cross, and there on the
cross overcame all the powers of darkness by
the blood of His cross.
Overcoming them by His cross.
Making a show of principalities and powers.
Openly, Paul says.
Making a show of them openly.
He didn't overcome Satan and sin and death
and darkness and sickness at the resurrection.
He did it at the cross.
Because He had overcome at the cross, it
is impossible that death could keep Him captive.
God raised Him from the dead.
Paul tells us that through death that He
destroyed him that had the power of death.
That is the devil.
I read where Satan overcame Jesus at the
cross and He triumphed at the resurrection.
Overcame Satan at the cross.
He hung there with nails in His hand.
Totally overcome it seems.
God was overshadowing that lamb because He went
there in obedience to the will of the
Father.
God overshadowed that wonderful sacrifice by His own
Spirit making it to be a sacrifice for
sin.
The Spirit of God was there overshadowing that
sacrifice.
For if the blood of bulls and goats
and the ashes of a heifer that sanctify
unto the cleanness of the flesh, Paul says,
the blood of bulls and goats sanctified the
people because it was a sacrifice in type.
We know that the blood of bulls and
goats cannot take away sin, Paul says, but
it was a typical sacrifice.
And God accepted it in view of the
sacrifice of the cross.
And Jesus got to the cross simply by
walking in obedience and being the light in
the midst of a world of darkness.
Because that's how God had found His way
at the cross.
He walked in the light.
And because He walked in the light, darkness
came against Him.
Darkness confronted Him.
It came into collision right there at the
cross.
Life and death came into collision.
It happened even before the cross.
But that was the final collision between life
and death, light and darkness, truth and error,
love and hatred.
And what brought about His cross was the
fact that that light that He was, that
life that He was, began to be manifested
even in His earthly ministry.
Oh, He had raised one or two from
the dead.
He healed a lot of the sick.
And they were thrilled about all His wonderful
miracles.
They knew He'd make an ideal king.
But when in obedience to the Father He
left Galilee and went back to Judea.
Remember, He had run away from them because
they were persecuting Him.
And a couple of times they picked up
stones to stone Him and He hid Himself.
And so it's assumed, well, finally they caught
up with Him at the cross.
Oh, no.
He just evaded every attempt to destroy Him
because His life was going to be one
that He would give.
No man would take it from Him.
But when He was there in Galilee and
the word came about the sickness of Lazarus,
one whom He loved, He sent a message
to him.
Please come down.
Your friend Lazarus is sick.
When Jesus got the message, He stayed two
more days where He was.
They were His friends.
He loved them.
And He stayed four days too long as
far as they were concerned.
He stayed two more days after He got
the message.
By the time He got back, four days
had gone by and Lazarus had lain in
the tomb for four days until even his
flesh had become corrupt.
And then Jesus said, Now let us go
back to Judea.
Our friend Lazarus sleepeth.
I go to awake him out of his
sleep.
That's good.
If he's sleeping now, he'll get rest.
He'll renew his knowledge.
Jesus said, Lazarus is dead.
I'm glad for your sake that I was
not there.
You don't understand some of the mysterious things
Jesus said.
I'm glad I wasn't there.
Think of the pressure that would be put
upon him to heal that man from friends
he loved.
But they said, Don't you remember, Lord, how
they persecuted us when we were there?
Remember, Jesus said, If a man walk in
the daytime, he will not stumble.
He walks in the daylight, he will not
stumble.
Let's go back.
Jesus never walked in the darkness.
He walked in the daylight of the Father's
will and heart and mind and presence.
He walked in the daylight all the way
to the cross.
He went back there knowing that the Father
was leading him to the place of sacrifice.
He raised a man from the dead.
He manifested the life and the resurrection before
he went to the cross and before he
himself was raised from the dead.
He manifested the resurrection of life and that's
what he was.
And the sisters of Lazarus said, If you'd
only been here, our brother would not have
died.
Jesus said, He'll rise again.
Oh yes, we know.
He'll rise again in the resurrection of the
last day.
He said, I am the resurrection and the
life.
He that believeth in me, though he were
dead, yet shall he live.
And he that liveth and believeth in me
shall never die.
Believeth thou this?
Oh yes, we believe he was a great
prophet that used to come into the world.
He believed this.
And you know the story.
He went there and called the dead man
back to life.
I mean, he'd raised dead men before, but
here was a man whose flesh had gone
into corruption.
And when the scribes and Pharisees heard about
it, they got together and they said, Don't
you see how we've prevailed nothing?
The world we've gone after.
If we let him thus alone, everybody will
believe in him and the Romans will come
and take away our place and our nation.
And from that time, they began to counsel
how to get rid of him.
You think when God begins to manifest resurrection
life once again on the earth, and he's
doing it in measure, even now.
You've heard about this man that goes to
Mexico and raises people from the dead.
For he is the resurrection and the life.
You think it's going to turn the hearts
of the people to repentance?
When Jesus raised a man to life who
had been dead four days and his flesh
had gone into corruption, that was the incident
that brought about the judgment to crucify him.
What are we going to do?
He's performing all these miracles.
If we leave him alone, we're going to
lose this place and this nation.
We'll lose our temple.
We'll lose the little freedom we got if
we let him alone.
Caiaphas, the high priest, because of his office,
because of his office, he prophesied.
You know nothing at all, nor consider that
it is expedient that one man should die
for the nation and that the whole nation
perish not.
In this speaking out of himself of being
high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus
would die for that nation, not only that,
but that he would bring together the children
of God that were scattered abroad.
He prophesied.
An ungodly priest full of hatred against Christ.
So you see, we know these things, but
somehow still, if a man's a prophet, oh,
he's something super.
If he's a miracle worker, you know, if
he can do wonderful works, you know, he's
held up there on a pedestal.
God can take an unholy priest with murder
in his heart and give him words of
prophecy.
You take a Balaam in the Old Testament,
a worshiper of false gods, and give him
true prophecy.
You take that path upon which Balaam rode
and give him words of truth and reproof
to the man who rode him.
It didn't change his heart from a donkey
to that of a man, and it didn't
change the hearts of these sinners to the
hearts of righteous ones.
God brings us to the place where we'll
understand and know and approve of those things
that are excellent.
There's a more excellent way that the Lord
sets before us.
We don't pursue it too much because we
don't know God well enough to know how
wonderful it is to be a people walking
in perfect love.
We just don't realize, can't imagine that there's
anything too marvelous than that.
It'd be nice to do that, of course,
but having to realize that God is love
and when we come to that place and
we abide in God and God abides in
us and His fullness and His love is
perfected in us, that's all God needs to
change this old world from one of wickedness
to one of truth and righteousness.
That's all He needs.
Apostles won't do it.
Prophets won't do it.
Teachers won't do it.
What are they there for then?
A very specific purpose.
The perfecting of God's saints to encourage them,
to give them words of truth.
Give them a living hope.
Give them grace that they might walk in
the ways of the Lord until we come
to the unity of the faith and the
knowledge of the Son of God and to
a perfect man under the measure of the
stature of the fullness of Christ.
Until we come to that.
I hope it won't be too long before
God will hide away the fivefold ministry as
we call it.
We need it.
Oh, yes, I know we need it.
The time comes and the world doesn't need
it anymore.
Like Moses and Elijah, God will just hide
them away in the cloud that Jesus alone
might be seen and glorified and magnified in
the congregation of the people and in the
earth.
That's what the Holy Spirit is here for,
dwelling in you and I.
It might be a temple of the Holy
Spirit because the Holy Spirit is the One
Whom God sent when Jesus ascended to take
everything that's in Jesus and make it known
to His church.
He shall take of Mine and show it
unto you.
He will not leave you as orphans.
I will come to you, He said.
Jesus said, I will come to you.
Jesus came again on the day of Pentecost
in the Spirit of Truth.
He said the Spirit of Truth is with
you and now He shall be in you.
I invite His people to lead us into
all truth, into light and to righteousness that
God might rekindle the light that was here
when Jesus was here, but that it might
shine more brilliantly than when Jesus was here.
Oh, you say that we in the earth
would have a light still greater than what
Jesus revealed when He was here?
Oh, I quote this almost everywhere I go.
Prophet Isaiah saw that day when the moon,
which speaks of the church, has no light
at all, but it reflects the glory of
the sun, which is full of light, emanates
light.
He said the time is coming when the
light of the moon shall be as the
light of the sun.
People don't like that thought that we're going
to be like Jesus.
They think it's blasphemy.
God gave all glory to Jesus because when
He gave all glory to Jesus He went
back to the Father, and the Father was
glorified.
His name was magnified.
And Jesus said, Father, glorify Thy name.
And He says, I've done it.
Now do it again.
Do it again.
Oh, I know He's done it again in
small measure in every day of church history
that that prophet has yet to be fulfilled.
The light of the moon shall be as
the light of the sun.
And the light of the sun shall be
sevenfold as the light of seven days in
the day when the Lord bindeth up the
breach of His people and healeth the stroke
of their wound.
He didn't need to stay here.
He had a great work to perform in
the heavens.
He said, Father, I've finished the work that
Thou gavest me to do.
Now, Father, glorify Thou me with Thine own
self as the glory which I had with
Thee before the world was.
I have manifested Thy name unto those whom
Thou hast given me.
And they've received my word.
Now, Father, glorify Thou me with Thine own
self.
He was glorified in the heavenly glory, promising
His disciples that when that happened, He would
send the Spirit of Truth who lived and
walked with them these three-and-a-half
years, send forth that Spirit of Truth again
back into the earth to abide in His
people in the temple that He would build
in the earth, be filled with His glory.
Not to show forth the glory of the
church, but to show forth the beauty of
the Lord.
God brings us to the place that David
came to when he said, One thing have
I desired of Thee, that one thing will
I seek after, that I might dwell in
the house of the Lord all the days
of my life.
And the teaching of the body of Christ
has been beautiful.
Oh, so many wonderful truths have come forth
concerning the building of the body of Christ,
the building of His church, that God would
put His glory upon His people, the same
glory that was on Jesus.
So often we and God's ministers have tried
to retain that glory for themselves as Lucifer
did.
I want to have my own light.
I want to have my own glory.
And so the church has gone into darkness
over and over again many times.
And once again, God would shine forth with
His light.
And He's going to bind up the breach
of His people and heal the stroke of
their wound.
And when He does that, this temple will
be so pure and so holy that the
light of the church will be as bright
as Jesus.
And Jesus will be seven times brighter because
the glory that God gives us is only
so that it might read down to the
glory of God.
Jesus knew that.
He did many wonderful things and they would
try to get Him to become their king
because of the wonderful power He had.
He said, I didn't do it really.
It was the Father that did it through
me.
Give Him the glory.
And that's what angered them because He came
in the Father's name.
And let another come in His own name.
And Jesus said the world will receive Him.
I don't care whether He's a movie star
or a scientist or a preacher or a
politician.
He comes in His own name with His
own agenda, with His own wisdom, with His
own knowledge, His own charismatic glory, be it
spiritual or natural.
People laud Him and lift Him up and
He becomes a great hero in the minds
of the people.
But Jesus came in such a way that
everything He did and said and those wonderful
works always honored the Father.
Oh, now you didn't do it, eh?
No, the Father did it, Jesus said.
Now you're making yourself equal with God.
Let a man come in His own name,
His own power, His own resources, His own
talents, and the world and the church will
applaud Him.
I didn't quote that Scripture fully, but we
sang it completely.
One thing have I desired of the Lord,
that one thing will I seek after.
That I might dwell in the house of
the Lord all the days of my life
to behold the beauty of the Lord and
to inquire in His temple.
God hastens the day when we'll gather together
and see the glory of the Lord.
And men and women, little children will be
talking about the beauty of Jesus and the
glory of our God.
Those things happen in days of real revival
when God is magnified.
Oh, so often, somehow that old human ego
comes back begins to steal some of that
glory.
And the people go for it.
Don't blame the ministers that fall and accuse
them.
Ask God to search our hearts.
If God's people would stop lauding them and
lifting them up and exalting them, they wouldn't
fall.
And yet, God I know is going to
raise up some powerful ministry in this end
time.
Powerful ministry.
But they're going to have not only the
beauty of Jesus shining forth, but have the
wisdom, the grace, and the humility of Jesus.
That in what they do and say and
how they react to the applause of men
will be their safeguard.
Jesus went away to the mountains to be
alone when they wanted to crown Him king.
And as God begins to put His glory
upon His people, it always happens that the
carnal will want to exalt and lift them
up.
God gave wisdom and grace to His ministers
everywhere to know how somehow to redirect the
gaze of God's people from themselves, yes, from
their heroes in the church, yes, from great
leaders in the church, redirect their vision by
working in their hearts and lives until they
say, I come here.
I came here to see the beauty of
Jesus and to inquire in His temple.
Instead of coming to a prayer meeting to
tell God what you want and insisting you
get it, how about coming and inquiring?
God, what do you want?
Inquiring in His temple.
I feel perhaps that's enough for tonight.
Dear Heavenly Father, I thank You, Lord.
Lord, I thank You for Your people.
Lord Jesus, You said You were going to
have a church spot or wrinkle or blemish
or any such thing.
We believe You're doing it, Lord.
And I know, Lord, many of Your people
have gone through sorrows and trials and tests
to the point sometimes of wondering if God
is there, if God sees or if He
cares.
I pray that You'll sustain and strengthen and
encourage Your people, Lord, and cause them to
lift up their eyes and see that You
are leading them, Lord, but that You must
remove from our lives every area where the
tempter might come and take a stand and
spoil the beautiful work that You are seeking
to bring forth.
Grant, Lord, that You will work in our
hearts such grace and humility and righteousness and
truth that we will be able to say,
as Your beloved Son said, not in arrogance,
not in pride, but in humility and in
truth, that the Prince of this world cometh
and findeth nothing in me.
We know we're not there, Lord.
We know that sometimes the Prince of darkness
comes and He finds a place to take
a foothold.
God, continue to work grace and truth in
Your people.
Not of our working, but of Yours.
For this sanctifying work we pray for, Lord,
is not something we can produce.
It's something You produce.
But oftentimes You do it through trial and
testing and tribulations of many kinds to the
point where we might think we're being consumed
and overcome and we've lost out or God
doesn't like us anymore.
We have not yet resisted unto blood, striving
against sin as the Son of God did.
We've forgotten the exhortation that's speaketh unto us
as unto sons.
Grant, my son, despise not thou the chastening
of the Lord.
For faint and honored reproved of Him for
whom the Lord loveth the chastening and scourgeth
every son whom He receiveth.
We want to be Your sons, Lord, in
truth and in action.
The way we walk and the way we
think, the way we conduct our business, even
in the natural world.
Continue that great work in Your people, Lord.
Make us sons after the image of Jesus
who died and ascended to heaven that we
might be like Him by the ministration of
His Spirit in our lives that we too
might walk on the pathway that He walked.
For Thou art the way, the truth, and
the life.
Over all of Your people, Lord, we pray
in these two or three days that we
gather together, Lord, I pray that You would
cause our hearts to be fixed on You,
Lord Jesus.
And as we gather together, may it be
unto You changes and transfigures by Your glorious
presence.
We pray in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Praise God.
The Lord is preparing a table for us
for three days.
I kind of feel like we've had the
hors d'oeuvres here tonight.
God's kind of just spread some things out
for us like a little foretaste.
God's spreading a table.
This third feast.
The trumpet event.
The call.
The trumpet.
When you come in in the morning, as
quickly as we can, let's kind of gather
here and just get our hearts tuned in
and start inquiring of the Lord.
We heard that tonight.
What do you want, Lord?
What is your burden?
A lot of people want their burden to
be taken away.
I don't want my burden to be taken
away.
I started walking this way about 20 years
ago.
God started opening my eyes.
He gave me a vision.
He let me start seeing a little bit
of what He's seeing.
He gave me a burden like that.
I was telling Brother Warnock over at the
house the other day we were singing some
choruses.
He gave me a little chorus.
Maybe we'll sing it one time during these
meetings.
He gave me a more perfect vision one
day, dear Lord.
You let me see, Lord, what You see.
And yet with that vision, a burden You
gave.
And that burden sanctifies me.
Don't take my burden.
Don't take it away.
Don't take it, Lord.
Let it stay.
Bring me, dear Lord, on my face before
Thee, but don't take my burden away.
That's coming in the morning.
Inquiring of the Lord.
What's your burden, Lord?
What's your burden, Holy Spirit, for Your people?
What do You want to say?
Get tuned in and get ready.
I'm so glad to see so many of
you tonight.
I don't want somebody to dismiss us.
I wonder who feels a burden to just
come up and dismiss God's people.
Nancy, why don't you do that?
Just come up here and stand with me
and just pronounce the benediction.
Dismiss God's people tonight.
Nancy Kaysen, come and...
Oh, Father God, we are so moved tonight,
Lord, to be so blessed.
Lord, You've honored us with one of Your
special messengers this evening, Lord.
May we receive what was said tonight, Lord,
and may we sleep during the night and
it come back to us over and over
again, Lord, that we might meditate upon it,
Lord.
Lord, be with us during the night and
remind us of what we've heard this night,
Lord.
This is a special occasion appropriated by You,
O God, and we want to take back
with us to our own homes some of
the impartation that our brother is bringing to
us this night, O God.
Open our hearts and let us receive from
You, O God, everything that You want us
to hear.
Be with us during this night and bring
us back tomorrow morning prepared to hear more
of what You have to say to us.
Bless our brother and give him a good
night's sleep.
In Jesus' name we ask it.
Amen.