We Are Dust - Vesta Mangun

important sister mannion we turn this pulpit over to you looking forward to hear what god has laid on your heart for this evening [Applause] you're good pastor gentry isn't he good i'd rather do this than all that he's done i want to thank not only all of you for having me but this great sanctuary praise choir singing bunch and kevin howard [Applause] so glad you're still here kevin but let me tell you what god reminded me of today when i was thinking about because judy had texted me and said he would be on the keys tonight i immediately went to just a few weeks ago i saw the man straight i don't even know who preached but he was stretched out full length right there before that altar with his face buried in that carpet whatever that's what brought that man to me i stood in my house today and thanked god i said god the man touched you for what you did for him in refuge they said it was a horrible case that he had i want to thank god for sparing kevin howard well i'm not going to take any more time but but kevin be ready because when i get through i'm going to leave it up to these people and you all but i will capture your attention immediately to psalm 103 chapters 14 through 18 and you're going to love this message tonight it's not going to depress you it is going to give you some facts i thank you for loving the word and standing in honoring of it for he knoweth our frame he remembereth that we are dust as for man his days are as grass as a flower of the field so he flourisheth for the wind passeth over it and it is gone and the place thereof shall know it no more but the mercy of the lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him and his righteousness is unto the children's children to such as keep his covenant his blood covenant the it's ever the cross and to those that remember his commandments to do them that's the word of the lord tonight now you may be seated he knoweth our frame and he remembereth that we are dust and this creature created by the creator my days are like grass like a flower of the field he flourishes but the wind blows over it and it is gone and its place is remembered no more moses in his 90th sum underscores compare the brevity of life with grass saying in the morning you are like grass which groweth up in the morning you flourish but in the evening where i am is cut down and withereth thus the essence of this somewhat lengthy reading is my subject i pray you never forget it here it is i am the image of god breathed into dust for a brief resonance then i am gloriously released to be with jesus christ which is far better we are dust but we are more i am the image of god breathed into dust just for a brief residence my precious time of flourishing is very very short before i'm gloriously released to be with jesus christ which is far better be released is to gain because paul said to die is gain if we believe this book we quote scriptures but when you believe this book and live it out you drive like phil has driven in here tonight 30 or 40 miles and leaving his wife all i'm all i'm mentioning that for is to tell you somebody believes the book because in the last days you want to go to church more than you've ever gone in all of your life [Applause] i could not wait to get here tonight whether i'm weak or whether i'm strong my precious time of flourishing is very very short i'm going to be gloriously released to be with jesus christ it's far better it's a gain my brief time of flourishing my glorious release i want to make it well this flourishing time i don't have much time left my glorious release i want to use where he can say well done and if i haven't done well he can't say well done and i've got a brief time to prove to him that i believe his word i believe in loving him with all of my heart soul mind and strength and loving others just like i love myself because i have found a pearl of great price i'm sold out i bought the whole field i'm laying up my treasures in that world beyond the sky i've already ecclesiastes the wisest the richest the most famous man who has ever lived on planet earth besides the lord jesus christ i've read his assessment of life he says it's not under the sun you won't find what you're looking for anywhere in anybody it's brief whatever you find but he says it'll get you all mixed up if you're not careful so let me be clear here tonight i not only want to stimulate your mind i want to influence your heart i want us to fall more deeply in love with jesus christ our lord and savior our god the one that is going to take us out of here that's going to leave heaven with a shout and with a voice of triumphant and it's going to catch us up to meet him in the clouds i want to hear him say well done i want his favor i want his blessings he holds my breath he holds my breath in his hands he's the eternal one i'm in love with him and he's in love with me but i want to love him more and more and more and i've got a short time to prove that to him so my purpose and sincere desire here tonight is to persuade you to decide what will you do with your brief residence between your flourishing time and your glorious release glorious if you're ready because i i can't even imagine in my mind not being ready when something overtakes me or the lord should come right now i wish he would and he's liable to he's coming sometime when you love to be here shout and praise in the lord and glorifying god don't sit there like you don't have hands if we did that the rest of the night do you know we would really accomplish a lot by just coming here and being together and doing that clap your hands on your people [Applause] if we would love him more and serve him better the results would be the love of christ would constrain us compel us force us we would become better stewards of our time john the beloved who leaned on his breast the only apostle at the cross the one who survived a pot of boiling oil the one who was banished to the aisle called patmos to starve to death or be eaten by animals the one to whom jesus bequeathed his own mother the one who gave us his gospel and three letters and then the revelation of jesus christ a panoramic view of the consummation of all things he said in first john 2 15 love not this world this physical world is beautiful but this world system love not the world neither the things that are in the world do you believe the bible or am i just quoting scripture do you believe the bible then love not the world love not the world if any man loved the world the love of the father is not in him because the fashion of this world what passeth away say it out loud with me everybody say it passes away don't let what others do don't let what others say or what they have or how they live affect your eternity your eternity is everything folks your eternity is everything don't follow me i know if i follow christ and i know all of that but get the word of god in you pray the word of god live out the word of god worship god whether anybody is looking or not whether it's in your bedroom at night and you feel a joy in your soul get out of bed like brother man and i used to and dance all over that room it's unto the lord i can't even describe him enough the fact the apostle peter to whom jesus gave the keys to the church age believe me they called him an ignorant fisherman do you know that paul who sat at the feet of gamaliel one of the most educated gave us half of the new testament do you know that god taught him in the arabian desert for three years read galatians just the first and second chapters will help you he taught him this man even after the lord taught him would when he went up to he he he wouldn't do anything until he went to see peter because peter had the keys and he compared what he learned in the in the arabian desert from the lord he compared it with what peter said then that's why he wrote though peter i he didn't say peter but he said though we the apostles or anybody if we preach any other gospel let them be what and did he say it once or twice said it twice get a hold of this know that this book is right and that you've obeyed this gospel you ought to be jumping up and down like this girl like pastor gentry came here and gave us a lift was that awesome it was it was a lift folks it was a lymph you got a man of god a preacher that walked here and gave you a lift because you're into the word if you know the word you're able to give a lift you're able to pray to god and get your prayers answered love not this world the apostle peter said whom his critics called as like i said preached the greatest sermon this man that they called an ignorant fisherman through the holy ghost that is giving me strength here tonight preached the greatest sermon that endeavor that's ever been preached it just flowed through him if you have the holy ghost it's an there's no he it has no competitor on planet earth i'm so thankful i am full of the holy ghost i want to get drunk on it i want to get drunk on the holy ghost filled with the holy ghost the man preached that read his sermon he preached two or three there in the first two or three chapters of acts but read that first one on the day of pentecost and and then he tells us in first peter 1 and 17 past your time here your sojourn pass your time here in fear not in terror or in dread but in wholesome awe a fear which grows out of love a fear lest we should grieve one so abundant in his mercy toward us his long-suffering his grace toward us he remembers we're dust and he gives you new mercy every morning and he gives you new compassion every morning if you don't make it it's not god's fault he's making everything available to you to make it thank god you're able to get to church here tonight martha thank god i wanted to get here i want to get here and clap my hands so his mercy his long suffering his grace or we'd all be lost we'd all be lost we were all born sinners sinners you know why and i may even tell you again later just get this in your mind when you uh studied uh john 3 3 and 5 verses 3 and 5 where jesus told nicodemus when god almighty told adam in the garden of eden the day you sinned you're going to what did he die he lived 900 some odd years but what died say that spirit of god that was in him excuse me i got to keep this open that spirit died so when you're born a child this baby dedication these these children they got a dead spirit they got to be born again i don't care who you are you got to be born again every man's got to be born again you've got to get his spirit to quicken your spirit in that beautiful isn't that an opportunity told this educated man oh you've got to be born again for as much as you know know what you were not redeemed with corruptible things that silver and gold keep that in mind i'm priceless you can't put a price on me you can't put a price on you i'm going to prove it to you before i get through you're not going to leave me are you are you enjoying me okay i'll go on [Applause] we have no cheap redemption you're lost without redemption if you're not redeemed you're lost we have no cheap redemption silver and gold could not redeem one's soul he bankrupted heaven he quit living with the holy angels crying holy holy holy dead he came he laid aside his splendor came through the back door of this world planet earth time fails me to remind you of the mysteries of all this redemption paul tells us in first timothy let me give you the bottom line and without controversy great is the mystery of godliness god was manifest in the flesh he was manifest in dust dust justified in the spirit scene of angels preached unto the gentiles believed on in the world received up into glory is that not beautiful so hear the words of one of the greatest soul winners of the 20th and 21st centuries don't mess with god's word the redemption message for every dispensation or it will mess up your eternity every dispensation of the past is incomplete without this church age holy ghost apostolic jesus name dispensation called the better covenant here's why please consider it with me almighty god get the picture if you can this is bible enter the stream of human history in the incarnation that we celebrate at christmas as the unfallen man he overcame he destroyed satan both legally and dynamically think of all the miraculous supernatural wonders and surrounding his virgin birth his abbreviated life of 33 and a half years only three years ministry all found in the four gospels his cruel death by the cross crucifixion between two thieves naked street level buried in a bar a tomb is resurrection and ascension seen of over 500 people then the book of acts the pouring out of his resurrection power it's just so simple it's so simple god made it plain the pouring out of his resurrection power after he was resurrected the baptism the feeling of the holy ghost on 120 disciples who began to speak in another language other than what they were accustomed to speaking in this is how the holy ghost made his arrival known allowing them to speak in another language these are they that they said in the book of acts who have turned this world upside down they got that resurrection power they were tongue talkers there were one god jesus name holy ghost clapping hands runny eyes i thought i had a handkerchief here somewhere well here it is right underneath there gent yeah i need that somebody to be calling my attention they turned the world upside down all martyred except john the truth of the gospel is this they received what they received on the day of pentecost the faith once delivered to with that god was in christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing their trespasses unto them and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation it's in our hands pastor gentry said it right we are a world missions church if we withhold from spreading this gospel god will withhold from us i want the heavens opened on this church like it's always been i stood and thanked god yesterday evening when i came for a session i looked at all these grounds i looked at that beautiful tree out there i looked at the way that white house over there is decorated all the beautiful stuff that's in there and all that's around here i said god you spared this place when that terrible tornado came through here you spare this wonderful place i thank you god i stood there yesterday evening and thanked god for that oh no we're not we've got the bl say i want an open heaven i want heaven to open when i die i want the heaven open while i live here i want the heavens opened upon me upon this church do you see the picture am i getting something across to you we're the image of god and there's been committed unto us a message it's a message of reconciliation don't change it it's god's eternal plan of salvation obey it declare it it's his death bill and resurrection it's equal to acts 2 38 first corinthians 15 1-4 acts 19 1-5 read it again and again get settled on this is the truth if i don't have anything else i've got the truth when we realize the awful cost of this truth the cost of redemption redeemed by the precious shed blood of the lamb of god born into this world with our faces toward hell damnation everlasting destruction he redeemed us you and i the image of god breathed into dust for a brief resonance then released to live forever somewhere we have a choice redeemed bought back from the auction block of sin know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of god be not deceived neither fornicators idolaters adulterers nor effeminate nor abusers of themselves with mankind nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall enter the kingdom of god love all of these they love all of these reach all reach for all of these for many of them know not they need to be exposed to the truth they need a bible study they need somebody to love them and tell them you're welcome here no matter what you are or who you are how much you have or what say you're welcome to the pentecostals of alexandria because such were some of you say such for some of us just don't forget the pit that he dug you out of oh but yeah but now you're washed what does that mean i've been baptized in his name all of my sins are washed away covered by the blood now i'm sanctified by what say the holy ghost the holy ghost sanctified me set me apart in this world i'm not set apart because i'm better than anybody else but like i was in the doctor's office friday two nurses were taking care of me wasn't a very good report altogether but they looked at me you know what i'm full of the holy ghost yes i am did you hear me if you're not we want you filled up here tonight [Applause] and they looked at me and they said we don't want you to leave i was a sick woman i we don't want you to leave there's something inside of me that he's breathed i've got it i don't know about you but i've got it i've got it he's god on this platform with me right now i had a little weak spell here a while ago i just did that you know what i'm ready to go again i've got it [Applause] i'm justified by the spirit of god the resurrection power of jesus christ is in me right now right now if i don't have it i want y'all to come up here and lay hands on me and pray me through and just when i'm talking and tell just don't grab me and say you've got it just leave me alone and let me go i won't stay full of the holy ghost that's acts 2 38 that's first corinthians 15 1-4 reading that's galatians 1 8 and 9 and 18 and 19 and acts 19 1 don't mess with that it'll mess with your eternity don't mess with the truth no you're more than a digit or a number you are an image of god walking around with his image with his spirit in you set apart for him breathe into dust oh yeah i got to keep that open breathe into dust flourishing for a while i'm flourishing here tonight am i not flourish with me just go ahead and flourish with me [Applause] i don't care if you're tired you're going to get your feeling better [Applause] you're going to get the feeling better before you leave here tonight say i'm the image of god i've got his spirit in me that has set me apart i've been buried in his name all of my sins are gone of him i'm not ashamed [Applause] he remembers that we're but dust he's with me here tonight that's why his mercies are new every morning that's why his compassions fail not he entered dust in the incarnation himself say god almighty entered into dust born of a woman in the form of human flesh jesus christ don't you love this i see you smiling you teach it so good oh the apostle paul took special note of this powerful fact in his epistle to the hebrews i love hebrews when we realize the awful cost of redemption and he remembered that we are but dust and became a almighty incarnate as an unfallen man to redeem us that means redeemed humanity get this if you don't get anything else so you'll believe in yourself redeemed humanity outranks all other orders of created beings in the universe angels are created but not generated never went chasing after them when lucifer rebelled god didn't even fool with him for a little while he had the permission to go around and get all of those others but when he got about one-third of them out you know what jude tells you you know where they are in everlasting chains of darkness until judgment that's where they are god didn't go chasing after them he came chasing after me and you till his feet split and his hands split and he cried it is finished oh we're both created and generated begotten of god is that awesome bearing his genes his heredity how awesome is that and through the new birth thank god for being born again of water in the spirit tell everybody that let it go out over these waves they that are listening a redeemed human being becomes a bona fide member of god's family the next of kin to the man christ jesus the almighty god incarnate don't look down on yourself though you're dust you're more than dust you're the image of god breathed into you and he took on your dust as an unfallen man to redeem fallen man oh how how how much ought we to glorify him here if he never gave us another blessing to even understand that revelation and to glorify him it makes me if i had the strength to just dance all over this platform to give him glory and to thanking him for such a plan [Applause] the image of god breathed into dust for a brief time so we can become partners with him we're destined to sit on the throne with him that's why you have to go through trials and tribulations many are the afflictions of the righteous but the lord delivereth us out of them all yeah and james said count it all joy when you enter into these two you're you're qualifying yourself you come out victorious of any one of them you'll go back into another one but you're being qualified as he was to sit in the throne with him to judge angels to judge devils to judge the world where somebody folks look up cheer up we're not going to church in vain we're not clapping our hands in vain we're not coming here just to sit on pews we're somebody we've come here tonight if we didn't do nothing but worship [Applause] and guess what in mark 3 32-35 doing this for the tape when the multitudes were listening to jesus teach they said unto him your mother and your brethren are here seeking you he answered them saying who is my mother or my brethren and he looked round about on all of them that sat about him and he said behold see my mother see my brethren all of you you are his kin you are next of kin to him you're a part of his family you're my mother you're my sister you're my you're my brother in the lord and he looked about for whosoever shall do though say the will of god the same as my brother the same is my sister the same is my mother if we only really believe the bible that would change your mind right there i'm his mother i'm his brother i'm his sister i'm his next of kin oh i'm a bonafide member of his family the family of god that is enough to make you rejoice and clap your hands in the same god we said god exalted say god exalted redeemed humanity to such a sublime and glorious height it is impossible for him to elevate them any further then he shares with us listen to this his most simple and astounding equations it's battling jesus sense of values creates amazement to anybody he relegates the great things of earth to a place of insignificance he places the unattractive to a place of such great importance the world in which we live planet earth is just one of the untold millions of this planet earth this world is a treasure house of indescribable beauty in this one planet this beautiful physical world we find immeasurable riches mineral wealth of coal fields the diamond fields and the gold reefs is something beyond computation cannot be computerized centuries ago man began extracting this treasure but much more remains than he has ever claimed the earth this world with its riches the harvest with abundant provisions the vast mountain ranges the splendor of all of our stately forests the rivers lakes and seas to name only a few then the amazing achievements and the mighty works and indescribable in inventions of men beggar our description but this planet earth the world in which you and i live presents an aladdin cave of gigantic proportions the ransom of a million kings would not be able not even a fraction to describe the riches of this world get hold of all of that please think with me jesus said all of this all of this that i've named could not equal just one of you just one soul they who are listening all that are in the world just one if you gave whatever you give here sunday morning if it reaches one soul wherever on an island in africa in asia in europe wherever they are one soul is worth this whole this whole world all that i named i named all of that to tell you the value of god's image breathed into dust and became a living never dying immortal soul that's the most important thing on this earth whatever you pledge sunday is to reach them all of it the far-flung empires of man even this church before this pandemic spent 200 or 250 000 a year on buses picking up unfortunate kids this church has in times past given a million dollars to missions all i'm telling you that for folks the favor of god and the blessings of god it's on this place and the heavens are open because of what you have done and what you continue to give but nothing nothing all of it compares to say what i wish everybody would shout that just one soul the value of god's breath breathed into us red yellow black or white every nation kindred italian people all or his image breathed into dust he said all souls are mine his time here is brief then release to live forever somewhere jesus said not mortal man the god-man the supreme architect of the universe and this planet which is but one of untold millions the god-man jesus christ the only savior of the world said for what shall it profit a man if he fought what shout it out at me and lose his soul don't mess with his truth don't mess with his church don't mess with the souls of people read his parables and his meagre many figures of speech all about man's brief existence and its purposes and we are to give an account of our brief existence before him jesus answered his critics saying for the son of man the express image of god came to seek and save to buy back to redeem to restore that that resurrect dead spirits the image of god breathed into dust 100 years ago lenore found this for me my mother and father royal denver gibson and eula and hudiburg gibson the image of god breathed into dust for a brief residence were born again august the 4th 1921 in mumsy august the 5th 1921 they were glorious gloriously released september 23 1989 january 24 1997. they were released to be with after he had brought in seven churches in east texas after that they had preached and sung and pastored and gone and done that's all over now it's all over they're waiting there for me and here is the most beautiful part and when the redeemed are gathering in their children will be gathered with them in that city where the lamb is the light thank god for this global church 24 7 prayer soul winning praying giving liberally uh sacrificing let me tell you though how wonderful it all is even in the former days before the light had what am i trying to say reformation days general booth founder of salvation army in the days of reformation through fervent prayer and fasting holding all night prayer meetings before our day i'm just about through traveled 5 million miles preached 60 000 sermons his epithet his not his epitaph his epithet that distinguished him and set him apart and here it is go for souls and go for the worst george muller the founder of george muller's orphanage when asked how much he prayed he said i i spend hours a day in prayer but i live in the spirit i pray as i walk i pray when i lie down i pray when i rise up and he said the answers are always coming i am the image of god breathed into dust just for a brief residence than to be gloriously released to be with jesus christ in heaven new jerusalem an indescribable city described as best as mortal eyes could describe in revelation 22 and isaiah and paul repeat it but as it is written eye hath not seen ear hath not heard neither hath it entered into the heart of man the things which god hath prepared for them that love him so i beg you tonight love him with all of your heart love him with all of your soul love him with all of your mind love him with all of your strength how will you spend your brief residence on planet earth how will you spend it let's give ourselves to what that that lasts the church lasts people last the souls of our family oh oh let me read to you one of the old hymns and and then and then the choir is going to sing it for us take my life and let it be consecrated lord to thee take my hands and let them move at the impulse of thy love take my silver and my gold not a might from thee will i withhold take my moments take my days let them flow in endless praise and i as i journey through this land singing as i go pointing souls to calvary oh take my will lord take my heart take my mind take my soul make all of it thine i give you my heart i give you my life take it all i will give it all i give it all to you in jesus name i will give you all

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Published: Wed Sep 09 2020