"We Are Just a Clay Jar" - Sister Vesta Mangun

POA Alexandria Louisiana you better look out somebody is on your dusty trail I mean it I am overwhelmed by this crowd tonight I'm so glad you came back this is awesome pastor absolutely beautiful this is I am overwhelmed this choir they're singing this great family from Florida oh my mouth how how blessed we've been here tonight already but I'm not gonna waste your time I've got you a message and it is the message from another world and before you are seated if you don't mind I will bypass all of the protocol you know how great your pastors are your pastor and you know that so there's no need for me to stand here and rub it in I'll tell him I'm telling you hey hey but I do want to say this before we before I go on I would release him because let me tell you I wish he could have flashed it on the screen of where he was in Illinois in leadership you ought to see one of the churches that was already benefiting from that it looked like this church this morning where they were up there at the front it's amazing what this man does when he leaves this place and goes under and drops the bomb that he drops I want to tell you folks release this family this is a celebrated family among the United Pentecostal church release them and then get in here and fight and war the devil while they're gone and when they come back say it's better than it was before you left oh I wish I had a good mind I just I really preach tonight but if if I could just prevail on you take advantage of this because this is something unusual on a Sunday night in any city for you to have this kind of a crowd this is an amazing crowd and this goes backstage the leadership say leadership I want you to give your leadership a big round of applause this is awesome John says and of his fullness John 1:16 of his fullness I wish I could get a theologian to explain this to me and of his fullness have all we received and grace for grace the great Apostle Paul says it like this for in him do in Colossians 2:9 and 10 for in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily and ye are complete in him which is the head of all principality and power you don't have to be inferior to anybody not on this planet if that's true of his fullness and it is true and anyone who has the baptism I'm gonna let you be seated in a minute but you're not gonna stay see if you've got the Holy Ghost in you folks you are rich abundantly rich anyone who has the baptism of the Holy Ghost can become mr. or mrs. B you need neither to be mediocre or failure anyone can win the greatest of all laurels well done because the failure of Eden is swallowed up by the victory of calorie count and here's the secret but as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on his name I can receive his fullness and in him is all the fullness of the Godhead bodily and I'm complete in him which is the head of all principality and power I did enter this world with the manners and the purposes which should make me as I leave or should mark me as I leave something eater happened to me when I was 6 years of age and it's got to happen to you between the cradle and the coughing which we were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God that's got to happen this treasure gives meaning or fullness of life it makes me fit for the company of the ages to come it makes life exciting its life more abundantly and John says and of his fullness I want somebody to explain that to me of his fullness have all received and that's the best thing that will ever happen to you is to receive up his fullness you may flap your hands you may praise the Lord you may sit down you may be seated in thank you and Paul says in second Corinthians four please bear with me this is awesome 16 through 18 for which calls that I just read to you about we faint not but though our outward man may perish yet my inward man is renewed day by day for our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seeing for the things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal and then five and one for we know that if our earthly house of this Tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God that they sang about this morning a house not made with hands eternal in the heavens for this we groan earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is for heaven from heaven now he that hath brought us for the self same thing is God who also hath given us the earnest just the earnest of this spirit now here is your subject we are just a crazed are I'm just a clay jar with a treasure in it and Paul knew the inside of every prison from Jerusalem to Rome he gives us in chapter 11 verses 23 through 30 I will not read but I will tell you this he was beaten with rods 5 times 105 I'm sorry he was beaten 5 times with rods 195 stripes and just before they got through cutting he handling him in that manner he gives us his eternal perspective saying while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen our only temporal temporary but the things which are not seen are eternal so whether Paul was rotting away in prison or his enemies were gloating whether in Labour's abundant whether in stripes above measure whether in prisons frequently whether in debts often where the beaten are stoned or shipwrecked whether in the deep adrift at sea whether he was hungry or thirsty or he was voluntarily fasting whether he was naked without adequate clothing for the weather besides all of these things that I have not mentioned all of this he says it is just a light affliction it's just something for a moment compared with the future eternal weight of glory for Paul the outer man didn't seem to be going very well but he wrote that he was just a just a clay jar he was just a clay jar with a great treasure in it and here's what I want you to get tonight we have this treasure that's causing these young people to run up and down this front which is causing us to sing with jubilation and happiness and freedom it is this treasure in an earthen vessel that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us I have a great friend in me tonight it is Christ in me the hope is the pearl of great price that you ought to sell out to buy this one pearl oh my mind there's so great salvation of which salvation the prophets inquired search diligently and even the Angels wanted to look into it they even prophesied about it in the Old Testament they could not receive it it was not poured out until the day of Pentecost they who were used of God as was John the Baptist and so this treasure their same Holy Ghost that was poured out on the hundred and twenty in the Apostles and Mary the mother of Jesus they turned their world upside down they suffered martyrdom this treasure makes at least the most great and wonderful life oh I cannot even tell you how happy my life is even the happiness that I enjoy because I have this treasure and he that is least in this church he that is least in the great kingdom of God is greater than John the Baptist and Jesus said there was not a prophet before John that was greater than John and yet he that's least in the kingdom of God that has the baptism of the Holy Ghost it's greater than John the Baptist little wonder that the sorcerer tried to buy it Simon the sorcerer this treasure is just the earnest it's just the foretaste it's just a sample it's just the downpayment it's just the pledge it's just the deposit on a glorified body that they sang about this morning I will receive a glorified body like unto his own glorious body because of the Holy Ghost that dwells in me we will never grow old we will never die we will never be sick we will never cry we will never solve anymore and to think men go raving crazy with excitement and risk their lives in all of their possessions in the quest of earthly treasures they gamble their fortunes away they would take off for a treasure hunt or for the old hunt that give everything they had I want to tell you what what is in this room tonight that you feel you can have it even the children the young children everybody in this room can have the baptism of the Holy Ghost it's the greatest gift that's ever been rich to man your body is just a clay pot it's just a slave vessel to hold this treasure it's just the earnest it's just the downpayment yet inwardly we are being renewed with it every day but outwardly I am fading away I don't know how much longer I have but I will tell you this I will enjoy the Holy Ghost every minute of my life no matter what I'm suffering go ahead because it's yours I it doesn't matter this wonderful Holy Ghost I am so thankful that I've got a inner inner something that's bigger than what you see up here tonight this is just a clay pot don't get too carried away with the clay pot a clay pot is gonna break famish and pass away but this you have inside of you oh yes the outer man that it's it's the out of you that people dwell on your skin your hair your face your body your reputation your persona but there's an interview an inner most being a holy of holies your character your integrity your honesty your born-again spirit that died in the Garden of Eden that you must be born again so that you will not die forever you're redeemed soul your mind your will your emotions the outer you is what everybody sees it gets dressed up it gets applauded it gets whistled at sometimes and sometimes ignored or both the interview is invisible the outer you can be coerced by other people are forces but the inner you is always free to choose that's dangerous but God does not want a passive person he wants someone that even though whatever comes against them he will turn to naught or she and they will serve God and worship God you could have made us robots but he gave you a will the outer man can be measured and weighed and chemically analyzed but the inner you has a unity and a mystery that is staggering the Holy of Holies of you that part of you that nobody knows but God there's a God hole in every man's heart that's what I'm reaching for wherever I go as the man served us last evening he said no I won't go Church tomorrow I'll have to sleep in I said I'll be praying for you because that man will never forget that voice he'll never forget that statement because there's a god hole in his heart Paul said it like this outwardly we are wasting away sooner or later old man wrinkle you can't keep it from coming out look in the mirror today and I said moving get out of my way it won't fix that you won't change that look at it from this side they're taking it right up there don't you look at it look at me right here look at your friends then sneak a look at yourself from about the age 25 certain changes to the outer you starts happening bones begin to lose calcium yet brittle skin begins to lose elasticity age spots began to multiply I can't cover them you look down at your hands one day little old Gibson my great grandson looked at me after he looked at my head said Lane are you old I said what does it look like you realize you're looking at your parents hands I was the caretaker for my mother and my father I want to talk about him in a minute just a little bit if you're over 30 years old you lose thousands of brain cells every day that's what's happening to me weights start shifting from the poles of your body toward the equator Hara will stop going where you wanted to and start growing places it's never gone before I've got a multiplying I had it before I came here I've bought a little pair of scissors it grows under my nose it's amazing I hate it I don't like it it like those women that go to the salons and ripped out off that hurts that's why I have my big face mirror it shows you everything I saw one of our ministers wives not long ago with a big old black hair hanging from right here her daughter was with her I thought why don't you get that off of your father can't believe it you think that will never happen to me I will never grow old like that oh yes you will enjoy it man enjoy it woman you can find old man wrinkle all you want you can lavish time and money on other that out are you say exercise it starve it boat exit Rogaine it stretch it lift it nip it tuck it can it dress it up on Fifth Avenue one day it will just be expensive worm food you better hear me because that's the way it is old man Rico will wait you out you say you're depressing me system and no I'm just stating some facts we can be tempted to place all of our focus on this outer person and it's just a great job but oh I've got a treasure one day it'll pass away but you are being who you will never cease to exist to me right now so what do you want to do with this wonderful evening and what's transpired already in this service what are you going to do with it someday you will pass this won't be forever you won't have this setting much longer your spirit your god-breathed spirit listen to me acts 2 is more abundant life I want that more abundantly better than it was in the Garden of Eden better than it's ever been there's no people on planet earth that's ever lived that's had the opportunity since the day of Pentecost to have this treasure in a clay pot just in a clay pot that's gonna wrinkle and fade away oh my god let me make an appeal to you tonight that's something in you the main thing that God sees when he looks at you lay not up for yourselves treasures on this earth but lay it all up for younger because the wisest richest man that ever lived that it ain't under the Sun it's not under the Sun you will never get it fixed down here I was with brother Weiner the secretary of Louisiana for many years when he died I was with him he looked up at me and he said sister Mangan it will never get fixed down here I've seen where I'm going thank God that's where it'll all get fixed for the weeks I followed him from the campground because we were very close to them I followed him from the campground when he went out in a blaze of glory he had a stroke I tried to listen in what he was trying to say probably trying to tell me something about wonder his only daughter and how to this and that the other he never got its end because it never gets to fix down here I'll tell you what you better get a hold on you better get a hold of something that you turtle you better get everything you've got to God you better for yourself to your family and in this church oh and never get tired of it never get tired of hearing about it go ahead go ahead and just stand up and shake your fist at everybody that's right get something ahold get ahold of something again here tonight say stir this up in you stir this gift of God don't come behind anybody in this church this church is headed for higher ground I'm telling us if everybody in here tonight would even get a refilling maybe you did this morning get another one tonight we can go places like we've never been if we will get a refilling with the Holy Ghost a the Holy Ghost that's that treasure in that old earthen vessel and when God sent his prophet Samuel to anoint someone who would become the king of Israel the prophet saw very impressive looking out of person and thought that must be the one but God said do not consider his appearance or his height for I have rejected him the Lord does not look at the things man looks at man looks at the outward appearance but the Lord looks on the heart and Paul the great line heart for God knew this one of the criticisms he lived with was this people saying he's not very impressive even his speech sometimes is contemptible for his letters they say are weighty and powerful but his bodily presence is weak and his speech is contemptible oh this outward person wasn't just aging his body had been whipped stoned starved beaten locked up in a cell anyway it's just long to me it's a rental wreck material it's what's inside that I've got that matters the Holy Ghost works mightily in me every time I set my foot in a city the devil's come out and start screaming Paul I know and Jesus I know but who are you folks let me tell you something we are absolutely the richest people on God's planet earth and raise your hands and thank God that you've heard this message and that you received this wonderful baptism of the holy ghost oh oh yes something's going on inside of me right now I feel it and you're going to feel it it's like the opposite of what's happening on the outside it's working modeling it is renewing me outside I'm dying a little bit everyday inside I'm increasing I'm coming to life more abundantly inside I'm growing that's not um I'm changing from glory to glory I'm getting stronger the joy of the Lord keeps bubbling up in my soul I keep getting more hopeful even though I know my body is going to die soon this is Paul I keep loving people more even people who put me here he said Paul said I can't explain it it's the strangest thing I'm dying on the outside but on the inside I'm coming to life more abundantly oh when I saw Charlie do wick walk through that prayer room door and sit down by me and say I have cancer and what I talk to him I'm not going to take the time to tell you then when I saw dr. Jonathan hunter walk into my bedroom look I'm walking into my hospital room after I had this operation look down at me weeping and said I wouldn't be here if it were not for you because his mother was great with child and it was he and walked through our church three years before he told me this and she looked at me and said I came here 43 years ago I was heavy with child the doctor told me that I wasn't going to carry this child it was already it was already dead inside my body I said no he's wrong that baby's gonna live and that baby is gonna be something great she said let me tell you who that who that child is that's dr. Jonathan hunter with his name on every billboard in Louisiana he's the one who walked into my room when I had this operation look down at me and said here with tears in his eyes saying I'm here because of you all I'm telling you folks is this the Holy Ghost is working inside of you just exactly like that everywhere you go everybody give me your attention I can't hardly get this out to you tonight because it is stirring up in my soul anybody in here that has the Holy Ghost you've got the greatest power on planet Earth you've got the greatest power on planet Earth and when you call on the name of Jesus empowered by the Holy Ghost I don't care what it is I'm believing God for everything that is supposed to happen in your life I'm gonna believe God for that tonight you ought to be somebody that it would that that that more alive than you've ever been in all of your life it's the strangest thing even though he wrote Colossians and Ephesians and Philippians and Philemon while he was in while he was in jail he said this blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain bowels of mercies kindness humbleness of mind meekness long-suffering forbearing one another not judgmental not gossiping no no don't even don't even repeat stuff don't hang around people that talk like that run from them like the wind get this Holy Ghost Turing up in you pray for your children pray for your home pray for your family pray for one another don't get tired of going to church don't get tired of paying your time don't get tired of playing I'll tell you one thing we will live and we will serve God and we will give him everything we got because he's the one that is giving me my breath here tonight you will not let go of anything that God cannot handle if you will give it to him tonight if you were just to loose of it and let God have it we will do this together if you'll follow me tonight you're going to save your family if you will follow me tonight you're going to play in the Holy Ghost but the Holy Ghost is going to do something in this room that it's going to amaze every one of us before this service is over here tonight go ahead and clap your hands and believe it yes experts tell us that if we will exercise regularly we will add two years to our lives but the bad news is that you will spend those two years exercising Winston Churchill lived into his nineties and said the only exercise he ever got was serving as a pallbearer for his friends who died while they were exercising be thankful for the outter you that's what I'm coming around to tell you but God and God honors your body but your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost it's just a conduit through which he can flow to do anything if you will allow him he can flow out of you tonight and he can do anything we're not some Shack by the side of the road rejoice in the strength of your body accept its limitations be grateful for it but be happy when it gets something be and honored and you're promoted or bragged on you're just an earthen vessel though a clay jar you're wasting away don't forget it but there's a treasure in you I've got a treasure in me 80 year olds 90 year olds hundred year olds I've got a treasure let this whole ego spring up in you tonight like it never has before the inner you is capable of glory that right now you cannot even imagine just now we are the sons of God and it does not yet appear what we shall be like but when we shall see him we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is so make your biggest investment in the you that will last forever we have scales and mirrors cameras and tape measures to track the development of our out ourselves but how can you track the well Boone of the part of us that will last for eternity let me give you a few mirrors and scales we will probably need and that's this friends who love you enough to speak the truth to you they ought to be the greatest friends in your life the pastor that preaches over this pulpit that tells you the Word of God and like it is for you to get ready for the soon coming of the Lord that's the best friend you've got on planet Earth time to be alone with God and listen to him time to be in your prayer brother Mangan brother Anthony after the because of the times I'm thinking that your pastor was there in his home that night but there was message of tongues interpretation just before because of the times and here's what it was in this because of the times I'm going to be pouring out ancient metals all I'm telling you that for and it's happened it's happened in the pure way it's happening other places but he brought his family pastor did and showed it on the screen and then he showed the family after that mom had passed away at 52 years of age with cancer he called the five girls in their pop manga did after her funeral and then girl was the only boy he called them in their pastor Anthony shows this picture and in her bedroom there was a closet and in that closet was a little stool and there was a little fan and there was a little heater electric heater and he said pop Megan looked at those five girls and looked at a pastor Anthony a pastor but the man gun and said to those five girls in theirs was her war room say a war room her war room that was her war room said that's where she brought your husband's home from the Second World War looked at Gerald and said and that's why you're preaching and having revivals where you are going today is because you had a mother that had a war room I'm telling every mother in this room you ought to if you can't make it to this church you ought to have your prayer room a war room where you get in there and you close the door shut the door shut the door and don't come out till you know you've just gone for your family for your children and for everything and for this church and this is faster and his family God is getting ready to come back to this earth you better get your family ready you better get them inside the ark because something is about to be poured out on this world and like everything is changing in America it's changing in Canada everything is getting ready for the Antichrist you better get full of the Holy Ghost say full of the Holy Ghost and everything in here Allah say I want a refilling tonight and look and if there be any good things start thinking on them what is your mind drone toward what do you meditate on they enter you that being that will that being that will never pass away all I want to tell you is that the Holy Ghost and its way here tonight it had its way brother man goon was introduced at camp Galilee st. Paul Minnesota many years ago but the Norris had given him a very beautiful beautiful introduction he'd ignored that introduction when he walked up there and I heard your pastor talking in tongues right here tonight brother Mangan walked up there that big audience in that at that camp Galilee camp meeting he walked up there and began speaking in other tongues they hadn't had anybody to get the Holy Ghost for a long long time there was one of the ants from either Scandinavian country or wherever and she was back there when he got through talking in tongues she stood up and started talking in tongues she had never had the Holy Ghost she got old then there were 30 people there that got the holiness 30 to 50 people that got the Holy Ghost there that night the Holy Ghost is here tonight to do a work the Holy Ghost is here tonight to do a work the Holy Ghost is here tonight to do a work oh brother Mangum would even start some of our services singing in tongues how many of you have talked you talked to in tongues here this morning you want to talk in tongues again here tonight he would start the server system singing in tongues and then the glory of the Lord would fall and people would be healed we've got the Holy Ghost in nine spiritual hips operating off of that treasure that's on the inside of us come on folks and realise what you've got this is not just a regular Church this is not just a church no this is not just some other religion or some other oh this is the Church of the Living God that charge filled with the Holy Ghost filled with the Holy Ghost this is not a denominational Church we didn't we didn't nominate this this is the Church of the Living God baptized with the Holy Ghost come on folks oh oh I want everybody in here that doesn't have the Holy Ghost that's what I wanted in here tonight those that have it I want you to get refilled those that don't have it I want you to get the Holy Ghost I want you to look at a 90 year old that's why I'm leaving it's the Holy Ghost that's keeping me alive keeping my energy you say there's got to be something more than that I've got the Holy Ghost well I don't know but I'm gonna get the Holy Ghost all the glory because God has filled me and filled me and I got me a refilling this afternoon in that hotel room I'm going to get me another refilling here tonight it's the best thing in all of the world I want to talk in tongues again hallelujah go ahead go ahead about there's always every one you young man stand up and clap your hands with him they all want to be full of the Holy Ghost holy goes here's interbeing you may be seated was strengthened his saying faith hope love wisdom patience so your inner being will live on and let me share it again returning to now is the time to start taking better care of the interview we've talked about the outer you let's talk about the interview let me tell you how he prayed any fasted gratitude and Thanksgiving with joy unspeakable and full of glory it has to happen to you whenever brother Mangan drove into Alexandria and put his feet oh oh wait to the center of that tale had God had told him in Sunbury Pennsylvania on a seven-day fast I'm gonna we were headed to Alexander for revival he said you're gonna be the next pastor of that church they had an interim pastor it was the missionary getting ready to go on the field and they were without a pastor and God told him said you'll be the next pastor of that church he never told me a thing so were there living in the basement of the church and he looks at me and says how would you feel if I told you will be the next pastors of this church I said no thank you please I'll just keep a living out of their suitcase all I'm telling you that far is this when they elected him as pastor he went to the center of that city and said North God sent me to this city so you give up every honest heart in that direction and he looked at the south and said South you give up every honest heart in that area he prayed until we knocked the hole in that sky and when we knocked a hole in that sky the Holy Ghost began to be poured out in that place and when the Holy Ghost was poured out in that place people began to fill that house and the altars were full and I'm playing the accordion because that's all the music that they had and I look down there and saw that crew and I said oh god what a motley crew is this all you've got for us in Alexandria he said I'll see how you treat thief and then I'll give you the best I'll give you the rest and all I'm telling you folks the Holy Ghost prayer and fasting and reaching for people and loving people and reaching out to him built that church that he's talking about in Alexandria 66 years ago and went to every pastor in that city and told him said I'm here I'm here to serve this city I'm here to reach everybody I can and help everybody walk into Florida long one of the most sinful men of the city that was the top realtor in the city at that time walked into that city walked into Florida Long's office and he was on a seven-day fast and Florida long fell back in his chair and said man I started crying said man I see a light over your head and he said are you a preacher and where are you preaching he said wherever you preach I'm coming the man came his wife was of the world persuasion church and she got the Holy Ghost now all five of their kids the big leaders there in Alexandra one of them runs the Thursday night from that was happening 66 years ago say the Holy Ghost Holy Ghost say the Holy Ghost when it gets a hold of you I'll never quit talking about it I'll never quit I want to go to church I want to play I want to sing I want to clap my hands I want to do I want to do all of that because I've got the Holy Ghost take the Holy Ghost the Holy Ghost I'm gonna get that across to you now take this outward man it's perishing but my inward man is being renewed say every day I'll get a new dose of it tonight I want to be filled with the Holy Ghost tonight everybody in this room needs to be filled with the Holy Ghost tonight whoever you are raising your hand back there just stand up and raise the other one and shout I want to be refilled well as anybody else want to be refilled just anybody over here want to be refilling that's what I'm talking about don't stop don't stop don't stop halleluja halleluja display jar is 90 years old but I've got a treasure that's eternal when the wall Zophar and darkness fails our song I'll be somewhere living with this wonderful Holy Ghost oh mama I cannot tell you how I think in God but there's wonderful Holy Ghost I have played them through in their homes I've seen them come with their children they have received the Holy Ghost every week I don't know how many got it there this morning I think he said not more than five or six but just in the last month a hundred and ninety at that wonderful drum received the baptism of the Holy Ghost let me tell you something folks this is the last game and the Holy Ghost is being poured out say I got it this morning and I'm going to use it I want you to stand again I want you to stand again Caleb you're going to fight with us you're gonna get hallelujah go ahead and clap your hands again I hear somebody talking in tongues I hear some more talking in tongues is there anybody in boy look at him is that the Mikey look at that let him go yes anybody that does not have it I want you to come and stand here with me while the rest of you are refilled how will the coach that no come stand right here in front of me but just so many come come right now you don't help the Holy Ghost or you want to refilling or you want some kind of deliverance tongue you don't have the whole okay right here yes oh yes he's got the Holy Ghost you that don't have it come here and through me you thought you don't have the Holy Ghost you've got the Holy Ghost but you don't you want to refill it how many of you want a refilling of the Holy Ghost she needs a refill and come come you're coming this one's coming those that don't have that you come with me everybody's staying and we're going to get a refilling of the Holy Ghost yes in the name of Jesus hallelujah hallelujah yeah just raise your hands everybody just raise your hands and go to crying out to the Lord and thanking the Lord yeah do you have the Holy Ghost but you want the Holy Ghost you're gonna get the Holy Ghost come on folks come on join me you gotta have the Halos oh come on up here come on love you about here just throw your hands up and say Lord say forgive me of everything that I've ever said or done I want to be filled with this power I want to be filled with the Holy Ghost by out hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hello Jesus praise God others hallelujah tell of a misty hello Jenna hello praise God hallelujah

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Length: 46min 35sec (2795 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 26 2016