It's A Long Road But It's Not The Wrong Road - Bro Ray Asher 2-16-2025

Stepped into this pool kit that God didn't allow me

to take hold of the burden of Uh how I

had right.

And Uh I pray that everywhere I go, whether the thing,

I pray, God.

Give me the burden of of that church and let

me bear that burden while I'm there.

And uh, I mean I I I just never.

It just surprises me every time. And I don't know

why that it does. But I want you to go

to the book Exodus.

If you will Exodus the thirteenth chapter, do something different.

I don't remember.

Chris Jerkin his co golf back there and slinging it

into the pew.

And everybody looked surprised Addy when he come in and

down through here. Amen. Amen. Book exits, Chapter thirteen.

Praise God, Praise God.

Verse eleven.

It shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into

the lamb of the Canaanite.

Says he swear unto THEE and to.

Thy fathers, and shalt give it thee that thou shalt

set apart under the Lord, all that opens the matrix.

And every first sling of cometh a beast which thou

hast the male, shall be the Lord's.

And every first sling and then ask and shall redeem

with the lamb. And if thou wilt not redeem it,

then thou shalt bring its neck is, and all the

first born of man among thy children shall thou redeem.

That shall be when thy son asketh thee in time

to come, what is this right.

That thou shalt say unto him?

By strength of ham the Lord brought us out from

Egypt from the house of bondage, and he came to

pass when Pharaoh would hardly let us go. That the

Lord slew all the first born of the land of Egypt,

both of the first born to man and first born

to beasts. Therefore I sacrifice of the Lord all that

opened the matrids, being males, all the first born of

my children, I.

Redeem, and I shall be for.

A token upon thine hand and for thy fronolence between

thine eyes.

For by strength of hand.

The Lord brought thee brought us for without of Egypt.

They came to pass. So Pharaoh, and let the people go.

That God let them listen. God let them not through

the way of the land of the flyinh teens, although.

That was near.

Short.

God, God let them love through the low way of

the land and the fleas all oh that was near.

For God said, lest the paradventure the people repent when

they see war and return.

Back to Egypt.

But God led the people about through the way of.

The wilderness of the Red Sea, and the children of

Israel went of harness.

Out of the land of Egypt. Amen. Wow, while you

ponder on that.

The Book of Ecclesiastes says, Chapter seven, verse thirteen, consider

the work of God. For who can make straight.

That which he hath made crooked? If you look at

the definitions.

Of those words by the jerema, crooked there simply means difficult.

Straight means easy. Who can make easy? What don't make difficult?

Not the easy way?

From what I understand from the border of He did

the Red seaver that calls to the border of Canaan

land was an eleven day journey, an eleven day journey

that took forty years.

How many suckles do you have to make to turn

an eleven day.

Journey into a forty years hurt? How many back tacks

do you have to go down? How many times do

you have to wander around in the same area you've

already walked?

In time after time after time.

Amen, I no doubt there was Solelen said, he never

isn't Should we not be there already? Should we not

already had obtained that? Shman, I'm already got that. Why

we're going round and round the road? He got loses?

Have you lost your mind?

Lorsues, We're not doing this easy way? Why are you

doing it the hard way? A? Now? He ain't there

this afternoon. The Lord got to give me, Brother Jenkins,

I'm blinging on you also, but I want to preaching

out the Lord to help me in on.

It's the long road, but it ain't the wrong road, amen,

it is the lone road, he man.

And I know we're living in a generation that would

love to have a quick answer to everything, and a

quick solution to everything, and a quick way to get saved,

and a quick way to gainst Santa.

Pia, quick way to have the Holy Ghost?

And ain't the seven easy steps to preaching a revival hotel?

You friend, God's way has never amen?

Altern for ease up now, he man, God did not

make this way easy for you.

He did not think his way.

Amen.

Something now are soft?

Hemen?

Person who used to luxury of spirit Hamen we'll never

feel comfortable in this, Amen, But yet we still have men.

He Now, they're looking for shortcuts. And this morning the

pastor took us a long way around. He took us

the long way. He took us the straight way.

He men.

He took us to he man the heart road. He mean,

we're gonna have to hear some hard things.

We're gonna have to do some hard praying.

We're gonna have.

Some heart pasting. We're gonna have to do some hard works,

hard labor.

Amen.

What's easier to say here?

Now you'll not do nothing? I am certain that it is.

Say then when it's easier for me just not make waves.

It's easier for me just to not be controversially. It's

just easier for me not to heman, be where the cage.

If you will not for it, keep you weak? Amen.

I'm not looking Amen, I'm not looking for the easy road.

Amen.

I've found out that the wrong road ain't the wrong road.

So if you'll excuse me, heman, worldly Church, if you'll

excuse me, worldly Christian, I have decided to.

Get on that long, hard road.

He made it gold for God, He know why.

Down on the leader that's out of the way.

That's not out of the way, aroud.

Amen.

Amen, I'm the wrong world, but it's not the wrong road.

Amen.

Have you ever said pen said? Why am I going

through what I'm going through? Her? Why can't I get

what I want to get?

He then he then woman tall one must have me

on the hay in the wrong road.

No, God has run the right road.

Amen.

Amen, we see your generation. Amen, I don't. I do

read quite a bit, Amen, And I have noticed that

there's a lot of preachers who, if they're looking.

For books, Amen, like things like simple sermons on simple subjects.

They like three points and a point. They like sound

bite preaching. They like, Amen, a little clip preaching. Have

you ever read Charles Spurgeon? Most people can't because most

people are functionally illiterate. You start reading the characters, you

start reading Thomas wat And you start reading Thomas Mosster,

you start reading Johnathan.

Can you realize they were writing to people? He then,

because of Church of England had denied them to be

able to preach, so they started writing their servants out

to people. Amendam.

People in the fifteen and sixteen hundreds could.

Read and comprehend what college graduates of twenty twenty five.

Cannot amen, Amen, heyman, because we wanted that easy road.

We wanted that shortcut. Tell you how to get there quick? Aydamn.

That's the maymen.

That's why the charismatics take them into the back room

and teach them to speak in their prayer language. Now,

that's why we have hey fake miracles all over the country.

Because he on women to get on that long road. Hey, ma'am,

I'm on tay for it. That's what I feel like tonight,

because if we want to do something out of the ordinary, Amen, Amen,

the ordinary his three songs twenty five minutes, five minutes

in prayer and on the way home. I'll ask you tonight,

would you be willing to stretch a hand up and say, God,

I am not looking for a short cut in this.

I am not looking for you to make it easy. Amen.

I am looking for you Lord to show me my glory. Amen.

If it's to put me on the cliff to the rock,

put me in the cliff to the rock.

Amen.

Ay Now Amen, Jacob's well, Amen, was not technically on.

The way to where Jesus is going. But he stops.

Not Jacob's well, He's setting upon that wealth. He's out

of He's out of where he should be. He's a

he's a Jew, he should be that round where the

Samaritans are. That this woman Samaria comes in and Jesus says,

give me to drink. She says, hya, is it to thou,

being a Jew, to drink of me? A woman which

is a man, woman of Samaria. Seeing the Jews have

no dealings with the Samaritans. That's not ordinary, Jesus.

We don't do.

Things that way. We don't do it that way. You're

doing it wrong. But he looks at her and says,

a woman, if thou knowst the gift of God, and

he even speaking under thee, thou would assessed of him,

and he would have given the living waterc'soever drinking of.

This water shall thirst again.

But who's so drinking of the water that I shall

give him shall never thirst it, for it shall be

in him a river of living.

Water, stringing nothing they ever lasted life.

She said, so.

Evermore, give me that water.

The light and her stop.

Now, Oh, short cut time, I can I can try

around this real quick, amen.

I'm the lave of God.

Sweet Jesus passes, making mild lad on his shoulder.

Amen, can't be around.

Looks that she's gonna call her husband. Oh Jesus, that's

not a no.

Oh still I told him, whoa no?

I told him I thinks not to not to plunder into.

So she she's looking out and quick, no shure cut,

why's not helping I just where it.

Is you have heard and when you come now it's

not yours. Oh truth? I was smoking. Amen, So now

not a short cut. Let's change sucking. Hey them, I

want heart take.

Brother, brother, I have a heart tack by house. I'll

chang subcing.

Amen. Amen.

Amen, okay, you just say that in Russom where you

are worshiping, and my people say up in to now what.

A you saying? Let's say, let's say in this discussion, I.

Am Jesus said, And then the hours coming, and now

is he man? When they that worshiped the Father must

worship him in spirit and in truth.

Amen.

He kept telling her brothers Terry, there is not gonna

be a short.

Cut for you. Now, there is not gonna be an

easy way offered. Do you hatmen?

Hat?

Then he will tell me, said, he said. The fox

is the head of the ground. Have dems compots of

the air hadness, but the son of Man, after no

where to lay his head, came down. Hey there, do

you want to follow me? To cut that cross and

follow me? Yes?

Somebody ought to praise him.

R Now you want the hol of ghost.

Hay now, baby, you want your mirator right now?

You want your healing right now? Why don't you say, God,

put me on that long road right now, hay now,

and Lord, whatever it takes to get there, whatever I'm doctor.

To, however many miles I'm doctor down?

Whoa Why do you people so I the traveling that

long road because.

I'd rather be on the long road than on the

wrong road. Amen, Amen, Please, preacher.

Do not try to give me on the detour that

leaves a long road that goes to the wrong road.

But losing Nordy to call I lose the power of God,

I lose the word of God. I lose it. Tause

somebody or to praise him down right now?

Amen?

Amen?

Amen?

Who I feel that holy ghost of God here right now?

Brother Tyler moon.

And came in up and tell the iven losing my soul.

If you're not telling somebody, he then not see him

tackle the app saying that tells you's a long road.

This loans too long.

Because the easier way, because.

It is your roads.

There's other way you can go.

There's another way to be going on this, Amen.

Amen.

Forty years of traveling through the wilderness, forty years, he

man from may. I remind you that in those forty

years they ate man from heaven. In those forty years,

their shoes.

Never wore out. In those forty years.

Hey man, there was water came out of a creep

big old rock that followed the camp, and that.

Rock was crossed. How wish she praised him six of God?

Amen?

Amen?

Amen, What if brother, they would have just gone committee together?

They did once, but the Earth's mold him up.

Amen Amen.

And in a Marria time too.

Child Moses about his wife. One time she got struggle proceed.

And if Moses hadn't went to God, for she'd have

died with her nose strolling off and her ears falling off.

Amen.

They could have got a committee together. I'd said, come here, men,

I don't know how far it is over there, and

Moses is going round and round and round in circles.

I think we ought to have an election and appoint

me as leader. Amen, I'll give us over there quick.

We'll be with the in crowded all the way over there,

real quick, hey man, We'll be we'll be. We'll be

up there real quick.

Amen, hey man.

Thank god, they kept right on traveling, and they kept

right on walking, and they bury a whole generation in

that willerness. Amen. He remember, brother Steritan, it wasn't the

wrong road. And I want to tell you, friend, hemen.

Every mile you've traveled to be where you are right now,

it's not been the wrong road, amen, he men.

I do not question it being the long road, he man,

nor nor do I complain to God about it.

And I am getting so sick, heyman, of a generation

that is so weak and so absolutely hate the impoverished

and have famished.

And soul that they cannot go through anything whatsoever.

Without throwing their towel him or on their hair. Now, hay, now,

I don't tain tonight, trim.

God is still sovereign.

God is still in control of that, and God planning

against charge here.

He ain't going.

I was asking.

I wasn't asked this out of why wasn't He wasn't

a bad question. It wasn't even it was it wasn't

an improper question. It really was that I was asked, Amen,

are you down here just preaching around?

And I wanted to say, no, I don't preach around.

I'm here, I'm don't think everything else to come here.

I was not looking for something else when I came here.

I didn't not come here. Ain't then I come here

because I know He did what was here? Then?

Amen, I can't for revival. I can't see you get revival.

I can't see my soul revived.

Amen.

Ain now amen, Amen, And I'm gonna tell you, friend,

Yes it's a lone road, and yes there's a lonely times,

and yes there's times you wonder, Hey.

Then God, we're doing any good at all?

God?

Hey?

Then what what wonder than God?

Hey?

Then?

What what is this?

Amen?

Good friend?

He then, if you believe God is sovereign, he then

then he has you exactly where he wants you to be.

If you do not believe God is sovereign, you might

as well cast your.

Check right now, because you're not calling naked. Hey, ma'am.

Amen, here is a sovereignty of God that keeps us doing.

It's knowing that God knows what we don't know.

It's all that God can when we can't.

It's all that God.

Hey, not direct, we have no direction to go. I

wish you help me right now, saints, I wish you.

Yes, whoa a mad?

Oh my?

Somebody want to praise him?

Not now?

Brother? The amen you? Is it not a long way

in America Dominica? Yes, it's should not as hey now,

but it's not the wrong room?

Wow?

Hey now whoa?

He said?

Not a long way?

Standing on it?

Should I ask?

Because my soul this be fair?

My friend r wrong camp.

He was part of where you live in the country.

You have these things cold volunto your fire apartments. These

guys that't like to wear a uniform, they like I

just lost the volunteer farming today.

That they like. They like to be a volunteer farmer.

But they was training him in CPR.

And they hadn't dummy out there, I mean a real

one either one bandkin thing.

Can give me.

And don't clean him clean up tree him. Clear, don't

don't think about that one there they're they're I don't

in there. They're showing how to breathe in.

His mouth and pushing down his chest and nothing pushing

down the chest, and he said that.

The instructor kept going on and on and on and on.

Can you show us?

On and on?

And finally my friend just burned it out and said

why I have no question? The instructor said, what how

long you keep this out? Okay? He said, what are

they worth? So when you quit, you're damn?

What's your here? Court?

What's next to?

Min?

Whoa?

I'm reading us?

The many modernistics have drunk a lot of scriptures, kicking

and screaming out of context.

The Jesus said, Amen, if they compel them to go

a mouth, that's normal. That's normal. That's what normal people do.

Now, if they compel thee.

To go maub, I'll tell her you go twice double.

That don't to our side.

A man?

Was he simply talking about Roman soldiers and their packs?

Absolutely not amen. He was telling you, Amen, he'll not

always be these he wonde, Amen, He'll not always be up.

Amen.

Amen, I do not know how many miles I've traveled

in the last thirty three years.

I do not know, Amen. I do know that I

am not as young as I was when I started.

Amen.

I do not know how many slights I do not

know how many slaps. I do not know how many, Amen,

lies and the God, I do not know how many.

I do not know all that, Amen. But I know this, Amen,

It's not been the wrong road. Amen, because I can

stand here right now saved, seek to find Holy gold.

Spilled, and I'm standing in a holiness church with my

hands lifted up and my voice praising God. I'll be

like talking to somebody right now, Hey, then I'll just

set the shot gun down and I picked up the seventeen.

Hm r hey there with a forty hey.

Man, stop on it.

And I'm asking somebody right now, hey, now, he that

would you be willing to stand up and say, yes, it's.

Been long, but no it's not been wrong. I do

twice that and help.

What I've got about that, I don't twice.

Toward call.

I do twice it.

All those cheers, all those cheers by the rock cap,

the art of the Covenant, have been away from the

people of God. The ark, the type the type of

what we hay then call our full salvation. Fre David,

it's now bringing it back. His first effort failed. I

wonder who suggested the cart right?

Somebody did?

Somebody did if you see David in his kingly glory,

was not the high priest.

Somebody in the priesthood recommended a cart work. Somebody that's

that be easier, David, that be easier. We'll get home quicker.

That easier, David, if we do it that way. Sometimes

we listen to people we will not listen to.

And as.

Musa reaches up to steady it because the power of

God can't rest on man's inventions.

It shifts all the time. It's it's always in a

precarious place.

God struck him.

When David brings him.

Back, the next time, they bring it back the right

way and the shoulders. The day he danced before the

Lord with all.

Of his mind, he does not say the rest of

the crowd was dancing. It does not say the prieststhood

was dancing. He does not say, hey man, that the

multitude was within him was dancing. Did David danced before

the Lord with all his mind?

His wife sorry, she said, hangmen, words to the affect.

You've made a fool out of yourself. You've exposed yourself.

How glorious was the king today to do this in

front in front of simple common people like.

Amen, like rebel people like holiness people. You just you

just you just just get in front of and amen.

And he looks around and he says, Amen, I will

be even more like how the next time. Amen, you think, Amen.

I'm on a long road.

Now I sent another ten years and I'll still tell

you it's not the wrong road.

And then came in, came in and I'm brother, how.

Long get this as correctly as I can. It's not Bible,

but amen. When John Ashcroft was being sworn in as

the Attorney General, Amen, John.

Ashcroft, as far as we know, as a symbol of God. Preacher.

John Ashcroft's dad was an old tiny a simbly of

God preacher. And they wheeled him out in a wheelchair,

and they asked the elder Ashcroft to say the benediction

prayer over the swearing inn.

His son, his Attorney General the United States of America.

An old brother. And I do call him brother, old

brother Ashcroft, you call a church of God. I'll call

anybody stands for holding this this long world, rs of brothers.

And man. The old brother Ashcroft, they said, was trying

struggle and trying to get out.

Of that wheelchair and struggling and finally, I guess such

a scene. That did John Ashcroft lead know and said, Dad,

you don't have to get out of your chair.

And just stand and pray.

He said, I'm not getting out of my chair to stand.

I'm getting out of my chair to kneel. Somebody, the

devil's been telling you.

It's a long road.

Somebody, if the devil's been telling you that there's easier

road than this, but there's an easier way than this.

Hey, ma'am.

I do not know everyone about you, but I don't know.

What Tod steal on me by.

Now.

Hey man, it is a long road. Patch yourself on

the back. It's a long road, but it's not the

wrong road.

Amen.

Hey man, he let him off, He let it not

that way.

He didn't take him that way.

Amen, Amen, Brother Jacobs, don't waste for me.

Damn.

I left home yesterday morning. It was fourteen to Friday morning.

It was fourteen degrees when I left home. That's fourteen.

That ain't fourteen hundred day.

That's how the Selsi's either. That's that's fair enough, because

we're real cold.

A Amen.

I got here it was ninety Hamen.

I'll remind me what my brother said, one time years

ago down in the south called me to come preacher relival.

He said, how call is up there?

I said's almost zero. He said, to people think they

have to live there? I said, evidently.

Evidently.

Oh yes, so hemen, heymen, did me called me a

while ago? She said? She said, snow, snow and snowing,

snow and snowing. I said that snow let it snowing.

My brother Jacob said about him.

Y'all know my name.

I'm gonna say any will go to Charlie Wells, heymen,

old brother Charlie Wells. He'd always get me to come,

heymen in January preach Relival. At the end of Revival,

we would have.

A baptizing in Canton Creek.

We would break the ice to do it. He said,

one ain't it ain't called aft. You get out there,

Get out there and tell me that.

Amen.

Amen. But Charlie weams in Animal one nine.

The radio stations in southern Ohio was announcing that it

was a snow emergency.

If you got on the road and the police pulled

you over, you'd get a ticket.

Merchants shut the roads down dead, he said, you reckon,

they'll have church nine.

I said, Dad, he gets Charlie Wells. She said, okay,

I'll get shut on.

So I got a phone call.

It was Wether Nathan sister Rachel Miller, and they said,

y'all have church nine.

I said, Nathan, it's Charlie Wells. He said, we'll see

you over there.

Bill Chris Cupp called, he said, y'all have church nine.

I said, Chris, it's Charlie Wells. He said, I'll be

over there. So I'll pull into my four wheel drive.

But Nathan pulls in his four we'll drive. But Chris

pulls in his.

Four we'll drive in the parking lot. Was about ten

inches of snow on the parking lot. Seven o'clock, Chris

rose his winning down and said, is.

Charlie coming to church?

And I said, Chris, it's some.

One to seven o'clock and then we'll start till seven o'clock,

so try to be here ten after Amen.

Had sure enough.

At ten after seven, the way up the road had

looked like a looked like a big snake with a

flashlight coming down the road.

That big old Lincoln calming them going to the side,

be side, be side, and he slid into.

The parking lot, and he used to wear one of

them little I don't even know what you'd call him,

the little kind.

Of hats got a little feather in always wore when

he got down and run up.

The steps, slipping and sliding, and following went into church

set the alarm off.

Had to call the police, tell him that he done it.

He done it every time he went in. Hey, ma'am, heymen.

And we had church that night.

Amen, there were six of us there, seven if you

count the Holy ghost, eight if you count the sun,

if you count the fire, and if you count that

great cloud of witnesses, that's a lot of nos.

I just can't tell you how.

Many ons s.

But God sank to God soul and w God doc

masst or soul, and I don't know that now.

It's a long road, says he really is. But my Lord,

it ain't the wrong road.

And then amen, Amen.

I'm fixing the gold full bore rey asher here, so

he then if a full bore rey asher bothers you

use this time, click your fingernails and I'm you're not back,

And I'm a full bull rey asher right here. One

of my favorite foods in the world's sister wood.

Is sniping turtle. Amen. One of my least favorite foods

is banan us. I think that that.

I don't even know how they figure humans eat them.

They do anyway, snapper. Have you ever cleaned the snap

and turtle?

Den?

Have you you clean?

They're hard to clean anything. You cut their head off,

bleed them out, and four hours later the harvey. But

if you want them, you gotta work at it. I've

ripped their hids off and them.

Things are jerking their leg back and they ain't got

a head.

Amen. When I get them skinned out, and.

There's that big boy flowing hangmen.

Seven different kinds of meat, dark meat on the legs,

some neckt No watch had as good eating as.

They are on the face of the earth. Hating men,

I'm telling you.

The long world.

They talking the world. He said, Well, I'll just be

a men banana. If you want bananas, go right ahead

and pill bananas.

O hong man hemen Hamen said.

South Mississippi Preacher revival. He said, let's let's go get

us some crabs.

I said, okay, before we get crabs at he said,

we'll go down the ocean and catch them.

I said, that sounds like a plan. We went down

there and caught them blue crabs. Hey man, I said, well,

now what we do? He said, Now, we'll cook them

and in them.

I'm gonna tell you what, friend them is a delicious thing,

he said, Oh, delicious. But it would take the most

patient man on the face of the earth to pick

meat out of them faces like picking cotton.

Amen. Amen.

So I've got me this big idea. He's in a

Chinese buffet. I don't recommend them, but do what you do.

And they had on a buffet crab meat.

Then look like I'll come out in blue crabs, this

big old red and white pieces.

I said, well, I'm gonna give you some of this

crab meat because I love crab meat. I love it.

I won't even have to peel them. I won't even

have to jerk it down there. I don't even have

to fight with him. I took the first fight of it.

And I know the Bible says, heat what's set before

you take you off off the conscious, save you.

But you haven't been a mighty good pilgrim to the

sword that.

A man.

You might be a starving China need Amen. This this, this,

well fat, he'll be.

A man. This way good people want their gossipel there's

something easy to take in.

Don't don't give me.

Something I can work on.

There's somebody got to work with. Don't don't give me holiness.

Had I've time make them hey even effort to have

give me that, give me that click holiness, Just give

me that.

Amen.

There is a holiness that does nothing but change the external.

I know what we'll do.

Let's put our dress on them and take their jewelry

off of them and just make up off of them.

Now we got them looking just like they're done. Shaousy,

that was chaousy.

That was chaousy.

That was.

And they're sitting there.

Brother Chip brought him then at the more sanctified. That's

who her brother?

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Then we wonder why they can't keep their eyes when

their eyes art f.

Now we want to buy the sneaking out on their

cellphones looking at things out and be looking at why

not the slees hot?

Whoam and man?

But there's a long road. There's a long road of holdings.

Or you pamper it out or you dig it out.

What do you say about the hell? It's killing me?

But I'm gonna keep digging. I'm gonna keep digging in

going to Holy One secrets. If you've been seeking the

whole those years.

Hey, man, if you're on the right road, you just

keep right on the secret, keep out on seeking, keep

right on seeking, keep.

Right out doing.

It's a long road, but it ain't the wrong road.

I'll take. This road ain't nearly.

As long as it's gonna get. Yeah, we've had a

little reprieve, We've had a.

Little space giving us. It's gonna be taken away after.

A while, and we're gonna watch for the how amen,

if it shan't be long till the.

Back doors will open, and then start in the mega churches.

It won't start in the little churches because there's not

enough money in it.

They'll start in the megachurches. Three two men walk in

hand in hand, they would demand to be made members

of that church. Water water, we'll work, we'll pull our

battles out.

Your bibles will be meaningless, right, and the Good Lord

will old you.

The megachurch, the one hundred and twenty megachurch. We'll say, no,

ber the hell. We don't believe that. We don't believe

in that. But we've got to keep We've got all

this property we've got all this life, my hunting buddy,

my squirrel hunting buddy.

His wife went to a hey Man, a United Methodist church,

and when the United Methodist Church loaded in to allow

same gender marriages, their pastor, who a man none of

us would look at him and say, Amen, he's got

anything at all. Amen, got up and said we are

now pulling out of the United Methodist Church.

They said you can't we own your building.

He said, we'll buy it from you. They said, we've

appraised it. It's five million dollars. Amen, that's what your

property's worth. He said, I don't care if it's twenty million.

We're not gonna let you have it. We'd rather be banker.

We read it, we rather give everything we've got. He

met and had it hey then, and they got it.

They got it.

Amen, they come out of it. I'm gonna tell you, friend,

hey Man, the.

Protestant Reformation was not about getting along with everybody.

The Protestant Reformation was about coming out of false doctrine.

Right.

The Protestant Reformation said scripture, hold lad. The Protestant Reformation

said Christ alone, not Mary.

Poets. The Protestant Reformation.

Said grace aloud.

Not by your.

Works and efforts, fight alone and all to.

The glory of God alone.

Oh God, give us the Reformation back.

We've thrown it away, We've cast it to the wind.

We've looked for hey man, We've looked for a hail Mary.

Full of grace.

We've looked for shaking our peats. We've looked for items

and scotches. We've looked for some kind of romans, quick

fix talk problem.

Amen.

I want to ask this church right now, if you

are able, I want you stand and lift a hand

and say, amen, don't don't and by how as you

said this morning, I am preaching the choir. Realize that,

but I do understand the wiles of the devil. I

do understand that I want you to lift a hand

right now, and I want you to declare, by the

God of Eternity.

That this is the right.

It is still right.

It's still right. Holiness is still right.

Amen.

Amen. Amen.

John Wesley, when the Anglican Church decreed that you could

not preach in England, in any land that you did

not own, you had to own the property you preached on.

John Wesley owned one piece of property. He owned his

father's grave, and he would stand on that grave and

preach to hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people, sometimes

four and five times a day. And his wife would

stand in the crowd and accuse him of immorality, and

accuse him of adultery, and accuse him of fornication, accuse

him and blasphem him, and cuss him.

And and John Wesley would keep right on preaching. Is

in a hard road, amen?

Is it a long road?

It sure is, Amen, is a long.

Road, It's sure enough is, But it ain't wrong road.

He kept right preaching.

Amen.

Amen. I was setting in my first camp meeting. Hey man,

this should have been out in there for me, but

I'm slow. Sometimes.

I was sitting in my first camp meeting and they

got a preacher up to preaching. He was preaching about

an old Virginia preacher.

Brother brother Jim. And the old preacher he was talking.

About was old brother Vince Wilson. And he said, preacher

was preaching about Vince Wilson. There's a preacher sitting beside

me that I named him.

You know him, ain't going to course, he's irrevant. He

he said, did you know him? I said no, he

was gone on before I ever come around.

He said.

He used to preach out to book a ex otis,

and he laughed, laughed, laughing. I didn't, he said, also

preach out a book a live attiackers, you speak a job,

I finally said, brother, I can say every one of

those roads.

That I turns it, every bed for what cost.

Him to walk five miles on the cold, snowy road.

Right the car board any shoes, cause that holds him?

Long road? Ain't it long road? Ain't it long road?

Ain't it.

Holy golf sticks in the move here right now? And

I promise you I'll get out of way. Somebody needs

stole ba card about right now?

God, I repent. I repent wherever complaining? How about this road?

How can I repent a man? Amen?

Who?

I want to make it straight. God made it crook it.

I want to make it easy. God made it harder.

I want my kids to have an easy way in

the holiness. I want the kids had easy salvation. I

want the kids had easier. Your kids may face the

mark of the beast. Your kids may face things that

you haven't faced. They better have something more than an

easy salvation.

Peter looked at.

Jesus when Jesus revealed that great revelation to them, that

the son of Man must go to Jerusalem, and down

there I shall be crucified, and I shall be paid,

and I shall rise again.

And Peter saw that difficulty in it, and Peter saw

that top of minute that Peter saw the heart. And

I said, and he said, my soul.

Lord.

Jesus said, get thee behind me, Satan, for thou savorest

not the things that be of God, but the things

that be of man. What do we say that word

savor means taste? What is your taste tonight? What is

the taste of the Pentecostal holiness people of twenty twenty five?

What is their taste? Do they savor the things of

God for the things that be of man?

Oh?

Holy Ghost, save your way, brother Nathaniel.

I don't know what to do right now. I want

to jump out of the way real quick. Somebody needs

old Bay.

God, whether you don't understand it'd.

Be hard for me to get out and do what

I think God's dealing with me to do. Won't you

make it easier for me.

We've we've heard all their calls like this, and God,

forgive me. I've made them also, but I'll forgive me.

I've made them also.

Church, come and pray so the.

Center will feel comfortable, coming and pray. The senner should

never feel comfortable. We want the center to be comfortable

in the House of God. So we all have Super

Bowl Sunday. We want, we want the center to be comfortable,

so so we'll we'll tote everything down. We want the

center to be comfortable, so we won't preach any holiness

to them. I don't have to be hard for you

to do what God has laid on your heart.

Right now, somebody would a crazy right now.

I'm just no runner God.

I'm just not a walker. I'm just not a shower

of God. I'm just not emotional.

God.

I just don't.

I just don't get Caroline.

God, you know that, you know me.

You used to sing that old song up in the hills.

You got him.

You called him move, you gotta move. You called him

move home. The Lord gets ready, You've got Jesus, And

then I want to run down you. Amen.

Uh. Cars breaked down, people get sick, get the flu,

stop your tone, refrigerator quits ryning that condition makes down.

I would sten heater beyond neat heaters sound here.

Why's all this happening to me?

I've got your answer. Welcome to the human race, Welcome

to reality. Weather devils they're fighting me? God?

Whoa god?

Weather devil? Fads Beth loading Why I or I tell.

You something I know?

But asked. They're talking about you?

About the hell.

They're talking about you?

Whoa God?

They told my Lord I gavil?

They said, he cast out Devil's.

About the house.

He said, hold our children catch about. You may not

know this, but I just knelt. Sister Ash's prayers kick in.

Just say, whoa?

Will you hand over on somebody and tell them we're

on this road together. We're on this road together.

And it's not the wrong road. You brothers, listen to me.

You hug that man of God, you hump that pastor,

and you say, pastor, keep us off this long road.

Don't let us get off this long road.

WHOA?

Whoa?

What a road?

What road this brother went down? What the roads he

went down?

Whoa?

Glory of God, Lord of God.

But he'n have to laugh up out, son, I WoT

algy remember.

Whoa?

You've gotta get married about it. He's got a rablation

about it.

M hm.

Well, now they've got a doctor of.

Balltains of the gab, you've got experienced me. But you

don't get that on the short cut. You don't get

that on the bypass. You don't get that on the

easy road. You don't get that on the soft way.

You get that down in the valley. A stronger than

that digging. I'm saying, God, whatever it takes, don what

ever it takes, God, whatever it takes.

We don't want that preacher to come. He might say something,

so we don't bring this one in and don't say nothing.

How do you go?

Good idea? Oh God, God, little sister. I can remember.

Me and Daddy got our.

Church that night going home from Hernival. Both those tears

right down her eyes when you walked down have ot.

Baby, Danny and we both held hands and said, I

mean God's gonna bless 'em. I mean God's gonna bless him.

I mean God's gonna bless him. I mean God's gonna

bless him.

WHOA what.

The code said? There's nothing they can do. I said,

the being God's will move. The being God's will move.

There are some benefits from behind the long road. There's

a benefits to day, I'm a short time, never know about.

Day.

In eighteen hundreds worldly poet road a poem, and I

forget I only might goes final one line another. The

name of the poem is the road best taken in

the end of it, he says, and on the roadless taken.

It made all the difference on Anybody can go down

the road. Everybody's going down.

Anybody can be on that road. Anybody can be on

the megachurch road. Anybody can be on the soft easy way.

Anybody can anybody can preach a gospel, doesn't preach anything.

Anybody can do that. But there's a long road where

you'll struggle, will fight, you'll dig, you'll battle man, and you'll.

Listen to win.

Preachers getting up talking about spiritual warfare that have never

been in a battle in their life.

You hear went preachers get up and talk about how

Amen skirts to knees. Hear God in heat here raising six.

Let me tell you, sisters what I'd do. I follows

you if I was a sister, right, I ever want

to do it.

Everyone that could get a hand, I'll get a hand

on his sister Halt.

I say thank you, sister Hal, thank you sister, hale

and easy. You think it's been easy to being a

Pastor's what you think is easy?

Cause same road that lad walks down, she walks down,

same rolle that man walks down. The children walk down.

You couldn't do what others could do. You couldn't do

what others could be. But where did others act?

Now?

Where are they at?

Now?

There once a sap on.

Mon saise, okay for beeting me on the batty. Mom

says okay to me doing the problem. Mom says, okay,

me do this.

Why can't you do the Germany?

Fuck?

Ain't you? Tlad?

He tapped you on the long road, dear lab add

dear laughing doc. Wow, thank God forever, Preacher, the crabs

have bought that, says, I will my compromise.

I will not let out, I will my back up.

Jesus had seventy disciples, seventy preachers. These were men didn't

give power to cast out devils.

Dude, ye alone manner of sicknesses.

These are the men that came back and said, Lord,

the devils are subject kind of under us.

But thy word?

And then but I am my God, said said rejoice,

not that the devils are subject to them, or rather

than thy names are ridden in heaven.

Then he preaches them, except you eat of.

My flesh, I drink of my blood, you have no

life in you. They said, this is at hard saying,

who can hear it?

And from that, from that.

One thing, many of them went back and walked no

more with him. Underline that in your Bible's young preachers.

Underline that as a monument to a moment. And he

looked at the twelve and said, will you go away? Also,

Peter the exuberant, said, Lord to whom and we call

now has words.

Of eternal life. Why not chose the twelve of you?

One of you was a devil. It's gonna be a

long road man.

Nineteen forty.

London, England, was bombed back to the Stone Age. The

great Cathedrals were blown to bits. Buckingham Palace was wrong.

The British people.

Stepped out to hear some cheering message from their Prime

Minister Winston Church.

Jill tell us something to make us happy. Once then

he said, I have nothing offer you but blood, sweat

and tears.

We'll fight them on the beaches, We'll fight them in

the feuds, we will fight them in the cities.

We shall never surrender it.

Let me ask you tonight, what's gonna be the monument

to your moment when Jesus says, don't preach it.

Son, preach it.

Preach it right now, but they'll hate me. Preach it anyway.

Preach it right now, stand right.

Now, amen. A man when the forces of hell he

met her coming against a pastor, and you pull.

That sword out and say, I'll stab with it.

I stabbing this church.

Don't you let anybody say a word about this church

or this man of God.

I know no excuse me.

Praising sat.

When you said.

Yah, I'm like, yeah, yeah, I get no no, no, no, no, no, no,

no no no no.

You know what he's facing, don't you, Mamma?

Why he's facing?

Don't you dady?

That living you carrying there's facing.

WoT the new one's facing?

Sister?

How do you know what the new one's facing?

Soften 'em up. If you want to.

Soft 'em up, make him weak, Take 'em to youth

camps where they play games. Take up the youth rallies.

Four day.

I can name the camp meeting. It's one of the ultras.

I know a man who said I refuse to take

my teenage children there because.

Of what goes on out of the shadows, the preacher,

the dressed good. So tell you what I'd be if

I if I could, I would call out that night.

Stick it out round. Let's say standards.

Over the car over to cor Oo call.

The nineteen eighty two brother Jacobson. President Ronald Reagan stood

in front of a monument that was being newly erected.

His mom to Vietnam War was a wall with fifty six.

Thousand names on him, every name. Somebody who didn't come home.

At the end of that speech to a country was

sick of Vietnam.

They grew up in Vietnam.

We heard about it all the right.

They wanted he won't hear about no more done with Vietnam,

and that it was a little child that sold.

We heard about Vietnam. Ben Ben Vietnam. My cousin would

come back his mind that it was right again. Finally

drunk yourself into a grades another one, come back in

a box.

Scovery.

Sick of it.

We've heard, we've heard it.

Do not.

All the ready stood up and the end of that speech,

the pointed over. There's fifty six thousand names and said this,

there's what's a noble cause. You look great, you look

around you.

This is a noble cause. This is a noble cause.

And over nobility will followed. They'll come down and they'll

get the brand and fish from your brother.

How they'll come down when they're can't hardly mood and

a soft robe's.

Got crippled down. And when were you brothers to pray

'em back to some resemblance of health. And then they'll

go right back.

To a cause that has nothing noble in it at all.

I've cost a lot with you.

You're stuck with me.

So I'll ask you to them.

Will you acknowledge to your dog that I am thankful

to be on this world.

Well, I can't see.

The lots of home. Oh I can't see him on

his throne. Oh I can hear him, angels stand, Oh.

Praise the Lord. I'm homer down. It's good to be

on this road for all man, man, borry to God.

Now you're bad.

It's not the wrong road. It's not sister ruder. It

ain't the wrong road. Boy, and God it's alone when yeah, yeah,

we went alone. It's a long road, but bless God,

there's something in them.

Done it.

Bless God. There's someone waiting on me. Which one are

you tonight? I'm trying to hush. Which one are you?

The first one that spoke out for the help, said,

if thou be the son of God, give us solve this.

Get us gout from here, get us solve this cross.

I don't want to go through this, Lord, get me

out of this.

The other one, the other still unnamed, said Lord, remember

me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said, fairly, Mary,

I said to thee to day, thou shalt be with

me in paradise.

You want your burden taken away? Now, now tell you

why you're carrying that burden? Because God knows you can

do you know why he puts such a burden on

by the jeremy how because he knows.

He can take it. There's man that couldn't. They couldn't

take it. Why does he?

Why does he?

Why does he?

Why does he do what he does?

Because he knows you.

You went through things.

Man, he couldn't know.

You can't think, my lord, if you the holy ghost

of God, why does he put everybody out on the

street like he did better?

Stare it, because everybody ain't benna stare it. Everybody couldn't

do that. I want to say this, and I am trying,

I promise, I'm trying to hush. There was a young

preacher I know him. Sister Gail Myers was at their church.

Sister Gail did a.

Lot of missionary work in the mountains of Mexico, and

that young preacher went.

Up to sister Gail and said, Sister Gail, I feel

like the Lord has called me to be a missionary

in Mexico. Sister Gail Myers never skipped a beat. She

looked at him. This is his own testimony. She looked

at him and said, have you ever eaten monkey? He

said no, She said I have. Have you ever eaten rat?

No?

I have?

Have you ever slapped on the ground with no nothing?

I have?

Have you ever went.

Miles and miles and miles and not knowing I was

waiting on you, I have. Yes, you don't preach you

by his own Testamon, your brother, little cat said. I

looked at him and said, well, maybe I really don't.

Sounds good at a camp meeting, though sounds good at

a they get together. Sounds good when we've got a

lot of people we can impress. When you eating monkey

meat and you sweeping the tracks ands off everywhay.

Asleep, these ries crawling in your head and they're preaching

to people. Then we throw away more food in a

week than.

They eight in a year.

Go all the way down a little bay.

I'm pretty huh, yeah I am, Why cause that's what

I am. Go a little mountain churches that cut Yeah,

why why? Why fool with them? I never thought about it?

Is that the way you you, you brought it out

so so wonderfully. By the howl.

They probably the people in Milita were not even the

same language, right they were The.

Bible declares to be a barbarous people.

And when the serpent, I wouldn't when the serpent latched

on to Paul if some of our preachers would have

been standing there when that serpent latched on to him.

See see I knew it. I knew, I mean I

knew see I what you get it? Don't you not

come down there?

Ah?

And he shook it off with chill, it's gone. And

they looked at him, they said, uh huh, he shook

it off. Watch him, he's fixed on picture over him

swelling and die, hey man, because we know what that

was and hate him. Good he didn't. He said, Okay,

now now we're going to say he's a God and

through it all. You know, preachers, have you read the

Pauline epistles?

Everyone?

Yeah?

Good, I have to read him again. He mentions fat

in hiss.

He says, I was on the Damascus Road Lot's going

down to recapoc on the church, and a boy skit.

Why sh around me?

He said, so so persecute U sound me?

He said, hall right, boy cap talk so wonderfully this

morning books. He never mentioned the snake by you.

He never mentioned it. When he told about being let

down the wall in a basket. He still never told

him about that. He said, well, wonder why because of

paul It's just part of being on the long road.

This part of it, this part of it.

We're gonna talk about your preacher story the times you're

won't wonder Yeah, story.

Better. I love you well, journey, I let you. I

counted one of the greatest.

Blessings in my life is when God attach you to here. Yeah.

And I would rather brother Samuel, I would rather be

buried in the ground and walk there eternally.

Than to offend, for it cause you to lose confidence.

I remember it come to get us a song.

If you willed to guess if you will? Have you

obeyed God fully?

To night?

Have you have you obeyed him? Have you have you

done what God wanted you to do?

Can you walk out that door to night and and say,

in the depths of your heart, I have fully followed

and obey God.

If you if you can't them.

Then you you've You've done well. But if you can't,

let's fall in this halt, and let's obey God.

Not to take us off the will right, not to

not to take us off U polishing you, not to

take usself the wrong.

N not to take ourself the out of the refining fire.

Gold is worthless till it's refined. A diamonds just a

rock till it's gotten polished. And that old testing the

prophet said, I look forward.

On the right hand looking on the left confine him.

And he said, but he knows the way did I take?

And when I have tried, I will go forth.

That's true. Go let's find a place in.

The long rule.

But I'm going making home long time.

It's a lord.

Rule but I'm going back home all time. If you

don't gonna stop me, I'm gonna bed.

Well.

It's a long.

Love, but I'm gonnacky all time.

It's a long.

Time, and no doubt.

You're gonna start me.

I'm gonna.

When I started after Jesus say I never want turned

back or say the.

Time to hinder trying to be.

Up to track his head, it's a long long will

you never making home?

Moll time mysise bedem a hat me second.

I'm gonna may.

Well. It's too long, but I'm going.

Thank you home long time.

Let it's a long long but I'm going to thank.

You home all time.

They they're never gonna stop me.

Und God down to the reaver the breath dissolve mysel.

He said, you can't cross over at the time to

make me your end down. He said, it's a long.

Oh oh, you never thank you home a time?

I said, get the happy. I don't know I've got afraid.

Were the two long.

Love where I don't thank you all.

A long time?

There it all long.

I'm don't even thank you all all time.

They don't do stop me.

I got amay.

Where I came a bottle a then I saw detours time.

Then the Holy costill.

Collar tay it you home are time.

It's where I'm gonna thank you all time. There's no

devil gon stop me.

I'm gonna make.

But every time.

But I'm gone thank you a long time.

It's a line, well fil but I'm gonna make you

a long time. He's gonna stop me.

Will kie.

Jesus sees my captain and the word of God is

his name is my protection.

His beloved will take me through hell. It's a line.

That I'm gonna make you long time.

They don't trouble that stuff me. I've gotta make.

Well. It's too loud love when I'm gone make it

home all time, love me too long.

Go.

I'm gonna make it hold looks never no go to

stop me. I'm going well.

I started after Tetus said I never would turned back.

Oh say no, try to hinder trying.

To call me off that time to say it's a long.

Go go.

And you'll never make it home.

At time.

I said in the honey said, I'm.

Gonna thay you don't know.

Where, but I'm gonna.

Make you a motime.

Let me to the.

I'm gonna make it home at time here, he's gonna's

gonna stop you.

I've done to day.

Gen Jesus is my captain. That's the world of Dinaster.

His day is brotection.

He allowed me take it.

Well it all go.

When I'm gonna make you motime. There, gon gonna stop me.

I gotta bead.

Well it's too long, non no.

But I'm gonna think it all motime.

It's so.

Long.

I'm gonna think it all motime. Do gonna stopping? I

gotta say ah, I can't upon the blah blah.

And that stood me to a side, didn't the Holy.

Gostas go over said the too long time?

It too long, But I'm gonna make a time. Well,

I don't now, don't stop me. I'm gonna bad, don't

know well it, but I'm going make it home along

longtime won to.

Long, But I don't think motime there no, don hona

stop me.

Not gonna by