It's Time To Cross The Comma - Bro Ray Asher 3-8-2026

We do appreciate Bethel, appreciate Brother Hal, Sister Hal, this church,

and glad of the vistress, glad of the young people. Amen.

And as you go with me to the Book of

John again, Book of Saint John, Brother Nathaniel, how would

it have been to have been one of those disciples

that day? Been walking with Jesus, you know who he is.

And all of a sudden, young preacher, old preacher me,

he looks at you and says, if thy right hand

offend THEE, cut it off, for it would be better

for THEE to enter into life with one hand than

having two hands to go into hell where the fire

is not quenched in the worm dies not. And then

when you're reading back from that, he says, and if

that I offend THEE, pluck it out. It would be

better for THEE to enter into life with one eye

than having two to go into hell, for the warm

dies not and the fires knock. And when you're when

you're shaking from that one and I would have been

if th would offend THEE cut it off, it would

be better for THEE to enter into a life halt

than having two feet to go into hell. And when

I was a young Christian. I read those scriptures, and

I put myself in the place of where those disciples were,

and I said, God, I still have my hand, but

my hand has offended. I said, Lord, I still have

both my eyes, but my eyes have looked upon things

they shouldn't have looked upon. I said, Lord, I have

both my feet, but they have carried me in places

I should not have went. And then I realized, Brother,

that the reason I can still have my hands and

my eyes in my feet is because on the Cross

of Calvary, he paid that blood debt. He paid that price.

The price of sin was he man the death. The

price of sin is blood. Without the shedding of blood,

there is no remission. But thank God, the prophets of

bail in their false God, thought the shedding of their

own blood. But my God shed his own blood, gave

his own body, gave his own life, that I wouldn't

have to give mine, because mine would not have been

sufficient for my sins. My hand. Give me my hand

would not have been sufficient for the sins of my hand,

and committed give me my eyes would not have suffer

sight for the sins of my eyes that committed Give

me my feet would have not sufficed for the sins

of my feet of command. But the precious body of

the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary paid

the price for every man, woman, boy, and girl on

the face of this earth, that whosoever will could be saved,

whosoever will could be forgiven, whosoever will could come out

from where they were and be saved, be redeemed, be born,

born again. He want you to go with me. The

Book of John chapter ten, John, chapter ten. Verily, I

say unto you. He that entereth not by the door

into the sheep fold, but climbeth up some other way,

the same is a thief and a robber. But he

that entereth them by the door is the shepherd of

the sheep. To him the porter openeth, and the sheep

hear his voice, and he calleth his own sheep by name,

and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his

own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him,

for they know his voice. And a stranger. Will they

not follow, but will flee from him, for they know

not the voice of strangers. This parables spake Jesus under them.

But they understood not what things they were wouild He

spake under them, then said Jesus under them again, verily, verily,

I say, and you, I am the door of the sheep.

All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers.

But the sheep did not hear them. I am the door.

If by me any man enter in, he shall be saved,

and shall go in and out and find pasture. The

thief cometh not but for to steal, and to kill,

and to destroy. I come that they might have life,

and that they might have it more abundantly. I am

the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for

the sheep. But he that isn't hireling, and not the

shepherd whose own sheep are not the own the sheep

are not see if the wolf coming and leaveth the

sheep and fleeth, and the wolf catcheth them and scattereth

the sheep, the hirling fleeth because he isn't hurling, and

careth not for the sheep. I am the good shepherd,

and know my sheep, and are known of mine as

a father knoweth me even so I the father, and

lay down my life for the sheep. A man praise God.

Jesus set in verse ten when he told us the

plan of the thief, the devil, the Taskmaster, that he

has come to steal, kill and destroy. And I want

you to notice what he says next. I am come

that they might have life. And after that word life,

there is a comma. A comma in the English language

means the sentence is not stopping. This is a pause

as we change the idea slightly. Amen. And he said

I've come that they might have life. And then he

paused there and said, and life more abundantly. How can

you have more life than just life? Amen? Over in

Luke chapter ten, I believe it is around there. Uh,

Jesus looks at Simon Peter and says, Simon, Simon, Satan

hath desired to have you, that he may sift you

as wheat. But I have prayed for thee that thy

faith failed not. And then he said these words, when

thou art converted strengthened the brethren. Amen. What did the

word converted mean to Simon Peter? The Lord dealt with

me about this several weeks ago. What did the word

converted mean to a man that's been walking with Jesus

for three and a half years. A man that has

seen the dead raised, a man that has seen blind

eyes opened, a man that has seen deaf ears open,

a man that has seen the cripple get up and

start walking. A man that was standing there when Jesus

stood at the tomb of a man that had been

dead four days, had said, Lazarus, come forth, and the

dead man came out. A man that had seen him

multiply the bread and fish. A man that had literally

won n seen him on the water and said, Lord,

if it be thee, bid me come unto thee walking

on the water. And Jesus said come. And Peter stepped

down out of the ship and walked on the water

to go to Jesus. And when he began to sink,

he said, Lord, save me, and immediately the hand stretched

out caught him. Immediately they were in the boat, and

immediately on the other side. What would what would convert

it mean to him? He had been sent out by

Jesus with John, and they had been given power to

cast out this adversary of your soul. He came back

and said, they are subjects unto us at thy name,

thy word. Not only that Babar Russell. But they Amen.

They came back and said, we've been giving power over

all manner of diseases. Cancer did me anything to them?

Heart disease didn't mean anything to them. Lafe proceed didn't

mean anything to them. That power over it. And now

Jesus looks hot him and says, the devil has desired

to have you. He's gonna swift, sift you like wheat.

But I pray for thee if thy faith fail not.

And when you are converted, When you are converted, Peter,

there's something fixing to happen in your life. There's something

fixing a change in your life. There's something fixing take

place in your life. And it is gonna change you

completely from what you are right now. It's gonna change

you completely from what you see right now, from what

you have right now, from you are right now. Amen.

And as we think about that, and then Jesus said,

I come, you might have life, he mean, but after

that there is an abundance, Amen, life comma life more abundantly.

And I want to preach to the church tonight and

to you tonight, and to me tonight, to my bride tonight.

And I want to preach tonight that it's time to

cross the comma. It's time to get on the other

side of the comma. Hemen. And I know he men,

that some seemingly in this hour are just satisfied that

they're no longer amen, living in the death of sin,

that they were one time living in. I'm no longer

a drunkard, I'm no longer a don't badic, I'm no

longer whatever you used to be. He mean. And it's

a glorious thing when we wake up one day and

we realize I'm gaught who I used to be. Hemen.

And the Bible does not declare sin in any other terms,

but that you were dead in trust pass in sin.

You are a dead person. Dead people have no ability

to change themselves. Dead people have no ability to seek help.

Dead people have no ability to change their situation. All

the dead person can hope for is that somebody will

bring them life. Amen. He mean. The thief have put

them in that position. But now the Lord said, I've

given them the one thing that a dead person has

to have, he man, he has to have life. And

then he says, and then there's that abundance. Amen, if

you can cross that common and I feel like tonight, saints,

he man, we can be satisfied just to not be

what we used to be, or we can reach out

for what God has for us to be. He man.

Do you just not want to be what you used

to be? Or do you want to be what God

wants you to be? He man? And between those two

situations there is a comma. There is a pause. And

in this service right now, I'd love to see somebody

make their mind. Brother, how i am leaving this side

of the comma and I'm crossing that comma. I am

a man laying they ma in my life across this line,

and I'm saying, Lord, I want that abundance. Lord, I

want that conversion that changes me. Heymen, can I tell

you the conversion from death under life is glorious, But

the conversion for a Christian when he goes from just

barely getting by I just barely having the words I

just barely amen say well, well I'm not what it

used to be. But getting into that place of abundant

life where we say, I'm knowing who I believe and

I am persuaded that he is able to keep that

which I have committed under him against that day, can

I tell you, Saints of God, the disciples knew what

it wants to walk with Jesus. But in that.

Upper room, in that upper room, when the Holy Ghost

fell upon them, when the power, how if God fell

upon them, where the Holy Ghost filled them?

Amen? Amen, Amen. They were used to seeing Jesus. They

saw him brother take a lad's little lunch and break

it the loaves and fish and start handing it out

and fed the multi. Fed five thousand men as well

as women and children. Amen. And then they gathered up

twelve basketballs of fragments that remained. Amen. Amen. But Peter,

on the day of Pentecost, stepped out and preached the

first Pentecostal sermon, and the Bible said three thousand souls

were added to the Kingdom of God. And after that

day by day such as the Lord would save. Amen.

They went from living he meant to abundant living. They

crossed the comma when they went to the Upper room.

They crossed the comma when they said there's more from me.

They crossed the comma when they said I'm going to

obey God. They crossed the comma when they said I'm

not satisfied where I'm that right now, heymen, they crossed

the common. Amen. He noticed Peter, this this man, he

had walked on the water. I've never done that. He

walked on the water, and then denied that he even

knew who Jesus was. Saul blind, eyes open, but was

blind to his own condition. Saul saw a left saw

saw a withered hand restored with his own hand. He

couldn't keep it. Amen, lifted up praising God. Amen. Amen. Amen,

he said, you're Peter. Amen. And the devil's desired to

have you. They may sift you. Just weep and I

pray for thee. And there's fixing to become a conversion

in your life. You're fixing get converted. And when you are,

he men, not only are you gonna have strength to

make it yourself, not only are you gonna have strength

to get by on your own, but you are gonna

be able to help someone. Would you love to have

enough that you could reach over lay your hand on somebody.

I say, I'm here to help you, and I've got

something I can help you with. He man, he's always

in it. Not shown there at the gate, called beautiful.

When the man that had been laying there for years

and years and years and years carried there, laid there.

I have no ability to get there his self, have

no ability to do it on his own. And Peter

walks by and says, silver and gold have I none

but such as I have give I under thee in

the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Rise up and

walk and took hold of his right hand, and immediately

his feed and ankle bones received strength. And the man

went running and leaping into the temple, a temple that

had not seen any running and leaping, because they had

not seen what the power of God to do. So on,

I ask us tonight, hemen, are you ready to across

the comma? Amen? Are you ready to cross the comma?

Are you ready to say I've not got enough, I'm

not where I want to be. I am gonna go

as far as God, my Savior, God, my Lord, God

my King will allow me to go. Tonight. Amen. Now,

I tell you and I young folks, there's many pitfalls

out chonder in that world, many traps ou chonder in

that world. But there is a God that can help

you to walk like a hind's feet in high places.

There is a God that can take you through this

world and you can be as a light that shines

in this world, a city set on a hill that

cannot be hid, a candle that is not put under

a bushel, but put on a candlestick, that it may

give light to the whole house. Amen, there's a scripture,

and I understand it, Brother ro Camp, I understand the

context of it. Man, when the when the wise and

the foolish are brought out, when he gives us the

parable of the wise and the foolish, hey man going

to the marriage, And when the foolish, foolish as they were,

I said, the wise, supposed to be wise, give us

if your offer our lamps are gone out. Notice what

the wise said. Notice what the wise said? No, no, no,

we can't do that. We ain't got enough. We just

barely got enough for herself, just barely enough for myself,

just barely enough to get myself by, just barely enough

that I can make it to church. I can't help

nobody else get that barely enough that I can lift

hand up a little bit. I surely can't reach over

and grab somebody else's hand, even though the Bible says

in the Book of Hebrews to lift up there for

the hands which hang down. It's not talking about yours,

it's talking about somebody else's. And strengthen the feeble knees. Amen,

Lest that would is lame, be turned out of the way,

Then nobody has to be turned out. Amen. In a

hole in this church, hey, Maen. When we've got the well,

when we've got the power of God, there ain't no

reason that somebody. Amen. Amen, we won't bragg on ourselves

being the wise ones. I won't be like them. I

do not want to be like them. A person comes in, Amen,

need depression and anxiety in in trouble. Give me something

to help me. I'm sorry, I just barely got enough

to hit myself by. I just barely got enough. Amen. Sorry, friend,

I can't help you. Sorry world, we ain't no longer

Sorry world out yonder, we no longer have anything to

help you with. Sorry world out there. Amen, we don't

have enough. Amen. But gonna tell you friend, on the

other side of the comma, there is enough on the

other side of the comma. It ain't your foreign no

more anymore. Hemen. On the other side of the comma,

you not only have enough to worship God yourself, but

you got enough to help somebody else. You got enough

to stam with somebody else. You've got enough to let

me ask you tonight. Amen. And as I said this morning, Amen,

nobody is saying in this revival that anybody is not saved. Amen. Amen.

You have passed from death to life. Amen. Amen. And

for some if they can pass from death to life

and find a pew to set on, Amen, they're fine.

That's all they really want, That's all they're really concerned with. Amen.

I understand that. But I come with a burden tonight

to reach to somebody and say, really, really, wouldn't you

love to cross the common tonight? Wouldn't it really be something,

Brother Roe, cap to have enough to reach down to

somebody whose feet are no longer strong enough to stand

themselves up, whose legs are no longer strong enough to

walk themselves into the temple? Someone amen, who the thought

of running and leaping in the temple is so are

from them, so far from them. They can't even imagine

what it would be like to come into church and

shout to me. They can't even imagine what that would

be like. But think if you had enough, if you

had enough, if you cross the comma that came with

enough that you can reach down and take that hand.

I'd say, hey man, we're not looking for silver and gold.

I ain't come to bring you that. But I've got

something that I can share with you tonight. I've got

something I can offer you tonight. Heymen, in the name

of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the name of the

Lord Jesus Christ, rise up and walk. Oh. I wish

you'd brace him tonight. I wish you'd worship him tonight. Amen. Amen.

I have a feeling that this is not gonna be

like any reliable I've ever been in. Amen. Amen, this

is it, friend. We are crossing the cord. We are

crossing the comma tonight. Amen. Hey man, we are not

gonna stay where we've been, not go stay like we were,

not gonna stay like we always have been. But Lord,

there's more for me as a child of God. There's

more for me as a Hemen Christian, Oh brother, don't

you know that the only people that need help are

those lost people? The loh people need help? Of those

that are you gonna weart in sin. We we got

everyone ones need help, and we get our just enough.

When when when did when did Pentecostal holiness. When did

it become just enough? When did when did? When did

we squeeze? When did we squeeze came in the sap

out of it till it was just barely enough for us?

When did we drain? When David spoke of a cup

running over? When when did the cup get so low

that we've just got barely enough to take a little

sip of this ourself? Amen, you'll just have to get

it for your own, Brother Jesse, You'll just have to

get through. Sorry, Amen, Sorry that you're having trouble at work,

Brother Jeremiah. Sorry, heymen, that you haveing trouble at work.

Brother Nathaniel. Sorry about that, but I've just got too

many problems on my own. There really ain't much I

can do to help you. There really ain't much I

can do for you, Amen, heymen, Sorry, Brother Philip, Hey

mad about you, heymen, the doctor. But I'm sorry, but

I just don't have enough myself. Amen. I he sat

not the state of a great big bunch. Amen. And

I'm not throwing this Amen. I'm not loading this in

that sling and throwing it at the Baptist. I'm preaching

in a hole in his church, and there's Holiness people

listening to this tonight and Pentecostal people listening to this tonight.

And we just got barely enough to get by, barely enough. Amen.

If the preacher tries to push us one step further

than that, we're going back up. Amen, We're going in now.

I can't go no further. Preacher, I can't do no more. Hemen,

I'm alive. I ain't a drunkard no more. He been.

Stand up and say, thank God, I don't drink anymore.

Sat back down, Thank God, I don't do don't no more.

Thank God, ain't got a needle stuck in arm, Thank God,

thank god, ain't god, Thank God, ain't got a half

of pills. That's a young preacher. I know he is

a street preacher, but stare he goes. Hemen to different

cities and preachers on the street. He called me back

last summer. I was in Oklahoma and revival. He called me.

He said, pray for me. I said, where you're at?

He said, I'm in New Orleans in the quarter. Said

I'm in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If you

ever been there, hemen, you shouldn't have been, Amen, if

you ever been there. You should not have been there.

There was no reason for you to be there. He said,

there's voodoo shops on every corner. There's it's just it's

just it's now even like this world. Amen. He called

me another time. He said, I'm in downtown Philadelphia. I'm

on the streets in Philadelphia. Amen, he said, in on

the down street. He said, I've got people. I've got

people high in front of me. I got people hemen,

pal and heroin right in front of me. I got

people doing all that. Amen. But he said, this year,

in just a few weeks, he said, I'm going to

another place. What could be any worse than the Quarter

in New Orleans? What could be worse than Hell's Kitchen

in Chicago? What can be worse than than than the

Barrio of La He's going to Salt Lake City, Utah,

where no one does drugs, no one takes no one

does dope. Everybody's nice, everybody's polite, everybody's kind, everybody's amen,

just gonna it's it. They're all happy, gold lucky. But

there's no body saved. But they think they're okay. I

told him, I said, son, that will be the hardest

place you've ever preached. And then I realize, amen, when

we get to that place where we think just enough

is enough, when we think that, when we think that

all I need is just to not be dead anymore,

all I need is just all I need is just

to not be a dope addict anymore. That's what AA

teaches alcoholics Anonymous. Alcoholics Anonymous says, your salvation is in

not taking another drink. Amen. Amen. I've dealt with people

before that had rehab. Rehab religion. Rehab religion says, if

you can get the need out of your arm, if

you can get the heymen, if you can quit get

the pot out of your mouth, if you can get

the pills out of your system, if you can get

the cocaine out of your nose, then you'll be all right. Amen. Amen.

And they never realize that there's an abundant supply right

on the other side of the comma. There's an abundant

supply of blessing. There is joy unspeakable. Amen, We've got

that speakable joy. Preacher, hemen, I ain't dead no more,

But what about that joy unspeakable hemen? And full of glory? Amen.

He meant that that the angels desire to look into Amen,

the angels that are around the throne of God, the

angels that hear him crying. Amen, he meen hear him crying, Holy, Holy,

Holy Lord, God Almighty. That wasn't his and this to come. Amen.

I wish you'd help me tonight. I wish you'd praise

him tonight. Amen. Amen. If you think I'm pushing, I am. Amen.

If you think I'm pulling, I am Amen. Amen. Because Amen,

I can look out across this crowd and look in

the mirror at me and think, my, what would it

look like on the other side of that comma, What

would it look like? Brother Jeremiah. Amen. When a man

raised right in the house of God, he meen living

a good life, who live in a clean life, He

men saved. Ain't daddy, ain't dead. Looking am his guys hands,

he ain't dead. Amen. But step across that common and

all of a sudden, the fire of God and the

power of God Amen is consuming his very soul. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.

I knew you, young men, Amen, before you received the

baptism of the Holy Ghost. Amen, And you were definitely alive.

There was no question about it. Amen. Brother Caleb Rodcap

hamen had a pulse. Amen. His heart beat Amen. Amen. Amen.

Brother rod Cap had respiration. He breathed Amen, he could

breathe Amen. But then one day Amen, out in that

yard out yonder, there came a sound from heaven as

of a Russian mighty wind, Brother Philip, and it sat

upon them, and they were all filled. And when we

come back here for revival, here was a new Caleb.

Here was a new Philip, He was a new Jesse. Amen.

It was new Amen. It was a new Samuel. Amen,

Amen Amen. And all of a sudden, hemen on the

other side of the comma God started reaching down and saying,

come on, Amen, I'm gonna use you. Come on, I'm

gonna use you. Hemen, come on, I'm gonna use you.

Would you like to be used of God? Would you

like to be able to help somebody? Boy? He Meeni,

I'd sure like to be able to do what brother

Nathaniel does. Hemen, gold. Brother Nathaniel went, and you can

do what brother Nathaniel does. Amen. Amen, Amen Amen. The

little Black sisure what to hear a lecture? One time

of the church they were lecturing on something the other Amen.

Then and then they started lecturing a little bit on heaven. Amen.

They started lecturing on the power of God, and she

got up and start walking out. Amen. Someone met at

the door and said it was the matter and you

like that preaching. She looked at him said you can

no more. Amen, tell about what you don't know. Then

you can come back from where you ain't been. Amen. Amen. Amen.

And when the Holiness Church reaches the place where we

just tell about it but we don't know about it.

We just talk about it, but we don't know about it.

We talk about healing, oh well, we believe in it.

We talk about the power of God falling. We talk

about conviction getting a hold of the heart and making

them run down to the order to pray. We talk

about Amen's souls being under that burden of the Lord.

Let me ask you tonight, would somebody say, preacher, help

me to get across that common tonight, help me to

get across that common tonight? Amen, With these home preachers,

with these home preachers, with these saints of God, would

you help me tonight? Would you help me tonight? Would

somebody amen, Oh, I'm gonna tell you I am if

I right here tonight, if I needed the baptism of

the Holy Ghost. If I needed to be saved, if

I needed to be sanctified, if I just simply needed

across the common. I look around as somebody and I'd say, Brother,

would you help me get across that common? Tonight? Would

you help me? Lord? Would you help me tonight? Amen? Amen,

we can reach the place where we're satisfied just not

being what we were. Some some in this building, me

included Brother Jacobs, knew the depths of sin. I did,

I really did. I'm not proud of it. I'm not

on both started. I don't talk about it, but I've

been there, and I remember when I stepped from that

into life. I remember when I knelt down on the

building that night where I was working, and I remember

what the gravels felt like when my knees dug into him.

Brother Russell, I remember looking up to heaven and saying, God,

I don't know who you are, but if you can,

will you save me? And right there, the God of

eternity stepped in and gave me life for death. He

traded life to me for the death that I had.

He brought me out of that, He brought me out

of the coffin of complacency and laid life in my soul. Amen. Amen.

And I was happy. Oh, I was so happy. I

wasn't dead no more. I was so happy. I was

alive now. I was so happy. I wasn't inn have

to to go back into a ballroom. I don't have to.

I didn't didn't take Jack Daniels to get me to

sleep anymore. I didn't take any of those things. I

didn't have to have that. He saved me. But it

went on just a little longer. I said, God, there

has to be more. You're too much of a God

for this to just be a stopgap measure. You're too

much of a god. He man the There's a doctrine

in the world today called se Satianism. It is a

false doctrine's lie. See. Satianism says that the Pentecostal gifts

ended with the disciples. When you talk of the Holy Gost,

you're speaking of, you're speaking of Deity number one, you're

speaking of the Godhead. You're speaking of you're speaking of

of he that is coequal with Father and Son. And

then for Jesus to send him, for the for the

Holy Ghost to dwell among us. But then all of

a sudden, they said. After Pentecost, God said, well, you

won't do that no more. God doesn't start something and

end it. If God starts something, it's right, or he

wouldn't have started it. If God starts doing something, he's

not just trying it out. God don't have to try

something out. God don't have to experiment was something. Man

was not an experiment. Calvary was not an experiment. Wo

and the Holy Ghost of God, it's not an experiment.

It is a reality tonight. It is for whosoever will

let them come under me and really, Bethel Church, Bethel Church.

All that's between you and that abundance is a comma.

Can you cross it? Tonight? Can you cross the comma? Preacher? Amen? Amen?

Can you cross the comma? Singer? Can you cross the comma? Amen?

Preacher's wife? Can you cross the comma? Amen? Saints of God?

Can you cross the comma? Glory to God, Glory to God.

But I can't witness to nobody. That's because you've never

crossed the comma. Well, I can't get in back that preaching.

That's because you ain't cross the common well. I can't

shout like brother Nathaniel. That's because you can't cross the comma.

You cross the comma tonight, Amen, Glory to God, Glory

to God. Amen. Hell Amen. I don't want to be

labor this, but I feel like somebody, Amen, is listening

to me tonight, and somebody's hearing this tonight. Amen, Amen.

And I'd like to see you get so dissatisfied and

so dissatisfied with where you were that you say, Lord,

whatever I've got to do, I want to cross that

imaginary common that I've laid out that said I'm okay

on this side of the logs. I don't go back

to dope. Logs, don't go back to drugs, logs, don't

go back to alcohol. I'm fine. If the devil can't

keep you out of church, he'll go there with you.

If he can't keep you out of your prayer, cluset,

he'll go there with you. If the devil can't keep you,

Amen from reading your Bible, he'll go there with you,

and he will say, you're fine, just like you are.

You're okay. That preacher's a lunatic. Amen. You don't have

to do all that, hemen. It ain't all in a shout,

It ain't all in that. It ain't all in that.

Let me ask you something. Hemen. We are trinitarian. We

believe in Father, Son and holy ghosts. We believe in Father,

son and holy ghosts. Amen? Which one of them? Can

you exclude and still be trinitarian? Can you exclude the Father?

Can I would I be able to get appear and say, oh, now, Church,

you don't need the Father. You're okay without the Father.

You look at me and say he's insane, and I

would be false doctrines insanity. It really is. It's spirit

False doctrine is spiritual insanity. If I were to say, well,

you don't need the Son, Amen, you can be like

you can be like. Amen, you can be like other

folks and Amen. Just worship the Father and know, and

you can say whatever you want to say about it.

If you deny Jesus Christ, you are going to hell.

If you deny him, you have no hope of salvation whatsoever. No,

you say, well, I'm gonna jump on a hand grenade

and save everybody. He men. Oh you'll do is bow

yourself up. You ain't gonna save he mean nobody. But amen, hemen,

You're saved by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

He is the propitiation of our sins. He is the

alph and Omega. He is the one hemen is. He

is the plan of God. Hemen. The plan of God

didn't start on Calvary. The plan of God started in

the beginning. Hemen. John said in Revelation, I saw lamb

slain from the foundation of the world. Amen. You can't

exclude Jesus. But if you can't exclude father and son,

how can you exclude the Holy Ghost and say I'm

not interested. I'm just not interested in that. I just

don't believe I have to have that. I don't believe

that's necessary. Amen. The blood does save you. The blood

does save you. The blood washes your sins away. The

blood of Jesus Christ. Nothing but the blood of Jesus

saves you from your sins. Amen. Amen, how do you

know you are passed from death unto live? You all

of a sudden, I have love for the brethren. You

didn't used to like them. Now you love them. You

love the people around you, don't you. I believe you do. Amen?

But how can we say I do not have to

have the Holy Ghost. You've not made it yet. I've

not made it yet. And let me ask you this.

If someone came to you and said, can you help me?

My soul is vexed to come help me. This anxiety

is eating me up. Isn't that Wasn't that woman blessed

that night? Wasn't that woman blessed that God laid on

by the house heart. Wasn't brother Howl blessed when that

old preacher God laid it on his heart to say

that those are people that cross the comma. Those are

people on the other side of the comma. Amen. They're

not just trying to get by. They're trying to reach

whosoever will. They're trying to pull another one in. They're

trying to help another one. They're trying to reach out

there to somebody else. Amen. Oh, I wish you'd help

me right now. Feel feel like we're right where we

need to be right now, but we might order worship

Him just a little bit more. Amen. Amen. One day,

one day, there's these little babies here. One day hemen, Mama,

tell me about it. Tell me about the Holy Ghost. Daddy,

tell me about the Holy Ghost. Tell me about it.

Tell me about the power of God. Amen. When they're

coming up into a world that denies Christ. They're coming

up into a world that hates him. They're coming into

a world that has pushed him aside. They're coming into

a world that doesn't want him. And then when these

little one you say, well, I'm not gonna let him

be around any they will be around something in the world.

They asked an old preacher one time, said do you

need the Holy Ghost to go to heaven? He said,

I need the Holy Ghos school to Walmart. You need

the Holy Ghost school to work, You need the Holy

Ghost on your job, You need the Holy Ghost in

your marriage. Amen. Amen. There's been many times that I

would reach a place sister woot and wore I know

what to do, and I would hear her speaking in

tongues as the Holy Ghost moved on her, and I

would know, you're here God to help us. You're here

to help us God. I'm talking tonight about stepping across

that com Amen. Amen. Notice that it's the same one

saying I come that you might have life. The same

one that's offering the abundance is the same one that

offered the life. And he offered them in the same sentence.

He offered them in the same context. He offered them

right there. Amen. So why would a Christian, why would

a child, why would a Pentecostal holiness child, holiness member,

holiness person be satisfied just barely getting by, just barely

getting by, just barely getting by. Amen. Amen. But I

spoke of it this morning when he told about when

he was talking about Amen, Apollos, Amen, Apollos, Apollos. Amen

was an eloquent speaker. Apollos was skilled in the use

of words. Apollos could turn a sentence. Amen. Apollos could

fit the right word in at the right time. Mark

Twain said, the difference in the right word and the

almost right word is a difference in lightning and a

lightning bug. Amen, Amen, Mark Twain. Apollos could form that word.

He knew just exactly what to say. And then he

was told, We're going to show you a more excellent way.

But I'm already super preacher. But I'm already super duper preacher,

super duper duper preacher. Yeah, but we're gonna show you

more excellent way. WHOA. Amen. Amen, We're gonna get you

back in that upper room. Amen. We're gonna get you

up in there. Whoa. And when you come out of there,

it's gonna be different. It's gonna be different, Amen, ain't

gonna be like it was. Why I wish somebody just

obey him right now. I don't know why I'm feeling

like this, Brother Philip, but I feel like this place

could come on glued right now if somebody just obey

God and say, Lord, I am ready to go across

the common tonight. I'm ready to step across. I'm ready

to receive what God has for me. Amen. I know

there's more for me tonight. I know there's more for

me tonight being saved. Being saved is not signing the book.

It's not shaking a hand. It's not joined in a club.

Being saved. He's a God that changes you. Amen. Amen.

No where in the Bible until Jesus said to Nicodemus

was the term born again ever used. The Jews understood

nothing about a new birth. I said, they weren't. They didn't.

That's why when Jesus said to Nicodemus, you must be

born again, Nicodemus had no idea what that could mean.

But what Jesus was telling him was, Nicodemus, this spiritual

act that I'm going to perform for you. It will

be like your first birth, the one you had nothing

to do with. It was not in your control. You

did not control anything about your birth. Amen. You weren't

then you were. Amen. Amen. It is the same with

this spiritual Amen. Well I'm hoping for it. Amen. You

have got to let the Lord do that work in you.

You've got to let the Lord change you. You've got

to let amen. And the problem is is when we

think we don't need it, we run, we run on.

We run on bald tires thinking if I can get

twenty more miles out of them, if I can get

one more trip out of them. Amen. Hey man, I

want to make one more trip five four change old again.

I want to wanna make one more trip. Heymen. It's

a long ways from Ontario to here. I mean, that's

the the aspect of how you got across the lake area.

And Amen's a big deal to me. Heymen, I've been

up in that country up in North New York. Amen.

That's way too cold. Amen. Amen, y'all's iceberg up there. Amen. Amen.

But when you do a lot of traveling, you say, well,

if I can just get this a little little more time,

a little little more aware out of this a little more,

were out of this little more, rather than I'll change it.

Then I'll change it. I'll get new. And then one

day the tires bubb the tires are gone. Oh amen,

and you realize I relied on I relied on it

one mile too far I should have. And then there

comes a day in your Christian walk when someone needs

you and you don't have enough, when someone needs you

and you can't help them, when someone reaches out to you,

and you immediately pick up your telephone and say, I

better call somebody. I bet a call brother Howl, Brother Nathaniel,

I bet a call brother Jesse, your brother, Philip, I

better call one of these preachers here. Amen, that's what

Philip said. That's what Philip said. It was getting late,

it was getting up in the evening. They've been having

a great service. They've been having a powerhouse service. They've

been having a magnificent service. Jesus, brother stare it had

been preaching to them, and now all of a sudd

and Philip comes to this great conclusion. It's getting dark,

and this is a desert. This ain't a good place

to be. Even though you were shouting a few minutes

we gotta get out of here. We gonna do something. And

he said, Jesus, let's send them to town, ring him

some deed. This is a desert place. Say nothing here

to eat. And Jesus looks around at Philip and says,

you give them deed, your.

God, you do it. No, you do it. Send an angel. No,

I'm sending you. Send the chairman, Send the servant.

Now I'm sending you, say said brother, how no sending you?

Hey man, you give them to eat? Amen? Well, then

then look at mister. Look this mathematical mind starts working. Well,

one hundred pennyworth. I've already done the math. Heymen, if

we had a billion dollars, if we don't have enough

to feed them all, and just get him everyone to

buy right. Amen? Amen? Amen. Someone else said, well, there's

a little lad here, he's got a little lunch. But

Jesus said, bring it here, bring it here, bring it here.

It's only it's only five loads and two little fishes.

Two or two loads and five little fish. That's all

it is. This Just enough of this kid, that's all

it is. Heymen, he'll eat it and be hungry. Amen.

Have the men sat down, Please, have them sat down.

Did you ever try to set five thousand anything down?

Did you ever try? Did you ever watch? You ever

see a service when the pastors trying to, hey man,

get folks set back down. I mean, I don't know

why they would, but they do sometimes. Amen. Amen. And

in a missing make this five thousand people, and they

got him every one set You think God ain't a miracle.

You think that ain't no miracle. They get five thou

people's well as women and children to sat down in companies.

Where are you going? Amen? He took that little lunch

and started breaking it. Where Philip was watching him? You

think he was? I do? I think Philip's watching him, sir?

Where's all that coming from? Where's all that coming from?

Where's all that coming from? Where's it all coming from?

Start handing it out? Where's it coming from? Where's it

coming from? And it keeps going out and keeps going out,

and keeps going out, And he keeps going out and

keeps going out, and he keeps going out. That keeps

going out, and everybody's eating in everybody's field. Amen. And

now it's all over with these that start gathering up

the fragments that remained what they threw down on the

ground what they didn't want, Amen, And they gathered up

proud basket for us. The fragments that remained ain't that wonderful.

And then they get on the ship. Then they get

on the boat, and the Bibles says they were anxious.

They were at anxiety because they had forgotten to take bread.

And Jesus looked at him, said, beware of the leaven

of the fair Seas and the leaven of Herod. Just

a little bit of that, Just a little bit of that.

The leaven of the phair seas is religion without power.

The leaven of Herod is a societal religion. Beware of

eleaven of the eleven. Of that, you just have to

put a crumb or two of that in and you've

corrupted everything. You've corrept Beware of that. And they said, well,

he's saying that because we forgot to take bread. Do

you not remember we're just there? Do you not remember

how I fed everybody? Do you not remember? Do you

not remember that? Amen? But that's where the disciples were. Oh,

but we're getting ready to cross the comma. We're getting

ready to go to the other side of the common.

And when we get over there. Heymen, we ain't gonna

be arguing about bread no more. We're gonna be arguing

about who's the greatest anymore. We're gonna be arguing about that. Amen.

We're gonna be telling them about a savior that's risen.

We're gonna be telling them about a god the table.

We're gonna be telling him about a God that can heal,

a God that can deliver, a God that can set free.

We're gonna look at the man with a heroin needles

stuck in his arms, A hey friend, God can bring

you out of that. We're gonna look at the young

couple and say, hey, God can make a aymen, God

can make a mountain out of you. God can make

a mighty man out of you. God can make a heymen,

a boulder out of you. Amen, not just a little pebble,

but a boulder. Amen. Amen. Amen. We won't dumpster dive. Amen.

We ain't dompster diving no more. Amen. We're feasting from

the master's table. Glory to God, Glory to God. When

he said whosoever will whoa glory? Are you all gonna

pay right now? Amen? I'm fixing to have a ray

asher revival right here. Amen, because I'm fixing, jump across

the comma again and say Lord, I need more. I

need more. Amen. Amen, I need more of you. I

need more in my life. I need a deeper walk

with God. I need more of this. Amen. Amen. When

that door swings open, that lost person comes in. Amen,

I need God. I need God. I need God. Amen.

I am not I am not lifting him up. I

am not crashing him down. He is what he is.

He was what he was. That is between him and God,

not me. But it was the testimony of a man

by the name of R. W. Shambach. I used to

listen to him on the radio when I first got saved.

He was the only thing I could find on the

radio worth listening to. I listened to R. W. Shambach.

I don't remember much of what he said, but I

remember one thing, but a philip he told about. He

was a songleader for a temp preacher by the name

of AA Allen. Put him more you want to put him.

He was AA Allen's song leader, and said, one night

in the service, a woman who was possessed of an

unclean spirit came in for deliverance, and said AA Allen

turned around to him and said, take her into the

prayer tent, you and some of the sisters and to

get her delivered. Pray her through, pray her through. Shambach said,

I'm the song leader. I'm the song leader. Who me,

I'm just the song leader? And he said this and

this is the part of remember said he Allen looked

at him and said, I wouldn't have a song leader

that couldn't cast the devil out. WHOA, WHOA. Well, I'll

tell you what we'll do. Brencher will send him to

the psychiatrist.

Good.

That's a good idea. That's a really great idea. That's

what you do when you're on this side of the common.

But when you're on the other side of the common,

you say, chilver and gold have I none but such

as I have? Wa Why go ahead of God, my mama? WHOA?

Were you gonna worship God just a little while? Could

you lift hands to heaven? Let God know God? I

need you right now. I feel him pulling at somebody right.

I'll tell you. I'll just say it like I said

this morning. If I you, I jump up out of

that pew, I run down to this order and I say,

God show me the comm I'm ready to go across.

Show me where I need to be. Lord, take me there, Lord,

take me there. Lord. Heymen, would you like to be

that light that shines out in this world? Would you

like to be that one that has the testimony of

the Lord Jesus Christ? Would your like to be the one? Amen? Amen, Amen, Amen.

From the Protestant Reformation, when the Protestant Church broke away

from Catholicism, years and years and years is past, centuries

is past. And we split and we splintered, and we

pushed this out, and we pushed this away, and we said,

this don't matter anymore, and this don't matter anymore. It

has sat over in England that the fastest growing religion

is Islam. They interviewed some young people. Why are you

converting to Islam? They said this, They said, because the

Christian Church no longer believes anything. Do we actually believe

what that Bible says? Do we actually believe He's God?

Do we actually believe Holy goes Field saints that a

third part of the Godhead dwells inside of you. There

was a time when holiness people didn't have it as

good as we have it now. They had service in

barns that had service, in brush arbors that had service,

in houses that'd service, in school houses. They weren't able

to do any better than that. But they kept on preaching,

and they kept on going, and they kept on going.

And now here, at this final was an out hour.

We found ourselves on the side of the comma, where

power is no longer necessary. Some are on some are

on the side of death instead of life, where righteousness

is no longer necessary, purity is no longer necessary, Godliness

is no longer necessary, holiness is no longer necessary. But

here in a holiness church, with holiness people setting in here,

and like I say, everyone of you, I am not

saying nobody is not saying no. I'm just saying, do

you need more? My mom, before she passed away, back

my mom, my mom would always put two dollars worth

of gas in a course. I don't care if she

had two hundred dollars in her pocket. Sister, she'd put

two dollars worth in that's back when you pulled up,

said pump me in two dollars worth, And she'd be

in a desperation if she could get to the next

station and get two dollars more. I don't know why

she did it. I do not know why she did that.

I would have filled it up, but she she never,

she never, She never filled up a car in her life, never,

not one time. She put barely enough it to get

to where she is going, and then she'd get enough

there to get back. How many Christians do that? Barely enough?

They come, they leave service, and they barely come limping

into the next one. I'm pretty sure if I don't

get help tonight, I don't know if I can make

it back. Well helps here tonight. I'll tell you what

we're gonna do. You fold your two George Washington, something

sticking back in your pocket. We ain't putting two dollars

worth in tonight. If you want filled up, if you

want to be filled up tonight, if you want so

full of the glory of God that it's running over.

But brother Jeremiah, you can't. Everyone you get around, it

starts splashing off on him. Hemen, Brother Philip, everyone you

get around, it starts splashing off on him. Hemen, brother

how hemen? These young men. Everyone you get around, your boss,

he man starts splashing off on him. I ask you

to night, do you want that if they come and

get us a song. Which side of the comma are

you happy on, preacherre I've tried. I just can't do it.

I just can't get over there. I just can't do it.

I can't get Then you are calling the Bible a

lie because he said it shall be for you and

your children, your children's children, as many as are far off,

as many as are nine. Sometimes we're worried about those

that are far off, but we're never worried about those

that are nine. I mean, I brother stared, how can

you go down on the street and preach of that man?

Stagger now the road? Hey, you need a full walk

with God when sometimes we don't have it. Jesus told

it so well when he said, you're saying that a

man should not steal? Do you steal? Amen? So what

I want? This? This is the message. This is this

is the message from me for Reviival. It's time across

the comma. I'm not preaching the lost people. That I'm not.

I'm not preaching the lost people. If there was a

dozen drug addicts in here, the message would have been different.

But they are not a dozen drug addicts in here.

There's a church bought by the blood of Jesus. There's

a church that he took their sins to a cross

and died for them. There's a church that's living in

the resurrection glory of one that came out of the

grave Amen after three days and Mary Knights came out

of the grave. There's a church that's living in the

shadow of one hundred and twenty that made it into

the Upper room. Out of the thousands that he fed,

thousands that he fed, one hundred and twenty of them

made it to the upper room, and they were all filled.

The Bible said this about them, that they turned the

world upside down. That's what happens when you cross the comma.

They walk up to you in the store and say,

there's something about you. There's something about you. There's something

about you. There's something about you. That man came up

to me on the job, brother, Would He said, I

don't know anything about you. I just got I just

started preaching. He said, I don't know anything about you,

but he said, I've watched you. He said, our baby

just died, and we don't know a preacher to preach

the funeral. We don't have one. Would you come and

preach the funeral of our baby. I'd never preached a

funeral before. I said, of course I will, of course

I will. He said, it's at such and such cemetery.

I went there. He brought our little stairphone box lady

up there. Smell of pot smoke was all over in

the crowd, big crowd. And I looked down at a

hurt mama and hurting daddy. And of all the times

I have thank God for the baptism of the Holy Ghost,

that was one of the greatest times I did. I

was looking at people had no hope. You have all kinds.

I was looking at people that had no direction. You

have direction. I was looking at people didn't know anything,

you know. And I started preaching about the first song

that that little baby would hear, would be sung by angels.

The first tear that was ever wiped away from its

face would be wiped away from the hand of its father.

I said, this little baby, we'll never hear cousin, they'll

never hear screaming rit and raven, They'll never hear any

of that. And then the Holy Ghost, sister can described

hold of my heart. And I said, and if you

don't go the same route that this baby went. You

will never see it again. They fell in around that

little styrofoam casket with pot smoke hanging in the air,

and called out on God, call out on God Mother Nathaniel.

When we lost our first grand baby, I thought I'd

never get over it. But thank God I was on

the right side of the common and he dealt with me.

That know what, matter what happens from here on out,

No matter, sister, how what happens. I've got one over there.

I've got one over there, and I'm gonna go see you,

and I'm gonna get him in my arms and lift

him up, and I'm gonna say, I've hungered for you

for years and years and years, but you've been in

good hands. You've been in good hands. I ask you

to night, Saints. I wanna well, I I wanna borrow

what you just said a while ago in this public

place up here, say well, God's got at my pew.

I understand that he's God everywhere, but you reckon there's

room that this entire church, all of us, I don't reckon.

I've ever seen a complete altar call. I never have,

but I'd like to see one tonight. I'd like cs

all come around this public place and call out on

a God that will deal with every one of us individually.

Would you come.

First, my soul, reader of favor, Feed me to the wall.

Few myka you lead up in me