Sunday Morning Worship w/ Bishop Bill Hamon (The Life Center 9/5/21)

we're just always glad to have you we've known the bishop hammond since probably over 35 years and he he was the one that ordained us he's the one that prophesied us into the ministry he was the one that trained us oversees us even now oversees literally hundreds of thousands of people he's touched alive over 500 of that pours down on us and that we are covered by his covering and we are so threshold day can i get an amen amen it is bishop we welcome you we bless you hallelujah amen i like it thank you thank you i like to tell people wherever i go um i want to give a hallelujah to let the devil know i'm going to help him fulfill his destiny hallelujah amen how many devil destroyers do we have here good good you're my people amen well i prayed much about the service this morning i believe i got the mind of the lord and what god wants to say i want to prepare you for what's coming now tuesday night i'm going to preach i've written books on the restoration of the church and for the church that i wrote the book but um um but then uh the lord dealt with me to to cover something that this last book that i've written uh aliens people this is the truth i would share because if you don't get this truth in your spirit and incorporate it into your life the rest of it's not going to make a whole lot of difference and so i'll explain that to you in a little while so what i'm going to share with you this morning if you'll get it and get it born of god within you and not just be head knowledge that he's going to keep me from coming out to you you know what your highest calling is well it's not the greatest fivefold minister or the greatest business person or the greatest this or the other your highest calling the one that god puts priority on is being conformed to the likeness of jesus christ hallelujah now um this this truth it takes a while to absorb it most people think uh how many this is the new book how many read that book that's one of them well i brought 20 with me uh i did i didn't know how many of them but um uh not tell people uh the the book is uh fif is free but the picture is 15 but but this i want you to get this truth people asked my wife and i before she took off for heaven most of you know in 2014 she was getting very sick she disappeared to her bedside been shining and smiling real big stretched his hand out toward her and didn't say a word she said i said what was he conveying to you you're going to be healed and raised up or was he uh welcomed you home she said well i don't know but after that she had no desire to stay on this earth so i tell people after 59 years of marriage a man came by and smiled at my wife she took off with him and i'm going to catch up with him some of these days amen now people ask us how how have you made it being a pioneer of these 68 years of ministry i i turned last week a couple weeks ago july the 29th turned 87 years old however yeah now pastor's buddy in marriage same age as my wife was but i was three years older than them so now if i get any older when they start saying oh ancient days i want to stand up and salute but um you know i'm gonna live full of diet how many are gonna live to you down it's amazing how many people get 60 70 80 years old go ahead and die waiting for somebody to bury them keep alive keep busy keep going keep moving keep doing amen and i i was asked to go speak at a church when i was teaching in bible college in 1966 i think some more longer i was 33 years old how many was 33 one time way back i was 33 years old and they sent me over to preach this church this church about this size and i got there and i looked and everybody was bald-headed silver-haired i mean it looked like they all was oh 60 years or older and when you're 33 that's old right now it's young whippersnappers but i thought lord what am i going to preach to these people they're all got one foot on the banana peeler that's hanging onto a slip rope and they're just over the hill going i i don't know what to tell them and they preached god they danced shadow rejoicing carried on to one o'clock and turned it over to me to preach and i preached a miracle message nine minutes but the lord gave me one thought to drive home and that was this this is a revelation to me he says as long as there's breath in your body there's purpose in you being alive on planet earth amen how many are still breathing all right even if you're in a coma as long as there's breath in your body there's some reason some purpose god has to use to be alive on planet earth amen so but i'm glad age does make a lot of difference i i can tell my age my knees are not working quite right my back gets in spasms sometimes other night i'm in good shape what shape i'm in amen so i want to talk about this this truth the way i the way that god started this truth was back in two years after i got married had been pastoring in 1956 how many were not on planet earth in 1956 quite a few okay amen and um they i was pastoring a church in the yakima valley state of washington and up at the upper valley there's a church we related to and the people kept telling me oh we got this preacher he's preaching the most wonderful truths it's it's just beyond the imagination it's real and so i never heard anything like him and so then you just got to come hear him so i drove up by myself my wife didn't want to go and to hear him and make a long story short what he was preaching was universalism and he was saying how the devil is going to be saved and all everybody that's ever lived on planet earth will be saved and we won great big happy family and then quote scripture like you know uh it's not god's will that any should perish and he made it sound like it's not god's will that any missed heaven everybody's gonna go to heaven and it went on and on and on and i thought man he's i'm a church historian i knew that doctrine came in 1900 and this man started teaching on the love of god and the great grace of god that god's so great might he's going to save everybody and everybody will be in heaven the devil fallen angels wicked everybody's going to be in heaven together someday and i'm amazed i looked around and some of those christians were crying said isn't god great isn't god wonderful didn't know they've been fed a false doctrine let me tell you heaven and hell will never be reconciled come on and the devil is never going to be saved and the wicked who died in sin and their names were not in the lamb's book alive we're not going to make it in heaven but you know i'm amazed how gullible some christians are and so but let me tell you something i was driving home at night and i was driving home and i'm young i'm just 22 years old and i said bless god i'm living in the back of this church we don't even have hot water and i'm not going to that was the days of pentecost when everything was a sin but breathing that had to be done in church to be sanctified you couldn't go to sports couldn't have a television set you know women had to have long hair and and long dresses and long tongues and or you could gossip tail bear but you had to dress right and and i thought here i am denying myself not going to any of these pleasures this world for christ i might as well just if everybody's going to make it anyhow i might as well go out and do just as i and please holy ghost stinked up in me and says bill hammond what is it that you would please to do if it wasn't a hell of a show in heaven again well i knew he wasn't talking about not there's no hell and there's no heaven he's making me think what i'm saying he said in other words you're not convinced i am the way i am the truth i'm the life i'm the only way to walk i'm the only truth to believe i'm the only life to live he said let me ask you a question if i suddenly decreed that the earth is as it is humanity is as it is and i freeze everybody can't die it's just going to go on like it is now wickedness evil good bad all that he said do you believe the biblical way of life and my way of life were anti-biblical in other words i i want you in order to send you to hell but you're not convinced that it's best for you if you ever become convinced all god's laws rules directions is for your best it's not just to restrict you and hold you back it's for your good it's best for a man to be faithful to one woman and better to tell the truth and not lie come on but see it's better than not lust after the flesh it's better to and all that's better because the wages of sin is death it would kill a good marriage it'll kill a good life all these things are destructive but but most christians think well the preacher says i can't go here again all these do's and don'ts now some religion added a lot of dead stuff but the biblical stuff is for our good come on so everything's for my good now and because we're not convinced of that and the lord says my highest calling for you is to be conformed to my image and likeness i made man in the beginning in my image and likeness that's what i wanted and i can't work with mankind if they're not like me think like me and have my nature in character in fact god made adam and eve and they rebelled he kicked them out of the garden and 1656 years later he came down to check them out and found that the whole human race all 20 million of them had gone completely corrupt core it says they were every thought on their mind was evil continuing and god looked at him and says in fact god said i regret i made you my life how many has ever regretted doing something it didn't work online well you're more godly than you thought you were god said i regret i made man i strangely said that because i know the purposes of god but he said i can't use them they're more like the devil and his fallen angels than like me so i'm just going to send them all to the devil's kingdom so he sent a flood and sent over 20 million to hell the devil's kingdom and said okay i'm going to start all over but i'm not going to blast this uh in orbit and start all over he said i'm going to save a human race because i'm going to send my son later he's got to come to a place where there's mortality where there's sin and he's going to give his life on the cross to demonstrate that god is love and then he's going to shed his light's blood and re purchase a people that will be a church race that i will worry that my son jesus will raise up my people to be like me and i'll have that group i want to go along amen so jesus came and started a new race how many know you're a new race of mankind you're the church race did you know you're different than the rest of the world i know you don't look any different you don't do anything what's the difference is you've got eternal life and a mortal body how many how many believe right now you have eternal life in you you're not a church of christ i have to wait till you get to heaven to find out if you've got it or not how many really you've been born again you're a child of god your name is written in the lamb's book of life hallelujah it's like the old saying it because you have died yourself see if you're only born once you die twice but if you're born twice you only die once if you're only born once and never born again you end up dying physically and then going to the lake of fire which is called the second death if you're born again you die physically once then you go to eternal life forever life in heaven with jesus christ amen i'm glad you've been born twice naturally and spiritually now for god to fulfill his purpose he needs a race of people like him now out of the human race god's been working for years and 6 000 years almost if i lived to be 96 i'll live in the 2000s year of the church age he's been working to get people that's like him now let me explain romans 8 28 29. now i i i did a series on this so that league legacy series and i just started in september 177 people enrolled and i'm mentoring them on 12 i did 12 hours of teaching on this so i'm not going to get just to highlight this few things because truth see that that truth has planted me when i was 22 years old and here it is 60 some odd years later that's now in a book form you see you think because you read a book you got it it's not like a love show a book like this it's not like reading a love story they got married lived happy ever ever hallelujah no i i i write these books i go back and i read it and i thought that's good that's good i shouldn't have forgotten did i write that that's good stuff you know and and just i've done in the prophetic i had to go back over my prophetic books i redid number three and it'll be coming out september 26th and i put a new a lot of stuff new stuff in it and uh but i was reading it over i said man that covers all these controversies they're talking about in 2020 and etc etc so they said well you just need to redo that so we did now i want to talk about a truth romans 8 28 29 everybody say romans 8 28 29 every one of you need to memorize that as i said people ask my wife now how'd you make it i said romans 8 28 29 if you've got a revelation on that and you understand it and uh jesus said you shall know the truth and the truth will make you free and i want to give you some truth about what you have to do to really make it in these last days and hours hey man i wore i wore my shoes at my boy my son brought me in and and uh not australia new zealand they bought him in new zealand so i'm here i'm here to spark you up okay somebody said why do you wear sparkly stuff i said when you get my age nobody's going to come anything positive but if i wear a sparkly tie or sparkly shoes they'll call me a positive otherwise they just look at you and say it go on amen now romans 8 28 29 how many believe this scripture could be as true as john 3 16. romans 8 28 and who's the author of romans 8 28 29 paul now paul says we know now when paul says that we know he's not saying i got it out of a book i heard a preacher preach it when it says no in the bible it's experienced i've experienced it i've gone through it i've proven it it's a fact now paul says we know i know all things everybody say all things all things work together say work together for good now that good is not good like you think making life easier everybody will love you more everything goes smoother and sweeter no no that good equals christ-likeness god jesus says there's nothing good but god so all things work together to make you more christ-like how do you know that well of course verse 29 for whom he did for know he also did predestined to be conformed to the image of his son that jesus might be the firstborn among many just like him a family just like him now god is looking for a family just like him there'll be nobody in a ruling reigning class in eternity that haven't been conformed to the image of thinking like god thinks acting has the same conviction same vision same heart same spirit same same same there'll be millions of people in heaven you know babies go to heaven and and the thief on the cross went to heaven had no idea about anything did you realize babies will grow up in heaven never knowing there was seeing the cross somebody's got to teach and train them but there has to be those earth it's like i told dean mitchell was our worship leader i said thing you're in your 50s he may be at 60 now and i think he's doing this 50. go tell him and i said you know i'll probably get to heaven for you do he said well i hope so and i said now when you get up there dean don't go over the music department i won't be there don't go over the helps department don't go over the social department come over to the war department i'll be over there general michael and we'll be discussing how we're going to keep all these saints in line for eternity do you know there's always going to be somebody over you telling you what to do throughout eternity oh i could see independent spirits getting upset it's amazing how many people afford to have one to be their own boss especially wives and some husbands amen listen it's relationship and it's very important you know how to get along with people i know i know some people god put them in ruinership that have all the animals fighting one another but uh anyhow that's another subject now this is god's will now most people agree to this and understand this now what i want to touch on what you don't understand is the process that god takes us through to fulfill that scripture and there's no way to get there without at least two or three heartbreaking mind-blowing world-shaking situations you go through how many's had at least one you either couldn't raise your hands rejoice it's coming you have a destiny a man and all things work together to accomplish god's purpose in your life to conform you to christ's image and likeness and i give you about 10 or 12 things my wife and i went through heartbreaking mind blowing to wrecks with deaths and loss of properties and things that just tore you up and tear you out you know it's kind of like in 1972 i was going through an episode where i had been betrayed and it was costing me and and uh i was praying and really i was complaining calling it praying and i said i said god i can't i can't go through this again i can't take this it's killing me it's killing me and i was crying and praying and about 10 minutes into my prayers i heard the holy ghost laughing inside of me i thought what you laughing about and he heard him say to the father father it's working it's working although what it's working it's killing me you see you got to realize god's out to kill you you might as well get it over with come on because the whole challenge is to deliver us from self devil is not our big problem self is how many were born in this world uh just a few hat stones thought by no my budget but when when we were born in this world we were the most helpless creature there is i was raised on a farm a little colt to get up it's ready to go a little calf you know but human beings are the most helpless creatures we couldn't talk couldn't walk didn't have any hair no teeth come out you know especially coming that way you go out that way but and uh and if you've got a problem and you you just go why and mama runs dad runs and brothers sister everybody comes if you if you got a wet pants wow you're hungry why so pretty soon after a few months you get the idea all we got to do to have the whole world come to my side and help me is why some of you have never grown out of that there was some pastor elders deacons wife somebody help me take care of me i'm helpless no you're not you got to grow up my wife had those favorite messages get over it and grow up all that good stuff but listen there's two scriptures on going up there's 30 on growing up now why is there so many scriptures on growing up because god has to have for the last generation of people that's come to the fullness of jesus the way the truth they're alive and we're coming to that now and ephesians 4 said to god you have apostles prophets evangelists pastors and teachers for the equipping of the saints so they enter the ministry of their ministry membership ministry and uh this must continue verse 13 until we all come the unity of the faith knowledge of the son of god unto a perfect man will the church be perfect before jesus returns i just quoted your scripture a perfect man what is a perfect man or a woman it's not mr universe or miss universe a perfect man or woman is one's got all parts all members in the right place and they're functioning they didn't get that over here let me explain that again you're sitting there in a body with two eyes two ears nose mouth and a heart lungs and everything's in place and hopefully everything's functioning what's god's perfect body every member in their membership ministry and functioning come on and the main ministry our main ministry as our elders apostles and prophets etc is to equip the saints not only in ministry but conform to the image and likeness of christ because it goes on and says in verse 16 but speaking the truth in love we grow up to him and all things which is the head even christ we're to grow up in them and i kept asking lord you know if you've read my books you know i i showed the restoration of the church from uh 1500 to 2007 those nine restoration movements and i kept asking the lord lord why are you restoring the church the protestant movement got us born again cleansed by the blood justified by faith the 1600 meeting of the evangelical movement got us baptized water 1700 holders movement got a sanctified set apart living victorious uh and then the divine healing movement of 1800 got us healed pentecostal movement got us filled with the holy ghost speaking in tongues how come how come you didn't rapture the church out and what's going on how come here and then we had the uh you know the latter rain restoration movement in 1948 then there's to pioneer that and then we had the saints movement in 2007 and then 2008 the third and final church reformation began and now we're in the 2016 we had the army of the lord activated what's going on god you see the church is here on a purpose you're not just here to stay saved enough to miss hell and go to heaven please do stay safe enough to miss helen go to heaven but the church has a purpose 98 of evangelicals and pentecostal theologians see no purpose for the church except to win more people to the church so god's got one great big happy family he can take it to heaven and love on and be good for nothing forever but hallelujah but the church is being prepared there has to be a perfected matured come to the way the truth the life of christ generation at the last omega generation that is ready to do god's final work that's going to be done in this third reformation and you're getting prepared for it and in fact those getting prepared have been what god's been overtime and turning up the fire at about 5000 degrees amen and he's shaking everything it can be shaken that that which cannot be shaken may remain and hebrews there says the thing that cannot be shaken is the kingdom of god so let me tell you if you're being shaken get your feet off the economy or the president or or this or that the other get it on the kingdom of god you cannot be shaken amen but we have a kingdom that cannot be saved it's going to remain forever okay i got to finally get to my subject here i'm just preparing you a little bit to let you know you're important and god's working on you now all things work together for good how many's got at least one why in your life that you want lord why did that have we prayed we believe why did i have to go there how many's got at least one why when i get through you should have no wines left and you'll never ask why again because you'll understand why wow how many love god how many believe you're called according to his purpose then what do all things have to do work together to make you more christ-like amen so how does that work well it works by two things the law of transformation and the process of conformity now god let me put it this way let's make these fingers is everything in the natural your personal life married life family business whatever whoever all of that is your natural this is your eternal man the bible says though the outward man perish yet the inward man is renewed day by day this is your inward man now god will allow any of these one or two or all four at once to go through a job experience to perfect this one they didn't get that over here let me i said if you love god and you're called according to his purpose which you do then everything has to work to make you christ-like it may be a heartbreaking mind-blowing world shaking situation but when you get on the other side of it you'll say like paul the sufferings of this present life are not worthy to be compared with the christ's likeness that shall be revealed in us amen and then in second corinthians 3 18 it says we with open face mirror look in the mirror like a glory of the lord and we're changed into the same likeness of christ from glory to glory until we're changed into that same image it says then then it says wherefore seeing we have this ministry what ministry is talking about the ministry of being conformed to christ's image and likeness now some of you are trying to get in the ministry i hate to tell you this you've been in it for a long time your highest greatest ministry is not preaching praying prophesying casting out the devils raising the dead making a million dollars and giving to the that's secondary your highest ministry is being conformed across the image and likeness and i discovered christians don't have any problems we have predestinative purposes to perfect us i discovered i don't have any enemies in the world i just have friends and employees now they don't believe me over here so let me explain it to you james chapter one how many christians i'm talking to here i'm waving you for sure all right i just want to make sure i'm talking to you james chapter 1 and the old king james says count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations and trials and tests etc the my the phillips letter young churches i got a copy of that in 55 1955 one of the first english versions uh new modern language and it says it this way my brethren not your sister instead my brethren when all kinds of trials and temptations crowd into your lives don't resent them as intruders welcome them as friends you got more friends than you thought you had welcome them as friends realize they come to test your faith and to produce that quality of christ's likeness within you but let the process go on until wow wow how many of us still want to be like jesus god bless both of you all right now how can you go through something that's contrary to scripture and yet be the will of god and let me explain it it's like the law of gravity and the law of aerodynamics do you have the law of gravity here in atlanta okay when i went to school a hundred years ago so much they said anything heavier than air must do what come down but yet i go and get on planes that way tons and tons of people in the luggage and metal and steel and it takes off people ask me how was your flight i said it came up stayed up and came down right good flight but it it it defies the law of gravity now when that plane takes off and i fly 15 hours of land in seoul korea it did not destroy destroy the law of gravity it didn't affect the law of gravity at all the law of gravity is still in force now when god lets you go through a physical situation or financial situation or a social situation it does not change the fact that it's always god's will to heal it's god's will that you will be in joy it's god's will that you have harmony it's god's will that you prosper that's all the general will of god the only problem is there's a higher will [Music] you see that plane doesn't destroy gravity it just supersedes it to accomplish a higher purpose and god will let you go through a test a trial a heartbreaking mind-blowing world shaking situation that con is conjured scripture as i general but god is a higher authority he'll supersede that to accomplish his higher purpose of conforming to his image and likeness for instance how many know part of the character of christ is forgiveness i was preaching this one time and i said you know forgiveness really heaven's not a good place to prepare the bride of humanity because we have to learn forgiveness and surely we won't have to learn forgiveness in heaven one sister on the front row said well i don't know my husband's going but now so what does charleston test they're my friends they say hello friend now then ii corinthians chapter 4 verse 17 says these light afflictions now when apostle paul says light afflictions that makes ours feathers because he was beaten with 39 stripes five times if you saw paul in a one-piece bathing suit he'd be scars from his ears to his heels 195 stripes and this guy has the audacity to say that everything worked for his good he was beaten with rods three times you know i was raised on a farm and my dad got upset at me and i was couldn't keep my mouth shut and he didn't like me to bounce back you know he'd grab me and he'd start beating and those rods hurt you know but he was shipwrecked i list about 17 things he he was out on the sea he he got stoned not like some of you used to get stoned but they threw rocks at him and killed him and they had to resurrect him back to life and i mean the whole list of what he he started about 200 churches the historians tell us he only had about four still related to him and just about time he got going in his ministry get thrown in jail wow and yet this is the man that wrote romans 8 28 29 and second corinthians 4 which says these light afflictions work for us a far more exceeding weight of glory weight of glory equals christ's likeness amen now so what god said with me he says what do afflictions do and i looked at that and said oh they work for me these lot afflictions work for us oh a lot of afflictions of my employees so somebody comes up to me and says you're old bald-headed prophet i don't believe you i don't think there's apostles and prophets yeah i can't can't catch it for an hour i stop and i get out my belfow i take out some money and i give it to him see what's that for i said i pay my employees [Applause] he'll say i'm not your employee i said oh yes you are my main business and passion is to be conformed across the image of likeness and his character is forgiveness love long suffering and all man you know peace mercy and and i said man if you've been producing i should give you 50 man have you been producing for me i give in the money you see you know let me show you uh monique come on for a minute i'm going to i wish i had more that's all i had my billfold this is the ten dollars [Applause] now take that when your husband starts giving you a bad time pain [Laughter] [Applause] okay you're gonna make it safer for me yeah i don't want you to fall well i'm keeping them nervous hallelujah amen how many's got more employees you thought you had you're a big-time operator [Applause] it drives the devil berserk when you don't let him get you frustrated upset discouraged self-condemning all that listen if god before us who and what can be against us what if you believe that who was who who's them who wrote rejoice several more in all things give things apostle paul who wrote this is the this is the will of god in christ jesus concerning you rejoice rejoice you know there's not one scripture the bible gives you right to remember and complain some of you wouldn't know what to talk about if you didn't have something to murmur and complain about did you know mormon complaining is put on the same level as adultery and idolatry and first corinthians 10 11 it talks about the three major things that kept the children of israel out of egypt i've been out of canaan land it was an idolatry murmuring complaining and adultery god hates murmuring and complaining in psalm 78 it says there that it really lists of what they went through and how they acted and it said they wanted bread and they gave them manna then they wanted water and they gave them water then it says then they said can god provide meat in the wilderness and the bible says god heard it and was furious what's god hearing you say listen to what this principle does god wrote miracle miracle miracle and then he came to another need and they said can god how many times have we done that how much had some miracles in your life god just and then you come up with a big financial thing or a social thing and oh god can you do and the bible says god was furious are you making god smile or frown come on he gives us no right to murmur and complain and fuss and be unhappy and condemned and frustrated i'll tell you our next experience that one one of the chapters i have that was called when loss is gained when we moved from san antonio texas where we headquartered for 13 years that's where i started christian international we moved to phoenix arizona for seven years and i bought some property out there for the headquarters and i gave us i gave down a certain amount of money uh well i had a brother in fact one of my spiritual sons sent me a check for fifty thousand dollars i thought hallelujah so we put thirty thousand down on the property and put the hundred and twenty thousand ballots on forty thousand dollar famous golfers in faith then i said bless god if god can provide fifty thousand dollars he can provide forty thousand dollars of your payment you may never have that type of reasoning logic it'll get you in trouble every time every time my wife didn't feel right about something and i went ahead and did it it always cost me money or had to backtrack you know listening to me man and you know so we bought the property and i traveled all that year i only had one person uh there's a church out by stone mountain i preached there and they took an offering for five thousand dollars to go toward the building but the rest of the year nothing else came in took all the money i could get together to keep ci going 10 families and payroll etc and the time came for the payment i didn't have it so they gave me 90 day extension and i started praying believing fasting and still didn't come in they gave me 30 days more extension so that's all they would give and i started doing like most men do trying to figure out some way to make it work i talked to some others as ministers hey if you'll help me pay this off we'll split it for your ministry and my ministry or do that i tried everything and i've learned the truth john says he shuts doors that no man can open and open stores no man can shut and if god shuts the door you can pray scream squall ball kick jump ram your head against the wall and it won't open if god's going through a process you might as well just go with the flow and so it came at 30 days came and i had to sign all the all the work that we'd done for a year and a half all the rebuilding i had to sign it all back to those people it it it is one of the most it was the roughest things that ever happened to me of my own self-image i felt i i wasted my spiritual son's money he sent to me i i i did all the devil's work for him i beat myself up i condemn myself how many have ever done the devil's work for him oh you don't you don't he stayed on the keyboard you're doing good boy you're doing good amen and um god i would go on friday night teach and prophesy until one o'clock in the morning and god would answer people's needs and meet them and bless them but he he would speak through me but he wouldn't speak to me about the situation for six months six months my wife and i traveled from phoenix arizona to north east with five four thousand miles trying to find more property what to do finally about 150 acres way out in the desert tom and jane thought we were going to be desert rats out there or something but you know and but just to keep the vision alive and finally we were driving back to phoenix and we stopped at a hotel and i went out walking and the lord started talking to me says bill hammond you're really upset about that property aren't you i said oh yes i lost it all and he said you didn't lose anything i said what do you mean i didn't lose anything i had to sign it all back it's gone and he said no you didn't lose anything i said god have you been on vacation for six months i'm telling you i lost it all and he says no you didn't lose anything i said okay you're talking double talking what are you trying to say he says bill hammond that was the tuition i was willing to pay for your wisdom and maturity because i have plans i was in 79 i have plans within two or three years to give you a revelation that's going to bring transformation and ministry to the churches never has not been there and he said i had to check you out to see if you love me more than you love that property and you can still serve me and it says i can give you houses lands people overnight but i cannot give you wisdom and maturity that is a process and it's grown and i had to take you through it amen hallelujah it was like when i first got married i was a single pastor for a couple years and i got married and when i got married i inherited a mother-in-law and and before we before i married her daughter she and i worked together in church we'd cast out devils she'd prophesy with minister and got along great but the moment of marriage but at the same time she was trying to mother me out a pastor of course i was a mature 19 year old i don't know why she'd feel like but and then she would you know tell me don't do that you shouldn't do that and she just told me but sir she ever have somebody that this even another christian is it amazing another christian could make irritable and and it just kept going on and finally i said god you got to change that woman how many haven't ever started to pray for scott chang somebody that drove you berserk maybe you married it or birthed it i don't know but it helped so uh i just i fasted three days and three nights and finally i got through and god spoke to me says you really got problem with your mother-in-law don't you i said yes i do you got to change that woman she's just driving me berserk he said well you're different i said yeah and he said he said do you want me to make you like her or her like you i said oh god don't make me like her but her like me like the fawns hey but you know and uh he said you know i understand i thought no you don't you never had a mother-in-law [Applause] you didn't know that did you jesus never had a mother-in-law but he said okay it wouldn't help to make you different but i can't give you a truth that will give you the victory you want the victory oh yes you want to do it i said yes how you going to change her you're going to tell me he says here's what i want you to do i want you to give her the right to be herself but it's a dumb self no give her the right but no much about it give her the right to act and do what she does but it's okay so i worked at it for two or three months i got where i could handle it a little better and then but she was still doing the same thing i changed but she didn't so i went back to god said god i changed but she didn't it's not fair how come he says do you want to know the rest of the story like paul harvey you remember know the rest of the story for your young adults don't know what we're talking about all your young ones under 80. but he said do you really want to get the final story and the truth of it i said yes so here it is here's what i want you to do i want you to give her the right to not give you the right to be yourself i said god that's not fair he said sure it is all for your sake i said sure sure it is no but it is it was and i learned to give her the right to be herself and not affect me now if some of you husbands and wives would learn that being married for years and you're still trying to perfect each other adjust them straighten them out don't do that don't act that way it's kind of like when i was younger a while you know i would do wild thing i'd throw things up throw water on people i'd do anything to keep their attention you know and and one day i every time i do something strange or say something i get my tango tunneled up or something and people look back at my wife and she get embarrassed she used to be very self-conscious bashful because she was married to me for 50 years but anyhow and i i she and one day i did something real dumb and everybody looked back to her and she thought wait a minute why am i getting embarrassed i didn't birth that boy i didn't make him i just married him i'm not responsible for what he does and how he does it and she finally gave me the right to remind himself why don't you give your mate the right to be there i'm a wonderful self you know just learn to live with it just smile at it so that's cute stupid no how many american folks around here how many has ever been frustrated with each other i see some of your problems stopped frustrating just lying oh my okay how many marriages how many americans we got here wave your hand how many trying to get married you know i got a chapter in the bible in my book on two reasons why god made adam and eve and not adam and steve he wanted he want he wanted god could make adam to reproduce by himself there are certain creatures that can't do that but but god made it eve and he was dependent upon each other to reproduce so the number one reason was to reproduce god says adam and eve i made you by ain't making no more you got to make all the rest fill the earth big job and he said um i want you to do that and but the lord's you know and and they felt oh god we've got to do all of this yes you have to do it amen now god made man a woman but there's another reason god made man and woman and i know some people can't tell it anymore but there is a difference between male and female you don't have to pray about it you don't have to discuss it even though they're teaching our third graders and fourth graders you got to decide what kind of person you are male female or some other weird creature but they they made the husband and wife they're different how many found you're different i was prophesying over a couple one time god said i brought you together from opposite directions opposite background personality and put you together and i smiled real big and said i'm going to sit back and watch this you know my wife and i had as greater marriage as anybody i've ever counseled or talked to or known but when it wasn't enough difference that we were each other's friend and employee once in a while and you know we got married i was from oklahoma she was from northern washington so we decided to decide to fight the civil war all over again but those yankees were again i tell you so once the while we would clash you know and uh who's who's going to get the last word in but i found out it's best you know if you realize that your husband or wife is there to perfect you not with words and their actions but by the fact you have to learn to adjust come on how many had to adjust after you got married it wasn't sweet rosy prairie my you know and your sweet little dollar you know it's the only relationship you go into that you swear unto death that's the reason i put in a wedding ceremony you know [Music] for better for worse until death does part and i can't commit murder or suicide though at times i may feel like it all things are for my sake say it all things are for my sake paul says that in second corinthians four about verse 15 or 16 all things are for your sake so i i i couldn't understand way back when god said bless those who curse you do good for your spot for you pray for your enemies and i said god this brother offended me and he did me wrong and i said i need to get back to him he said no forgive him bless him i said that's not fair he said sure it is he said listen when i told you that scripture i wasn't concerned about your enemy as concerned about you it's for your benefit that you forgive that you bless and curse not because if you don't you get a root of bitterness and anger and resentment and some of you still have it i want to set you free you didn't make a mistake god allowed you to go through that process you didn't we weren't a failure god told me i wasn't a failure because i lost that property god processed me he said do you love me are you called according to my purpose yes is all things working together to make you more christ-like yes what if you could believe romans 8 28 29 to be real come on what if you could believe it that everything that happens to you because you love god you keep his commandments called to go to brain has to work to make you a better christian the better christ-like person amen and your heart may ache for a while your bones may ache you may go through you know tribulation and i'll close with this how many got more time you got money we took the offer already you should have more but i that's the many thing i'd love to tell you about that two week we went through a horrible process others but what if you just started believing the word of god that nobody can hurt you over the sticks and stones may break my bone but you can't stop me you see you can't rejoice ever more in all things you have things unless you're convinced they're before you're good when you realize forgiving others is for your good that's the reason i've had to forgive a lot of people in my lifetime but when you realize it's for you're good then your self helps you now you need to realize that god's for you nobody can be effectively against you you don't have to resent them you don't have to be angry you need to forgive that person to hurt you come on you need to forgive that person who cheated you out of money i want to forgive that person abused your daughter or stole your husband or maybe you're giving thanks for that i don't know but god allows no resentment no anger no unforgiveness to be in our spirit in fact he says one chapter is on the unforgivable sin of unforgiveness do you know you cannot be forgiven a sin if you don't forgive others forgive us our trespasses how as we forgive those who trespass against us amen and we need to let you know and one vegeta says if you don't forgive those who sit against you neither will your heavenly father forgive you there's going to be many a christian stand before the throne of god with unforgiven sins because they never ever forgave that person that hurt them so bad i don't care what they did how bad it was how much it hurt how much you lost nothing nothing justifies unforgiveness now there's about six of you here it's overwhelmed you i i just can't forgive what they did yes you can god's grace is sufficient god's grace is submission amen now i want you to do something i want you to think in your mind right now to shut yourself in with yourself and god i want you to think about something you went through you know it's like more like that when we had that wreck we prayed we pleaded the blood we still had the wreck one of the one died started several injured and on i mean i've gone through things that why why why but the bible tells you all things are in god's control if you love god and they're called according to this purpose so i want you to think that person that situation some of you're going to have to forgive god god doesn't need forgiveness but you need to release blaming god or feel like god failed you i had to forgive god because i felt like he didn't he didn't meet my need okay i mean raise your hand if you're thinking about once you got one situation i want you to forgive release it and thank god for it giving thanks for all things i want you to thank god for it thank you lord i went through that process thank you lord i came out victorious on the other side thank you lord for all the loss all the sorrow all the heartache for us have made me love you more serve you more and be more like you i want you to do it and release you you got to get rid of that because if you think of it with a hurt you haven't forgiven them from your heart you may have verbally forgiven you may have emotionally forgiven but until you can think about it and there's no pain there's no bad memory there's no nervousness it says it would happen to somebody else you need to forgive from your heart do it right now then i'm going to close with this look at me for a moment there's a scripture in the bible for 60 years i couldn't understand it i thought either paul had a revelation that i didn't have or he needed a psychiatrist real bad in second corinthians chapter 12 verse 10 paul said this i take pleasure in if i ask you you said i take pleasure in what would you what would you say brother you take you get any pleasure in life and what being alive yeah it's a great one i hadn't heard that one before why did you take place you're in what did you take pretty swim michelle what i was i was at cbn interviewed on 700 club and then you have you preached they got a chapel with about this many people coming i was preaching on this and i said what do you take pleasure in and asked one lady said my dog i said are you married but in him paul says i take pleasure in and i couldn't understand that you know what paul said i've never said it never heard anybody else say it you know what paul said i take pleasure in infirmities persecution false act i mean you could name false accusations trials tests tribulations problems how can you take pleasure in that i finally realized i was writing the book paul's greatest passion was to be like jesus he said in philippians oh that i might know him the power of his resurrection being made comfortable under his death that means death to self life in christ and i realized paul said all these things are helping me fulfill my greatest passion to be like jesus so your friends and your employees or for your friends and they're working for you you may be married to it you may have birthed it you may be working with it you may inherited it or you may just got stumbled into it but you got it so let it work for you come on you don't need to be sad upset depressed frustrated unless that's your greatest joy people some people couldn't be happy if they weren't miserable or felt they're being abused and used come on i want to listen in in matthew 24 it talks about there'll be pandemics there'll be famines there'll be wars rumors of wars and it says many will be offended some of you have offenses how many has ever had a friend or loved one that you see get offended at the pastor at the church and a friend and they left the church or they left the ministry or the other how many has ever seen somebody get offended now but see if they understood this truth instead of getting offended at the person that sees working for them come on you're working for you i i want you to make it to the end but the law of average says some of you are going to fall apart and get offended unless you get this truth you see how have i made it 68 years of ministry pioneered been rejected persecuted talked about they're my friends they're my employees yeah come on smile yeah i know it's miserable smile how many's got a lot of friends how many still want to be like jesus anyhow i only brought 20 of these books you should get it and read it or enroll in their courses but listen i'm really serious about this because if you saw what's coming and i'll touch on some of this tuesday but what we just went through in 2020 is kids play to what's coming listen the world is going to get worse terrible i mean they're going to be calamities there's going to be all kind of thing and the church is going to get more glorious more victorious more powerful more overcoming greater and mightier stick with the church stick with the kingdom amen where'd you stand take a deep breath and just receive the peace of god how many got clear did you clear everything out you didn't how old are you i want you to make it to the end that's the reason i'm sharing this with you you're my people you're my grandkids sure but it marries my children to the lord and uh i want to see you make it to the end but it said many many will be offended that day and hour and why do i say this is so important because i've been trying to make you the greatest prophesier the greatest preacher the greatest this but paul jesus said many will say to me in that day lord we prophesied in your name we were great prophesier we cast out devils in your name we're a great deliverance minister we we gave to the poor and we had great projects people were talking about how great things we were doing and one translation said jesus would say yes you took my name and my power of attorney and did those works you preach my word and i confirm my word and save people heal people but you never inwardly allowed me to transform you into my nature and character depart from me you can't come into heaven and paul said the same thing he said love is another word for christ like and it says you can understand all mysteries be prophetic you can move you have faith to move mountains be a faith person uh you can be give yourself even to be burned as a stake for the cause of christ you think and say yet if you don't have christ's likeness it profits you nothing now what i'm sharing with you is going to affect your eternity it's going to affect the rest of your life but if you let this become born of god within you you'll never fail i said you'll never fail and you'll never give up and you'll never turn from the cause of christ amen let me pray for you then we've got some other things to do here father we thank you right now lay hands on your heart right now just lay hands on your heart father we thank you your word is true and that you decreed that everything was working together to make us more like your son jesus christ god all we have is friends and employees all we have is everything working together lord and we want to be like you jesus we want to rule and reign with you but you gave your all for us we want to give our all for you lord deliver us from this day forward never to murmur complain or question or or can criticize ourselves or feel like a failure or blame others for our problems but just know that you're at work within us both the will and the dew according to your good pleasure now lord i speak grace supernatural divine enablement to forgive to release everything and from this day forward have a joyful positive attitude the joy of the lord be in our strength and bless everybody bless the lord at all times and and rejoice every morning all things give things this we agree and decree and we receive it now and dedicate ourselves to be and do what you've called us to in jesus name and everybody said amen about somebody amen

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Published: Tue Sep 21 2021