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The King Is Still In The Cave - Bro Ray Asher -2-23-2025

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  1. Praise God.

  2. I uh I shared with a uh a brother in

  3. another part of the country. UH about how wonderful the

  4. the street service was yesterday.

  5. And I was asked the question did you get any results?

  6. And uh, I guess we could have done a Billy

  7. Graham out there and said.

  8. Hey about the cart?

  9. Can you say the tents tept for dis Christmas?

  10. Right?

  11. Do we really know what results are?

  12. Do we really understand the plan of God.

  13. We're out there because God said, come into all the

  14. world and preached the Gospel under every creature.

  15. He that believed it.

  16. That it's that time shall be saved. He believe not

  17. shall be damned.

  18. Ay now amen, amen I.

  19. Mama, I'm saying about Spurgeon told one time about they

  20. called him to come and preach at this big hole

  21. and he went on the wrong day.

  22. And see he's human.

  23. Also, My brother Spurgeon got there and went into the

  24. building and it was completely empty. There was nobody there.

  25. And as he picked up his bible and turned to leave,

  26. the spirit down with him. You came to preach, preach

  27. and he looked around at the empty seats. He looked

  28. around at nobody there, and he fought that battle that

  29. we all fight with indecision, We fight that battle with uncertainty.

  30. But he was a man of God, and he opened his.

  31. Bible, and he preached and preached and preach and brought

  32. it to a conclusion and made an altar call and

  33. prayed and left it. A couple of years later he

  34. was in the same building this times the gout that

  35. at the right.

  36. Time, And as he finished his message.

  37. A man came up to him and said, brother Spurgeon,

  38. you don't remember me, but do you remember coming here

  39. and preaching to an empty building? He said, like, yeah,

  40. that's something you really don't forget. He said, I was

  41. a laborer. I was up in the attic working when

  42. you came in, and he said, you preached to me,

  43. and I gave my heart to the Lord, and the

  44. Lord save me up in the right afters of that

  45. fielding while you were preaching, and what results I wanted

  46. to be walked on? The devil said, there was nothing

  47. happened for a weego, who know what all happened yesterday.

  48. I'll tell you one thing that happened. The gospel went

  49. out to a lost and kie world. A man he

  50. he told his secret. He said, go down to them.

  51. He said, I'm gonna make their heads as hard. I'm

  52. gonna harden them. I want you to go. I want

  53. you to preach to them, heymen, so they will not

  54. be able to say.

  55. There has not been a prophet among us.

  56. Friend, can I tell you?

  57. But Belle had an opportunity yesterday. Ain't that the gospel

  58. seat was sold?

  59. The word of God we have.

  60. Ain't that grace was abundant, grace was offered.

  61. Who knows?

  62. Somebody sitting in a call went home last night? I said,

  63. Old God, Oh God, where.

  64. Am I at?

  65. Oh God? And I appreciate this church.

  66. I appreciate the burden for souls, the burden for the loss,

  67. the burden for a community.

  68. Amen.

  69. Amen, results, Amen, Amen results. All our foolish.

  70. Minds to try to comprehend God's eternal glory. To comprehend

  71. God's eternal work, he meant to evaluate it, to evaluate

  72. it by pluses and minuses that we place on a

  73. little schedule book.

  74. Hemen, does that?

  75. Amen?

  76. Amen?

  77. Appreciate the Lord tonight.

  78. Do you all have a good memory of what brother

  79. Philip preached to you a few minutes ago?

  80. Amen? This this young preacher probably didn't. He probably was

  81. not up here five minutes, and he preached about.

  82. Five hours worth of gospel to you.

  83. And I'm just gonna add to what he preached. And

  84. this is what the Lord sent me to preach.

  85. And then when you I was you were riding home line,

  86. you will ride over the Tartan.

  87. Amen.

  88. I want you to go if you where with the

  89. Book of Joshua. Book up Joshua, chapter ten the Lord Amen,

  90. verse eight. The Lord said, under Joshua.

  91. Fear them not five delivered them into Thine hand. There

  92. shall not a man of them stand before.

  93. The Yoshama therefore came onto them suddenly and went up from.

  94. Gilgal all night.

  95. And the Lord discomforted them before Israel and slew them

  96. with a great slaughter at Gibing, and chase them along

  97. the way that goeth up to beth Hurrah, and smoke

  98. them to Askah and under Knakadod.

  99. And it came to pass, as they fled from before

  100. Israel from there in the going.

  101. Down to Bethron, that the Lord cast down great stones

  102. from heaven upon them unto Askhan.

  103. They died.

  104. They were more than died.

  105. With hailstones in whom the children is Wraill slew the sword.

  106. Then inspect Joshua to the Lord in the day when

  107. the Lord delivered up the Amorites before.

  108. The children of Israel.

  109. And he said, in the sight of the Israel, sun

  110. stands thou steal upon gibbeon thou moon in the alim Agalan.

  111. And the Sun stood.

  112. Steal in the moon state until the people had avenged

  113. themselves upon their enemies.

  114. Is not this written in the book of this year.

  115. So the Sun stood still in the midst of heaven

  116. and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

  117. There was no day like that before it or after it.

  118. That the Lord hearkened under the voice of a man,

  119. for the Lord font for Israel. And Joshua returned, and

  120. all of Israel with him unto the camp in Guilgod.

  121. But these three, these five.

  122. Kings, fled and hid themselves in a cave at Meccadon.

  123. It was told Joshua, say, the five kings are found

  124. hid in a cave at Meccadon. Joshua said, rolled great

  125. stone upon the mouth of the cave, and set them

  126. by it, for to keep.

  127. Them and stay.

  128. Ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and smile the

  129. hindmost of them.

  130. Suffer them not to enter into their cities, For the Lord,

  131. your God, have delivered them into your hand. It came

  132. to pass with Joshua and the children of Israel, and made.

  133. It end of slaying them with a very great slaughter,

  134. till they were consumed.

  135. But the rest which remained of them entered into fence cities.

  136. When all the people returned to the camp to Joshua

  137. and MacDonald in peace, none moved his.

  138. Tongue against any of the children of Israel.

  139. Then, said Joshua, opened the mouth of the cave, and

  140. bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave,

  141. Brother Philip, Why right, why do some have to get

  142. saved in.

  143. Have a revival?

  144. Why do why are there some that enter into every revival, every.

  145. Camp meeting, every fellowship.

  146. Be every weekend, every Sunday, dealing with the.

  147. Same thing over and over and over again.

  148. And not only that, but we see them get the

  149. victory time and time and time again.

  150. We see them shouting, we see them rejoice, and we

  151. see them praising God. We saw it this morning, he met,

  152. as they made their mind up.

  153. I'm tired.

  154. I'm sick of kicking against the pricks. We've seen it

  155. all through this revival, I say, Hay then said, give

  156. me the dager. We've seen it through this revival.

  157. As they said, I want relief from this, I want

  158. deliver from this. We've seen him.

  159. As a pasture got up and said in six months

  160. and they fought for.

  161. A victory, and they said, I don't want to be lost.

  162. I don't want to be to start, I don't want

  163. to be lost.

  164. But then it seems like had a few days right back.

  165. Where we were.

  166. And then Holiness people, the holiness movement in general, is

  167. marked by marked where we fought so many battles, and

  168. we've won so many victories over so many things. Your

  169. spiritual walk, your Christian life is a monument of different

  170. battles that you've followed. Why amen, Battles over things that

  171. fought against your soul, fought against.

  172. Your mind, thought against your marriage.

  173. Thought against your home, thought against your church, thought against

  174. your spiritual walk. And we feel like we got the victory,

  175. and we shot because we have the victory, we worshiped

  176. when we praise God for the victory, and then we

  177. go right back and we're dealing with the same thing again.

  178. Am I really satisfied. Am I really contempt? Do I

  179. really fit him? Do I really do I really need

  180. to be where I'm at? Do I really need to

  181. be here? Should I be somewhere else?

  182. Could something else work out better? Should something else be better?

  183. And then we get help again, and we feel like

  184. I've got it this time, I've got it, This time,

  185. I've got it. This time, I go right back.

  186. Amen.

  187. It ain't like a cycle of drug abuse that some.

  188. Of you went through.

  189. Amen. I remember my brother when he went through it.

  190. He meant he would come home and my mom would

  191. feed him and take care of him, and he would

  192. do good for about five days.

  193. And after about five days.

  194. You'd see it start getting all over him and he'd

  195. have to go back.

  196. He'd have to go looking for it again. He'd have

  197. to have it again.

  198. And he looked at me one day he said, you

  199. don't understand what it's like. He meant, when it starts

  200. pulling you back. And I believe I do understand to

  201. night a little bit, because I've seen things pull people back,

  202. and I've.

  203. Wondered, Lord, I ain't got the victory over that.

  204. You know.

  205. I'm not talking about the outwork because our outward.

  206. The holiness movement, I say, a hole in general, the

  207. holiness movement.

  208. For the outward. We want that battle. That battle is done.

  209. He then, Amen, But I want to ask you to

  210. know why why do we keep wanting to be pulled

  211. back into places of depression, places of doubt, places of discouragement, places.

  212. Where we feel like we can't.

  213. Go no further with God.

  214. Places where we feel like I can't receive from God

  215. what God has promised.

  216. To Every blood ought child of God.

  217. We see sanctification is not He then some special gift

  218. that God.

  219. Just spends the wheeling sees who gets it?

  220. He can?

  221. It is struct every blood bought child of God, and

  222. the Holy Ghost is not.

  223. I am no sensationists.

  224. They met.

  225. The gifts of God did not cease after the deaths

  226. of the apostles. Hemen, they've been there, frivolous. They would

  227. have never been given in the first place.

  228. Amen.

  229. God doesn't cast trinkets out to his people.

  230. He gives gifts, hemen. God doesn't old bobbles.

  231. Out there for a group to play with. He gives

  232. help to his people.

  233. Amen.

  234. Amen, Amen, I want you to.

  235. Notice that this day was unlike any other day. Brother Samuel,

  236. he men, not only was the enemy fleeing before the

  237. people of God. He men, He meant God started slinting

  238. great stones of ice down from heaven. He men, And

  239. more of the enemy were killed by Hell than were

  240. killed by the swords of the people of God.

  241. He men.

  242. And not only that, and that was not enough. Joshua

  243. looks up and says, son, stop.

  244. And then in the sky and the moon didn't move

  245. a man for a whole day.

  246. The sun set up there and looked down. Has the

  247. battle raged on? He man old, what a day? One

  248. a day a man.

  249. And in the process of this great victory, five kings

  250. had fled to a cave.

  251. And then then he fled to an inner place, a

  252. hiding place.

  253. A place where they couldn't be seen, a place where

  254. they couldn't be couldn't be discerned.

  255. Joshua said, seal them up.

  256. In there, Amen, seal them up in there. Now the

  257. great battle is over. And Joshua says, let's go open

  258. that cave up, and let's deal with the kings in

  259. the cave.

  260. And I want to preach tonight if the Lord helped

  261. me on the king he's still in the cave and

  262. man and.

  263. Man, and we can win battle after battle.

  264. We can in battle as the Amen, as father the

  265. rot cat preach, Amen, as father.

  266. How preaches, as these other home preachers preach. Amen.

  267. And I have said it before and I'll say it again.

  268. You are not beriffed of preachers in this place. You

  269. have plenty of preaching power in this place. Young man,

  270. stand up. I watched you preach. I didn't know you

  271. were a preacher. I'm sorry if I treated you as

  272. anything less than a preacher. I did not know, Amen,

  273. But I know now I saw you preaching.

  274. Amen. I heard what you was saying. I saw then,

  275. Onny of God on you.

  276. Amen.

  277. Amen, Amen, this young man was preaching. These young men preach. Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen,

  278. this amen. So why would anybody whoever walked through the

  279. doors of Bethel Hole in this church ever deal with

  280. the same issue.

  281. Year after year after year after year. They sit there

  282. and they get I've got to victory.

  283. I've got the victory.

  284. It's time the sister sister. Wouldn't seem like it's right back,

  285. right back, right back to crown. See roll honte tonight, friend, hem.

  286. The enemies off the field, you just gotta deal with

  287. the king in the cave. Amen, you just gotta deal

  288. with that inside. Amen, Well, the old devil finds me, friend,

  289. can I tell you hemen, it ain't the devil your

  290. parallel with right now. It is something inside of us

  291. that ties to pull us back time after time after time. Pymen,

  292. ain't the battlefield, And it's not the devil that tells

  293. him you're not able to go on.

  294. It's not the devil that comes that. It's that king

  295. in the cave.

  296. A man, that king in the cave says you're not satisfied.

  297. That king in the cave.

  298. He says, you're not content that king in the cave. Amen,

  299. he don't take friend of somebody. The man can pull

  300. that king out of the cave.

  301. Tonight, he meant, and leave him laying on this hall, and.

  302. Leave him there forevermore. Amen, and say, I'm not gonna

  303. be dealing with this anymore.

  304. You will deal with it as.

  305. Long as the king is still in the cave. I'm

  306. not gonna preach long tonight, but I am gonna preach with.

  307. Somebody to night.

  308. You will deal with this till the king is out

  309. of the cave.

  310. But Fred, can I tell you.

  311. The king is not invincible. The king is not undestroyable.

  312. The king is not Amen. Amen, he is not able to.

  313. Withstand if you will simply bring him out.

  314. But we we keep him in there.

  315. Amen.

  316. Sometimes it's almost stayed, almost stayed.

  317. Side effect, if you will, over the years and years

  318. and years that.

  319. We have stressed the outward, I'm right so, But the

  320. King realized, I don't have to, Amen, I don't have

  321. to affect their.

  322. Outward as long as I can live in the cave.

  323. As long as I live in the cave, I don't

  324. need an army on the field as long as I

  325. can live on weekend in the cave.

  326. I don't care the sun sits in the sky. As

  327. long as I'm live in the cave.

  328. I don't care anymore.

  329. Don't move or not.

  330. I'm getting as long as I'm saying the cave. Don't

  331. camey revivals they have long as they live in tow

  332. don't care what but the how preach lose the most

  333. kicker live in the cave. I don't care how much

  334. they shout up you. I'll shout with him occasion, I'll

  335. run with him occasionally.

  336. Wow, I feel my.

  337. Lord, my lord, Amen, he remem brother Phillip, you was

  338. over the target.

  339. Sun, Amen, he men.

  340. And I paddled with this today, and I paddled with

  341. this today, and I battled with us today. And then

  342. here this young preacher gets up that throws a can

  343. of asoline on the limb that was burning in my soul,

  344. and said, preaching, preacher, preaching, I feel like telling somebody

  345. denied them in his not an outward standard.

  346. You are here with.

  347. It is an eward catastrophe you're dealing with.

  348. Amen.

  349. Amen, it is that king in the cave he met him. Dear, No,

  350. that the Napoleonic Wars were actually in two stages. After

  351. the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon was exiled to the land,

  352. to the island of Elba. Napoleon was put on an island.

  353. He's exiled. He's no more in France, he's no more

  354. in charge, he's no more in the government.

  355. He's no mother.

  356. But he's on Elba. And he started from Elba influencing

  357. and raising an army and raising a people, raising a people.

  358. Amen, and another bloody or claiming hundreds and hundreds and

  359. hundreds of thousands of lines because they didn't deal with

  360. the issue.

  361. They dealt with the we don't deal sometimes with the sickness.

  362. We deal with the symptoms.

  363. Heymen, As long as we quit coughing, we don't care

  364. if the longs is rotted out. Long long as we

  365. ymn long, as long as long as our headaches gone,

  366. We don't care to brainstatement completely rotted out. We don't

  367. care anymore. As long as I can deal with the symptoms.

  368. Go down to the pharmacy. They'll have rack after rack

  369. after rack after rack of medicines to deal with symptoms.

  370. He may stop your cough, stop your sneeze, and stop

  371. your headache.

  372. Stop your hurting. Amen. Do you know that pain is

  373. the body's way of telling.

  374. You there is something wrong?

  375. But we have dead and the pain to wear. Hemen,

  376. We don't know anything so long because we don't hurt anymore.

  377. He meant in the Bible of the book can turn on,

  378. does it not say, heyman, we heal a hurt of

  379. the daughter of my people, slightly saying peace, peace, saymen, aymen.

  380. He told in another place in the Bible they said, amen,

  381. hey man, you you you have haymen for the for.

  382. The hurt of not for the hell of my daughters.

  383. I am hurt.

  384. Amen.

  385. We We've got the pain gone. Sin, don't hurt no more. Amen,

  386. he been sin.

  387. Don't hurt anymore because we got it. We got a

  388. deadening agent for it. We can stop them, We can

  389. stop it hurt. But let me ask you, have we

  390. done anything about what.

  391. Was causing the pain?

  392. Have we stopped the pain and stopped the hurt and

  393. stop the conviction?

  394. You stop?

  395. You just call it praying off conviction. I don't know

  396. if that's a possibility or not.

  397. Amen. Amen.

  398. We can pray off the hurt about it. We can

  399. pray off feeling bad about it. We can pay a man,

  400. we can pray all the trouble about it. But if

  401. we don't do something about that inner issue, man, I

  402. tell you friend, Amen, Amen, I and.

  403. I will say I speak as a fool tonight, but

  404. I will say.

  405. It like this.

  406. I was scheduled to preach a revival years ago. This

  407. was early nineties, early nineties, in a state far far

  408. from here, coming up about a week before he was

  409. supposed to leave to go.

  410. To the revival. To get a phone call from the pastor.

  411. He said, Brother Ash.

  412. He said, I'm gonna have to cancel revival. I said, okay,

  413. do you want to reschedule. He said, yeah, we'll reschedule later.

  414. He said, we can't have revival now. He said, me

  415. and my wife are having problems. That was exactly some

  416. of the messages the Lord had laid.

  417. On my heart.

  418. To take the revival.

  419. He said, I'm gonna take her on a vacation to

  420. try to salvage our marriage. And any other time, and

  421. as a young preacher, I probably should have, but I

  422. did anybody.

  423. I said, brother, you.

  424. Need to reconsider this right now, you really need.

  425. To reconsider this.

  426. I said, I think revival is what would would put

  427. your home back together, getting this thing fixed in the

  428. eyes of God.

  429. Not a cruise, not a not a beach not a

  430. beach front. Amen. Thing you don't need tolly wood you need.

  431. You don't need to drip the six flags.

  432. You don't.

  433. You don't need a Caribbean cruise.

  434. Amen.

  435. What you need is the power of the Holy Ghost to.

  436. Come by Amen.

  437. What you need is the power of the Holy Ghost,

  438. come by Amen, he said. Brother, He said, I don't

  439. know anything else to do.

  440. I'm gonna lose my home if I don't do this.

  441. It was not a few weeks later that we got

  442. the news that she had met somebody and she was gone.

  443. Years later, he come to a revival. I was preaching,

  444. I mean backslid backs it and gone backslid out, went into.

  445. Went into bad situation himself. Brother, he come to revival

  446. while I was that, and he said, I should have listened.

  447. We should have had a bible.

  448. You can't.

  449. You can't kill the king by leaving him in the king.

  450. You can't kill the king by ignoring him.

  451. You can't kill the king by dealing without work manifestations.

  452. You have got to pull him out of.

  453. There and say this thing.

  454. I'm not going to deal with this. I'm not gonna

  455. lift this, pull me down. I'm not gonna lift this,

  456. kill me out in the I'm not gonna let this

  457. redival in and me be in the same shape ibles

  458. him before it started.

  459. And I'll be in the same shape when the next

  460. one starts, and be in the same shape. And here

  461. from now, how many more years, friend, till the king

  462. raids us up another.

  463. Army, and this one is so big, and.

  464. This one is so niy.

  465. Amen that this time you're not gonna do anything about him.

  466. This time you're not gonna stop him. Heymun with a

  467. couple of changes of outward appearance. This time he's gonna destroy.

  468. Oh come amen, amen, amen Amen. A young preacher came

  469. to me and he said, but Las, sure do you

  470. remember preaching this?

  471. He such, and just several years ago, I said, you said?

  472. He said, I wish to God.

  473. I had listen.

  474. I wish to God out of listen. Hemen, hemen.

  475. He said, I'm in a red crow. Now I'm in

  476. a ship red crown. Now my life is about done,

  477. my ministry is over. My family's a wreck. I feel

  478. like to an our brother, how we're dealing with a

  479. serious serious, seriously shot or not. This king is not

  480. after your outward appearance.

  481. This king can give a.

  482. Care less about your outward appearance. This king is fair

  483. to destroy you. This king is saying to win a

  484. victory over you.

  485. And can I tell your friend, heymen, there are some

  486. things that the king can.

  487. Do to you and do to your home that is irreparable.

  488. I wish you'd help me to not I wish you'd

  489. help me to not. Amen amen the king. Amen, Well,

  490. I never do I'll never do that.

  491. But where's the prompting coming from to even consider it?

  492. Where's the prompting coming from.

  493. Amen.

  494. Is it somebody on the phone or is it somebody

  495. down inside?

  496. Amen?

  497. Amen?

  498. Is it somebody knocking at your door? Or is it

  499. somebody knocking at your heart?

  500. Amen?

  501. There's a king that I feel like dealing with tonight.

  502. And friend, hey man, I've got good news for you.

  503. There is a sanctifying grace of God hate man. There

  504. is a power of God, Amen, that can work on

  505. that inward man, that can work on that heart.

  506. I was shit praising, and I says.

  507. I really do.

  508. If you've got the king out of the cave, help

  509. me preach to somebody that's got to get the king

  510. out of the cave.

  511. Amen.

  512. He doesn't care what you see in the mirror, because

  513. you can't see the cave in the mirror. He doesn't

  514. care what you think about yourself.

  515. He doesn't care. He doesn't care.

  516. Your social standing, he doesn't care your financial standing.

  517. He really could care less.

  518. Heymen, As long as he's in the cave, he's in control.

  519. Amen.

  520. Amen, you say he's never in control of me?

  521. Preacher, Amen, let me ask you right now, would you

  522. be able to jump up and.

  523. Holler Hallelujah at this moment?

  524. Amen?

  525. Without having to talk yourself into it without having to

  526. look around and see what everybody else is going, without

  527. having to heymen.

  528. Contemplate what he would mean he been?

  529. Hey, not that anybody slip the hand right now and say,

  530. bless God, heymember.

  531. The king is no longer in the cave. I don't

  532. deal with him anymore. I don't deal with him anymore.

  533. He's gone.

  534. He's not fair anymore. He's not fair any more. Oh,

  535. come on, saints, some cod.

  536. Heymen, I'm not I'm going out a pretty.

  537. Big clanket put out feel laser beat from God. Hey

  538. been going past the plankt. I'm saying your parallessen to

  539. this tonight, Hey man, if you don't deal with the

  540. king in the cave.

  541. Amen going, I'm gonna make this so easy.

  542. For somebody here, maybe two or three.

  543. Here, and I'm gonna make it real easy right now.

  544. I am probably preaching to somebody's listening momentsor this probably

  545. ain't got nothing to do with you, so listen.

  546. But I'm not throwing this at you. Amen. Amen.

  547. But I happen to be standing here, Amen.

  548. Amen.

  549. Amen, God God hapned to send this here, so amen, Amen.

  550. I wanna ask you tonight is there something that you

  551. deal with over over and over and over again.

  552. Hey man, we are a full Gospel people. We believe

  553. in being saved by the blood of the Lamb of God.

  554. And we believe that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses

  555. us from all sin.

  556. Amen, every bit of it.

  557. Amen.

  558. Will we believe in being sanctified is the second work

  559. of grace.

  560. We also believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost,

  561. with the evidence of speaking at other times as a.

  562. Spirit of God gives out us.

  563. Why then do we.

  564. The Bible said, why are we? Why do we go

  565. back to the Paul said to the Church of Collation.

  566. Why why didn't we back to the weak and beggarly

  567. elements of this world?

  568. Amen?

  569. Why?

  570. Amen? Amen?

  571. When I worked in a factory years ago, there was

  572. a woman worked in that factory. This was this was

  573. right after I had gotten saved. This woman was a

  574. werss person. She was a member of the Apostolic movement,

  575. and she was setting in the break room.

  576. One time and I she was talking very loudly, and

  577. I just happened to hear brother brother Samuel, and she said,

  578. she said, well, I'll run into a Remember where I

  579. used to go to church, and she said that member

  580. looked at me and said, you need to get back

  581. to God.

  582. She said. I look at and said, why what makes

  583. you think I'm at you said, You've left your husband,

  584. You've run off for somebody else, You've split up another home.

  585. You're living in an adultry right now. She lapsid.

  586. I looked at her and told her.

  587. I'm not a batsman.

  588. I've not cut my hair.

  589. I was a baby question.

  590. And that hit me so hard.

  591. I said, my God, could anybody truly believe such a

  592. shallow view of their soul that we can evaluate our

  593. soul along such small, slim grounds. Well they dress right, hemen,

  594. he meen. But the kings in the cave, well they

  595. don't do this, and they don't do that.

  596. Let the Kings in.

  597. The cave, well they don't. They don't go there. They

  598. don't go to the movies. But the Kings in the cave,

  599. well they don't go to the gambling places.

  600. Where the Kings in the cave.

  601. There was a church that I have preached. There after

  602. this pastor I'm not the name mentioned left and they

  603. had a somewhat of a turn around.

  604. But he would take his people to the casino because

  605. they had a great bouffet.

  606. And it was real cheap, and he would laugh about

  607. it and say, we don't gamble, we just go there

  608. and eat.

  609. I'm gonna tell you there's a king in the cave

  610. as a kid in the can.

  611. Pretty soon, it's a pretty soon, it's a trip to

  612. the king on table pursue. It's a trip to the

  613. revent table. Pretty soon it's a heydrop the cord of

  614. the slots. Amen, Amen, Oh Saints of God. Now I

  615. tell you, amen, there is a world He men that

  616. as long as they can look apart, as long as

  617. they can present themselves as they don't kay, and.

  618. He can't steal the cave. But on the after one tonight,

  619. hey man, you amen? Amen?

  620. Amen?

  621. Are you ignoring me tonight?

  622. Amen?

  623. The king who's in the cave, Amen. And he's continually

  624. trying to discourage you. He's continually trying to depress you.

  625. Hew, do you but can you believe that there.

  626. Are Christians are taking anti depress Do you believe that

  627. there are Christians that are.

  628. Not seeing Hey that psychiatrists. There are Christians that don't

  629. know if they're gonna lose her.

  630. Mind or not.

  631. They don't know from day to day. Hey better if

  632. they can hold on.

  633. Reality has been coming such a fragile thing.

  634. For them, that it's about to come at any moment.

  635. That's because you're not deal with the king. But I'm

  636. here to deal with him or not. I'm here to

  637. cut my food on his head.

  638. I'm here not a safer too it.

  639. I'm here to take his head off.

  640. If you're not.

  641. Hey, now, come out, says heymen.

  642. Omen.

  643. We don't understand the seriousness of this inward issue, right

  644. we don't understand the seriousness, heymen, of the adversary that

  645. sets hisself up and not in a high place where

  646. he can be seen, but in a hidden place.

  647. Where he can't be seen.

  648. Amen.

  649. Amen, I wish you'd help me right now. I really

  650. don't know how to bring this story I need to

  651. bring it to I really don't.

  652. But I read on just a little bit where they

  653. put their foot on the neck of those five kings.

  654. Amen, when they Amen, brought out the slayer and they

  655. slay the five Kings.

  656. I feel like tonight that he's gonna slip through again,

  657. that he's gonna slip back down in the cave and

  658. say the revival will be over someday, he men, bet

  659. will slow down.

  660. Someday.

  661. Brother, I will leaves up some day, and I'll still

  662. be here. Well, Jesse lees up, and I'll be here. Well,

  663. Daniel lies up, and I'll be here. Samuel's up, I'll

  664. be here. Lord, They'll laze up, and I'll still be here.

  665. Amen.

  666. Amen, I'll hide, and I'll just say that, Old Saints

  667. of God.

  668. I'm not after you.

  669. I'm not fight with you.

  670. I'm not come to.

  671. Wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers,

  672. against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against

  673. spiritual wickedness in high place.

  674. I am not here. God is white.

  675. Today.

  676. I have put on the whole armor of God.

  677. I do have my feet, Amen, shop with the preparation

  678. of the Gospel of Peace, I do have, Amen, I

  679. the pries.

  680. Amen. I do have on the hell and Salvation.

  681. And I have brought the shee on of faith, wherewith

  682. I shall be able to quitch all of the firy.

  683. Darts of the wicked lady the sword of the Spirit,

  684. which is the Word of God.

  685. How the world of God.

  686. Declared the King still in the cave, he now holding

  687. us people. We have got to get the king out

  688. of the cave holding us people. It is an inward battle.

  689. He man, once in manifests itself on the outward. The friend,

  690. it is probably way too late. He then, hey, man,

  691. once the couple is in marriage, counseling, way too late,

  692. way too late.

  693. I wonder how their pastors across the country have had

  694. to counsel.

  695. With saved, satified, hold the golds filled couples whose marriage

  696. is all the rocks. I wonder how many, Amen, Amen.

  697. It is like the old illustrations story they use about

  698. the clown Amen, about the man who went to the

  699. psychiatrist and said.

  700. I'm I'm so depressed, I'm so discouraged, I'm so down.

  701. I don't know what to do.

  702. I can't do anything about. My life is just a wreck.

  703. The psychiatrist finally said, go go down to the circus.

  704. They got a little clown down there. He'll bounce around.

  705. He'll make you happy. Here, he'll make anybody laugh. The

  706. man smile and says, I am that clown.

  707. I am him.

  708. I am him.

  709. Amen, Amen, I'm gonna just be very, very very open.

  710. I have to help with the king and the cave Amen, Amen,

  711. as every child of God has, as every.

  712. Victorious child of God has.

  713. Amen. The king hemen that.

  714. Says, Okay, you can do this. You can lay this off.

  715. You can lay this off. You can lay this off.

  716. You can put on this persona.

  717. You can do this.

  718. But just let me stay down here, Let me stay

  719. down here. Let me let me call you to doubt,

  720. let me call you.

  721. To discourage, let me let me call you disappointment. He men, man,

  722. Now tell your friend, he men. He know that there

  723. are there are preachers, he meant. He meant that there's

  724. preachers wives who are a nervous rack right now. He

  725. know that there are preachers who live in a constant

  726. state of almost little breakdown.

  727. We got to do something about this.

  728. Will you be with him?

  729. He meant to put your foot on the neck of

  730. the kingdom night and declare, by the living God of

  731. Helen that shun the sun up in the sky, the

  732. living God of Heaven that brought he met the enemy

  733. to his knees, the enemy, hey net, the living God

  734. that brought you with his blood, the God that saved you,

  735. the God that brought you out, the God that blessed you,

  736. the God that's kept you the god that's watched over you,

  737. would you be willing by his power right now?

  738. Just save preacher.

  739. I need to put my foot on the neck of

  740. the king tonight, Hey man, I need to crush.

  741. The life out of me.

  742. I need to keep my foot out there. I tell

  743. he stops breathing. I tell he's gone.

  744. I'm the Holy colostright now. Amen, gonna feel if I

  745. feel like come over to the target now. It'sney, ay, ma'am.

  746. And when you're over the target, you get all the

  747. flag shot at you. Hey ma'am, I feel like somebody

  748. somebody running on in her fence for me. Ton I

  749. thought you holler on us up there. Don't you pray

  750. some lords up there? Heymen, I'm pervictorated. I I'll come

  751. perfectory alone. Hey man, this is effect treating over till

  752. the world even gort.

  753. Amen Man, Amen, Amen, Amen.

  754. Sisters, you're not immune from this, Amen, Preaching brothers, we

  755. are not immune from this.

  756. Seekers. You are not immute from this.

  757. Amen.

  758. You do not need a new style, You do not

  759. need a new standard. You do not need a Hamen, Hamen.

  760. What we need to do is put our foot on

  761. the neck tonight and crush it out, crush his life

  762. completely out, the king and the cave the woe that

  763. disappoints you.

  764. Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, I already preaching it up

  765. one time.

  766. But how.

  767. Camp meeting, I guess it was.

  768. It's a long time ago. He got up whining. I

  769. don't like whining men, especially whinding preachers.

  770. He got whining, and he said, I pray to God

  771. my boys never do preachers, because I don't want him

  772. to go through what I'm want the young preacher.

  773. But really, sister me, I wanted to say, you whim

  774. what you will sit down, but you will want you

  775. quit wal more time.

  776. Won't you quit? We'll just quit.

  777. Amen, either in this or you're not. And you hate

  778. this or you're not in man a preacher, may I

  779. tell you, And this is for Preacher.

  780. Asher to Amen. We have no right to be discouraged

  781. about anything. We have no right to be exulted about anything.

  782. Paul the Apostle said, I know how to.

  783. Abound and I know how to be.

  784. A base statement. Well, because he knew, Amen, that the king.

  785. Will take advantage of either one the King in the

  786. Cave of God, holding either one the king in the

  787. cave a prank on you or the king and the

  788. han cave. We are down you, heymen, he'll criticize.

  789. You or hill if you up.

  790. Had coot.

  791. Brother Bill Markham said one time, Amen.

  792. He said, years ago, a man he was preaching, and

  793. he said, when he stepped off the platform, he said, seemed.

  794. Like the devil said to him, Aw, you've done good tonight.

  795. Amen.

  796. He said.

  797. He hadn't took about a step till somebody walked up

  798. to him and said, old brother Bill, you've done good tonight.

  799. He said, Brother, the devil's already told me that. So

  800. you don't have to tell me.

  801. Amen.

  802. Heymen, what would the devil do that?

  803. Because if he can get you exalted, he will establish

  804. his position as king.

  805. Amen.

  806. Amen, Amen. And and it is exactly the same way

  807. the other way, brother Jonathan, if he can get your

  808. feeling sorry for yourself and get you sold things. Hey,

  809. why can't you do nothing? Poor pedicle me. I'm boutfraid,

  810. even on my life, I'm bout afraid say anything. Amen. Amen.

  811. He is his Amen.

  812. Man.

  813. I'll tell you, friend, if the devil take control your ministry,

  814. he will and he'll control it and that.

  815. King in the cave.

  816. But once the king is out of the cave, it

  817. doesn't mind anymore. We're gonna preach it because it's a

  818. word of call. We wanna preach it because it is

  819. our duty.

  820. To preach the gospel. Amen.

  821. What asterity?

  822. Amen?

  823. Pay many of your ministry on the street.

  824. There'd be no place for exultation Amen, nor depression.

  825. Amen.

  826. Amen. When you're preaching on the street by the house,

  827. when somebody walks by, I hollered, hell Satan.

  828. Amen.

  829. When somebody rides by, hemen and curses you.

  830. When somebody rides by and sneers at you, When somebody

  831. rides by knocks at you.

  832. Amen, heymen, he meant what do you do?

  833. You lift up a hand and you say, it is

  834. from the cory of.

  835. God that I'm here.

  836. It is from the glory of God that we're here tonight.

  837. Are you here from the coorium?

  838. Come?

  839. Amen, little sister, we do walk the glory of God.

  840. Amen.

  841. And that he's what the King just wanting to stop.

  842. And we can't defeat him with good thoughts and good intentions.

  843. We can't defeat him with a standard.

  844. We can't defeat him with a shout. We can't defeat him.

  845. With a song.

  846. We can't defeat him with him.

  847. Amen.

  848. We have got put a foot on his neck and

  849. crush the life out of him. Amen, I said, picture,

  850. I don't know how to do that.

  851. I believe God is fixing to lead somebody denied for

  852. you see the king does not he mean?

  853. There's no way to bring the night too? You knowledge

  854. that he's there.

  855. Amen.

  856. Amen, when we act like well there's no king, No, no,

  857. I'm not dead. I'm not dealing with that at all.

  858. That's that's an issue at all. And but I she

  859. must be preaching somebody else. He ain't me, trade me.

  860. It has the potential to being all of us.

  861. Well, glorry.

  862. God, whoa holy you could have help me out here?

  863. I'm here, I've hit a snag. I'm neither gonnam ply

  864. it out last it out or something.

  865. Amen, But here we are Amen. Amen.

  866. Do you have another you have another reason? Why are

  867. we dealing with the same thing over and over again?

  868. Do you have a reason why why a holiness couple

  869. would would deal with with confusion and doubt in their

  870. match deal with confusion and doubt?

  871. Do you have any Do you have any.

  872. Other explanation of why a holiness preacher would feel like, well,

  873. maybe I just give up. Maybe I just not preaching

  874. on one. Maybe I just quit. Hey, now many are

  875. just throwing the towel. Maybe the Holy Ghost hain't for me.

  876. Then maybe Salvation ain't ain't really for me.

  877. That maybe it ain't real. Haymn Lord, I am.

  878. I am not trying to I don't shoot scorelingles and

  879. I don't try to take anything out.

  880. I really don't. I want to see victory tonight.

  881. I really know.

  882. Amen.

  883. Amen, Amen, I absolutely do not wanna. Amen.

  884. I'm not here to hurt you.

  885. I'm not here to down you.

  886. I'm here to.

  887. Lift you up.

  888. And I feel like, if we can get the King

  889. out of the cave tonight, somebody's gonna have a victory

  890. that don't end when revival ends, and don't end before

  891. the next revival starts, and don't end.

  892. Amen. The first time the refrigerator puts around, another, first

  893. time that the car don't start, the first time that

  894. something comes.

  895. Up, there is a victory tonight, prim that goes be

  896. on the album. There is a victory Amen, or somebody

  897. on a praising about right now, get him out, bring

  898. that king out of cave, and let's put a foot

  899. on his neck and let's crush.

  900. The life out of him tonight.

  901. Amen, you shouldn't have to be encouraged on if your

  902. old hapy O. We shouldn't have to be encouraged to

  903. praise the Lord.

  904. He's out.

  905. That old maker Morna pays it because it's God. You

  906. shouldn't have to be in.

  907. Courage, Oh Gord the good. I wish somebody obey him

  908. to not. I wish somebody obey him to not. I

  909. wish somebody say preach. I don't ever want to deal

  910. with these things again.

  911. I don't want to deal with it.

  912. I don't want to have to finde against it.

  913. I don't want to have to.

  914. Findle against it. The prophet told you six months right,

  915. that's what the prophet it said.

  916. He wasn't talking to Mixer right, talk through to us.

  917. I went home.

  918. Where I stayed after he said that.

  919. I'm gonna tell you what I did.

  920. I went into the cave to see if the king

  921. was in there.

  922. I don't have a sister.

  923. I don't battle with alcohol, and I was a borderline

  924. on alcoholic before the Lord Satan.

  925. I don't battle with it at all. I don't battle

  926. with drugs. I don't battle with perversion. I don't battle

  927. with adultery. I don't battle these things.

  928. Amen. Amen, I bet.

  929. I don't battle with discouragement and I don't battle with exaltation.

  930. I don't battle with either one. I need to need

  931. I don't need to be bragged.

  932. On, and I do not need to I.

  933. Don't care if I'm being down. It really doesn't matter anymore.

  934. It only matters when there's a king in the cave.

  935. But it's not God that is.

  936. It is not God that is attracted to such a nonsense.

  937. It is the king.

  938. The Bible said, with the evil spirits gone out of

  939. the man, we want to equate that to demonic possession.

  940. We we we we we live on extremes, or the

  941. most most Pentecostal people live on extremes.

  942. Amen.

  943. But every one of us, at one time we were lost.

  944. When evil spirits gone out of him.

  945. Now he wonders, why don't drop him out? Okay, why

  946. not don't drop okay?

  947. Hm?

  948. With the anal spirits going out on man? He wonders,

  949. right at.

  950. Our places seeking rest and find it none right, And

  951. then he goes back to his house. But once he

  952. comes out, and when he has come, he findeth it.

  953. And it's it's in two riders, two of the two

  954. of the gospels. One of them quotes it such, and

  955. he finds it swept and garnished.

  956. With the other.

  957. Acts, he finds it empty, swept and garnished.

  958. Then goeth he and taketh with him seven more spirits,

  959. all more wicked than himself. And the end of that

  960. man is worse in the beginning. So shall it be

  961. also with this wicked generation.

  962. Let me ask you to know, if the King of kings,

  963. he's not dwelling in there, in his absolute fullness, is

  964. there an intinness in there?

  965. Not another king?

  966. That is?

  967. Whoever?

  968. Now are you saying are.

  969. You are you saying a uh, a Christian beat possessor?

  970. No, Please, don't don't jump the silly extremes one to

  971. the other place About that.

  972. I'm telling you that there's.

  973. An inner influence that if it is not controlled of God,

  974. it same as your higher same as your bread, same

  975. as your outward appearance, it will become just as.

  976. Corrupt as any outward appearance could have. Because who it?

  977. Who was it was? It was it?

  978. It was you, you, young brother, old cap.

  979. We were we were standing there, he would I I

  980. was taking a a breather, brother h sterics preaching.

  981. I was standing by him, and he was having attracts

  982. to that. Everybody come back, and there was three goths

  983. came back.

  984. Coal, black dyed hair, eyes, blackened, fingernails, black lips, blackened.

  985. Chains hanging all over 'em.

  986. Am in.

  987. The king declared in his homes all black clothing.

  988. All dark.

  989. Young brother Roquat handed them attracted and said, do you

  990. know Jesus? And the one seared and said, I know him.

  991. That's what the king and the cave makes the endside

  992. of the cave.

  993. Black dark, doubtful, discouraged, disappointed.

  994. Amen, Oh Lord, I feel the holy coast of God

  995. right here. If you're gonna have to help me, Saints

  996. of God, right here, oh preacher. I've dealt with it,

  997. and death with it, and dealt with it, and dealt

  998. with it, and deal with it and dealt with it.

  999. We seemed like every time I deal with it, every

  1000. time I get the victory, it comes right back. It

  1001. comes right back, It comes right back. And then let's

  1002. put a foot on it, tonight, Saints, let's put a

  1003. foot on its neck.

  1004. Tonight, stop it.

  1005. Let's put our foot on the neck tonight and get

  1006. the victory over this? Would't you help me tonight?

  1007. For just when somebody stretched, I have in this way

  1008. in Saint God, I want the victory inside tonight.

  1009. I want the victory in my soul tonight. I want

  1010. the victory in my heart tonight.

  1011. Okay, let me ask you, as we looked at those

  1012. black and awful, demondic looking young kids, what would you

  1013. think if your inside looked like that?

  1014. He said to Ezekiel. Ezekiel was a preacher. Ezekiel was

  1015. a prophet. Ezekiel was hey man.

  1016. He was used to looking at wheels and a wheel,

  1017. hang man with flames, and hey man, he was looking

  1018. at used to looking at it heymen, angelic beings.

  1019. And now God said, I want to show you another vision.

  1020. We're gonna dig through this wall.

  1021. Whoa you see what it looks like out here, Ezekiel,

  1022. let me show you what I see and dig to

  1023. the wall. And when you dig to the wall, here's

  1024. what you're gonna see. You're gonna see an idol set up.

  1025. You're gonna see an.

  1026. Idol in there.

  1027. He's there an idol set up in there. These are

  1028. an idol of lusts her an idol world, it says her,

  1029. an idol Amen with desires her, and I'll set up

  1030. in there, oh Lord God.

  1031. Amen.

  1032. She dug through, and he saw the women offering up sacrifice.

  1033. All his tears for to move off offered up amen,

  1034. idols Amen.

  1035. And he said, see what is done, and see see

  1036. what's done, See what they're doing.

  1037. Amen.

  1038. Amen, friend, I'm gonna be absolutely absolutely.

  1039. Honest with you right now. Amen.

  1040. Amen, amen, if I if I can find one in

  1041. Turkey out right now.

  1042. Have bad these preachers, pray for me till we can

  1043. get a foot on the deck. I'll be all right, preacher.

  1044. I'll be finding preacher. It'll all work out after a while.

  1045. It'll all get better. It'll get better after a while.

  1046. It'll get better.

  1047. After a while.

  1048. It ain't getting better. It's not getting better. It's not

  1049. getting better. But he will find they get to the point.

  1050. The Lord gonna still move on you at all anymore.

  1051. We'll find they get to the point. Shout, I pull back, shout,

  1052. I pulled back by out. I hate the king that's

  1053. in the cave. I wanna help you kill him. I

  1054. wanna help you kill him. I wanna put my foot

  1055. on his neck. I wanna crush the life out of him.

  1056. Why don't you leave us tonight? God, why don't you

  1057. let us do that tonight?

  1058. Troubles right down the road. Troubles right down the road.

  1059. Holy ghost, ain't gonna have your way here right now?

  1060. Not me, breachers not me. Breacher's not me. Didn't say why.

  1061. Do you still feel God like you want time?

  1062. Dad?

  1063. Because he still move.

  1064. On you like you want time? Dad?

  1065. Brother? Oh can I don't even know how to reach

  1066. to him right now? Because it's not you. I'm not

  1067. not that. It's not with you, not my issues, not

  1068. with you.

  1069. That there's one that's trying to destroy your life, trying

  1070. to destroy your home, trying to destroy your marriage, trying

  1071. to destroy your So.

  1072. We can kill him tonight.

  1073. We can kill him tonight, or you can raise up

  1074. every morning and say, there, since the day that the

  1075. Lord hath made, I will rijoice.

  1076. And be glad there.

  1077. Hi, whoa, I'm talking about speaking in tongues liking used to.

  1078. I'm talking about self liking used to. I'm talking about

  1079. course liking used to. I'm talking about.

  1080. The joy of the Lord.

  1081. Hey, that David said, restore him to me the joy

  1082. of vice, salvation, renew in me, ho, right spirit, create

  1083. in me a clean heart.

  1084. Amen, Amen, Oh Lord of God Hi.

  1085. An lord of cold might be fudial right now.

  1086. A lord of cold might be fudal right now. Okay,

  1087. all about.

  1088. Holy ghostand your way round here, sister. The king's trying

  1089. to hog right now. Let's drag him out there. Let's

  1090. dragg him out.

  1091. Let's put a fun on his neck. Let's put a

  1092. fun on his neck tonight. Let's destroy and let's go back.

  1093. Let's go back to Bethel. Let's go back to Bethel

  1094. and shouting. Let's go back to Bethel and praise. Let's

  1095. go master Bethel with worship. Oh you don't thank God

  1096. right now? If you will, if you will, if you will.

  1097. Take him home with you or leave him here tonight,

  1098. take him home with you or leave him here? Would

  1099. you like us to help you tonight?

  1100. Would somebody stretch to hand down and say, preacher, help me, tonight,

  1101. help me tonight.

  1102. I don't walk in with this home anymore. I didn't

  1103. even know what it was I was dealing with that.

  1104. I didn't even know what I was battling against.

  1105. Your pastor's running pastor.

  1106. Help me or not.

  1107. Pay just help me tonight. What God, did you put

  1108. on his neck? Did you got on his next son?

  1109. Did you put on his neck?

  1110. Sister, you ain't gonna let this go on? M What

  1111. does it matter.

  1112. How well the outward looks, if we've not dealt with

  1113. the king that's in the cave.

  1114. Or red a story about Nathaniel.

  1115. Not a man, He was a caver. He went down

  1116. into the caves. He ducked down into him. He got

  1117. in a narrow place in one of them. We can

  1118. neither back up, nor go forward, nor turn around. They

  1119. have sealed off that cave. But his thought, he's still

  1120. down there. The king's trying to pull you down into

  1121. that cave with him. God help her right now, Please

  1122. help her right now, God, Oh God, help her right now.

  1123. Help me.

  1124. Lord, let me put my foot, said, let me crush it.

  1125. And the revelator said, I saw spirits coming out of

  1126. that pit, coming out of that bottomless pit.

  1127. Deal with in de night, Sister.

  1128. Syncyt b.

  1129. Yeah, h.

  1130. God, he got us about b she that got a buster.

  1131. Oh my God, got a theer any group uh in.

  1132. A lot or.

  1133. I don't walk about the moon. They scare, heavenly man, frother.

  1134. My sisters, the hockey, Jesus, the casas, oh the.

  1135. Last you never wo oh. Three things said that out of.

  1136. And he got on the mot the most of you.

  1137. I go, oh that thy.

  1138. Yeah, don't I do here?

  1139. Yea yeah, I don't know I do you.

  1140. Yeah?

  1141. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.

  1142. Yeah oh.

  1143. Yah yah h no, oh God.

  1144. You Jesus, Jesus.

  1145. Oh, he had just up up before you about sometimes.

  1146. He said that up up myself.

  1147. Yeah.

  1148. Oh gee.

  1149. D frd oh, how Lord if I got do you go?

  1150. Oh Lord? Oh, how Lord? I got it? Give Lord?

  1151. Do you go?

  1152. Oh gee

  1153. No