"Concern For Souls" N. A. Urshan BOTT 1987

hyah hyah Moria ha ha ha I love y'all very much you are my kind of people I'm glad I'm associated with everyone it was not my distinguished privilege to have been at the beginning of this early church Apostolic age but I thank God I'm going to be a part of the consummation of closing this Apostolic age and I don't want those fellows back there on the day of Pentecost get ahead of us either they had it we can have it and we're going to have it we're apostolic all the way through I walk down the street bein apostolic I let them know I'm not like you are I'm a different person now because I'm a human being with two eyes but because God Almighty called me out of darkness and gave me has given me a hope called me into a select group I'm a part of it I'd say dynamite up you gotta be the service will begin from our night at seven o'clock sharply like one preacher said you take abrasive bit and bore through an apostolic all the way through he's an apostolic all the way through we along with other the consistency of this great United Pentecostal Church we feel very secure knowing we have a man that believes on the name of Jesus Christ please a water baptism and see the same mr. takes the Holy Ghost up in the rapture and leaves a message exactly I've served the brothers on many occasion he is a one of the most fair men I've ever associated with rather beneficial work wherever he's very very fair I seen him take on serve with me and all at one time and put that person smile on and it handled real well it's a real pleasure of ours tonight and a distinguished privilege to have in the service a night a gender superintendent an inner Sean god bless you why don't you just remain standing a moment I think it would be restful for you and first of all let me say what a powerful message what a powerful message brother Anthony Mangan preached to us tonight I think that's just great I picked up a record not long ago somebody had sent it to our home it was a message that my dad had preached on John 3:5 who is preaching the new birth and I listened to it intently was about oh I'd say three minutes in length but a lot was said in those three minutes and after it was over it came to my mind what he told me as a boy I was somewhere in the neighborhood of 11 or 12 when he made the record and he when he made the record he said I am making this record so when I died that same message will be preached and then when the Lord called me to preach he said throw away the record but don't throw away the truth I preached on that record when I listened to brother Anthony Mangum tonight those of us and you told it brother baingan when you said 1940 that's a long time ago yeah right after Moses crossed the Red Sea and I got that call for the ministry there was something deep put in my heart not only by the call but by the teaching had received when I heard pal Anthony Mangan speak the way he did tonight if he keeps that message and that precious anointing the Kilgore we can die in peace praise God because somebody's going to carry on the truth that's very important to us that it's very important to us and also I would like for you to be seated now as I want you to see some precious people I would like hopsie and momsie Gibson to stand would you do that please first tonight both of them I want you I want you to see these can you turn around and let everybody see you can you turn around and let them see you I want you to get a look at those folks ninety-seven and ninety two years of age when the dedication of this church took place on a Sunday morning here and they asked that man to pray man I tell you the truth I had goosebumps on my back when he prayed and called on the name of God thank you that's part of the stock where this young man came from I can't say too much for her in behalf of brother and sister Gerald Mangan brother Gil Garth said some very beautiful things but it's good for you to know that the setting that is here tonight the beautiful setting of spiritual reality that we feel that's not an accident the churches that have come from the smaller Church in which they first begun has never lost the fervor and the sensitivity of prayer that was in every one of the churches you could walk into the church and feel and note that God was there of a truth and it's still that way tonight if you got here early tonight you probably heard the prayers coming from the prayer room earnest in tents seeking after God that kind of atmosphere builds a foundation in the church not only does it build a foundation but it gives spiritual enlightenment and people that walk in these doors they don't walk in here and sit down at ease they're moved they're moved not only by the worship of the people by the songs of the choir by the excellent preaching but before all of that took place somebody paved the way with intercession and calling in the name of it cannot be outstripped any church that does then we'll have revival you cannot you cannot get away from having revival when you have a strong prayer colony it will always take place and it's a great delight to be here tonight I want to commend brother Anthony Mangan for the burden he had for this youth ministry meeting it started as a youth ministry meeting it looks like it's gone in ever direction it's got the young the middle-aged and the elders and I think that's as it should be I want to thank brother James Kilgore our assistant general superintendent for his deep and abiding concern for the young ministry of our movement this is not just something that we talked about he has that feeling and I've seen him exorcise it many times when he's talked to some brethren young brethren about their spiritual needs I am thankful to God that I'm living in this day some might be a little concerned about it but thank God for having the privilege of living this day I'm not I'm not concerned about what God can do I'm concerned about but about the church and what it will let God do in the church as my concern I think it's a concern of every true man of God and tonight it's rather amazing to me how this young man preached because there are things that he moved into and then he he's rapid-fire he moved into them and I thought that he might go a little further but he left some of the things that I wanted to say right along the lines that he said it I didn't know what he was going to preach about but I think the Lord God in His wonderful spirit exercises our minds for an understanding of the leadership of the Holy Ghost I'd like for you to stand while I read the word of the Lord I'm reading from Isaiah 40 and I'm going to read the ninth and the tenth and the eleventh verses and I want to read from Ezekiel 34 eighth verse and the eleventh and twelfth verse but from the book of isaiah forty nine ten and eleven that's the fortieth chapter three verses nine ten and eleven hos ioan that bring us good tidings get thee up into the high mountain or Jerusalem that bring us good tidings lift up thy voice with strength lifted up be not afraid say enter the cities of Juhu of Judah behold your God behold the Lord God will come with strong hand his arm shall rule for him behold his reward is with him and has worked before him he shall feed his flock like a shepherd he shall gather the Lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom and shall gently lead those that are with young what a beautiful description of a shepherd I want to read that in leaven verse again he shall feed his flock like a shepherd he shall gather loved lambs with his arms carried them in his bosom and shall gently lead those that are with young now this is our God our God that he's writing about and he's telling us as he makes a simile a speech so that it makes it understandable to us he will lead his flock like a shepherd praise God I want you to notice in Ezekiel 34 I'm reading 8 verse and then dropping to the 11th as I live saith the Lord God surely because my flock became a prey my flock became meat to every beast of the field because there was no Shepherd neither did my Shepherds search for my plot but the Shepherd's fed themselves and fed not the flock had not my flock eleventh and twelve verse with us saith the Lord God behold I even I will both search my sheep and seek them out as a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered so will I seek out my sheep and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark let's thank God for his word thank you for your work life praise God bless it were precious worth thank you for what it means to us the light that it gives to our pathway strengths that it gives to our soul we're grateful to go grateful to thee because you lead your flock like a shepherd and we're asking you to help us than hate in the closing portion of this meeting to deliver this message to this precious people in Jesus name we pray and all the people said amen god bless you you may be seated in bringing to you the message tonight we were asked by our brethren brother Mangan brother Anthony Megan brother Kilgore to seek the Lord and bring to this gathering a god-ordained message I feel what I preached tonight is God ordained and I say that to you because I did seek the Lord for his spiritual holy ghost' inspiration how a theme is because of the times and for this reason I'm gonna attempt to bring you this message if you're acquainted if you're acquainted with a pastoral life of a sheep owner in the Middle East you would be able to grasp how they feel about their flock now I want to first of all talk to you about concern for Souls but when they meet each other in the marketplace and greet each other this is the way they greet each other first of all they say how are you they're speaking to the owner of the livestock how are you the next thing they ask is how are your flocks and your cattle then they ask how are your wife and then they asked about the children but what is so interesting about it and it's no reflection on the family at all they are so deeply entwined in their care for their sheep that it's the uppermost thinking in their mind and they think about it in terms of close unity with their sheep as well as it points up the enormous importance attached to that which has become their investment now when we talk about the soul I know that we are very glib sometimes about it I confess to you I've stood in the pulpit through the years and talked about souls and not really understood fully what I was talking about they say you don't know that soul is I used to think I did but in this preparation for this message it came home to me with such a sadness and such a provoking impact until I broke into weeping I've preached about heaven I've preached about Hell through the years in fact I have notes that are stacked up in a drawer where I had preached on eternal destiny of the soul where man would go when he died if he loved God obeyed the truth he would go to that paradise of God if he disobeyed and would not hear the Word of God he would die and his place would be desolation in hell I preached in that fashion and just the other day as I was thinking about a soul it hit me as I read the verse of scripture what shall a man gain or what will it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul well you've preached on that I've preached on that but all of a sudden I was made aware it's the only one thing in this world that's eternal the only one thing that is eternal because it was given by God to man it will live as long as God lives and God will never die so when we talk about souls we're not talking about some little individual that's a personality that has flesh and blood and eyes and nose and mouth the five senses we're talking about an eternal entity something that will never die Jesus put it in this light and what a powerful light it was he said where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched and he was talking about the soul of man I stand here tonight as a living soul you sit here tonight as living Souls the streets of our cities are filled with people walking the streets crossing the streets walking on the sidewalks filling pleasure marks seeking for some satisfaction and they can't find it in a materialistic and in a world that is so cheap in so tawdry they can't find what that soul God put in you is desiring and the Lord gave us the gospel for that purpose that's why when you lifted up that Bible and said the gospel there's something about that that puts something in a preacher the gospel it's the answer to man's needs for his soul no other answer there is no other answer and when we handled this word of life were feeding a soul it is a very very interesting thing to recognize that this matter of the soul is in the hands of God and because it's in the hands of God we need to apprise people of the fact that they just can't do anything with it that they want to you or myself as a preacher and there's a lot of preachers here tonight we've got to learn how to love Souls we just can't stand here and talk about it oh god help us god help us we just can't stand here and talk about it and I'm saying it to you in this life what will be my judgment if I stand before God and I'm careless with the souls of men what will be my judgment you say well I don't know what your judgment will be I know a little bit about what my judgment will be he that is given much is responsible is required of him is required much we just don't escape the fact that we can pin a label on us and say preacher minister evangelist you just don't pin a little label on yourself and walk through your life and say it doesn't make any difference while I do it doesn't make a difference what you do God has entrusted you with the souls of man with that never dying entity that he is given in this world hear what I'm saying buildings will be torn down nations will fail great men will go off the scene their memories will be interred with their bones on the ground you'll see generations pass over the spectrum of the horizon of history and when that's all over with what remains is the soul the soul and after you have lived and died it's the soul and what it has absorbed from what it has received that determines its death you can't take that never dying soul and beautify it with some of the things this world offers you cannot satisfy it with pleasure it is that one little spark that God put in your life when he breathed the near nostrils the breath of life it says man became a living soul who breathes it God put it in you and because you are a part of God you cannot escape the fact that he who put a part of his breath in your body knows that you can't satisfy it anyplace but in his presence praise God I will spend a day recently in New York several days in New York City with a young pastor it came out of the country areas of Tennessee and has is now pastoring the church that my father pastor and I ran into something that just absolutely made me aware of the fact it doesn't matter where you come from here's a Tennessee boy from the Tennessee Hills thrust into the Big Apple and friend if you know New York City are acquainted with it it's some kind of a city every devious dirty tarnished thing existing not only that but every devil that would be loosed you'll find in New York not only that but every kind of a pleasure that man can invent is in that city and this young man is thrust into that city from an area a rural area into this teeming multitudinous city of people some 17 million people in a radius of just a few miles now I'm not going to give you statistics tonight but I would sit with this young man we drove up to a green light and when we drove a rather up to a stoplight red and green we were standing there when it are sitting there when it turned red New York City when the lights turned and the people begin crossing the streets it's like an avalanche of people and this avalanche of people just went sweeping across the street and here set this young man and he said this oh my god brothers and there goes a whole church right there I've never heard anybody talk like that he just watched those music there's all jerks right there I looked at him that's not normal for people to think like that really there's something in the man's heart there's something in his thinking we went into a little restaurant the proprietor of the restaurant knew him and he began talking to him he was a Chinese respite or been talking to him about coming to church and about being saved and the man put his arm around him and turned and looked at me and said I love this man the Chinese man said I love this man and then he explained to me he loves me he talks to me always about God we went into the little church you have to know the little chapel he is he has enlarged it as much as it can be enlarged he said you know the Lord is blessing us in giving us Souls I wasn't surprised to hear him say that because of what I was seeing from him but I was surprised to see what happened in that night when they gathered they filled a little chapel they were sitting on the steps going down to the basement extra chairs were put out if my dad were living he would have stepped in the middle to that and went to praise and God but this young man out of the rural areas of Tennessee stuck in the big apple had no special attainments prior to his coming but had a burden with a desire to reach for man and that burden consumes him he talked about it constantly for two days excuse me what I'm going to say to you at this point I don't always hear that talk from preachers I hear other kind of talk from preachers what's your hobby what do you do for recreation oh man I'm getting on thin ground at this point because we're all guilty of some of this but there's something about a man that's conscious about Souls this man talks soul soul person will you teach me how to approach people I said friend there's nothing I can teach you you've got it already he said one of I God I said you got the burden the burden will bring it to pass and you see when you have that kind of thing in your heart it does something for you our little granddaughters are girls that were left with the passing of Sharon they're not 13 and 11 I was sitting one day in their home when they were about five and thirty and I heard her Shawna say to dawn said now we're going to play church and we're going to pray her soul and I'm sitting there listening to these girls and I heard her Shawna said it done now safe lord save soul but don't cry and weep like mom does when she says it and I heard that and I asked her I said why did you say that to your sister she said don't like to see my mom cry like that but said when she asked God for soul she weeps this little girl who saved her sister don't want to see you wracked with weeping though she didn't say it and just a few months before Sharon died excuse me for the personal reference but I want you to hear it that leg of hers and those of you who were around her was swelling three times it's normal size she could hardly walk on it but she'd get up in the morning prepare her children to go to school we try to keep her down she said no no no no I want to be with those children I want to talk to them and pray with them seek God for them and then on a night one Sunday night they had to almost carry her in the church and as they brought her in she spied a man that had been coming for thirty years and had never made a start for God thirty years his wife was in the church he wasn't in the church but there's a lot of those people that come to our churches if it's any size and they don't make a start they just sit and listen and mostly their critique or his wife was a good woman Sharon turned and looked at him and went hobbling back and took him by the arm and said I would gladly die if you could honey when she said it the man broke and wept and went for that altar and at that altar God poured out the Holy Ghost upon him and he was buried in the name of the Lord but what was so touching about it at her casket side he was bent over weeping weeping and I touched him on the shoulder I said brother Brown don't weep for her she's in the presence of the Lord said that's not what I'm weeping about said this woman reached from the he this woman cared for me and loved my soul and brought me to a place where I could find God we hardly know who's sitting waiting for somebody to come and say hey look I'm concerned about you you've got to have a concern for Seoul's revival you don't talk revival just out of the head you don't talk it just out of the mouth something has to happen inside here something has to get a hold of you and grip you until your very mind and body and everything within you is crying out to God give me Souls or I die God in His great and beautiful expressions in Isaiah tells us this he says look I'm coming to lead my flock I'm going to take my sheep and I'm gonna feed them I'm gonna take the Lambs in my arms I'm gonna put them next to my bosom there's something about the preacher that has to get in love with souls young man came to the Lord one day in the church in Indianapolis now leather forget him as long as I live just beautifully was baptized with the Holy Ghost not in the church but a dear black woman that worked for his father a member of the Christ temple Indianapolis would go and work in their home and she saw something in Tim and she'd say Kim you need to be saved she was a lovely woman and they ignore is's love this lady turned their house over to her had great confidence and trust in her and she would come into that home and she'd constantly talk to Kim about the Lord and got Kim's so interested in it until she got him studying his Bible and one day when the parents were gone she prayed him through to the whole ego and then she said Kim I want you to go to Calvary Tabernacle Church and make that your church home and I want you to get baptized in the name of the Lord Kim was an all-american high school basketball player when he came to the Lord that day he came with a deep desire and you could sense God all over the man when he came he told about his experience and then he got caught up with some people who tried to steer him in another direction and I thought we lost him I didn't see him for three months until he called me one day he said I've got a revelation I want you to come to my home in here and I thought oh god no what kind of a revelation is he going to tell me about he had gotten with some of these people that get revelations all the time of anything about how to paint the church what color I thought what in the world is he going to tell me and he sat down at that table they gathered around that table and he began pouring out scriptures about Jesus being the Almighty God one after another about his mediatorial work It was as though God opened the book to him and he poured it out there and I sat listening and when he got through I said you have a revelation and he said I am coming back to the church I almost got away but God showed me that there is only one God and it's in this Lord Jesus Christ I told you all that for this purpose that one boy that one boy brought 18 members of his family into the church grandmother's on both sides aunts and uncles cousin just named them they were coming to the church and finding God still in the church dad now is a trustee of the church but what he said to me after him came to God he said you ruined his future he had it all set up and you ruined his future I said I didn't ruin his future the Lord God met with him he's made his choice I didn't advise him about anything he made the choice I'm going to preach the gospel and I said woody Norris don't put your hand on that man though he's your son don't touch him he's going to be a vessel of righteousness for the sake of God but I'm saying to you is that this one young man had influence over 18 members of a family he had a love for them he used to come into that prayer room as the safe and put the names of his family down then cross them out as they came into the church cross them out as they came into the church he called me the other day to say brother ssin I need to talk to you he said I have a deep burden in my soul for my city this love has to be there let me ask you this question are we under a Laodicean threat are we under a threat of affluence that could destroy the beauty of what we represent our we reputation seekers are we desirous of well why do we hear this coming from preachers when they take a church or when they seek out a church how much money you got how much am I going to be paid you won't have to worry one moment about finance if you have a love for souls you won't have to worry one time about it I'm not trying to be smart when I say this I'm trying to tell you something that comes from God out of this book he came into this world he didn't have one thing when he came into this world as far as this world's goods concern came in the back door of humanity born in a manger you know the rest of the story where do you live Lord follow me the Foxes of the field have holes the birds of the air have nests but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head he really didn't need it he owned all the silver and gold he owned all the cattle on a Thousand Hills the only thing he bought was the charge and he paid for it with his precious lifeblood there has been no change since you will not have a check until you're willing to pour your lifeblood out for it and you cannot put anything ahead of it you can't put priorities ahead of that you've got to have that desire Lord God I want to win souls I want to build something for your name I want to bring into existence something that will glorify you not something I can feed off in Ezekiel he was condemning the Shepherd said you feed off my sheep you feed off my flock but you don't feed them you take advantage of my but when I come I'm gonna feed them I'm gonna take them gently and lead them he's trying to tell us tonight we have to be in love with the flock oh I want to praise God where is your concern just where is your concern we had an old family doctor he brought Cistercian into this life he brought our oldest daughter Sharon into this Lake I'll never forget dr. artist he was 83 lying on his bed dying of cancer and I would walk in and look at him he had cancer of the throat and he'd tell me he said I'd let these doctors operate on my throat never should have done it said I listened to what they had to say if I'd let it go I'd live longer they helped spread this disease through my body he was talk to me like that and he used to say every time I came to talk with him and to pray with him he used to say these young doctors make me sick all they want is money and women never did I come into that room that he wouldn't say that he said all they want is money in women he said you know how it practiced my medical expertise amongst the people not one time did I ever charge them an amount of money when I treated them he was very wealthy he owned properties and his name was written all over the hospital that he worked in rooms that he had given to the hospital and I said you mean you never put a price on your services no sir he said I never charged anybody one thing I would only say what can you afford and some would give me a dollar some would give me a dollar 50 some would give me 50 cents someone give me $2 he said I had some rich patients they'd give me $100 but he said you know something I made more money than all these people that were seeking after it because what I gave in my feeling for people God honored it I don't think our gods changed I don't think the spirit of our God has changed I think our God is still on the throne and I want you to note very carefully there is a discipline that must be placed upon our lives as we care for the flock and seek for souls and I want to point out to you some of this matter of discipline first of all you got to love the truth you've got to understand what the truth is I'm not going to rehearse to you the truth by saying ah geez a sight on the cross you know that you know hero's triumphant over the grave you know what it takes to be in the kingdom of God acts 2:38 is our candy stick and we love it and we still preach it and we still get excited when we preach it I do I especially get excited when I preach it to somebody don't know about it and I think the Saints ought to get cited excited when the preacher preaches about it to somebody who doesn't know about it but in connection with that you got to love the truth Jesus disturbed his enemies by pronouncing truth they thought when they stuck him on that Roman cross they had done away with him you can't do away with the Lord God now can you do away with true truth I want you to know does not die that way truth does not disappear in the face of evil rather on the contrary truth makes evil become destructive because truth can't die and evil will pass away not only that truth is indestructible just as God is indestructible truth endures forever truth remains eternal I am the way I am the way the truth and the life it's not associated just with words it's associated with a never dying God so that these people who look at us and laugh when we talk about truth and there are those that do do that and there are those who stand in television areas and they provoke people by saying these people these Jesus only people these one God people they make all kinds of statements about us that doesn't stop it nobody can stop the truth nobody can quell the truth if Saul of Tarsus couldn't stop it who do you think you are Saul of Tarsus couldn't stop it every time he'd try to hold somebody to Jerusalem he'd break out somebody rat into some other direction every time he would try to stop somebody from declaring the gospel he find it breaking out some other place and when he stood by the side with the clothes the coats at his feet of those at stone Stephen they thought man we've killed a bright light in the office aaalac church you don't kill apostolic truth by killing a man the apostolic truth is related to the Lord let them say what they want to about us hold your head up let them call us a cup hold your head up let them laugh at us about Jesus name hold your head up let them laugh at us about this one God in Jesus right stand up and let them know I'm one of them I'm one of them you don't have to be afraid praise God you don't have to be afraid praise God you've got to love the truth you look at this universe my physical life it is absolutely dependent on God all my chemical biological environment which supports my physical body comes from him he designed it he programmed it he set it in motion he sustains it he maintains its meticulous functions he enables me thus to arrive my physical life and well-being from the wonderful world around me if I cannot do this I am physically dead everything in this world brings me to lay on the other side of it there is precisely the same principle that operates for the soul my mind my emotions my will are stimulated and sustained by correspondence with the moral environment that surrounds me that's why it's very important in this realm of relationship that our concepts and our ideologies it's the world of ideas and culture expressed in clean literature in good gospel music in accumulated experience of the human race to build up your moral life you can take it and does what you want your creature of choice you can take to your bosom and you can do things that you know are not right and think it doesn't hurt you it takes a dimension of spirituality from you I hear this being said constantly by those that are opposed to the use of video they say they're opposed to the use of video because somebody is showing dirty pictures on the video in their home I am shocked if a Holy Ghost child of God would stoop to such a thing the dragon is home the filth of this world and under the guise of personal rights let something like that exist but I'm also shocked at people that don't have enough understanding that we can take this world's goods and use it for the glory of God what kind of people are we anyhow I have a holy ghost soundly god I hate evil not because I am personally hateful of it but because the Holy Ghost in me says that's no good for you that's not good for you and if there are things that are not good for you that you drag into your home and involve in your life you're destroying your morality you've got concepts and ideologies that you need to understand a part of a Christians life where's our maturity where's our growing up in God you don't have enough time really to look at some of these things from the standpoint of what you are he regard to who you are and what you are a part of the principle and I want you to know that these are shut-in that have these services brought to them on the video are being served by people who love somewhere we've got to learn where to hold the line in the kind of a world we live in there's going to be all kinds of technological inventions and all kinds of technological things that come with us over the face of this earth that they'll invade your home but you're the master of your home and if you have a massive your home you can shut the door on it and if you haven't got enough guts you need another Holy Ghost baptism will you do you need another Holy Ghost baptism you need the power of the Holy Ghost and sanctification then your soul in your life that's what David said when he said I will look under the hills from whence cometh my help my help cometh from the Lord he wasn't talking about verdant hills he wasn't talking about beautiful trees he wasn't talking about green grass he wasn't talking about the contour of mountainous areas he wasn't having that in mind at all that doesn't help you and you're in trouble when you're in trouble you those old green trees come help me when you're in trouble you don't say come on Mountain come and get beside me I'll look under the hills from whence cometh my help what was he talking about back in the recesses of those hills when nobody was around and The Lion King he destroyed that line in the name of the Lord when the bear king he destroyed that bear in the name of the Lord nobody was looking nobody was watching nobody was there he had faith in God that's why he could step out into the public and slay a Goliath because he had won the victory in secret where is your concern what are your eyes look what do you want to meditate upon friend it is so beautiful to understand the greatness of this God and if he helped David in the time of his trouble he hasn't changed he is the same God and I want you to note about this Shepherd our God he said it he said the thief cometh not but for to steal and to destroy I am come that you might have a life and that you might have it more abundantly but it doesn't stop there the next verse continues the thought I am The Good Shepherd I gave my life I give my life for the Sheep if you've got that Good Shepherd Spirit in you you're willing to die for the sake of the church because he's the good shepherd and if he's in your life I wish I had words to explain this I wish I could on earth what's in my soul that beautiful spirit of Jesus Christ that's in your life there is something about it that just absolutely makes you want to do something to people who have lost their way I was I was shocked the other day I was standing in a church when one of the assistant pastors to the pastor they said there's a lady die and they need you at the hospital to pray for her he turned to the pastor said I'm not going I haven't seen my wife all day long I'm going to see my wife before I go to that hospital well I appreciate the fact that he loves his wife some folks don't even want to go see her their way but I appreciate the fact that he loved his wife but when somebody needs you every earthly relationship takes a secondary place because you have the Good Shepherd's spirit in your life when he is in you there's something in you that wants to pour out yourself you know why you're here tonight you know why you're here tonight for three times in coming to this meeting your soul has been stirred and fed and lifted up you come back for another round you know why you're here you want that soul lifted up you want that vision encouraged you want an understanding of the purpose of God in this world you want to lend yourself to the giving of yourself to the things that are important I'm not really getting it across how really not getting across not the way it came to me I wish to God the Spirit of God that comes into you and makes you realize what is important here it is let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus the Christ mind sir we can quote the scripture but you know what it says about him he became a servant that he took upon him the flesh a man subjected himself to death he gave all that and someone says what what reward is in that he has been given a name which is above every name that both in heaven and in earth and that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that he's Lord to the glory of God the Father it is saying in substance to us that when you do it his way you've got a future lord help me we can't we can't back up from this matter has a mind of Christ we can't well what do you mean brother shun there's a whole lot of hungry people out there that are going to come into the church in a revival like you have never seen the denominational structure has fallen apart and they're sitting out there waiting for a shepherd to come along and leave they're waiting for somebody with a love for their soul to come along and bring them to the place of understanding the truth they're waiting they have been disappointed it is not just passing fancy that there is somewhere in the neighborhood in the last two years of 18 preachers of other faiths that have suddenly been caught with this message but somebody went to them and showed them the love of God and talked to them about the word of the Lord and it's like brother Anthony was preaching tonight some of us are afraid to go talk to some folks because somebody hollered us charismatic I want you to know in the terms of the word of which they use it I am NOT a charismatic I have been teased on Pentecost until it wasn't driven into my soul by a man who loved God that he gave everything he had for the sake of the gospel and I'll never forget a lady left him a little will and she said give it to him monthly because if you give it them all at once he'll give it all to the missionaries giving them one month at a time so he can have a little money for himself in his old age that was the way he felt about the work of the Lord and hey I saw him walk in one night in Stockton with a suit it had the widest lapels it was outdated fashion wise but he walked so straight he walked down that aisle pinstripe blue suit and as he walked up to the platform I said man you you got a new suit dad he said guess where I got it and I knew where it either with a Salvation Army it was either the goodwill where it was some secondhand place guess how much I paid for it I said for 95 he said no 395 and I said your lapels are too wide and he looked over me and said yours are too narrow it's all in the way you're looking at it ah friend and then he said something else he said you buy your suits with that money you spend I'll buy these cheap suits and send the rest of it to the work of the Lord you didn't you know that that's so foreign to this new Pentecostal breed man if we told some of you young fellas to go to a secondhand store and buy your suits you'd have a conniption fit what are you trying to tell us brother Shan there's a spirit of the Pioneer there's a spirit of the Pioneer you were raised like that for the Kilgore you know what that is you were raised like that's right and God has blessed this look at the blessing of God we measure our thinking in terms of comparison with the world he doesn't want us to he wants to measure our thinking with his mind and his desire he became a servant the hireling fleeth when no man pursues the wolf comes and he's gone a hireling is a and itinerant I'm not talking about evangelists now he goes in one place and they used to hire these hirelings in the sheepfold but they'd run when danger came but the Shepherd would give his life for sheep they talked about this left-hand boy in the Messiah area of Africa that when a lion came this little 17 year old boy it was his flock threw his body between that line and that flock and that lion clawed him almost at death and when he opened his eyes in a hospital when he came aware of Kim conscious he said it's my all right and they said not one was hurt somebody came to help you I challenge you tonight to throw yourself into the gospel without reservation well holding nothing bad and put yourself into it so body and mind and watch what God will do for you you said it tonight we can't sit in just an observation and look at what's happened revival doesn't come that way revivalists built on sacrifice it's built on intercession it's built on the power and praise of the people it's built on commitment revival is not mental it's not just talk it's not a hope thing revival is scriptural it's more expected in these times than any time and I want you to read from for me from John 4:35 the 35th verse and then drop to the 38 I want you to hear and I want you to know revival can happen anywhere any place any time yes sir say not ye there yet for month on say four months and then cometh along comes the whole I say unto you put it off for for money deputy I lift up your on the field look on the furrier white no Eddie don't talk about tomorrow I sent you to refold it okay don't talk about tomorrow don't talk about next month yes sir now the peels are white under yes sir 38 fur I sent you to reap that whereon you bestow no labor no labor other men labor other men Lane you're entered into you their labors of their labors you forth fifth generation of Pentecostals all you have to do is walk in the field walk into the beer look at the field see the need to the people and God said I'll let you refer you never labor revival is scriptural just do it other laborers that have been DeForest had left us a heritage how you have to do is walk in and buy commitment and faith in God reap the harvest where you never labored one time Isaiah 55 for as the rain comes down I like and the snow from heaven snow from him and return us not very turneth not to put water seer water seer and make a bit bring the flooring for but and by that it may give seed to the soul to the Tsar and bread to the eater Reza Dina hold it yes here using an environmental and a climatic yes sir situation yes as the rain cometh down yes waters the ground it brings hard yes what does he like in a to so shall my word so shall my word be that goeth for he's an ammo man I'm out of my mouth it shall not return in the middle born under me bought it shall accomplish that which I'll clean that which I planted it shall prosper in the seas to that City hallelujah just preach preach preach it will not return boy say it with me it will not it will not return boy say it again it will not return void and again it will not return for save again it will not return that's got to be in your system it will not return for instant in season out of season yeah you've been where I've been I've preached wish to God I could have a trap door under me when I finished it was so pitiful you've been there I didn't want to talk to anybody just go home not see anybody I was ashamed even look at him it was such a pitiful job God Holmes said what do you think about it Cistercian she said wasn't too bad we've done that you've done that preacher god bless these dear ways they tell us the truth in a nice way you know what I'm saying but then I've preached when everything was their fluency oh man you thought this is it this is it my lord they're going to come into this hopper got through and nobody came preached when I thought I was fighting devils and demons and everything else couldn't get it hardly over the top of the pulpit got through and folks for streaming to the altar I found out it's not me it's the word it's the word it's the word it's that word Oh friend you don't have to stand in fear and apprehension preach the word and God said he'll let it accomplish his purpose hallelujah hallelujah revival is structural free yes they that's so in tears hey that's Owen tears shall reap in joy shall reap in joy and he that goeth forth weeping bearing precious and mercy shall down oh yes shell doubtless yes sir take out doubtless take off that list again you say it gobbling doubtless revival of structural he the gold forth bearing precious seed and weeping either go for free bf9 precious seed shall doubtless come for which we go tempering or SSD horses bringing precious thieves were there hallelujah lujah godless cop rejoicing revival is scriptural we ping one man does what plaintiff another does what watereth God gives the increase one man waters I've always wanted what that watering was it sweeping planting and weeping he that goeth forth bearing precious seed and weeping shall doubtless come again with sheaves with joy and bringing his sheaves with him it is absolutely true meet again come come and let us return into the Lord turn under the law for heaith torn torn and he will heal up he'll heal us he had smitten yes man he will bind us up by the Sun after two days will he revived Reviver in the third day he will raise us up he'll raise us and we shall live in his side free man shall we know and sure we know if we follow on to know the Lord oh if we follow on to know the Lord his going forth is going for its prepared as the morning pair does the morning and he shall come it up coming to us as the rain as the rain has the ladder header and former rain unto the earth unto the earth yes that's the prophecy about the Jews smitten for two days third day he'll riot raise us up we are living at the end of two thousand years of the Jewish calendar they tell me 1988 is the end of two thousand years on the Jewish calendar after two days he will raise us up we've been smitten we've been torn but he's going to raise us up and he's going to come on us ha as the letter and Homer rain onto the area what I'm saying to you tonight revival is going to come but I want to be in it I want to be in the dead center of another chain I want to be right there when it happened you say what are you talking about when you say that I've got to have the right attitude I got to have the right spirit I've got to have the desire I've got to have the commitment he's not going to give his revival just to anybody he's going to give it to a people who love him there's a statement in the book of Corinthians that is so awesome it says let him that loves that does not love the Lord Jesus Christ be an Emma maranatha and that actually means let him be cursed when he comes and that the Maranatha means let him be accursed when he comes if you don't love the Lord you'll be cursed that is coming you can talk about loving the Lord it's proven in your conduct the Bible will come read for us James be patient therefore brethren he patient therefore brethren under the coming of the Lord under the coming of the Lord we hold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth and hath long patience for it until he receive it in the early and latter rain be ye also patient stablish your hearts for the coming of the Lord draw nigh let me close let me close there's going to be a revival the Bible says they Hosea says it James says it it's going to be a former in the latter rain and it is going to happen before the Lord comes the coming of the Lord draws nigh how many believe that you got a saint louder than that the coming of the Lord draws nigh oh god don't let us forget that don't let us forget it don't let us get caught up in the Laodicean trend seven churches in that Asiatic Church age seven of them they were contemporary Laodicean Philadelphia were contemporaries one was rich and increased with goods and said I have need of nothing you don't have to say you have need of nothing if you just don't do anything about it we know you think you have needed nothing you can tell it when somebody is not stirred by the word of the Lord would you be stirred if I stood here and preached about the coming of the Lord no that used to put the fear of God in my soul they came home one night my older sister got the Holy Ghost I was in bed and they came in to let me know your older sister got the Holy Ghost she's ready for the coming of the Lord you're not ready I put the covers over my head and cried all night I'm not ready for the coming of the Lord tenderness of a child 11 years of age I felt it I was pricked by it the coming of the Lord preach about the coming Lord now folks look at you with that stoical look some of you looking at me like that tonight that stoical look you know it doesn't move yet doesn't bother you and that's what the scripture says look he's coming for a people who are looking for his coming watch and pray that you may be able to escape the things that are coming upon this earth that's about the coming of the Lord but he is waiting for what the precious fruit of the earth the husbandmen when is he coming when he gathers that last one in somebody's going to touch the throne some night and the Lord's gonna split the sky and is gathered in the fruit that's why I'm saying to unite in the name of the Lord from all this area of denominational Christianity is coming hungry people to seize on the truth and love the name of the Lord I heard this just the other night the I'm trying to think of what church it was in but suffice it to say the man came in it was in Amarillo otherwise Elms was telling me about it yesterday he said I had been teaching Bible classes in a home and he said a very fine man came to me at the church we got to talking about the Lord and he said I want the Lord he said we'll all come to your house and teach Bible study today and tomorrow then we'll come back to the house God he said I can't wait I can't wait till tomorrow well he said we're gonna have prayer meeting in just an hour he said I'll be right here in the prayer meeting you got the Holy Ghost they baptized him in the name of the Lord he said I can't wait it surprised the preacher it was like the preacher that prayed for the blind to receive their sight and they received their sight he said even I was surprised we're surprised at what God does and he does so many beautiful things for us and we forget what the Lord does we preach healing in and we get healing and we said well going to God it did happen didn't it but let's the office tell the church prayed for Peters release and when he came knocking at the door they said can't be he's in jail I want you to know he's got some surprises for us and he's waiting for us to pray the prayer and a half on every premise that we had and let us have a spirit of love of others yeah you will of difference in the world the difference in the world the world would look upon you and surprise say who are these strange people gay they are my people that come out of eat them there are love people that were always this separate of the lead I've always been a bride and dessert and have always decided that would come back with a pure and the holy faith of all if you will remain Oh God give yourself pure money from the world yeah and so your prove me that I will don't before you come your heart and say follow me if you only knew my boy and he'll to me I will make you fishers of men and those that have stole from you that I will not follow you suddenly they will see the beautiful in Italy they will see the power of God alone something I will say no God that comes down as well Columbia and I well this same God in me I think we ought to just stand and praise God right out of our hearts if you believe he is still the same praise Him praise Him we praise your precious name we praise your precious name hallelujah Jesus I love you yes I do I do Jesus I love you yes I do I do and he took my sadness and he gave me gladness well Jesus I love you yes I do oh Jesus I love you yes I do I do Jesus I love you yes I do and you took my sadness and you gave me gladness well Jesus you yes Santa would you put that a little higher I love you yes I do I love you yes I and you took my shed mr. Minear Oh Jesus I love you inside you we got this who LG's us I love yes I do oh let's make love to him Jesus I love you yes I do ha yes I you turn my sadness and you don't leave this meeting tonight tomorrow the next day go back to your place of ministry without falling in love with the Lord all over again without getting a consciousness of the needs of souls we've got to do it if we're going to touch the world and we believe we can we'll do our part and the Holy Ghost will do his part and if we do it God will add dimensions to our ministries we never realized make love to him Jesus I love you yes I do I do Oh

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