Save Yourself from What is Coming | Perry Stone

peter make this statement in this particular type of sermon and that's where we're going to dig into for the next few moments acts chapter 2 verse 38 through 40. and i'm going to go ahead and read this from the new king james only because for the kids it takes the therefore and the thou and the thy out you know we don't speak the way the way they used to in the english old english acts chapter 2 38 peter said to them this is the audience at pentecost repent and let every one of you be baptized in the name of jesus christ for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the holy spirit verse 39 for the promise is unto you and to your children and to all who are afar off as many as the lord our god shall call now that does not mean call to the ministry we talk about that preacher's call that sister is called it's called to repentance so if a person is convicted by the spirit of god to repent and they feel it they're being called to repentance by the spirit watch what he says here and with many other words so we don't have them all recorded obviously he testified and exhorted them saying now it appears this is the last comment he made which honestly does not seem to fit in with the entire message when you read it here's what he said be saved or the king james translation i like the way it says it save yourself now look at somebody and say save yourself from from this perverse generation so i'm going to take that phrase if you've noticed our banner that jonathan created in the back save yourself from what is coming so we cannot save ourself in the sense of a redemptive covenant we can only enter a covenant by repenting and by receiving the grace of god that jesus has provided so when i say save yourself i don't want anybody to think that i'm talking about you can save yourself in a redemptive covenant only jesus says but what does he mean when he says save yourself from this perverse generation the first thing i want to do is go back into the setting of what was actually happening here acts chapter 2 is the famous festival of pentecost it says when the day of pentecost was fully come they were all in one place and one accord and suddenly there was a sound from heaven like as a mighty rushing wind and it filled all the house where they were seated there appeared under them cloven tongues like as the fire sat upon each of them and they were all filled with the holy ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave utterance so the context is the spirit has been poured out everybody's wondering they are amazed they are endowed they're saying is this the wonderful works of god a crowd has now gathered of literally thousands so peter now comes to the forefront silences everyone and now preaches a message that basically reveals to them the plan of redemption and how jesus was their messiah whom they crucified now i can understand the message because it led to 3 000 men repenting coming to the lord and then they were baptized in water that always puzzled me when i went to jerusalem the first time because there's no water to baptize in if you've ever been there but in the temple area there were mikvas that collected catch caught the rain water and poured into these mikvah which was a limestone baptismal it was cut out it would be like a baptismal you would see in the church except it was hand cut but i do now believe that the pool of siloam which they have just discovered about five years ago and they're excavating they had steps going down down to it it was very large and it was the pool where people who were coming to jerusalem would act you kind of refresh themselves they take their shoes off etc if peter baptized at the mikvah and that's what zola 11 guys like zola and myself believed formally he would have gotten in a lot of serious trouble with everybody at the temple especially the priest who'd probably had him arrested for baptizing in the name of the lord however because the pool of siloam was used by gentiles and jews coming from the desert up to jerusalem it was just a place where they refreshed himself and it was it was honestly as big as this room here that stands to reason the place where the people were baptized now this brings me to the question at hand why does peter say to this entire jewish audience save yourself from this perverse generation and what does he mean by making that comment to save yourself from this perverse generation here's what you have to do you first have to ask yourself what does it mean for perverse generation and where does he get the idea from that the generation that he is living in in jerusalem has become a perverse generation you don't have to look far but to two people the words of john the baptist and the words of jesus in the four gospels to understand what they're talking about now i'm going to give you four quotes matthew three and seven you vipers who have who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come matthew 23 and 33 now that was john this is jesus you serpents you vipers how shall you escape the damnation of hell here's another verse in matthew 23 woe unto you scribes and pharisees and hypocrites he says it seven times in that chapter meaning seven times in the same message he's looking at people now wait a minute you've got to be real bold when you've got an audience of one particular group and not just two or three i'm talking about mingle through the whole crowd and you're looking at them directly in front of all the common people and saying you hypocrites you snakes you vipers and the reason they were hypocritical is they made everybody else obey the law they would stone you if you broke it they would have you arrested if you broke it they would criticize you publicly and yet they themselves were not keeping the law they were demanding everybody else to keep so jesus is very adamant to this crowd now watch this matthew 23 and 31 you are the children of them who killed the prophets he even on one occasion he said to them you are of your father the devil and the works of your fathers you were doing and the thing he dealt with there if you read in context was lying they were lying not lying down but lying telling stories fibbing all the time and telling lies and saying this the word said this when it didn't and exalting traditions that were not even biblical so he was now how many of you know preaching like that will not get you on time magazine's cover of the world's 10 best preachers neither will it get you popular with media social media or television immediately there are complaints just beginning to pour in about the ministry of jesus now here's what i want to say this is the reason i'm going to give you the key verses to why peter actually makes this statement to save yourself from what is coming because this is a perverse generation the verse is matthew 23 34-36 again from the new king james translation and of course you know me i have a the whole bible commentary in the 16-11 but again i do this for the young people because they say it makes it a little easier to understand therefore indeed i sent you prophets wise men and scribes some of them you will kill and crucify some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city that on you now pay attention to this verse that on you may come all of the righteous blood shed on the earth all of it all of it from the blood of abel righteous abel and that's in genesis chapter three and four in the garden story chapter four specifically to the son to the blood of zechariah the son of barakaya whom you murdered and this is found in chronicles the book of chronicles whom you murdered between the temple and the altar uh surely i say unto you now check this verse out all of this will come upon this generation now peter is now standing up for jesus was alive for 40 days seen by his disciples and he is looking at this audience and there's some of them are just could some of them could bite his head off and spit it out looking at him here he is preaching jesus they don't want to hear this now he's saying jesus is alive they really don't want to hear that so he's looking at them with they're looking at him and he's looking at him and they're looking at him with hate with animosity like we're going to get you back for this and when 3 000 souls are saved it made it worse because read the next chapter they immediately start persecuting the apostles and tell them to shut up sounds like today sounds like today when all of a sudden this person's silenced and that person is silenced and this person's stuff is removed what in the world is going on well they jesus here's what's going on it's preaching stuff they don't like so the way to get rid of him in their eyes is to crucify him but they didn't realize that anybody who can walk on water can also come back from the dead so somehow they missed that in the narrative now peter says this i want everybody in my audience that i'm preaching to he says to get ready to prepare to save yourself from what is about to come now think about this for just a moment he knew from matthew 23 of course matthew wasn't written then but it was known because he was there when jesus made the statement but he knew from that prediction they had one generation everybody said one generation they knew from the predictions of jesus in matthew 24 that he said this will happen in one generation here's that generation again so knowing the psalms and knowing judaism and i say judaism in teaching rabbinically from the synagogues in that day that a generation averaged in the old testament somewhere around 37.5 years now i'm sorry 35.5 years and in psalms by the time of moses it averaged 40 years so 40 years is considered a generation of unbelief why do we know that because israel fell into unbelief for 40 years went through the desert for 40 years and the bible says they were a generation of unbelief so the lord is going to give israel in this setting and he's going to give jerusalem one generation to see can will you repent will you really believe will you turn to the lord will you go back into your covenant or are you going to come to the point where you're going to fall into complete and utter unbelief per keep persecuting the righteous for if you are you're going to be in serious serious trouble now when we talk about a perverse generation it has come to my attention and come to your attention of things that have happened the past several years that make absolutely no sense much less common sense i hear people talk about how open-minded they are i'm convinced that they're so open-minded that their common sense fell out of their brain it is not ladies and gentlemen despite what people say it is not common sense for a guy to go into a girl's dressing room at a school and change it is not common sense for a guy a man to go into a woman's restroom not because he has an emergency and the guy's restroom is full but because he thinks he has the right to go in a woman's bathroom and you've got all these other things legalizing hardcore drugs people that are actually good are being called evil people that have done evil things right now in positions are being exalted to high level positions and things they did wrong has been proven the bible is now a hated book good people who were trying to do good things are being persecuted there's there's signatures going on right now with certain groups that want franklin graham removed from his father's evangelistic association all because of one reason and i'll let you guess what that one reason is and so we keep going on we keep going on teaching sex education not to adult kids but to kids in kindergarten first second and third grade terrorists that behead righteous people poor people that have been abused elders come on somebody let me talk about the elders who can't even get in their car in a city without some kind of crazy mob pulling them out of the car and trying to hijack their car older people 70 and 80 walk in the streets of our city who get attacked from behind with what they call sucker punch and the kids film it and put it on social media just to laugh at some older person that they've heard we've got a sick perverse society it's gone way beyond it's gone way beyond normal temptation temptation that every person deals with that the bible talks about into the area of disgust and hate and murder and all these other laws that we see being passed now i'm going to ask this question because you see that you know that you and i know that we read the word enough to see the parallels of that generation with the generation that we're now in so the next question i posed to this congregation is this what did they do that began to prepare for what was coming now i don't know if you've ever put this together before but i'm going to put something together for you and i'm going to be careful as i say this only because i'll make some statements and i don't want people to carry my statement further than the intent of what i'm going to say the first thing that they began to do and you see this early in the book of acts is they started selling their land then taking the finances to try to help people in the church this wasn't going into the community and just throwing money to anybody that asked this was helping people in the church who were legitimately poor and making sure that they had food and they had the necessities that they needed now let me tell you why in a moment acts chapter 2 verse 42 and they sold their possessions and goods and parted them to all men as every man had need ananias and sapphira and you know the story of acts 5 was going to sell a piece of property and give a set amount that they vowed the problem was the vow they made it wasn't them selling the property and then deciding to give a certain amount that would have been fine but they made a vow if we sell it we're going to give it to god and they totally went back on the vow because god took vows extremely serious in really both covenants and you know the story of how they lied to the holy spirit and both were judgment acts 5 they are selling land barnabas who was a great leader in the early church in acts chapter 4 34 and 35 is selling land now let me read another verse and this is the verse we're reading the one i just mentioned neither was there any among them that lacked for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them now wait a minute this is getting really really odd so so you have a family and all of a sudden you're selling your house and just saying let me help the people okay now now can i say something this was called in early early days communism no seriously this was the pure form of not communism but communism which later in israel were known as kibbutzes when the jewish people came back from the holocaust they took a farm they had all the families working the farm all the families shared the food all the families shared they split the money and that was the pure form of the idea of having all things common and of course that became perverted corrupted and evil through communism and marxism and leninism is everybody still with me so that's the total complete opposite did i just confuse you are you still here so what they're doing is they're ensuring that the congregation doesn't lack that the widows read the bible in acts have their food they have a distribution they have no money their husbands have died there is no social security there is no government assistance there is no medicare there is no health care so who's going to help him and the answer was people within the church that had the ability to do so now i want you to notice something i want you to notice that they were not selling their homes and lands anywhere else go read the bible nobody in ephesus is selling their property or land according to scripture nobody at antioch nobody at laodicea nobody at smyrna nobody in the seven churches that are addressed nowhere does it tell them now go out and sell everything and give it away here's my question then why in the world are the people in jerusalem and we would have to say judea because jerusalem was just a city judea is the surrounding area it's like the suburb why are the christians suddenly deciding to sell houses and lands because jesus has already said jerusalem your house will be left to you desolate jesus had already said in matthew 24 the temple is going to go down not one stone will be left upon another that shall not be thrown down can i say it to you this way the real christian community that understood prophecy and you do or you wouldn't be here trust me you wouldn't be here but the people that knew how to deserve i felt the spirit of god right there glory to his name the people that knew how to discern the times to have the sons of issachar and the bible says those sons had such wisdom to know what to do in the times knew this why hang on to a house when the romans are going to burn it down why hold on to this property in jerusalem when nobody else is discerning what's going to happen and we can sell it now and get a good price out of it and then we can make our plans to see where do we go oh my my my helmet jesus where do we go when the trouble is about to start so point number one and don't miss this is they begin to discern something big was about to happen based on the words they had received from the lord and the spirit of god began to give them a plan so they said if jerusalem is going to be destroyed in judea and we know it's coming in a generation we're going to have the time we need to make a plan to sell help others and then we can get out and i'm gonna i'm gonna get i'm gonna get i'm gonna prove this to you lord have mercy in just a moment now the first thing they did now was what's we would call it get rid of or sell for income land and property in the area where there was danger coming and they knew it to relocate to another area now that brings me to number two the second thing that started happening and this did not happen immediately but you can read church history which i studied all my life and it will tell you about it they knew that jerusalem would be destroyed and jerusalem was the first headquarters of the christian church right james is the first bishop of the christian church in jerusalem in history and then peter is the apostle to the circumcised which in galatians means the jews and paul is the apostle to the uncircumcised which means the gentiles so we've got two groups working together but yet with their own two distinct leaders a jewish branch and a gentile branch and the reason was because the jewish people believed you should be circumcised and most gentiles were not so to keep there from being this argument and you see it in the book of acts where there was a huge argument over this so they they selected two different leaders now having said that what eventually happened was this john is the oldest apostle to live out of the 12. john was 15 years old i think when jesus called him to be and this is john that wrote the book of revelation when jesus called him to be an apostle he died and probably according to rick renner who's a genius greek scholar is amazing in 100 a.d john finally died now 70 a.d which is 40 years from 30 when a lot of these messages were given by jesus 40 years one generation the roman 10th legion surrounds jerusalem batters the walls down burns the gates comes in slaughters multitudes of thousands of people takes the jews captive right everybody track of him and say yes what happened to the jerusalem church what happened to the capital here's the answer according to actual church history and there's traditions that the catholic church has but what i'd like to do is not so much go into the tradition as much as we know what happened but in uh according to church history john took mary under his wing joseph had died joseph is never in the crucifixion story joseph is never at the resurrect he's not in the upper room in acts 1 so we know joseph died in fact joseph was way older than mary was according to most most scholars not going to speculate how old he was so he got him a beautiful young bride and come on talk to me somebody you'll get that in a minute just trying to be humorous here just trying to be humorous but joseph had died something happened to him we don't know history's got traditions but we don't know now what happened was the apostle john then took mary to ephesus with with him there is in the city of ephesus if we ever tour you know one of these days we're going to do that seven church tour one of these days you know turkey and asia minor do a cruise over there well here we go talking cruising we can't even get on a ship yet we will but but anyway uh that the city of ephesus is where they ended up and the tomb of mary traditional is in ephesus and they show it to you on these trips now my point is john became the head of the church why because in about 64 and 65 maybe 65 66 it's right in that time frame nero beheaded the apostle paul who was the head of the gentile branch peter was beheaded right before paul who's the head of the jewish branch leaving a complete emptiness in leadership so the most respected apostle who was living after 72 a.d two years after the destruction of the temple is the apostle john so john became the director of the entire church and the reason that the emperor domitian put him in a pot of oil in rome trying to kill him and he didn't boil hmm according to early fathers right they didn't kill him i he came out of it so he stuck him on the isle of patmos and john outlived a mission hey and came off the isle of patents with the book of revelation it's hard to kill somebody when god has a prophecy for their future hanging on top of them that there's something that they've got to do and something that they've got to fulfill that hasn't happened yet [Applause] now now we're going to get into something here so you just you just kind of stay with me as we go here so the headquarters is moved from jerusalem actually before the destruction of the temple to ephesus and that becomes for up actually through john's 25 years he lived there after the destruction it became the area where ministry was centered okay the church at ephesus now acts chapter 8 1-2 at that time a great persecution arose against the church which was at jerusalem and they were all scattered throughout the regions of judea and samaria except the apostles and devout men carried stephen he was the first martyr deacon martyred in the early church at his burial and made a great lamentation which is a limitation is like you're saying something but it's coming out of your spirit it's a funeral song is what it is uh over him now watch this so the saints are being persecuted and they're scattering the apostles stayed now this is acts 8 this is way before the destruction took place so the apostles are still in jerusalem at this point so but the the the situation i want to get into because i want to show you this so here's what's happening who was selling the land and the houses the saints not the apostles did you get it it is barnabas deacon ananias and sapphira couple members of the early church early in acts you see them the apostles are intended to keep that the headquarters as long as they can be you know why anybody want to i just love doing like this i feel like i'm the classroom right now you're the students stop and think for a moment why would the apostles want to stay in jerusalem as long as they could here is the answer the seven festivals of israel brought the jews from the nations to jerusalem and they knew if they left there they would strictly only preach to gentiles ephesus was a gentile city smyrna thyroid or all they had jews there but it was these were gentile-controlled pagan cities so the apostles knew we can't leave this city by itself if we pull out now 54 a.d 60 a.d 62 a.d we're going to miss seven fist festivals with 16 nations of jews coming here that we're going to have the opportunity to try to preach and win before the terrible destruction happens in the city of jerusalem so in other words the church leadership chose everybody say chose this is important to stay in the area they were until they literally could not any longer then when paul and peter are killed john is going to step in so they say you know what handwriting is now full on the wall get out while the getting is good and of course now later later in history there were christians that were still in jerusalem they were bishops in jerusalem the byzantine empire came to the holy land all that comes into history later but let's stick with the thought at hand save yourself from this wicked generation here's what scattered the people please bear with me i'm going to bring it down to the united states what began to scatter the people was the persecution by the roman government because when the persecution started the roman government had i'm sorry when the persecution started the people were uncertain of what to do so what they did is they would go scatter all through the mountains of judea they would go up toward the edge of samaria they would go up into the northern part of the golden heights where it was a little bit less populated because they did not know what to do let me tell you a story from someone that i know and when i tell stories i've learned to do what the press does and leave names out because in the past they try to track these people down and call them so that's why i leave the names out i was talking to someone years ago and this person many years ago this has been not recent saw a watch list of possible domestic terrorists out of like let's say 40 names or 40 organizations there was only one organization on that list which was a youth leader that could pull tens of thousands of young people to a big conference and they had not that he's a terrorist but they had him on a watch list that and so this person asked someone who was in the military at that time that they worked with why would they put a christian person on a list all the others were terror organizations all the others you know were different i'm not going to name them and this person who was very high in the military made this statement and i want you to listen they said well first of all we don't have too many christians on that list because we have learned something about christians in america they can't stay organized long he said for example take every church with 4 000 to 5 000 members give it two years and it has a church split and it's true every pastor i've talked to every big church pastor one guy that i'm very good friends we were just the other day talking he said yeah i had an uprising in my church and lost 225 people because the music director left and this man said this he said they average a peak of two thousand when they go to three and four thousand they'll split when they go to five thousand they split and they will go back down to two thousand and this is what he said we are not afraid of christians in the united states because they don't know how to organize nothing everybody wants to be the big cheese everybody wants to be the boss everybody wants to run it and they get jealous of that one and this one wants to do that he said there's nothing to be afraid of and he made this statement but if one man ever comes that can organize tens of millions we will consider him a domestic threat uh clean your ears out and read between the lines of what i'm saying if people unite with him around the constitution uh around freedom we will consider him a threat and he will be dealt with the reason that the civil rights movement was successful and it was was because martin luther king jr who could make a speech i'm telling you the man knew how to preach people that heard him preach said you ought to hear him preach versus making the speeches he made the man could speak the man was an orator the man had an unction and people began to join with his movement by the tens and tens and tens of thou literally by hundreds of thousands and so the movement was successful now i'm going to make a statement here and i'm going to be vague with it because this goes all over the place i'm learning you have to be vague you have to be wise as a snake and harmless as a dove but one of the problems that we have if we are conservative or we are christians or we our veterans who call themselves patriots is we don't have leaders and every time we get a leader they try to knock them off the pedestal they try to do news reports to get people not to listen to him anymore i'm gonna preach this anyhow do everything they can and i can tell you stories and i can't tell you because i legally can't tell you but i could tell you stories that would freak you out and blow your mind if i could tell them because i'm telling you something that the enemy has a jezebel spirit in the earth that wants to cut the heads off of anybody who speaks against her come on somebody and elijah had to challenge it john the baptist had to challenge it the church in revelation had to challenge it but i'm going to tell you john came in the spirit of elijah my elijah's coming back during the tribulation during the great day of the lord and i don't know what they think how crazy can people be they think they can stop a church that for two thousand years the devil hadn't been able to stop they they think they can silence a church that the martyrs have already shed their blood that the lions den can't quench it that the fiery furnaces of babylon can't stop it that the red sea waters and pharaoh's chariots can't drown it that the messiah that they put in a grave don't stay dead and they have the audacity to think they can make us shut up we haven't shut up in 2000 years what makes you think we're going to shut up now jesus [Music] see let me just tell you what some people don't get and i'll just tell it to you like it is having been into bulgaria when communism fell in romania when communism fell having been to former communist country i'm talking about when the iron curtain had just fallen and we were the first preachers on a platform in a hall that had an iron curtain that was 60 feet high and it looked like it was a hundred feet long i've never seen nothing like it it was wider than this whole room and three times as tall as the ceiling and we're the first people to ever preach the gospel in 40 years let me tell you let me tell you what they don't know ready persecution does not split us persecution makes the church go underground sometimes we might go underground but we don't go away persecution makes people unite in these countries persecution makes you pray more in these countries my lord i want to tell you this story when i went to bulgaria right after communism fell and i preached my first conference in this hall and it was packed out there were 3 500 people in a hall that seated 2 000 people and the former overseer or he actually was still the overseer for the church of god in that nation was speaking through an interpreter and he said to me he said there's an office right up here and he said in that office they would arrest me and take rubber and like a hose and beat me in the back to try to make my kidneys stop working and he said i remember being in pain having to just about be carried out of the office and they'd bring me up and beat me again and told me that i couldn't preach and told me i couldn't have a church that i wasn't registered i was the underground church and i was the enemy of the state and he still looked at me and he started laughing where are they at they have lost their power they've been booted out by the people and now look who's in the hall preaching in the very place that they tried to shut us up hallelujah [Applause] now i want to say this to those especially who are watching and i want this is where i have to tread on eggshells just a little bit because i don't want anybody thinking i'm telling you what to do i want you to look at your neighbor and say this he's not telling you what to do he's giving you information that's all i will not tell you where i'm not going to do that please don't write me and say what does where brother perry think bro what does he think would you ask brother perry this question because brother prayer is not going to answer that question it is not based on what i sense in my spirit there are states i would not live in i wouldn't live in them now wait i love the people i love the souls i want to get them saved don't get me wrong i'm not being anti-people i want those people to be saved before the coming of the lord but the taxation is way too heavy the the liberalism is way too extreme the the hate toward christianity is way too great and the disasters that could happen in those zones is far too risky noah had to get in a floating houseboat for one year right over a year sounds like the pandemic talk to me somebody you know this passover it'll be a year maybe after a year is up we can get out of the ark hello it really is but he had to relocate i want you to think about lot for a moment the city he was living in not only perished but he had kids that perished in it and they left four cities were destroyed and they end up in a mountain town called zoar which is a very we don't know how big it was it wasn't big at all because according to sacred jewish writings there were four judges one in sodom gomorrah admin and zebuine but there was no judge in zorro because it was too tiny they had a leader like a mayor we call it a king but it's too tiny to have a judge according to history now listen to me for just a moment people are going to have to pay attention to warnings don't over saturate yourself with negative news because the news doesn't get it right half the time and you know that but you have to understand spiritual warnings now i want to tell you something that to me is hilarious and i am a guilty party on my manna-fest telecast i have inadvertently mentioned tennessee and i inadvertently mentioned one time and i've this is where i have to really be careful i can only tell you so much that a man who was uh he's retired been retired for many years said to me he said what do you think about living in cleveland i said we like it he said well let me tell you a story about cleveland i said well how do you know anything about cleveland he said i had to research this for 10 years in the department of the government where i worked of if we were to build a bunker for the national no the hang on now my mind just went blank maybe i'm not supposed to tell you it's for okay we won't go there but if we were to build an underground bunker for this particular group where would be the safest place in the event of a midwest nuclear bomb going off let's say they hit the west coast and radiation clouds come midwest radiation clouds come and he said it took us 10 years to figure out that the safest town to live in in the event of a midwest or western nuclear attack is cleveland tennessee and i said i said yeah now look y'all blowing smoke i said huh no no no no he said let me ask a question you ever noticed it when it snows in chattanooga you don't get it were y'all where where are you guys that's lived here a long time oh pam will say it's snow when we get up the next morning there's nothing on the ground do you know why the way the mountains are made in chattanooga the jet stream flows from west to east and the way the mountains are made it splits the storms and they go either to dalton in north georgia and around us or they go to decatur north of us and pam is that not the truth since we've been living here you have to get a direct hit of snow here with snow clouds here or same thing with hurricanes i've seen them go north i've seen them go south we have been hit a few times so i said are you serious he said yeah so he said i can't tell you where i will not tell you the area but you're not far from a huge military underground bunker so i don't know where it is so don't come fussing at me don't knock on my door misters don't want you to talk to you because i don't know where it is i just know somewhere in these mountains it is i know that there have been other things built up on the ocoee i know there's been things that that's been built in different areas because cleveland area and the bradley county area is a safe haven county now don't y'all start moving here especially if you're really left-wing stay where you at we have a really good conservative state we love jesus we love the second amendment we love the holy spirit we have 380 churches in the county so so if you're going to come down here with some kind of really weird something that's you know you know what i'm saying i love you listen i love you i'm serious i do love you but you you're go you're happy right where you are i know you you'll enjoy it there better you'll enjoy it there better i shouldn't have said that but i thought i'm saying it out of humor okay chill out chill out if you're watching me chill out if you watch now here's the part that's funny so my wife tells me the other day she said according and i went i went got the article to make sure i had it right according to u-haul that tracks where people come from and where they move a couple years back tennessee was number 30. we were number 30 on the state where people from west coast midwest up north and northeast we're moving to nobody wanted to come to tennessee last year according to u-haul in now in nashville tennessee became the number one state that people are moving to and the man from u-haul said i wish i had the exact quote and i hope i'm not getting but he said something like this they like our lifestyle here we slow down you know not depending on the city some of these areas don't have a lot of traffic the schools are known to be good schools some of these people love prayer and they love churches and they love the fact that we're a church and let me tell you something about tennessee they did a study of the most bible see how was this worded the cities in america where the bible is read the most the number one city in the united states in the u.s where the bible is read most it is believed by 50 of the city's population it is read by 50 of the city's population ready gonna blow you away chattanooga tennessee that's a poll that's a national pope wait a minute in the top 10 was also knoxville in the top 10 was tri-cities which is johnson city tennessee and all that area so i'm telling you east tennessee is the number one place this is in the survey right now what i'm telling you it is the number one place where people are bringing u-hauls and moving they're buying property they're buying farms they're buying land i wonder why i'm going to tell you well i'm going to tell you why when in 1959 in the month of june at faith memorial i believe that would have been the name of it back then brother littlefield's church when william branham came to this city in 1959 in the month of june which also happens to be the year and month i was born the angel of the lord came to him and said before the rapture cleveland tennessee is going to be the center of the end time revival the gospel is going to go out around the world from cleveland tennessee i want you to know the enemy tried to stop it but he ain't got the power to stop it he doesn't have the ability to stop it only god is in charge the holy spirit is in charge and god almighty's gonna get it done come despite you despite me despite devils despite people he'll get it done when the time you better help me praise the lord i felt something go by when i just said that [Applause] how many of you here in this building have moved in this area not necessarily but let's say this area the past year and a half raise your hand raise your hand stand up i want people to see this yeah yeah u-haul says thank you and god bless you for your bid for your [Applause] what would you say it's about 25 people there's hey they're still coming i'm still meeting people that says as soon as my house sells i'm getting it stand up william i'm going to give you a good plug brother the no joke the award-winning real estate man in cleveland tennessee is the man on the front row who's a member of ramp cleveland and his his motto on his billboards are ready for billboards you're a realtor from now till the rapture so if the lord speaks to you don't do nothing unless the lord speaks to you and please can i just say something use wisdom and don't just get in the car and and load up your stuff and go sleep in the car in the cold and come knocking on my door wanting help i'm too busy to relocate people that's not my call you know find a job search it out i'm just and that's where i'm saying i'm trying to be y'all now i'm not got to the i'm not got to the part where i really need to get to you yet we're going to get there i promise you the third thing they did what was the first thing they did they they began to sell land and property in the danger zone which was jerusalem and judea and number two they eventually knew they had to change the headquarters where they were to relocate because the persecution well when the city is destroyed how are you going to have headquarters nobody's living there all right number three they begin to watch the signs that jesus gave and move according to when those signs begin to happen luke 21 20-22 when you see jerusalem surrounded by armies know that its desolation is near then let those who were in judea flee to the mountains let those who were in the midst of her depart and let not the and let not those who were in the country come into her or enter into her now i'm going to break this down and go ahead and tell you what they saw and when they saw this they knew getting out while the getting's good now let me give you just a little bit of history what caused the destruction of the temple was not by accident there was a tax revolt against rome going on and the israel did not because roman occupied they did not let the jews be armed but militiamen came up with their own swords and they made their so they had them they had militia the militia rose up against the romans and set occupiers and said we're going to fight you physically and they had assassins they would actually go into a large crowd of people and they'd have daggers and soldiers would be there and all of a sudden in the middle of the crowd they'd start stabbing the soldiers cut their throat and they'd run and they never could catch them and these guys looked like they were going to destroy the roman army that is until roman rome sent 6 000 soldiers in and they completely decimated the militia they completely they didn't disarm him they killed him and so this is what led to the destruction of the temple was a tax revolt by the common people who did not have the ability to take on an empire's army are you listing somebody okay now what happened was the emperor that had come into jerusalem to squelch the rebels they called him his name was vespasian vespasian was elected the emperor of rome nero had committed suicide so they're going to they're going to now make him the new emperor and this is about pardon me if i get my dates wrong i'm trying to go from remember about 66 a.d or so so he withdraws from judea his he just withdraws that puts everything at peace for just a temporary time and titus and if i'm not mistaken titus may have been his son but they were related but titus then takes the army who had no experience whatsoever so he's going to take the army so he then they then say to him you've got to get down to judea and finish what vestation started now there was a gap if i say a gap now this is real important you hear this because this is real significant in timing and knowing the timing of a sign because this is real significant that you know that from a prophetic perspective a person can have a dream and a person can have a vision and then relate it to you and we have a tendency of thinking oh that's going to happen next week that's going to happen next month well then months goes by months go by or years and we don't see it until seven years later pam will remember and anybody who's been a partner of mine will remember i had a vision of the of the world trade center shrouded in black and told it on tv told it and they and 9 11 was the exact vision i had drawings i had drawings made in 1999 before 9 11. kenneth copeland's ministry no no they start called me kenneth copeland was on and daystar called me i went to atlanta all day i mean literally all day on tv live taking calls from people in the atlanta area remember that babe and it literally they had the pictures we're going to show the clip where in 1999 perry said that this would be an attack on the trade center and it was shrouded in black at the top you all know if you don't know that there's material out there somewhere you could read more about it i'm not going to go into the details because it's already been told a lot of times now ben i feel the anointing jesus help us jesus okay that vision was brooksville florida in 1996 when i had it it was not a dream i went into a vision i put my head on the bible and bam i was out in three dimensional full color vision now listen to this and did not know the fbi said later that the terrorists that were going to take the buildings down were training at a facility a private airport to learn how to fly planes 30 minutes from me the same month muhammad atta i'm talking about the guys that flew the planes into they were training nobody knew they were terrorists they just said we want to learn to fly and they went down in braden floyd bradenton florida down there in that area and they went to a small airport and that's where they learned and one guy that should have got suspicious because one guy said i don't want to learn to fly i want to uh i don't want to learn to land i just want to take off it's like i mean look if it had been me i said nobody meant homes home in just a minute so you're going to run out of fuel up there and just crash it or you are you suicidal i mean that would have been a trigger and he did say that one of and it later came out in the fbi report that that had been said and they didn't catch it are you listening to somebody say yes it was 96 1996 97 98 99 2000 2000 it's five and a half years until that vision happened and when it happened how many remember he's saying i saw gray clouds pouring off spinning y'all remember that i saw gray clouds coming off that building i didn't know what quit one of these five okay trade center one and two fell then it affected three four five six seven there's your five there's your five tornadoes and when those buildings fell and i saw the gray cloud i was i was in shock i said pam that's the cloud it's got paper in it's got coca-cola cans in it it's got computer that's what i saw and i saw a cemetery with a church where people were praying and that was trinity church in new york that has a cemetery in it and a man showed me a picture of the papers that were laying on the graves you pardon me but some people don't like to use this expression but i've used all my life it freaked me out i mean i i'm stunned i'm sitting around in a day saying dear lord you you you saw this was going to happen all right now let me say this so when you hear things because i've already uh i did two programs the other day uh with jim baker's program two hours each we decided to do two he said let's do another one and they're going to come on i don't know when a week from now so but but i said some things on there that i'm not going to go into tonight maybe you can watch that and see when the time comes but watch this here's the thing there is a time element when god shows you something i have seen tsunamis on the west coast clearly my wife's heard me tell it for three years probably i know where they're going to hit i know what they're going to look like i know i know the mountains that the water is going to go in but i don't have the time and you know if i did i would be so hesitant to say it because i do believe there's two things you've got to watch saying number one is the day something's going to happen got these guys that some of them are prophetic but they'll get their self in trouble by marking days they'll maybe they'll feel something in their spirit and they'll speak i don't know but you can't talk days and time frames god controls the day can can i tell you why you can't talk days and time frames what do you do when you're like jonah and you're going to nineveh 40 days you're going to be destroyed and 40 days later they've all repented and they're all happy what are you going to do then did you know i just did a study on joan and found out what made the prophet mad is because his prophecy didn't come to pass it wasn't always about him hating the people of nineveh who were serious that was part of it but he was mad at god because now and he even went and settled in the east have you ever studied that dr cutshaw he went and settled in the east and the rabbis said he did it because he was embarrassed to go home because they're going to call him a false prophet he's sitting in that door i just tell you what i don't know why you didn't bring us a pass why did you bring me we should have send somebody else if they're going to repent there's nothing worse than a po prophet do you understand what i'm saying now don't even don't even go there i just said that it just come out i'm sorry oh that's what happens when you don't preach in a long time lord help me all right here's what they saw let me show you insi this is what jesus said when you see armies beginning to surrender does anybody feel what i feel in this place i feel i feel an awesomeness oh like we're really we're really we're really into something right here if you listen who when you see armies surround the city you'll know the desolation's coming so 66 to 68 there's a gap then in 69 and 70 here come the romans because the revolt was continuing okay so if i say two years there's a two year window now i'm approximately two years luke 19 43 the romans will dig a trench around the city and they did it now here's the point by the time the romans because that this is all in the writings of josephus by the time the romans got the trench dug it was too late for most of the jews to get out what happened he said this he said save yourself from what's coming how did they do it all right let's assume the date is 30 a.d when jesus has made the statement that these things are going to happen 30 a.d 70 a.d is when they happened that's exactly what 40 years that would be a biblical identification of a hebraic generation but he also let them know when you see the city surround when you see them coming to surround get out flee to the mountains of judea don't come back for nothing all the rooms were flat they were the houses were really close together and you could actually go up the steps outside to the top of a flat roof and you could run the roof i mean you could literally boy i bet kids had a fun time back then well honey it's thunder no it's not it's bobby on the roof get him off they would run they would run just just pick to this beat well this is a flat they run and they would jump to that house and they have so if you he that is on the rooftop let him not come down no did that mean live on the roof no it meant escape by the roof jump on house to house to house to house to get to the antenna and get out now they did but here's how they did it man i feel the holy spirit very strong right now on this according to two early church fathers who wrote about this an angel of god appeared to one of the apostles and said tell the people it's time to leave where do we go and the angels said tell them to go to pela in the country of jordan now what watch how god sets up stuff really bizarre pela in jordan happens to be not far from the area where the man of gadara was delivered by 2 000 demons in mark chapter 5. the deliverance of the man of gadara he began to publish abroad what jesus did he published his testimony not published with paper but taught that means telling it he published it mostly in the area where ready for this pella was located and the cities of the necopolis were meaning that according even to the early church fathers revival had been going on in pella for a long time they had christians there they like christians so when these hundreds and hundreds of christians left jerusalem by the word of an angel which they did they had a place to go to that god had prepared with the revival years before years before now let me just just look at the preacher and let me tell you this what that means is that god has everything laid out when you don't know what's going on would you trust me he does when you say this is crazy it probably is but he still does i want to tell this congregation and everybody watching me that we've got to come to the time in our nation right now this is the time when we've got to understand that no matter what it looks like and no matter who they think is in charge and no matter what they think they're going to do god says i'm the one that sets it up and i'm the one that takes it down my lord in heaven we have to learn to trust the god that is in control of the end times he's in control of the last days he's control of the joel 2 revival he's in control of the outpouring of the holy spirit he's in control of the united states of america because we were raised up with a destiny and i've got some good news for somebody we're not finished yet hallelujah no no no no no no we're not finished yet [Applause] so i'm going to break this down now and i'm going to tell you something practical three points and i'll be done but three points that you need to understand about saving yourself spiritually this is the most important part your most important part is absolute total spiritual preparation before there's any other kind of preparation i'm going to give you three things now the holy spirit really birthed this in me two days ago i was in my office at voe and it just it was a download and i know when i get a download and when i get a download it means it's a word the first thing the lord said to tell you watching me and you hear stop depending on everybody else's word from god i'm going to walk on eggshells one more time and tell you this i before i make the statement i'm going to make that came from lester summer i want you to understand that i am from a family whose uncle with the third great education was filled with the holy spirit and could fluently speak seven languages including latin and greek and doctors heard him speak it and it was fluent and he never studied it in his life that's called the gift of divers tongues in first queens i was raised by a father that literally i don't mean it one service but in his lifetime i personally saw him from the time i would watch him as a kid to the time he traveled with me and passed away at life care in cleveland i watched him operate in all nine gifts of the spirit my father lord my father could tell when his members were sinning he called a man in i won't name him because you know you never know relatives may watch this and we would never embarrass him but he called a manning that was very high in the united states government very very high and he called his name he said now what were you doing in a lincoln continental with a red-headed woman snuggled up to you behind the kroger parking lot and this man said preacher were you there he said no but the holy ghost was [Music] and it happened to be his redheaded secretary that he ran off with later and god god was trying to rescue him is what he was trying to do he tried to see when god when god rebukes you he's trying to save you from future trouble please remember that and for all of you that are holy get your halos off it'll come your way one day so don't despise it thank him for it amen but dad was the kind of person that operated on all nine gifts now when my dad gave a word of wisdom or a word of knowledge he didn't necessarily prophesy i call it word of wisdom and word of knowledge it would look like a prophecy he never ever missed it not once i mean i'm not saying it because it's my dad my sister's sitting over there she could tell you stories my brother i can tell you stories the dad ever to your knowledge die and miss it when he gave somebody a warning raise your hand so they'll know who you're there's my sister okay now listen to me very carefully [Music] there are there is a movement and there's there's a lot of truth to these movements i'll be honest but there's a movement called a prophetic movement not prophecy movement but to to prophesy over people and speak over people and uh there are people who will call themselves a prophet you know or a prophetess revelation says there's a woman who calls herself in the church and the church must to believe she was but she calls herself and she's doing all this crazy stuff you knew that from revelation chapter chapter two or three right in there all right lester sumrall made a statement that offended me until i thought about it i heard him preach at the bible teaching center in chattanooga tennessee this is where rick tal was years ago him and his wife were there years and years ago where andrew pastors now andrew tau and was preached at ramp so you all know who he is and lester you know lester was a very uh dry very dry he would just kind of talk like this and a real blunt real blunt but heavyweight man of god i mean i mean unbelievable i mean anointed scary almost like dad scary anointed he says now i'll talk to you all about all you people want to get prophesied over he said people come up to me all the time said brother some rob brother sumrall do you have a word for me and i've used this before he said yeah i got a word for you go read your bible you're not reading your bible like you should and he made this statement he said i do i am not a fan of personal prophecy of prophesying over people and he said the reason is too many people really don't have the gift and it's hard to tell who's real and who's not and then they get to manipulating people with the gift they claim to have well i'd seen that and i thought well that's true but i was a little taken aback because you know i've been i've had people give me words but he said this he said when you get a personal word it will usually confirm something you've been praying about or something you already know he said it's ah and i thought one of that and i started sitting there i'm sitting there with pam oh we were just cute kids back then but i'm sitting there with pam and we're still cute but i'm sitting there with pam and and uh and i'm thinking oh yeah that's true but that that that person came up to me in virginia you know that is true i mean i kind of felt that but i didn't know if it was god and they told me that i said okay and he said this the reason people always want to get a word from somebody is they're not praying like they should because if you were praying like you should you'd hear from god yourself no i'm telling you it's truly true and he said when people come up and say brother brother brother somehow i have a prophecy for you he said that's okay god's already talked to me well how do you know because i know because i hear from him every day so he's so he would now he was different and i'm not saying i'm totally in that way but i am saying that we have had so many people that have predicted so many things and i'm not saying they're not good people if i don't know a person i have no dog in the hunt you understand i have nothing to say people say what do you think i don't think i don't i don't know i don't think because if i if i know him and i can come to you and say oh i know them i've known them for years been around it's one thing but if i don't know him people say what do you think about perry stone well don't be talking about me unless you really know me and would you please do me a favor and don't be talking about everybody's story who thinks they know me okay come to me ask me i'll tell you it got quiet in the house right there i tell you what i've been talking i guess now let me just mention people have come on websites i mean on youtube i've lost faith i've lost confidence this isn't real how could god do this to us you better shut your mouth i mean that's the god that takes people through fiery furnaces that's the god that lets people walk on water just because they want to that's the god that can shut the mouth of a lion and you're going to talk to him like that i don't think so my dad said it this way the gifts are perfect the vessels aren't and you can have a dream and interpret it one way and find out well i got a part right but i didn't get it all right you can get timing off i don't have a word from god about 2024 and who's going to run but if a certain person was prophesied and it was god that he'll be in twice guess what he'll be in twice if it was the lord he'll be nobody can stop it he'll be in twice because if god said so i'm not into spending my time trying to figure out was this right was this wrong let's have a listen to the people let's expose their faces phooey on all of that leave all of that alone we got too much to do in the last days to worry about the past the past is the past forget the things that are behind reach for the things that are before press toward the mark the prize of the high calling of god in christ jesus [Applause] so listen to me you can't treat ministers or lady ministers or ministers who have maybe a gift from god like they're a psychic we're starting to treat people like we want a daily psychic reading what's god saying today what's god saying today i'm going to tell you well know what's god saying today pick up the bible go to proverbs read 31 chapters one a day you want to know what god's saying today study bible prophecy you want to know what god's saying today the book will tell you i'm going to go ahead and preach this some of you act like you don't like what i'm saying but that's all right jim read first corinthians 13 that says this prophecy shall fail but love won't and the word will endure forever well i'll tell you what i believe god's telling me but i'm going to tell you i'm all back by this well thank you all three of you so good having the rest of you here before you [Applause] left watch i'm gonna go number two in a minute israel would not approach god because they were afraid they weren't close enough to hear from god so they said to moses you go up for us you go up and get the word moses did 40 days fast he got the 10 commandments came down in their worship and a cow and he breaks the commandments of god to go up another 80 days and not eat i'd have killed them all before i had to fast another 40 days are you kidding me i already fasted 40. i have no food in my i'm starving to death i want a steak get a real cow and kill it and feed me a steak my goodness and you're going to make me go back on that mountain for another 40 days i want you all dead oh you listening but they didn't they were they didn't they wanted somebody to give them the word from the lord so keep that in mind number two now i'm gonna get real heavy here for the next two so you all just clean your ears out because i'm telling you the spirit of god said if you want to help him spiritually you tell him what i'm telling you yes sir number two he said if you're going to spiritually prepare yourself quit listening to everyone's gossip well we'll just give you some bible for it since the half of you don't agree with me first timothy 5 13 besides that they learn to be idlers going about from house to house and not only idlers but also gossips and bitty busybodies saying what they should not first peter 4 15 let none of you suffer look look at the category you're in if you're a gossiper here we go let none of you suffer as a murderer as a thief as an evil doer well bless god brother perry i'm clean hallelujah i don't do none of those or a busy body he puts you in a category of killing somebody you know why because a busy body will run their mouth and kill somebody's reputation when they do it that's why that's why classifies it as murder it's a different type of murder here we go proverbs 17 9 whoever covers an offense seeks love but he who repeats a matter separates close friends deep busy body from the greek it means not and it means another man's overseer so what a busybody is is doing is they are overseeing another person's life um proverbs the power of life and death are in the tongue psalm 64. paraphrase it there's a hedge built if you say things about a person that you shouldn't say or you have light on a person here's what the psalm 64 says the arrows you send out to that person will turn and tear down your hedge i learned that in 1988 when the evangelists were fussing with each other on national tv and i saw what happened to people for doing that and i said no no no no no not me i'm not going to send my errors out to attack somebody and have my heads taken down and neither should you your hedge is too important it's too important the lord gave me this word gossip is legal assassination because we won't cut we don't cuss drink or chew don't mess around with the boys that do we're born again but we will sure enough kill somebody's reputation not think nothing about it i'm trying to find a word i'm trying to find a word that would be yeah you know there's people that want to let me say shock and awe that's shocking all you're not a general you're not in a military matthew 24 10 the offended people will hate then betray then lose love pro i'm going to keep quoting scripture here do y'all say amen sometime look i'll go all night proverbs 11 13 whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets but he was trustworthy in spirit keeps the thing concealed i know things on people that would hurt him you know what i have no desire to hurt anybody and you know what i figured out a long time ago it ain't my business it's between them and god they're going to stand before the same god you and i will [Applause] proverbs 20 19 he who goes about slandering reveals secrets therefore do not associate with a simple babbler something you just need to go to proverbs for a month read it real slow do a few hebrew word studies see what happens to you now the reason and we'll get to number three right here to quit listening to everybody's gossip did you hear i heard did you hear i heard it's because number three the lord says you have to get out of other people's offenses because when they are mad you are mad when they hate you hate when they're offended you're offended and jesus said this many will be offended i'm talking to you about practical living in a prophetic time and you've got to hear this this is what's this is what's defeating people right now all over the united states all over the world offended people want to have their offenses confirmed and therefore they seek your support in it this makes their offense feel right and justified and they come to you when they need backup to confirm their offense jesus offended the pharisees when he said destroy the temple in three days and i will build it back up again that's why they took him to trial they were offended he offended them when he said eat my flesh and drink my blood which means have fellowship with me and they were offended with him and they all left him herod feared john the baptist i don't know if you're aware of this in matthew's gospel herod phil john feared john he thought he was a prophet the bible says and a young girl started dancing half naked in front of him and he got all worked up and said i'll give you half the kingdom what do you want she runs to her mama her mama hates john the baptist because john has been preaching against john herod's illegal marriage he uh he took took the wife of his brother he's married to the woman illegally she doesn't like it she wants her daughter in on the cash deal and the mama says to the daughter i want the head of john the baptist on a platter and that man you listen to me she was offended not herod she was offended at john and because he opened his mouth the wrong way at the wrong time now he's got to behead john the baptist and join in her offense and that herod by the way if you'll read josephus died a horrible death because he beheaded john the baptist in israel there are 12 spies 12 go in for 40 days they come back it's a land of milk it's a land of honey i've got grapes on poles as big as golf balls you won't believe it but here goes the butt but there's giants but there's walled cities but there's seven ites and so here's what happens now i'm going to point out this in a moment so 10 men's bad report caused 600 000 men to wonder in the wilderness for 40 years i've got news for you people i ain't got another 40 years i don't have 40 years to go get in somebody's offense and sit at home sucking and pouting because they're mad i'm gonna be mad they're upset and i'm gonna be upset and they're gone i'm gone and blah blah blah here we go i have only got the time to do the will of my father you've only got the time to do the will of your father we've got a limited time we've got a set time and i'm gonna say pick yourself up by your bootstraps stand back up brush yourself off and let's get on with what god says we've got to do in the last days to get the harvest in that's what we're that's what we're assigned to do [Applause] and i want to say this in seriousness i've taught this for 20 years this is not a new thing everything i've just told you i've been teaching for 20 years but this is so important the reason the lord says to tell you get out of other people's offenses is because number one when you take on someone's offense you take on their battles you listen to me you listen to me real well whatever they're dealing with will come to you you will take on their demons if they are fighting a spirit whatever it might be it will come to you if they're fighting marriage trouble mark it down you and your husband will fight it three to four months later and you'll say where's this coming from i've watched it i've watched it in my dad's churches for years and years and years they would take on offense and next thing you know four couples were divorced and they were all connected together in the same offense number three if you take on other people's offense you will take on their mental confusion this happened with king saul was after david chase and david and the ba my god which leads me to number four it says an evil spirit from the lord began to trouble saul and the spirit of god departed from him it's possible to get into an evil spirit that torments your mind when you are living in offense what do you do here's what every everything i've just told you is summed up in this statement what do you do to save yourself from what's coming and here's what you do you save yourself from separating from what will defeat you or destroy you if it's a natural destruction and you get warning you save yourself by moving if it's a financial destruction you see coming you change your way of dealing in the financial realm or the business realm if it's a spiritual destruction coming you save yourself by separating from people if it doesn't matter i could stand here all night long and talk about the wheat separated from the tear and the sheep separated from the goat and the fish in the net the good fish and the bad fish that would be kosher fish and non-kosher to juice and we could go to all this separation and the angels come at the end of the age and separate the wheat from the terror so we must learn the lessons to save ourself from what the enemy will attempt to do to pull you out of the of god's will and to make you an unspiritual broken vessel are you receiving this i said are you receiving this i'm going to be careful here on the on on the internet and i'm not going to say much about who or where i met with a gentleman a while back who is he ministers in a country where the persecution to be a christian is so bad that if a christian girl goes to jail which they arrest them she's raped by every guard there raped raped sometimes 20 30 guards if the men are arrested they're beaten there are there are there are people of younger ages and middle ages that are now dead and in the grave where they're actually with jesus thank god that were persecuted in this country and i asked ask him one statement one statement i said how in the world do you survive under that and he said first let me say that god has sent us to america because america is headed the way we are i said are you serious he said god's already revealed to our people you start praying for america they're about to do in america what they did over here and they're going to use laws to do it i said wow and my heart kind of sunk that's okay how do we survive he said we survived by two things number one is intense prayer all the time we can't just pray like once a week once on sunday you know you have we have a thursday night we have to pray morning when we're on the streets under our breath you know just constantly in other words that's what he was saying and he said the second key is learning to pray in the holy ghost now for you that aren't familiar with that that's praying in the prayer language of the spirit now i want i want to address somebody watching right now about 12 30 this afternoon i was praying i just felt not a heaviness but i felt the necessity of praying for a long time today for what was about to happen in the evening today today to the service i went into a very quick vision and i saw a person and i really i'm just going to tell you what i saw a person was sitting in their bed with their back toward the board the back the headboard and you were sitting up your legs are propped up and you had something in your lap with your laptop on it and you're watching me and you're watching me now while i'm speaking this you're you're watching this and i said now now lord what is this about and he said the last part of your message will be for them they were at one time active in church and they got offended their offense went from their mind and took a drop into their spirit and it has formed over the months a root of bitterness and the spirit of god said i am able to root out that root if they will confess to me the era of their way of allowing offense to become a root of bitterness now i know you're watching i know you're watching because i saw you this doesn't happen to me often but i've never seen it miss when i would see something that clear i have to tell you i think i think in my spirit that we ought to do something right now in this room and i'm going to say it this way there's not a person here that has not been touched in some way in your lifetime by hurt ex-companion children that are no longer with you workers loss of jobs you want me to go on for you to grow in the season we're in and to be free i mean literally to go to lay your head on the pill at night and not to be thinking about something just to be able to say oh man i can sleep tonight and sleep all night and get up and start another day you need what i'm about to tell you you need to be released you just need to be released i have gone through things in my lifetime over over now this is this is you're talking 45 years of ministry almost 46 where i was so hurt that i literally laid in the bed and woke up and couldn't go back to sleep at two in the morning and i'd get up and start walking the house i didn't know whether to pray for god to kill people or heal people save them or just send them home oh no you all look at me so holy i just love the way that you can you can put your halos on right when i get to something that just gets to where you're on you just polish them you keep them polished for those purposes but you know in all seriousness i want i want ramp to prosper i want iso to prosper i want vo e and when i say prosper we're not talking about money here we're talking about fruit of people souls and people being touched when i say prosper that's what i'm talking about now i'm not going to i'm not going to call you up here i don't i don't embarrass people i don't say sister would you come up here i've got a word because that just doesn't happen to me that's not the gift to operate in but i do know that before some of you and some of you came all the way here and say well i don't know why we're going we just need to be there this is a service for you to get free in if you have been in a situation of some kind it doesn't have to be just yesterday or reason it could be last year two years ago three years ago if you've dealt with something that you need god to just get it out of your spirit once and for all and start you on a new track where you know where you just feel like you're saved all over again would you like to just feel like he got saved the first time would that not be great seriously just all right then i want you on the count of three just to stand right where you are and i'll tell you what to do but yeah you're ready you can stand now brother you ain't got to wait till three if but if you've if you've if you've hit something a while back and this is just you just want you just want you want it out of your system stand up jesus thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord thank you father thank you father amen amen amen amen amen yes lord yes lord yes lord amen amen now the first thing you've got to determine in your mind is something i've had to determine for 45 years is to give it over to god once and for all and realize that god knows things about things you don't he knows things about things you don't that i don't there's things i don't know about such situations god knows and you can't question why because when you start questioning why you'll do it the rest of your life why did that person die of covert why did my father pass away i'm very upset at god why did god let our little church close down i don't know but here's what we're going to do i'm going to start praying from this pulpit a prayer i do not want you to listen to me pray i'll be praying for you but don't listen to what i say i want you to begin to whisper to god you don't you can pray loud you can pray under your breath he hears because it has to be from your heart and i want you to say to the lord lord i want to be released once and for all from this and he already knows about it and if you want to say a few words that's fine but god once and for all i want to be released and i want to move on with my life i want to move on with the ministry i want to move on with what you've told me to do put your hands up right now in jesus name everybody that is seated lift your hands and just start praying around you just start praying around you you're going to see to pray out loud lift your voice right now grow he shut up gracious father in the name of the lord jesus christ by the power of the holy spirit by the power of god by the power of the lord by the anointing of the holy ghost god those that are watching right now that need this let them respond to it immediately let them respond as well to it in jesus name father those that are standing on their feet many many people on their feet i bring them before the throne of god almighty to the king of the universe to the one that formed them from their mother's belly to the one to whom all power it belongs in heaven and in earth father god you have seen the the the way that the serpent has moved you have seen the way that the enemy has moved in their life and in their situation maybe in their family maybe in their congregation maybe at their workplace god whatever it was we come to you in the name of the son of the living god in the name of the lord jesus christ and we're asking you god to let them be released from this thing as they cry out to you and open up their heart to you lord once and for all lord yes yes lord you're saying that they have prayed before but they've never let it go they've prayed before but they've never let it go let it go in the name of jesus let it go in the name of jesus be loosed in the name of jesus be free in the name of jesus in the name of jesus loose in the name of jesus free your spirit in the name of the lord every bondage inside of your spirit every bondage inside of your heart everything that the enemy has tried to put you into captivity with every lie that he's tried to tell you about yourself or about your family we come against it in the name of the lord jesus christ we speak peace over your mind we speak peace over your heart we speak peace over your spirit we speak in the name of jesus christ that the love of god the love of god will overwhelm you that the presence of the father will overwhelm you that you will know that god cares you will know that god has all things under control you will know that god has all power in heaven and in earth you will know in the name of jesus that the lord god almighty is working and he is moving and he is touching so we rebuke in the name of the lord jesus we come against the lies of the enemy we come against what he's tried to tell you we come against it and we speak peace we speak peace we speak liberty we speak righteousness we speak the love of god over you heavenly father take it out of our hands take it out of our heart take it out of our mind take it out of our spirit let there be complete freedom let there be complete release in the name of jesus in the name of jesus we bind the powers of the enemy we bind the powers of darkness in the name of the lord come on keep praying now you pray your prayer you pray your prayer hallelujah keep flowing keep flowing keep flowing everybody just keep flowing thank you lord don't get in a hurry keep flowing the lord's ministering to you right now the lord's ministering to you right now praise god thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you lord for the holy ghost thank you lord for the holy ghost thank you lord for the spirit thank you lord for the power of god thank you lord for the anointing of god thank you lord for the blood of jesus thank you thank you for freedom thank you for freedom thank you for freedom now i want everybody to stand while the spirit of god is moving i'm going to begin to pray for god to baptize everybody in this room with the holy spirit and if you haven't prayed in the holy spirit in a long time and those of you at home can do this as well if you've not prayed in the holy spirit or the prayer language of the holy spirit in a long time while i start praying for you i want you to open your spirit to god and release your spirit free yourself and let the power of god come through you and the prayer language of the holy ghost come through you we're going to have to pray more in the spirit than we ever have before it's a gift from god it's a free gift from god just like salvation is a free gift from god so right now let's lift our hands together if you believe and let's begin to pray and as i pray open your mouth and let the spirit of god begin to touch you now lord in the name of jesus christ the son of god your spirit is moving right now upon this congregation it's moving mightily it's moving strong that anointing is in this place father you said in the last days you would pour out your spirit upon all flesh sons and daughters were prophesied old men would dream dreams young men would see visions father in this room at the tee of our center right now i'm asking you to pour out your spirit pour out your spirit pour out your holy spirit in jesus name and let young people be baptized in the holy spirit let my ho oh something's happening all over it hallelujah they just receive right now just receive right now god received the refreshing they need this pour it out right now saints lift up your voice louder the anointing of god i feel this strong lord we've poured out pour it out pour it out pour it out pour it out pour out the spirit pour out your spirit pour out your spirit pour out your spirit pour out your spirit pour it out pour it out pour it out by the power of god by the power of god by the power of god by the power of god in the name of jesus in the name of jesus in the name of jesus hallelujah hallelujah the blood of the lamb by the power of the holy ghost let the demonic powers be broken let faith come right now let oppression come off somebody's been under heavy oppression loose them oh god now where i'm standing speak the word only lord we're speaking the word loose them from oppression right now we come against the depression spirit in the name of jesus let them go free right now by the power of the lord by the anointing of the lord let them go free by the spirit of god in the name of jesus hallelujah keep praising everybody get those hands up again let the holy spirit touch you you may have never been touched like this before but he will if you'll let him my my my my bless the lord bless the lord bless the lord bless the lord bless the lord bless the lord bless the lord hallelujah blessed be the lord right now holy spirit come on pray on the holy ghost if you're baptized in the holy spirit thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord thank you father in the name in the name we bless you we bless you lord we bless you we bless you we bless you we bless you lord we bless you hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah worthy are you lord worthy are you lord worthy worthy are you lord in the name in the name in the name in the name hallelujah hallelujah praise god thank you thank you thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus how many how many of you heard the spirit of god pray through you raise your hand how many of you how many of you heard the spirit of god pray if you're good all right god is going to pour out his spirit in a great way in these last days and you know if you don't know anything about that much you know you need to get material don't read don't read books by brother i'm an icicle from the first church of the refrigerator that's not going to help you a bit get get something and start learning be seated for just a moment oh i tell you what oh my oh my now to the internet audience let me address them and everybody just remain seated for just a moment but to the internet audience i want to thank you that have joined me i wish you could see this this building it looks so wonderful pam it just reminds me of that summit we had years ago doesn't it nobody took their chair to the bathroom though i noticed that so we were good we survived there but let me just mention to you that are watching me to continue to watch the manna-fest telecast we made a major change and most of you know this already that we came off the tbn network because we found out that 72 percent of our people were watching the program on social media and so it it saved us a good bit and we are investing that money into some computer systems and some upgraded equipment i have to get you know going to believe this i got to get all new tv cameras all new equipment it is so hard with covid and a lot of this stuff comes from sony uh which sony has america but they're also connected to china it's very difficult and our equipment's breaking down in the studio some of it is we're rigging it and taping it thank god for duct tape it's a miracle it's a miracle tape made in america i guess i don't know at least the one the ones we use are i guess you know because they work they don't break down but thank god for gray duct tape and black tape and all the other catalytic so we've we've had to do that and so if you if uh if you want to uh check out voice of evangelism or perrystone.org then you can help us that way any way you wish and we're going to go ahead and there we go there we go and we'll leave that up for jonathan for about a minute or two and then we will go ahead and go off of the air and then we will then address the people here now we're going to be preaching

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Published: Sun Jan 31 2021