The battle of beginnings - Bro Ray Asher 3-10-2024

We're so thrilled to be here, just really part of this reviving him.

Just enjoyed the service so much this way, And wasn't that a wonderful baptize

raised God? And we're just looking forward more. And I appreciate what Brother

Brock preached this morning and went right along with what I feel like the Lord

has led me into. And while you're turning in the Book of Ruth,

to the Book of Ruth, chapter one, if you will go there with

me, brother Nathaniel, what did Lazarus have to do with coming out of

that gray? If Lazarus could have done it on his own, he'd been

out of there a long time ago. He wouldn't have said it in there

four days with the bottle tail flies full him a man, but he could

not do it. But there was one who could. That was one who

could speak to him, brother Philip, and say, Lazarus, come forth,

amen Amen. He did not He did not have to figure out how

am I gonna do this? He didn't figure out how to figure out what

am I gonna do to do this? He just had to respond to that

one that said do what you are unable to do? Is that hers this

brother the Dad was breaching. I thought, mother, problem, amaen,

I've never been Dad, you haven't either. But for a dead man to

hear, hey, get man, get up and walk out of here?

Do you not realize I'm dead? Do you not realize I can't do that?

No, your own you can't. God said we Dad, trespass and

sin, sinner. The Lord will say, oh, you can't do juniors,

you cannot do it. But he can. He can save to the

other most shave him, Oh, Lord of God. The Book of Ruth,

if you'll go there with me Ruth, Chapter one I came to pass

in the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land.

A certain man of Bethlehem, Judah, went to sojourn in the country

of Moab. He and his wife and his two sons. And the name

of the man was Elimelech, the name of his wife Naomi, the name

of his two sons, Maelon and Chilean. If the rights of Bethlehem Judah.

And they came into the country of Moab and continued there. And Naomi's

husband died, and she was left and her two sons, and they took

their wives. Of the women of Moab. The name of the woman's were

father name of the other Ruth, and they dwelt there about ten years.

Malon Jillian died also also both of them, and the woman was left of

her two sons and her husband. Then she rolls with her daughters in law,

that she might return from the country of Moab. She had her in

the country of Milab. How that the Lord had visited his people and giving

them bread. Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was,

and her two daughters in law with her. They went on the way to

return under the land of Judah. Naomi sat under her two daughters in law.

Go return each of you to her mother's house. The Lord deal kindly

with you, as you've dealt with the dead and with me. The Lord

grants you that she may find rest each of you in the house of her

husband. Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, saying

well. And they said under her, surely we will return with thee under

thy people. And Naomi said, turn again, my daughters, Why will

you go with me? Are there yet any more sons in my wound?

That they may be your husband things? Turn again, my daughters, go

your way for I'm too old to have an husband. If I should say,

I have hope, if I should have an husband also tonight, and

should also bear sons, would she tarry for them till they were grown?

Would she stay for them from having husbands? Name my daughters for a grieving

me much for your sakes, that the hand of the Lord is gone out

against me. They lifted up their voice and way up again in or if

I kissed her mother in law. But Ruth claim unto her, and she's

had to hold thy sister in law is gone back under her people and under

her gods. Return thin after thy sister in law. And Ruth said,

and treat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee.

For whether thou goest, I will go, and where thou lodgest, I

will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.

Where thou diest will I die? And there will I be buried?

The Lord do so to me, and more al so if all the death

part need me. When she saw that, she was steadfastly minded to go

with her, and she left, speaking under her. So they too went

until they came to Bethlehem, and it came to pass when they will come

to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them right, And they

said it is this Naomi. And she said, call me not Naomi,

call me mother. We all know a dealt very bitterly with me. I

went out, thought, Lord that brought me home again empty? Why they

call you me Naom? Seeing the Lord have testified against me, and the

old nighty hath afflicted me. So Naomi returned and Ruth the Moabidas, her

daughter in law with her, which returned out of the country of Moab,

and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of the barley army. Brother rochamp.

Here this little girl raised in a heathen country, a heathen people.

But she's oh something in this back to night, this Jo. She saw

something in him, and she said, I don't care that I'm never gonna

have a husband. I don't care that I'm never gonna be a child.

I don't care that I'm gonna be alone on my life. I don't care

the hardship I'm gonna go through. I don't care the suffering I'm gonna have

to face. I don't care the degregation I'm gonna face I'm gonna be with

you. I want your God to be like God. I want your people

to be my people. What a testimony. And in the midst of her

saying that, the one she has now said I want your done. It's

saying this God's been mean to me. God's not done me right. This

God is the sake of day every day. I'm gods because of this God.

And Ruthy saying what that God? Amen? Amen. The Bible says

here in the final verse of chapter one, they come into Bethlehem at the

beginning of the barley harvest spot. God was starting a work among his people.

It was not the end of a move of God. It was the

beginning of a move of God. It is not the end of God blessing

his people. It was beginning of God blessing his people. There's nothing end

of revival. It was beginning of revival. It was nothing. I had

no church and to begin in the church because the end of God's heil comes

the beganic of god'sil. And a little girl was saying, this is what

I wanted, this is what I wanted. But yet with all God was

beginning to do, and all God was beginning to do in rule. Why

was Naomi even refusing to be called pleasant time, desiring to be called dinner?

Why God was beginning of work, but she didn't want no part of

its sister tanky, She didn't ignoledge what God was doing? Why was that?

And then I was staring. I realized a man, when God was

beginning, was having to come into conflict with the one had already begun in

Naomi's life, even if something else had already begun in her life, a

doubt, a problem, a trouble, a situation, a heartache. The

old Puritan rivals said that bad circumstances create bad theology. Amen, we blame

God because something happened. We we we we think we can't receive, we

think we can't go, and we think this can't happen, that can't happen.

But God's trying to begin something in our lives. And I failed at

his brother. Howse was up here starting the service out this morning, starting

it out tonight. Amen, I said, God, you're trying to begin

something, Amen, with the lives of people there, but yet battle with

what's already begun. I want to preach it out of the Lord to help

me on the Bible from the beginning, Adam, what God's beginning to do

battling with what's already begun in our life, and then the troubles, the

problems, the heartaches, the sorrows that began way back onder somewhere, the

troubles that began back on ondor somewhere, the doubt that began way back on

on there somewhere, the situation that began way back yonder somewhere. May I

tell you tonight, even I believe that God, brother Gabriel, can win

that battle of the beginnings, because the beginning of God this greater than what's

ever begun in your life. You say, Brother, you don't know what

this one Didner, you don't know what that one. Tenlor, you don't

know what this one's Saidah, you don't know what that one's said. Let

me ask you tonight. Is it greater then what God is trying to do

out now hear the lives of every child of God. You say, woman,

devil told me this, and the devil told me that is that crater

they want God. God, it's trying to kill lie now came in,

call on the devil's head. I can't have it, But God said,

it shall be for you and your children and your childer children. Paul is

a lie. That's n I's the Lord God shall call you. Damn.

He didn't how many times? He man, there's that stirring start amen,

and yes something from back. Hylinder steps up and says, oh, don't

you remember this. Don't you remember how this happened? Don't you remember how

that took place? Don't you remember what happened back there? Don't you remember

when this happened? Don't you remember that there? I tell your friend,

he meen, the mercies of God are brand new. They are a man.

Hey, non, Amen, come back, man, ask them what

time? He then? I don't and I please understand. I get it.

I get what he was saying. I'm not against it. He let

me, He said, are you old time? Holiness? I said,

my brother, Holiness is not an antique. Holiness is not, he man

something that we can date by a calendar or date by a generation. It

helps the nature and the character of the old light. He cad, WHOA,

it is not old time. It is old time. And if the

world goes all another thousand years, they'll still be holy. He now,

He'll still be right. He man, So I want to ask us tonight

in my part of amen stepping in. And I know you've already already started

he man, He meant, but may I ask you tonight, brother Christian,

this a brand new service. Brother, tell out this is a brand

new service. And I'm gonna tell her this is a brand new service.

And they that can I say tonight that I believe doesn't beginning right here?

If this service for you doesn't beginning ride here for you? A can I

tell you that what begun back yonder anytime that it did not work? Go

away? None who have me go? He mean? In the prayer and

the adversary says, well you break before you sought it, before you looked

had before you you tried, before you tried, in the last revival you

tried, in the last service you reach the last time. A Now,

now I say today is a brand new day, ma'am. Can I feel

like stretching a hand to heather heman and say, lord, once you are

beginning right now, It's greater than anything I could dig up, anything I

could dredge up, anything I could look for, anything I could try to

hamen come up with, hey man, hamen, So here's old Naomi.

Amen, hey, that she's a she's a tour up and do what happened

back in bull alp that she can't even realize what's going on down there and

Jerusalem they haven't cuned out. So she tells Ruth go out and follow the

reapers and clean after them. What don't do that down in full appen?

Why then, why are you doing that? Well? Because godcept that the

poor would clean it up. The reapers without go out poor start to death.

They don't clean it after the reapers. Ain't no predition made for the

you need I get to go out there and pick out great, you mean

I get to go out there and you're barter? Whoa, what's all?

I'm started down? So she goes out with k that's just my mind.

Nail Me is a patient through the house. She's still now she's mad at

everybody. Amen, Church don't like me, even though they were there welcome

and her when she came home, even though they were jumping down and go

over to catch her. Here man circumstances street pantheologian. Amen, Amen,

And Ruth comes home with all this grain. Well, miss still don't get

it. She say, I don't get it. Where did you read?

Well? Where did you? Where'd you go today? I was just following

a woman every now and then they just they'd have a whole big handful and

they go put your vest and they just drop it. I was picking it

up. You're got some clumsy reapers in there. They have a kind of

towser. Sister, how maybe you are to reap in his feet. Maybe

you are to go back to that field. Maybe you are to go back

and back and give me I shouldn't shop around and don't have a chunch and

trust the air God, thank you to go. We're picking up all that

grat So she goes back the next day, and this time on Caleb and

tell her. They say, why don't you unfold your shawl out? Rather

gona do that because we're gonna fill it up too. So she comes in

and she looks like one of those wagons the balls behind the big John dear

tractor. She's loaded down, and finally on Naomi says, by the way,

who still you been him? I've been in the field of any boys

whoa haw get mean a faint wild rusy. But Naomie, finally, boy,

now that's a near kinsman, that's one of our people. He now,

he who steals you a sings him, nayom, call him? What

do you mean you walk down that church again? Blash? Yeah, what

did you expect? He want to expect it's a holy church or a holy

God. He's passing a holy people. There's a holy church for a palatime.

When he's coming by the bye. It's like something that you don't know

anything of God. Women, Amen, who may on me? Hemen tells

her, says, I don't know all what's gone. Amen. But this

man he's fixing do something. Amen. Amen. Amen. Now he's down

there throwing a shoe across the house. Amen, he's down there, Bartie,

he's down there. He said, Amen, we're getting another kids from

the out of the way. Amen. Amen, And sister would amen.

The part I like to jump down to is when Ruth comes walking in and

this time she ain't carrying a basket of grain. This time she ain't carrying

a shaw full of grain. This time she's got a little squalling, whining

bundle in her arm and she hands it down. Rannie. Nay only,

he says, look here, Nannie, look here, what came your way?

A man and the women of the town are saying, God has blessed

nay on me. May I tell you, friend, if we can win

the battle of the beginnings hoppy like, by the time this revival's over,

somebody's gonna say I was gonna have when they said him to me, he

let us go to the House of the Lord. Hop bout you like somebody

heard stretch out him and him and um, now that may to find the

great card house. Hey then that boy, it's the same time board that

boys saying time out, that boy saying, I'm coming my praying, new

beginning for you. I kind of playing new direction for you. I'm kind

of pad new start for you. See them, see them There was two

scriptures They're gonna dream about the house when I was over in the twelfth fourth

chapter of the Book of Matthew, hey man, when Jesus is telling them

about the time after his ascension back to heaven, and he said, about

the things you will witness, the wars, the rumors of wars, the

famines, the pestilences, the earthquakes, heymen, the sin you see on

every hand. He said these at the beginning, I'm sorrow, but over

in Philippians. Philippians, Chapter one, Paul says, verse six, being

confident of this very thing that He which have become or good work in you,

we'll perform it unto the day of Jesus Christ. Let me ask you

what God's already begun in your life? What's beginning out yonder in the world?

Can it Kim, what God's already begun in your life? Amen?

Hemen for the hell hemen. I see the green hair and the they men

blue hair, and I see the hemen confusion, and those that don't know

what gender they are. And I see the confusion and the government hey man

that calls evil cut included evil. I see the confusion in the world.

He meant to throw you in prison for he met shooting up into hawkness.

Amen, better let you go down and kill a baby. I see the

confusion and all that. But may I say tonight, but what God has

begun in me, it's straighter than what's beginning out child in the world's gonna

Christ, you wor shi it seems like something's bad new every day. That

seems like they come want something new every day. He but it comes not

change what God's already been gone. Give wats of the child of God.

And God's been going to go working you. Why don't you magnifying right now?

If God's been going to work in you, why don't you they worship

him? He lim He now, but a tyler. He then came in

the God we look down and a brother tyler when he wasn't a brother tyler.

He now, And since I don't want to offend you in any way

of shape or bing my brother, let me say the God who look down

and saw ray Asher with a ball of whiskey sitting beside him out a pack

of Sarette's in his pocket, and cuss on his mouth. He now,

God that looked out in soul. No, I wasn't looking for him.

I wasn't seeking him. I wasn't hungry for him. I did not want

to quit sinn. And I liked being a sinner. I like being drunk.

I liked it. That's why I did it. Oh, porls In,

poorls In he does what's quit sinning? No, the sinner doesn't think

about it. But one day's sister would he? Now, something happened in

me, and the God of eternity began something in there, and all of

a sudden the one that I had not thought of I was thinking about,

and the one I have not desired. I was desired island, and the

long that I had read from I ran towards. And then I'll tell you

tonight, friend. Hey, Now that's how it be gone with ray Asher.

Amen, ray Asher who was knocking, Ray Asher who wasn't looking for

God, Ray Asher who was lost in sin. But God begone and work

ray Aster didn't begin to work. God begone and work masters get't began the

work. God began the work. Ohish, somebody crazy tonight there, Lass,

I'm better to feel like im? How is somebody okay? God?

Because he amend I to God, beco it? He saw me and he

bought me. Yes, God, damning, Wow, go God, Oh

who you couldn't have no more changed who you were than a leopard could change

its spots. You could no more have changed who and what you were than

the Ethiopian could have changed his skin. Amen. Amen, But God,

who's mighty, God, who's mighty grace? God be can or work in

Jeremiah? How Amen? Not saved, Amen, Hamen. Not saved because

you figured it out, Not saved because you Amen, turned over a loony

not saved because of the sudden ducts smarter than the Donka tunes. They're on

their way to hell. Saved because the God of eternity, Brother Tyler,

he could have sent me and you are to Hell amen, and would have

not violated his faminess in release because I and you deserved it. I wish

you'd help me out here on them. I'm talking still hold you about beginnings,

hey man, because sometimes we don't realize. But the roquay, what

great workout's already become aware with us and how to get you are now chase

see hey, never a damn hell? Hey now you lost sinner? Hey

now? Hey now, hey ned the devil crent out the soul of sinners

that must die. Hey now, hey, now he need becall. He

then begun something. You weren't looking for him. He was looking for you.

You didn't find him. He found you, you didn't seek him.

He soaked you. Hey man, who go to pod, go in to

pod? Hay ma'am hamen, Amen. May I tell you that the little

old sheep who went out into the wilderness, he was not coming home.

I was not coming home and was not coming home. It was not on

vacation. And was not just walking around. It's out there. The shepherd

went looking for it. Amen, God came looking for Jeremiah. Y'all gonna

help me preach your some that. But brock, he doesn't just seek out

the bootleker's child to say, He doesn't just seek out the drug addict to

save. He doesn't just seek out the homeless to save. He goes into

some of the best places, some of the most sanctified places, and he

finds a child there, and he begins a work in it. And Brother

Jeremiah, I don't know how many times you've sought, but put that every

bit behind you. And night, Brother Talent, and Brother Christian. This

is a brand loop beginning. He and the God who'd begun something in me,

whether the God who can something in you when you were nothing, the

God that began something in you? Wait, shut up, pitched you the

hell what's your beginning? Riding now? Who see Holy go step your way

round here. Somebody an't o pay not now mother Hell, I just stepped

off the drop off him him, you know, to get another casper air.

But somebody reeks okay, God for hell hey them? He then Brother

Tabriel, hang them, DoD Caber, give me, sister canvas. DoD

Cable, give me you, DoD Cable give you. God said, I'm

got about him. God said, give her. You are not an accident.

They're not here by accident. They're not get happy chance we won Captain.

There's a scripture in the book Ruth. Amen, and I read it.

I get excited. And the bottle says her, hap was the light

upon the field. Go listen. She just happened to be there. She

just happened to wind up. There couldn't anywhere. Well, do you know

that there is a God that is sucking, that there's a God as I'm

looking at him, that there is a God. Amen? Go corn and

God, Corn of God. Amen. Amen, anybody that ain't in hell.

And I feel like clift in the hem and worshiping God and praising God

and honoring God whoa hem. I wish you worship him right now. Amen.

I feel I cous beginning something in this said, I'm right now,

but the hell and then it already brother broh haymen, you've already proud of

beginning. Hey man, brother hell, you brought a beginning. I brought

a beginning, Thank God, I said, I don't be gone in my

turn. Don't they got it? Make it? Just allow me? Ton't

bear nurse what I have be gone again? Please it do not whoa whoa

Brother Christian? Are you saved? How hollered out upsived? How the world

did not happened? The world? Get save somebody? Dad, test pass

and see him play sweaty wattles we plased. God be gone to work Amen

he amen. Amen, God be goes, God be guns Amen. And

then I see what God begun. He did not begin without a finished product

in mind. Amen. He didn't just start grabbing boards and nailing them together

by the jacobs. What are you building? I don't know. Whatever comes

out might be a boat, might be a house, playing hold on it.

That's why ever comes out. That's right, that's almost what we got.

God pictured that. I don't want God's fun. I don't know.

Now, make cares my account of me. I don't want her back out

of me. I know exactly what he will make out of you, exactly

what he had in his plan to make out of you. Oh amen,

Well God save me, but I don't ask he can if you are you

telling me that the God that jerked you out and send Amen. Brother Jeremiah

raised in a godly home. Sister, Yeah, raised in a godly home,

but Asher raised him raised in nothing. Amen. Amen, God reached

down. Amen. I was up saying a revival. One time a man

come in, sit down on the back seat, had a little girl with

him. And this is the best way I can describe her. I am

sorry. If this is offensive, it shouldn't be. But she was twelve

going on twenty five, had pancakes, her face would make joy, dressed

a colly count to preaching, yeah, count preaching. Her dad found out

that it was a youth pastor at a large charismatic church. And he was

really he he was. He was juvenally hilariously tickled at the antics of the

holeless people. He's getting him some He's getting him some father, He's he's

getting him some preaching material. I'm go to tell how stupid we look at

Yeah, yeah, alright. I look back there and they were arguing and

gave him I said, understand, leading the brother of Jesus Christ and across

the Calgary. Now, old girl come on the top of him. I

thought she's leaving, and she come home. Down fell all that. I

want to crying out to go and see her. You've gone man again.

I felt something hit me on the side, and I looked around and was

this is the pastor of the Church of fat his daughter. And I moved,

and she followed me and hit me again, and I moved and she

followed me with me again. Third time she hit me, and I looked

down at back her face, I said, and she looked at the face

and she said, good as too. Yeah. I fell on my knees

right there, and I said, oh, dear God in Heaven, I

thought you already were. She said no, She said I always lived like

this. She said, this way I've been raised. She said, I've

always dressed like this because I said, mom, God dressed up. She

said, I've never had a makeup on my face, and her jewelry on.

I've never I've never been places. She's I've never never done none of

that. But she looked at me and his sister Jackie. She said,

I've never felt up that little girl's fear right now, And she fell out

of the side or got her picture of wonder and everything in the world and

one that had been nowhere about the world. And they were side to side

on that altar, crying out for God to save them, crying out for

God. Amen. You know why were they doing that? Because God begun

something in both of them. He he could begin it in that worst situation,

and he can begin it in the best situation. You say, well,

brother, I puked up for fifteen years. Good preacher, I'm so

glad for you, hey man, But now I tell you the preacher hate.

Then I'm waiting for God to begain something. Brad Kinkers, I'm pady

for God again, something bad. Somebody else present right now? Hey?

Now, of course, man, Christian, you ain't safe because you wanted

to be saved. You're safe because he became the woe John. Now,

you're not safe because you're figured it out. You're safe because he began you

do not turning it on the back. You're not still here because you figured

it out. You're here because he began a work in you. Ha man,

Hey man, he say, look, well, sorry, so don't

come in, And they stayed in two days and left. Hey man,

that's what happens when you try to begin it. Well, so I'm talking

safe to have a revival. I don't tape that a bet I here even

heard my nigger. I can't quit senten. I'm tapped out of bed.

You get hold of those slus. Do'll tut that a bet? Because we

don't know how to begin, how to proceed, or how to finish it?

Then good God, he knows how to begin, and he knows how

to proceed, and he knows how to finish. And then he then,

brother, how you are a draftsman? If you want to kind of show

me a set of drafting things that you do, I will look at it

and say, by the how that looks really interesting? Man? That really

looks good. That really is good. And if you said, when ask

her, do you have a clue or it said, I'd say nobody,

I have clue what that's saying? None? Whatsoever? I mean, I

can act like I do, and I can do like some do who come

to church and act like they already know everything about God, already know everything

about something God. Yeah, good, tell me to be trying all about

this. I've been playing at home for sixteen years. The wee a.

Then, brother, Jesse, ain't them they ain't them more for little boys.

That's a great little feller. Let me tell you what you get out

if you want to gout, lady block, you know what would happened?

I say that. M h you go back time to work. Ah,

that's that is when we try to help God out. Here's what I'll do

God, I'll start doing this. I will help you. Amen to work

on me. Amen. Amen, I'm gonna hang man, I'm gonna quit.

I'm gonna quit. I'm gonna quit this, I'm gonna quit that.

I'm gonna quit fourteen different things. Amen. And no, why are you

doing that? Because I'm going I'm gonna help me out. I don't know

how to do things for me. I gotta help you out. I got

shoten how to do it? I got shortening, how to work this out?

I gotta shright how to fix this? I got shot? Amen.

But the rock there was a sign in the service station. I'm no mechanic.

I'm not if you ask me to work on your vehicle, you are

a pitiful person. You are gonna be a You're gonna be a pedestrian.

When you said amen, I put my truck in there. It's got a

big sign on the wall. I love it. It says labor such and

such and now let's say fifty dollars an hour. If you watch, it's

sixty dollars an hour. If you try to help, it's one hundred and

sixty five dollars an hour. Amen. Amen, the gods saying, if

you will let me do it, I can still save, I can still

sanctify, I can still deal with the whole bones. I can send a

boyle into a volley where the bones are drying. I can send water out

of high places. I wish you lay a hand over on somebody who have

asked God to bless them right now, and that's God to touch them out

now. He meant, He meant, I feel like the battle of beginnings.

He now I feel. I feel like I'm standing right in the middle

of it right now, in a battle of beginnings. Put somebody, put

somebody left to hang up and say, I'm gonna side with God on this

one. I'm gonna elect God, and then I'm gonna elect God do the

work. I'm gonna elect DoD be doll glect dog be talk to that lect

dog beyond the blect DoD is soffering time. Amen. Amen, Amen,

you had no idea how to say it all the time. You have no

idea how to say Jeremiah Jeremiah. You you did not have you spy hair,

and you you wasn't running around the bull hoogs and you want to sneak

around smoking and behind. No, but you want to say yourself? There

are you saying? It don't matter how they raise one? That's all I'm

saying. One's say it's for man. You're raised in that situation. But

in your situation doesn't save your right. Your circumstances don't save me. No,

do they prevent you from being saved? Well so? And something off

from left me? Well so on something down. You're wrong. I'll have

black guys every day, haven't life that that has nothing to do with them?

It really doesn't. It really doesn't, not at all, not at

all. Amen. He is still able to finish what he has to be

done. H last the night? What has already got on you? And

there's a lot of churches. I could not preach the sad me. I

really couldn't. But what is going on here right now in your life?

Did God beget it? Or did you? Brother Black? I've been preaching

a few years when you came along. I remember you, sister Jackie.

Then so was I. I remember a whole lot of young preachers that came

on about saying time I didn't know an young all. Now the relival you

talked about down here, down there work then and John and all up came

here night and all the sister Yeah, that was docence and docence and and

there's annd. This Week magazine did an article a few years ago. They

went to the aftermath of the builder Ground Crusade. At the end of Bili

Gram's message, he would ask everybody in the auditorium to stand up, and

he wanted to do accept Jesus as the person say to you. Everybody would

stand up. They said, okay, you're all sight now, and they

would leave and say six thousand about same class, great crusade, work camp

next week, looking forward, and they can find another of them that would

have the home church and serving God. Because there's a difference when God begins

it and you begin it. If you begin it, it'll fail. You

want to see and you want to You want to see holding the stale,

you try to do it on your own. You want to see the competent

little ship it you do it on your own. You want to you want

to see. You want to see shouting turn into anarchy. You do it

on your own. You want to see church turn into a w M,

a wrestling match. You you man, You let people try to run it

instead of God, and then you I feel like tonight, and then I'm

gonna ask you who wins the battle? From this beginning, God's beginning,

what's already to begin? I'm Christian, I can in it happens. I

came with attitudes. I came in with a personality that I couldn't do nothing

about. But the godlet begun it fixed. I started a pack of camel

cigarettes to day for years. Took him away. One minute I whisked you

to go to sleep, He took it away from this. You telling me

he can't fill me with the whole ghost. You tell me he can't keep

me thirty June in me thirty years we've been on this road, and you're

telling me, a man, that God can't keep you the God keep working

out for you. Then God can't hold your home together. Then God can't

hold your life together. Then God can't hold your children together, the long

saints of God. And then why why do I still pray for my lot

s love ones? Because I know any day God can begin that work they'll

turn you ain't giving up over the pail, Absolutely not. Who goes out

in that town? I was praying to tell him, I said, God,

someone out there, someone out there is reading from a new beginning,

somebody out at a park. And they can't do it on their own.

God, they're dead. They can't do it on their own. They're blind.

They can't do it on their own. The people, they can't do

it on their own. They're enabled the man. But I say, God

reads that, one reads that, one reads that, one reads that,

one can they reads out on child. They want you worship him from it?

About you what you worship him? Of the beginnings, the battle of

the beginnings, the battle of the beginnings? Are you better or are you

pleasant? Are you joyful? Or are you rejoicing? Or are you moody?

Well? Gord to Goondon, He said, I shall give them a

garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. How wish worship him? Saints

of God? Amen? And then there's no reason that in a church service

like this and revival like you already been having, that somebody can't go through

to a baptism of the Holy Ghost tonight. There is no reason whatsoever.

He then, beginning in my life, dollar begin a brand new walk in

the holy ghost and fire, begin a brand new direction. God worship him,

worshiping saints, worship him tonight, praise you not go ahead, brother

Tiller. Well, sister, I don't mean to comparison, but you do

not look like the same person that I saw a couple of years ago.

Walk in here, Amen, No countenance n is an absolute testimony that it

is not something you be done. It's something God has the gun and God

is walking well. Glory to God, Glory to God. Worry Todd,

why somebody want to praise him right now? Somebody will to worship him right

now? And I m up that they will? Said, well, they'll

never stand there. They don't ever stay in that, they don't ever stay

in. They'll never stand then, Sister Hay, then I really, I

really figure, Amen, that you utilated to the other bank first. Oh,

they baptize you. I said, she's gonna shoot right over the other

bank. She's she's she's gonna buy the house. I'm me hold on her.

Brother Rod paps over the hold on her. She's gonna go. She's

gonna look like she's gonna look like a great light shark on across the water.

Will she might be come shopping now, shouting now the water? Whoa

were just baptizing in and never baptized down a cow pond wherever cow's stepping.

You step in that hole. And I'm already short, and the pastor was

tall, and there we go. I'm up to hear in his waist this

sister come and get baptized, the most quiet, reserved, never got out

of order, never got loud. I said, that's Abe, easy,

that's him, be easy. I don't get drownded on. Listen, I'm

stepping in cow tracks now when that girl come out of the water, the

holy girl still in that cattle pond, she was speaking in other times God

baptized her in water and baptized her in fire at one time, Amen,

Amen, and brother Ashra got baptized four or five times. Think that I

was going under like a cork where fish is hitting and the amen, he

man, Can I tell you tonight? Amen? How does it? How

does it work? Because God begin it, I start since how I can't

explain it. I cannot explain it. I can't explain why. I can't

explain why a bootlegger's grandson is breaching the gospel. I can't. I can't

explain. I can't explain why why a board worker amen is offered life to

people. I can't understand why little boy from Torgure goes up to Ohio and

there's a girl up there and they've traveled again in the country. I cannot

or I can't explain that. But brother, brother, brother e j.

I cannot explain how God reaches into Mississippi. It says, go to South

Florida, hey, ma'am, and you get up a gold amen. I

can't explain all that s h since who I can't understand. I don't understand

how you pray for years and years and years they want a church here,

heymen, And all of a sudden, look from the time Bathel began to

right now, how many churches in and how many ain't there? No morning

light us one church to see the one church fails light us up where the

mark keep going? But as she keeps going, where the house keeps going?

Wow? Yeah. Man called on phone, said said okay, he

said, he said, ain't no churches having revival no more? I said

what he said? Are you having trouble? I said, brother, not

be other than the age infirmities. He said, he said, every place

I called, he having revival. I thought, I didn't say. I

thought I didn't say. I thought, maybe that's the problem. Maybe we

should spend less time called and have more time praying. Maybe maybe maybe we

should get a little God. I want. I want to miss you,

just like brother Box. You want to go to the years he's went.

I want to sleep in some places he slept amen. I want. I

want to about the house going. I want churches like by the house.

Guy, you want to drive six hours every weekend and go down here with

us? Four people can't hear a dragon? Call it on your young's with

it. You won't do that? You want to do that. I want

the church already built. Why did they better have wy? Why they keep

coming down here? Because God begun at you? And we use the scripture

every time? Man, sister hang him. We drew two people's hands together.

But I believe it goes far deeper than that. When he said what

God had joined, let no man put asunder? Say, well that's a

marriage, pow preacher, Oh friend, God joins something to my life.

If you join something to your life, He joined you to this truth,

and he joined himself in his togation. And woe to the man, whoe

to the woman who would try to put asunder what God has joined together.

He now he met brother Jeremiah. He meant, God help me. He

meant, but my God said it's for you, and that your God said

it's for you. Your God, your God said it's for you. I

don't. I don't know hardly how to go ask you. Have you obeyed

God enough? Right now? You can say with Asher, I've done all

I need to do. Tonight when somebody say, but Asher, I really

feel like I need to do something. I really feel like I need to

menship him. I really feel I can need to praise him. Amen.

Amen, Oh God, what you've begun in my life, I answer me

to you, finish the work. Lord, finish it. Lord, You

are not just the author of my faith, You are also the finisher of

my faith. Man, you are not a man one who starts what you

can't complete. You are not one that starts what you cannot finish. You

are not one that starts what you cannot pay then bring to completion. You

are a God that has never failed. Man. You are a god than

everything you started you finished, tod Amen. You started with nothing and you

made everything. You started with chaos and you main't order. You started with

a lost soul and you made a child of God out of them. And

it's all that. I have enough, God, So I asked you or

not? If God down all that they know, why would he not feel

you right down? Why would he not bring the completion what he's already think

God? In your life? Amen? God is not a peace worker.

He does not do the foundation and wait for others to come and lay the

walls up. He does not put the walls on and wait for the roofer.

He builds up all father Son and Holy Ghost. Try you, God,

would you worship him a moment? Who said? Jesus said, it's

expedient for you. Then I go away? What if I done not the

way? The comforter will knocked up. But if I go, But if

I go, there's anybody doubt that he went. Just anybody doubt that he

went. But the proph everybody I've ever talked to you that went over to

the Holy Land, you know that aint Kentucky, Holy Land, Israel come

back and they always say the same thing. He said, I did that,

learn too, But he ain't in there? Are I won't say,

well, duh, he's in there. You're lost. He's in there.

We're all lost. He's in there. We're all going to Hell. Amen.

Amen, Amen, he said, if I go away, I will

send him. I'm a broadcast the Holy Goals never sent you anywhere? Have

you ever sent him anywhere? The health and the omega? The beginning,

in the end, the first and the last. Do you know what's first

beginning? If you was last? Finish? He said, I am not,

and I'm ovega from the beginning, not again. He could have said

it like this, I'm gonna start and I'm a finish. I'm an offer

and I'm a pincher. I thank you man, go ahead by the Teremiah,

he may go ahead, Son, step up and worship him to not

go ahead, and praise him to not whoa whoa come brother Tyler Kim,

he got it and he can finish it. He does not start what he

can up in us standing if you will. Yeah, But how when they

went into the upper room, Yeah, it was in the bay infancy.

Nobody could look around and say, well, I love this preacher. Hold

I want this preacher, what about what this? And do what about nobotter

saying that there were one hundred and twenty in an upper room and God be

gone on world crack there, say to begin, then I'll be done.

What for those who believe in the seessation? There you have the gospel,

Show me where it ended. If it ended, then God ended it.

If the gifts ended, then gone didn't m That's mine centrilicization teaching. So

I ask you tonight, this is what God's beginning, and this wil going

to be greeting, and my soul read you don't know, preach your feeling.

If somebody can't listen to my song, really that's tea. As one

who came out of a broken home, I had my mind made up a

long time ago that if I got married that was never going to say he

was everybody there, They're gonna be separation. He said, well, that's

big talk. You've got two people in loved of From my standards, he

said, we sometimes things. Yeah, that man begins always has a possibility,

man starts lives, man starts directions. And then Paul said to the

Church of Galatia, he said, you did very well, But who hinted

you the same old be the starter. Mm hmm. But they but they

grabbed on the false stock. And why did they do that? Because when

we began it, there's no difference in false stocking. When we begin it,

there's no difference in the true in the falses are Ever when when when

we begin it, what's what's the difference in holding on hold? There's no

difference in it when when we begin we can have this side looking like all

these people decide we're happy with that? S are you what worldly people come

in? If they'll come in and they've gone begin something in their lives that's

beenful, I won't say this and I'm I'm trying to make older on this

and m hm. Have you ever tried to talk to somebody about real salvation?

You already be gone a false work to try to talk to him when

you're trying to talk to him about the love and the grace of a mighty

God, the purity of a mighty God. But they're wanting to tell you

about something off A long I stood in a hospital room talking to a little

girl who's dying. She was my niece, and I said, you're lost.

No, I'm not. She said, I have the Holy Spirit.

I said, when did you get redeemed? I don't know what you're talking

about? When did you get saved? I don't know what you're talking about.

I was at a we have to I rehab preacher came in there,

and reha preachers that repeat after me. Let God against something real. But

when God it's trying to begin something real, that something lost has already begun.

God's trying to begin something holy, but something that holy's already become.

God's trying to begin something pure, but something impure has already begun. And

that's the conflict that I felt since the first of this year. We must

as a church, we must as a people, we must let God win

the battle of the beginnings. We must not let what has become stop what

he is beginning. Are you with me to night? Let's worship him.

Let's worship our Holy Father. Let's worship this magnitude and try your God.

Somebody ought to receive a home of ghost. Somebody already get somebody are to

get sack to dine down right now. Somebody ought to just cry out,

say God, what you're doing right now? It's greater what you're doing right

now. It's greater what you're doing right now. It's greater. O love

so old loss holds ten million beginnings. Have you where you are now?

Ten bay in beginnings, have your life and the shape it's here right now,

ten may in beginnings of your home words right now. And there's one

beginning. I can turn it everything around. There's the one beginning, the

change is it all? There's one more move to make. There's one,

Sister Serena, Amen. Amen. That was a powerful baptizing today. Amen.

And the peace that you had when you walked out into that, the

peace that you had when you testified before a holy God, Amen. Amen.

That is because you won the battle. From the beginnings, a lot

of things began, but God becomes something crater. Amen. Would you worship

him not now? Saints, Brother, brother God, tell him right now.

If he was here, I'd say, you cannot blame every problem you

have on someone else. You cannot blame every situation on somebody else. Deserve

on that's beginning. If you let go, if you let go, begin

that great work that only God can do. Sister Stare, I should be

in hell, but I'm not, Brother Stare. They pulled friends of nine

out of car wrecks in pieces, they could not identify him. I should

have been in there, but I wasn't. I should have been in the

car. Could have been in the car and murdered. A friend of mine

got his throw. I could have been there with the great dollar. Eternity

began something in my life. He saw he saw you. But how I

need to husher. I'm talking to somebody right now. He saw you,

he saw you, He saw you. He saw you by the time,

not from my you were before what he wanted to have a well Christians,

I watched you to be precious wife walk out into that end of the day.

Would it five years ago you'd have ever dreamed a thing like that could

be possible? Little sister, would you have ever thought he'd be standing in

a warm river in South Florida for a husband that loves you and nam and

son standing on the bank. Would you have ever thought of could you become

something like that? Could you have begun that story? Where would you have

started that? Where would you have started the story? Calor bro camp out?

But God didn't? God did it? Sister Lea. Would you never

thought? Would you never thought? Does he give us his summer, Oh

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