Hand Me Downs- Giving To The Next Generation Pt 4 Pass The Gospel Please

Come on. Hallelujah. Glory to the Son of God.

Clap my hands and sing glory. Bowed on my knees

and cried holy. Holy to the Son of God. Close

your eyes and just picture those seraphim right

now. Around the majestic throne of glory. The

indescribable. Ezekiel said, I can't tell you

what it looks like, but it appears to be a wheel

within a wheel, and there's all manner of colors,

and this thing's sparkling, and it's illuminating.

And there they are. Two wings, they're covering

their feet. Two wings, they're covering their

face. And two wings, they're flying and crying,

holy, holy, holy. It's the Lord God Almighty.

Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy. You get that

old base angel saying, holy, holy, holy, holy.

Well, hallelujah. Get your Bible if you can and

hang on. I told some of them coming in this morning,

I said, keep your hands and feet in the cart

at all times. Don't unbuckle until she comes

to a complete stop. Well, hallelujah. As if we

need anything else to pray about. Or to praise

him about, rather. Sister Carolyn got a phone

call just a minute ago. Right? Just a few minutes

ago. You got it? In church. In church. During

church. Got a phone call. A very important phone

call. Medicare's granted the extension. Brother

John gets to stay a little longer at Siskins

for the rehab. Can I tell you, he's on time.

He's an on -time God. Not a sign. Praise the

Lord. He is healer. He's our healer. Amen. All

right. Open with me to the gospel of Mark chapter

Mark 1 · chapter mention

1. Mark's gospel chapter 1. Siri, go to sleep

or turn to your Bible 1. I've got this here for

your sake, not just for mine only. My Lord. Mark's

Gospel, chapter 1, verse 1. The beginning of

the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Got

to get all that clear. As it is written in the

prophets, behold, I send my messenger before

thy face, which shall prepare thy way before

thee. The voice of one crying in the wilderness,

prepare ye the way of the Lord. Make his path

straight. John did baptize. in the wilderness

and preached the baptism of repentance for the

remission of sins. And there went out unto him

all the land of Judea and they of Jerusalem and

were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan

confessing their sins. And John was clothed with

camel's hair and with a girdle. of a skin about

his loins, and he did eat locusts and wild honey,

and he preached, saying, There cometh one mightier

than I after me, the latchest of whose shoes

I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. I

indeed have baptized you with water, but he shall

baptize you with the Holy Ghost. And it came

to pass in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth

of Galilee and was baptized of John in Jordan.

And straightway coming up out of the water, he

saw the heavens open and the Spirit like a dove

descended upon him. And there came a voice from

heaven saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom

I am well pleased. And immediately the Spirit

drive them into the wilderness. And he was there

in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan.

And was with the wild beast. And the angels ministered

to him. I want to continue on our series. Hand

-me -downs. Hand -me -downs given to the next

generation. And today I want us to look at. Pass

me the gospel please. Pass me the gospel. Please.

And we're going to look at the fullness of the

gospel. The five -fold gospel. Not the five -fold

ministry, but the five -fold gospel. Well, what

is that, Pastor? I know Ephesians 4 lays out

the five -fold ministry. Well, what's the five

-fold gospel? It's this gospel that John's talking

about. It's Jesus as your Savior, your sanctifier,

your spirit baptizer, your Holy Ghost baptizer.

Did we not just read from the book? Did we? Okay.

I just want to make sure. I don't want you to

mistake I'm going to make something up. Jesus

as your Holy Ghost baptizer, as your healer.

And as our soon returning king. That's the five

-fold gospel. And let's see where we get in the

next hour to get there. Amen. Lord, I love you

and I thank you and I praise you. Your word is

true. The power of your might is real. And as

we are here today, I ask your help. Lord, with

that liberty that makes it easy to preach, Lord,

that we declare what it is you wish for your

people and we'll glorify you in it all as we

endeavor to hand it on down. And the church said,

amen and amen. You can be seated. To get you

just a little bit up to date, this is part four.

I don't know how many we'll end up with, but

this is part four. We started out with passing

to the next generation prayer. Amen. How the

next generation, the upcoming generation, need

to know how to pray. Pastor Brian brought the

second segment of this series on don't send them

alone. Went on our back to school Sunday. He

preached about sending our kids out and back

to school or wherever they go. not to send them

alone, but with the faith that they have in Jesus

Christ. Amen. And last week we picked up on that

faith and ended up getting toward where we need

to pass down the power of the Spirit and our

testimony in the fact that God is still God and

the Holy Ghost is still available. Amen. And

as I'm praying this week, this thought of the

five -fold gospel really just began to... Well

up with inside me. And we need to be able to

pass it on down. We need to pass the whole gospel

down. Amen. We're a full gospel believing, Bible

preaching, Bible believing church. Amen. We don't

take parts. We don't pick parts. We take the

whole thing. And if God said it, he meant it.

And if he said it's available, then it's still

available. Amen. It's not like when you're shopping

on Amazon and it says out of stock. No, the Holy

Ghost is not out of stock. He's still ready.

He's still available. And God's desire is that

we receive him. Amen. So when we look this morning

at our text, our text begins a transitional shift,

if you will. The thought we've talked about some

is a passing of the baton, if you will. And that

is what's happening here is there is a shift

in the spirit realm and what's going on on the

earth, not just from heaven. Amen. spiritual

shifts that we encounter we experience them by

the spirit in the spirit through the spirit but

here we see this transitional shift taking place

on the earth because God has sent his only begotten

son to the earth right Jesus is now About to

enter into his ministry. About 33 years old.

30 years old. About to enter into his ministry.

And he's about to come on the scene. And the

last of the Old Testament prophets have been

in the wilderness preaching. John's been preaching.

He's been preaching repentance. Hello. That's

not a new message. Amen. Repentance is not a

new message. And as we are beginning to see the

baton pass, John began to declare it himself.

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ,

the Son of God. And then Mark begins to record

the words of the Old Testament prophets before

John. As it is written in the prophets, behold,

I send my messenger before you. He is the one

that is running before. Amen. You go into John's

gospel and read. And they approached John and

they asked him, are you the one? He said, no,

I'm not the one. I am not he. I'm not the Christ.

I'm not the one you're searching for. But I am

the voice and I've come crying in the wilderness.

And what I have been told to do is to prepare

the way of the Lord because he's soon coming.

He's on the heels of my word. History, if you

will, is marked by such transitions. The Old

Testament has many such shifts of spirit. work

on the face of the earth. The ark is one. The

tower of Babel was a shift. And then the ark

comes when Noah builds the ark for the saving

of his people. Amen. And that shift begins to

go further. You have the call of Abraham after

the ark settles. You have the call of Abraham.

You have the covenant transformed on and passed

on to Isaac. You see it passed on to Jacob. You

see Jacob in bondage. You see these shifts. taking

place. 400 years after Jacob takes Israel down

into Egypt and where they're going to be spared,

but yet God was going to prepare them in Egypt

for the promise that was ahead, which was the

next shift. Amen. When they come out of bondage,

400 plus years after they went into Egypt, the

Lord sent the deliverer. The shift happened when

Moses went out into the wilderness and on the

backside of the desert, he's over there guarding

his father -in -law, And he sees the bush that

is burning. You're talking about a shift. Are

you with me this morning? This transitional shift.

He stands and he hears the voice of God. He takes

his shoes off. He's on holy ground. And he hears

God send him back with a message to deliver his

people. And you move further past that deliverance

out of bondage. And you continue to make your

way through to the promise actually being acquired

as they go into the promised land. The land that

is flowing with milk and honey. deliverance after

deliverance. You see Israel demand a king. You

see God give another shift in them before they

received a king. They simply went by the instruction

of the Lord through the man of God of the hour.

When the spirit of the Lord would come upon the

prophet, he would stand and proclaim, thus saith

the Lord. But the people, can somebody say the

people? It's always the people. It was the people

at Babel. It was the people in the wilderness.

Amen. Oh, Aaron, Aaron, Aaron. Aaron, would you

form us a golden calf? Would you make us a God

that we can worship? Amen. It's always the people.

And the people say, we want a king like everybody

else. And then when their king that they asked

for failed and disobeyed God, and the man of

God stands in front of him, he put it back on

the people. Well, the people, the people, they

wanted to do this. They said we should keep this

and offer it unto you. But look, no, the Lord

didn't require the sacrifice. He required. Desired

obedience. Come on, somebody. There's a shifting

back and forth. You have to be careful today

because preachers will put it on the people,

and then the people will point at the preacher.

It's always the blame game. Who's at fault? Who's

here? Who's there? Who's this? And who's at fault?

Well, I tell you, when we stand before God one

day, we're all going to be held accountable.

You will be held accountable. And that's why

I preach the way I do because I know that I'll

be held accountable for what I declare. As thus

saith the Lord. and I endeavor to bring it from

the book. So if you've got a problem, you take

it up with the book and the author of the book,

amen. Now, you may have a problem with the way

I deliver it, but there's 190 other churches

in town. You can find one that may deliver it

more to your suiting and liking. And by all means,

God bless you, and go eat at another table. But

if you're coming here, honey, we cook taters

on the plate, we slice steak thick, amen, and

we're going to roll with it. And here we have

the shift taking place. And as we see all these

changes and the spiritual shifts taking place,

we today are standing again, I believe, as John

was in a major shift of his day, moving from

a covenant of the Old Testament into that, breaching

upon the New Testament, the Son of the living

God, the Christ, the anointed one, the one who

was sent to take away the sins of this world.

Amen. And we find ourselves living in a moment

in history. the timeline of the story of the

Christ where crisis avails and the spirit of

this age demands the gospel. Are you hearing

me? The crisis of our age and the crisis of the

day and time in which we live in, it is not something

suggestatory, but there is a demand for the good

news of the gospel of Jesus Christ in our culture

and in our society. People need to know that

there is an escape. People are bound up. They're

wrapped up in the thought process of their mind,

and they feel like they're hopeless, and there's

no way out. I'm here to tell you there is a way

out, my God. It doesn't matter if everything

around you falls apart. You can rest assured

in the heart of your soul, of your innermost

being, that all will be well. It is blessed assurance.

Jesus is mine. Hallelujah. So here we stand as

John at the crux of another spiritual shift.

We see such shifts take place in the New Testament

as well. Acts 27 records the storm -tossed ship

which the Apostle Paul is on as he's on his journey

toward Rome. That is a great representation of

the church today, that ship tossed by the wind,

tossed by turbulence. Amen? Tossed by chaos,

the chaos of our time. Don't you feel tossed?

Don't you feel like it's turmoil all around you?

I know I do. When I begin to look and I see what

life is bringing, and you try not to watch the

news, amen, because you don't want to see that.

It ain't nothing but bad news, and there's hardly

ever any good news, amen, out there. Not to be

ignorant, not to be just misaligned with our

head in the sand, but you've got to know what

you need to know. But if we're not careful, we'll

get so inundated by what the next negativity

of this world that we forget that we're not of

this world. Amen. You'll forget that we're only

passing through. We're sojourning. We're just

going through. The old songwriter said, this

old world is not my home. I'm only passing by.

Amen. And if we're not careful, though, we'll

let the crisis and the chaos and the turmoil

of the world and the spirit of this age and the

compromise of the church, amen, where holiness

is compromised. We'll let the compromise of the

age begin to sweep in, and it'll take your hope

away if you're not careful. So here we stand

in history's timeline. In the same way, natural

disasters, false teachings, compromise in the

church, pandemics, earthquakes in diverse places,

and on and on and on and on and on it goes. It

is truly a fulfillment of Luke 21 and Matthew

24. And these signs will be in the sun and the

moon and the stars and on the earth. Distress

of nations where perplexity, the sea and the

waves roaring, men's hearts failing them from

fear. Amen. And the expectation of those things

which... are coming on the earth for the powers

of heaven will be shaken. Whatever can be shaken

will be shaken. And men who have no faith and

trust in God will be shaken to the core because

of the fear of the ending age. But let me just

stop right here for a moment. I am not in fear

of the ending age because when this age comes

to the end, there is another shift taking place.

There's another major shift yet to be made. Amen.

Oh, when our Lord is coming back to earth again.

Oh, yes, our Lord is coming back to earth again.

Satan will be bound a thousand years and will

have no tempter then. After Jesus shall come

back to earth again. There's another shift coming.

That's the one I wait for. So look, as chaos

begins to rise and turmoil and false teachers

and all of this disdain for all that is holy.

Can I just do a little pet peeve? Y 'all give

me just a minute. Just give me a minute. Don't

take this away from the serious stuff, but it

just bothered me. I saw, I'm going to have to

quit looking. I just know it. But I saw a little

post this morning. Didn't need to hit me this

morning, but I saw it. About... Had a picture

of a preacher at the door. And it was about the

holiness of the sanctuary. And it told a little

story about a fella having it real rough and

real hard. passing his church, and he decided

that he wanted to go in. And every Sunday morning,

he always got his Starbucks. And the little meme,

the little picture had a big sign that says,

no food or drinks in the sanctuary. And had this

fellow standing there with this dejected look

on his face with his coffee. And the point was

this. This is where it got me. Tried to... Turn

it on the folks of us who still revere the sanctuary

as the holy place where we come meet God, where

God does the miraculous, you know, trying to

make us feel like we don't care about people's

hurting needs and they've been in hell all week

and they just want to sit in and sip on their

coffee. Look, this ain't entertainment. I'm not

here to entertain you, honey. We're not here

about entertainment. When we come through these

doors, it's about the sanctuary of God. You say,

well, you're just old school. Will you hold on

another two to seven and I'll be out of your

way and maybe he won't be as hard as I am. But

I still call this, but if he gets anything from

me, he's going to hold the standard, honey. Amen.

I just don't believe it. They had a plate of

honey buns and a plate of donuts. And it's like

those of us who still revere the pulpit as a

sacred desk. And those of us who still revere

that the altar is where you come and you meet

a holy God. And when you come into the sanctuary,

this is the courts of his praise. And they begin

to try to make us feel. that we don't care and

we don't love. I'm here to tell you right now,

I love you and I care about the hell you're going

through enough to not have you to worry about

when the invitation comes, what are you going

to do with your cup? My God, I'm trying to take

away a hindrance from you because when the spirit

moves on you, I don't want you to have to pass

your Starbucks to somebody else to come and get

some for the Lord because you may just miss what

he has for you, honey. And I don't want you humbled.

you encumbered. I want you ready. I care about

you. Preacher Green grinning at me over here.

That's my rant for today maybe. But I mean I

read that and I started to try to feel bad. I

thought well why? That was the whole intent,

to try to make me feel bad about elevating the

holiness of God instead of the comfort of humanity.

No. Look, I don't mind a little bit of marshmallows

for you young 'uns to keep them quiet. That's

not what I'm saying. Are you hearing me? Pay

attention. But this, this in here. This is the

holy place. This is the holy place. And the reason

it needs to remain holy is because of what I'm

talking about. Because of the chaos and the turmoil

and the affliction and the hell that you're living

through every week. There needs to be a place

that you can come in that is separated from the

world. That you can come in. into the presence

of the Lord and you can encounter him. You don't

have to lift up one hand and shift one hand.

No, you can just come in with both hands surrendered.

And by the way, when we get to the point of passing

on worship and praise, you're going to find out

that the scripture, the Bible, encourages you

and I to extend our hands in position of surrender.

It's five -fold gospel. Matthew 24, 5 -8. For

many will come in my name saying I am the Christ

and that's happened. Still happens today. And

many they will deceive many and you will hear

of wars and rumors of wars. Listen to this. You

need to put this in your Bible. You need to underline

it. You need to circle it. Matthew 24, 5 through

8. You need to go home and read it. And you need

to dig into it. And you will hear of wars and

of rumors of wars. And here I parenthesize it

on my note. See that you are not troubled. See

that you are not troubled. The Bible says, see

that you are not troubled. He's talking to the

believers. He's talking to the Christ -like ones.

He's talking to his disciples. You're going to

hear of wars and rumors of wars, and there are

going to be false teachers and doctrine deceiving

many, but see that you are not troubled. My God,

what are you saying, Pastor? Stop your panic

mode. This world's going to hell in a handbasket,

and that's the way it's supposed to go. See that

you're not troubled. Oh, he goes on. For all

these things must come to pass. Now, here's another

line. But the end is not yet. For all these things

must come to pass. For nation will rise against

nation, kingdom against kingdom. And there will

be famines and pestilence and earthquakes and

diverse places. And all these are the beginning

of sorrows. So what am I supposed to do? Rejoice,

and again I say rejoice. Rejoice in the Lord

always, and again I say rejoice. Well, why should

I rejoice, Pastor? Because the prophecy of the

book, the words of the Christ are coming to pass

right before your very eyes. If you don't have

any other reason to believe that Jesus is the

Son of God, the one who is the gospel of the

good news, then you ought to look around and

see the chaos and the turmoil and realize, that

every preacher you ever heard preach Jesus to

you has told you the truth. And because I know

the truth, I am not troubled. It takes you praying

a while to get to where you're not troubled.

It takes you walking through some things to not

get troubled. It takes you enduring some hardships

for you to not be troubled. But he said, don't

be troubled. It's all got to happen. 2 Timothy

4, 3 and 4 says, for the time will come. When

they will not endure sound doctrine, but according

to their own desires, heap to themselves, having

itching ears, they'll heap to themselves teachers,

and they will turn their ears away from the truth

and be turned aside to fables. 3 and 1, 2 Timothy,

but know this, that in the last days perilous

times shall come. Perilous means harsh, savage,

difficult, dangerous, painful, fierce, grievous.

Difficult to deal with. The word describes our

society to a T today. Here we go, moving on.

And we have a world that's trying to live through

this without Jesus. And the whole reason you

and I have been redeemed, saved from our sin,

cleansed from our unrighteousness, is that we

could continue like John and tell the good news

that Jesus Christ is the gospel message. Amen.

He is the Son of God. He is your Savior. In John

1, 29, 34, here's what John recorded to the words

of John the Baptist. Behold the Lamb of God which

takes away the sins of the world. Who is he talking

about? He's just right here telling you, I'm

not him. I'm not the one. But there's one coming

after me whose shoes, whose sandals, I'm not

worthy to stoop down and unlatch. Well, I'm baptizing

you for remissions of sins. But when he comes,

here's what he's going to do for you. He's going

to baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with some

fire. Amen. He's coming with his fan in his hand.

And now here's John in Jordan baptizing converts.

And he looks up and he sees Jesus coming. And

he said to them, behold, the Lamb of God. which

takes away the sins of the world. But Matthew

would put it like this in 26 through 28. When

Jesus is in that upper room on that last night

of his earthly life, he's up there and he takes

bread and he breaks it, amen? And he hands it

to him and tells him to eat it all. And then

he says this in verse 27. For this is my blood

when he took the cup. Are you hearing me? Jesus

is your Savior. Point number one of this five

-fold is Jesus is your Savior. For this is my

blood of the New Testament shed for the remission

of sins for many. Huh? I got to read another

one to you here just to me. I figure I have to

get over to the stupid thing. See, when you want

it, you can't find it. Help me, Lord. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. I found it. Jesus is your Savior. I just

want to make sure I get it. I want to read it

right. You know what I'm saying? Because I don't

want you leaving here saying, that preacher preached

something crazy. It's not even in the Bible.

But if I read it out of the Bible and then declare

it to you, there's no argument. He is your Savior.

Everybody knows that. Amen. For God so loved

the world that he gave his only begotten son,

that whosoever believeth in him should not perish

but have everlasting life. I just quoted to you

John 1, 28 and 9 in there, where he declared,

Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the

sin of the world. We hear Christ himself saying,

This is the cup of my blood. This is my blood,

which is shed for the remission of many for their

sins. He is the only one. When he declared, I

am the Christ. Come on. Remember when Peter would

ask the question, Who do people say that I am?

Peter said, Well, some say it like that. some

Elijah, some Elijah, some Jeremiah. They even

declare you to be maybe just one of the other

prophets. And then he looked the old boy right

dead in the eye and said, well, Peter, who do

you say that I am? And my God, there was something

went up old Peter's spine and he began to declare,

thou art the Christ. Amen. You need to know that

Christ is not Jesus, his last name. Christ is

his identification. Christ is who he is. He is

the anointed one. He is the redeemed one. He

is the Messiah that was to come. art the Christ,

the Son of the living God. Blessed art thou,

Simon Bar -Jonah, for flesh and blood. Hold up

a minute, brother. Hold up a minute. Flesh and

blood hadn't revealed this unto you. But my Father,

which is in heaven, hath revealed this unto you.

He's your Savior. And he's your sanctifier. Now,

we don't hear a lot of that. But, folks, you

need sanctified. You need to sanctify. Well,

what is that, Pastor? Glad you asked. It means

to be cleansed and set apart. Set apart from

what? What you were and what the world is. What

does that mean? That means you act different.

You talk different. You listen to different music.

Well, how do I get that, you pray? And you begin

to ask Jesus to sanctify you? Well, how does

he do that? Again, great question. Here's your

answer. John 17, 17. Sanctify them through thy

truth. Thy word is truth. Now, let's go to John

6 if my memory serves me halfway correct. I think

it's John 6. It's where he begins to declare,

I am the way. The what? And no... So he's washing

us. He's the truth. Hebrews 13, 12 says, Wherefore

Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people

with his own blood, suffered without the gate.

You can go look at Hebrews 10, 10 too. And he'll

record it right there for you that Jesus Christ

is the one who sanctifies you. He washes you.

It's a second work of grace is what the old Methodist

preacher John Wesley began to declare. Oh, yeah,

I quote a good Methodist. Oh, John Wesley, he

began to say there is a second work of grace,

and that second work of grace will sanctify you.

Do you know what sanctification actually does

in your life? How many remember when you gave

your heart to the Lord and you went back to work

on Monday around some of those same people? It

was kindly hard, and you still had a desire to

kindly do what they do and say what they say.

laugh at what they laugh at and tell what they

tell and you have a struggle. Anybody else besides

me had a struggle? I had a struggle living that

Christ -like life. Even though I repented of

my sin, I had to repent over and over because

I kept right on sinning. I kept right on getting

it. You know, I just kept right on doing it.

And then I heard the pastor preach about sanctification.

I thought, well, if sanctification will make

it a little easier for me to live right out from

under the weight and the guilt of every time

I sin. Now, if you're not feeling guilt when

you sin, then we got another issue I need to

go back and preach to you about Jesus as your

Savior. Because if you're not convicted from

your sin, We got to get there first. But if you

are, you begin to pray. You begin to seek God

and tell him to sanctify you. And when sanctification

comes into your life, here's the identifier.

This is how I identified sanctification in my

life. When my will to sin changed. My will to

sin. What are you saying, Pat? When my want to

changed. I prayed to Jesus touched me. And a

touch from glory. And it felt just like the day

he rolled the burden of my original sin away.

And I prayed through and I asked him to sanctify

me. And my will, Pastor Terry, to change. My

will changed. I didn't no longer will to sin.

My will was to please the heart of God. Not the

will of old Cliff. My flesh had to die that day.

I prayed, Lord, sanctify me. Now I understand

that I am washed because he is the one who sanctifies

me. He is the one who cleanses me. He is the

one who changes my will to continue to sin. My

God is no longer up and down or in and out for

me. It's more up and down. Amen. I don't go in

and out of his grace. And I know there's that

doctrine out there that says that once you're

in, you're always in. Well, honey, you come too

late to tell me that one because when I was out,

I had enough sense to know. No, inside of me

and down in my knower, I knew if I died in that

unrepentant sin, my God, in the lifestyle that

I was living, I knew hell was my destination.

You didn't have to tell me that. You didn't have

to convince me of that. God just gave me a good

enough sense to know that by reading his book,

I cannot live any old way and still go to heaven.

Well, how come not, pastor? Do you not read the

book, folks? God is holy, and without holiness,

that no man shall see the Lord. Amen? No man.

You can't get in without a holy eye. So I pose

a question. How much sin gets in? He's your sanctifier.

Pray to sanctification. Your will to sin changes.

Your will to cuss. Wash your mouth. Have him

sanctify your eyes. Your eyes are the gateway

to your soul. See, I wouldn't have had to repent

for what I felt about that person who put that

stupid meme this morning. Had I not looked at

it, if it hadn't got in the gate, I wouldn't

have had to ask the Lord to forgive me for what

I thought about him for putting that on there.

I'd say, you idiot. I'll just confess to you.

How stupid. How far... I begin to process how

far are we actually away? How far have we drifted?

How much compromise have we let in that this

is no longer a holy place? This isn't preaching

among my peers. This isn't popular either. No.

No. No, they look at me funny too. And I look

at them like, I'm trying, Brother Milton, not

to have to repent again. I think, how far have

we drifted? I'm not talking about you, the congregation.

Let's get right here on my side of the podium

for a minute. How far has ministry drifted? How

far have we gotten to compromise where we just

want them in, let them bring their donut, let

them bring their gravy and biscuit from Hardee's.

I've picked that stuff up out of Sanctuary before.

And the next Sunday I come in, oh, there was

Hardee cups, biscuit and gravy, little trays

left. On Monday when I made my circle through

the Sanctuary, I got myself a garbage can and

I went to gathering. Next Sunday morning, pastor

come down, 500 people sitting out there. And

I dumped it in front of them. I said, you forgot

your trash last week. You say, uh -oh, I didn't

know you was one of them. I'm one of them. I'm

one of them. I am one of them. Because God is

holy. I don't know why I have to keep coming

to this. Somebody in here thinks that we ought

to compromise. You want your coffee. You want

your honey bun. Well, let me tell you, there's

many places that they'll say you won. Right out

front. Not me. Compromise, but he'll sanctify

you. He'll sanctify you. And we're going to finish

on your spirit baptizer. He is your healer. What

time is it? We got time? No, I've done preached

past your endurance. Who wants to go to heaven?

The rest of you are dismissed. I'm going to preach

on. You don't want to go to heaven, you don't

want to hang around me. Because I assure you,

I am more stringent on my own faith and my own

life than I ever am with you. If I laid on you

how I think we ought to live for sure, and I've

tried to debate between my personal convictions

and the word, but I tell you what, I guarantee

you no more happy than I am living this away.

He's your healer. Jesus is your healer. This

is part of that fivefold. He is your healer.

Savior, sanctifier, he is your healer. By his

stripes, ye are healed. By his stripes, ye are

healed. We preach divine healing. Why? Because

I serve a divine God. And my God is not diminished

in his power. I know there's a bunch out there.

They are called cessationists. They think God

doesn't do anything like that anymore. Well,

you come too late on Friday, Thursday or Friday.

There was no way that they were going to give

an extra day. Not one extra day for Brother John

to stay over there and get something. Not one

extra day was they going to give. So they filed

a reappeal. They done been denied. Amen. What's

that old song in that old red back hymn? It says,

I would not be denied. Oh, I would not be denied.

Right? And so you come too late to tell me that

God still doesn't heal and God still doesn't

do miracles and God still doesn't open doors.

I wonder, anybody in here been divinely, physically

healed in this room? Would you stand to your

feet? I mean, you know had it not been for God,

you wouldn't have what you have today. Look around

you. You come too late to tell these people,

amen, that he is not a healer. is your healer.

Right there sits a man that would have been dead

just a few months ago, but the hand of God touched

his life. I've seen it with my own eyes, amen.

The healer is in the house. You say, well, pastor,

he hadn't healed Sister Kathy or he hadn't healed

this one or he hadn't healed that one. That's

not my call. That's not my priority. You know

what my priority is? My priority is what the

Bible says. If there's any sick among you, let

them call upon the elders of the church and let

them get a bottle of oil. Let them grab a bottle

of Earl. Get a little Earl out and anoint them.

And the prayer of faith shall heal the sick.

And get this, and if they've committed any sin,

they shall be forgiven. He's your healer. So

let me just encourage you. Get real quiet right

here, Brother Scotty. This has got to be good

and clear. Y 'all can sit down. It's got to be

real good and clear. So do not let the devil

talk you into getting down on God because he

healed somebody else and he ain't healed your

loved one. Well, God, why? It's not the why,

it's the why not. Who do we think we are? That

we should never have any trouble? No, no. No,

no, no, no, no. We go through the trouble so

those who are in hell without Christ living in

this world in turmoil, we go through the trouble,

the trial, and the tribulations. We go through

with our hands lifted up knowing that any prayer

that we could pray could be the prayer. Are you

hearing me? The next time you pray, it could

be. You say, well, am I supposed to keep going?

He said, come boldly, and I'm going every time

I can. Amen. I've told you every night before

we lay down, a hand goes on our forehead. And

I say, Lord, you are able. You can heal her if

you will. But if not, I'm still going to praise

you. I'm still going to declare your truth. So,

don't get down on God if things ain't going the

way you want them to go. Could be a lesson for

you. I trust in God. My Savior, the one. Do you?

Do you really trust him? If you trust him as

your healer, you do know that everybody that

stood up a while ago testifying to the healing

power of God. Hold on right here. Do you know

they're going to get sick and die? Well, that's

awful morbid, Pastor. What's morbid about a child

of God dying? See, there again, therein lies

your problem. You're too much worried about this

world. I'm crying with John. Even so, Lord Jesus,

come quickly. You're saying you want to die?

No. I want to go on a rapture. Personally. I

enjoy life in spite of the hell the enemy brings

in it, in spite of all that sin has done to it.

I love life. This is the best two and a half

hours of my week. Right here. Sorry you have

to indulge it all, but I don't feel any better

than I do right here. See, he's your savior.

He's your healer. He's your sanctifier. No other

name. Under heaven, given among men, whereby

we must be saved. But at the name of Jesus, every

knee shall bow. Every tongue shall confess that

he is Lord. So I'm down now and confessing now.

I ain't waiting until then. He's healer. So lift

your head up. Pick your head up. I prayed and

I prayed. Okay. You need more practice. Keep

praying. Well, the heavens are shut up. No, they're

not. No, no, they're wide open. Because if he

shut it up for you, then it ain't open for me.

Heaven's 24 -7. It's better than Walmart. Heaven's

open. Well, why don't he? I don't know that.

It's not his will. Well, why isn't it? Don't

know that either. And let me just tell you this

little secret. I won't be asking him when I get

there either. People say, well, I'm just going

to talk to the Lord, and I'm going to ask him

why. No, you're not. Why waste that split second

of eternity? Why really doesn't matter? Oh, I'm

happiness now. Why don't matter? So put your

smile on your face. Put the joy of the Lord down

in your heart. Let the bucket down in the well

of your salvation, as Isaiah would say, and draw

up a fresh bucket of joy. James said, my brethren,

count it all joy when you fall into divers' different

temptations. He said, the working of your patience

is going to come out like gold. Never, never,

look at me. If you never hear anything else I

say, hear what I'm about to tell you. Never bow

a knee and lift your voice to God and say, God,

give me patience. I'm telling you right now,

that's one prayer I forbid you to pray. Never

let those words cross your lips. I know some

of you are impatient. I know you get hateful

when you're impatient. But that's not the prayer

you want. Because according to the book, trials

and tribulation work with patience. And let me

just tell you how God knows. And when she is

finished. Y 'all just missed that. Patience is

described as feminine. God knows. And evidently

you do too. When it's had its perfect work and

when it's finished with you. You'll be able to

stand then. You won't complain. But look, learn

it now. Just don't complain because you don't

want God to teach you. Pray the other portion

there in James. If any man lacks wisdom, let

him ask of God who giveth unto all men liberally.

Ask him to help you be wise to handle the situation.

Do not ask him for patience because he's just

liable to grant it to you. Yeah, you'll have

two flats. The washing machine and the dryer

will go out. Them little heathens of yours will

carry on at school, and you'll have to go down

there and get them. He's going to work on you,

because you know what? He knows what needs worked

on. All right, number four. He's your soon -coming

king. We're going to have to get number three

next week, ain't we? He's your soon coming king.

Stand with me. I'm going to close with it. I

don't know why we get in a hurry. I don't know

why I get in a hurry. If the Lord don't come,

we got next week. Amen. But if he does come,

here's what it's going to look like. Paul told

the Corinthians, behold, I show you a mystery.

We shall not all sleep. He talked to them about

those who had already fallen asleep, who had

already died. What it was going to look like

for them in the end. To the Thessalonians in

the first letter in the fourth chapter, he says,

there's a trumpet going to sound. There's an

angel that's going to shout. He's our soon coming

king. There's an angel that's going to shout.

And there's going to be another transitional

shift. Those who have died in the Lord are going

to be raised up first. I don't mind to be second.

Matter of fact, the book says the last will be

first. I'd just soon be alive and well to hear

that trumpet. I want you to think about that

in this flesh that we're living in. That we live

our faith up front. We don't compromise. Don't

compromise your faith. You hear me? Live a holy

life. You know what sin is. Stop doing it. That's

what the author of Hebrews said. Let us lay aside

the weight and the sin which doth so easily beset

us. Looking unto Jesus who is the author and

the finisher of our faith. Who for the joy that

was set before him endured the shame even the

cross for you. Is it too much to ask that you

live right if you want to go to his house? I

don't think it's too much to ask. Matter of fact,

it's the criteria. He's going to appear in the

clouds of glory. He's not coming back to earth

this time at this 1 Corinthians 15, 1 Thessalonians

4 description. That's not when he's coming back

to earth. He's going to come in the clouds with

open arms. And when that angel shout finishes

echoing, And the blast of the trumpet settles.

The dead in Christ are going to rise. And then

according to the word of God, we which are alive

and remain shall be changed. And together. See,

nobody gets there ahead of anybody else. We get

there together. And together we'll be caught

up. You got people who say, well, the word rapture

don't even, it's not even in Scripture. No, but

caught up is. And it's the same thing. You're

leaving here. You're leaving here. Then what,

Pastor? Well, for a thousand years. We're going

to sit at a big, long banqueting table at the

marriage supper of the Lamb. You do know that

we are described as the bride of Christ. So,

our King is coming. Are you ready to meet Him?

Are you ready to meet Him? Heads bowed and eyes

closed.