#694: God Needs Some (Body)

Just got to watch twenty six today.

It's strange these messages coming on and uh it comes out through the week.

You have to be able to hear what the Spirit says for this congregation.

Also, to my surprise, it may not seem like very many watches on the Facebook, but I'll tell you there's a lot that do.

Even now.

And what they do is they I don't know why they do, other than, you know, we're just real, I guess.

But they take what they clean and they go back and teach their churches.

Uh they don't have anybody to teach them, so it's difficult to find somebody that that knows the basics of scripture, let alone the depths and heights and breadths and widths of it.

But we can go wherever we need to go.

It depends upon what people need to hear.

That's really what matters.

Alright, so so keep that in mind.

It's not just for us, but also for those that are watching.

I've got to kind of hit a happy medium here.

In Genesis 6, uh chapter 1, verse 26, I'll get it right.

And God said, Let us make man.

Uh, everybody say us.

Now, that's not talking about the angels.

Angels cannot create.

So, right off the bat, Moses is talking about the Godhead of the Trinity.

And there are those who say, Well, the word Trinity is not in the Bible.

Well, uh, neither is the Bible in the Bible.

And so let's not get hung up on uh technicalities because the scripture teaches that three persons and one Godhead, which is God Father, Son, Holy Spirit.

You understand that?

You understand that?

Make man in our image after our likeness let us, and let them have dominion over the fish, the sea, this over the fowl, the air, over the cattle, over the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Father, we thank you for the revelation and inspiration that comes from the scriptures in Jesus' name.

Everybody said amen.

So it was God's original plan for Adam and Eve and those that they would procreate to control everything on the earth.

Everything.

That's dominion.

Because he told Adam to just have dominion over everything on the earth.

Can you get a hold of that?

And that was God's plan.

You've heard uh me say sometimes when I'm trying to get an amen, come on, somebody.

But actually I'm saying, come on, some body.

I see bodies sitting here.

You brought your spirit in your body.

Amen.

You chose to do that.

That's why I had John sing that song, Lay Me Down, because we must lay down our Trinitarian person, spirit, soul, and body to Christ.

So God is three and one, and we're three in one.

We're not God, but then we have the spirit, soul, and body.

And as we taught here a few months ago, uh we've escalated the concept of I'm a spirit, I have a soul, I live in a body.

That's not exactly right.

I'm a spirit, I'm a soul, and I am a body.

That's correct.

I know what they mean, but let's get it right.

So I see your body, but I also know you have a spirit and a soul inside the body.

Three and one, that's you.

And that's me.

Well, what is our purpose in life?

You see, God granted control to man with the freedom and the ability to choose and make decisions like God Himself chooses and makes decisions.

Angels don't make decisions unless they make the wrong decision and suffer eternal hellfire.

Angels cannot be saved, Satan cannot be saved.

Oh, these myths I have to deal with that comes over and try to infect the nucleus of the church.

But our ability and freedom of choice does not override God's sovereignty.

The Lord God has the ultimate control of all things, even though he allows us the freedom to choose or not choose and the ability to do so, my freedom of choice does not override God's purpose for my life.

Because Jonah found that up.

Different ones found that up.

That no matter what we choose or do not choose, God will have his way in the end.

I've read the last book in the Bible.

We make mistakes, but by God's grace, he corrects us and gets us back on the straight and narrow again.

I know that's human.

Thank the Lord for grace and mercy.

But we're in covenant with God, and I want to bring something home to you today.

I touched on this a few months ago.

Let me go back to St.

John chapter 10 and verse 2, please, today.

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So, yes.

And you know, the Lord can even change his mind and repent.

Do you know that?

He repented, God, that he made man.

He said, I will destroy man.

All flesh is corrupt.

We're almost there again, like the days of Noah.

Almost.

And it won't be long, that God will have to make the same decision again, sad to say.

But that doesn't concern the church, the real church.

Because Christ bore our judgment.

Well, everybody says, I am somebody.

Body.

John 10, 2.

Now, why do we have the body?

He that enters in by the door that is the shepherd of the sheep.

That's talking about Jesus.

The living word that became flesh and came to the door of the womb of the Virgin Mary.

That's the door.

Now notice this when people cross over or die, we could say, physically, they cease to function on this earth.

Have you noticed that?

Not a one can minister in any way without the body.

Even God Himself, oh Lord, could not minister like he wanted to without the body.

Because God gave the body dominion.

Also.

So where I go, God goes because he's in the body.

The door is what's important.

You women are very important.

Thank you for bringing me into this evil world that we live in.

I'm kidding.

God bless mama.

Y'all had a mama, you know that?

You have a body because of your mama.

Is Mother's Day coming soon?

I'm gonna have to get on this again, maybe.

It's not.

I don't know.

I can't keep up with the times.

So then what I'm saying then is to be a legal citizen on this earth, you must have a body.

You're illegal.

God came through the legalities of his own rules.

He alone was qualified to be the Savior.

Only one.

The point is today, listen now, God needs a body.

More specifically, God needs your body.

So you're important.

You're important to God.

Because, listen now, you and I are somebody.

What I see, God sees.

What I hear, God hears.

Because the Lord God's Spirit is inside of us.

What I feel, He feels.

What I know He knows, but better yet, what He knows, I can know.

These things come by revelation and illumination of the Scripture by the Holy Spirit.

There's no other way to glean these qualities and concepts minus the Holy Spirit.

So I'm fearful for those who claim to be Christians and say they don't want the Holy Spirit.

You're going to be dumb your whole life.

You'll be willfully ignorant because He is the teacher.

And He reveals to those that have ear to hear and a heart that wants to know.

How many bodies want to know?

It comes through your ears, gets into your soul, into your spirit, and becomes reality.

God needs a body to work through, to be legal on this earth.

I tell you right now, angels do not preach the gospel.

God has chosen somebody to carry the good news.

And to make decisions for him on this earth in the kingdom of God.

God needs a body to work through to be legal.

And that way he can fulfill his own requirements.

Basically, through the church.

Are you in the church or just playing church?

Which one is it?

Because the shake-in is going to hit in these last days, and there's many gonna fall away.

That don't have to be you.

When you realize you are somebody in Christ, that you were redeemed spirit, soul, and body.

We belong to him alone.

We don't take orders from Satan.

No.

Now in Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 5 to 7 today, I hope I can get this message across.

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Because the truth is, God needs you and me.

And we've been taught, oh well, we're insignificant.

God doesn't need us.

He can do what he wants.

Not without a body.

By the hands of the apostles from many signs and wonders wrought among the people.

We have the scriptures today because the prophets spoke through a body.

They pinned the scriptures with the body.

Are you getting this?

Every place the sole of our foot steps, God told Joshua, is yours.

We don't exactly realize who we are in Christ Jesus on this earth until this revelation hits you and hopefully overwhelms all of us.

Well, are you going to preach tonight, son?

Hebrews 10 verse 5.

Hebrews 10:5

When he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice offerings I would not, but a body thou hast prepared me.

God prepared a body for Christ.

Verse 6, then.

Burnt offering, sacrifices, sin, thou hast had no pleasure.

He had enough of animals being killed, and now the Lamb of God would come in the next verse.

Then said, I, lo, I come.

That's Jesus.

In the volume of the book, it is written, to do thy will, O God.

So Jesus, become a perfect man, God in the flesh, for one reason, to do the will of God because he had a body.

When he went to the cross, he went there in the body.

He suffered stripes in his back on his body.

He was crucified in the body.

His head suffered the torture from the crown of thorns in his body.

His nerves, everything was bodily, and yet more than that.

Because the Holy Spirit could also feel the torments of the body of Christ.

This is too heavy for you.

In a very real sense, what Jesus experienced, the Holy Spirit experienced.

The Holy Spirit wasn't in the body like Jesus had, but he still was with Jesus and in Jesus, God in the flesh.

The Father God was so grieved, he was tempted to take him off the cross, but he had to turn away, and that's when it became dark.

You tell me God don't love you?

You don't understand how much God paid for you and me.

It's over the top.

And then we'll go to Ezekiel 22 and verse 30.

I'm saying today, a very simple message.

God needs somebody.

Ezekiel 22 and verse 30, then.

And so God was forced to judge because he didn't find somebody that was standing in the gap.

You don't realize how much authority we have with the Godhead.

Because God loves his children, and there's nothing he won't do in the confines of his will for us.

Not a thing.

Can God find somebody today?

I heard as you go to Luke chapter 18, I heard that uh Trump, I'm practicing on this.

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I heard that he's gonna dedicate this country to God.

Now, whether you think he's a heathen or not, no president's ever done that.

And whether he might be colonel or whatever, I mean the fact is he's gonna do it publicly on TV, and I say, Praise the Lord.

That's gutsy.

Well, we'll see what happens.

But back to this issue now in Luke chapter 18, verse 8, and I might teach on this sometime in the to the Africans soon.

Luke 18:8

I tell you that he will avenge them speedily, nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, that's the future.

Shall he find faith on the earth?

When Jesus comes back, will he find faith on the earth?

That's the question.

I was on faith last Sunday, wasn't I?

Might be on it again, because without faith, we could just hang it up.

But we get faith from God.

He gives it to us to use and exercise and to benefit from it.

If the Lord were to come back, will he find faith in you?

Will he find faith in me?

There's only one way.

It's not enough a little church program on Sunday morning.

Three songs leave out the third verse.

Little sermon out of some readers' digest club.

Donuts and coffee before and after church and during church.

Look at Romans 12, 1.

I'm saying God is gonna require something and does require something of us, spirit, soul, and body.

That's what I'm saying.

And if we don't submit all to his lordship, you cannot call him Lord of your life.

That's right.

Amen.

Somebody's getting nervous now.

Well, I can't help it.

Romans 12, 1 says this.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, brethren, by the verses of God that you present your what?

Bodies.

A living sacrifice.

God doesn't need a dead body, he wants a living body.

Dead bodies cannot function on this earth anymore because the inner man is gone.

Who's taking the place of these great preachers that's gone?

Nobody that I know about.

So we must be the terminal generation here before the coming of the Lord.

You present your body as a living sacrifice.

When people come to the altar for salvation, yeah, they're gonna die, but they're also gonna live.

That's death, burial, and resurrection.

But we have to choose to give our bodies a living sacrifice for the use of King Jesus, or you're just out.

Now the church is gonna get small.

Now it's gonna get strong.

Because truth is the only thing gonna keep us free and set us free and make us free.

The flesh doesn't like it.

It must submit.

The flesh cannot override your decision process.

Your decision process is in your soul and your brain.

And that carnal flesh cannot override it unless you choose to let the flesh override it.

And now you're sinning.

Anything not in the will of God is sinning.

Anything not in faith is sin.

A living sacrifice wholly acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Listen now, it is our reasonable service to present our bodies for God's use.

I mean today.

I never go back from that commitment today.

Because God must have a body to work through, or his will cannot come to pass on this earth in this dispensation of grace that we live in.

It's up to the church.

It's up to us to do something for God.

I don't care if it's just writing a letter, I don't care if it's in the text, I don't care if it's written in the book, I don't care if it's preached or Around the world?

Do something.

Say something.

Be something.

Amen.

That's right.

These limperistic creatures are not going to make it.

Well, Jesus was meek.

Moses was the meekest man on earth, and yet he was a soldier.

You know what the word meek means?

You're broke like a horse.

You're broke.

God will break you down.

Holy Spirit can ride with you.

Now look at 1 Corinthians 6.19, please.

Have you submitted your body to God to God?

And then we got this false teaching.

Well, the flesh sins, but the soul doesn't.

Well, the Bible says the soul that sins shall die.

I heard a teaching this morning from a uh a mega preacher, which I don't listen to, hardly any.

He said, Well, if you're born again, your spirit just cannot sin.

Is that a fact?

The interpretation of the scripture is the new birth in a Christian does not practice sinning.

That's what it actually means.

They're not intelligent enough to preach it the way that it really is.

We don't go around practice sinning.

We might get into sin, but we're going to be quick to get out of it unless the sin starts to control us again through the flesh, and now we've got a problem with God.

Where's the faith?

Where's the wholeness?

Where's the love for God?

No, God does not save us in our sins, He saves us from our sins.

And when a person receives a new birth, now you belong to God.

Everybody say we belong to God.

He picks the most unlikely ones.

And by the way, those are teaching, well, you chose to be saved.

Is that a fact?

No, Jesus said in St.

John 15, I've not chosen you've not chosen me, but I've chosen you.

You see, he chose us before we accepted his choice.

And we think we did it.

Well, why didn't you get saved before then?

Because it's not you at all.

It's the Holy Spirit that says, today's the day of salvation, and now it's accepted time.

But the only way you can get saved and be born of the Spirit is to commit your spirit, soul, and your body to Christ.

Oh, you didn't get it.

That's right.

Then none of those, well, I can keep on committing fornication, adultery, and drunkenness and all these sins of the flesh and be saved, not for long.

Because if sin separates a sinner from God, sin will also separate a Christian from God.

You see, I know we've all sinned.

I know we have the potential to do wrong.

We also got a potential to do right.

The choice is ours.

But sinning will not put you in hell, per se.

The rejection of Christ will put you in hell.

That's what it's all about.

Because Jesus already bought and paid for all sin, past, present, and future.

But to reject him or turn and walk away from him and blaspheme the Holy Spirit, you will go to hell.

There are two things that have put a person in hell.

Blaspheme and rejecting Christ, which is almost the same thing.

Because even in our most anointed holy times, we still have some residue of the sin in us.

Now, don't we?

And if you say you don't, you're lying.

Now you broke a commandment.

Which is evidence you don't know anything about salvation.

Well, it's my responsibility to get this mess straightened up.

It hadn't been done in 2,000 years, and I doubt that I can do it.

But I will try.

We should hate sin and love God.

Because sin was the reason why that God had to have a body to start with.

Oh Lord.

1 Peter 2.24, is that it?

He and his own self bear our sins and his body on the tree.

Is that what that says?

Who his own self bear our sins and his body on the tree?

He bore our sins and his body.

Safe body.

On the tree.

That we've been dead to sin.

Yeah, dead away from God.

Should live under righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed.

So when we accept Christ, we've been made and right standing with God.

All sins have been washed away.

As long as we'll do two things, we're going to make it into heaven.

You know what those two things are?

Keep the faith and stay in grace.

That's all you got to do.

That's a reminder that came two or three years ago, but it's still true, and it always will be true.

Because you can fall from grace and error from the faith, and I dare say you best not do that.

But first, take a moment.com.com.

Now, let's get back to the big powerful message with Dr.

Way.

Did I say go to 1 Corinthians 6, 1920?

Did we get there?

I sidetracked myself.

Sometimes I don't know if it's me or talking or the Holy Spirit.

You decide.

You're not your own, you're bought with a price.

No, that's right.

Let me go to this one.

I've already quoted that one.

You're not your not your.

What?

Know you not your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost.

The scriptures are almost the same.

Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost.

Everybody say I'm the temple.

What don't you not?

Know you not you are the temple?

You teach that.

What are you talking about?

You weren't raised in church, was you?

Which is in you?

Where's the Holy Ghost?

In your body.

We carry him.

That's the reason we're legal citizens in the kingdom of God on this earth, because the Holy Spirit's in us.

Those that are not saved are really not in the kingdom of God.

They're in the Adam's fallen state.

When did you rise up and be who we are in Christ?

Can I have an amen for somebody?

You have of God and you're not your own.

And look at verse 20 now.

We're not our own then.

So you're bought with a price to try to court that wall ago.

Therefore, glorify God in your what?

Your body.

And your spirit, which are God's.

We belong to God.

Cheer up, everybody.

Praise God.

Best life on this earth.

There is no life outside of Christ.

And the Lord wants us to be like Jesus.

Now, here's where we miss the mark because none of us can really measure up like him.

I know that.

God's going to change us one day because we have the down payment of the Holy Spirit.

We're sealed now, but the best is yet to come.

We're still in this world, but we're not of it.

We're born from above.

That's a Christian.

And you're never going to really fit in.

You might as well give up trying.

I mean, we can't just wear a white sheet and climb up on this telephone and pull and wait for Jesus to come.

We've got to be busy about their father's business.

But I'm telling you, God's got to have a body.

He can get very little done without somebody.

Fact is, he won't get anything done.

At this time period, we live in.

And that's the reason somebody's got to go overseas.

God's not gonna do it.

He does it with somebody.

He's preaching today with somebody.

He's ministering to you through somebody.

Praise God, hallelujah.

This is the way that it works.

Jesus' body was holy.

And that enabled him to sacrifice himself for us that were not holy.

Did you get that?

John 10, 15.

Let's look at this now, St.

John.

My father, as my father knows me, even so I know the Father.

I lay down my life for the sheep.

Isn't that a simple scripture?

But that's exactly what Jesus did.

He didn't really want to do it.

In the garden, he said, Lord, it didn't enter another way.

No, no other way.

It was so tenacious, he sweat great drops of blood.

There's got to be another way.

Satan offered another way, but it wasn't God's way.

The Lord said, If I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men unto me.

Speaking of his cross.

If I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men unto me.

Praise God.

He had to be lifted up, like most lifted up the pole with a serpent in the wilderness.

And everybody was bitten by a snake.

If they looked on that pole, they would live and not die.

Yet people today will not look at the cross for salvation.

They're trying to find another way of salvation.

The way all those that preach another way are gonna go to hell.

You're judging.

Say what you want.

Christ is another way of salvation.

There is no other way.

That's right.

They're all going to hell.

They preach, you can be saved by works, keeping the law.

Well, God's building some bridges.

They're not going anywhere.

Jesus said himself.

He was the way and the truth and the life.

And no man comes to the Father but by him.

You know what this scripture says.

For me to say there's another way of salvation is making Jesus a liar.

I won't do it.

Just lie, wind myself up in hell.

No, I won't do it for nobody.

If that's a bad attitude, you're right in there with me.

You better be.

Because Paul warned the Galatian church about another gospel, another Jesus, and he said, there is no other.

If anybody comes to you preach another gospel, an angel or a man comes to you preaching another gospel, let him go to hell.

That's what he said.

You won't get this out of a reader's digest, I'll tell you right now.

What are you mad about?

I'm not.

Just the way I preach.

I'm not mad at anybody besides the devil.

He comes up with these schemes to offer a broad road to people.

Nice, easy gospel.

Now there's only one way.

You gotta deny yourself, pick up your cross and follow him.

Are you and me cannot be his disciples?

Where's it gonna leave you?

Crispy Critter time.

First Corinthians 1 23 today.

Not coming out like a thought.

I'm upset at the football game.

That's what it is.

But we preach Christ crucified.

Hello, somebody.

You're gonna be hard pressed to find the gospel being preached in our country.

Self-help techniques, techniques to nowhere.

Little devil, do you?

You'll be all right.

No, it's gonna cost you everything to get into glory.

You're gonna give your entire being to Christ Jesus, or just forget it.

God won't accept any less.

Is that so much to ask when God gave his son on the cross to die for us and suffer for us six hours on the cross?

He couldn't call them angels.

Oh no, he loved us more than that.

And I tell you what, Christman, God knew you and me.

I said, God knows whosoever.

God is all knowing.

He told Jeremiah, before you conceived your mother's womb, I knew you.

The Spirit took John down to the future, and John said in the book of Revelation, what are these that are written in white aid?

And whence cometh they?

And the angel said, These came out of great tribulation.

They were already there, but it hadn't happened yet.

Ding ding.

Prophecy is history recorded before it takes place.

It cannot be changed.

Therefore, God knows everything about everybody.

Don't tell me you can choose bigger than God and make God do anything.

That's humanism.

I reject it all.

I have to deal with this stuff, and you might as well get on board with me.

Because Satan's going to try to infect you through the internet with a bunch of lies.

A bunch of charlatans, false preachers.

You don't even know who's on the TV.

It's AI.

The only hope for the church is to get back in the local assembly again and forget about the media and get back face to face.

Thus saith the Lord.

That's the way it's got to be.

Are you in danger of losing out with God?

Amen.

The only legal citizens of heaven.

Only legal citizens of heaven.

Are we as citizens of heaven?

Yes or no.

Absolutely.

That we're the only ones that can preach the gospel with authority.

I mean every believer has a ministry of reconciliation.

Don't say you don't have a ministry.

Yes, you do.

Cultivate it.

God will move you into something else, maybe.

But you've got to start.

He's already given it to you.

But in the fivefold, I'll tell you.

The only ones that can preach the gospel with authority are those that understand they are actually a legal citizen of heaven.

In other words, we are ambassadors for Christ.

We come and make decisions for Jesus on this earth.

That is the Holy Ghost Pentecost ministry.

That's right.

It's amazing about even in a pastor.

I was looking at some of the definitions and qualifications of pastor.

This guy put out pastor, bishop, and elder.

And I read these qualifications and I looked, well, judging myself, I'm under the bishop category.

I mean, I don't care about a uh a label or a title, but the truth is truth.

Proof's in the pudding.

Now and you can call me a bishop.

I'm kidding.

I'm kidding.

Maybe I'm not kidding.

You want respect, you better give respect.

So I don't care how it is, but you know, years ago I I told my wife, Trevia, I said, you know, I just don't think I measure up these strict qualifications to be in the in a pastoral office.

One wife, this and that.

I read them off trying to figure out a way out of this thing.

Years ago.

Trevi goes, no, that's you.

That's you.

I don't measure up.

But who does?

You see, God uses an imperfect vessel to preach a perfect gospel.

Did you get that?

None of us are perfect.

We don't have to be.

Just complete.

Just be complete in Christ.

You got it made.

He'll make us perfect later on.

Imperfect body carries a perfect message.

Praise God.

Hallelujah.

I don't understand what's going on.

I just know God's got something going on.

Well, somebody somewhere.

And the mystery is he lets us in and makes it help.

He allows us to think that we're doing it.

But we're not doing diddly spot.

But it kind of makes you feel good when you think you're accomplishing something every now and then.

What's the purpose?

I know I've got to be accomplishing something today, preach this message, but I don't know.

I hope so.

I'm trying to get it across to our pure minds.

You're somebody.

You're a citizen of glory and you have authority.

Praise God.

Hallelujah.

So, so true.

This requires something, though, as I'm closing down here.

1 Thessalonians 5.23, quickly now.

The very God of peace, sanctify you holy.

And I pray, God, your spirit, get this, your spirit, your soul, and body.

He didn't leave the body out.

Our body is important to God.

I know we're we got ailments and infirmities and things.

That's life.

I don't understand all of us have got something wrong in the physical body right now.

Just about.

Some of you daydream this and that when I'm trying to preach.

Can't even control your mind for 30 minutes.

What'd you say?

I get tickled.

Didn't you announce that?

We put it on the screen.

Well, I don't know if you announced that.

Well, I can announce it every week for a month, and you still.

Did you say something about that?

We need some discipline.

All of you would get an F for dictation.

If I was a professor, I'd give you an F.

You couldn't even write what I said in one sentence.

So you got early onset dementia.

Is that it?

No.

It's early onset regamortis with some of you.

Dear Lord, it's a preacher's nightmare.

Isaiah 6 8, quickly now.

I'm talking to somebody that have ears to hear.

Well, you sin, I'm saying it's going to take total commitment to Christ.

Love God number one, top priority.

Isaiah 6 8.

Jesus, uh the the word said to Isaiah.

I heard the voice of the Lord.

He said, Who shall I go?

Who shall I send?

And who shall go for us?

Then said I, Abraham, send me.

So here again.

The Lord is saying.

Who shall I send?

And who will go for us?

Now look at it again.

Who shall I send?

That's in the singular.

And who shall go for us?

That's in the plural.

There's the Trinity.

But there's one person speaking for the Trinity, and that was the pre-incarnate Christ, the Lord Jesus Himself.

He was the living word.

He was the spokesman for the Trinity.

So why does God need somebody to go for Him?

Have you got the message yet?

Because the only people that can go for Him have a body.

Without the body, I cannot go anywhere for God.

Because I won't be on the earth.

But you're on the earth, and I'm on the earth, and we need to get the body busy for King Jesus.

Just anything.

A cup of cold water to a prophet, just anything.

Just whatever you find yourself to do for God, just do it and be glad.

Maybe God won't require any more than that from you.

But He probably will.

Because He doesn't have anybody else but you.

Now, you people, you're individuals here at the church.

I can't do what you can do for God.

Don't try to do what we do for God.

You can't.

And I can't do what you do for God.

I can't.

Why try?

We're individuals in the kingdom of God, the body of Christ.

And I haven't a right to say the thumb doesn't need the toe.

Y'all want to be the mouthpiece?

No, you don't.

The negative part of this thing.

Satan must also have a body.

He's an alien.

You know that?

He doesn't belong here.

Not really.

He's allowed access to our realm to test us.

And so Satan must have a body to work through legally on this planet.

Oh now you're going off the deep end.

No, the Antichrist will be used of Satan.

Because the Antichrist will be a man demon-possessed, and Satan will use that man as the Antichrist.

Nobody, no Antichrist.

Because the Antichrist, the coming son of perdition, will be a literal man from the old Roman Empire.

Nobody.

Earthly ministry stops for God.

And the angels are limited.

That's what they can do for God.

They're messengers.

Oh Lord, sent forth to minister for the heirs of salvation.

Ho ho ho! Oh God.

Let me close with Acts chapter 10.

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Some of you don't believe what I just said right there.

Can I give you one scripture and then you think about it, Sapner, okay?

Because the scriptures the failed safe.

That's how we know that it's accurate.

In Acts 10, 1.

There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band.

They could rock, man.

Oh.

A devout man, one that feared God in his old house and gave much alms to the people and prayed always.

Now I used to think that oh uh that this dude, Cornelius, was saved, but he wasn't.

He saw in a vision.

He's in a vision, not even saved.

I can prove he wasn't saved.

About the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God came into him and said to him, Cornelius.

So the angel knew his name.

But why did the angel come?

Why didn't the angel just do it?

Do God's will anyway?

Because the angel is only allowed to do certain things.

Man is the one that God's going to use.

And when he looked on him, he was afraid and said, What is it, Lord?

And he said to him, Your prayers and your alms have come up from more before God.

Oh man.

We Christians think God's not answering our prayers.

That's foolishness.

He answers every prayer in faith.

Forget it.

Claim it and go on.

Praise God.

This guy wasn't even saved.

And he said, Well, your prayers and alms come up before God.

And that's the reason I'm here.

Oh man.

And then so the angel tells him what to do.

Send men to Joppa and call one Simon, whose surname is Peter.

He lodges in Simon the Tanner, whose house is by the seaside.

He shall tell thee what you ought to do.

So he's going to tell him what he ought to do, not the angel.

Then drop down to verse 19 quickly now.

While Peter thought on a vision, Peter had the vision of the sheet coming down, you know, and God is going to reveal to him in the vision about the Gentiles coming in the covenant.

Not that Jews are in covenant, except they have saved Christ.

Let's assume that some of them were, and they were.

While Peter thought on this vision, the Spirit said to him, Oh my, the Spirit said to him, Three men seek you.

That's all the Spirit said.

Drop down to verse 30.

And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting.

Now here you got a guy not even saved, is fasting.

Till this hour, and at the ninth, and I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in white clothing.

So he's describing the angel as a man.

There are no feminine angels.

No little angel running around, no clothes on with a bone arrow.

Don't exist.

And said, Cornelis, your prayers is heard, your alms are heard in remembrance in the sight of God.

Where did I get to?

31, yeah, thank you.

And send therefore to Joppa and call Simon, whose name is Peter.

He's lodged in the house of Simon the town.

He's repeating here by the seaside.

When he comes, he shall speak to you.

He, a man.

Immediately, therefore, I sent to you, and thou hast well done that thou art come.

Cornelius was glad that Peter was there.

Now, therefore, are we all here present before God to hear all things that are commanded thee of God?

Man, life.

You talk about wanting to know the answer.

Hallelujah.

And so what happened?

Peter was speaking the gospel, and the Holy Ghost fell on the entire house of Cornelius.

Praise God.

Man.

All of them.

Years ago, as I put in here, years ago, I took the Little Church of Christ Lady to Brother Brennan's church.

There was a revival up there.

Holy rolling all the way.

Little Church of Christ Lady, God rest her soul.

We were driving home because she she was nervous like a goat on a tin roof, man.

Scared.

We're driving home.

She goes, Randy, you're just a smart idea, you know that.

And I said, Look, the Bible said Holy Ghost fell on the house of Cornelius.

And you're telling me the Holy Ghost is the Bible?

I said, that was a really big Bible that fell on the house of Cornelius.

That was it.

She hated me after that.

The Bible is not the Holy Ghost.

The Bible is the Bible, and the Holy Ghost is the Holy Ghost.

And God has commissioned you and me to carry the message, the gospel.

Praise God.

Hallelujah.

Everywhere we go, when the Spirit prompts you, let it out.

You'll find the Holy Spirit will be present in the midst of the mess.

Praise God.

Hallelujah.

If you got a body, stand to your feet right now.

Praise God.

Hallelujah.

And I could clarify this by saying, if God has your body, oh God, don't have to say this.

Let me tuck my stomach in, please.

No.

If our body belongs to God, he's going to have a little bit of say about what we wear.

Uh-oh.

He's going to have a bit of a say about what kind of hair does we have.

Some of you, God help you.

Blame God.

If God owns your body, then He's going to have to say about where you put your body, what you do with your body.

Where you go in the body.

Who you run with in the body.

What you allow in your body.

You know, we got elbow problems.

Every time an elbow moves, mouth opens up.

Now I'm gonna need a shot.

Trump's gonna make it.

We're gonna get two shots at the same time.

Hallelujah.

80% off.

We can all get skinny.

You know what I'm saying?

It's the body.

I've learned this about Christians.

If we feel pretty good in the body, we can get in church and have church.

We feel good, we praise God easy.

But when you're sick and down and out and don't feel good, man, it's tough to get in the spirit when you come to church.

But you still need to come.

God knows.

It'll be better next time.

Thank God for your body.

Thank you for listening to us.

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