"You Can Touch Him" N. A. Urshan BOTT 1998

would you welcome our general superintendent rulership let's do that unto the Lord did you ever stop the thing tonight while the glory of this meeting the blessing Shekinah glory of God was resting on us what a privilege it is for us to be here where did you come from how did you get here what pulled us all together what made us love one another what gave us that joyful shout who put that respect unto the eternal God in our lives nothing but the holy spirit he has deluged us with his power brought us a consciousness of God and we're in the midst of a beautiful presence that I trust will not pass away I want to thank God for the Mangan family I've known them since 1938 it's right after Moses crossed the Red Sea and I've known their son before he was a thought concept and I fussed at brother and sister Mangan several times I said when you put on a good product you shouldn't go out of business should have been four or five more like that but the Lord can do marvelous things he did it to Adam or he did it to Abraham and Sarah keep your hopes up brother Megan while you're standing I'd like to read from the book of Hebrews and also while you're getting your Bibles and turning to the fourth chapter of Hebrews let me say we thank God for the message we heard tonight that was a powerful business and I like the way he delivered it he didn't bring glory to himself he brought glory to God and I think that's beautiful these verses have always been a blessing to me I hope they're a blessing to you tonight 14th verse 4th chapter of the book of Hebrews seeing then that we have a great high priest that has passed into the heavens Jesus the Son of God let us hold fast our profession for we have not an High Priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need my message tonight is we can touch him please offer a prayer right now for me that I may deliver to you what the Lord has put in my thank you lord thank you for your pundit mercies thank you for your goodness all the joys that you put in our life How Great Thou art How Great Thou art great and greatly to be praised the eternal God our loving Savior healer of ever disease the liver of every bondage God in whom there is no veil Yin bearable it's neither shadow of turning we thank you for your rich blessings in Jesus name all the people said Amen you may be seated we have a high priest that is passed into the heavens in order to go to heaven he had to leave this earth and somehow in some ways I think all Christianity has adopted us sort of a stance about the Lord and I think that stances he is far removed from us if you would take a measurement of the earth toward the heavens nobody has yet done it they don't know really where it is but if we tried to take a measurement I think there'd be a great big gap between heaven and earth but what I am very interested in bringing to you tonight is the fact that that one who passed into the heavens though he's in the heavens is still in this earth he is omnipresent and you can find him and you can touch him sometimes I am awed by the thought of the fact that God put on a robe of flesh and he came down into this earth and I want you to know that he came to our level to advance us to his level he came to us not to learn about us he knew about us before he came that was one of the reasons for his coming and when he came to us he didn't come to expose on her sins in fact we had already been condemned by sin he didn't come as the condemnation for sin but came to take our sins away I thank him I praise Him I glorify his name his manifest body becomes a human expression that explains to us he is within our reach when he put on that robe of flesh he took all the humanity that was a vital part of life and came to live in this world as a man we like to talk about his deity and it's great but we never need to forget that God became a man kind of a man well there were those who got amazingly inspired by him when he stood in the prow of a boat and rebuked a storm and the winds and the waves obeyed his will and they asked the question what manner of man is this when we talk about his manhood one of the things that we must not forget is that God came in the form of a man and it's one of the most amazing magnificent thoughtful arrangements in time Jesus Christ is called the righteousness the power and the wisdom of God so when we look at the book that defines and depicts and tells us who this Jesus is we have to understand that that was God failed in flesh and that flesh had a purpose the purpose of that flesh was to make us understand that the infinite God can become a force that can be brought within the scope of our needs I'm not standing here tonight talking about a God who does not know me I'm talking about a God that knows every step I take he knows every where I go and he also knows the very thoughts of my mind so that when we stand in his presence were standing in the presence of the all-knowing God and the all-knowing God brought to this earth for the purpose of us having a chance to know him better I want you to notice how John described him in the first epistle of the book of John that which was from the beginning which we have heard which we have seen with our eyes which we have looked upon and I like this and our hands have handled of the word of life we can touch him John said we handled the word of life he makes it a little more clear if you read the first chapter of John's Gospel John seems to be bent on the intent of making sunder stand who this Jesus really is now we have a theology and we can quote that theology and we can talk about that theology and of course we preach about it many times but we need to understand the flesh man for the life was manifested and we have seen it and bear witness and show with you that eternal life which was with the father and was manifest unto us in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was gone and the word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld the glory of the only begotten of the Father full of mercy and truth so what we beheld was the Express image of the eternal God Jesus said something to Thomas in the book of John the Gospel of John the twentieth verse Thomas had made the boast when they had told him that Jesus was alive he made this books I won't believe him or I won't believe this until I see the scars the nails in his hand and see his ribbon side Jesus came through a door didn't open the door just walk through it and when he did he looked at John said read or rather Thomas and said reach forth thy finger held up his hands showed him his side reach touch it it doesn't say whether Thomas touched it or not it just said he cried out my Lord and my god when he saw those nail prints and when he saw that side and then he said something further he said Thomas because thou has seen me thou hast believed but I've got another message to give you and the other message is blessed are they that have not seen and yet they believe I preached tonight to people who have not seen but they believe we have not seen the corporeal body of Christ yet we believe every report we believe every miracle we believe every healing we believe he has power of deliverance he wrought it while he was in this earth my question tonight is because he passed into the heavens has his power lessened in fact I'd like to say to you he did not return to the heavens a loser he returned to the heavens a winner and now he incorporates in all of his being the great statement I have all power in heaven and in earth what happened that he should get all power suddenly in heaven and earth because he passed into the heavens and he took our sins to the mercy seat and he laid those sins at the mercy seat and let the whole wide world know he had forgiveness and remission and power to redeem the souls of mankind I never want to minimize the greatness of the man I know the greatness of God but how beautiful that God could become a man you can take all your religions you can put them all together they don't have a living Savior they don't have a living God they worship the history of other gods that are just Babylonish I'll never forget standing with brother pew in China Red China we were at a very large Buddhist temple they had just opened them up after 75 years of having all religious institutions closed and when they opened that up people were looking in with a sort of a curiosity and we were standing brother pew and I before Buddha he's very fat he needs to go to Weight Watchers but there was two little boys standing there and they would furtively glance at us and we both noticed that they were glancing at us and I said you know they want to do something brother pew I wonder what it is they want to do and all of a sudden these little Chinese boys took out of their pocket some whatever they were in Chinese money and threw it at the feet of Buddha and ran they didn't know what to do but they had a semblance of something I'll give you when I got in my pocket in the rain Buddha never moved he didn't even pick up the offering what I'm trying to say to you we have a God in form of flesh and not only is God and form of flesh but he teaches us how to span the gap between heaven and between the mortal and the immortal by reaching out and touching him and the real question is as I stand here tonight we read it in that scripture he has passed into the heavens our great High Priest and there's a double- there he cannot we know he cannot be away from the fact of our infirmities he can be touched he's trying to tell us we can reach for him and touch him I want to tell you tonight if I can in the human words the greatness of that ability to touch him I stand here tonight I touched him when I was dying of tuberculosis I know other people who were at the point of death and they touched him and others touched him in behalf of those that were dying there's a real opportunity here tonight in the scope of this audience to come together with a unity of thought about Jesus and you talk about revival we can touch him with the earnest prayers of our intercession and he can bring things to pass beyond our expectation we are now living in the midst of the revival that's just having it beginning the end is not yet a greater greater source of power is going to come upon these people because the Lord that we touch has never changed never change his power hasn't lessened because he went into the heavens his power is greater I saw this happen how do we touch him I saw this happen pastor of a church I watched for weeks a little woman come in with her five children and I watched through the months that came along and saw her bring them in spotlessly clean but the longer she came the more threadbare became the clothes and I asked the question are you in need of clothes she smiled I don't know how she could smile she smiled said no we've got enough to cover us I took some brethren to her home one day and we went in when we got in there the shelves were bare food there was a little closet open there was a few pieces of garment hanging in the closet and I first learned that she was married to an alcoholic and she didn't have money to come to the church I didn't know that when she asked us one day said could my children go to Calvary Christian school and I told her how much it cost and her head bowed and she thought she said I don't have the money I said is it because your husband takes all the money that you can get and he can get and uses it for alcohol she said that's right he sells pieces of furniture he sells everything of any value in our house to get a little bit of alcohol in her system and so I told her yes your children can go to Calvary Tabernacle Church and there will be no cost now remember I'm talking to you about how we can touch him and so I told our manager I wonder if Ted black is here tonight I'd love for him to hear this because I said I want you to go every Monday and fill her refrigerator with food and I want you to put food on her shelves and I want you to buy some clothes for the children and for her he said that'll be costly it's always good to have a good treasurer that'll cost a lot of money yes so this went on it went on for a year but the black came to me and said you know we spent a lot of money this year on that family I said yes he said we need some of that money for a big bill we got coming I said you know the Lord knows where we are brother Ted and he'll take care of us he said well we got to be practical about it we got to be realistic about it and there's a lot of people like that they're realistic but they don't have any heavenly realism and so as he arranged for the things to be put on the Shelf that one went on for a year and he said it doesn't seem to make a change in her husband I said that in what we're doing before we're doing it to help that family she never misses a service she's there with her children they're sitting in the pew worshiping God a beautiful expression of love for God two years went by the Ted said how long do we go on with this thing I said just keep on doing it God understands he said a big bill is coming due just in a month and we don't have the money to pay it we could have had it if we'd kept that money Jesus helped us in about two months this lady's uncle died we didn't know who her uncle was he was the president of the biggest trucking company in America and he left that woman a tremendous inheritance she walked into church one day and put on our desk two hundred thousand dollars in bonds and said take this and use it for the glory of God and for children that need spiritual nourishment and strength in the work of God you know how to reach him let me tell you Cornelius Cornelius prayed and gave omnis that's given to the poor he prayed and helped the poor and you know what the scripture says about it he built a monument and memorial to Almighty God you know how to touch him praying and give pray and give to the needy and you can touch him because he's aware of all that that takes place in our lives when you read the Bible there's such amazing things in it as you read it it tells us about the little woman twelve years now her name wasn't Mary it wasn't Susie it wasn't Gladys it wasn't hope or any name that you give a girl she has no name the Bible tells us just about what she didn't doesn't tell us what her name was but she was an individual we don't know her name but we know his name she came into the middle of that crowd and I want you to know she couldn't push through the throng she couldn't get through that crowd but she had to crawl crawl to touch a thread of His garment she had to crawl to touch him I repeat again she had to crawl to touch him and when she got into his presence and touched His garment he let out a cry who has touch me and she got frightened because she thought she did something wrong but when he said that the woman that had a disease for 12 years that no doctor could help no human hand could help and you talked about it often tonight brother Mangan when you said materialism materialism comes to a point where it cannot help you and you have to have the touch of the Almighty God in your life to get what you need money doesn't buy all you need money can't satisfy your soul but I know somebody that when you touch him the glory of his blessing flashes into your soul and there's something that comes to you that you cannot buy but you can have it praise God pick up a man Palsy put him on a stretcher carry him to where Jesus is couldn't get in to see him to bigger crowd what was their names I don't know I have no idea what their names are but a bit his brothers don't say might have been his uncle's might have been his cousin it doesn't say for people to determine to help a needy man for people who would come and take a man to Jesus I don't know what beat in their heart but I believe they were compassionate people I believe there were good neighbors who said our friend is in need of help let's take him to Jesus that's the best place to take people who are in need of help took him to Jesus couldn't get to the crowd you know if they did they broke the roof of the house now nobody in that house was happy about that the owner wouldn't like that but people who are determined to get folks to Jesus to touch him will do anything to get them there and they got him there dropped him into the midst and you said it again tonight and I'm just piggybacking on what you said the first thing he said to him thy sins be forgiven thee that's the purpose why he came into this world to seek and to save that which was lost thy sins be forgiven thee and when he said that they muttered in their thinking that is they in their thoughts and when you around Jesus you better not think the worst thing he'll read your thinking and he perceived what they thought only God can forgive sin sometimes people and criticism give the right tribute he did forgive his sins only God can forgive sins they made him God whether they liked it or not and when they got him into the presence of God and he perceived their thought he said which is it easier to say for the son of man is it easier to say son thy sins be forgiven thee or be healed and he just turned around said take up your bed and walk and the man walked away in his presence because he had touched the mask praise God I get happy about that don't know their names didn't have an idea what the names I listen to what Isaiah says about if you want to touch him thus saith the Lord the heaven is my footstool where is the house that you build unto me where is the place of my rest all those things have mine handmaid and all those things had been saith the Lord but to this man will I look to the king that a priesthood to the rich folks to the man with the big palace all those things have been say the Lord but to this man will I look even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit and tremble that my word you can touch him if you have that spirit then they were further brother Tecla maryam gaza da he let me tell you about the churchy pastors I was there several years ago that church seats 10,000 it was filled with people they were getting the Holy Ghost while the song services I they were getting the Holy Ghost while the preaching was on they were getting the Holy Ghost all night long an all-night prayer meeting I said them while I sit next to him there's a woman down there that's if that is possessed with the devil said yes I saw her just as calm my brethren will take care of him a little bit some of those men were down around that woman casting the devil out of her and she froth at the mouth you could see all the evidence of a devil possessed woman demonized by the power of Hell and in a little bit she was raising her hands with a smile on her face speaking with other tongues as the Spirit of God given at it they touched him take there in the midst of that service and you and I can have that same kind of blessing if we come to him in humility then brother Tecla Miriam said after we had ordained 127 preachers small ordination service 127 preachers he said you better get up against the wall I said why he said when they come at you man you better be having something to back up and do because they'll just run over you they're so hungry to have the touch of God and they feel like you're a man of God they want you to put your hands on them I got up against that wall and they swapped me I mean they just pressed in put your hand on me put your hand on me why is there revival in Ethiopia humility contrition of God have mercy me tell you something some of us have been so blessed and so honored and so revered until we don't have one ounce of humility in us we think we have we think we are owed all that kind of tribute I want you to know I was without God and without hope and whatever I have denied I got it from his wonderful hand and I still I still need to come to him in contrition and humility and call upon his name we can have revival in your the Pentecostal Church if you take our lofty thinking out of our mind and our egos that are swelled up like a toad and get rid of them and just humbly cry before God day and night we'll have that revival all we need to praise him for it we need to humble our hearts before him does it work yes it works yes it works brother Anthony Mangan do you remember what happened the other morning here I didn't I don't think you realize what took place suddenly in the midst of this service on Sunday morning I think you announced the fact that one of our men one of our men was imprisoned in Vietnam for preaching the gospel you remember that we got this note tonight from him I want you to hear the note when you announced it and the people prayed there was a little concern about it because of the fact that when folks hear that they put it on the Internet and then it causes them problems over there he was four days in the prison listen to this he sent this to brother Dennis just got out of Vietnam arrived into Thailand four days of arrest and major interrogation Vietnam you know communistic you can't out interrogate the master interrogator so they gave up listen I can return in the future and hold church services in a church building the Lord really moved upon many of them and they were really touched by the truth he can be touched can be arrested for preaching the truth and now if he gets to talkin to them he's going to have a church where there's a forbiddance to have a church because he can be touched and geography doesn't mean anything to the Lord we prayed here and he worked there he can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities oh I feel the presence of the holy ghost let me tell you a little more about this matter of touching the Lord because it's of such significance that if we lose it we'll lose an understanding of the humanity of Jesus Christ he was God in form of man and that humanity did not commit any sin and the world looks at him I had a man tell me he said you know I didn't commit any sin because he was God beg to differ with you on the basis of humanity he was the eternal God clothed in the human garment and that humanity was the same kind of humanity you have I have in Gethsemane he prayed earnestly and I looked at that off times read it and think about how he prayed and wondered oh god what what what was that heaviness on you he was so burdened that he burst forth in blood from his pores I think you told me dr. clipper one time that when a man is under deep distress and under heavy pressures that he can bleed through his pores Jesus was under that pressure what kind of pressure listen he was flesh like you and I that's what makes him so beautiful short standing he was flesh like you and I and I think he had some thoughts maybe if I die I won't raise again if he has a human spirit and a human mind he would think that he struggled with that he fought with that he had told them if I die I will rise again I think that pledge you're talking a bedtime story but I want you to know what he said after he had struggled and fought nevertheless nevertheless not the will of this man but thine be done and he acquiesced to the eternal pattern of life for his being went to the cross you can touch him you know why you can touch him he knew about what folks needed before he came but he clothed himself in the same kind of flesh you and I have so that he could go to the eternal heavens and he sees your struggles he sees your problems he knows your pain he understands where you're coming from oh what a great High Priest we have who has passed into the heavens I stand here tonight to tell you not only will he hear and answer your prayer by humility and not only will he bring you into a relationship that spans the earth and the heavens and gives you into the presence of God but I want you to know also that you can understand that just one little praise one little praise your humility you're willing to give and your praise touches him he inhabits the praise of Israel and he can inhabit the praise of your life if you just open up and praise Him and praise Him you were at the Milwaukee can't you're at the Milwaukee Convention you were there when that crowd praise him swept like a wave over and over across that audience for an hour just kept on sweeping and the little man came he said my dead mother's walking I didn't know what he meant I really didn't know what he meant I almost wanted to say my grandmother walked too but he said she's walking I I said them where is she said that lady right down there's walking I said well wonderful he said you don't understand my version twenty years in a wheelchair she had been paralyzed from her hips down she hadn't walked for twenty years and said there she is standing praising God while that praise was going on God just reached down and she reached up and touched him and he made her her brother Sam bolsa if I make a wrong statement please tell me about it your uncle Thomas was his name Thomas balsa was imprisoned in Yugoslavia for preaching this gospel they beat him they put him in a prison cell he was so beaten and maimed by what they did to him that one day while he was working under prison authorities he was near a river and he looked at that river in fact his insides had actually come out of him until he had such a stench no one want to get near him he was by himself by that riverbank everybody standing afar off the stench was so bad and he wished Oh God if I was dazed I and I could get into that water and get my potty yield seven times you recall the man dipped in the water he went down in that water he just dipped once and when he came up in Jesus name all the wounds of his body were healed you can touch him it doesn't matter what kind of situation you have in your heart in your life in your body he can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities because he's our great high priest he came as a servant he became not only a servant but he became a high priest now I want you to know who he is today he's the everliving almighty eternal majestic god of all power who dwells in the heavens and the heaven is his throne earth is his footstool I'm sitting right at his footstool tonight let's raise our hands and praise Him praise him for what he's done I don't know how long I'll live in this life you come to a certain age you don't know what tomorrow may bring I don't know how long I live in this life but if you never hear me or I have the privilege of preaching in this because of the time service which is great and powerful if I never preach again I want you to know you can touch him you can touch him you can touch him he is not beyond your reach he tell God in flesh became the channel by which we can touch the Living God doesn't matter house how heavy the sickness is you can touch him he gives gifts of healing let's praise Him

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