'Take It or Leave It' April 12, 1996 Part 2 Baptisms & Testimonies

to begin this part of the service how can I say thanks for all the things you have done for me they deserved it you gave to prove your love to me the voices of a million angels could not express my gratitude all I am forever to you [Music] neither [Music] [Music] you may be seated just for a moment for the bill hiding and brother Gary ninky both of brownsville here are gonna be baptizing these folks and they're gonna give a brief word of testimony and just share what the Lord has done for them and we're just going to rejoice in what God has done god bless you Gallery in Paterson and guy has worked miracle in my life I have a new life and a new being I see everything different everyone pissing everybody off their dues [Applause] I just can't do it anymore and this is good I'm good the beginning of even more [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] my name's Stephanie Mather and I'm just thankful for what the Lord has done in my life and in the survival hi my name is Amanda I just came here to be baptized and I've been coming for three weeks now and all I have to say is praise God [Applause] [Applause] my name is Carolyn Hoffman but I'm from Indiana I had an experience I had an experience with the Lord about four and a half years ago and he's really been tugging at me and I've been tugging away from him since and I've been struggling for my marriage since that point but something's just kept telling me that the Lord was more important and in January a little voice told me Easter something was going to happen to me Easter in February I made plans to come down here and visit my brother and if I'd only know that this is what was gonna happen at me at Easter time last Saturday I was with some friends and they were praying for me and each time they mentioned something in my past that had really hurt me there was this little boy said I was the one there that pulled you through and then Saturday night I came forward here thank you [Applause] [Applause] Thank You Lourdes my name is um Ben the bag slit Christian I came to Pensacola and Easter with my family and party with my cousin and my grandma granny had a stroke on Easter Sunday and God used her being in a coma for nearly a week now to bring the family together and I'm doing this for you [Applause] my name is Wanda Rosalyn and my mind tonight goes back to a time in 1994 when I was living for the Lord and I thought everything was just great and my husband became sieved and he left me to my children and her family fell apart and my life was destroyed and it was like as a mother and as a woman I felt like I had nothing anymore I was nothing anymore and just like you can imagine a tree that's ready to die mentally I'm getting so cracked and so old and so brown and there's almost no life left in it and the winter is coming and it just wants to die and give up because it knows that the bitter chill the bitter cold will never survive but then one day somebody called me up I'd been coming to Brownsville off and on for a few months and told me about the revival and I came to the revival and God did a work in me again at these two altars and what he did is he picked me up and he handed me beside the river we're subject cave they begin to soak in that River and the life begin to come back into that tree and as the Sun and all his glory begin to shine down on those branches and as the Holy Spirit and was anointing begin to fall the leaves begin to sprout and begin to spring forth and once again there was life in that tree in right now Lord as I do this in obedience to you I pray for a greater a greater commitment more to deeper relationship with you father Lord I want to know you and all your mercy and your grace father I don't want to be a pun tree I want to be a fruit tree [Applause] know that you are the giver of divine light borden it through you and only you there's hope for the future so sinner if you're out there one that's hearty man that's got something in your life that's causing you to stray right now Jesus is the only answer he's the only hope he's the only hope for tomorrow [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] my name is Brenda Baker [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] my name is Leanne heal [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I'm just happy okay if you're not saved you need to get saved because there ain't nothing like this in the world [Applause] I'm John favors and I just want to tell you what the Lord's done for me when I started coming to this revival my husband turned against and he divorced me I lost a hundred thousand dollar home but the Lord has just blessed me in so many ways he has been my provider he has been my friend he has been my lord it he has made me so happy and even though I lost a hundred thousand dollar home I know who I know in my heart that he has a better place a mansion for me I live with my son and his four wonderful children who just blessed me every day and my son is the one that led me to the Lord thank you God for your son and mine and my son is being baptized tonight the one that led me to the Lord and his wife and his six year old son they're following me tonight Jenna I thank you Lord for everything that you're doing for me you're so good you are so sweet you are so precious thanks for Jesus [Applause] my name is Susan Marcus I just praise God for allowing me to be here each and every day but I'm longing for the day when he can take me up in heaven and I can leave this world and all the temptations of it [Applause] [Applause] [Music] my name is Mathew Mitchell [Applause] [Applause] praise the Lord my name is Frank Marcus this is my son and my mother and my wife that was baptized before me who you all used to be Baptists I when I was saved about three years ago in the Baptist Church then with less than a year I had surrendered to preach it was preaching in in the about this church and half recent Assembly of God Church also but what I was baptized into is not what I came here and found this here this here is what I know first Corinthians chapter 2 talks about with Apostle Paul said I didn't come to you preaching a persuasive words of men but in power and demonstrations of the Holy Ghost that you might not believe in the wisdom of man's preaching but in the power of god I just pray everyday for the Lord to deliver me from all the things of this world and to cleanse my soul from all unrighteousness because all the honor and praise belongs to Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior and he he convicted me to be rebaptised because now I do believe in the power of the Holy Spirit and the baptism in the name of Jesus Christ I thank you Lord Oh God Almighty I praise your Holy Name and I thank you Lord for all that you've done for my family [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and I used to be hung up in this world I was a youth leader and a sunday-school teacher and I didn't know the Lord that was a hypocrite I was religious I had that critical spirit but I've been washed in the blood and I will never return to this world I have to live here but I'm not of it hey man I only live to serve the Lord [Music] [Applause] [Applause] I'm Kevin boon or God I just want to walk humbly before you I want to seek you with all my heart I want to love you more every day I thank you Jesus [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] I praise God I have thanked him for my life [Music] [Music] things being a burden [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] my name is David karbala and about last Wednesday Loret started having a big impact on my life right now I'm just trying to live my life for the Lord as best I can and I'm just my friends are really intimidated by it and I'm just losing on one by one but I know that I only have one true friend and Satan's just trying to have his way with me he's attacking me every way you can let me tell you something saying Jesus has got a punch that will knock your socks off [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] my name's Dave belly [Music] [Applause] my name is Jorge tulleken from the Grand Rapids Michigan area and I came down in the Florida in January as a Snowbird in and I ran into a brother and over in Orlando and he said the last thing that you got to do before you leave Florida is go to this church over in in Brownsville and so as we are coming back to Michigan and April the Lord prompted us and I looked on the map to find Brownsville and I couldn't even find it he didn't he didn't even tell us what church to go to and so we got to Pensacola and we stopped at the Baptist Church down here and we said where's the revival and they they said they said we have revivals but I think the revival you're looking for is just down the street and I've been to two Baptists theology school so uh I was taught that all this stuff had been done away list so I know what their what they were feeling and so this was last Thursday and we kid we were at the doors at 5 o'clock and we came in and and all of a sudden I started seeing everybody going like this and going like this and and then over there there was a girl she was shaking her head like this and and I turned to my friend I says oh no I think we're in the land of charismatic butterflies and but my heart was cold and and and I was critical and I try to keep an open mind in Friday night my friend got baptized and someone turned around and said to me you need the forgiveness of Jesus and Steve said don't you lie and and I lied to her and I said no and and I went out of here in I kept coming back Saturday and by Sunday the love of God started pouring on me and and and he just he just started breaking me and and we came to his the night to the prayer of intercession and I want to tell you something there was only a few hundred people but on Tuesday night the place should be packed because the greatest ministry in the body of Christ is the prayer of intercession and I pray if you don't come on Tuesday night to make that top priority in your life and last night Steve was preaching and he was talking about drawing near to God and I thought that God's promises were unconditional and he said they were not and I realized that I was playing games with God and when that young lady was singing last night I just realized that I could go back to that state of innocence and purity of heart by the blood of the Lamb in when Steve said last night if you don't come up here he says you're ashamed of God I want to say tonight that I'm not ashamed of my Lord Jesus Christ and the reason that I'm getting baptized tonight is that when I go into this water that all of the cell flights and the old man is going to stay in this tank and that when I come up I'm going to come up in the newness of the life and God and I'm not a person to show much emotions only when I'm at a University of Michigan football game tonight I want to say [Applause] I just want to thank the Lord tonight I came all the way down from Louisiana to get baptized over here and uh I want to when I go back home I want to be on fire for the Lord I want to live his ways I want the Lord to show me and to guide me and to live his ways [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Rowland typically I've been having trouble sleeping at night and hear Leila since I came to this place I could sleep like I want you know I couldn't get an a on my back I showed you to hurt me I couldn't lay only the show in it hurt and I thank the Lord took that away from me and I don't know I don't hurt anymore when I sleep at night now thank you Jesus thank you lord [Applause] hi my name is Tim I was like brother Steve said I was a part-time Christian I was one way this way in one way that way miss Jennings who is my next-door neighbor has been praying for me that I would come to church and a couple of weeks ago I tried to commit suicide drunk the 12-pack of beer took 25 sleeping pills and went to bed 1 o'clock in the morning Oh God did not want me to die he was not ready for me I swore that he would deliver me from Matt that I would not pick up another can of beer as long as I later I came to this church last week and brother Steve hit the nail right on the head I was going to a Baptist Church and I had a polo shirt Calvin Klein Jeans but ladies shoes sat there gave my 10% was there as a head count every day clean the church up once a month I did my thing I thought I went home and dry as dry can be stopped at the circle-k got a wine cooler went home you went back the next Sunday did the same thing when he hit that nail on that head last week I came to this altar crying I was about the third person that he came from that balcony if there was if I could have flew over and I would have but I will tell you one thing I've been to a lot of churches and I have never felt the fellowship that I felt in this church right now and I thank God for miss Jenna he's in the last 10 years praying for me she has not gave up and I just want to thank all of y'all and thank God that he gave me another chance didn't worship Him [Applause] before we go on can we make a statement that the comments made by our candidates is not necessarily the feeling of the church here the Baptist's have taken quite a beating tonight and we just want to say that on this front row down here we have a Baptist pastor the last few months has had 5,000 people saved at his show praise God I said this gentleman right here has had 5,000 people saved at his church 5,000 people come here where's chaplain come on up your chaplain you're holding the revival aren't you let me say one other thing while they come to the platform this girl that got baptized tonight and made that remark you know let me tell all of you something a lot of these people come in this revival has never been in church they don't know a thing about how to talk in church or how to act in church that was pure from her heart and you know how you know why some religious people may have been offended but God wasn't offended and then so let's take the Lord everybody [Applause] woman take that devil take that devil listen folks I remember just a few years ago nobody was getting saved in churches and people would come to church and leave and go home drier and better than when they first came but there's a wind blowing across America there's a fire that's burning now in pastors and pastors wives and churches and in boards of churches across America all different denominations now and there's revivals burning and in this Baptist Church up in Atlanta brother chaplain chaplain Roberts and Carrie Robertson here out of our church is holding the revival up there and this is a pastor up there and in Atlanta where this revival is taking place tell them what's going on just give them a quick synopsis God's powerful it's yeah I don't know what's going on I mean I just stand back watch just all I do we're just telling people about the love of Christ and telling them that you don't call it backsliding you call it sin and you call it getting saved you don't call it coming back and and the Holy Ghost is taking it and using it and it's all to his glory we begin our eighth week next Sunday and we've had a eighty five-year-old holiness preacher been preaching 60 years I think in the Holiness Church came and got healed of prostrate cancer every trace relative praise God hallelujah thank you it's all him John it's all him pastor highs atlanta taking that has the baptist people if they're taking that listen whatever we say baptist people man that some baptist people are some of God's choices folks amen you hear me folks Baptist people will put Pentecostal people to shame any day of the week and soul-winning and the Bible says either win souls is wise and I want to tell you something God loves Baptists people but they're not used to a lot of the Pentecostal manifestations how does that how does that going off up there well it just through Eddie out and he had a church over in the field next to him and they they dismissed him and and they they wrote it all up here Eddie they did what they wrote an article in the Baptist paper about us and and and they all they said was that we'd had all these people saved and didn't say anything else about to revival they just wanted to notify all the Baptist pastors and I called all of them and invited them to come to the revival and so far we've had none show up but you know what I believe don't come I believe they're coming you know what God is moving in such a powerful way there's such a hunger being created by the holy spirit they're gonna go where the glory is you know what man listen don't don't take that don't take that personal because what God's doing in your life he may have just chosen you to make an example to show what he's about to do in the Baptist movement I believe that how do you feel after article came out in Atlanta journal-constitution regarding our church that direct from missions called us on Monday the article came out on Saturday and said we can't approve of some of the things that's taking place in your church and I said well the only thing that's taking place it's Souls being saved people being healed and delivered what part do you not approve of and I said it's just God here and so I had no problem with the drawing it's kind of hard to now I love my bad time I'm the third was a third generation Baptist so I don't have any I love my Baptist brethren but if I have to make a choice I'm gonna go with God [Music] let me tell you something you know the best thing you can do and I know you're doing it anyway I'm not one did instruct you the best thing you do is love them and bless them bless bless your Baptist brethren bless them in spite of what they've done to you and give it enough time and God will bring it around God will bring it around tap them 5,000 folks say what are you preaching up there Jesus loves us and God's got a plan for our life what kind of people you see in saved up there people right off the street lights happen here yes where we're seeing you know the whole game it from top to bottom we had one lady that didn't even know the revivals going on didn't even know the church was there she saw a beam of light coming down from the sky and she was driving down the street and and this was confirmed by another lady from the church she saw the same thing and this lady that didn't know about the Church of the revival she she just followed the beam because she wants to see what was going on and it was right on the church and she came in and and was blessed in the revival and so you know God's just he's just calling all kinds of folks there then when the net stalls to you you catch all kind of fish does people talk up there like they talk down here yes sir pretty much when they get baptized they they make statements like to make down well I think pastor probably gives them a little instruction I've been hurting your little statements yes it's okay what one thing we need to realize you know those of us have been around church for a while we we really think the people I'll just act right in church but you think about it when you catch fish you clean them after you catch them I never thought I'd live to see the day I got embarrassed the banker is he here tonight where he's not here is he here there's his wife he got up here and use a word a gol and this girl up here tonight use you know what she was and I never thought I'd live to see the day in my church where people be getting up glorifying God and cousins same folks God's a big God and you know something Bible says about Peter he was even serving the Lord and he did that one time but the Lord forgave him and reinstituted him didn't he so if God could do that for Peter he could do it for all of us you know it just further lends itself to the knowledge that God does not look at the outside he looks at the heart thank you Lord for looking in the heart amen [Applause]

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