Man on Fire - Ivan Gamma

hallelujah hallelujah thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus praise god our god is wonderful there is only one thing that he does not know and because he knows it all he doesn't know any other god because he is the only one how great is our god let's go to the word of god while you're standing one verse and then you get to sit down i get to stay here gloria gloria adios luke chapter 12 49 i am come to send fire on the earth and what will lie if if it be already kindle hallelujah in other words i have come to set fire but it's already burning hallelujah i'm gonna preach under this subject man on fire men on fire you may sit down in the name of jesus christ hallelujah thank you lord praise the lord well i'm gonna be honest with you uh i thought it was to be a lot easier i thought it was all ages but now that you guys are the more mature what am i going to teach i was out in the world lost and doing crazy things and you were praying fasting living for god most of you thank you thank you because i know a lot of you pray for me without even knowing thank you so much thank you man on fire it was the second month of the year february 21st it was the year 1991 it was a sunday evening we thought it was just another sunday evening for the gama family nothing special nothing out of the ordinary we were living in a three-bedroom apartment in a city named concord california there we were hearing the music the neighbors were playing those that live of half-living apartment complexes know what i'm talking about you get to listen to music you don't even want to listen to and the scary things you learn the songs without even wanting to learn the songs so there we were we were also listening to the arguments and discussions of the family next door hearing also the screams of a lady named mrs sylvia one of our neighbors she was rebuking her child in my personal opinion her child was a minister to society he could destroy windows break into cars do a lot of crazy stuff we seem happy and it seems like a lot of fun my brother paulo the oldest he had come back late the night before he was suffering from a severe hangover my dad he was drinking a few beers waiting for my mom to finish dinner so we can all sit down at the table and eat celia and anna my two younger sisters they were listening to romantic music and i bet you they were dreaming of their prince charming armando and roberto the last or the youngest siblings that i have they were playing superheroes and making those strange noises that only we men know how to make when we're children again nothing out of the ordinary everything looks so typical and so normal me being a teenager having big dreams and big expectations of one day having a professional career playing the sport in my personal opinion i'm sorry football lovers the best sport there is my personal opinion forgive me soccer of course i had just gotten home and was sharing with my family what a great game i had played in how many goals i had scored everything seemed so normal but wait a moment we were seven children seven siblings in the family there was one missing paulo in the midst of his hangover as mom and dad for the absentee what is jose how come he's not here with us that's how does jose have a soccer game today also you see jose jose's dream was also to become a professional soccer player just like me my dad not noticing now that he knows that jose wasn't there he asked my mom hey honey do you know where jose is the truth is mom she knew but she did not wanted to let us know she didn't want to make it public of jose's whereabouts now jose was not a gangster he had never tried drugs in his life he had never smoked or drink but for some reason mom's face looked really guilty she had the the face of an accomplice accomplice somebody that had participated in a crime mom where is jose i ask he should be back in any time she answers where did he go we could hear my dad getting upset because he was not getting a clear answer with my brother number three was so my mom decided to tell us something trying not to worry us she said this i will tell you where he said but please leave him alone when he comes back oh everybody stopped and they thought what in the world is my brother doing or where is he at now we really wanted to know where jose was well my mom said he has a friend and uh this friend's cool invited him to go to church to church my dad asked who's supposed to be catholic what church he asked our church well my dad said our church but understood it had been like four years we had not gone to any church no it's not our church my mom answered and she tried to explain that it wasn't a regular church it was a different kind of church way it's not a catholic church it's not our normal church my mom said no it is a church i think it's called pentecostal church and my dad asked really upset and what kind of crazy church is that my mom answered honestly i do not know she was like feeling like a criminal everybody was pushing towards her and asking her all these questions lately i mean she explained to us that lately jose has been was searching for something real something with substance something that will give him purpose and passion in life jose has shared with my mom with nobody else that he felt empty buoyed in the inside and he knew there was something else he was willing to do whatever to find it the answer was not enough for us but we didn't say much after that we were hoping it was uh something that it was going to pass quickly nothing major nothing to see here nothing important don't worry about it jose is going to get over that and he's going to be back with us happy catholic not catholic family we were expecting everything to go back to normal and if we didn't if he didn't go back to normal my dad say i'll do whatever i'll take that religion out of him i'll slap him as hard as i can until he doesn't believe in anything but what the holy pope says we thought for a moment we felt it there was a war coming into our house and we thought we were ready to fight it oh how foolish we were this was not even close to what we thought it was going to be jose came later we were ready to have a really serious conversation with him and when he walked in the door without any words he was telling us things that only that could only be understood in the spirit he had had a spiritual experience and that ex experience was too great and too holy for us talking about my family humans to be able to understand it he looked different you could tell he had been crying like he can never cry before his eyes were really red however there was pure joy in a sincere smile in his face our mean and frustrated faces were confronted with a divine peace a peace that was greater than human understanding his hair was still wet we knew it he had been baptized we couldn't deny it the jose that left the house early that afternoon was nowhere to be found without asking we were recipients of a new person we knew he was our brother but it seems like he got a different nationality and we were right he had become a citizen of heaven through the acceptance of the name of jesus christ when he repented of his sins and he was baptized in his holy name the perfect example of a new creation was in front of us he was a new creature the book of luke 12 49 what we read tell us something that we usually read too quickly and we don't we do not pay the attention enough as we supposed to the lord says i have come to send fire on the earth but it's already kindled so already somebody started already something john the baptist had been already preaching i'm not sure for months or years but he was already preaching and something had happened when somebody had heard the gospel the good news something happened in homes and houses and families in neighborhoods people were happy to hear the good news people were baptized under the baptism of john and repented of their sins but when they got home there was something crazy going on there was a revolution there was a fight there were friction something had happened that's exactly what happened in our house there was a lot of friction we were trying to tell jose he was wrong but without peace and that joy his face that we hated he was telling us no i have the truth i am free and you are not the lord continue continues lord jesus says in luke 12 51 suppose you that i have come to give peace on earth i tell you nay but rather division maybe you're a newcomer maybe you do not understand how come everybody in the family has become your enemy there is a revelation right here because in that moment when you receive the fire in your bones in that moment when you receive the truth automatically you become the enemy of evil that's what my brother jose had become we did not understand we didn't understand it and we didn't want it to either for a couple years these verses became a reality in our household thank god my brother was never convinced to go back to what he used to be there was a lot of division in the house there was a lot of friction in the house but my brother stood strong my dad wanted to kick him out of the house and he thought he was going to scare him and every time he got out of that close little prayer he could look at my dinner on the face and said dad i love you like you don't even have an idea how much i love you and i'm praying for you and i'm praying for my family everybody one day he said he's gonna be saved he's gonna serve jesus he's gonna come with me to church he didn't give up he did not give in my dad gathered the whole family and there was a special meeting especially he made it so it will be right after my brother came back from church the whole gamma family was there and my brother was in the center and my father thought he knew it he know how to convince this crazy boy to come back to where he used to be son am i your father yes there you are my father son do you love me yes daddy only god knows how much i love you son do you love me more than your religion my dad thought i'm smart i have them where i want it so daddy we have a problem here jesus is no religion i will always love you and i will always respect you but my god is my god and i will never leave him because he has given me why you or no one asked who have given me oh talk about division my dad started crying my mom did not know what to do my brother paulo and i look at jose we say what what's wrong with you my two sisters stay quiet and the smallest of my siblings did not say anything see that's what happens when a man he's on fire i criticized my brother i threw away some of some of his christian cities but i couldn't deny it every time he put the music on the car there was something about the music that gave me a piece that gave me some kind of joy that made me want to cry things that the world music couldn't do this music was doing it yes i said i will never become a christian but here i am 30 something years later preaching the gospel follower jesus christ i'm telling you somebody a man had to be on fire my brother paul and i every friday we were making plans where are we gonna go what party are we going to uh who's coming with us what friends are we inviting to go to this party oh friday we were partying and saturday we were partying but saturday six in the morning you could see my brother jose after he has come to the bathroom clean himself up god bless you all and then going inside in a closet from six in the morning to six in the evening should he not see his face but you could hear his prayers he used to get out of that closet and i was afraid to look at his face because i knew every time i look at him i feel like the most sinful person in the world some months passed my mom went to church my sisters went to church my little brothers went to church my oldest brother went to church and five years later this rebellious men in front of you [Music] came to church there was something about jose when he came back from church i remember it was because of the time something like because of the times over there it's a it's a conference that pastor lemonis has he got all these famous preachers my brother jose had their cassettes remember you know thank god i'm talking to the right people if i talk some teenagers they will look at me like crazy what's that guy said he was listening to all these missionaries from africa these missionaries from mexico and all these great preachers and he used to tell me you got to listen to this preaching and i said no i'm not going to listen to your stuff and i remember the first preaching on a friday morning it was about what are you willing to sacrifice for the ones that you love that are not saved and he wanted to be in his first conference he wanted to be there so bad but he went back home we asked him don't you have a conference don't you have a conference friday saturday and sunday don't you supposed to be at church the whole day you say yes but i'm not gonna go later on when i got baptized she told me i wanted to win the conference so bad but i asked the lord whatever you want me to give up i'll give up right now but i want to see my whole family saved and the lord said okay go like yourself in the closet and continue on praying the three days that you're supposed to be here jose is about my size a little bit smaller than i am i mean size he's not a well i'm not that tall but he's celery shorter he's not the big he was never a good fighter i used to protect him in high school i was his younger brother when people used to peek on him i used to fight nobody's supposed to peek on my breath and he was the oldest yeah skinny and everything the way you see me please don't don't be fooled i thought i was cool and i thought i was mean but after he got baptized there was some kind of boldness in him every time somebody had a nightmare we knew jose had something to say about it in jose is too tall and he rebuked the devil in any kind of spirit that ever wanted to get into our house he started walking in school with humbleness but you could tell there was something special in him he testified to everyone at school he gave up soccer he gave up his career he wanted to become a preacher every saturday after he got out of the closet he used to go up there and testify when every sunday he used to come and bring people to church the man was on fire i remember one time after a soccer game we have won the championship i have scored two goals i was playing in the team in san francisco he had church that sunday i had come home we had a celebration everybody was getting drunk after the game there was food there was fun beers everything for everyone i was the hero i supposed to be feeling good but i feel lonely empty i wasn't satisfied and i started crying it's incredible in the midst of so many people how lonely we can feel when we don't have god with us you can smile you can laugh you can drink but don't lie to yourself there's something that the world cannot give you only jesus i went home there was no one there and i cry like a little baby i see there's no purpose in this life is this at is this all the world offers a little bit of happiness here and there having to get drunk to enjoy like people says and i wasn't expecting jose to come but the spirit of the lord has spoken to him go that was there thinking should i live should i die should i stay what am i gonna do with my life he came he talked to me and he said ivan no matter where you run god has his eyes on you he's better if you willingly give yourself up and said god here i am because he's going to chase you you cannot escape from him for five years i hear his prayers for five years i knew when he was fast and he didn't have to tell us you just didn't see him the whole day he was passionate for his family passionate for his brothers and sisters for his mom and daddy he was a man of fire and i see my brother today he's pastoring a church in california being the last one that came to the lord i cast him a lot of tears i custom a lot of days of fasting study for this message wasn't easy just the title people are expecting for fire to come from heaven but the lord started dealing with me where's the fire see we have experienced god's presence in a mighty way you have experienced miracles you have experienced so many things that is impossible to count them all however the question is the same where is the fire when was the last time this is the lord asking me you cry in my presence and you forget all about the time you were just it was just you and i you talking to me me talking to you me placing new fire inside of your bones where is the fire we see the world the way the world is and we think it is impossible for a person for a man to change the world no it's not impossible one person can light up the whole world for jesus you read about king josiah the difference between king josiah and a lot of kings of israel is that king josiah did not ask for revival for the country he makes sure to ask for revival for himself first when they wrote when they were reading the word of god to king josiah he humbled himself asked for forgiveness and god started a revolution see we want god to do this we got we want god to do that we can we want god to show himself but god is asking you oh i'm here i have always been here where are you there's a song in spanish and i'm glad my son daniel has listened to that song it's a christian song we don't listen to anything by christian music i'm not trying to be holy it's just it's the truth and the song it is a man asking god where is the god of elijah and god is answering back i am here but we are the man with the spirit of elijah the man asks again where is the god of joseph god answers back i've been healed all the time where are those with the heart of joseph it's incredible when a minute is on fire we usually said that all the player oh the soccer player the football player he is on fire oh let me tell you one thing they are not on fire say that about a christian say that about a passionate believer that is praying and fasting to reach a family to reach a country to reach a city then we can say there goes a man on fire before elijah came and asked for god to send the fire the bible says in first of kings 18 30 that when the people came near to him he repaired the altar we want god to send the fire but we do not want god to deal with the altar once again this is god speaking to me forgive me it was to me elijah had to put the altar together i can see you i can almost hear the crowd saying elijah you ready to put the false prophets of baal to shame it is time for the show to start come on elijah ask god to send the fire and i can almost hear elijah no not yet the altar is broken the altar is broken down something must be fixed before the fire fall your heart is bleeding your heart is hurting you have doubt in your soul you're not you're not even believing on the promises of the word of god you are questioning your ministry and the lord is saying before i touch you before i send my fire you must know the altar needs to be fixed your heart needs to be healed there is hatred inside of you the altar is broken there is rebellion inside your heart there are sins that you have not confessed the fire cannot come down because the altar needs to be fixed elijah fixed the altar but then he called the tribes of israel and the lord spoke to me he said this once you have fixed the altar you must not forget who you are in me you are my chosen one you are my passion and the reason i came to this world you are the reason why i suffer i suffer when you suffer i cry when you cry delight in me says the lord rejoice in my presence that's why that's the only way once the altar is fixed when your faith starts growing up rejoice in my presence don't worry about the things you do not have oh focus on the god you have give me your praise and i will give you what you need worship me through your weakness and sickness and i will give you your healing the bible says that he made a trench around the altar the trench i'm not an expert on the bible but for me the way the spirit of god leading me to preach this message means separation god separated the altar from what it was in the outside whatever is in the altar must be cleansed because it allows you have to put a lots of water i don't want to get in a pulpit and preach a message and play with people's emotions when my heart's not right i don't want to do that i do not want to act like a really good preacher like i know a lot about the bible when i'm not separated from sin finally when the time of the offering came elijah made sure to give the glory to god we preachers we're dangerous to ourselves i'm sorry me as a preacher i'm a danger to myself we focus too much on what we know what we think we know and in reality a lot of times we don't know anything god uses us to preach a good message we think we're on the top of the world we don't want to talk to anybody or just everybody we think we're better than anybody but if my heart is not clean if i'm not doing it with love and passion towards god what i'm doing for him is nothing on june 10 1963 a group of monks in south vietnam were protesting the government because the government were not allowing them to worship buddha the men in charge the president prime minister of south vietnam was a catholic he was discriminating the buddhists and not letting them worship their god so somebody called different newspapers and they say something great is about to happen something that is going to change the world it's going to change vietnam but the world completely only two reporters went to this area where the guy that was making the phone call said this was going to happen it was between the cambodian embassy in saigon these reporters did not care about it but this reporter him and another one were the only ones there and he really really made news what happened this buddhist monk trying to get a point across got out of a vehicle sit on the ground and ask another monk to come with a goblin of gasoline and just pour all over him and he was the monk not somebody else this monk light up some fire and put himself to burn he wrote a letter right before he did this he told the president i'm doing it so we'll get the right to worship our god but the most tremendous thing about all this or the thing that impacted me the most is what the reporters say the reporters say in the air was the smell of burning human flesh humans being burned surprisingly quickly behind me i could hear the sobbing of the vietnamese who were now gathering i was too shocked to cry too confused to take notes or to ask questions i was too confused to even think as he burned he says he never moved a muscle he did not make a sound his outward composure in sharp contrast to the wailing people around him the reporter said people were bowing down in respect for this man that was being born i mean burning alive another reporter wrote that it was like a sweet melody while he was burning this is what the lord asked me when was the last time through your weakness through your pain [Music] through your sickness through your confusion instead of complaining to me you gave me a sweet sound a melody see we said that we are the children of god and that's right we say that we are christians and that's right but i'm afraid for myself that my christianity has become so weak that my christianity has become so easy to break that if god does not answer my prayer i have an excuse to leave him where is the fire as i was praying i said god remind me how empty i was remind me how the spirit i was without you remind me how lost i was to god when i thought i knew it all and i knew nothing because i didn't have in my life remind me of god remind me that's the only way that the fire is gonna burn inside of us will you remember those long nights when you couldn't sleep when you remember those headaches after the hangover even if you're a christian or you were born in a christian home remember those times of loneliness when you were confused did i know what to do oh god do not let me forget do not let me walk proud full of god thinking that i have everything oh god the way it's supposed to be when in reality there is no fire when the heart is bleeding when the heart is broken when there's no time in the altar when there's no time to prayer when there's no time to fast oh god please remind me i want to be a man on fire i want to be a man on fire i want to walk oh god like a real christian i want to testify to a last world i want to do the things that nobody is willing to do i want to be a man on fire oh god but before i become a man of fire please fix my heart please fix my spirit please touch my mind please remind me probably you've been sick for a while and probably you're expecting healing from god and probably god has not shown up probably what god is waiting is waiting for you to show up in the altar there where there's no reputation there's no titles too great too big there's no last name too important there's no years of ministry there is no history only god and a heart does desire fire that's what the altar is the altar is not for us more mature christians to criticize the quick ones those that have fallen those have made mistakes no the altar is where the fire begins the altar is not for us to run away from is the place to run to i hear people saying i don't feel anything at church well when was the last time you went to the altar oh pastor preaches too long or i don't like the way they preach don't lie to yourself you're cold your heart is broken you need to fix it do you need fire before you did not needed a car to come to church it could be cold it could be hot it could be raining you did not care there was a fire in your bones and you needed to come to church now you're full of excuses you don't want to come to church [Applause] i will tell you the truth there is no fire what must i do god bow before me humble yourself and see that no matter how many years you've been following me you're walking with me oh you have to come to the truth and do not deny you have gotten cold you have gotten away from me you're not burning like you used to you're not visiting people like you used to you're not visiting the needy like you used to you're not preaching you're not teaching oh you're not testifying like you used to there's no fire a judgement has to start at home that's why i before i get out of that office i was telling god god once again make me a man on fire get out your seat come for a moment god is ready he's there are we ready for him i wanna be a man on fire i wanna be a man on fire if a buddhist monk could do it for a statue how much more can we do it for a real god and god is not asking you to kill yourself god is not asking you to suffer or do crazy things while he's asking give me your heart your heart is cold your heart is broken your heart's bleeding you have no more faith come to me come to me let my fire burn inside of me once again let me remind you the mighty power that there is in your calling let me remind you how many things mighty things you can do in me let me remind you how special you are in me let me remind you that i have chosen you i have taken you from the world for a reason for a purpose there is a special calling in your life all you need is the fire god give us the fire missionary draws when he went to colombia after he had been there for five years he had reached people they had opened a lot of churches after fasting and praying he went to the altar he didn't feel anything and there you can read on the book there's a book about him and he said that he got into the altar he asked three brothers for the church can you guys run on top of me and step on my face to step on my body and they say why pastor why you're asking us to do that he said i don't feel god i'm the pastor i'm the preacher and i don't feel god step over me probably maybe but you are stepping on me i will i will feel some pain and some tears will come out and i start feeling god again and i'll feel the desperation to touch him once again i don't feel good

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