And I see you folks arranged for some
nice cool weather for us, you know, we
appreciate weather like this Down where I come
from down in Columbia Down in Florida.
Why don't we just have everybody stand up
for a minute and We don't have time
to introduce everyone and I know there's a
lot of people from out of town Why
don't you just turn around and introduce yourself
to the people immediately around you?
Hopefully the Lord will use this time to
kind of renew acquaintances and make new friendships
As the weekend progresses.
I just wanted to say a word about
the books we have at the back.
They're all On a freewill donation basis.
It's there's no set prices if you Need
some of the books and don't have any
money you feel free and We're we're not
here to sell books but they are available
the number of years ago down in Bogota
Columbia Where I was serving as a missionary
someone handed me a book that was spiral
-bound and rather thick and He said read
this and the man who wrote it is
in Minneapolis in a place called Becky's cafeteria
and He knew I was going to Minneapolis
on a trip and said stop in and
see brother Clay and he will enjoy your
visit because he's a man who has Columbia
on his heart and And little did I
know but that was beginning of a friendship
and That has become more than a friendship
because it's it's been a joining of our
hearts in ministry where the Lord had placed
Columbia on my heart from a very early
age as Many of you remember when my
dad was up here in Grand Rapids, Minnesota
Working on some radar stations for the US
government and then we went back to Minneapolis
and the Lord spoke through me as a
four-year-old to be the one who
Really pressured my dad to become a missionary
and to go to Columbia and As a
four-year-old I prayed that God would
call my parents to be missionaries So I
wouldn't have to wait till I grew up
because the Lord had placed that on my
heart and Through the years he's been defining
that word missionary that word missionary Missionary is
someone who sent it's very similar to the
word Apostle in Scripture and As reading where
the Apostle Paul Was saying that he is
qualified to be an apostle just like the
others Just like the eleven that were in
Jerusalem because he had also seen the Lord
And been commissioned by the Lord Jesus Christ
to do a specific task and To take
a message to the Gentiles.
He was the Apostle to the Gentiles Gentiles
means the ones that weren't Jews that weren't
converted That weren't circumcised You know so many
have gone forth in our day and age
in the name of the Lord without ever
having seen the Lord Without ever having been
sent by him Without ever having been commissioned
by him For specific task and duty and
we look and we wonder why The church
is in such a desperate state and I
believe that God is about to do an
end time move of his Holy Spirit the
clothes this age of the church And I
believe we're going to see Apostolic ministry restored
the like of which has never been seen
since the days of the early church And
I believe it'll go above and beyond that.
I believe that they're going to be some
apostles raised up by God Not that we
don't have people in apostolic ministry today and
I'm not trying to belittle anyone who's moving
in apostolic ministry that is planting and and
and building in the name of the Lord
and There are many men of God who
I deeply respect who I would call apostles
in the Lord But I believe that we're
going to see an apostolic ministry raised up
in these days that goes above and beyond
anything That this church age has seen up
until now I believe that they're going to
be some apostles that are going to go
forth that have actually seen the Lord And
been commissioned by him We have a number
of people come into our ministry from time
to time talking about that.
They saw the Lord one girl She said
yeah, yeah, she saw the Lord.
Well, what did he look like?
Oh, he was dressed as a Catholic priest
what did he say?
Oh, he said that we should all go
back to our Catholic Church and Take all
our Protestant friends and pray rosaries every day
hmm and The mother was very thrilled that
this girl was having such revelation from God
But my wife asked her a question.
She said well, how is your daughter living?
Well, that's it That's why I called really
it's this problem that in spite of all
these revelations.
She is still has some major problems in
her personal life she's We don't know what
to do with her But she's seeing the
Lord Jesus Christ.
Is she really?
Is she seeing the Lord Jesus Christ or
she's seeing a counterfeit in the revelation?
In the book of Revelation the Apostle John
saw the Lord Jesus Christ.
He was the one who was the beloved
the Apostle who was maybe the closest to
the Lord Jesus Christ is in his Ministry
here in flesh and blood and when he
saw the glorified Lord Jesus Christ in Revelation
chapter 1 he fell at his feet as
though dead the Apostle Paul On his way
to Damascus saw the Lord Jesus Christ and
it was an experience.
He'd never ever forget He was blind for
three days afterwards friends when you see the
Lord Jesus Christ it It'll leave a mark
on you When Jacob came face to face
with the angel the Lord and even though
he struggled and wrestled all night and Obtained
the blessing of God But he limped for
the rest of his life God touched him
in his thigh and the way that he
was walking according to his flesh changed God
changed his name began to move him forward
in another walk as Israel with the name
of God on him God's problem has been
that Those claiming to be his people Have
gotten their own ideas and their own plans
and their own programs mixed up with His
will it has to be straightened out if
we're going to see accomplished What is prophesied
and promised in Scripture and God will bring
about his purposes over the top of all
of our human endeavors and ideas and plans
and programs But I believe that he's given
us and Still holding open to us the
door of opportunity And it's in little out
-of-the-way places like Grand Rapids, Minnesota
out of the limelight where sometimes the Lord
might Have something very special and I've known
a number of you some of you have
known me ever since I was a little
boy my Parents have a lot of friends
here And we've seen the hand of the
Lord on a number of you people We've
seen the Lord preparing something and bringing something
Just about to a time of birth, you
know Brother Clate wrote in one of his
books that the true sons of God aren't
in agreement because they sat down and had
a conference and had a council and Worked
it all out They're in agreement though, because
if they're joined to the Lord And if
he's the head and if we're the body
Then we'll be in agreement if we're all
submitted to the same head because the head
isn't going to counterdict himself And through the
friendship with brother Clate I later on Got
to meet brother George Warnock.
My mother had been reading his book since
1967 and I went to see him and
Spend a night with him in Cranbrook BC
But I didn't really know enough to ask
the right questions, and I spent I think
too much of the time Talking and not
enough time listening and brother George graciously had
given me a handful of his books 11
different ones And I stuffed them in my
briefcase Shortly thereafter instead of going up north
which I thought I was gonna do up
to Alaska in the Arctic The Lord turned
me around and told me to get in
the car and go to Columbia We got
in the car in Vancouver and in four
days we were in Miami driving just about
day and night and When we got on
the plane there was a hurricane on the
horizon And we were one of the last
planes that left Miami for a good long
while Because that was when that major hurricane
hit Miami a few years back And we
got to Columbia and another strange thing happened
before I went to Cranbrook I had had
a meeting here in Ely, Minnesota The church
up in Ely and I had my two
daughters with me, and I was supposed to
be speaking to the adults upstairs and The
kids were meeting downstairs, but my girls were
shy and they didn't want to go and
they didn't have any friends among the other
children But I wanted to set a good
example so I grabbed them one in each
hand and I dragged them down the stairs
just about kicking and screaming and crying and
Stuck them in that class whether they wanted
to go or not and kind of Came
back upstairs and and continued on with my
message, but you know there was a kid
with chicken pox down there And that kid
with chicken pox infected my girls, and there's
an incubation period so halfway between Vancouver and
Miami our first daughter started coming down with
the chicken pox We didn't know what it
was for sure until we got to Miami
or already on the plane but there was
something else that I didn't know and that
is that I had never had chicken pox
and When you're when you get chicken pox
as an adult.
It's not the same as when you're a
little kid It's a whole different deal.
I have never been so miserable I mean
I scratched inside and out and I had
to stop everything in ministry in Columbia And
here I am laid up with the chicken
pox for several weeks And the only thing
I had to do was sit there and
read those books That George Warnock had given
me and I as I read them.
I found myself doing something very very strange
Never happened to me before But I would
lock them up in my desk drawer because
I think it would be such a tragedy
if one of these books were to get
lost I I couldn't couldn't couldn't bear to
lose it because it's Ministering to me in
a way in which I've rarely ever been
ministered to Just every word in place after
going through all those 11 books the Chicken
pox ended and I could continue on But
I wouldn't the same afterwards so the wind
had gone out of my sails for a
number of things that I had been doing
down in Columbia and I began to contemplate
the idea of translating these books into Spanish
and giving them to some of the people
that I knew including a 150 or so
charismatic Catholic priests that I know or know
of and So I made another trip up
to Cranbrook and got permission from Brother George,
and he already had one of his books
translated into Spanish And the one that he
had already translated into Spanish was the one
that I would have planned to translate last
Little book called the Feast of Tabernacles Because
I thought it was kind of too complicated
and maybe it should be last and we'd
do some of the easier ones first but
that was the one that he had ready
to go in Spanish and so we started
with that one and I I put it
out in Spanish and I took it over
and I started giving it to some of
these Catholic priests who were friends of mine
and Some of them never had another good
night's sleep after they read those books I
underestimated what was going to happen when that
message hit because you see if you've been
trained as a priest in a hierarchy type
of a situation to where you become a
mediator between the people in God and Then
you have all of these feasts and all
of these fiestas as they're called in Spanish
and each Saint has one and there's a
Saint for every day.
In fact, some Saint some days have more
than one Saint and There's all these holidays
and all of these Processionals and special events
and they're all Called fiestas or feasts in
Spanish well if you get that little book
and find out what the real priesthood of
all believers is and Find out what the
real priest of God really are and what
they mean It throws a monkey wrench in
the works and I didn't realize it was
going to throw a monkey wrench in their
work so bad but it did and then
one thing led to another and we translated
one of brother clates books beyond Pentecost into
Spanish and That followed up one thing just
just things just kept kept adding and Adding
and adding and Until we're in the middle
of a revolution But it's not a revolution
that anybody sat down and planned.
There's no headquarters to the revolution.
There's no movement.
There's no anyone trying to to find you
know, what is the Leadership of this thing
can't can't find it because it the head
is sitting at the right hand of God
the Father in heaven You can't chop that
head off again and all we are here
on the ground is the feet the feet
of the body of Christ There's a promise
in Scripture.
It says that There's gonna be a serpent
whose head is gonna be crushed under the
feet and I believe that that day is
coming Maybe even almost here I'm not gonna
take up too much time.
I want to leave time for brother George
To share with you folks because you've heard
me several times and you haven't heard him
But I do want to share one little
thing to start this this Conference it's a
word that the Lord Put on my heart
back in Colombia, I didn't know if I
was going to come or not and I
was in the middle of Studying a Bible
that somebody brought me from Spain an original
copy of the translation made in 1559 the
original Spanish Bible made in the middle of
the Reformation The man who did it spent
20 years fleeing the Inquisition with 11 children
all over Europe one of the best Hebrew
experts, but with an anointing that has rarely
ever been equaled in a Bible translator and
The experts have spent the last Almost 500
years trying to water down this translation in
Spanish but there's some places and some verses
that really shined and as I was studying
and And Finally decided to edit this Bible
and and print it in Spanish Because all
of the study Bibles have been discontinued.
They've just all they want to put out
is is paraphrase editions There's nothing that would
be the equivalent of a King James Bible
printed anymore in Spanish There's not even anything
would be the equivalent of a new King
James Bible printed in the study Bible anymore
in Spanish and So as I was studying
Began to see that one of the things
that was emphasized there in the Reformation when
God was restoring the clarity of his word
Was the word conversion this fellow Castillo de
Rey not reuse the word conversion all over
the place in the Old and New Testament
He's talking about conversion conversion one of the
main themes in the scripture God Converting the
hearts of his people back-to-himself the
need for this to happen the need for
this to happen in each and every one
of our hearts just like Jacob was called
of God before he was even born and
chosen above his brother and Jacob could have
been the heir To that Heritage or lineage
of Jesus Christ and could have been lost
personally as were many of the Kings Who
were the sentence of David but Jacob had
an encounter with God face-to-face encounter
He had a conversion experience at Pena which
means the face of God and he had
his name changed from Jacob to Israel Jacob
the surplanter Who's trying to get the kingdom
by hook or by crook?
Had his name changed to Israel Prince with
God God gave Jacob his name and God
took Jacob's name God became the surplanter and
God can do it, you know, because he
wants to surplant everything that's wrong in us
with his own nature Because that's what a
name means.
It means everything that the person is The
first Kings chapter 18 verse 30.
There was a problem in the land of
Israel The fire had gone out There was
no longer any fire on the altar of
God.
In fact, the altar itself was broken down
and in extreme disrepair And in the Old
Testament when the fire went out there was
no provision for any man-made fire If
you read the book of Exodus, you'll find
that when somebody decided to make some fire
of their own There were two priests that
decided to to have a little experiment with
some strange fire and not only cost them
their lives, but it cost the lives of
Twenty some thousand men that followed them We're
at a day and age when in many
places in many groups in in in in
many So-called Christian environments There's no fire
on the altar Friends when there's no fire
on the altar.
It means you can't bring a sacrifice If
you can't find a keep you can't bring
a sacrifice Because we are to be living
sacrifices according to the Apostle Paul I'm in
a pretty bad way and The only provision
to get the fire started again is God
himself has to intervene Elijah in Hebrew means
the Lord is the God in the sense
of the only God or it could have
been translated God himself And here Elijah is
facing this problem verse 30 and Elijah said
unto all the people come near unto me
and all the people came near unto him
and he repaired the Altar of the Lord
that was broken down Friends the altar the
Lord has broken down in our day and
age Everybody wants to come to God on
their own terms instead of coming to God
on God's terms Verse 31 and Elijah took
twelve stones according to the number of the
tribes of the sons of Jacob Unto whom
the word of the Lord came saying Israel
shall be thy name Twelve stones is the
order of God It's the number that symbolizes
that order the order of God to convert
the Jacobs into Israel And It has to
be God's way it has to be God's
altar Has to be his terms in Exodus
chapter 25 I'm sorry Exodus chapter 20 verse
25 It says this and if thou wilt
make me an altar of stone thou shalt
not build it of hewn stone For if
thou lift up thy tool upon it thou
hast polluted it if we mess with God's
terms.
We're gonna pollute his altar We can't change
God's terms And God says we have to
come to him with an unblemished sacrifice God
says we have to bring everything God says
if we're gonna enter into covenant with him
that means then that we belong to him
Verse 26 neither shalt thou go up by
steps unto mine altar that thy nakedness be
not discovered thereon Friends it isn't that we
can decide how we're gonna approach God and
we'll take a little step today and we'll
take another little step Tomorrow and we'll we'll
we'll decide that he can be our Savior
today and then a little later on He
can have a little more control of our
lives and at some future point We might
decide to just make him our Lord, but
it's totally optional.
Of course, we can't go up by steps
If we do our nakedness is going to
be exposed if we try to come to
God by little steps and stages what's going
to happen is the enemy is going to
get in there and He's gonna latch on
to whatever's left of our flesh that hasn't
been placed under the authority of God and
he's gonna make us a tremendous problem and
our nakedness is going to be exposed and
The Christian Church is full of people whose
nakedness is being exposed right now Because they
try to go up to God's altar in
steps and in stages when he's saying if
you want to come to me It's all
or nothing Now we may not fully understand
what that means.
There may be things that he'll reveal to
us later There may be things that would
be uncovered that when we know about them
need to be laid on the altar But
he wants us to come and make an
unconditional surrender on his altar That's the gospel
That's the gospel according to the Lord Jesus
Christ In fact that word gospel was used
to announce the King The Romans used it
to announce a new Emperor the gospel of
Emperor so-and-so and the trumpets would
blare and the heralds would go forth and
when that gospel sounded everyone had to come
and they had to decide right then and
there if they're gonna worship Caesar or not
and If they did they had to kneel
down and swear allegiance to him right on
the spot.
And if they didn't they were dealt with
That's why so many early Christians were killed.
They wouldn't worship Caesar's God The gospel the
Lord Jesus Christ means exactly that it means
there's only one Lord It means when you
hear it, you have a choice you can
either kneel and bow before him and submit
and surrender and Else you can decide not
to There's only one Lord we can't make
him the Lord he already is the Lord
we can either accept him or reject him
But he's the Lord back
to first Kings chapter 18 verse 32 and
with the stones He built an altar in
the name of the Lord and he made
a trench about the altar as great as
would contain two measures of seed The Old
Spanish Bible is a little clearer on this
it it makes it sound as if the
two measures of seed were actually put into
the altar the trench Why would we be
talking about two measures of seed you remember
when Jesus was approached by some Greeks Right
before The Last Supper He gave a very
strange answer instead of going out to meet
these Greeks and see what he could do
for them He said something that was very
puzzling Said unless a grain of seed that
fall into the ground and die It can't
bring forth fruit In other words Jesus before
his death what he was saying is I
can't help you Greeks now you Gentiles now
I have to die first to be resurrected
and multiplied in a many-membered body and
Then there'll be help for you and friends.
Now.
We've got two measures of seed Two would
speak of a corporate body of Christ and
if we're that corporate body of Christ, we
also have to be willing Not just to
believe John 3 16 But friends we have
to be willing to be the fulfillment to
first John 3 16 You'd like to read
first John 3 16 That's not a favorite
verse for most people in this day and
age first John 3 16 says this Hereby
perceive we the love of God because he
laid down his life for us and we
ought to lay down our lives for the
brethren Verse 33 and he put the
wood in order and cut the bullock in
pieces and laid him on the wood and
said fill four barrels With water and pour
it on the burnt sacrifice and on the
wood Friends if we're going to reestablish this
altar of God, not only does it have
to be according to God's specification on his
terms with whatever those twelve stones Signify without
us taking a tool and and trying to
to fix those stones up And without building
any stairs But there has to be this
trench and we have to actually be willing
to lay down all of our plans and
ambitions Everything having to do with that bullock
which would symbolize our flesh Even the good
things that we can think up for God
all of the dead wood of our human
plans and projects in Acts the second of
the last chapter when Paul is in the
middle of a shipwreck, which is a very
Mmm allegorical shipwreck because I believe the ship
symbolizes Something having to do with the church
in these last days in this old Spanish
Bible I have says that after they got
done lightning the load and throwing out the
cargo and then they started chopping off the
rigging to See if they could save themselves
from the storm this old Spanish Bible I
have says and they chopped off all the
dead works off the chip and Threw him
overboard Friends if we're gonna make it through
the storm, we're gonna have to start chopping
the dead works off, too All that dead
wood has to be laid on the altar
and has to be arranged properly under that
bullock Of everything that would pertain to the
flesh still in us And God said to
start pouring water on this thing and he
told him to do it three Times with
four barrels of water each time anytime something
gets meant done three times in Scripture.
It's extremely important The washing of water of
the word Friends there's a certain amount of
cleansing and cleaning that God can do through
anointed teaching of the Word of God and
Through applying it directly into our lives as
we read his word on a daily basis
and as we minister to one another And
he wants to make sure That that's going
forth Now that Water being poured in the
trench and on the altar and on everything
else and saturating everything It also makes sure
that none of that green is gonna have
any spontaneous combustion It also makes sure there's
not gonna be any false fire in there
Because the water from God's Word is going
to put out All of our best human
plans and ambitions It's gonna be like in
Isaiah chapter 6 when Isaiah was finally touched
by that coal from off the altar and
said here I am send me and guess
what happened next you keep reading in Isaiah
chapter 6 Which you can do later on
You'll see that everything got totally this and
demolished as a result of him having that
encounter with God And it said even if
a tenth should survive it'll still be destroyed
until all that's left is a holy seed
All that's left is what God wants planted
because friends we get what we plant We
reap what we sow If we sow according
to the flesh, what are we going to
reap corruption?
If God wants us to sow to righteousness
He wants us to reap in corruption And
he said do it the second time and
they did it the second time and he
said do it the third time and they
did It the third time and the water
ran round about the altar and he filled
the trench also with water Very important thing
in this hour in which we're in is
we have to listen to what God says
My opinion or someone else's opinion is not
important What's important right now is God's opinion
and we have to get saturated with his
opinion and It came to pass at the
time of the offering of the evening sacrifice
That Elijah the Prophet came near and said
Friends, there's been a morning sacrifice In this
church age.
It was the Lord Jesus Christ and A
lot of people have said that just because
Jesus died on a cross that now we
can go out and do whatever we please
That's not true The same Jesus that died
on that cross also said that if we're
to be his disciple We have to take
up our cross and follow him Guess who
the evening sacrifice is It's a people that
are willing to lay down their own plans
and ambitions It's a people that are willing
to identify in the way of the cross
It's a people that are willing to come
in through the narrow gate and not try
and seek a broad gate it's a people
that are willing to count the cost and
Say to the Lord Search me It
came to pass at the time of the
offering of the evening sacrifice that Elijah the
Prophet came near and said Lord God of
Abraham Isaac and of Israel Let it be
known this day that thou art God in
Israel and that I am thy servant and
that I have done all these things at
thy word Elijah didn't think any of this
up on his own And God is calling
forth and preparing an Elijah company to minister
in this last hour That isn't going to
be doing things on their own that are
going to be going to be able to
say done this at your word Lord but
I was Preaching on this to some brothers
down in Columbia when all of a sudden
it dawned on me that this doesn't say
the Lord God Of Abraham Isaac and Jacob
like it says dozens of other places in
the Old Testament This says Abraham Isaac and
Israel And there's only a couple of references
to the God of Abraham Isaac and Israel
in Scripture, I only know of three to
be exact You see Israel is a converted
Jacob and God has many times referred to
as the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob
because he puts up with all of these
Jacob tendencies as we try and come into
the kingdom by hook or by crook as
We try and pretend that we're something we're
not And he has a lot of patience
with us The friends now it's time for
the God of Abraham Isaac and Israel to
manifest himself The God who's going to convert
the hearts of his people back to himself
and he's going to do it by fire
Because there's certain things that can't be cleansed
in us to just the washing of the
word There are things that have to be
purified by fire verse
37 hear me O Lord hear me that
this People may know that thou art the
Lord God and that thou has turned their
heart back again And the original says converted
their heart back again God wants to convert
the hearts of his people back to himself
Conversion in the biblical sense of the word
means a total turning to God without reservation
it means having a heart completely for God
with no mixture and no impurity and nothing
pulling different ways and Into the double-mindedness
that has plagued God's people for so long
and Only God can do that If God
doesn't give us the grace for that kind
of repentance, we can't do it on our
own We can think we've done it but
the fruits won't bear us out unless he
does it The God of Abraham Isaac and
Israel is about to act Verse 38 then
the fire of the Lord fell and consumed
the burnt sacrifice in the wood and the
stones and the dust and licked up the
water that was in the trench and When
all the people saw it they fell on
their faces and they said the Lord he
is the God the Lord He is the
God and in the Hebrew that the article
is there the God which means the only
one none other except for him because this
was the problem up until now they had
Baal and they had God and Baal is
Lord's plural with a small low case L
instead of Lord with a capital L That's
what Baal is Notice if they fell on
their faces Brother Clayton I've been running around
and seen some meetings where people were falling
on their backs all the time instead of
on their faces That's covered in Isaiah chapter
28.
If you want to look that one up
The drunkards of Ephraim you can see what
happens to them When the true fire falls
people are going to fall in her faces
before the Lord The fire the Lord
fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice it consumed
everything having to do with the flesh and
The wood all those dead works are just
gone and the stones Even if what we
thought was divine order in our different groups
and in different things that that have some
semblance of God Divine order to them and
the dust even of our Adamic nature And
licked up the water that was in the
trench friends when this fire of God falls
there's gonna be some major changes Nobody's gonna
be able to stand up and say, you
know, we were the first ones with this
word Our group has an inside track It's
all gonna be licked up in the fire
the only things that will be left is
the fire The fire of God and that
altar is going to be operational again That's
something to say the last set of meetings
on baptism and I believe that has something
to do with it well, you know the
rest of the story how they killed the
false prophets and how Elijah told the king
that you better get home because it was
going to be a storm And the king
took off and Elijah sent his servant out
several times on the seventh time he came
back and said That there was a little
cloud likened to a man's hand That little
cloud grew and it started to thunder and
lightning and the rain came down and then
war was joined with Jezebel God's gonna raise
up apostolic ministry Ministry of the hand of
God Like never before and it's gonna thunder
and lightning And there's gonna be a conflict
of light and darkness The like is which
has not been seen since the days in
which the Lord walked this earth And I
believe that the ministry that the Lord is
raising up in this day is not going
to run from Jezebel All of these Old
Testament types and shadows break down at some
point David was a perfect type and shadow
of the Lord Jesus Christ until the Bathsheba
incident and each one of the heroes of
the faith had their flaws and God honestly
put down everything that was there So that
we could learn from it We need to
fire of God We need to ask him
to light the fire by the church And
I know we'll have fellowship with many of
God's people who have come And I'm confident
God will do a work in hearts I
grew up in more or less I think
Pentecost we our folks never did belong to
any organization, but By that I mean we
believed in the Pentecost experience And I grew
up in that except I Just say that
I might need a little bit of water
or someone with all this thing I wasn't
first generation Pentecost.
I call myself second generation Pentecost But I
I would hear people talking about the fire
ghost in Winnipeg, and I can still Remember
her testimony every time she's then And Thank
God for saving me and sanctifying me and
baptizing me with the Holy Ghost and with
fire and you knew there was something to
it and God used her in her own
little corner to pray for the sick and
So forth so I was close to Pentecost,
but I felt by the time I was
a teenager.
I'd missed a lot When I heard of
what happened in the beginning but now there's
second third fourth almost five generations of Pentecost
Until there's hardly any semblance Of what God
did in those early beginnings When God invaded
the lives of men and women then there
was a holy Reverence and awe when they
came to meet together in his name And
the fear of God was there, and I
suppose I went through a lot of backward
-looking Looking back wondering what it is all
about until God began to give a little
vision and Hope because I love the Word
of God.
I read it many times memorized large portions
of it and Yet, it wasn't the vision
wasn't clear Because somehow with my background there's
nothing more to do get one two three
experiences from God and wait for the rapture
No living hope for this life Do the
best you can you know serve God work
for God, whatever And I'm not making fun
of that doctrine.
I believe God is going to rapture the
rapture Jesus But he's the pattern and example
But just in passing let me say read
your Bible Just read it as it is
written, and you'll find that that will happen
at the last trump, but not the first
one God has much to do in his
people till we come to that last trumpet
Because he's coming for something Come up with
all the dates you like of when the
Lord's coming and then wait to see if
it's going to happen It's going to happen
when God's got the purpose for which Jesus
went away And has fulfilled it and that
is to bring forth a glorious church Without
spot or wrinkle or blemish or any such
thing he's coming for that He's coming for
a holy bride Cleansed and made spotless and
pure you say well.
I think this guy's right.
He seems to have all the figures there
He's coming in such a date forget all
that he's coming when he's got that holy
people ready He's coming to inhabit his temple
Percy comes to cleanse that temple by the
fire of his presence like Russell talked about
In a way I live to see a
mighty outpouring of God's spirit in the mid
40s And I was desperately hungry and as
many thousands millions were and God enabled me
to Be a part of that.
I know it came to be known as
latter rain And got mixed up with a
lot of things.
I know that and I used to be
disturbed about it For a long time I
was disturbed when it seemed that for two
or three years God was moving very sovereignly
and Suddenly there was all kinds of kingdom
building like you see today But God did
a great work in millions of lives And
I know that you can read the article
as well It lasted a couple of years,
and then it all petered out and where
is it now?
It's all gone Because God wouldn't let it
become organized And you can't point to any
organization say what's lighter rain?
God didn't let it become an organization, but
God did a great and wonderful work in
millions of lives of people And that's what
God did Not establishing kingdoms.
He didn't let those kingdoms last very long
Man is prone to build his own kingdoms.
They're doing it today, and they're working hard
at it God is coming with the fire
of his presence to deal with the kingdoms
of man When he shakes everything that can
be shaken both in heaven and in Earth
Earthquakes yes, but the Bible talks about heaven
quakes in the last days For yet once
more sayeth the Lord, and I will shake
not the earth only but heavens also Paul
explains what it means once more This word
yet once more signifies the removing of all
things that can be shaken Those things which
cannot be shaken may remain Don't get disturbed
you think what are we going to do
if God doesn't raptures when all this thing
happens God is shaking everything that can be
shaken that the Unshakeable things of his kingdom
may remain firm and steadfast The psalmist saw
it I think in prophecy When he said
Though the earth be removed and though the
mountains be cast into the depth of the
sea and The rivers swell with the roaring
thereof There is a river The streams whereof
shall make glad the city of our God
The holy place of the tabernacles of the
Most High Don't be disturbed with the shakings,
but understand what God's doing He's shaking the
things that are doomed to crumble As he
comes on the scene to burn up the
chaff to shake all the works of men
That is the current eternal kingdom might come
forth Unshakeable in the sight of God God
has much to do yet, and he can
do it quickly and he is going to
do it quickly Because the Prophet said and
Paul reiterated in the New Testament that God's
going to do a quick work in the
earth Cut it short in righteousness Gonna cut
it short in righteousness The righteousness of God's
going to be revealed is going to be
revealed in his people in the earth where
that's why the Holy Spirit came to Inhabit
that these temples here in the earth that
he might be a reproof to the world
of sin and of righteousness of judgment Church
has become anything but that And we can
mourn over the church, and I believe there's
a place for godly mourning over the church
And I believe that's what Jesus has in
mind when he says blessed are they that
mourn That's a day that mourn Not over
yourself, but over the desolation of Zion because
the gates of Zion do mourn Because none
none come to her solemn feast Because the
precious sons of Zion are poured out like
ashes as it were in the midst of
the streets Jeremiah was a mourning prophet after
the destruction of Jerusalem he went out and
were totally sat outside the Beholding all the
desolation was going on and lamented And we
have his lamentations written down there in the
scriptures for you, and I That when similar
things happen God's my people might come to
repentance That they might begin to mourn over
the desolation that's in the church instead of
trying to make people laugh Instead of trying
to make them happy Happy as the man
that mourns But they shall be comforted We
don't see much of that because the fear
of God has gone out the windows God
wants to restore that holy fear once again
into the midst of his people Not a
fear that has torment, but the fear that
is impregnated with the love of God We
fear him and we love him so much
that we fear to do anything that is
not of his will Gone out the window
God's people and the ministries to blame for
much of it.
They think they can bring in anything if
they can get the crowds Bring the people
in and preach the gospel to them Any
old means at all God's going to put
a stop to that He's going to have
a people gathering in his name.
There's going to be holiness unto the Lord
written over the foreheads of his people Holiness
unto the Lord as it was with the
priests of old on that holy mitre was
written holiness to the Lord Because God is
coming to his holy temple, but it's not
holy yet It comes with fire to purge
it to purge the sons of Levi That
they might offer unto the Lord an offering
in righteousness.
I was greatly blessed anointed a New vision
as a result of that move of the
spirit of the mid 40s, which became known
as latter rain but I don't like to
use the term because Just very shortly after
the movement started there was a lot of
Kingdom building that came out of it and
it disturbed me Until I realized something as
plain as can be but I didn't realize
it at the time That God sends his
rain down upon his heritage And the psalmist
spoke about it in Psalm 68 When he
says the Lord has sent a bountiful bountiful
rain Whereby he did confirm his inheritance went
into his weary It goes on to say
a scripture that Paul quotes in Ephesians 4
He ascended on high He gave gifts for
men.
Yea for the rebellious also that the Lord
God might dwell amongst them a scripture that
the Apostle Paul quotes And adds to it
not adding to the Word of God but
adding to that scripture confirming what God has
shown him That when he ascended on high
it was for the purpose of giving gifts
to his people How he gave some apostles
some prophets some evangelists some pastors some teachers
For the perfecting of the saints for the
work of ministry under the edifying of the
body of Christ Till we come unto the
unity of the faith and of the knowledge
of the Son of God brother David Cutforth
and I were talking about that this this
morning.
I think it was Till we come Gift
and ministry is not an ultimate Become an
ultimate in the church Get these precious gifts
of God and go out and minister do
the best you can till the Lord comes
It's not an ultimate The purpose of gift
and ministry is till we come under the
unity of the faith and of the knowledge
of the Son of God Unto a perfect
man under the measure of the stature of
the fullness of Christ That we'd be no
longer children tossed to and fro Cast about
with every wind of doctrine Speaking the truth
and love may grow up into him and
all things which is the head even Jesus
Christ From whom the whole body fitly framed
and it together groweth unto a holy temple
in the Lord God's purpose in gift and
ministry And it's become a mercenary thing like
the temple of Herod God's going to cast
out the money changers.
He's going to purify his house with the
fire of his presence Refining his people as
gold and silver is refined that his people
might offer unto the Lord an offering in
righteousness I'm not going to talk very long.
We're gonna play brother Well, Phyllis is going
to minister all God wants us to have
vision his vision I know there's all kinds
of people want you to get behind their
vision.
God wants to impart vision to his people
It was to impart vision And God is
faithful to do that When his people come
to that place with they realize things are
in a horrible situation a horrible mess God
knows all about it.
He recognizes it before you and I did
And he prepares to raise up a clear
voice in the land He's doing it again,
let me tell you there's something that encouraged
me in times of darkest apostasy God raises
up a pure clear word to his people.
Oh You think we need revival in a
prophet's apostle in apostasy in the midst of
apostasy God would raise up a pure voice
a Samuel and Isaiah and Ezekiel a Jeremiah
and if ever there was apostasy amongst God's
people is today and God is preparing a
prophetic voice for his people I Know there
are prophets in the land and I know
that I know there some genuine prophets But
somehow there has not come yet that prophetic
mantle that God wants to rest upon the
congregation of the people where the Testimony of
Jesus will be in the midst of his
people when they gather together for the testimony
of Jesus is a spirit of prophecy and
God's going to cleanse his temple He's going
to lay upon them that that testimony of
Jesus in their midst Not just someone that
can get up and tell about Jesus, but
in the congregation of the people there'll be
that evidence of Jesus that will be the
testimony the candlestick in the midst of God's
people and in the world and That's the
spirit of prophecy God's going to have a
prophetic people a priestly people Walking in the
anointing the same anointing that Jesus had when
he walked this earth because that's why he
went away that we might have it Send
it on high gave gifts unto man pours
out his spirit Upon his people that we
might partake of the same anointing not another
First John the anointing which you have received
of him is truth And there's no line
of that same anointing teaches you of all
things and there's no lie The same anointing
I don't want any other anointing We don't
want that false anointing that false fire People
are trying to make it they're trying to
make the holy oil and trying to change
it Bring it in all kinds of rubbish
and putting it in the anointing oil God
says it's holy oil and it shall be
holy unto you And he says don't you
dare make anything like it.
I mean I can almost get angry When
I see this stuff, I saw a guy
over TV if we don't have a TV
I was in a home where they had
this guy on breaking cement block to this
head to show how powerful Jesus is Let
me tell you that Jesus came here to
walk in meekness and then weakness It's crucified
in weakness and in that crucifixion he manifested
a mighty display of the power of God
And it's a lamb that reigns on the
throne of glory today the lamb that triumphed
God's gonna purge the church from all this
kind of nonsense You better be ready for
it God's going to do it Gonna have
a people that will gather together under his
name that he might be glorified That the
Holy Spirit who dwells in each one of
us might be that faithful witness in the
church who witnesses of Jesus Who is here
abiding in you and I that he might
take from Jesus and show it to you
and I Holy Spirit's been given to us
to take from Jesus and show it to
God's people Not to take from Some entertainer
some guy that's got Christian rock and all
that junk to take from Jesus and show
it to God's people That's why the Spirit
came to dwell in us No wonder the
Holy Spirit has taken his leave and flown
out the window No wonder the Lord Jesus
seen standing at the door of the Laodicean
Church asking for admission Behold I stand at
the door and knock Let me man hear
my voice And we'll open the door.
I will come in to him and Stop
with him and he with me He says
you say you're rich and increased of goods
and have need of nothing That's not the
church of the last century that's the church
of today we're rich and increased with good
and have need of nothing and Jesus says
you're wretched and miserable and poor and blind
and naked.
I Counseled thee to buy of me gold
tried in the fire that you might be
rich.
You know what that is Gold that's God.
That's God's nature.
That's God's gift.
It's God's presence Gold tried in the fire
white raiment that you might clothe yourself.
I said that you might anoint your eyes
that you might see I Counseled thee The
Spirit says to buy of me gold tried
in the fire.
I said to anoint your eyes You say
we see that's the problem We're so self
-confident in what we can see what we
can study what we can dig out of
the scriptures Of all the books of learning
we're so confident that we remain in our
blindness Jesus said if you would admit your
blindness then you would see Then you would
have no sin But because you say we
see therefore your sin remaineth I'm going to
close here, but I want to read a
passage from First Samuel I mentioned that in
times of deep apostasy God is faithful to
raise up a clear voice And the priesthood
had become totally corrupt in the days of
Eli the priesthood that God has established Come
totally corrupt and immortal immortal and covetous and
They were using their ministry as priests to
serve themselves in their own and God was
displeased about it and warned them about it
Nothing happened God in the midst of it
was preparing a voice That would be a
pure voice to his people And you know
the story of how Hannah had sought the
Lord and God gave her a man-child
And how she had dedicated him to the
Lord God has a faithful Hannah in the
earth She's been praying and interceding to God
for fruit for fruitfulness for reality God has
heard her cry, but God didn't hear Hannah's
cry Until she came to that place of
total commitment Where she said Lord if you
will give me this man-child, I'll give
him back to you She kept her vow
God wants to bestow upon his people great
things mighty workings Mighty prophetic utterances a sure
word But he wants that commitment from his
people which you and I can't keep But
if we make the commitment we can continue
to pray God you seal this commitment and
make it happen Whatever you give me God.
I give it back to you I Won't
retain any of the glory of it for
myself Oh, I know we'll all say that
quite boldly but I mean only God can
take those words as we ask him to
do it and Cause things to happen in
your life and mine that he will get
all the glory You know man, you know
man is getting a lot of the glory
we recognize that don't blame them Blame God's
people for exalting them blame yourself And then
they fall of course block God's people condemn
them When you're responsible You're responsible to see
to it that you give no idolization to
any human being Nevertheless the ministry is responsible
to seek God to know how to handle
it if it happens Jesus knew how to
handle it.
You say sorry to exalt Jesus, isn't it?
Not if they were just exalting him because
he was a great man or a great
prophet or a great king That's how they
exalted him.
They never exalted him because here's a man
who speaks words direct from God's heart but
when they saw the mighty miracles that he
did and especially in multiplying the loaves and
fishes They got a delegation together to come
and crown him king that we need that
kind of a king When they saw he
could multiply loaves and fishes who wouldn't want
a king like that Are you and I
exalting some of the ministry that God said
in the church because they're able to minister
bread healing Deliverances miracles God test our hearts
check our hearts Are we exalting man for
these things?
God knows and It's clear enough to those
who know their God That man is dealing
a lot of God's glory God says I
will not give my glory to another and
he meant it then and he means it
now And the reason he gave all glory
to son Jesus was because that every Ray
of glory that he caused to descend upon
his beloved son went back to the father
in Total worship and praise unto him child
Samuel ministered unto the Lord before Before Eli
the word of the Lord was precious in
those days.
There was no open vision Then it goes
on to show how God revealed himself To
the little child Samuel which means hearing he
didn't hear clearly at first Therefore he probably
couldn't prophesy very well I'm not saying that
these prophets that are speaking in the name
of the Lord are all false I know
many of them have a word from the
Lord, but you and I have to recognize
there's a great mixture in it all God
is going to purge out the mixture until
there's a pure voice in the land and
God's people are going to know it Samuel
had to learn that voice Three times he
went to Eli thing and it is the
voice of a man Finally the old prophet
recognized He was hearing something from God and
he told him next time he speaks that
way say speak Lord for that Servant here
if our thy servant is listening God will
speak to your heart When you and I
come to the place they speak Lord, and
I'll listen Meaning I'll hear and I'll obey
Instead of going to a church and hearing
a prophecy and coming home wasn't that a
wonderful prophecy Yeah, there was three of them
this morning wonderful process.
What did God say?
Well, I don't know but there were wonderful
prophecies God is going to speak clearly to
his people because he's after the hearts of
his people Today of you will hear his
voice tonight today if you hear his voice
harden not your heart and with that commitment
God spoke So clearly to Samuel that from
that day forth he always knew the voice
of God God is going to speak in
the midst of his people with a clarity
and An assurance that you and I are
going to know this is God's voice and
that's not We're not there yet.
Oh The mixture of voices I can't sort
it out nor can anybody else God by
his Holy Spirit is going to do it
and Samuel rose up to be a prophet
in Israel and all Israel from Dan to
beer Sheba knew that God had Established that
voice in the land and they feared Samuel
with a godly fear Because they knew that
God was speaking through that man.
Let me tell you that's coming back to
the church God's gonna raise up a clear
voice in the land and God's people are
going to know this is God speaking and
they're going to Confronted with the voice of
God and the fire of God will come
along to Purge out all the trust God
wants the hearing from his people Want them
to hear he's going to be faithful to
send forth a pure word It's all I'm
going to say tonight.
We're willing to have other opportunity during these
days That may God causes each one when
we hear his word Harden not our hearts
at our responsibility when God speaks to us
Prepare the heart.
That's the purpose of him speaking Prepare her
heart as this happens so often.
They've heard God.
They didn't listen.
They didn't obey this day if you hear
his voice harden not your heart as in
the provocation as In the day of temptation
and trial in the wilderness where your father's
tempted me prove me saw my works 40
years You're seeing and those of you have
television or no doubt seeing right on TV
Miracles you're seeing signs and wonders.
Oh a lot of it might be phony,
but there's genuine miracles taking place But that
doesn't mean that God The hearts of God's
people are right with him God says I
bore with my children in the wizard wilderness
for 40 years And they saw all my
mighty works, and they never came to know
me You can behold all the mighty works
of God and not come to know the
voice of God or not come to know
him Forty years they bore with them Showing
miracle after miracle after miracle every day Every
day they saw a miracle.
I've heard one man say ask for a
miracle from God every day They had a
miracle from God every day for 40 years
and God says they haven't known me But
help us when we hear God's voice to
recognize.
He's after our hearts what to change your
heart and He'll come and he'll speak to
us things that I have not seen or
ear heard Heaven entered into the hearts of
man God bless you Lead you by his
spirit Heart of hunger talk father in heaven.
I pray that you would in this even
in this room tonight Grant that prayer that
the Apostle Paul prayed grant that it might
be fulfilled If God would given to them
the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the
knowledge of him The eyes of their understanding
being enlightened That they might know what is
the hope of his calling?
What is the riches of the glory of
his inheritance in the Saints?
What is the exceeding greatness of his power
towards?
Those that the lead the power that he
wrought in Christ when he raised him from
the dead Set him at his own right
hand and heavenly places Far above all principality
and power and might and name name that
is named not only in this world But
that which is to come Anoint our eyes
with that holy eyes of Lord that we
might begin to see what you're showing and
hear what you're saying That your sheep are
no longer tossed to and fro and chased
from this Sheep pulled to another looking for
some kind of food, but you said you
would lead your sheep by rivers of living
water Come forth.
Oh Lord.
We pray speak clearly even in these days
that we're gathered together Be clearly by your
spirit that there might be an impartation made
in the lives of God's people here assembled
tonight You might learn your voice and walk
with you and serve you in Jesus name
we pray amen