Are you trusting in your tower or are you looking for the ladder - Bro Ray Asher 3-20-2024

Very understand that I want you to go to the book of Genesis with me

to night. Yeah, And I'm going to cut loose from everything else and

just saved plain this time to make a decision. Yeah. Genesis, chapter

twenty eight and verse ten. I've Jacob went out from Beersheba and went to

Lord around. They lied upon a certain place and terry there all night.

Because the sun was set. They took up the stones of that place and

put it for his pillows, and laid down in that place to sleep.

He dreamed, and behold a ladders set up on the earth, and the

top of it preached to heaven. And behold the angels of God ascending and

descending on. And behold the Lord stood above it, and said, I

am the Lord, God of Abraham, my father, and the God of

Isi. The land where all thout lies THEE will I give it. And

to thy seed. Thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth.

Thou shalt spread abroad west and to the east, and to the north and

to the south, and in the end, and thy seed shall all the

families of the earth be blessed. And behold, I am with THEE,

and will keep THEE in all places when thou goest and will bring THEE again

into this land, where I will not leave THEE until I have done that

which I have spoken to the other. And Jacob awake out of his sleep.

He said, surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew

it not. And he was afraid, and said, how dreadful is this

place. This is none other but the House of God, and this is

the gate of heaven. I want you to hold that place. And I'm

going to go back to Genesis chapter eleven. And the whole earth was of

one language and of one speech. They to pass. As they journeyed from

the east, they found the plain in the land of China. They dwelt

there, and they said, one to another, go to let us make

break and burn them thoroughly. And they had breakfast, stone and slime.

Had they for more, And they said, go to let us build us

a city and a tower whose top may reach unto him. And let us

let us a name, lest we be scattered abroad from upon the face of

the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the

tower which the children of men building. And the Lord said to you,

all the people is one, and that all one language. And this they

began to do, and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have

imagined to do. Go to let us go down. And there confound their

language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered

them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth, and they left

off to be able to see you. Therefore the name of it is all

the name of it called Babbel, because the Lord did there confound the languages

of all the earth. From thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the

face of old. One of the errors sometimes for the how that people have

when they read the Old Testament is they want to read it like like a

fable or a story of some sort. Red Yard Kipling was stationed in India

before World War One, and Rudyard Kipling wrote a book called Just So Stories,

and it was those stories like how the wh is there felled and had

a long trunk because of tiny rabbit holed it out, things like that.

A lot of people read the Old Testament, they well, that's just a

story of why the Chinese speak Mandarin, and the Irish speak Gallic, and

the Swahils are speaking u in all the languages. But there is the gospel

message from Genesis to Revelation. It does not change. The message of Genesis

is the same message as the Book of Acts. The message in the Book

of Genesis is the same as the docels. Amen. And as I got

to reading these today and I really did not know, brother, how what

direction this was going to go. Your brother Jesse started singing or an at

l and it just the title of this message came to me standing right over

there. Amen, I will to preach to not are you trusted in your

tower or are you looking for the latter? I mean, are you trusting

in your talent? Or are you looking for the latter? Hemen? For

we have a picture here of two congregations, one of them very large and

one of them very very very small. Amen. The one had an imagination

that we're gonna reach Heaven. By what we're doing, We're gonna reach Henlen.

We got an imagination that says, this is what it takes to get

to heaven, this soul it takes to get to heaven. He men.

He met and their imagination had nothing to do with the reality of God.

Amen. Amen, a God went down to see what they were doing,

and said, I must now confound their lad He met. The other picture

we had was of the tiny congregation one man whose soul ladder and the top

did not may reach heaven. The top reached heaven, and the angels of

the Lord is sitting and decending on it, and the Lord stood above it.

He meant, and he said, this is none other but the House

of God, and I must breakfast one. I'm finxing to amen, say

brother Damn will by saying that we hear it often it doesn't matter where you

go, just as long as you go somewhere. He then, it does

not matter what church you go to, as long as you just attend church.

Hemen. But may I tell you, friend, that is not what

the Gostel of the Book of Genesis teaches. Amen. He then, there

is a place, saint Man, that does not reach healing, and there

is a place that does reach healing. Amen. He then, And the

problem is we have a generation that is so hung up on trusting in the

Tower that they have forgotten that there is really a rider that does reach all

the way there. There is really a prayer that goes all the way there.

There is really a worship that goes all the way there. There is

dettitation that goes all the way there again. He then in the book of

Isaiah, he man asked Israel was falling into ruin. He then the question

was asked, well the road camp, where is he that counted the towers?

Where is he that trusted in that? And we're looking at a church

world that feels like just as long as we've got a building. A few

that said, on, as long as we've got a power on our hands,

as long as we got a song book, and they basically followed the

pattern. We're okay, but I'm okay you we are in the last,

last, last day and we must make carnante. Are we going to trust

in a tower that does not reach what we are needing to reach? Or

are we gonna start looking for that ladder that takes us all the way?

Ended up? Great sun up, and I said, I'm a mighty powerful

god. You will never get saved. He there trusted in a table.

But there is a ladderat in there where the angels of the Lord is said

that he said upon and there is salvation there. There is no salvation at

the top of the tower that reaches nowhere, Brother Candan, Amen, But

that ladder reaches a place where the grace of God is able to do exceeding

upon the apoch. That's where they were asked or even pay. There's no

sanctification at the top of the tower. That reaches nowhere. There's no honey,

got there's on the top of the tower. There leads us nowhere.

There's no healing virtue at the top of the tower. There reaches nowhere.

Amen. Amen, And they all say going in. It does not matter

how you decorate the tower. You can decorate the tower however you want to

decorate it. It's still just a town to nowhere. He there. They

talked about it a few years ago, Brother Jeremiah, he did, I

know, you keep up with events. But they talked about the bridge they

were building in Alaska, and they build a bread There was millions and millions

and millions of dollars in contracts awarded. He met through political manipulation, and

they finally asked the question one day, where's it going. It was just

going out into the bearing straight, but it was going nowhere. And they

stopped the project with an edifice that they call the bridge that goes nowhere.

I want a breach to not on the tower that goes nowhere. It's pretty

in a lot of places. They dress it up in the right guards,

they dress it up in the rock and pat they put the right names.

Ally. Hey, then, but I want to ask you to not in

your heart of hearts. Don't you know, friend, that there's a difference

in that tower. I'm the ladder that dost reach into heaven and that which

God's reach, the fall of God, and that dolls here from heaven.

That dos fo message from God. As you help me to not, I

wish you would help me to not. And then, and I know I'm

from the tamara. I'm coming up against it, amen, because we are

in that generation that says, let's forget about the differences. Let's forget over

all that purses, all that calls me all the same. It's not all

the same. It might dress the same, it might be the same.

Bible. If I've seen the Saints songs to the comic denominator, Oh I'm

so glad he said that the common denominator is not there. One reaches heaven

and the other tells not. Whatever one goes all away with the PROMI and

the other goes to the limits on man's imagination. One goes as far as

man's imagination will take him. That's imagination says, this is what pleases God.

That's imagination says, this is a move of God. That's imagination says,

put strong blocks and smoke of the boyd whatever the man, the man's

imagination has never reached God. He men, in fact, we are commanded.

He meant to put off imaginations, to cast them down. And then,

may I say tonight, from the Gospel of Genesis, I want to

say to not he men. Are you looking he meant for a ladder?

Or are you trusting in the tower? Amen? He me and Sister Tana,

Would the tower have ever got you to him? Would the tower have

ever got you out of where you were? He meant? Where she can

say, ho lot, The tower would have never caught me out of where

I was. It was not high enough. The tower would not and caught

me out of a whiskey bottle. The tower would have not taught me out

of my bas The tower woulda not taught me out of my way in my

condition. But that dog that was a ladder, that dog that was alder,

that was alder. Now that was something on that ladder that was not

man made imagination, that was God. Said amen, amen, brother,

how the reason that conviction is soul red it is because you're looking for it

on the top of the tower. And when you have that tower with an

imaginary all of God, we must have imaginary conviction. Amen. Amen.

I was preaching in a service one time in the church where I was preaching

out how they did a take ministry and went very very well. They preaching

up preaching, and he made an altar call. Here's what he said,

and I'm sitting He said, the sinners they're coming from the back, they're

coming from the middle, They're coming from all over the church. There wasn't

anybody. What is he talking about? What's he talking about? And then

dawned on me, brother, gam I'm sorry, I'm relating to the gambles.

He been in Bell County. So there you go, Amen, Amen,

I said, I said. I finally dawned on me, he's doing

that for the Cape ministry. He's advertising, Amen, this is advertising,

this advertisement for the great angers. Hemen, I've gotta come from all over

the place. He then we up to seventeen thousand saved last week. Well

what about us? Amen? I won't tell you. Friend. Amen,

the imaginary tower is just exactly what it is. It's an imaginary tower.

And you'll not lasting this last day that we're in. But ain't you grader

sitting in the place tonight? How many can lift a hand and say,

I believe the latter sits down right here? For I believe that I can

see if anybody can say, hey, there absolutely that this is the house

of dog. Amen. Amen, this is not just up killing, this

is not just the imagination. This is the house. I'm gone a man.

Know how many somebody praising hearing Roy only somebody coursing hear the right?

Hey mann, Amen, been gonna help. I'm being just like kidding.

I'm feeling so much strength right now. I'm feeling stronger right now that I

didn't gonna be pulled in, Amen, Amen, I preach for all was

way after two nights. I was worn out because I was trying to convince

them that that tower is not going anywhere, and now go in your imagination,

says heymen, I'll trust in my tower. I'll trust in it even

though no, even though there's no moving God, even though there's no power

of God, even though there's no coran God, even though there's no hope.

Now I'm gonna trust in it because I'll help build it. Because young

young preacher to them preaching in Richmond, Kentucky. Amen, Hey, elderly

sister came to the church one night and the revival. I mean, she

shouted, she hoped, she hollered, she ran, Amen, I mean

she's old, she's old, little old Amen. And after church, I

heyman, as a young preacher or not, I just she shook hands,

was talking. She said, I said, when do you go to church?

She said, I go to such She said, the Church of God

for that part of the country. Yeah. Maybe different down here, but

for that part of the country that that ship sailed long time ago. So

I looked at her and I said, does everybody there live like you do?

She said no, nobody does. To me, I said, why

do you stay? She said, well, we kind of helped put it

together, and we kind of help. I just always been there and I

feel a little I feel a little link, and I want to stay there.

Who will tell you for you? Hein't got time to trust in a

tower that don't don't no where and then even I'm feasting on what I'm hitting

down here, and they have to deal with a tower out there on the

road. But I could look back at the ladder and I'm down here with

tail could say thank God, thank God, and I was having to leave

the God, thank God, and I was able to come in from time

of God. I wish somebody who's happening you good time. I wish you

to do thank God. I wish you worsen here in your rail. If

this is a tower, then we are free that anyway you want to.

If this is a tower, do your taxes, work on your homework.

And if this is a tower, takes the best lamb. If this is

a tower, two Cossler puzzles. If this is a tower, tip my

fingernails. If this is a tower, the fifteen takes to the rest of

If this is a tower, do wherever you are rude, hey man.

But if this is a house of God, it's a house of calls a

house of God. There's lots that's a that's crazy. What's at the times

he's the eye and then alight clue. You won't find a Jeremy Howe at

the foot of that tower. Hosting people up. You won't find a Jeremy

Howe at the front of that towel trying to justify why God ain't moving.

You don't have to find it, just the road camp, opening the pibble

on a Sunday morning and giving you one hob of what does saith the word

of God. He the on top of the tower, We'll flip open,

heyman, the premeditated literature in God, and we'll just rehash what somebody else

said. Amen. Amen. Ay, then I'll just sit here. You

read the phone book. Amen. But when you're on top of the towel,

that's all matters. Our imagination says, this is this rich is heaven.

This is what gets to heaven. That's what that's it, this is

what the gospel. It's time to point out there is a real and there

is a counterfeit. There is that which does not get down. Amen.

It is not the fault. Hey man. You hear brother now, will

you hear it up in our part of the country all the time? Well,

ain't nobody wants holding us now? More so you blame you blame your

tiny little towel. You'll blame your tiny little tower. Are God's holy holy

world. I will tell you those folks here tonight that won't hold us the

thought they won't hold this. They won't hold us now. And then they

k there are sudden say well, their generation don't want it. I will

tell you him. Two young people right there, ay ma'am, we'll grab

on the wholeness and run with it. Wi A. So he've been sitting

down trusting in their towers, have two ny two pass a man of the

past, and now everybody else in the building, so don't know and praising

right now, play hard, go and take a running sabell. He then

hang out, think it's about timing. He then thank God to where he's

goodness and where's police? Say them. He then go ahead, go ahead

at the praise him, go ahead and worship him. He then he then

he then then I tell you you recognize sar war about this than a whole

lot of folks that ought to recognize a whole lot more about this, Amen,

Amen, I see redoles. When the young people started moving towards it,

he met a mom and dad got that, and then he then then

time that not that. He then he then I been there, amen.

He man with the young people started getting filled with the Holy Ghost and a

bunch of all wet blankets. He may have been. In fifty seven years,

I've never gotten no closer to God than when they started out. Amen,

get up. I have a patti Amen. Amen. You know I

wanta tell you tonight. This is a houseital o man a mail. I'm

gonna ask you again, Amen, with your immortal soul. Your soul that's

either gonna amen, being hell for eternity or being Heaven for eternity. Do

you trust it in an imaginary tower or do you trust it in the ladder

that reaches heaven and the head. He's up to you, ready, tone,

He's up to you tonight. Amen. Amen. I'm not gonna preach

long, Brother Luther. I'm not gonna hold it long. I'm the school

and preach what God's laying on my heart, and I won't ask us then

I is this church worth hemen? Getting behind and out the man? Amen?

Do you know how far let me and sister Asher when we're the brief

times we're home, do you know how far we would have to drive to

find anything even remotely like this God. I'm not talking to how or to

you. I'm talking a big, long drink. Amen, Amen, you're

blessed. And what the devil would have to do. He would love to

take a holy trial, He would love to take a hungry soul. He

would love to take a sinking soul. And if he can't teach you any

other way, if he can just get you to if I can just drag

him over that tower and get him trusting in that tower, get the rise

off of you don't have to go. You have to listen to that Jeremy

hell character. Well we got tower around here. Well we're we're, we're,

we're we're doing great. We were the Then he then pump the lock

right day a man. He said, well you keep pringshires, I'm good

and he now and then and then he said, well, how in the

world can you say that. I can say that because of what the Holy

Ghost lay on, whether you trusting in a tower or you looking for the

ladder, and better looking for the ladder, I'm ask you when you stand

with him right now and left your hands to Helen and say God, it

really doesn't matter anymore. It really doesn't matter. I'm not trying to justify

the tower. Amen, I am not time to Playtate don't imaginate shots that

seems like sister and everything in the world. And it's based on imagination.

The girl can imagine. She's a more impre imagine this girl. And we're

supposed to say, Okay, I said imagination. Don't tell me it's a

power dog when it I ain't. Don't tell me it's a boy till night.

Don't tell you some power dock you do the second the whole sus and

never take no wow, you know's not crazy? What do I think about

me? Like these turns? He's about ready to explode? Why whoa I

believe not only take come now when people somebody till own you and say I'm

tired, I'm the tired. I'm tired of the powers. I'm tired of

tallis believe in me loud wow m hen Timon tells us when my soul,

when my soul is over, well within me, leave me to lock that

is higher. I'm tired of the tower leading it to the ladder. He

man, man, Please forget how I'm not singing you all or picking on

you. I'm kno. Amen, Amen, you remind me so much of

a young Gray Asher, And at that time, the young Debbie Allen sitting

in church. You remind me of us, you really do, he meaned.

He then sitting in a place where the tower, the imaginary tower,

had to be accepted as this is the norm, this is the way it

is. It's just the way it is. And for years and years our

young life was marred and scarred until I was twenty nine years old, he

now by trying to figure out if that tower reached anything or not. But

thank God, one man for the hell he now doc let us a ladder

talking about what stub a ladder. I don't quit looking, I don't quit

searching. I don't give upon it. The Lord dog not give up on

me. I did not give up on Henny. I need not give up

on you. I just not give up on you. Hey now, Hey,

never me I till I say to Dodd, I wish I knew,

he never, what's holding you back? Right now? I wish I knew

what the obstacle was. I'll take a run and go at it and hit

it with everything I could hit it with and try to knock it out of

your way so you could step out of your pew right now and say,

preacher, I'm tired of the town. I'm tired of the I'm tired of

it, and I return out. He's talking about now, Lord leave me,

but a lad read me that you just leave me the pact thinking,

which is not satisfied, satisfied? What imaginary thing? Right, God,

what you will think of ann And he said, hold. I said,

h m hm hm hm m. You're a serday you have asked, have

I not? H h You can tell you you got stuff here the now

tired of the towers, step up on now the holy go sell the indeed,

the holy go sell downe the come on, neighbor, come on,

come on, come on, caten, come close. H you're tired of

the towers. Step on out, You're tired of something that's imaginary. Step

on out there, time of sucking a reel, step on out in reality,

Holy God, he's here, white man, Oh course have your wife,

holy ghost. M L man, my mom still what true? No,

thank you no