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The Revelation That Changed the World | Mark Brazee | World Outreach Church

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  1. Father, we thank you for the name you've

  2. given to us.

  3. Wherefore God has highly exalted him and

  4. given him a name.

  5. And you gave the name to us. And we're

  6. we're so appreciative, [music] Lord. We

  7. give glory to your name.

  8. Thank you for your presence here [music]

  9. this morning. Thank you, Father, for

  10. what you have done, what you are doing,

  11. what you're yet to do.

  12. Thank you, Father. What a privilege to

  13. be in your family.

  14. What a privilege to be in the family of

  15. almighty God. We're grateful.

  16. We don't take it lightly.

  17. And we trust you for your leading, your

  18. guidance, your direction this morning.

  19. Father, do what you want to do.

  20. Meet needs. Answer questions.

  21. Take care of people.

  22. Hallelujah.

  23. Glory to God. You're not only God,

  24. you're Father.

  25. And we're thankful for it. In Jesus'

  26. name, dear Father.

  27. Amen.

  28. Amen. Amen. Amen. Glory to God. Well,

  29. turn and shake hands with somebody. Tell

  30. them you're glad they came to church

  31. [music] today.

  32. Hallelujah.

  33. Glory to God.

  34. For the Lord is good.

  35. And His mercy endures forever. For the

  36. Lord, He's good.

  37. >> [music]

  38. >> And His mercy endures forever. For the

  39. Lord, He is good.

  40. For the Lord, He is good and His mercy

  41. endures forever.

  42. >> [music]

  43. >> Hallelujah.

  44. Glory to God.

  45. >> [music]

  46. >> Glory to God. Well, good morning.

  47. Good to see everyone. Happy Father's

  48. Day.

  49. Hallelujah. Glory to God for all the

  50. natural fathers, spiritual fathers.

  51. Glory to God. All those that are in a

  52. fatherhood capacity in somebody's life,

  53. bringing direction, leading, and

  54. guidance.

  55. Thankful for you. You know, um

  56. if you think about it,

  57. we go back through the scriptures and we

  58. find all of the genealogies and you go

  59. back who was the son of this one, who

  60. was the son of this one, who was the son

  61. of Adam, who was the son of God.

  62. Last time we have somebody that's called

  63. the son of God was Adam.

  64. And uh for about 4,000 years ago,

  65. he was the son of God and then course,

  66. you know, when you've got the the fall

  67. in the garden and

  68. and all that and Adam lost that

  69. position, lost that place. And so we go

  70. for the next 4,000 years and we've got

  71. generations of of um servants. We got

  72. generations of people who love God. We

  73. got generations of people who you know,

  74. connected to God. But you go 4,000 years

  75. and you we don't find anybody called a

  76. son of God.

  77. Don't find anybody in there called a son

  78. of God. That privilege was lost.

  79. So, but God spent 4,000 years getting us

  80. ready.

  81. Prophesied about Jesus. Prophesied about

  82. his life, his death, his burial, his

  83. resurrection and his ministry,

  84. everything about his his his existence.

  85. And so for about 4,000 years and then we

  86. know from the scriptures for God so

  87. loved the world he gave his only

  88. begotten son.

  89. Whosoever believes on him should not

  90. perish but have everlasting life. So we

  91. come down 4,000 years down the road. We

  92. went 4,000 years until we come into

  93. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and

  94. suddenly suddenly

  95. suddenly

  96. God goes beyond being a God. He he he

  97. was still God, he is still God.

  98. Okay? But he became father.

  99. And so everything changed. So 4,000

  100. years of God being God then into the

  101. last 2,000 years he became father. We

  102. we're in the family of God.

  103. And when everything changed, when God

  104. put us into his family, we've got his uh

  105. genetics.

  106. Someone goes, "What does that mean?" I

  107. don't know, but I'm glad it works.

  108. We've got his genetics, we've got his

  109. life, his death, his We got his

  110. resurrection. We've got everything that

  111. pertains to life and godliness. For God

  112. so loved the world, he gave us only

  113. begotten son. So, so you know, so many

  114. things we celebrate today with the

  115. natural fathers. But if you stop and

  116. think about it, we've got Father God

  117. who goes way beyond our

  118. ability.

  119. You know, Pastor Jan was talking about

  120. all the birds being taken care of.

  121. That's why I don't do it.

  122. Said they've got a good job taking care

  123. of here. Got trees, got bushes. They're

  124. all taken care of. I don't need to go

  125. But anyway, we won't get into that.

  126. Uh somehow I'm going to lose out on that

  127. >> [clears throat]

  128. >> argument. But yes, I hear some yes, yes,

  129. yes. Got a bag of seed. I just haven't

  130. opened it up for a year or two. But

  131. anyway,

  132. But God knows how to take care of us.

  133. The Lord is my shepherd, I don't have a

  134. want.

  135. And then we get into the new covenant

  136. and we have

  137. we have a Father God.

  138. And as good as any natural father could

  139. be, it's nothing compared to what our

  140. heavenly father is. Knows how to take

  141. care of every part of our lives. So

  142. anyway, so um

  143. all of the fathers in here today, we

  144. appreciate you. We appreciate what

  145. you're doing. You know, I was thinking

  146. earlier today about my father.

  147. I've had I talked to somebody the other

  148. day.

  149. Haven't hadn't seen him in a year or so.

  150. And they said, "Boy, I never I've never

  151. forgotten your your father."

  152. I'm sure. And he was quite a character

  153. until the time he took his last breath

  154. and stepped over to the other side. I

  155. figure he's still a character on the

  156. other side. I've never asked God what

  157. he's doing over there. I figure I

  158. honestly don't want to know.

  159. I know he's got things stirred up and

  160. mom's trying to keep him in line. But

  161. anyway, um

  162. you know, so appreciative of what a

  163. father can do. It go It goes beyond just

  164. being somebody that gives directions,

  165. gives orders, and get a father somebody

  166. that leads, guides, directs, and all

  167. that. So, uh appreciate what the fathers

  168. do. Thank you. Thank you for what you've

  169. invested in so many lives. Yeah, go

  170. ahead.

  171. Give them a hand.

  172. Hallelujah. Praise God. Well, Father, in

  173. the name of Jesus, we're just grateful

  174. for your love, your goodness, your

  175. mercy, your blessing.

  176. And we thank you, Father, for your

  177. direction in the service this morning,

  178. for what you have uh in store for us,

  179. for we what you have what we believe you

  180. have planned for us. Uh we thank you for

  181. it in the wonderful name of Jesus, and

  182. we do trust you for uh utterance. As the

  183. Apostle Paul said,

  184. uh praying always with all prayer and

  185. supplication in the spirit and watching

  186. thereunto with all perseverance and

  187. supplication for all saints, and for me

  188. that utterance may be given unto me,

  189. that I may open my mouth boldly to make

  190. known the mystery of the gospel. Father,

  191. we do trust you and thank you for

  192. utterance, words to speak, not just what

  193. we know, but what you know. We thank you

  194. in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Glory to

  195. God. Well, again, good to be here with

  196. you this morning

  197. uh in church. Hallelujah. You know, I I

  198. was thinking we we uh

  199. have some uh information, I'll put it

  200. that way, from someone that's in

  201. uh another uh land right now

  202. uh where uh they're they're not allowed

  203. to technically not allowed to go to a

  204. church, they're not allowed to go to get

  205. together and worship there. They're

  206. They're uh

  207. uh

  208. Well, anyway, we'll just say they don't

  209. have rights and privileges. And I was

  210. thinking about that this morning, and I

  211. thought what a blessing we have to live

  212. here in good old USA.

  213. You know, what a what an amazing

  214. blessing it is, okay? They were talking

  215. about the the celebration we'll have on

  216. the What is the 5th, I think it is, uh

  217. of uh

  218. uh July. And uh we're going to have a

  219. celebration.

  220. Got a lot to celebrate. What God did,

  221. everything he did to raise up a nation

  222. for the purposes of why

  223. why he raised this nation up. And

  224. privilege to be a part of it, okay? Now,

  225. I know a lot of folks have you know,

  226. said different things and have different

  227. opinions and that's okay. They can be

  228. wrong if they want, but

  229. Pastor Janet and I've been to I don't

  230. know,

  231. over 50 nations and and

  232. you know, I hear Larry over there. And

  233. you know, when you've been other places,

  234. when you get back doesn't matter. It

  235. does Do we have we made mistakes? Oh, we

  236. got plenty of mistakes.

  237. We've made lots of mistakes in America.

  238. Still making mistakes. Well, I don't

  239. like this one. I don't like that one. It

  240. really doesn't matter who we like, okay?

  241. What matters is who we if we if we

  242. whether we like folks or not, we pray

  243. for them.

  244. That's our job.

  245. And so basically, you know, we've got a

  246. we have a

  247. a great privilege to live in this

  248. nation. Like it or not, this is still

  249. the best nation in the world.

  250. We've been to some good ones. We've been

  251. to some great ones. We've been to some

  252. bad ones. We've been to some

  253. under different

  254. government systems.

  255. I've only been taken into a police

  256. station once that I recall.

  257. I mean in another nation. And uh,

  258. >> [laughter]

  259. >> But

  260. you know, when you go when you travel

  261. places around the world under different

  262. systems and different governments and

  263. all that, all you got to do is come back

  264. to America and hang around here a little

  265. bit and and it doesn't matter what you

  266. hear or what people bring up or what

  267. somebody does like or what somebody

  268. doesn't like,

  269. you know, if honestly, if you're real

  270. honest about it, when you get back into

  271. America if you've been somewhere else

  272. for a few months or whatever, you want

  273. to get out and kiss the ground because

  274. there's something about this place. It

  275. was raised by divine order. So anyway,

  276. but that's not my subject for this

  277. morning. So,

  278. So, anyway,

  279. um

  280. I'm going to go back actually I'm going

  281. to start out with

  282. Acts chapter 2.

    Acts 2 chapter mention

  283. And uh I've got too many directions

  284. here. That's the issue. Acts chapter 2

    Acts 2 chapter mention

  285. where it says back there, "Uh and when

  286. the day of Pentecost was fully come,

  287. they were all with one accord in one

  288. place. And suddenly there came a sound

  289. from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind

  290. filled all the house where they are

  291. sitting.

  292. There appeared under them cloven tongues

  293. like as of fire and sat upon each one of

  294. them. And they're all filled with the

  295. Holy Ghost began to speak with other

  296. tongues as the Spirit gave them

  297. utterance." And you know, of course, we

  298. know the outpouring of the Holy Ghost on

  299. the day of Pentecost. That's where Peter

  300. stood up as the leader of the troops in

  301. that particular day. Peter stood up and

  302. he preached the he preached the message

  303. on the day of Pentecost where the gospel

  304. was declared to the to the Jewish world,

  305. okay?

  306. And if you read on down through the

  307. chapter, you'll see that you really in

  308. his altar call, you know, Peter he

  309. denied Jesus three times in the night

  310. that he's betrayed, but when he got into

  311. his first altar call, he got 3,000

  312. people born again.

  313. He made up for the difference.

  314. And so, we would go in there and we see

  315. Peter, you know, he's preaching

  316. this this amazing message, "These men

  317. are not all drunken as you suppose

  318. seeing it's but the third hour of the

  319. day, but this is the beginning of that

  320. which was spoken by the prophet Joel. In

  321. the last day saith God, I will pour out

  322. of my spirit upon all flesh. Your sons

  323. and daughters will prophesy." Well, we

  324. know the whole story there. We could go

  325. into all that, but don't have time for

  326. that this morning.

  327. But anyway, that that was the outpouring

  328. of the Holy Ghost on the Jewish world.

  329. That was God pouring the spirit of God

  330. out on the Jewish persons. And they were

  331. they were from all the region round

  332. about. If you want to read Acts chapter

    Acts 1 chapter mention

  333. 1, Acts chapter 2, you'll see that they

    Acts 2 chapter mention

  334. came from all the they came to do

  335. business there. And and this is the day

  336. of Pentecost. They came in for the

  337. feast. They came in to do business

  338. there. And when they did,

  339. uh they They had the resurrection of

  340. Jesus. Now we've got the outpouring of

  341. the Holy Ghost on the Jewish world.

  342. Well, that that's wonderful. And then

  343. the church began to grow and multiply

  344. and multitudes were added to the Lord

  345. such as should be saved. You can follow

  346. this through

  347. from Acts chapter 2

    Acts 2 chapter mention

  348. to about Acts roughly the 10th chapter.

  349. And when you get to the 10th chapter,

  350. all of a sudden you look over there and

  351. and

  352. the church has been okay. The church has

  353. been doing well. The church in Jerusalem

  354. has has thrived and churches

  355. beginning to spread to other places to a

  356. good degree. But when you get over there

  357. into Acts the 10th chapter, all of a

  358. sudden we see this is imagine that 12 12

  359. years later. You've got the good news of

  360. Jesus on planet Earth. His death, his

  361. burial, his resurrection

  362. and and really 12 years down the road,

  363. it had not technically had not gotten

  364. past the the the Jewish world.

  365. And so when you get over there to Acts

    Acts 10 chapter mention

  366. chapter

  367. 10 and

  368. verse 1 says talks about how I'm going

  369. to kind of hurry through this cuz

  370. there's a lot I want to get covered

  371. before we finish up. When you get to the

  372. 10th chapter the book of Acts

  373. there was

  374. in Caesarea there was a there was a

  375. Roman Centurion Cornelius, okay?

  376. And apparently a very wealthy man. He

  377. had servants. He had he had those that

  378. waited on him. He had a lot of folks

  379. that that looked to him for leadership.

  380. And but he he he loved God. He gave alms

  381. regularly. He was a giver. He prayed

  382. regularly. He loved God. The only

  383. problem was he'd never heard the good

  384. news of Jesus.

  385. He knew that he knew he knew the

  386. Old Testament. He knew the law. He knew

  387. to give. He knew to pray. He just didn't

  388. he just wasn't born again.

  389. And so he's just doing all he knows to

  390. do and it says about about 3:00 in the

  391. afternoon one day all of a sudden an

  392. angel appears to him and uh says

  393. Cornelius, of course it scared him. He

  394. said, "Lord, what do you want?" And he

  395. said, "Your prayers and I love this,

  396. your prayers and your alms have come up

  397. as a memorial before God."

  398. God God He's pleased with when we do

  399. things like that. He's pleased when we

  400. pray. He's pleased when we give. He

  401. says, "Your prayers and your alms have

  402. come up as a memorial before God." And

  403. he says, "Now, send to Joppa. When you

  404. get down there, go to the house of one

  405. Simon the tanner. He lives by the

  406. seaside and there's the the there's the

  407. uh Peter is staying with him in there.

  408. Go get him and and uh

  409. he's got something to tell you."

  410. And interesting. All right, the angel

  411. didn't give him the gospel. The angel

  412. didn't preach the death, burial, and

  413. resurrection. He just said, "Go to

  414. Joppa. Go to the seaside. Go to to uh uh

  415. Simon's house. Get Peter over there and

  416. go get him and bring him in."

  417. Well, now that's fine except

  418. Cornelius is a Gentile.

  419. And the Jews don't hang out with a

  420. Gentile. That's just not the way this

  421. thing worked for about 4,000 years. This

  422. doesn't work real well that way.

  423. But But this angel says, "Go get him and

  424. bring him."

  425. So So God doesn't leave it at that way.

  426. You know, fast forward a day or so and

  427. Peter, he's over there. He's hungry.

  428. He's going up about noon. He's going up

  429. on the top of the house going up getting

  430. ready for lunch. They're going to

  431. prepare the lunch. And when he's up

  432. there, he falls over into a trance.

  433. Okay. Now, I don't know if you've ever

  434. seen anybody fall into a trance. I

  435. remember being in uh

  436. uh Tulsa camp meeting one time, Brother

  437. Hagin was walking across the platform

  438. about to finish out the service and all

  439. of a sudden he went down face first on

  440. the platform. Everybody gasped in the

  441. room. Everybody thought he'd had a heart

  442. attack or something. Mom Hagin goes,

  443. "Oh, that's okay. It happens all the

  444. time." And uh

  445. he what he'd done he'd fallen over into

  446. a trance.

  447. Uh I I was on the in front row so I

  448. remember what happened was trance is

  449. when uh you fall over in bodily over

  450. into a place where you you see over in

  451. the realm of the spirit. God shows

  452. things to people in cases like that. So,

  453. anyway,

  454. um

  455. we we look there and and Peter goes up

  456. on the house top I'll stop to pray.

  457. They're preparing lunch down there. He

  458. said he's real hungry. He's going up on

  459. the house top to pray and he falls over

  460. into a trance and he sees a sheet let

  461. down from heaven knit at the four

  462. corners full of all manner of

  463. unclean beasts, all kinds of unclean

  464. animals, the critters.

  465. The only things you're not supposed to

  466. eat as a Jewish believer.

  467. And so, anyway, he sees this come down

  468. from heaven. This heaven opens up this

  469. gets let down. He sees all these

  470. animals. There had to be a large It had

  471. to be a large entity because had all

  472. kinds of all manner of unclean beasts.

  473. And he looks up and hears a voice

  474. saying, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat."

  475. Peter said, "Not so, Lord. I've never

  476. eaten anything unclean." He said, "What

  477. I've cleansed don't call common."

  478. Okay? And

  479. you know, and and then this happens

  480. three times and the third time it went

  481. back up into heaven and Peter still

  482. didn't know what this meant.

  483. What does this mean? He saw this sheet

  484. let down from heaven full of all manner

  485. of unclean beasts, unclean under the

  486. Levitical law. You don't eat those.

  487. Okay, you sure don't cook them for

  488. lunch. And he looks up there and all of

  489. a sudden this voice says, "Rise, Peter,

  490. kill and eat." He said, "Not so, Lord.

  491. I've never eaten anything unclean like

  492. that. And what I've cleansed don't call

  493. common or unclean." And then went back

  494. up into heaven.

  495. Peter's sitting there. He doesn't know

  496. what this means. Then the spirit of God

  497. speaks to him and said, "There's three

  498. men there at the door waiting for you.

  499. Go with them nothing doubting." So, this

  500. whole thing what God's done to be able

  501. to speak to Cornelius over there, have

  502. him send two of his men with one of his

  503. soldiers all the way they're going to

  504. get he just said, "Go get Peter. Tell

  505. him he's got something to tell you."

  506. tell you about salvation. He's going to

  507. tell you about the new birth. He just

  508. said, "Go get him at his house." He

  509. said, "All right." Brought him inside.

  510. The next day they left. Come get you,

  511. you got something to tell us.

  512. Okay, Cornelius has brought together all

  513. of his friends, all of his family. We

  514. got to understand he's a he is a Roman

  515. but he's brought them all together. All

  516. he knows is this angel and brought If

  517. you look at Acts chapter 10 verse 34,

    Acts 10:34

  518. we can take a look at that and he said,

  519. "Sirs,

  520. here the

  521. If you think about this, Peter preached

  522. the gospel to the Jews in Acts chapter

    Acts 2 chapter mention

  523. 2. 12 years later, God gets his

  524. attention, sends him to Caesarea, gets

  525. him to Cornelius' house, puts him into

  526. the room. He's he's in a room full of

  527. Jews and not Jews, he's in a room full

  528. of Gentiles in there. And he's he looks

  529. up and think about that. In his whole

  530. life, he's never been in a place full of

  531. Gentiles. He's never had lunch with

  532. them, he's never eaten with them, he

  533. sure never eaten their food. And all of

  534. a sudden, he knows God has told him

  535. supernaturally to be at this place. So,

  536. he stands up there in Acts chapter 10

    Acts 10:34

  537. verse 34, he makes a statement that

  538. changed the course of the world.

  539. Now, I don't know about you, I do Far as

  540. I know, I don't have a Jewish bone in my

  541. body.

  542. I don't have I don't have any I I don't

  543. I I've never been under the law, I've

  544. never been under the law and not the

  545. covenant I None of that. None of that.

  546. So, what happened on this particular day

  547. changed my life.

  548. And probably a majority of us in here,

  549. it changed our life.

  550. So, anyway, Peter looks up there. He

  551. looks out and sees this I don't know how

  552. many were there but this sounds like a

  553. pretty lucrative guy that had his

  554. family, had his friends, had everybody

  555. in there, brings them all in and he

  556. looks at Peter and says, "What do you

  557. want to tell us?"

  558. They didn't know what they were looking

  559. They didn't know about the new birth.

  560. They didn't Think about this. They

  561. didn't know about Jesus.

  562. Okay?

  563. If they knew about Jesus, they would not

  564. have had to have Peter go get

  565. to their house come back to their house

  566. to tell.

  567. And so, uh Peter looks up there Acts

    Acts 10:34

  568. chapter 10 verse 34, he said, "Sirs, I

  569. perceive.

  570. I perceive. Thank God for perception. He

  571. didn't say I had a vision, a visitation.

  572. He just said, "I perceive

  573. I perceive that God is what? No

  574. respecter of persons." Think about that.

  575. 4,000 years God has had the Jews and the

  576. Gentiles. 4,000 years we've been away

  577. from God. 4,000 years. And then we get

  578. down into the ministry of Jesus, death,

  579. burial, and resurrection. We get to his

  580. resurrection time and then we get Peter

  581. over here. He preaches to the

  582. to the Jews. 12 years later God

  583. supernaturally moves to get him into the

  584. Gentile world.

  585. You know, go into all the world and

  586. preach the gospel to every

  587. >> creature.

  588. >> Every Jewish creature?

  589. They God's been trying for 12 years to

  590. get this across to him.

  591. They're just looking through religious

  592. colored glasses. They don't get it. They

  593. They don't get the fact that this this

  594. truth is for the entire world.

  595. God knew it. But it took him 12 years to

  596. get somebody from the outpouring on the

  597. Jews to the outpouring on the Gentiles.

  598. When he finally gets them in there,

  599. Peter stands up and he says, "Sirs, I

  600. perceive God's no respecter of persons."

  601. To God there's no difference between a

  602. lost Jew and a lost Gentile.

  603. To God there's no difference between a

  604. sick Jew and a sick Gentile. To God

  605. there's no difference between a broke

  606. Jew and a broke Gentile. To God that he

  607. is no respecter of persons. I remember

  608. first time I read that verse many years

  609. ago now. It would have been about 1974.

  610. I saw that verse and in looking at that

  611. I I was so glad to see that that God

  612. doesn't really He doesn't care where you

  613. come from.

  614. Doesn't care what your background is. He

  615. doesn't care what your genealogy is. He

  616. God doesn't care any about that. To him

  617. it doesn't make doesn't make any

  618. difference where you come from. It's

  619. just where you're going.

  620. He said, "I perceive

  621. Think about it. If nobody would have

  622. gotten that revelation, the gospel would

  623. have gone as far as the Jews and it

  624. would have stopped there.

  625. But God sent somebody in there. Peter

  626. goes in there,

  627. uh uh a a

  628. living Jew, okay?

  629. He goes in there and he said, "I

  630. perceive God's no respecter of persons."

  631. Now, I want to take just a few minutes

  632. and cover something here because when

  633. you go in there, he says, "I perceive

  634. God's no respecter of persons."

  635. And now he begins to preach to them.

  636. He's got to Now, when when he leaves and

  637. goes back, that's the 10th chapter. When

  638. he leaves and goes back to the brethren

  639. in the 11th chapter, he's already in

  640. trouble. They said, "We got word that

  641. you have been eating with Gentiles.

  642. You've been staying with Gentiles.

  643. You've been in the house of Gentiles."

  644. And he says, "Yeah, but you have to

  645. understand, I went up on the house top

  646. to pray about noon. I was going up

  647. getting ready for lunch,

  648. and I fell over into a trance, and I saw

  649. a sheet let down from heaven full

  650. knitted to all four corners, and it was

  651. filled with all manner of unclean

  652. beasts. And a voice spoke to me and

  653. said, 'Rise, Peter, kill and eat.' And I

  654. told him, 'No, I've never eaten anything

  655. unclean.' And said, 'What I've cleansed

  656. don't call common or unclean.'" And he

  657. said, "That happened three times, and so

  658. all the brethren said, 'Well, apparently

  659. God's given life to the Gentiles also.'"

  660. Because of one encounter, Peter was able

  661. Think about that. He preached two I

  662. mean, I He preached all the time, but he

  663. preached two major messages. He preached

  664. one

  665. one to the Jews on the day of Pentecost.

  666. 12 years later, God sends him back in,

  667. and he preaches to the Gentiles.

  668. And because of that, it went to the

  669. Gentile world, and it began to spread

  670. through the Gentile world. And we can go

  671. a little further. We can go to the 13th

  672. chapter of the book of Acts. We find

  673. uh Saul of Tarsus, who becomes the

  674. Apostle Paul, and he gets launched out

  675. of the the church at Antioch. And uh I I

  676. don't know. I've read a lot of different

  677. books, and I'm not sure who's correct,

  678. if anyone. But the books I've read have

  679. said that in in in Paul's lifetime, he

  680. planted at least 40 churches in 40

  681. different nations. Beaten, stoned,

  682. shipwrecked, left for dead, a day and

  683. night in the deep. He went through all

  684. these things. What did he do? He went

  685. out and because somebody took the time

  686. to obey the Holy Ghost. Go into

  687. Cornelius' house and preach the gospel

  688. to the Gentile world and from that point

  689. it exploded. The Gentiles were ready for

  690. answers. They they loved God under the

  691. law, they believed God under the law,

  692. but nobody brought them the light under

  693. the law. So, anyway,

  694. uh with that being the case in the 10th

  695. chapter of the book of Acts,

  696. if we look down here

  697. a little bit, I I noticed here it says

  698. in the 44th verse.

  699. Now, Peter's going to preach to them.

  700. Okay? He knows what to preach. He's

  701. heard the gospel.

  702. All right? He's been with Jesus from his

  703. death to his resurrection. He's one of

  704. the original 12 what's called

  705. Revelation 21 calls him one of the

  706. apostles of the Lamb. He's one of the

  707. original. Okay, so he knows what he's

  708. doing, but he gets over there and it

  709. says in verse 44, "While Peter yet spoke

  710. these words." This got my attention

  711. years ago. Said, "While Peter yet spoke

  712. these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all

  713. them which heard the word."

  714. Now, I don't know about you, but when I

  715. read that, I thought there was something

  716. about what he preached.

  717. Something about what he preached.

  718. There's a lot of things he could have

  719. preached. Okay? He could have preached a

  720. lot of things under the law. He could

  721. have preached the law and the covenant.

  722. He could have preached the do's and the

  723. don'ts. There's a lot he could have

  724. done, but the Bible said over there, "As

  725. Peter yet What did he say? Peter yet

  726. spoke these words?" The Holy Ghost what?

  727. There was I don't know about you, but to

  728. me there's something so powerful about

  729. Now, it wasn't a long message. This

  730. didn't go for hours, okay? This wasn't

  731. like Paul who preached all night till

  732. the guy fell out the window and

  733. died and raised him from the dead and

  734. No, this was not one of those all night

  735. meetings. He just got up there and

  736. preached what really to me it was a

  737. short message. And as he yet preached,

  738. apparently there was something so strong

  739. in that message.

  740. Okay? Now, it's not a message of

  741. everything. It's not all we need to

  742. know, but apparently, there was

  743. something so strong in that message. The

  744. Bible didn't say they heard it and

  745. believed. The Bible said the holy As

  746. Peter yet spake these words, he's still

  747. talking.

  748. I don't know about you. I'm still

  749. looking for services where the Holy

  750. Ghost will interrupt me right in the

  751. middle of it. And the Holy Ghost will

  752. fall on everybody in the place. I I'm

  753. ready for some of those, but until we

  754. get there, we'll take what we've got.

  755. But he says, "While Peter yet spoke

  756. these words,

  757. the Holy Ghost he he fell

  758. on all them that heard the word. And he

  759. goes on and says, "And they of the

  760. circumcision which believed were

  761. astonished as many as came with Peter

  762. because that on the Gentiles also was

  763. poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.

  764. For they heard them speak with tongues

  765. and magnify God." And then Peter, of

  766. course, answered them, and they took

  767. them out and baptized them. We we know

  768. the story there.

  769. But if you go back through there, "As

  770. Peter yet spake these words, the Holy

  771. Ghost fell."

  772. You know, I I

  773. We've got to be at a place in the body

  774. of Christ where the Holy Ghost can come

  775. in meetings and fall.

  776. I'm ready for times like that.

  777. I can look back. We had a meeting one

  778. time in the southern part of France.

  779. We're in a morning service, and all of

  780. sudden all of sudden the presence of God

  781. came and just filled the room. It wasn't

  782. wild, and you know, they didn't run the

  783. aisles, jump the pews, and swing from

  784. the chandeliers, but the power of God

  785. came and fell it filled the room.

  786. It was the second meeting in that

  787. particular conference we had. Second

  788. time the Holy Ghost came in and just

  789. filled the place.

  790. Now, I don't know about you. If you've

  791. never been around the presence of God,

  792. first time you get around it, you never

  793. forget.

  794. You know?

  795. I I remember being in those meetings.

  796. There was there were one, two,

  797. three, five. I think there were five of

  798. us that had gone on this trip. We were

  799. doing this meeting. It was a night

  800. service kind of in a in a a theater

  801. auditorium.

  802. And uh we're sitting there and and I

  803. could give you the names of the people

  804. that were in there. You'd probably

  805. recognize some of the names. And uh

  806. we're we're having a we're having a Holy

  807. Ghost meeting, but all of a sudden there

  808. was just this quiet presence that came

  809. into the room. We sat there for over 20

  810. minutes in total silence. There were

  811. children there there were

  812. youngsters, there were little ones all

  813. in that room, but nobody made a sound.

  814. Because there was a presence that filled

  815. that place. God did something in that

  816. place. Well, you know, no use going into

  817. it now, but goodness, you could go back

  818. there right now. There's a strong

  819. thriving actually two strong thriving

  820. local churches in that city right now

  821. because some some people took time to

  822. plow and plant and harvest and do the

  823. work there.

  824. But going back through there

  825. there was something about the presence

  826. of God that came in there.

  827. The the glory of God, the manifested

  828. presence of God that came in into that

  829. particular place. So anyway, looking

  830. back through here, we've got Peter and

  831. while he yet speaks, the Holy Ghost

  832. falls.

  833. Now, I don't know a whole lot about what

  834. went on, but we do know when the Holy

  835. Ghost fell in there, this whole room

  836. full of Gentiles, how many they are,

  837. apparently they got born again and

  838. baptized in the Holy Ghost all at the

  839. same time.

  840. Now, I've seen that happen in people's

  841. lives. I've seen folks that come in, go

  842. into a meeting, they don't know anything

  843. about the gospel, but the power of God

  844. will come on.

  845. I've heard people say that they were in

  846. meetings years ago when when the glory

  847. would come into a meeting. The

  848. manifested presence of God would come

  849. into a meeting. And like a thick white

  850. cloud would come in the back of the

  851. church and and it would just work its

  852. way up through the service, come up

  853. through the crowd. And it's just like a

  854. bright cloud that came in there. And

  855. said next thing they know, every lost

  856. person in the place is kneeling at the

  857. elders praying and getting right. Every

  858. lost person that had

  859. backslidden, lost, every and everybody

  860. said, "I don't even know how I got up

  861. here. All I know is some cloud came

  862. through there, the presence of God came

  863. in, and when that glory, when that

  864. presence came in, I next thing I know

  865. I'm not in my seat back there. I'm at

  866. the altar up here praying and getting

  867. right. Every lost person got saved.

  868. Every backslider came back to God. Every

  869. person not baptized in the Holy Ghost

  870. got filled with the Holy Ghost. God

  871. changed the whole church in one service

  872. in one night.

  873. So if those things can happen,

  874. but that's what's happening back there.

  875. Peter just he's just doing his job

  876. preaching the good news.

  877. And if you go back through there really

  878. if you go back into that 10th chapter,

  879. he's preaching the death, burial, and

  880. resurrection of Jesus. Okay? So he So So

  881. there's two things two things he

  882. ministered here.

  883. Number one, he preached about

  884. redemption.

  885. The death, burial, and resurrection of

  886. Jesus. That is the the crux of

  887. everything.

  888. But there's something else he preached

  889. here. Now I thought about this a lot in

  890. the days gone by because you've got

  891. however many

  892. uh Gentiles are in this particular

  893. place. I don't know how many there were,

  894. but they don't know anything.

  895. They don't They don't even know who

  896. Jesus was. They're serving God under the

  897. law. They're serving God under the old

  898. covenant. They're serving God. They're

  899. giving. They're praying, but they don't

  900. know anything about Jesus.

  901. They're apparently far enough away they

  902. haven't even heard about him yet. And so

  903. Peter goes in there and he looks around

  904. and this place is filled with Gentiles

  905. don't know about Jesus. First thing he's

  906. got to do is tell them who Jesus is.

  907. He's got to explain to them this is the

  908. one I've come to tell you about. I

  909. didn't come just to preach death,

  910. burial, and resurrection. That would

  911. have been good, but I need to tell you

  912. about the one you need to be serving. I

  913. need to tell you about the one that paid

  914. the price for you.

  915. So there's something about that

  916. uh message as Peter yet spake these

  917. words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them

  918. which heard the word. For they heard

  919. them speak with tongues and magnify God.

  920. What did he tell them about? What was it

  921. What was it that changed the course of

  922. the

  923. I mean, think about this. This changed

  924. the course of the Gentile world.

  925. I'm thankful for that.

  926. >> Amen. I wasn't raised in a Jewish

  927. church.

  928. I don't even know if we had one in my

  929. hometown. I have no idea. But I wasn't

  930. around that. Okay? Was in a

  931. a nominal denominational church. But if

  932. we go back through here, what was that

  933. Peter preached?

  934. Okay? It had to be strong because as he

  935. had spoke

  936. these words,

  937. the Holy Ghost fell on all them which

  938. heard the word. Okay, now verse 45.

  939. I get the right verse here.

  940. I need to back up. Verse 38.

  941. Okay. So, he says verse 34, "Of a truth

  942. I I I of a truth I perceive God is no

  943. respecter of persons." That's what

  944. changed the course of the Gentile world

  945. when all of a sudden the Jews realized

  946. God don't care if you're a lost Jew or a

  947. lost Gentile.

  948. Doesn't make any difference to God. He

  949. paid the same price It cost him as much

  950. to get me saved as it did to get any Jew

  951. saved.

  952. It cost as much to get me born again as

  953. any lost

  954. Jew. Right, it didn't make God didn't

  955. care.

  956. So anyway, he says here

  957. verse 38,

  958. this is the message he preached that as

  959. he's yet speaking the Holy Ghost falls

  960. on all them which hear the word. Verse

  961. 38, "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth

  962. What's he doing? He's preaching He's

  963. preaching the earthly ministry of Jesus.

  964. I mean, think about this. How God

  965. anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy

  966. Ghost and with power, who went about

  967. doing good, healing all that were

  968. oppressed of the devil for God is with

  969. him." If you think about that, how God

  970. anointed How God anointed If you go back

  971. through there,

  972. Philippians chapter 2 verse 5 says, "Let

    Philippians 2:5

  973. this mind be in you which also was in

  974. Christ Jesus,

  975. who being in the form of God thought it

  976. not robbery to be equal with God, but

  977. made himself of no reputation." One

  978. translation said stripped himself of his

  979. mighty power and glory. Laid aside all

  980. of his rightful dignity.

  981. "Let this mind be in you which also was

  982. in Christ Jesus who being in the form of

  983. God thought it not robbery to be equal

  984. with God, laid aside all that he had as

  985. the Son of God,

  986. laid aside like you would a uh a cloak

  987. or a coat or something, laid it aside

  988. and became like us. Stripped himself of

  989. his mighty power and glory and became

  990. like us, okay? So, if you go back

  991. through there,

  992. you look back

  993. when Jesus came to this earth,

  994. he laid aside his might his his rightful

  995. power and glory. His dignity, his

  996. rightful He laid aside the anoint He

  997. laid aside the anointing he had as the

  998. Son of God. He was the Son of God.

  999. Nobody took that away from him, but he

  1000. laid it aside.

  1001. When he laid that aside, he came to this

  1002. earth and became like us,

  1003. born of a virgin, okay? And if you look

  1004. at that, he he was the Son of God when

  1005. he was born.

  1006. He was the Son of God when he was 12 and

  1007. he went to the temple and was asking

  1008. questions. He was the Son of God when he

  1009. was 29, wasn't he?

  1010. He was the Son of God when he was 29

  1011. years, uh 11 months, 29 days, 18 hours,

  1012. and 36 minutes. He was the Son of God,

  1013. wasn't he?

  1014. He was the Son of God, but he had that

  1015. anointing, he had that power, that

  1016. presence he had on him. He laid that

  1017. aside and became like us. He had to be

  1018. like us to redeem us. He had to pay the

  1019. price for us before he could pay the

  1020. before he could be born again. Somebody

  1021. Somebody had to take my place.

  1022. Somebody had to do take my place for

  1023. what I'd done, mistakes I'd made, for

  1024. all of sin and come short of the glory

  1025. of God. Somebody had to take my place in

  1026. there, and nobody could do it. No There

  1027. was no sinless, spotless blood on planet

  1028. Earth. Nobody could do that. And so, we

  1029. look back there,

  1030. and so, you know, we look at at

  1031. Philippians and said, you know, Jesus

  1032. laid this all aside, lived with us for,

  1033. you know, bottom line, lived with us for

  1034. about 30 years, okay? Paid the price,

  1035. became one of us so he could redeem us.

  1036. Did all that. And when he did that, and

  1037. then and then we look back here and it

  1038. said

  1039. um

  1040. Peter's preaching here and he said how

  1041. God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the

  1042. Holy Ghost with power. What's he talking

  1043. about? What he's saying is God had Jesus

  1044. lay aside all of his mighty power, his

  1045. mighty glory, his anoint lay that all

  1046. aside until he's about 30 years old, and

  1047. then when he went to the River Jordan

  1048. baptized by John the Baptist, came up

  1049. out of the water praying.

  1050. The heavens opened, the spirit of God

  1051. descended in bodily form like a dove,

  1052. came upon him, remained upon him. God

  1053. gave him the spirit without limitation.

  1054. When that happened was God anointed him.

  1055. The anointing of God Anoint means to rub

  1056. on, to apply. The anointing of God came

  1057. on him. Jesus Jesus was the son of God

  1058. all the way through, but he laid that

  1059. aside for 30 years on planet Earth so he

  1060. could come down and take our place. He

  1061. had to be tempted in all points like as

  1062. we are.

  1063. He had to He had to go through what I

  1064. was going to go through. Had He had to

  1065. make every mistake I had the option to

  1066. make. He had to do everything I was

  1067. going to about to do wrong. He had to go

  1068. through everything I went through and

  1069. come out without the smell of smoke on

  1070. him. He did He was sinless, spotless, no

  1071. mistakes.

  1072. So he did all that. And then when he was

  1073. baptized in Jordan, came up out of the

  1074. water praying, the heavens opened, the

  1075. spirit of God descended in bodily form,

  1076. God anointed him. God put the Holy Ghost

  1077. What he left behind when he left heaven

  1078. 30 years earlier, what he left behind,

  1079. God reapplied on him. And when he did

  1080. that, all of a sudden you stop think

  1081. Jesus He He'd been on Earth for 30 years

  1082. and he'd never worked a miracle.

  1083. I heard somebody say one time it was

  1084. just because he he

  1085. he wouldn't No, it wasn't that he

  1086. wouldn't, he couldn't.

  1087. You can't do it without the anointing.

  1088. You can't work a miracle without the

  1089. presence of God. You can't do it without

  1090. the Holy Ghost. You can do all you want,

  1091. but you're not going to work any

  1092. miracles without the spirit of God.

  1093. So, we see him back here, and he hasn't

  1094. worked any miracles until suddenly

  1095. suddenly comes up out of the water

  1096. praying, the heavens open, the spirit

  1097. and and if you follow him through, he

  1098. goes from there over into the synagogue,

  1099. and he stands up, and he said, "The

  1100. spirit of the Lord is upon me cuz he's

  1101. anointed me to preach the gospel to the

  1102. poor. He sent me to heal the

  1103. brokenhearted, preach deliverance to the

  1104. captives, recovering of sight to the

  1105. blind, set at liberty those that are

  1106. bruised, preach the preach the

  1107. acceptable year of the Lord."

  1108. And he closed the book, he gave it again

  1109. to the minister, sat down,

  1110. eyes of all them that were in the

  1111. synagogue were fastened upon him, and he

  1112. began to say into the them, "This day is

  1113. this scripture fulfilled in your ears."

  1114. In other words, I haven't worked a

  1115. miracle in 30 years, but now if you want

  1116. one, you can have one.

  1117. Doesn't matter what's wrong with you,

  1118. doesn't matter what ails you, doesn't

  1119. matter if you're physical if it's

  1120. physical, financial, emotional, it

  1121. doesn't make any difference. Whatever's

  1122. wrong with you, I am able to fix it.

  1123. The spirit of the Lord is upon me

  1124. because he's anointed me to preach the

  1125. gospel to the poor.

  1126. So, we look at that, and so Peter's

  1127. preaching this message, he said, "How

  1128. God

  1129. How God They don't know who Jesus is.

  1130. These are Gentiles.

  1131. How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth Maybe

  1132. they've heard of Jesus, don't know

  1133. anything about him. How God anointed

  1134. Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost

  1135. We'd say with the gifts of the spirit,

  1136. manifestations of the Holy Ghost, signs,

  1137. wonders, miracles. How God anointed

  1138. Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost

  1139. and with

  1140. power.

  1141. Remember back there in fifth chapter of

  1142. Mark's gospel, the woman with the issue

  1143. of blood came in the press behind and

  1144. touched his garment?

  1145. First, she said, "If I can just touch

  1146. his clothes, I'll be whole."

  1147. Straightway, immediately the fountain of

  1148. her blood was dried up. She felt in her

  1149. body she was healed of that plague.

  1150. Jesus immediately knowing in himself

  1151. that virtue or power gone out of him

  1152. said, "Who touched my clothes?" All of a

  1153. sudden Jesus who never worked a miracle

  1154. in 30 years on planet Earth, all of a

  1155. sudden now people are coming up behind

  1156. touching the hem of his garment getting

  1157. miracles.

  1158. So Peter's going to preach this now.

  1159. They don't know who Jesus is and he says

  1160. this how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth.

  1161. Okay. Jesus of Nazareth was the one

  1162. walking on Earth for 30 years without

  1163. the anointing of God.

  1164. But then the spirit of God came on him.

  1165. How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with

  1166. the Holy Ghost and his power who then

  1167. went about doing good.

  1168. Now we could I'm not going to spend time

  1169. here but we could spend quite a bit of

  1170. time right here. You know, I don't know

  1171. about you. I remember

  1172. I remember would have been you know

  1173. 1972-73.

  1174. Uh

  1175. we were coming [clears throat] in the

  1176. charismatic move.

  1177. Anybody else come in the charismatic

  1178. move and it was as as clueless as I was?

  1179. We didn't know anything.

  1180. I had a Bible. I didn't know you're

  1181. supposed to read it. I tried to read it

  1182. that didn't help. I finally got a green

  1183. Living Bible and that was a little

  1184. better.

  1185. But you know, um

  1186. all of a sudden

  1187. we didn't know.

  1188. We didn't We didn't know. We thought We

  1189. thought God

  1190. uh you know, I remember somebody asking

  1191. me when I got my life right with God.

  1192. Somebody said, "Do you think you're You

  1193. think you're at a place now in your

  1194. consecration with God that if he wants

  1195. to you to spend the rest of your life

  1196. sick, you can do it?"

  1197. Well, we didn't know.

  1198. I said, "Yeah, I guess probably so." We

  1199. didn't know. We didn't know. Later on I

  1200. read a Bible thought, "Dear Lord, that

  1201. was a crazy subject." But but

  1202. we just didn't know these things. We

  1203. didn't know We didn't know if God was a

  1204. good God or not a good God.

  1205. We didn't know if he do good things or

  1206. if he do bad things. We didn't know if

  1207. he was a good God or an evil God. We

  1208. didn't know anything about God. We

  1209. hadn't been around God. We hadn't been

  1210. in a place that talked about God that

  1211. much. And so all of a sudden, all of a

  1212. sudden now here Peter stands up and he

  1213. said how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth

  1214. with the Holy Ghost to with power who

  1215. went about doing

  1216. You can't find Jesus not doing good.

  1217. And what you know, I don't know about

  1218. you. I don't want to get over on this

  1219. right now. We'll be here too long. But

  1220. you know, back there that was the

  1221. beginning of the charismatic word of

  1222. faith teaching revival. And thank God

  1223. somebody finally took us to the

  1224. scriptures.

  1225. And we found out God's good God. John

    John 10:10

  1226. 10:10.

  1227. The thief cometh not but for to

  1228. kill and to steal and to destroy, but

  1229. I'm come that you might have life, that

  1230. you might have it more abundantly.

  1231. Okay.

  1232. And so, you know, we just we didn't

  1233. know.

  1234. We didn't have a clue about it until we

  1235. finally read a scripture and found out.

  1236. John 10:10. If it steals, it's not

    John 10:10

  1237. God. If it kills, it's not God. If it's

  1238. if it destroys, it's not God. If it

  1239. brings abundant life, it is God. We got

  1240. it all straight We got it all

  1241. straightened out. Now, I don't know

  1242. about you.

  1243. I don't I don't feed a whole lot on

  1244. social media.

  1245. Um

  1246. I they they set me up on that number of

  1247. years ago and then they took me off.

  1248. Said I was getting a little too

  1249. belligerent whatever. But anyway,

  1250. um

  1251. But you know,

  1252. >> [laughter]

  1253. >> But I'm starting I'm starting to hear

  1254. rumblings coming out of a new generation

  1255. now. And and new generations they're

  1256. going, well, you know, God's got

  1257. everything under control.

  1258. I beg your pardon?

  1259. We got away from that in the 60s and we

  1260. got away from that in the 70s, and I am

  1261. not going back there again.

  1262. If God's got everything in control, he's

  1263. doing a bad job in Iran.

  1264. If God's got everything under control,

  1265. he's doing a bad job in Israel. If God's

  1266. got everything under control, he's doing

  1267. a bad job in the Congo. If God's

  1268. everything If he's got everything in

  1269. under control, he's doing a pretty bad

  1270. job in America.

  1271. If God's got everything under control,

  1272. then why is control so bad?

  1273. If God's doing it, then how come it's

  1274. not being done better?

  1275. He said, "I'm the Lord. I

  1276. I change not."

  1277. And so, really really, that's all of a

  1278. sudden I'm I'm hearing rumblings of this

  1279. stuff, and I I don't mean that in

  1280. critical to people's lives. What I'm

  1281. saying is what we got away from 40 years

  1282. ago, all of a sudden it's trying to

  1283. sneak back in us right now because

  1284. people are because people don't know the

  1285. nature of God.

  1286. He doesn't steal. He doesn't kill. He

  1287. doesn't destroy.

  1288. So, anyway, I got to keep moving here.

  1289. So,

  1290. um

  1291. he says, "Well, God's got everything

  1292. under control." Well, that's great. It's

  1293. just not Bible.

  1294. God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the

  1295. Holy Ghost and power, who went about

  1296. doing good. He do It says, "How God

  1297. anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy

  1298. Ghost and something else another time."

  1299. But, he went about doing good and good

  1300. and healing

  1301. How many? No. He went about doing good.

  1302. Okay.

  1303. How many did he not heal? None. Not

  1304. every any difference. We see it back

  1305. there. He went about doing good and

  1306. healing all that were oppressed of the

  1307. devil. Why? Cuz God's with him.

  1308. If God's with him, then God's going to

  1309. do what God All that were oppressed of

  1310. the devil, for God was with him.

  1311. And then he goes on and preaches Jesus'

  1312. death, which changed the course of

  1313. planet Earth,

  1314. burial and resurrection. And while he

  1315. yet spake these words, the whole There's

  1316. a lot of Gentiles on the planet.

  1317. There's like 8.6 billion of us on planet

  1318. Earth and I don't know how many of us

  1319. are on the way. I'm going to finish with

  1320. this and just say we are going to take

  1321. time just a few minutes.

  1322. This has been rolling around in me for

  1323. about a week now. We need to have time

  1324. for people to get healing in their

  1325. bodies. Okay, well, I haven't got time

  1326. for that. The meat's in the in the in

  1327. the oven. Well, I understand that. But

  1328. if you need healing in your body and

  1329. you've got sickness, you got disease,

  1330. you got some kind of infirmity, you want

  1331. to be ministered to for healing. If you

  1332. just stand to your feet, we're going to

  1333. take time to pray to minister to you.

  1334. Going to lay hands on you if you so

  1335. desire.

  1336. It's uh it's available.

  1337. Anybody here that says that's me, I need

  1338. a healing in my body.

  1339. My body's sick. I got a physical issues,

  1340. sickness, disease. I've got things going

  1341. on in my body. I need a healing in my

  1342. body.

  1343. If that's you,

  1344. if that's you, we'll do our job.

  1345. Thank God for the Thank God for the

  1346. gospel.

  1347. Okay? Jesus went about doing good,

  1348. healing

  1349. all. Well, if you're part of all, that

  1350. belongs to you. It's not a matter of

  1351. does he or will he, it's a matter of did

  1352. he.

  1353. He went He went around planet Earth

  1354. healing all that were oppressed of the

  1355. devil for God is with him.

  1356. So, anyway, so, okay. So, if you need

  1357. healing in your body, if you want to

  1358. step out into the aisle, come down to

  1359. the front. We'll take time to lay hands

  1360. on you.

  1361. Believe God with you.

  1362. I'm not a healer, but I know the I know

  1363. the one that is.

  1364. I'm going to ask Pastor Janet to come

  1365. down.

  1366. Head for one end of the

  1367. one end of the row and I'll go to the

  1368. other end.

  1369. Thank you, dear Father.

  1370. I remember the first time I got healed

  1371. in my body. I was in a

  1372. ba- basement of a American Baptist

  1373. church

  1374. having a prayer meeting with a bunch of

  1375. kids that had just gotten saved.

  1376. And uh

  1377. I was having allergy issues.

  1378. Supposed to be going back to the campus

  1379. to get shots from out for al- all

  1380. stuff going on.

  1381. And I remember saying, "Lord,

  1382. do you heal today? Nobody's ever told

  1383. me. I never heard that. I don't know if

  1384. you're Do you heal? Do you do still Do

  1385. you still do things like that?"

  1386. All I did was I didn't ask for it. I

  1387. just asked a question.

  1388. Within about 15 seconds, every symptom

  1389. left my body and it never did come back.

  1390. I'm so thankful for that. I didn't know.

  1391. God's doing everything he can to get

  1392. results out to us.

  1393. Hallelujah. He doesn't withhold any good

  1394. thing from us.

  1395. So, anyway,

  1396. we're going to take time to to uh

  1397. come down the line. We're going to lay

  1398. hands on each one of you. I'm probably

  1399. not going to ask you what's wrong. Not

  1400. going to ask you what uh

  1401. the prognosis, diagnosis is. Okay? If I

  1402. was doing the healing, I might, but I'm

  1403. not, so I won't.

  1404. But I will I'll come by. Pastor Janet

  1405. will be at the other end of the line.

  1406. We'll come by, lay hands on you. It

  1407. doesn't It doesn't matter if you feel

  1408. anything. It doesn't It's not what you

  1409. feel, it's what you take.

  1410. All right.

  1411. Well, what if I fall? Well, you might

  1412. you might not. You don't get healed cuz

  1413. you fall, you get healed cuz you

  1414. receive.

  1415. It's not what you feel, it's what you

  1416. It's what you take.

  1417. Hallelujah. So, Father, in the name of

  1418. Jesus,

  1419. >> [music]

  1420. >> thank you so much.

  1421. So, everybody If you just reach your

  1422. hands out here. Father, in the name of

  1423. Jesus, I thank you so much for all these

  1424. that have come to get healing in their

  1425. body, thank you, Father.

  1426. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. You

  1427. went about doing good healing.

  1428. You went about doing good healing all

  1429. that were oppressed of the devil because

  1430. God was with you. Well, God's with us.

  1431. He's with us this morning. So, we're

  1432. going to just do our part.

  1433. We're going to do our part, going to lay

  1434. hands on folks that need healing in

  1435. their body. And thank you, Lord. We

  1436. believe the power of God will flow into

  1437. their body from the top of their head to

  1438. the soles of their feet [music] in

  1439. Jesus' wonderful name, Father.

  1440. Hallelujah. Glory to God. So, we thank

  1441. you, Father.

  1442. No sickness, no disease, no infirmity,

  1443. [music]

  1444. no issue is greater than the name.

  1445. We're grateful for it in the name of

  1446. Jesus.

  1447. We're grateful for it in the name of

  1448. Jesus. Hallelujah.

  1449. Glory to God.

  1450. It's all right. It's all right, buddy.

  1451. Hallelujah.

  1452. For you, too, or just for you? Okay.

  1453. All right.

  1454. And for her. Hi.

  1455. Hi.

  1456. You want to check me out? Hm?

  1457. Oh, thank you, Father.

  1458. Oh, I take authority over all the

  1459. sickness, disease, symptoms.

  1460. Command [music] every bit of it to cease

  1461. and desist.

  1462. Disappear, dissipate, stop existing.

  1463. Hallelujah. Sickness and disease is a

  1464. lie of the devil. Jesus, you paid the

  1465. price for that. We thank you in Jesus'

  1466. name.

  1467. Hallelujah. Thank you for healing now

  1468. from the top of her head to the soles of

  1469. her feet.

  1470. And I thank you for it Jesus' [music]

  1471. name.

  1472. Huh?

  1473. Is that all right? Huh?

  1474. Is that all right?

  1475. Hm? You know my handkerchief? Is that

  1476. what you're going after? Huh? That's all

  1477. right.

  1478. Hallelujah.

  1479. Hallelujah. Thank you. Thank you.

  1480. Thank you, Father.

  1481. Thank you, Father. Oh, yeah. Oh, my.

  1482. There you go.

  1483. Thank you. There There you go. Thank

  1484. you, Benny. Thank you, Father.

  1485. Thank you, Father. In the name Oh,

  1486. Jesus' name.

  1487. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

  1488. >> [snorts]

  1489. >> Thank you, Father. Hallelujah.

  1490. All the Thank you, Father. Top of your

  1491. [music] head.

  1492. Soles of your feet.

  1493. Thank you, Father. There you go. There

  1494. you go.

  1495. Healed, whole, healthy.

  1496. Healed, whole, healthy. In the I [music]

  1497. don't know most closest to us to

  1498. calistic.

  1499. Thank you for it, dear Father.

  1500. Mhm.

  1501. Thank you, dear Lord.

  1502. It's the anointing that destroys the

  1503. yoke.

  1504. Jesus, thank you, Lord. You uh You

  1505. anointed Jesus of Nazareth with a

  1506. uh Holy Ghost and

  1507. power.

  1508. Thank you for it, dear Father.

  1509. In the name

  1510. In the There you There you go. Right

  1511. there. In Jesus' name.

  1512. Hallelujah.

  1513. Thank you, Father.

  1514. Thank you. Thank [music] you. There it

  1515. is, right there.

  1516. Thank you, Father.

  1517. Hallelujah. God's just getting us warmed

  1518. up for Friday night.

  1519. We're having our healing and miracle

  1520. rally.

  1521. He's just getting us ready to go.

  1522. Oh, yeah.

  1523. Top of your [music] head.

  1524. Soles of your

  1525. feet.

  1526. In Jesus' name.

  1527. Thank you for it, dear Father.

  1528. Hallelujah.

  1529. >> [music]

  1530. >> Thank you for it, dear Father. There you

  1531. go.

  1532. Mhm.

  1533. Thank you, Father.

  1534. Thank you, Lord Jesus.

  1535. Glory to God. Top your head,

  1536. >> [music]

  1537. >> soles of your feet.

  1538. Thank you for

  1539. Thank you, Lord.

  1540. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

  1541. Thank you, Lord.

  1542. He who believes has.

  1543. He who believes has. We have life.

  1544. [music] We have health. We have healing.

  1545. Jesus paid the price that we take it

  1546. now.

  1547. In Jesus' name.

  1548. Thank you for it, dear Father.

  1549. >> [music]

  1550. >> Hallelujah.

  1551. There Well, there you go. Jesus.

  1552. Glory to God. [music] Yes, sir. You

  1553. ready?

  1554. >> I'm ready.

  1555. >> You ready? Oh, yes, you are. Thank you,

  1556. Lord.

  1557. Top your head to the soles of your feet.

  1558. Be healed now in Jesus' name.

  1559. Thank you, Lord.

  1560. Thank you, Lord. [music]

  1561. Hallelujah.

  1562. Well, let's all stand to our feet.

  1563. [music]

  1564. Join our faith together.

  1565. How good and pleasant it is for the

  1566. brethren to dwell together in unity.

  1567. Hallelujah. Well, let's lift our hands

  1568. and [music] just give him thanks.

  1569. If one can put a thousand to flight, two

  1570. can put ten thousand to flight.

  1571. Glory. Glory. Glory. [music]

  1572. Hallelujah.

  1573. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, [music]

  1574. Lord. Thank you.

  1575. >> [music]

  1576. [music]

  1577. >> Somebody just got a healing.

  1578. Something to do with the nerves from

  1579. your waist down [music] and spread just

  1580. about down to your ankles.

  1581. Something about the nerve condition.

  1582. Somebody just just got a healing going

  1583. in there.

  1584. So, I don't feel anything. Well, check

  1585. it when you get home.

  1586. Somebody just got a healing in there.

  1587. Hallelujah.

  1588. And the arteries.

  1589. This the artery near the heart issue.

  1590. Something around the heart power God's

  1591. working in there. I don't know what it

  1592. is. Apparently, you do. [music]

  1593. Power God's healing that right now.

  1594. In fact, there's healing flowing through

  1595. the room.

  1596. >> [music]

  1597. >> If you take it if you need to take it

  1598. if you need to take it Hallelujah.

  1599. For the Lord is good and his mercy

  1600. endures [music] forever.

  1601. Thank you, Lord. Glory to God.

  1602. Thank [music] you. Thank you. Thank you.

  1603. Thank you.

  1604. I got that. I got that. I got that.

  1605. Yeah.

  1606. I understand. I understand.

  1607. I understand.

  1608. >> [music]

  1609. >> Somewhere in the lower abdominal area.

  1610. Down the lower abdominal area.

  1611. >> [music]

  1612. >> It's just recent. This has not been

  1613. there a long time. It's just recent

  1614. you've uh discovered some symptoms there

  1615. >> [music]

  1616. >> and the power of God's working on that

  1617. right now. In fact, from the top of your

  1618. head to the soles of your feet, but in

  1619. [music] the lower abdominal area,

  1620. there's somebody that's having a problem

  1621. right there.

  1622. Uh man or woman, I don't know.

  1623. One or the other. Hallelujah.

  1624. There's only only [music] two.

  1625. Hallelujah.

  1626. Glory to God.

  1627. If you need a healing in that area, just

  1628. reach your hands up. Say, "I'll take my

  1629. healing right [music] now.

  1630. I'll take my healing right now.

  1631. Jesus paid the price.

  1632. He paid the price. He paid the price.

  1633. Thank [music] you, Lord. You got

  1634. anything got anything, baby?

  1635. Hallelujah. Glory to God.

  1636. Glory glory glory. Hallelujah. Something

  1637. in the What is that? The carotid artery.

  1638. Something in the carotid artery. I don't

  1639. know what that is. I just know where it

  1640. is.

  1641. Something in the carotid artery. Power

  1642. of God's working on that right now.

  1643. Folks are getting healed of all kinds of

  1644. things.

  1645. This is just a warm-up.

  1646. Come back Friday night.

  1647. Bring the sick, the halt, the lame.

  1648. Got I'll finish with this. Got friends

  1649. that did a meeting in Canada years ago.

  1650. And they uh

  1651. They said when they started the meeting,

  1652. they said, "Bring all the sick. Bring

  1653. the lame. Bring the halt. Bring, you

  1654. know, bring it."

  1655. >> [music]

  1656. >> I mean, they just wound it right up.

  1657. Bring everybody. Bring the sick people.

  1658. Well, they did.

  1659. And that night

  1660. an angel showed up in the service. A

  1661. lady was

  1662. destined to have a heart transplant if

  1663. at anything. They basically [music] said

  1664. medical science couldn't do a thing to

  1665. help her. Angel shows up, brings a heart

  1666. in. She gets an instant miracle. Her

  1667. heart is totally [music] healed. By the

  1668. next day, she can do anything she wants.

  1669. They came from all over the country to

  1670. get in that meeting.

  1671. So, uh

  1672. bring folks.

  1673. Well, I just don't know if they'll get

  1674. healed or not. Well, it's kind of hard

  1675. to get them healed if they don't have

  1676. the opportunity to.

  1677. Find folks that need it. Hallelujah. If

  1678. you need it, be here.

  1679. Be here.

  1680. Hallelujah. And I'll tell you, the less

  1681. people know, the easier it is to get

  1682. them healed.

  1683. The less people know about the power of

  1684. God, the less they know about healing

  1685. and

  1686. the less they know about that, easier

  1687. [music] it is to get them healed.

  1688. Hallelujah.

  1689. Now, if you'll just bow your heads,

  1690. close your eyes for a moment.

  1691. Uh

  1692. like I said, I remember 1972. I remember

  1693. uh running from God. Wasn't interested

  1694. in the things of God.

  1695. Wasn't interested at all. Didn't like

  1696. it.

  1697. Didn't know how much I believed about

  1698. it.

  1699. Didn't know if I really believed

  1700. anything about it. My life My life was

  1701. on a bad path right there. November

  1702. 1972, just actually a couple months

  1703. before that.

  1704. Long story before that. But, I finally

  1705. said, "God, I don't know anything about

  1706. all this. I just got to have some help."

  1707. I just need some help. I I need some

  1708. help from you.

  1709. Okay, I don't know anything about you. I

  1710. don't know what you do. I don't know

  1711. what you don't do. I just need some help

  1712. in here. Went to a meeting.

  1713. Prayed a prayer. Walked an aisle, prayed

  1714. a prayer. And here I am a few years

  1715. later.

  1716. Just took made one decision. Didn't feel

  1717. anything. Didn't notice any difference.

  1718. Just made a decision, I'm going to walk

  1719. with God.

  1720. No matter what this cost me, no matter

  1721. how difficult it is, I'm going to do

  1722. that. Well, I did. I am. And I'm still

  1723. here.

  1724. Hallelujah.

  1725. If you're in this room this morning,

  1726. and you uh

  1727. you don't know Jesus.

  1728. You don't know anything about him.

  1729. If you've never invited him into your

  1730. life. Never been born again. Never Never

  1731. been saved.

  1732. Never taken a step the right Never taken

  1733. a step his direction.

  1734. Well, I'm waiting for him to do

  1735. something. No, he's waiting for you. He

  1736. did his part 2,000 years ago.

  1737. If you're here and you say I've never

  1738. made Jesus Lord of my life.

  1739. I'm away from God. My life's away from

  1740. God. There's a lot of trouble between

  1741. God and me and it's not his fault. If

  1742. that's you, I want to pray for you. If

  1743. you just raise your hand up. Say,

  1744. "Pastor, pray for me. I want to I want I

  1745. want to invite Jesus into my life.

  1746. I'm tired of running from him. I'm tired

  1747. of the mess my life's in. I'm tired of

  1748. things going wrong. I'm tired I'm tired

  1749. of my life being goofed up. I would

  1750. please pray for me." If that's you, wave

  1751. wave your hand at me.

  1752. Anyone here?

  1753. Hallelujah.

  1754. Glory to God.

  1755. Thank you, dear Father.

  1756. Hallelujah.

  1757. Well, Father, we thank you in the

  1758. wonderful name of Jesus. Thank you so

  1759. much.

  1760. Thank you that the Lord's good. Thank

  1761. you for those that have been healed this

  1762. morning. Thank you, Father, the work's

  1763. working mightily in us. Thank you, dear

  1764. Father.

  1765. Affecting a healing and a cure from the

  1766. top of our head to the soles of our

  1767. feet.

  1768. And we thank you for it in the wonderful

  1769. name of Jesus, Father.

  1770. Thank you for this crowd. Thank you,

  1771. Father, for this great Father's Day.

  1772. Thank you for ministering to and through

  1773. the fathers.

  1774. May this upcoming year be the best ever.

  1775. We thank you for it in Jesus' name.