"God's Vision" Vesta Mangun BOTT 1990

but assembler I have a word from the Lord watch and pray watch be sit it if you don't know which way it's going until you watch you've heard today if you don't watch your miss it and some mischief is going to befall you if we tarry until the morning light after we've heard what we've already heard some mischief is going to befall us I am indeed honored to stand before you to make a passionate plea on the behalf of one hundred million unchurched people in the Western world and for those 2.4 billion who have never heard the Gospel message 17,000 ethnic groups yet to be reached literature has not even been translated into their language bosses of despair crying help us for soon it will be too late for us and some of them live in your city just across the street from you or maybe across town some of them you know and you see them every day the divine imperative is not a suggestion or a proposal it is a command of the Lord Jesus Christ to the church to make this gospel accessible to every human being on planet Earth all believers are to become involved in the Great Commission everybody everywhere must be evangelized and in order for this church to go everywhere every believer must go somewhere it is an unavoidable responsibility that is our mission our goal is the world contentment with anything less than the full measure of that directive is folly in the highest degree the United States of America is one of the largest and toughest mission fields in this world and the anointing is not to be wasted it is for action to preach the gospel it is to bind up the brokenhearted it is to proclaim Liberty for the captives it is recovery of sight to the mind it is power to proclaim this is our day and then the day of wrath is going to follow this day of grace we must run to the battle and take our position in the move of God that's already in this earth or some mischief will befall us if we tarry until the morning light evangelization and intercession are tied into the why of our existence evangelization begins and ends with intercession therefore there must be in the next 10 years if the Lord tarries some deepening in the areas of intercession praying with all prayer incessantly unceasingly interceding for every tribe every tongue every people every nation but we can change this world with an army of intercessors God is raising up a new breed of fervent into it zealous young intercessors run out of our myths and some of them out of our ministers homes I will Christian for cult to stand alone Jim killed or to stand I want brother Cisco's boy to stand I want Randy Phillips to stand I want any of the other ministers sons to st. I'll proclaim to you today that you are the generation of intercessors that will change this world whether Gary Jones our youth president is taking 17 and up singles to Leningrad and then Hungary Yugoslavia and I wonder how many would join me today and I assure him that we will go into intercessory prayer for that group that's going to invade those countries we can change this world with an army of intercessors I read for you from Revelation chapter 5 verses 1 through 9 and I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside sealed with sealed and I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals there are and no man in heaven or on earth are neither under the earth was able to open the book neither to look thereon and I wept much because no man was found worthy to open or read the book neither to look thereon and one of the elders saith unto me we've not behold the line of the tribe of Judah the root of David has prevailed to open the book and to loose the seals there are and behold and lo in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts and in the midst of the elders to the lamb as it had been slain having seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth and he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat on the throne and when he had taken the book the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the lamb having every one of them harps and golden vials full of odours which are the prayers of and they sung a new song saying thou worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof for thou wast slain and has redeemed us to God are the blood out of every kindred out of every tongue out of every people and out of every nation the book is in the hand of the one who is on the throne so let us have this for a homily but eternally important subject for because of the times 1990 God's vision the Lamb for sinners slain everybody say that with me the lamb for sinners slain I am told that vultures descending on a wounded animal will go instantly to the eyes of their victim if any potential for life remains they must remove the vision of the victim we're here today contending for a spiritual scriptural awakening our eyes must be opened in our understanding must be enlightened through the eyes of our minds you and I will look at reality we will look at life ourselves other people lost souls the world and eternity of course we see things differently your vision of these matters is not mine and conversely mine is not yours both of our visions are limited and inadequate but not to the same extent we have both misrepresented and distorted vision but in different ways we have each seen something of the available beauty and truth to which the other one has been blind but the main point is that the dimension and clarity of this vision determines the dimensions of our world and our involvement in the Great Commission and the quality of our lives to the extent that we are blind or held this store vision our lives and our life's work have been diminished consequently if we are to rightly interpret God's vision I must first be a change in how we look at reality life souls eternity God's vision the lamb for sinners for sinners for sinners for sinners slain we're headed for the final chapter and the last decade of the 20th century must make a violent difference the time is short whether dispensational e or otherwise our time is short to make a difference Paul said don't let family good times bad times material gain get your vision the vulture is out for your vision the time is short what you're going to do you've got to do quickly the night cometh now whether you and I can fully articulate or interpret God's vision the awesome fact is this we have it and the way we interpret it is revealed in the decisions we make every day in the way you treat reality life lost souls and in the way you spend your time and your money a lady was going through the Philadelphia Zoo and she saw the monkeys playing with dice she went and told the keepers that somebody had thrown some dice into the monkey cage the keepers didn't believe her she said it's true come and see they went and saw in it or so and they said yes ma'am you're right and turned around and started to walk off and she said aren't you going to do anything about it and they said no they're just playing for peanuts that's the trouble with a lot of us were just playing for peanuts we are people of divine revelation the revelation of Jesus Christ is committed to us you will never have to speak the life you live speak so loudly that what you say really doesn't matter anyhow it's only when you practice what you preach you've got to leave this out and flesh it out then you interpret to your family your church your friends your neighbors your community your world God's vision you could follow me around for only a week and from watching me you will know how I interpret reality in life and people and Calgary and lost souls and eternity you will know then how I feel about the Lamb that was slain for sinners before the foundation of the world and if we're going to change our world there must be a radical change a radical change a radical change a radical change not in our message it is absolutely right but there must be a change yes in our attitudes and yes in our non-productive methods and yes in our lifeless dead spiritless routine treadmill services we need a violent revolutionary change in our own personal interpretation of God's vision the lamb for sinners for sinners for sinners for sinners slain without a vision we perish the vultures are after your vision and the great and mighty God hath reconciled the world to himself by his own flesh Jesus Christ years I did it in the days of his flesh when he offered up prayers and supplications supplications is energized intercession it means continual strong incessant pleading it is a poor world it is a plural word it is a plural word not just one time not just one day every day every day every day every day every day every day every day it was not a one-time emotional display but when he offered it up that way the Bible said he was heard he engaged in a constant Ministry of intercession he launched his ministry with 40 days of prayer and fasting prayer was Jesus Christ lifestyle it had priority over his social life it had priority over his physical rest it had priority over everything he prayed when he was suffering he prayed in joy he prayed when popular he prayed when he was unpopular he prayed when facing great decisions Jesus paid and you call yourself a Christian and you don't play as he played somebody said you are a hypocrite and a walking fraud he started every day with prayer he was playing when John baptized him after ministering to the multitudes he withdrew into the wilderness and prayed when the Pharisees sought to kill him he went into a mountain continued all night in prayer to prevent death until he could get to Calvary because it was written he had to down Calvary but somebody here had to call for it when the multitude sought to take him forcibly maken-ki he went into the mountain to pray I'm talking about God manifested in the flesh he prayed for Peter when he was about to fail he prayed wollery see the Transfiguration experience he prayed until his sweat became great drops of blood at the hour of his great crisis in the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus prayed while dying on the cross if Jesus Christ gave himself to constant prayer and ever emphasize it in his teaching now he ever liveth to make intercession for you and me I ask you today how important is it that the Church of Jesus Christ give it step to the Ministry of intercession we need groups of intercessors in every Church in every state in every city in every Hamlet in every village we need groups of intercessors where pastors can take their problems and say here it is intercessors stand before God until I get an answer he has commissioned us with the message of reconciliation and he has planned for us to be his agents in accomplishing his will which he purchased in Christ before the foundation of the world God created man in order to counteract the devil that angel next in power to God who is the originator of sin God is going to overthrow the devil by man this being who was a little lower than the Angels whom God has risked with his vision for a certain time and for his own purpose God has set limits on the exercise of his power he has set limits on himself and asked us to play that critical part in unlocking that power to release it to a desperate world God doesn't use angels to preach the gospel tomorrow we could awaken to find an angel on every street corner preaching the gospel but God has a different plan man the lack of you and me is God's plan don't treat that as something trying it is critical and it is critical that we play the critical part we are God's agents in repossessing God's rightful possession from the clutches of Satan who yields only what he must when he must and that's critical Satan is a stripped and defeated foe Jesus Christ is the victor Satan knows it and fears him he will heal before his advance before the man or the woman who stands in Jesus name and plays their pitiful part prayer calls forth what God has willed but which cannot be released here on earth until somebody here calls for it somebody here on this earth must play the critical part or we will never see what we're talking about Calvary legally destroyed Satan cancelled all of his claims God placed the enforcement of Calgary's victory in the hands of the church he has given the church power of attorney but that delegated authority is inoperative apart from the prayers of a believing militant church therefore prayer is where the action is prayer is a call to fight prayer is a call to engage in a battle by persistent consistent fervor prevailing prayer in Jesus name and I declare unto you Satan will loose in his hole Satan will yield Satan will yield Satan will let go reluctantly angrily stubbornly contesting every inch of ground but his clutches will loosen and he will go before Jesus name men and women who will play the critical part I dare you to ask iminium mother or a father or a wife or a brother or a sister if they know anything about playing the critical part in God doing the rest casual praying will not do intermittent sporadic pray will not play the critical part we must pray persistently fervently intensely continually supernatural eyes by the Holy Ghost must become his battle in our lives as breathing or coughing we must play the critical part God's will needs prayer and it's indispensable condition the prayers of God's Saints are the capital stock of heaven by which God carries on his great work upon this earth the real victory in all service is one before hand in prayer and service is merely gathering up the results so let us stop complaining that we don't have enough people enough money enough to there is no shortage of anything we need except a vision and a prayer and the wheel that's God's plan we've been given the tremendous privilege of partnership in God's vision and God needs the cooperation of the church if she will not intercede the Holy Ghost by his own choice cannot do his office work of conviction and persuading the spirit and the bride say come it's a birthing process he will do nothing without her God has set limits on the exercise of his own power if she does not prevail the Spirit will not who if the spirit does not who the soul is lost they cannot come except the spirit draw them and prayer releases the power to draw them and to think that God's purpose for a lost Lord is being held back it's an awesome thing through our laziness our lack of concern our burden leanness our indifference we are at the point right now where we could totally evangelize this world by an army of intercessors when we intercede for others we enter a battlefield a place of contest and we engage in battle on their behalf the intercessor holds back the unseen forces of satanic darkness and hindrances while the holy ghost does his work the intercessor is a mighty weapon in God's hand he's the crown of God's glory he's this royal diadem he's his battle axe he's a weapon of war in the hands of God God wants to do something to every one of us here today God wants to use you god wants to flow through you God wants to raise up an army of intercessors right here today and it's more than just raising your hand folks you gotta make up your mind to die Owen wants to bring greater things through us than we've ever seen thus far because we are partners with God say that in our prayers make a difference in the work God was able to accomplish on this earth as his agents his partners in operating his great work in this earth we can release his power to a waiting hurting desperate world by praying his will his vision what he had decreed before the foundation of the world I've got to play it into action it won't be until we play it into action therefore a Holy Church by her intercession or lack of it holds the power of life or death over the souls of men that's critical did anybody hear that did anybody hear that you hold the power of life or death over the souls of men you hold the power of life or death over the souls of men that's critical and God evokes from human hearts the prayers necessary for his will to be done God stirs us to pray then we stir God God stir sign of in Zion stirs God a science says awake awake O Lord that arm but on your strength as in ancient days and the church awake awake put on thy strength o Zion because it is time for a birthing process all over this world God needed an Isaac a Joseph a Moses a John the Baptist a Samuel the Scott evoke from human hearts the prayer necessary for his will to be done need I remind you of Zacharias and Elizabeth Hannah Rachel jock Abed who played the critical part that lays upon every one of us a most solemn responsibility as we face the last decade of these 20 centuries there is a reason why God is stirring us to play and pass his will needs it big changes are in the making we must play the critical part praying and fasting down strongholds praising and worshipping down strongholds and as soon as every Spirit is found in prayer which will permit the gospel to be preached fully in all nations his kingdom will be established and the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of our Lord in his life our pastors praying all night have walked the length and breadth of our church properties and declared this to be a prayer zone you would be surprised to know the people that fall through these back doors and say I had a dream about this place I was driving down the streets and something drew me in here and we've got prayer warriors and intercessors here every day that's waiting for them and is able to take them and play them through to the baptism of the Holy Ghost we had a memorial service for el cheapo here last week the man who was in charge came and tapped me on the shoulder and said would you sit over here by me just a minute I've had a dream about you all I dreamed that I came to this church I've never seen your husband before him brother Magna just walked in he said that's the man that I saw in the dream he said you had begun to sing and then you testified and you said they do have a dead baby here and he said I was in charge of that funeral and they said and he works at Kramer's his name is Steve and he said I was in charge but you got up to sing and testify and you said this baby is dead but this baby is about to live we're fixing to raise this baby from the dead even though it's been involved I looked at him and I said Steve you're that baby and we're going to braise you from the dead and he may be here today and I'll tell you again that's a fire zone even the birds that fall over this place can know that this is the prayer zone it would be better that you never call yourself a pastor a leader an evangelist or teacher if you do not leave people in the fulfillment of the Lamb for sinners slain if you fail to play the critical part in unlocking his unlimited power to release it to a desperate hurting disease in lost world whose only hope is in the hands of the intercessor the intercessors the intercessors therefore we cannot allow a parallel to remain on the level of the mediator felt needs nor on the level of winning specific battles that are necessary to achieving the ultimate goal we must pray relentlessly until we defeat the strategy of the enemy and bring him into total submission prayer is strategy prayer is warfare prayer releases a supernatural power of God into whatever we are doing or for whomever we're praying prayer is omnipotence prayer can go anywhere God can go do anything God can do every Church here should mobilize a group of intercessors Paul said pray for all the saints and then he zeros in on it and he says but pray for me focus on me that there might be a greater deliverance of ministry that we can reach this lost world he said pray without ceasing he said give yourselves to prayer pray always with all prayer strive with me in prayer pray with the spirit pray with the understanding I would that all men with forever where say pray and every pastor visit the intercessors desk after this evening is over and get your button or your pin and says pray and then there you will be given something on intercessory prayer we intend to we intention listen army of intercessors all over this we've got to be on the advance aggressively attacking the strongholds of Satan interceding in the half of us people and those who are backslidden the intercessor confronts the devil the intercessor comes between God and those who deserve his just wrath and judgment the intercessor lives his hands to God and says God these deserve your judgments you have every right to smite them but if you smite them you'll have to smite me first because I'm standing in the gap I'm standing in the gap I'm standing in the gap I'm standing in the gap I'm standing in the gap somebody ought to stand up and scream I'm standing in the gap you may be seated and everyday get up and say I'm standing in the gap between God and somebody as did Abraham when he told God don't destroy those cities until you get locked his family out I may be the lesser in this corporation but you can't do it without me because we made an agreement don't you touch those cities God until I get my nephew out of there I'm standing between you and those cities till I get locked in his Sam Lynn God sent two angels and literally drug them out he said I spared it for Abraham's sake I'm going to stand in the gap till I die I'm going to stand in the gap till I die so Moses said if you destroy Israel God June block my name out of the book of life hence Israel spared Paul said I pray for my kinsman I wish myself cursed if they could be saved I may have contemptible speech and I may be just a little ugly Jew but I'll shake countenance and I'll give the devil a nervous breakdown they'll change my guards every 15 minutes because I'll snatch every one of them out of Cesar's house hand because he said I have been an intercessor and I've got the key to release God's best for this world I believe intercessory prayer will have more to do with bringing about positive changes in this world and any other single activity I declare unto you that every minister in this place ought to be an intercessor I would say to my son that his father has given me in him something that is so beautiful and that he and I must see intercessors all the days of our lives or we're not even worthy to be alive I have to carry on this ministry of intercession does anybody hear me easy two or twenty two says just one of that kind just one of that kind just one always somebody shout just one of that kind could have spared the nation of Israel in a day of national apostasy just one could have stood in the gap a place for devotion and prayers does anybody hear me according to Ezekiel 9 there is no higher office in this world of the world to come then the intercessor don't treat the ripped veil is something tried many of our churches don't even have a systematic concerted perennial effort of prayer plans and yet we have access and we have some mighty weapons and we pray when we want to pray but the urgent - oh that world conquered Congress in Houston how he sat with a battered wife and how that the judge had heard that husband say she has taught them this and taught them that and it is a code and all ah da da da da da and the judge said today he hit the gavel on that he said I'm giving these children back to their father a woman that had been in his church that was an intercessor stood up and took a chance and she said God don't let him do it and the judge was walking off and he turned around and he said I've changed my mind those kids go to their mama and I pledge to you brother ocean that's a woman that you told about last night the intercessors of Alexandria they will take that woman to the throne of grace and you expect a change does anybody hear me don't treat it as something tried Joe Parker sits here today he had a brother that had gone to the depths of drugs and alcohol and the judge had handed down a sentence and he was broken to pieces and sister Parker went to him and said son don't worry Mama's just come off of a seven day fast you will never spend a day in that prison Mama's done change that I went before God I'll be an intercessor I'll change the book and the judge came back and change his mind that boy is brought in to work in Washington State and he's a mighty preacher today that's my parish this is a sin that's why powerlessness it's on the list transgression that's why samuel cried out god forbid that I should sin against God in ceasing to pray for you why is it a sin against God because God needs prayer power to accomplish his will and if we fail in the critical part it is a sin against determinant will what greater sin can there be to abandon a soul to hell that we could have changed by an intercession if somebody plays a critical part we could have turned that around there's no way we escape responsibility it is not what we have done that is crucial it is what we haven't done that is critical tell me how can people who say they're Christians sit back in their own little world carefree continued comfortable far millions including their own families neighbors of friends are seeking into an endless hopeless crisis eternity not because they couldn't be saved or wouldn't be saver shouldn't be say but because we don't care enough off we do care we care so little it doesn't make any difference if men go to hell does anybody care things that have been decreed before the foundation of the world but may never be received here because somebody fails to call for prayer warriors become weary and they give up they get discouraged and we can't grow weary and playing the critical part because God can't do what he planned before the foundation of the world until somebody here plays the critical part all you got to do is remember Jesus told two powerful stories that of the midnight petitioner in the unjust judge and the essence is pray or until God says no don't be surprised when hail fights back because he's going to fight don't be shocked when you find yourself locked in mortal combat with the devil himself but attended that's why you said the other night Monday night in our home that ministers and their wives were under attack there's never been as much playing going on as there is now I come here today to tell you to find a home I come here today to tell you one more little I came here today to tell you we are going to win the war I come here today to tell you we'll hit is I'm going to hit him we're launching an all-out assault on the principalities of darkness don't be surprised when darkness hits you back but you just keep hitting some of us are gonna pay dearly did you hear me you heard by the Kilgore some of us are going to pay dearly our lives our homes our health our happiness God may call some of us from our present places of ministry into frontline developments we've got to abandon our we've always done it this way attitude many opportunity in your level of faith cannot be tolerated in this strategic hour we must play the critical part we must play the critical part we must play the critical part so much is hanging on us all the past generations all the past Esther don't you fail now yes sir don't you fail all of this is hanging on what you do and the dynamics of God are released only in response to prayer the impossible yields before prayer once you're convinced that the impossible does not exist for you when it is not immediately forthcoming pray on Yvonne Brewer here in our church she is an intercessor she heard brother Anthony preach on fasting and she goes on a three-day fast once a month because she heard it taught here that God even heard that wicked a hab because he humbled himself in prayer and fasting and deferred judgment to another generation she asked God she said what about this mystery of Prayer God said you pray on answer but details take time and that Sunday I taught you must live between the promise and the provision and that's tough ask and keep on asking it'll be given to you seek and keep on seeking and you'll find knocking people knocking in the door will be open and it will forever be true that the effectual effective fervent fiery prayer of the righteous man availeth much Jesus Christ fire a fervent white heart zeal were so terrible to behold the zeal of his house was eating him up that he cycles cried out Lord teach us to pray like you pray our people ought to be crying out Pastor teach us to pray like you pray preachers make the platform and altar instead of a stage for when Zion travails children are born let our churches peel the altars and let our homes build altars because prayer changes homes you won't find many books emphasizing prayer in or for the family but let our homes build altars stand in the gap man and his wife agreeing together or to agree together the Bible says and when two or three get together I'm in the mist but just two of you can agree together - or better than one because when one Falls the other one is there to encourage them get you a prayer partner and decide we're going to change some things there's not enough of weeping in our churches today tears are pictured in Scripture something God keeps in a bottle that means tears are precious tears are liquid prayers and Joe said three times to the preachers weep weep weep weep between the porch and the altar we person warriors I need no church can grow without tears tears of compassion that lead to travail we can't stand by and see people plunging into hell without weeping there are those among us that have wept churches into existence and built congregations of soul winners there were not great orator seminarians they were weepers and warriors I know some of them I know them real well where are the tears the travail that earmarked the great revival periods of history we need altars wet but tears day and night I read of a man in the book that I am suggesting that you get love on its knees I read for the man that wrote that book said I give a gift of here of Wendy's winds this pardon me are praying and fasting for my two daughters I'm going to give them a whole year of winds this praying and fasting for my daughter's he that goeth forth weeping bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again rejoicing bringing in the sheaves do I have a believer in the house just anybody believe what I'm saying does anybody dare to try it often consistently God who is sovereign can do anything he wishes that is consistent with his divine nature he can bring revival as history shown through any number of ways but the one consistent thing that has run through every Bible in history is individual prayer and intercession if my people called by my name will play the critical part will play the critical part I can't do my part until they do their part I've got to have the critical part before I do my part you bind in our mind you lose and I'll lose you agree and I'll agree but you got to do your part before I can do my part if my people will I will just say that say that puts the ball in my court and that's where it hangs and great churches or evangelism minded both at home and abroad world evangelization is no stronger than our home base to broaden our world outreach we must broaden our home base our home base is no stronger than our local church and our local church is no stronger than the pastor in that pulpit pastor you are the key we need more evangelism minded pastors more trained workers more on their knees and intercession and focused prayer focus vision focus prayer focus worship focused warfare because we must be more than a Sunday morning Sunday night with a night operation will be on to us if we've gone just a little way and we feel like we've accomplished something and now we've won a few pictures so we're satisfied jesus said occupy until I is everybody in your city saved how come you two stop that's the first sign of impending stagnation and then corruption satisfied continued with things as they are there must burn within us a passion for souls you've got to drink the cup to start the fire and you got to keep on drinking it to keep the fire burning we are far to go before we sleep much territory yet to be conquered much seed is still in the barn the world is for the most part terribly lost and without Christ and that is tragic but that is a fact and we hold the key in a New Testament church every activity must ultimately result in winning lost people to Jesus Christ it's not money we need it's motivation the great motivation for reaching the lost in the book of Acts was not the Great Commission which isn't mentioned one time but the Holy Ghost we cannot help but Speak the things we've seen and heard restlessly the spirit drove the church to witness the church is a Missionary Church because the Spirit is a missionary spirit this is the very essence of God himself the Incarnation was a missionary event he went after sinners in the desolate agony of the Cross gonna cost his a missionary spirit he's come after them and the Holy Ghost what do you think this is anyhow it's a missionary thing how do you negotiate all of that acts one in eight with power actually Luke 24 and 47 repentance and remission of sins take the gospel to everybody in the whole world one lost sheep one lost point one lost son all the parables how do you how do you negotiate all of that that's why every evangelistic emphasis everywhere in the in the New Testament they went beyond the altar say they went beyond the altar say they went beyond the altar acts 2:47 the Lord added to the church daily acts 542 they ceased not to teach him preach Jesus Christ they went beyond the altar acts 6 and 7 declares and the number of disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly they went beyond the altar acts 9 and 3 summarizes the church were multiplied they went beyond the altar the sinner is lost the sinner is lost Jack House that's that man that runs in buses all over this world he said for 20 years from 1 through 5 1 o'clock to 5 o'clock for 20 years he knocked on doors george w ER took his wife's best sheets and towels who went all through town when he first went to dallas and gave them to people that said they'd come to his church this church for the last 20 years has prayed 174 thousand hours of chain prayer including holidays that's not Saturday night prayer meetings that's not Thursday mornings that's not all the others that come by here during the day and that's not the prayers of the intercessors this church is knocked on every door in this city four times and there are all new names and all new move hands we knock on their doors Larry Clark and his mother Joan and Rogers loser check jiayou ministry nursing home ministry singles ministry youth ministry children's ministry we've got to do something about reaching everybody Jesus instructed his disciples to be fishers of men and the question today is where the fish we have the best nets our bait is attractive we have beautiful boats but where are the fish nothing keeps a church alive like seeing people saved week after week this church ought to be the most alive exciting vibrant place in your city if it isn't something is terribly wrong somewhere a soul-winning Church is going to be a happy Church unless the church's evangelistic it can easily become introverted and disgruntled energies are dissipated in finding fault phones are spent on lavish lifestyle for our own fleshly indulgence greed security laying up in store for this short life is eating this people up just remember when Abraham forsook his tent his altar and trusted in Egypt and the world he got in trouble though way for him took lot out of Egypt he never took Egypt out of lot when your luck comes out of Egypt he has tits and no altar he pitched his tent towards Sodom lost his tent started living in a house ended up immoral in a spiritual wreck and that's the last chapter let's take a look at revelation 5 revelation 5 will clarify our view of all of this as nothing else does John said I saw in the right hand of the one who sits on the throne a scroll held firmly in that hand it is a book of crucial unparalleled importance it's written on the inside and outside it's overflowing it's sealed with seven seals to ensure the safety of its decree it contains the full account of what God and his sovereign will has determined as the destiny of this world and we play a critical part as partners with God in this total vision the Lamb percenter slain the scroll contains the meaning of history the meaning of world history but also the meaning of your history and my history for history is no more than his story and the lives of men and women who enhance his story and his vision the lamb for sinners slain he is the lord of history history has a purpose history is going somewhere it has a beginning and an end and a process in between life has destiny we're involved in that scroll we're partners in that scroll we're partners in that destiny we're playing a critical part in that destiny we must do all that we can that involves that destiny and God's vision and God will do the rest we must do all we can and God will do the rest you don't have to take fear you do your whole duty unsparingly leave the results with God play your critical part and God will do the rest did he do it for Moses at the Red Sea east wind blue waters rolled back they walked across on dry ground the enemy pursued them and they were drowned oh we could have never done that but say God did for simulant Mountain miss for God thundered from heaven the palestin scattered they never came back all the days of Samuels life man is a powerful link to God's purpose and God's will I'm involved in that critical book and I've got to play my critical part to get that scroll to unroll for Jonathan his armor-bearer between a rock and a hard place they did their part the earth trembled they did all they could God did the rest the for starving bleeding dying emaciated lepers north of chariots north of horses north of a great hope little is much when God gets in it Jehoshaphat the Lord said ambushment against the kings second chronicles tells us how it all happened Hezekiah the angel just one angel smoke 185,000 but has a kinda laid his letter before the Lord Mordecai a howling and mourning in the streets of Jerusalem after and her maidens fasting 72 hours dawn awakened the king he read The Chronicles and Mordecai was exalted and old Haman was hanged God did the rest I declare unto you today I believe it with all of my heart if I play the critical part God will do the rest God holds the book the destiny is in his hand and let me tell you we're partners in hit we're his agents we're his bride so we're playing the critical part the scroll is in the right hand of the one on the throne that one God is in control not pilot Herod Caesar Russia China Japan Middle Eastern united Europe mr. Gorbachev President Bush European Common Market not the United States at the World Council of Churches there are just little puppets and pawns the Lord of the harvest is in control and then and the night is belong to those that will play their critical part and the nine is belong to us who will play their critical part in the harvest say then God say then God they then God will do a sovereign work say it's decreed take the books in his hand say the stars in their courses fight for God's vision the land for sinners slain God incarnate coming after lost thinners the scrolls in his right hand the very fact that there's a scroll tells you you don't have to get shook there is a plan and God's plan and vision is secure you can't change it and nobody else you just better find out what it is and get going in that direction it's held tight in his right hand Houston you're in his book Dallas New Orleans New York Brooklyn Long Island Los Angeles San Francisco Mexico City Alexander st. Louis he you're in his right hand we're in the book every tribe kindred tongue nation people's in the book and to think we're his agents playing a critical part we have the keys because the one on the throne gave them to us he gave us authority over all the power of the enemy we're custodians of his goods were custodians of his message we have his gifts his credentials his promises the book is in his hand he said I'll go with you into the - I'll give you miracles and healings if you'll play the critical part I've got the book I'll go with you all the way over to the end I've got the book no man comes to the Father but by me I've got the book no man shutteth and until I shut no man openeth Angela open the books in my head if you'll ask anything my name I'll do it if two of you just agree together I'll do it whatever you ask in the father's name I'll give it to you so I'll just want you to leave here today saying Jesus you said I could have it Jesus you said I could have it the books in your hand John heard an angel cry and say who's worthy to break the seals and open this book I'll tell you one thing a sour Phoenician brother broke a dispensational barrier I know this risk was heroic act of sacrifice for seven sons of the King being hanged she made it possible for them to get a raw barrel because King David heard about he said take that law off the statute books now I know one thing we can affect God about anything he's got shut up he'll open it for anybody to play the critical part you asked anything in my name and I'll do it I know this God changed his mind about Nineveh when he said I'll destroy it and spared her for two centuries because the whole city prayed and fasted I know that whose worth it opened the plan of history and bring history God's vision - it's four or day consummation no one john wept and wept and wept and wept and wept and wept and then comes the heart of the reality of God's nation and what must become our vision ladies and gentlemen ministers and laity we're playing the critical part in God's vision we're to sit in that throne with him judging angels men in the world how can you judge it if we've never done all we can to reach it the greatest preachers singers musicians in all the world are in the United Pentecostal church people of high visibility and other organizations and Christian groups have said to me personally there's nobody that even comes close to the United Pentecostal Church but our problem is we are not playing the critical part please hear me we can't face the judge of the nineties in Saul's armor seekers now great things but ourselves I say seek them not you better strengthen yourself in the things of God instead of the things of this world you better get yourself strengthened in the inner man with his might and his power so you can stand up and say judge God don't let him do it that's a mighty weapon but it's got to come from inner strength and not just somebody saying Jesus praise God hallelujah amen there's got to be an inner something in there sake God don't let him do it dog don't let him do it I intend to have it and you can look at me and say anything you want to say I intend to have it I'm going to be able to walk in they're gonna tap me on the shoulder and they're gonna say come here lady I saw you in a dream or a vision you've got something to tell me I've got it I'm gonna have it you do with it what you want I'm going to have it seek great things for myself I'm willing to give it all up I mean it I just saw a prophet die I'm not the same anymore I was intense but now I'm even more I saw his old earthen vessel crack it wasn't needed anymore I saw the rivers of life flow from his innermost now I'm being irresistible drone to another Shore for to me to live is Christ a dice game it really doesn't matter to me anymore I'm going to play the critical part and nothing but deaths gonna stop me I pledge to my husband my son today I'll go anywhere he wants to go I'll give up anything he wants to give up I'll sell anything he won't just say I'm not for sale what have we got to lose what does that matter anyhow they're going to throw their money in the streets and the inner crash is about to take good King started out right and ended wrong because they began to strengthen themselves and material thing instead of strengthening in the inner man God had a way of whipping him back to the altar and he'll quit member one of us back to the altar do you hear me do you hear me he'll whip you back to the altar the angel said to John you don't have to weep the line of the tribe of Judah the root of David the lion has triumphed and he's able to open the scroll and John turns tricks to see a roaring lion but guess what he saw he saw a lamb slain standing in the very middle of the throne on the line has triumphed the Lion of Judah is able to open the sealed and I turned and saw a lamb the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world behold the lamb percenter slain the one who came to seeking to save the lodge is on the throne the one who prayed Ernest and bourbon until his sweat became blood he's on the throne the one who ate with publicans and sinners he's on the throne the one who went out of his way to get the Jacob's Well to talk to a woman of ill repute is on the throne the one the first day he was announced 1 Nathaniel Nathaniel 1 Peter and on and on is the story of the gospel he's on the throne the one who said go into all the world and preach the gospel every creature he's on the throne the lion wins by becoming a lamb dying for sinners he's on the throne the lion overcomes by becoming a sacrificial lamb for sinners for sinners he went via the cross John said I saw that lamb standing in the very middle he's in the middle of all creation the four living creatures Jesus Christ as a sinner of all he's the only answer to the world's needs he's the only answer for every living creature he's on the throne now I saw him standing in the very center of the four and twenty elders he's in the middle of the very center of redeemed humanity he's in the middle of this church he's walking in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks he's in that church is built upon the apostles and prophets with Jesus Christ Himself being the chief Cornerstone he's walking among us and I saw him at the very center of the throne standing in the middle of the throne stands in the very center of the being of God he is the mighty God he is the Almighty in the holy one he is God reconciling the world just it is a fact that God in Christ her one God was manifested in the flesh the lamb for sinners slain he was God and he man he was lying and he was loud he is the image of the invisible God he is the one John saw on the throne he and no one else is whether to open the scroll John says when I saw that Lamb take the scroll from him that sat on the throne the living creatures in the twenty-four elders began to worship the Lamb then the angelic host joined in that worship then John hears the roars of acclamation from ever created things in heaven on earth under the earth in the sea all crying out joy to the Lamb for sinners slain worship the Lamb for sinners slain the scroll is in his hand the one percenter slain the scroll is in his hand and worship is to the lamb and worship will open the book and the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and his kingdom his filling the whole earth now do you really realize that at the very heart of reality there is a throne that filled suffering need I named all the maladies and in justices that were taken with us into the nineties we can never avoid the suffering and the hurting and the ravished in the bleeding and the diseased and the sick and the dying and the lost sinners to be like Jesus I've got to suffer to be like Jesus I must be about my father's business to be like Jesus how much preached the gospel to other cities also to be like Jesus I must endure in the face of near to be like Jesus I must refuse to quit to be like Jesus I must sacrifice and take up my cross daily to be like Jesus I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day where I must finish what I have started if I am to be like Jesus how I must become interested in people people that are hurting people with needs people people people our churches have got to learn to play the critical part please quit just having normal Church please become intercessors please do something about what is being preached at this conference for the closer you get to God the closer you'll get to the suffering of this world Jesus said what's Shepherd having a hundred sheep if he lose one the fact that the sheep was lost possessed the mind of a shepherd we must become interested in people people people Jesus Christ spilled his life's blood for the sinner don't you understand he came into the world to save sinners to Jesus the one who holds the book the lost are worth more than the whole world you've got to realize that the line becomes a lamb that's why the lamb suffered and was slain at the very center of that throne is full of grace there he stands the intercessor the intercessor who ever liveth he's in the center of the phone and the writer of the book of Hebrews called it a throne of grace so when you read his terrible utterances read his denunciations with Calvary in your mind please our burden here in Alexandria is we've got to save them whatever the cost I don't care where they've been what they've done I don't care what they look like I don't care what they act like we are going to save them and I'm going to give every one of them a chance I've got to save their soul from hell the way of the lamb is the way of servanthood you got to play the critical part James and John you won't sit in the throne with me I hate to tell your mama that but you got to drink the cup to sit with me it's not how many servants you have it's how many you serve I got to the throne by becoming a lamb I got to the throne by Allah by giving to others and others and others and others you can't be careless slipshod materialistic minded Arbitron ratings do not equate servanthood the plaudits the accolades of the merchandisers pale in comparison to his well done now the lamb is not foolish he has seven eyes he's immensely wise he has seven horns he's immensely powerful but here's the secret of God's vision the greatest power in this universe is the weakness of sacrificial love and the greatest wisdom in the universe is the foolishness of sacrificial love the way of the lamb is the wisest and the most powerful way to live so in Revelation what seems weak is strong and Paul said foolish things are going to shame this world it's going to shame the powerful because you don't win by being a lion lioness is foolishness and weakness the lion overcomes by becoming a lamb or sacrificial lamb don't be blinded by the talk of lions Lions don't see the lamb the lamb for sinners slain that's how the lion overcame loving sinners whatever the cost you've got to become all things to all men and maybe you'll win some some is better than none and you've got to play your critical part and then when the lamb breaks the seal you'll discover that everything every force around you every force served his purpose all things work together for him he holds the king's heart in his hand that's why the message of the entire Bible everything serves Jesus Christ the scroll on Rose and it rolls towards his kingdom and listen we gotta roll with it we've gotta roll with it we've gotta roll with it we'll never glues by going the way of the powerless lamb for sinners slain it might appear that we're losers but we never really lose if we're running with a vision it'll speak and not lie though it carry weight part because it will surely come it will not tarry even if we're martyred burned at the stake crucified upside down we better run with the vision because the one on the throne has the last word it's a no-lose situation it all ends at the feet of the crucified resurrected reigning Lamb of God look look in the middle of that throne door is the lamb for sinners slain and I get all the creation joining in that bunch of joy to him the lamb for sinners slain is sitting on the throne to him be praise and honor and glory forever and ever and the four living be said amen and amen and the twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped and they poured out their souls in worship they poured it out look love look everybody look everybody look everybody loves the one on the throne is the intercessor the one on the throne is the intercessor love the one on the throne is the intercessor now how do you interpret all of this you're going there are you going you're gonna stand before that throne and you ever played your critical part and the intercessors on the throne and they who sit with him will be the intercessors so let me carefully be careless about everything but playing my critical part in the involvement in God's vision Daniel witnessed the pomp the majesty the grandeur the glory of the four kings and there he lost his kingdoms but he closed his final chapter of his prophetic book and said they that be wise they that play their critical part are gonna shine as the brightness of the firmament and they that turn many to righteousness as stars forever they'll shine forever because they played their critical part I wish now I had counted everything is lost I wish now that out of sold out I wish now out of giving it all up I wish now have been willing to go anywhere and do anything and get up any time and go I will give I will go I will weep is there anybody here that I say that I will work I will be an intercessor I will for every kindred ever tried every tongue every nation ever planted on planet Earth to him all Majesty ascribe and crown him Lord of lords I want to hear him say well done everybody holler with me look look look who's on the throne who's on the throne the intercessor say the intercessors on the throne the intercessors on the throne with your heads bowed the intercessors on the throne who the laughs every eye closed Oh the horsemen her screws Oh Holy Sacrifice we ha ever hand raised and ever face turned up to take a look cry Oh Wow Oh please the rest of you that's not gonna turn around can he lose the intercessor that stripped himself he's on the throne Venus there's a star from the the intercessors on the throne knees together right now please we need to pray

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Published: Thu May 21 2015