PAstor Henry Wright War Stories

the blood would you do here Oh sing up that song there's wonder-working power there is power power wonder-working up in the blood or the love and there is power power wonder-working power in the precious blood of the line who would you be free from your passionate pride there is power in the blood power in the blood come for a cleansing to Calvary's side there is one therefore power in the blood there is power power wonder-working power in the blood [Music] there is power power wonder-working power in the precious blood of the land would you do service for Jesus you do service for Jesus your king there is power in the blood power in the blood would you live daily his prey says to see there is one there for power everyone sing the chorus there is power power wonder-working power in the blood of the land there is power power wonder in the precious blood of the Lamb there is power power wonder-working power in the blood of the Lord there is power power wonder-working power in the precious blood of the praise the Lord and it seems like our theme song for this particular meeting has been marching to Zion here number 222 sorry 422 let's all stand to sing this song mighty song of the church [Music] come we had love award and let her join me go joined in a song with sweet Accord jointly the song with me of course that does surround the road and cos surround the road for we're marching to Zion beautiful beautiful Zion we're marching upward to heavenly sign that you to fall City of God let go tree used to sing who never knew our chord my children the heavenly king but a trend off the heavenly key miss me their choice uproar what miss me their jaw everyone sing the course or whim marching to Zion beautiful beautiful Zion hooah marching up went to heavenly Zion that new de for safety the hills of Zion ring the heels of Zion you of thousands o before we reached reach the head only for me reach which the heavenly feels the warm the golden stream the walk the golden stream for we're marching to Zion beautiful beautiful so young who emerge in the beautiful city of God then let our souls are bound and every taffy oh we're marching through Emmanuel's Brown we're marching through Emanuel's Brown to Fira worlds on high to fear road world oh we marching to Zion beautiful beautiful Zion wimba heavenly Zion that beautiful city of God or we're marching to Zion beautiful beautiful sir we're marching up were to heavenly Zion that ut4 City of God praise the Lord remain standing praise the Lord let us first acknowledge the presence of our most important guests here tonight let us acknowledge the presence of Yahweh our God he invited us to be here with him in his presence let us acknowledge the presence of the Almighty God let us let us acknowledge the presence of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world who promises to be with us wherever we are let us acknowledge the presence of the Holy Spirit who is supremely qualified to move upon our hearts and then we can acknowledge those of us who are here tonight amen welcome you from various parts of the world here tonight we are blessed to come in the presence of the Almighty God and before I say anything about those of us who are in the platform here to me it's so incredibly important that we feel ready in our hearts to be in the presence of the Almighty God and so I'm going to ask us for the next two minutes to bow our heads and close our eyes in complete quietness if you have a cell phone that's going to disturb please turn it off and let us bow our heads in complete quietness and talk to God and ask him to make our hearts ready to receive the Grace and blessings that he wants to give to us tonight let's bow our heads quietly our Father and our God great Yahweh that you are Elohim and creator of this universe we do not invite you tonight because you're already here we do not even invoke you because you are the one that have already sustained us father tonight we do not ask you to fill our cups because our cups have already been filled we do not ask you to let them overflow because they are overflowing with your bountiful blessings tonight father we asked simply that once again divinity would touch dust that divinity would teach dust and that divinity would transform dust make us into your image do to us what you want so you can do through us what you will speak through your manservant tonight on this last evening service of the 29th evangelism council so that indeed we may leave this place changed these things and the unspoken things we ask in Jesus name Amen brother Alwyn Johnson will represent us in speaking to the Lord on our behalf with the song Lord I want to be a Christian the gentleman who offered prayer for us as pastor Sylvester he passes in mithya 70th Venice Church California Stockton California and we do praise God for his intercession on our behalf tonight pasta Roscoe she is one of our recent graduates from Oakland University and so we're proud to have him on the platform here and he is pastoring in Columbus Mississippi we also have with us on the platform sister Ruby Perry well for the last 25 years has been a Bible worker in North Carolina Charlotte Charlotte North Carolina and so we may I just put it this way I have been so blessed with my mother's prayers and one of the dear sisters who was standing with sister Ruby when I spoke with her sister Hadley she said she remembers so much her mother's pray when she was growing up I love to hear mothers pray and so she will do a benediction tonight we have privileged to have also with us I think everyone knows John and he will offer for us the the song of meditation before pastor Wright will speak so this time we'll have brother all in Johnson but I want to be a Christian [Music] my heart I want to be a creation in in my heart in my heart I want to be a Christian in my heart Lord I want to be more holy my heart in my heart heart [Music] I want to be more holy in ha in my heart arts in my heart our Lord I wore and to be more holy in ha lord I want to be like Jesus in my heart in my hearts Lord I want to be like Jesus in my heart [Music] [Applause] but in my heart Oh Lord I want to be a Christian Lord I want to be more holy Lord I want to be like Jesus [Music] [Applause] our scripture reading for the evening is found in the book of Psalm 23 the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want he maketh me to lie down in green pastures he leadeth me beside the still waters he restoreth my soul he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff they do comfort me they'll prepare the table before me in the presence of mine enemies thou anointest my head with oil my cup runneth over surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever amen [Music] [Applause] [Music] the sometimes we don't see how they could struggles that break our hearts into sometimes binds us to the truth how father knows what's best for us for his way is nuts [Music] so in your pathway grows down and you just can't see him remember you're never [Music] God is too 2b mistake and God is much too good to be unkind so when you don't understand and when you don't see his plan and you can trace his hand Trust is hard [Music] [Music] he sees the stop [Music] he holds your future in his hand so don't live as those who had no all our hope is found in for we see the presence really but he sees the first [Applause] and like a tapestry he's weaving you and me too one day we just love I can't is too to be mistake and God is too good to be unkind so when you do understand and when you don't see you can't trace his hand Trust is hard your is faithful and to you all knows what is best for you [Music] god it's too wise to be mistaken yes our God is much too good to be a kind so when you don't understand and when you don't see and you can trace it Trust is hard when you don't understand and when you go see God's plan and when you can trace his hand just trust his ha just trust God [Music] [Applause] that which was from the beginning which we have heard which we have seen with our eyes which we have looked upon it upon and our hands have handled of the Word of Life that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us and truly our Fellowship is with the father and with his son Jesus Christ brothers my ancestors my listening and being touched with a preaching of elder Henry Wright says that he has been a witness he has seen and he has heard who is the word of life intellectually scholarly experientially elder Wright is eminently qualified to preach to us tonight but that's not the reason he's here he has to tell us why the Lord has sent him here tonight just give us a word man god bless you good evening it's pitiful I said good evening it's been a good meeting hasn't it been and I must join with my other fellow colleagues and speakers and Express to you to dr. Warren and to the committee for the opportunity of sharing in this in this meeting I was reflecting and I do recall that the first year that we had this meeting I was at that time serving as the pastoral administrative professor and so had a chance to present at the very first one of these conventions since that time the brother have been kind enough to invite me back time after time I've often avoided it because of this late-night session but it's all right old ego stays up all night long and so we are happy to be here and then of course in the context of this meeting and the context of the times in which we are living we are just absolutely mesmerised by the kind of events that we now witness an experience that allow us to preach with so much fervor rise up on Sunday and I can't wait till Sabbath the horse is ready to run come on somebody because God keeps pouring himself out and renewing the old preaching material come on somebody and you find yourself on Sabbath morning all tingly down inside and you just want them to get the pastoral prayer and the tithe and all that Gump out of the way so you can preach and then you let the Negro get up on Tuesday night and preach don't have to wait til Sabbath lord help us let's pray I'm in your hands Lord amen first Corinthians 10 and verse 13 there hath no temptation taken you but those that are common to man but God is faithful I say God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you're able but will in the midst of the temptation make a way of escape so you can bear it can I get a witness tonight pastors like to trade war stories workers like to trade war stories you know the church board meeting pastor where the antagonist against your program we're all lined up to sink your ship even before you got to new ideas launched does anybody know what I'm talking about then you tell as you stand in the circle the preachers how the Lord moved and your detractors were left speechless as the board sided with you or maybe your favorite war story is how the ugly rumors were circulating about you your minister your character your life and you just held your peace watched as the wagging tongues about you were humble yes silence as the real facts came to light that's a good war story and then someone else in the gathering of preachers will tell the one where the evangelistic crusade was not drawing people and you looked like it would have no meaningful production but you and your team no no no no make it more dramatic you and your pregnant wife went out and knocked on door the crowd began to grow and and and and and and where you feared you would baptize no one you baptize 30 probably thirteen but it sounds like 30 and then someone says but wait let me tell you about the conference president who just didn't seem to like me wouldn't give me a break but you just venture back we talk more stories now you just bent your back and worked hard anyhow and prevailed and and the president now is long gone you're pastoring one of the largest churches in the conference war story war stories cover small churches to small people war stories because you never get invited to the camp meeting to preach and even though you work hard on your sermons war stories that involve children who are not in church and bills that have mounted up while you tried to keep those kids in church school on a pastor salary children killed and spouses afflicted then on and on war stories I have one I like Marie remember I started down in Greenville Mississippi somebody pray for the pastor was a sign to a little church and the elder of the church the first out of the church y'all pray for me now because this thing still stirs me up I've been in the work forty-four years this was my first district and I've gone away from a first workers meeting and and the first elder without a vote of the board or anybody even that angel did not Commission him knocked a hole in the wall of the church right where his wife sits and put an air conditioner in that wall of my church God's church so his wife would be cool war stories now brethren I've not always been a preacher and I came back Oh Jordan his wife over there and green what I needed your honor couldn't find you that night came back and saw this hole in this air conditioner and I went to see the elder that brother you ought not go see the elder without the Lord [Applause] watch me now and I stood there toe-to-toe with this man old enough to be my grandfather howling and hollering and shouting at him and he at me in front of his wife embarrassed reduced ministry compromised left that house but home to the to the little to the little parsonage were we're evidently in the brother had put me in 1727 screw Street right next to the church and knelt down and prayed and wept got on the phone called my father said I'm coming home I'm not cut out for this dad said you are home that's my favorite war story stay with me now we just laying the groundwork usually when I'm in these conversations where the war stories are flying around I get a little quiet after a while Gerald Pennock I begin to watch those who are quiet who don't say anything now it could be that they're just quiet by nature or it may be that they're an intern in the midst and they don't really have any scars on their soul yet so they have nothing to say they don't have any anecdotes all they have as apprehension but then there's another set of quiet people in the war Stewart award storytelling circle maybe they used to be talkers but now they stand quiet you see they're still hurting stay with me pastor stay with me worker the pain is still too close and you see when that worker went before the church board and the antagonist went after him the Lord did not come through it seemed and he got his head handed to him on a platter the quiet story the quiet person in that war storing tell it telling story circle there's a tear in his eye because when the ugly rumors about him being in the circle they turned out to be true that quiet persons evangelistic crusade Murphy it did not produce anything knocked on doors and when they asked their pregnant wife to go out and knock on the doors with them she looked at him as if he needed a place to go that was hot permanently and that conference president stay with me is still there and they still have a small place and it appears that their prayers bounce off the ceiling they do not get an answer from the Lord and and so the war stories for them leave them breathless and nervous and laughing hollowly they don't have happy endings they are in debt and and and and they don't get invited anywhere to preach and and their kids are not just out of church they're they're on dope and they're pregnant out of wedlock and their marriage is a facade and they come to evangelism Council and fake their way through smiling happily laughing pretentiously but down inside dying because they've not learned that their ministry is not just God's call to save others their ministry is God's call to save them and so you've come here wondering faking it one more year hoping that nobody knows that your life is about to fall apart I stood here last year not in this spot but sitting right over there quaking inside knowing there could be cancer in my body and found out six days after left here there was cancer in my body and and you ask yourself having preached and taught for 41 years how in the world could something like that happened to me but you see you got to remember it's not about how many years is about the fact that God is not done working on you yet and he has not given you permission to tell him how long he shall work as long as there's breath in your body he will chisel on you till he gets you where he wants you to be and if you cannot accept that process then find yourself a day job because this job is a day job and a night job and in every hour job cut on somebody I was asked to preach on the doctrine tonight I am the doctrine of ministry you see you have to come to believe and what you do and what it's about and we have no time for monkeying around brothers and sisters there's a world out there waiting and they need seventh-day Adventist preachers who know how to preach this message who've taken all the old yellow notes and thrown them away they have the TD T TD Jakes sermons in a file somewhere and the Fallas file 13 and they're studying for themselves and finding God's truth afresh for themselves because nobody has got stuff to preach like we can preach so we don't need the copy anybody just reach down inside of that Bible grab the spirit of prophecy and preach the word we don't have any time to mimic somebody try to sound like somebody if the Lord wanted everybody to sound like Walter Pierson and CD Brooks and Bradford he too kept them alive for 2,000 years no he chose your carcass your voice your mind your life preach [Music] don't apologize please I don't need to sound like anybody just sound like me saved by grace bought by the blood lost in the fountain just Henry right saved by Jesus full of the Holy Ghost I don't care how sound as long as I have the joyful sound that Jesus say Jesus same caliber of Jesus hey Otto read a text now [Applause] it's good homiletics to read the text in your sermon Matthew 10 sets the tone now I'm not going to preach a short sermon this evening [Applause] you got plans go ahead I'll be here till I'm finished Matthew 10 now Elaine this is a very interesting text for preachers and workers listen and when he had called unto him his twelve disciples watch this John he gave them power he gave them power against unclean spirits to cast them out and to heal all manner of sickness and disease now the names of the Twelve Apostles are these the first Simon who is called Peter Andrew his brother James the son of Zebedee John his brother Philip and Bartholomew Thomas and Matthew the publican James the son of Alphaeus and labias whose surname was thaddaeus simon the canaanite and judas iscariot who also betrayed him these twelve Jesus sent forth some wrong with this text first of all there's a terrorist in here named simon the canaanite there's two gangbangers James and John the sons of thunder as a white-collar crook called Matthew the publican and as a fella named Thomas who don't believe in his own momma and then there is a sidewinding crook named Judas now something's beginning to grow in my mind Jesus calls us to ministry because of what he knows about us so it wasn't your voice wasn't your character when you're a slow quit or your seize his call was because he knew ministry was the only way to save your soul hey hey you need to soak that thing in and then to show you the majestic imaginative optimism of Jesus he gives to the gangbangers he gives to the white-collar crook he gives to the terrorist power [Applause] my Bible is almost so hot now I can't hold it he gave them power he gave them power Merv before before the issues were settled he gave them power while they were still watching pornography he gave them power while they were still looking too long in the wrong direction don't get quiet keep saying Amen he gave them power when they still weren't convicted on Taipei he gave them power not just because he wanted to use them to save others he gave them power extra power because crooked folks like that need a whole lot of power to be saved by Jesus now I got a whole different view of my ministry I thought he called me because I was somebody now I know he called me because I'm a nobody oh thank you Jesus so stop your strutting acting like you're somebody stop walking around like you're brand new peacock who's been bought by the law understand that your call to ministry is an announcement that you got serious issues I'm going to take this hard-headed stubborn unconverted needs to be saved person and work with them and I'm going to do it by putting them in board meetings and making them visit people and put them in tents on a quarter-pound somebody I'm gonna work them over until they know a nobody but God that could save somebody like me now I do not preach with pride I preach with humility I'm gonna call Henry right his lungs ain't worth a dime I'm gonna call Henry right and I'm gonna let him have cancer somewhere down the line I'm gonna call him me right I'm gonna put him in strange places with strange people you do know that some of our members are crazy [Applause] now if your layman and I don't be offended don't be offended crazy man past and crazy people these situations that God puts us in a design to carve out and prune and make us everything God wants us to be he gave Judas power over unclean spirits now then what a mighty God we serve so Thompson we don't have to walk around like we are somebody and we all ready to be caught up see I decided a long time as I begin to study myself as a pastor a longtime advice here I'll award say he was working on the hundred forty he won't be in the hundred forty-four thousand and I said you know that's good accident small number though and then I heard I heard our preacher say once I wish I was amongst the 24 elders that's even smaller number and I got very depressed and then I kept reading found in their system number which no man can number I said I think I can make that one come on somebody you see you got deacons more righteous than you you got Deaconess more faithful than you you got church members that can help pray you come on you've got Sava schoolteachers that no more Bible than you it ain't about you being somebody it's about God deciding I found him and I found her and the other way I can say them is lay this burden on their life [Music] the the the amplified bible takes my key text and that was not good it takes my key text hears that sounds amplified bible now when you're old like me you can pick up your notes and read them might act like I got all this stuff in my head because I don't for no temptation no trial regarded as enticing to sin no matter how it comes over at Leeds has overtaken you and laid hold on you that is not common to man that is no temptation or trial has come to you that is beyond human resistance and that is not adjusted and adapted and belonging to human experience such as man can bear but God is faithful to his word and to his compassionate nature and he can be trusted not to let you be tempted and tried and assayed beyond your ability and strength of resistance and power to endure but with the temptation he will always also provide the way out the means of escape to a landing place that you may be capable and strong and powerfully patient to bear up under it Paul is the author of the text Paul was a worker Paul understood the doctrine of ministry the doctrine of ministry is more than the ministers acts under the Holy Spirit as a living vessel for the salvation of a dying planet as some something else ministry as God's means to save the minister mode keep saying that without apology that's why Paul cried out with justifiable fear but I keep under my body bring it under subjection see folk we we have to minister out of this and some of us have inherited stuff don't sit there pious we've inherited stuff and and and and and even while we're trying to pastor we wrestle with that stuff we have the temper of Moses come on and the desires of David come on come on come on come on come on we have this stuff in us and and the folks are calling us pastoring and an elder on all this kind of stuff but but but Paul understood he said listen III gotta keep this under subjection lest having preached to others i myself should be a castaway then I oughta that ought to scare you then ought to drive you to your knees every day how dare you walk outside your house every morning and not bend your knees and pray worker how dare you assume that because you've got a title in front of your name that you're now immune to falling in something how dare you not recognize that you need the Lord more than the people you Pastor because you are pastor but I became the conference president I prayed twice as much because I never wanted that thing to go to my head grown men walk around calling you chief chief of what a Fieldman ain't got enough money to pay its bills cheese and you see the devil takes see see see the brother and I can talk and sisters straight because I've worked on every level of the church I've done it all so don't come to me about what you are what you've attained I've been there ain't nothing to it just be saved then on the Union level of travel all around you know the credit card and all that kind of stuff in the American Express and you know brother and paying all the bills and so forth yet that's all fine it's all fine lots of folks going to hell even just like that I've never saw any position in this church just work just work because of the Lord wants you to have it he'll provide it and if you get it without him you go stumble and fall see the reason why you're in a little church isn't because you just starting out we're in a little Church because Jesus has got some things he can only do for you in a little church the reason why I only baptized two people because he couldn't trust you with twenty let him do his work on you and when he provides enjoy it if he doesn't enjoy it Paul's life was full of trials here's war stories beatings imprisonments riots five times the forty lashes minus one three times beaten with raw stone wants three times shipwrecked at night in the open sea and besides all this danger from bandits and from his own countrymen countrymen and then he was mistreated by his own brethren see some of you are still bitter because the brothers didn't stand by you and you got so caught up in the brother stand and bhayya you forgot that Jesus stands for you and yet in spite of all these things Paul went through Paul develop some axioms what word did I say talk to me what word did I say he said yet I'm not ashamed because I know and whom I have believed and I'm convinced that he's able to guard that which I've entrusted to him for that day then he said I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me do you hear him then he said for I am now ready to be offered up and the time of my departure is at hand do you see it first I know who and since I know who I can do all things and since I know who and I can do all things I'm ready [Applause] you have to listen Paul in spite of what he went through came to the point where there were things upon which he's unmovable let me ask you a question pastor let me ask you a question worker let me ask you a question have you come to the point of your life in this church when you've got solid axioms that nobody can move you from do you really believe that the seventh day is the Sabbath don't say Amen to quit do you really believe that God's law is is immutable and cannot be changed do you believe that 10% of your tithe that you live off of order D tithe back to the church it's getting quiet in this place do you believe do you believe in the system of this church I get a little weary of folk when around time I need to change how the church operates and you ain't made no contribution to the church yet get some scars on your soul then come back and tell us how to run the church we let ourselves get wrapped up and stuff that don't matter what you've got to do is be a solid unmovable believer but some things are gonna happen in your life they're gonna rock you and you got to be sure that you cannot be so easily discouraged and bent you got to make up your mind if nobody comes the prayer meeting you'll be there if nobody studies you'll study if nobody returns time you'll time if nobody visits you'll visit you got to decide I'm here to stay I shall not be moved we need workers full of faith and determination who believe in this church and all it stands for we need pastors who are standing up in the pulpit on Sabbath preaching the pure doctrines of the church preaching the book of Revelation preach the Book of Daniel we don't need all this societal stuff just preach the word in season out of season go back to that text you preached before and nuke it one more time that after something else there and then woke up in the pulpit with confidence and with courage and preached your soul out God will reward you stop lying in Salem Sabbath morning the spirit moved upon you Friday night making excuses for dilatory pastoring visit the sake encourage the discouraged do the work of a pastor why is this 1st Corinthians 10:13 so special this is first of all there is no temptation taken you but those common demand I like the earlier translation here that we read this is the wrong desires of problems that come into your life or not anything doing different see in those war story circles at tech steps on youi go see one of the glories and dangers of war stories is feeding that nobody has experienced what you've experienced it allows us to legitimately enlarge the problem - super proportions in our minds and in the minds of others and nobody been through this man nobody had a board like that nobody had a beating like that that's a lie see doing that allows you to prepare the way in the closet of your own fears for fader that is excusable so if nobody been through it before then if you fail you fail because you had this unique experience and of course if you succeed then you really are something else but you succeeded an experience that nobody else had what you forget is God nor the devil is so impressed with you that they need to give you a special experience [Applause] we've not overcome the ordinary problems come on somebody so God doesn't need to come up with some special problem for you in fact the Bible says for everything written in the past was written to teach us so that the encouraged for the of the scriptures we might paste a hold on to our hope because these things come upon us upon whom they've come on before so God doesn't bring you any special problems I remember talking to an old Swedish Adventist pastor and he said this to me I wish I could take credit for it but he said it if it's considered too egotistical to take all the credit then is also self-centered to take all the blame are you listening to me so whatever dilemmas you face in your ministry somebody's been there before you second the text says God will not put more on you than you can bear I don't say Amen too quick we always say amen to that Steve God never puts born you can bear that's right child amen do you really believe that see you - somebody's going through a rough time it seems insensitive to say that to them but the text says but God is faithful now watch me watch me the focus of the trial isn't just you God see the trial isn't just about you it's about God see if the trial is more than you can bear then God is not faithful [Music] [Applause] so if the trial is there then God who is faithful has already measured it and decided that it's your size and lets it go forward and if God is faithful then when the trial comes it is not a vote of condemnation if God is faithful then the trial is a vote of confidence in you ah you didn't get that if God lets it come then God is saying I believe they can handle it therefore the small church and the rough conference president and the meeting that's given you all kinds of problems God says if I allow it if our permanence it's your side and it's a vote of confidence that you could handle it otherwise I would not permit it so stop belly aching and go on and accept the vote of confidence and stand like a rock [Applause] why do I preach with bad lungs because God is faithful it means I lean on him more when I preach come on somebody got his feet though he believes that if he let him me right preached with bad lungs for forty some years that that vote of confidence would cause me to look toward him for every breath that I breathe are you listening to me I want you to think about where you are pastor what your situation is because God has given you a vote of confidence let me let me let me let me let me let me read it to you let me read it to you this way this this this thing is this thing is so so sweet and precious to me lord help me find this thing here it is here it is here it is here this Lord Jesus please please please please help me to find you up here it is serious I'd say it's fun getting old you know why was late coming here to preach couldn't find my glasses and I warm into the building [Applause] but God is faithful who will not sir now listen listen listen listen each one has his own battles to fight his own Christian experience to gain independent in some respect from any other soul and God has lessons for each to gain for himself that no other can gain for him our our Heavenly Father measures and ways every trial before he permits it to come upon the believer it's your size he waited dr. Brown before he gave it to you so when he passes it on receive it Paul said I counted all joy he considers the circumstances and the strengths of the one who is to stand under the proving test of God and he never permits the temptations to be greater than the capacity of resistance you say well now pastor but what about the dumb stuff I bring on myself you don't think God knew he was going to be stupid one day so even the dumb stuff you did to bring something on yourself God knew when you were going to do it why you would do it and that was white says then he cushions it [Music] he cushions that thing so even your stupidity does not cause you to lose your soul somebody order shout tonight hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah thank you for Oh hallelujah so the Bible is clear Ellen White is clear if God permits it then God has waited it's your size and if you did something dumb for it to happen God has already seen the time you would do it you know there folks in here tonight who are pastors and workers you ought not be alive come on and tell God the truth you ought to be messed up your minds ought to be blown up even that dumb stuff you did because God called you when you were a terrorist God called you when you were a gangbanger God called you when you were a white-collar crime doing God called you well you are a betrayer and God knew exactly what it would take God does not change his mind he cannot make a mistake he reached out in the gutter brought you up put his hand on you you're his even when you're dumb you're here that mean that he approves of your stupidity he just loves you God does an amazing thing for sinners one of the most amazing texts in the Bible I'm getting near done now just relax it's a lot of you're going to go to the motel tonight eat a sandwich late all that cheese and milk now this is not in my note this is free you do know there are very few 70s workers who live the health message [Applause] I was one of them and that's why the Lord has cursed this church in the last days with cancer and all kinds of diseases because he said the God's people years ago in Exodus 15:26 if you'll obey my Commandments and none of these diseases will be upon you [Applause] there's nothing like sitting in a doctor's office like I did six days after left here last year and here in that c-word cancer prostate cancer main cause dairy products guess what I don't even like the sight of milk anymore which is all free it's not in the notes you can't give me enough gratuity to pay for this morning God once a listen to me God wants a working staff in the last days that's so strong of mind and body and the pressures we must deal with you know the ministry will kill you the ministry will kill the ministry will kill you dead you better treat your body like a vessel because I don't care what pressures you've been under the worst days are ahead of us but I planned by God's grace with my vegan self now to stand strong in the last days it ain't easy when you order that pizza ordered around me my mouth still drools let me tell what God does do what God does do what God does he's an amazing God see I'm talking about now your dumb stuff that you do so I'm still on the dumb stuff and some you didn't believe that theology I put out there so I will show you what God does lord have mercy first Kings 9 and verse 4 I almost got to sit down and read this Texas is just too powerful I talked about the dumb stuff didn't know stuff you have no business doing didn't how God cushions it didn't I say that didn't I say how the Lord saw it coming and God did I say that first Kings 9 verse 4 this is God talking to Solomon if thou will walk before me as David thy father walked as David thy father walked as Bathsheba chasing David thy father walked as acting crazy in the house of the ammonites thy father did in integrity of heart yeah what in integrity of heart and in uprightness to do according to all that I've commanded and will keep my statutes and my judgments who is this God that sets up a lying murdering adulterating man as a standard of integrity and uprightness because when you do that dumb stuff and God cushions it and lead you through your mess there's a transaction that takes place in glory and it's so complete that the books in heaven get cleaned up and so God does not talk about your past all he sees is the blood of Jesus Christ and so the folks may still be talking and the board may still be voting and the conference committee may still be upset but God has cleaned up your record and your foolishness disappears and then God talks about you like you never said a mumbling word hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah Sullivan do you want an example of Solomon grew up in his daddy's house solemn must have said what who's he talking about but he wanted Solomon to know who later would live with 1000 women he wanted Solomon in the lord have mercy that the blood of Jesus cleanses me of all unrighteousness and then in case we forgot he had Ezekiel write down over in the twentieth chapter hey if the wicked who have done their wickedness will turn from their wickedness and turn to righteousness then their sin shall not be mentioned to them anymore I won't discuss it I won't remember it I won't hold on to it I'll fix it because your ministry has been used to save you give God some glory that's when I don't worry about the stuff that people hear about you talk about whisper about you can discuss it all you want where it matters it ain't bein discussed well uh didn't he none of your business but I heard none of your business but I'm sure cuz I none of your business cause the meantime is that judgment taking place aha and Joshua the high priest named Henry Wright is standing before the Lord and his clothes a dirty and then he hears somebody say take off his dirty clothes cover him with my righteousness hallelujah hallelujah let's wrap it up now just wrap it up and so the third thing in the text is that he will make a way of escape mahmud spend some time on that [Applause] brother wants to help me preach my sermon that she may be able to bear it now now now you're probably looking for some magic formula way of escape I done told you already God didn't dream up any special problems for you nor does he have any special solutions for you Tim the ways of escape or what they've always been prayer talk to me prayer prayer Bible study come on now worship and Christian service that's the four legs of a Christian life and the reason why you were called into the ministry whether it be the Ministry of Treasury was be the Ministry of teaching or the ministry of preaching or the mystery evangelism the reason why you recall to that is so God could move you to become a praying Bible studying worshiping and serving human being but because you were so hard-headed he couldn't trust you to be a layman [Applause] he had to bring you into the ministry [Applause] thank you Jesus [Applause] in the book of John and the book of John the thirteenth chapter thank you sister those same disciples that I started with Roddy good to see you man those same disciples that I started with the gangbanger the white-collar crime doer the crook the terrorists it's now three years later preachers workers are hard to win see it's our nature most of us have big egos that helps you preach you don't stand up and through brunt of in front of a bunch of people in Crete you gotta have a little ego you gotta feel like you got something to say it takes a lot of nerve thus most folks ain't got nothing to say you don't stand up front about people and have something to say you have a little ego it's all right holy ego that's all right and then the deal with church folk you got to have some backbone in that right oh yeah Saints will mow you down to powder and you gotta have enough self something so that when you get mowed down you can still get up so preachers have nature's that are hard to win so after three and a half years Jesus has made very much Jesus [Music] has made very little progress [Applause] and yet it's a good sermon didn't yet and yet he has not changed his mind in fact if you go over to Luke 22 he says to them I have desired last supper I have desire to eat this supper with you nice talking to a guy who's got thirty pieces of silver under his belt sitting at the table he's on to another guy's got a knife under his belt which is gonna loot you using the gardening of cinnamon and he says I desire to eat with you you know thank God that Christ is crazy about us so after the supper I'm in John after the supper they're talking then warsh feet and everything chapter 12 and 13 got all Holy Communion or Nyssa humility ordinance of humility and and Luke tell you that they're arguing at the table who should be the greatest after the ordinance of you male preachers you can't beat us you can't beat workers we all we never see ourselves quite like we are verse 36 Simon Peter said unto Him Lord with the dost thou not sir you're talking now Hank the talking had the supper they wash feet ordinance of humility you know a couple of even brought to mama in to the communion service Lord I want one boy on this side and other bar on that side of course the Bob McTeer did the rest of the samples were upset now Negros trying to line themselves up Jews I mean do try line themselves up for the top spots in the GC [Applause] and then go wash feet so this is a group sososo verse 36 Simon's Peter said unto Him Lord with the goest thou now every now and then Jesus talked straight whether I go thou canst not follow ya thou canst not follow me afterwards in other words very nice you ain't near ready to go nope it close to glory you still got to pass to that little church you still got a deal with that board you need to do some more advantage to campaigns you need to stop eating wrong you ain't ready to go nowhere and Peter's very pious whither thou goest Jesus says thou goest no way [Applause] Peter still pious Lord why Cannot I follow thee now I will lay down my life for thee are we something jesus answered him wilt down I'm just reading the Bible y'all wilt thou I mean Jesus is almost in shock he knows what kind of movies a brother's watching he knows who the brother calls late at night [Applause] he knows how much times a brother spends babysitting his kids rather than doing ministry [Applause] wilt thou lay down thy life for me verily verily he better be glad Jesus was talking to you very not verily verily there wasn't me I say unto thee the crock the shall not crow till thou has denied me thrice now chapter 13 ends right there there are no divisions in the Bible in the Greek so there is no chapter 14 so the next words Merv are exactly to the person he's talking to he just told Peter you can go you're not ready and you're so unready you're going to deny me the next words are let not your heart be troubled we believe in God believe also in me in my father's house are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go and prepare a place for you and if I go to prepare a place for you I will come again wait a minute wait a minute Peter's gonna deny you but why he's denying me I prepared a place for hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah why is denying my name I'm getting this mansion ready while the preachers discouraged I got his white robe already being mended while the preachers not praying I've told the Father he belongs to me while he had down on the ducks he's already preparing your place for you and when he gets daddy says when I'm done with you I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there ye may be also hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] in a he'll call I'll kill and I believe that whatever the car and when side has surrendered and this solar is no more I'll still clean to that all rugged I believe that the slice with its great me surely someday you will come to and Oh [Music] buttface [Music] we'll conquer all the door we miss and will leave me to my friend I believe that the Christ who was slain on that cross has the power to change lives today [Music] Hey yes and hurry baby that what and winter [Music] is not still clean to that [Applause] I'm in my 44th year I wouldn't trade anything for this life a lane that God has given me I've let him down big upon occasion he's always picked me back up want to read something to you we're never called upon to make a real sacrifice for God many things that he asks us to yield to him in doing this we're just giving up that which hinges us heavenward even when called upon to surrender things in themselves that are good we can be sure that God is working out something of a higher good in the future life's mysteries that have annoyed us and disappointed us will be made plain we shall see that our seemingly on answered prayers and disappointed hopes have been among our greatest blessing therefore we ought to look to every duty however humble as sacred because it is God's service and our daily prayer should be worker Lord just help me to do my best teach me how to do a better work you see folk at 66 and 44 years of ministry I think my best days are in front of me you ain't seen nothing yet got a 1200 member Church and I'm hearing them up for next year like I'm just getting started because God never stops blessing finally pray help me to bring into my service the loving ministry of the Savior how is it with you tomorrow the meeting Lynn what's your war story what did you bring how is it with your marriage how are you kids doing it in the church are the members that you avoid they intimidate you you intimidate them or you're bluffing your way through board meetings you never prepare it for you get up and preach and hollering stop saying very little thought you didn't study how is it with you really because none of this really makes any difference folk on that great getting up morning I'm not looking to go in as pastor dr. Henry right I just want to go in as a sinner saved by grace [Applause] so I don't know your situation but if you feel a need why don't you come and press to the altar yeah I think you're right Steve we ought to go to our knees and we get down here well to go to our knees if you can kneel then just stand she's playing just as I am remember Matthew did that's how he called him he called the gang bangers he called the betrayer Harrington

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Length: 99min 47sec (5987 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 29 2019