I believe we saw a beautiful visitation this
morning.
But it's still today.
Today, if you will hear his voice, harden
not your hearts.
We do want to look back to past
blessings, even if it is a few hours
ago, unless it be in thanksgiving and praise
for what he did, and in hope and
anticipation that it's just the foretaste of what
God's going to do.
For those who weren't here, we believe there
is a great work of cleansing in the
hearts of people and a great work of
reconciliation between brothers and sisters and fathers and
mothers, which I believe is a prelude to
any real revival.
That God would turn the hearts of the
fathers to the children and the hearts of
the children to the fathers.
God said if that didn't happen, he'd have
to smite the earth with a curse.
And I remember way back in the early
days of the revival of the 50s.
I remember this man, Brother Hunt, saying the
next revival is going to begin in the
home.
And it doesn't look like it when homes
are devastated, torn asunder, children ripped apart from
parents.
It's beyond our ability to solve, and the
church is swamped with that.
So what do they do?
Hire counselors, educated counselors, to give them the
theories of men to remedy family life when
God's answer is in coming to Jesus.
Letting the Lord Jesus be Lord of our
lives and of our homes.
So we're encouraged because I know God is
arising in the earth.
For when darkness covers the earth and grows
darkness to people, we have his promise, a
light shall arise upon thee.
His glory shall be seen upon thee.
The darkness that surrounds us is God's promise
that there's going to be a light shining
forth from his people.
So we thank the Lord for what we
feel he's, we know he's doing.
I don't mean just here, I mean that's
his intention.
All over the earth, where darkness covers the
earth, God's promise that the light is going
to shine forth, where?
Out of the darkness.
Where did it shine in the beginning?
Darkness covered the earth, and the Spirit of
God moved upon the face of the waters,
and God commanded the light to shine out
of darkness.
He said, let there be light, and there
was light.
And the apostle says, God commanded the light
to shine out of darkness.
People say it's so dark, there's so much
evil.
God has promised there's grace, there's greater grace.
If there's greater sin, if there's greater evil,
there's greater grace.
Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.
Oh, we thank the Lord that he's on
the scene.
Our Lord Jesus stands at the throne of
God.
You say he's sitting there, I know, but
in times of special occasions he'd stand, and
John saw him, or rather, who was it?
The man that was stoned to death, Stephen
saw him standing.
He's rising to take care of his church
first.
I've not been greatly enthused about missionary programs.
God bless everyone whom God sends.
But God wants to get his church ready.
Out from the church shall go forth the
light that was in Jesus, the same light,
not another, not a lesser, but the same
light that was in Jesus.
God wants that to be in his people,
that it will radiate from his church.
That's God's burden, that's the desire of God's
heart, his passion.
For Zion's sake, I will not hold my
peace.
For Jerusalem's sake, I will not rest till
the righteousness there goes forth, the brightness and
the salvation of his lamp, that burneth.
Not enough to send the gospel, send out
tapes and books and get on TV, that
the gospel might go forth.
God wants all nations to see the salvation
of our God.
Yes, amen.
They can only see it when they see
it in his people.
So God's concerned about his people.
He's going to have a glorious church.
He's going to have a bride without spot,
without wrinkle.
Clean, pure, holy, and clean as Jesus is
clean.
Because there's nothing cleaner in heaven or in
earth than that sinner defiled and unclean that's
washed in the blood of Jesus.
I didn't intend to say that, but the
Lord for the star.
I felt this evening would be an evening
of thanks, great thanksgiving.
God, we see you coming.
We know you're coming.
I'm not talking about coming in clouds and
great glory.
I'm talking about him coming to take up
his habitation in his church and cleanse the
temple of God, that the Levites, the priests
of the Lord might offer unto God a
sacrifice of righteousness.
He might purge his house from all the
uncleanness, all the defilement, which has been brought
in by the entertainers.
I mean, if we knew God well enough,
we'd weep on our faces when we see
what's brought into the house of God.
Ezekiel saw it in his days, all kinds
of four-footed beasts and creeping things in
the temple of God.
There's so much creeping stuff in the church,
God's going to cleanse it.
Creeping things.
They bring in magicians and entertainers and they
bring all kinds of innovative ways to worship
God with their banners and ribbons and all
the clatter, tinsel to worship God, to adorn
the worship of God.
God wants worship where a man falls on
his face before God.
I've fallen on my back and other people
fall on their back, but God wants the
people so struck with the awesomeness of God's
presence that they're going to fall on their
face and worship before him.
Crying unto God for the desolation of his
temple, instead of entertaining the people to try
to keep them coming.
I pray God will put that spirit of
mourning upon the church of Jesus Christ that
they will mourn for the desolation of Zion.
Instead of thinking it's time to laugh and
think it's wonderful if a person can laugh.
God give us holy mourning in the church
of Jesus Christ.
Blessed are they that mourn because God is
going to comfort Zion with the joy of
the Holy Ghost.
God's weeping over his church.
He's grieved over his people.
God was grieved for 40 years when he
led the children of Israel out of Egypt.
He was grieved.
He sent manna every day to get them
water out of the rock.
He healed them when they were sick.
His cloud of his holy presence hovered over
their tabernacle by night to give them light
and warmth.
Hovered over their tabernacle every day as a
pillar of cloud.
There was fresh manna every morning for them
to go and gather.
He healed them.
He looked after them.
He led them by his spirit.
Wherefore, I was grieved with this generation, says
the Lord, and they have not known my
ways.
I swear my wrath I shall not enter
into my rest.
But you say he blessed them, he healed
them, poured out his spirit upon them, blessings
upon them beyond anything he's ever done for
any nation before or since.
God says I was grieved with them 40
years in the wilderness because they have not
known my ways.
If you don't know God's ways, you don't
know God very well.
But Jesus says I am the way, the
truth, and the life.
Oh, I want life.
I want a service that's lively.
I do too if it's alive with the
life of Jesus.
We don't know God until we begin to
walk in his ways and his ways take
us through a wilderness, through drought and famine
and pestilence.
God leads us in the wilderness ways and
yet God's hand is over us in the
midst of it all.
I fear for the church to think they're
going to go laughing their way into the
kingdom of heaven.
I'm telling you there's going to be a
people who are going to be awfully disillusioned
when God's judges begin to fall on this
earth, thinking that they're going to escape it
an easy way.
When the only way we're going to find
safety in that I don't mean just physical
safety because the disciple is not a survivalist.
The only security we're going to have then
or now is in the secret place of
the Most High and under the shadow of
the Almighty.
And I'd sooner be there on earth and
that secret place of the Most High than
any place in heaven.
There's no safer place in this world or
in heaven than under the secret place of
the Most High.
God says put on the whole armor.
There's a battle at hand.
God says because the day of the Lord
is at hand, put on the helmet of
salvation.
Put on the girdle of truth.
Put on the breastplate of righteousness.
What for?
Because the forces of evil have been let
loose in this earth in a manner that
has not been, I don't think, from the
foundation of the world.
The church is resting under the false delusion.
Don't worry about it.
God will take us out of here before
that happens.
And he's given us the armor that with
this holy armor of God upon us, covering
the whole being, the helmet of salvation, the
breastplate of righteousness, the girdle of truth, the
shoes of the preparation of the gospel of
peace, the sword of the Spirit, we can
face any enemy that will come against the
people of God here on this earth.
And he's done all these things.
In the Old Testament, they ordained trumpets for
various reasons.
There was a feast of trumpets where it
became pronounced preceding the Feast of Tabernacles.
Feast of trumpets.
Feast of atonement before the Feast of Tabernacles.
A lot of Christians are excited about the
Feast of Tabernacles, especially in a month from
now.
I hope God moves then by his Spirit.
I hope he moves tonight.
But as I said this morning, and I
must continue to repeat it, there's going to
be no Feast of Tabernacles for anybody whose
heart is not prepared, who hasn't heard the
sound of the trumpet, who hasn't found themselves
walking with God in the secret place, and
whose heart has not been cleansed from all
defilement.
That day can come and go and you'll
never know the difference.
God, help us to know you.
Help us to prepare our hearts today.
And you've only got today to do that.
You don't know anything about tomorrow.
You don't know if you'll have it tomorrow.
Today, if you hear his voice, harden not
your hearts.
God's going to begin to send forth a
clear trumpet sound to his people.
Because it's a day of confusion.
It's a day of apostasy.
It's a day when people don't know what's
right and what's wrong in the church.
And that kind of a day, God sends
forth a clear sound from his heart.
He does that in the day of confusion,
day of darkness, day of apostasy.
He raises up an Isaiah.
He raises up a Jeremiah.
He gives them a clear word in the
midst of all the false prophets of Baal.
And the priesthood became corrupt, unclean, defiled.
And God warned Eli he was going to
judge it.
And Eli didn't know what to do about
it.
Couldn't handle it or didn't care.
I don't know.
Even then, God was preparing a little boy
by the name of Samuel.
And when the days of Eli were over,
here was Samuel, a young man whom God
gave a clear, infallible word.
So clear that all Israel from Dan to
Beersheba knew that Samuel was the son of
the Lord with a clear prophetic voice.
God's faithful in hours of apostasy to cause
his people to know what he's saying.
And you know very well, we don't know
this day hardly from the various prophetic voices
that are coming forth.
You hardly know how to sort it all
out.
But if we have an ear to hear
what the Spirit is saying to the churches
individually, we can have that awareness of what
God is saying.
And I believe the time is coming when
all the church is going to know the
Word of God is to be found in
this anointed people.
An anointed, a corporate anointed people that the
world will know that in them there is
the light and that from that anointed people
there will come forth a clear word that
the nations will know that God is with
this people and that when they're in trouble
and in confusion and in danger or various
troubles that are coming upon the earth, they'll
be able to go to this people and
say, we've been in darkness, show us the
light and the light will shine forth and
they'll know that God is with that people.
Not because of any special talents or anything
that they have, but because there's a people
who in this day and hour are seeking
God and seeking his cleansing within them that
their hearts, their minds will be delivered from
all the agendas of men and will be
open to hear that clear word from God
from the throne.
As Jesus said to each of the seven
churches, he that has an ear, let him
hear what the Spirit is saying to the
churches.
He wants to quicken our ears that we
might hear what he's saying.
Oh, you say, I read the Bible, I
hear good stuff.
I know, but that God might open the
ears of this people that he might hear
what the Spirit is saying to the churches.
God quicken our ears, quicken our understanding that
we might hear what the Spirit is saying
to the churches in this hour.
God is beginning to sound the trumpet that's
going to be clear.
Paul said, it seems to me that they're
in Corinth, there's an uncertain sound and he
says, if the sound is uncertain, nobody's going
to prepare for the battle.
I don't hear that clear sound coming forth
from the churches that's causing God's people to
cry between the porch and the altar because
of the desolation that's coming upon Zion.
God's going to bring great judgments in the
earth, but he's going to start with his
church.
He said so.
Judgments will begin at the house of God,
not because he doesn't love them, but because
they're the apple of his eye and because
he designed that through his church he would
reveal his own glory.
That's why he said, for Zion's sake, I
will not hold my peace and for Jerusalem's
sake, I will not rest till the righteousness
thereof goes forth as brightness and the salvation
thereof is the lamp that burneth because that's
the way God's glory is revealed that men
might know who the true God is and
what he's like.
Instead of saying he's like Muhammad or the
God of the Hindus or the God of
Confucius, they don't know the difference now.
In that day they're going to know there's
a lamb reigning on the throne of glory
that in him dwelleth all the fullness of
God had a bleeding lamb who conquered and
triumphed and is still seen in heaven as
a bleeding lamb.
You say you're looking to see the line
of the tribe of Judah, you won't see
them because when John turned to see the
line of the tribe of Judah, he saw
lambs that had been slain.
Because that's how he conquered.
You and I think victory consists of success
in this world.
Victory comes to us when we know what
it is to be defeated in a terrible
yet beautiful confrontation with our God as it
was with Jacob when he crossed the brook
of Jabbok and was confronted with the most
high God and there was a wrestling that
took place all through the night and Jacob
didn't know what strength was the strength of
the Lord was until God crippled him with
a blow in his thigh.
Only then did he discover the strength of
the mighty God of Israel when God had
crippled him and put him out of commission
causing him to be totally helpless and clinging
to the angel so that the angel was
able to say it your name is no
more Israel the deceiver the conniver the trickster
your name shall be Israel prince of God
came out of his defeat oh how the
church like the world is crying out for
more and more power more and more power
more and more power don't we need the
power of God yes if we understand that
the first need we have for the power
of God is that we might be changed
into his image and likeness and partake of
according as his divine power hath given unto
us all things that pertain to life and
godliness through the virtues of him who called
us i can't quote it exactly out of
darkness to partake of his marvelous light whereby
are given to us exceeding great and precious
promises that by these we might be made
partakers of divine nature his power is given
to the church to become partakers of divine
nature and we think it's given to us
to do great things so the world can
see how wonderful we are the power is
given that we might have faith and add
to our faith virtue knowledge temperance patience godliness
brotherly kindness and paul goes peter goes so
far as to say if you don't have
that you're blind thank the lord for the
gifts of the spirit presence of his spirit
for the gifts of the spirit for every
spiritual blessing pours upon us but if that
spiritual gift and that spiritual blessing does not
produce the fruit of the spirit it's of
no avail but you say people get healed
there's miracles there's signs and wonders wonderful things
happen good but i say again if the
blessing that god sends from heaven falls upon
you and i and does not bring forth
the fruit that god intended it is in
harvest time it is all in vain for
in springtime the gardener comes into your garden
to water it there's seeds there either you
planted it then or it was there from
the year before and we like the refreshing
rains in springtime and i know god's going
to send rain on his heritage he's faithful
to send rain upon the good seed that
was planted he's going to do it for
a short season before he comes we had
a great portion of it the middle of
this century but there's a new generation but
in harvest time god doesn't want to send
rain he comes to see if there's fruit
that's all he wants in harvest time and
so two three four months the thing is
growing wheat tomatoes brings forth flowers blossoms beautiful
fruit tree looks beautiful springtime it's wonderful god
caused it god sent the rain to cause
it but if he comes a month later
in harvest time and there's no apples there's
a whole season totally totally wasted is that
right but you say it had flowers had
leaves it received the blessing of but that
blessing of god did not bring forth the
fruit that god wanted and jesus saw the
fig tree and cursed it because there was
no fruit that was an old tree so
there should have been a little fruit from
the previous season the new season wasn't there
yet should have been a little from the
year before according to i what i understand
a fig tree there should be fruit on
it from the year before so god is
just saying to you and i if there
isn't fruit when he comes looking for fruit
i don't care how much he's blessed us
it means that all that blessing has produced
leaves flowers maybe growth of some kind or
another god says there's nothing there in harvest
time now that's pretty awesome but you know
it's true and you know that that grain
of wheat that grows comes up as a
sprout receives the rain it grows and grows
and begins to send out a few leaves
and in the prairies there where some of
us come from i've seen wheat fields you
know like that at least three feet green
it's wonderful beautiful to see it waving there
in the in the breeze but not ripe
yet and then it begins to turn brown
and they say yes it's right now we
can reap the harvest and you know as
well as i that all that farmer wants
is the wheat not the straw although nowadays
i think they might say but they used
to for bedding for animals but it's chaff
when harvest time comes all the blessing that
produced the stock all that blessing that was
necessary to produce the stock and the head
god only wants the grain in the head
and the rest is chaff that's pretty solemn
when we think we've got a great ministry
we can prophesy we lay hands on people
and we can heal them and we can
do all sorts of things by the spirit
but if the fruit does not come forth
when god says it's harvest time i'm looking
for fruit and it does not come forth
all that's in vain i'll leave you with
that because i don't want you to forget
that and to know that dear heavenly father
we believe we're in harvest time we believe
the time is at hand when you're coming
into your fields coming into your orchards looking
for one thing the fruit and you've said
of your people as you said the ephraim
of old ephraim is an empty vine he
brings forth fruit unto himself empty because he
bringeth forth fruit unto himself the lord you've
shown us that you you long for that
fruit coming forth in your people which we
know according to your own word that the
fruit is nothing less than the reproduction of
the life of jesus within us nothing less
than that not the gifts you give not
the blessings you pour upon us the blessings
we need in the time of growth but
in the time of harvest you say i
come to receive the fruit cause us to
know lord that now is the time when
you're pouring out your spirit in many places
and in many ways and blessing your people
may that word come to them listen i'm
sending you this blessing because you need it
because i want fruit and i want that
fruit to be appear in your life or
the blessing i send is in vain because
lord we don't want to stand before you
without the fruit to testify that we've seen
signs we've seen wonders we've cast out devils
we've seen miracles perform your name and hear
him say i don't really know you therefore
by their fruits you shall know them says
jesus we want that blessed fruit to come
forth in our lives which we know to
be the character and the image of jesus
implanted upon us not something that we can
receive as a free gift from heaven but
something that must grow forth out of the
branch that we are in the tree out
of the branch that we are in the
vine not by our own doing either but
by the root because of the root because
of the sea that you would bring forth
fruit and these which are called the branches
and that's what you're looking for for you've
declared the husbandman waiters for the precious fruit
of the earth and has long patience over
it so they can receive the early and
the latter rain be therefore also patient establish
your hearts for the coming of the lord
draws nigh establish your hearts get your hearts
fixed on god get your hearts changed if
you're blessed pray god oh god you said
in your word that if you're good to
your people your goodness is intended to bring
us to repentance so though we thank you
for your goodness we pray lord bring us
to repentance in the midst of it knowing
you're not good to us because we're so
good but we're good you're good to us
because of your great grace and mercy and
because you want to bring a vessel fashioned
after your image and likeness not for our
glory but for yours that we might be
the example of christ the living representation of
christ in the earth the people to whom
the world will come if they want to
find god that others will say i know
where you can find god there's a people
there they call it the anointing there's something
different about them they're different than the world
they don't have any use for the world
it seems they they're exclusive they're odd and
all that but somehow they seem to know
that god's in their midst restore that holy
fear of god to your church oh lord
it seems that the fear of god has
pretty well gone out the doors and out
the windows the people feel they can do
anything what they want to do because they
got gifts to do it with cause us
to know that if you give us a
gift if you give us a ministry that
ministry is yours not ours and you want
to keep that gift that ministry in your
hand even as it functions before the people
that in the expression of that gift there'll
be such a revelation of the christ that
your people will be compelled to fall on
their faces and say god is in the
midst of you of a truth come to
your church oh lord with your holy fire
we've talked about the baptism and we talk
in tongues and we enjoy prophecy and gifts
of the spirit but lord we remember the
day though we haven't seen much of it
even in that day it was not our
generation we remember the day when old older
people in the church would say thank god
for baptizing me with the holy ghost and
with fire for they knew what it was
for the fire of god to come in
and cleanse and purge and clean them up
we pray for a restoration of that fire
of god in the midst of your church
this elijah ministry that you're sending forth will
do its work lord for we realize one
part of the elijah ministry is to bring
a famine on the land that in their
famine in their perishing condition they might turn
to him who is the living bread and
cry out to him and we remember how
your servant was called out of hiding to
build an altar of god and karma and
to call the false prophets together to reveal
who the living god was and the test
was to be this the god that answers
by fire let him be the god and
i know lord we're asking for solemn things
serious things when we pray for the fire
of god but we still pray it oh
lord god of heaven send your holy fire
upon the altar of the lord help us
therefore lord to build that altar sincerely to
build an altar unto you an altar of
repentance an altar of contrition of heart an
altar of whole stones everything we have not
chiseling off any of it but putting the
whole stones together for an altar all that
we have not just the sacrifice of the
praise of our lips which we enjoy singing
which is good but the sacrifice of the
heart of the liver of the lungs of
the bones of the feet of the head
of the whole man that we hold back
nothing that we ourselves might be laying on
that altar it's a sacrifice acceptable in your
sight that that holy fire of god might
come down and consume the sacrifice that we
might rise to walk in resurrection life oh
god we might rise to walk in resurrection
oh god send the fire just now send
the fire oh lord god of elijah hear
our cry send the fire send the fire
send the fire it will make us fit
deliver die send the fire send the fire
oh god we pray in jesus name bless
this people open our ears our hearts our
minds to receive of your word lord for
this is an awesome time an awesome hour
that when your judgments fall let us understand
it's for the sake of the church that
you might have a holy church walking in
the fires of your judgment here on earth
filled with your holy fire that will keep
us immune to the fires of judgment for
the time has come when judgment must begin
at your house say that's the lord god
helps not to take this lightly but to
realize you're going to judge us first the
sins of the church for our sins yes
individually for the sins of the church you're
going to judge us we might be clean
and holy in your sight if so be
god might fill us with his holy fire
to take the gospel of the kingdom to
the nation we pray in the name of
our lord jesus christ amen felt these two
or three days that we just wanted to
be sensitive to god we're so thankful for
the way he has moved so far we
pray he'll continue to hover over us and
give us great and thankful hearts for what
he has done as we anticipate what he
will yet do but there's a danger in
god giving us great blessings that will settle
for that when god is just giving the
first drops first fruits there's always a danger
that it's so good so great that this
is fine i'll accept this lord i thank
you it's wonderful we like it here in
the eastern side of the jordan it's pasture
land it's good for our flocks let us
stay here moses and god wanted to take
them into the mountain country in the hill
country and to hebron the choice part of
canaan so paul said i fear less the
promise being left us of entering into his
dress some of you might come short of
it god doesn't want us to come short
of the full desire of his heart