Cecil J. duCille
May 21, 2007
Mahomet IL
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Praise the Lord. One of the greatest things about getting old is that there is a change in what you used to believe was the reality of your environment. The things that were absolutely real to you in your youth fade, and a new reality comes in that is absolutely real. I am trying to explain something here so that you may know what is to be expected. These young people here in front have a reality that is different from the reality that we who are older have. It is God that becomes more real to me than the things that I used to look at as precious and real. Those things fade away. They don’t have that value any more. The basis for your value changes, but it changes so gradually that you do not notice that it is changing. One day you wake up to find that you have an altogether different perspective. It is like when you talk about the Blood of Jesus Christ. As young people you believe it, but somehow the reality of God and the Blood is not as tangible as it is now.
The Blood of Jesus Christ has become the basis of my life. I remember when I was young like these kids here, and one day Jesus took me and showed me the Blood and it laid a foundation in my life, that as long as I live, I will never forget it. You have seen the show that is called “The Passion of the Christ.” It is a very gruesome thing, but then, what happened to me with Jesus when I was your age is that He took me through this with Him, and I was there. Do you understand? It did something to me and after that, my whole concept of when you say, “the Blood,” was changed.
So, the reality of God becomes more real. In other words, God is no longer a shadowy person out there that will come when you call Him, but He is someone that fills up the whole place. Amen. It is like you are walking into God; you are sleeping into God; you are talking into God, and then God is into you. I don’t think I am telling you right. It is difficult to explain. But what I want to say to you is, if you think of God, Who is He? Who is this God? You call Him God. Sometimes you must say Elohim; sometimes you must say Jehovah; sometimes you must remember that He is not any one person who you can call by one name that means all of Him because sometimes He is El Shaddai. Oh yes. When your soul is hungry, when your life is hungry, when you need God more than anything else, He is El Shaddai, the great Father/Mother God. He is both Father and Mother together, giving you milk to drink, giving you suck, satisfying the soul. Unless you have been in real trouble, you really won’t know God. I don’t want to tell you to pray to God to put you in trouble, but I am telling you that when you are in a really tight spot and you call out to God from the depths of your heart and your soul, that is the time you prove God to be more real than the very breath that you breathe. Praise God.
I want you to turn your Bibles with me to Hebrews 6. The Lord has given me a word to give you and I am gradually creeping up to it. It is a very heavy word
I have been thinking and meditating on Mary Magdalene. She was very close to Jesus in her whole heart and soul. Her heart leaned toward Him so much that when she saw Him crucified, she couldn’t think of herself. A lot of the disciples ran away. Peter cursed and lost it. Mary Magdalene was with the other Marys, maybe about five Marys; they stood right there. They didn’t care if there were any there that wanted to kill them. Did you ever think of it? They stood, right there, beneath the cross. They never thought about whether they would lose their lives or not.
After He was crucified, they were the ones that remembered He had said that He would resurrect on the third day. So, they took ointment and spices to the tomb. I personally believe that they used that as a pretext to go to the grave and see what they could see. The Bible says that when they got to the gate, there was an earthquake accompanied by an angel of a very bright countenance (Matthew 28:2). That was the time of the resurrection – you know the whole story. Mary Magdalene wouldn’t leave there. She wanted to see Him. She saw a man and she went to talk to him. She talked with who she thought was the gardener, but it turned out to be Jesus Himself. The message He gave her was the first resurrection message that was given to the Church (John 20:17). It was given to a woman whose heart and soul was totally sold out to God. She took the message to the disciples, but they didn’t believe her.
She said, “He is risen, as He said” (Matthew 28:6). He is risen as He said, and we, when we think of Jesus Christ, we think of our risen Savior. He appeared to them many times, but there was only one time He appeared with wounds in His hands and in His side and He only appeared that way to convince the doubters (John 20:25-29). Amen? Now, it is 2,000 years since that has happened and Jesus has been coming closer and closer and closer in the revelation of Himself to the church.
His plan is not to reveal Himself to you so that you could go and preach. His plan is to reveal Himself in you, so that when you see Peter [Schneider], you see Jesus, so that Jesus would have many faces, millions of faces. We will all look the way that we look, but it will be Jesus Who will be seen. That is, your mind will be the mind of Christ. Once your mind becomes the mind of Christ, you begin to think like Christ, you begin to act like Christ, you begin to walk like Christ and you begin to behave like Christ!
Now, for last 2,000 years, we have been working on the church, and if God wasn’t God, He would be disappointed. You know, I look at God sometimes and wonder why He isn’t disappointed. Do you know why? Because He is seeing something that I am not seeing and He is hearing something that I am not hearing.
Okay, God made this man, a magnificent creature, and He let him loose to walk. And as the man walked along, God said, “It is good” (Genesis 1:31). Now, God said, “It is good,” and God saw you. God saw what Adam would do, and God said, “It is good.” What is good? A deterioration from a magnificent, mighty creature down to little people like we are now? We deteriorated not only in the body but we have deteriorated in mind. We have deteriorated in every way from Adam, except in Christ. Christ’s intention is to come forth in Adam. Adam did not have the Holy Ghost in him. The basic key of your Christianity is the Holy Ghost and Adam did not have it. Let’s read Hebrews 5:12, For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. 13For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 14But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use (exercised in righteousness) have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. After teaching the Hebrew Christians the tenants of salvation for such a long time, he had to say to them, “Well, you are as dumb as you can be, for instead of eating meat you are now still at the milk stage.” In Russia they had a doctrine in the church that they shouldn’t eat meat and that they should only drink milk to be spiritual. They had a doctrine that they should only drink milk and they called them Molokans (milk drinkers). We are Molokans – milk drinkers. Concerning the basic doctrines of Christ, you say, “Okay, let’s leave them.” You dare not leave the basic doctrines of Christ until you walk in them, or you will be leaving the basis of your foundation. When you go out there to meet the real devil, you will find out that you had no foundation to stand on. Do you see what I am saying?
He said, Hebrews 6:1, Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God. Oh God, help us! The very first one floors us – repentance from dead works. Come on now, a lot of the works in the Outer Court are dead works. Amen. Some of us are still jealous, isn’t that right? Christians who are jealous? Christians who lie? Christians who steal? Christians who cheat? He said, “The first principles…the doctrine of repentance.”
Hebrews 6:1, Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God. You know, faith is a very peculiar thing. This one says, “faith toward God.” It is a very peculiar thing. You look at this pulpit and you see it is wood; you don’t have to struggle to have faith in the wood that it will behave like wood. Do you understand? You have faith in the natural things around you. When you look at a stone, you see that is a stone, you know it is going to behave like a stone, and it is not going to behave like anything else. You would rest your life on that stone, because it is a stone. Well, the Bible said, “Faith toward (in) God.” God will behave like God! We should be afraid of thinking of God in any other way, but that He is going to behave like God! We can believe a stone will behave like a stone. We can believe that wood will behave like wood. Why can’t we believe God will behave like God?
It is so simple, it is so childish, that the littlest child there is expecting Mommy to behave like Mommy; he is expecting Daddy to behave like Daddy. He will go and run to them and open his arms to them. We had a little babe who would go to a chair and jump; he knew that we were going to catch him. He never misses because you are going to catch him. He knows it and your nature and he is betting on it. These children have faith in the things that are around them, and in the people that are around them. Hallelujah! God is expecting the church of God to have faith in God.
He said, “But when they knew Him, they glorified Him not as God” (Romans 1:21). Come on now. You know God, and yet you don’t deal with God as God. God wants you to do that, so that faith in Him is all natural, basic, Outer Court. You haven’t gone into the Holy Place yet. These are just basic foundations upon which we stand and live and move and have our being as Christians. Hebrews 6:2, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. Let’s take the doctrine of baptisms. How many baptisms have you had? Amen. Well, I know somebody who was baptized in water seven times. Every baptism, he wanted to go to get a dip. That is not baptisms, that is still one baptism, and he had never had it the first time. Amen.
Let’s take the basic. We had a wedding Saturday, and it was one of the three blood covenants that God has given the church. Baptism is a covenant, and the Bible says He came by water and by blood (I John 5:6). Baptism is a blood covenant. Yes. It is a covenant unto death. So, if you were baptized in water and you never made that covenant in your soul… Remember now, Jesus is coming nearer to you, to the church. Whether you want it to be or not, it is not going to stop Him. Jesus has been creeping towards the church for 2,000 years. Amen.
You know, I think of a man who they dropped in a deep, dark hole. They dug a deep hole and called it a dungeon. They dropped him down into that hole and the man was in that dungeon for three years. The man still lived and still praised God! We think of Paul being in a dungeon. What do you think these dungeons were like? They put them down there, and there was no restroom. Can you imagine a restroom in a dungeon? The dungeon is the restroom. So, every prisoner they had there would defecate and do everything there in the dungeon. Then they would drop another prisoner down there. I think of the worms and everything. The men were in there, standing up. In some of the dungeons, they couldn’t sleep on the floor; they had to lean against the wall to sleep. For food they would let down a piece of bread and a little water. There was no way of getting a change of clothes. There was no way of getting a bath. There was no way of having any kind of life down there and yet men lived in that for years, survived and praised God. Have you ever thought of it?
I went into a restroom in London and it was in a part of the house that was set off from where everybody was and when I tried to leave, the door wouldn’t open. I was locked up in the restroom, and I felt so awful. I said, “My God, suppose it was a dungeon that I was in?” You know what I mean. You knock, knock, knock, and nobody hears. I started thinking of breaking down the door. Amen.
God is calling us to a higher level. He said, “Let us put aside all these foundations.” It was Paul’s way of saying, “Well, you need to have these foundations, or else you can’t go on to higher things. BUT, let us put aside these foundations and let us go on to higher things.” All right. Praise be to God.
So, we have baptism in water, baptism in the Holy Ghost, and baptism into Christ. Have you looked at your baptism, and have you seen the thing accomplished? Because if you are baptized in water and you are not baptized in the Holy Ghost, you weren’t baptized in water. Come back again. That sounds bad, doesn’t it? You can go down in water and you can be wet, and come up wet. Dry Christian goes down. Wet Christian comes up, but you are not yet baptized. WHY? Because if baptism in water is without a commitment, without a contract with God unto death, then you haven’t yet been baptized. Should we have a baptism this evening? That contract, that covenant is what makes the baptism a baptism. Hallelujah! The proof of that baptism is that you are baptized in the Holy Ghost. But guess what? Some people are baptized in the Holy Ghost but because they got the inward baptism of the Holy Ghost and they weren’t baptized in the water, they think God will let them off the hook. They say, “Okay, I’ve got it! If baptism in water leads me to baptism in the Holy Ghost, and I’ve got the baptism of the Holy Ghost, then I don’t need baptism in water any more.” No. No. God comes to you and He says, “Go get baptized in water.” WHY? You must make the covenant. You must learn your lesson. You must have His writing on the tables of your heart, written in blood before you can go any further. Amen.
I am talking to church now. You get the baptism in water and you are determined in your heart to serve God unto death, and the Holy Ghost sees a heart that is wide open and He rushes in. When the Holy Ghost comes into your heart and into your life, there is a definite change. You undergo a change when you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior, and then when you go into the baptism you undergo another change, and then when you go into the Holy Ghost baptism you undergo another change. You are still in the Outer Court. Baptism in the Holy Ghost does not automatically take you into the Holy Place. Baptism in the Holy Ghost is meant to take you into the Holy Place. Am I talking riddles? In other words, because you are baptized in the Holy Ghost and you blabber in tongues and so and so and so, you feel that you are all right. You are not all right, until you begin to walk in the Holy Ghost. Amen.
In my old age, I find something terrible; there are little things that you miss. My wife and I are sitting at the table, we are going to eat and we start to pray; I close my eyes and bend down to pray and I see the rice falling to the floor like rain. Hear me now. This is foolishness now, right? Old man having hallucinations. Well, if the old man was smart, he would have said, “Sister, don’t eat that rice.” Because I was seeing what God sees. What happened is that I have a message now to say to her, “That rice is going to hurt you.” It is as simple as that. When God looked at Adam and He said, “It is good,” and He saw all the trouble that Adam would go through, He knew that He was looking at the end of the matter – He was looking at YOU!
I am not talking about one instance. It is every day, every step of the way. If you say, “Howdy do” to somebody, and you see something flash there, you need to learn to obey it and walk in it. The Holy Ghost life is an entirely different life from the life of a natural person. Slight little things and thoughts flash to you in the spirit and you need to work on it, and the moment you move on it you have a victory. But instead you say, “Oh, it is my mind,” and the devil robs you of the moment. You are not a fit man. Yes, if you call the Holy Ghost your mind, you are not fit, because we need to be sharp in the spirit. We need to be able to discern between good and evil (Hebrews 5:14). Yes, right and wrong, good and evil, little things, and I mean, that is simple. Remember now, He said this is A-B-C. He didn’t say this is big. You haven’t gone to college yet. You are still down there in elementary school.
The same mind that the kid takes to learn in elementary school is the same mind that is going to be up there in the college. If he becomes a scientist, it is the same mind and the same principles of thinking that he is subjected to that is going to lead him right up there. Hear me now. I still am not talking to you about spiritual things yet. No, no, no, we are down there in the Outer Court. It is the obedience of the child of God in the Outer Court that makes you a son of God, that takes you through the door into the Holy Place. If we have not learned how to obey the Holy Ghost, then we are still in trouble, you can still lose your life and go to hell. What? Brethren, it seems that when I get in your presence, I go “loco.” What am I saying? I am saying that if you don’t learn how to walk in the Holy Ghost, you can still go to hell.
Let’s go on then a little bit more. Hebrews 6:2, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. Laying on of hands. What is that? I didn’t know that the laying on of hands was a foundation doctrine. Peter always talks about “hands on,” you know, some people love to touch everybody. Laying on of hands is a basic foundation doctrine. WHY? Because that which is in me can be imparted to you by my laying hands on you, and contacting heaven OR hell.
I remember one day a man was preaching, and he got so excited, he started shouting and he ran down and slapped his hand on my head. I didn’t get rid of the headache all day. It was difficult for me to shake that headache. I am not a person to have a headache. The guy put his hand on my head and my head began to split; I had a headache all day. We had to go home and pray and fight to get away from that thing that that man put on me, because it was something on him. Amen. Believe me, brethren, you can be wide open. Amen.
I have seen a homosexual teacher teach children, and several of them grow up and become homosexuals. He never told them to, he just imparted it to them. You can lay hands physically; you can lay hands spiritually. I can lay hands on you without touching you. The Lord God Almighty is saying that the church must be aware of the power of imparting the things of God from one to another. God wants that same mind that is in Christ Jesus to be in you also (Phillippians 2:5).
The centurion came to Jesus and he said, “My servant is sick and dying at home.” Jesus said, “I will come with you.” And he corrected Jesus. Did you hear me? He corrected Jesus. He said, For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it (Matthew 8:9). He understood Jesus more than the disciples. He said, “You don’t have to come to my house, just speak the word. Just speak the word and it is done.”
We speak carelessly sometimes. Lord, forgive us, have mercy upon us, as a church, as a body, as a people. We speak careless things at times. Is it the same mouth that you used to speak a careless joke, or a careless thought, that you expect to use to speak righteousness and power? When you are ready to speak, nothing but noise will come out of your mouth. God is saying that there is a position; remember, we are still in the Outer Court. We haven’t gone into the real deep things of God yet. The laying on of hands is a basic Outer Court doctrine that every son of God must learn and know. Lay your hands on your children and bless them. Oh, yes. If you curse them they are cursed. If you bless them they are blessed. If you put a curse upon one, the child will have to fight a long time to get rid of that which has been put upon him, maybe by his parents, maybe his friends or sometimes it could be by an acquaintance.
For instance, a curse can be put upon a child by calling him a certain name. I will give you a name, for instance, Damon. Do you know someone called Damon? It is another way of saying that you are a demon [Strong’s Concordance #G1142 – a dæmon or supernatural spirit (of a bad nature):—devil.] If you call a person Damon, you are calling him a demon. He has to fight hard to get away. If I were named Damon, I would change my name. I would not write down that thing, although I am named Cecil, and it means hard-headed. Whooh! Oh, yeah, I went to Germany and told them I was Cecil and they laughed. They said that is the culture. Yes, sir!
I don’t know if you have noticed the Nigerian names? Every one has God in it. The name Chijioke, that is God. Many of the other languages have God in their name, because they believe that if you call the person by the name of God that he will become good. Well, they are not all good. But what I am saying is that the mouth that speaketh righteousness cannot just get up and speak sin. There are mouths that speak sin that cannot just get up and speak righteousness. The reason it works is because we are working with a body of spirits, both good spirits and evil spirits. Anything you say, they hold you to. Did you know that? Oh yes. Anything you say, they hold you to it. You just keep on repeating God and the words of God and good and wonderful things, and they keep away from you. The evil ones will keep away from you. God bless you. Let’s go on.
Verse 2, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. This is so simple and basic. If you don’t believe in these doctrines, go repent, get them and make sure you have them stored in your heart, because these are your basic foundation. You are going to be called to stand upon them in the midst of battle. Yes. The resurrection of the dead. The eternal judgment. Everything you do – everything you do will appear in the judgment. Every thought you had will appear in the judgment. You get forgiveness of sins if you pray to Jesus and ask Him for forgiveness. Now, can you pray about something that you did deliberately? Yes, you can, but you mustn’t do it again. In other words, you are supposed to be changed.
I made some remarks before that I know that some of your eyebrows raised. A Christian doesn’t sin and a sinner doesn’t do righteousness. That sounds rough, eh? He that is born of God… Help me! I am just quoting our Brother John. You have to decide whether John is right or wrong, whether he was in the Spirit when he wrote that. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin (I John 3:9). Now, the key word here is commit.
You get together, and you say, “Brother, let us rob the bank tomorrow.” We lay out our plans to rob the bank and we execute the robbery. We are NOT born of God. We are NOT born of God. If you were working on the roof of a bank and the roof gave way, you fell into the vault and you picked up a few coins and put them in your pocket, then you might be able to go and repent, and say, “Lord, forgive me.” But what I am saying is that he that is born of God, that is a son of God, cannot deliberately, willfully sin. No one that is born of God can willfully sin. NO ONE that is born of God can continue in sin. You can fall into sin, but you cannot continue in it. If a person is continuing in sin, he needs repentance from the beginning. He has to go back and repent from some dead works. I don’t know if you can analyze that, but you look at it. Let us go on, because you can ask me that question any time, anywhere, and we can discuss it.
There is a judgment on sin. The judgment on sin is already pronounced. For the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). Now if you believe that, you will not sin. Unfortunately, we sin both in thoughts and in deeds.
Hebrews 6:3, And this will we do, if God permit. 4For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. What are we saying? I am going to put it in short words for you. If you reject the Holy Ghost, you are lost. If the Holy Ghost ever leaves you, you are finished. The Holy Ghost will never leave you unless you are totally condemned to hell. Have you ever seen anybody who was baptized with the Holy Ghost backslide? Yes, you have. We see them all the time. Well, the Holy Ghost will not leave him, unless he gets to the stage where he has totally, categorically, deliberately rejected God. If the Holy Ghost lifts from him, he will be an atheist and he will be happy, glad, free and no problem any more. He is already in hell. Do we see the Word of God? Verse 6, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. Verse 9, But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. In other words, we lay down principles and thoughts of what can happen, BUT we don’t expect it to happen to you. Are you there? I don’t expect one person in this building to come under the category of one who would reject the Holy Ghost, reject Jesus Christ, turn your back on Him and be lost.
Verse 10, For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. This is such a marvelous God that we serve, that He is not going to allow you to go to hell. He will kill you before you go to hell. Isn’t He a wonderful God? Tell me now. Isn’t He a wonderful God? He is a God Who would rather let your body perish and your soul live, than to allow you to go down into hell. This is the confidence that you have in God, isn’t it? So, why do you not understand God when you see some of us dying? God will destroy the body that the soul may live. You have made a commitment. You have made a covenant. You are part of God’s Body and He said, “If your right hand offend you, cut it off” (Matthew 5:30). Yes, if a person is going to lose his life spiritually and go to hell, I would rather see him dead, see her dead. Whoever it is, I would rather see them dead and with the Lord than see them go into hell. Is that your consciousness, too? Praise be to God.
And so, God is speaking to us tonight, and He says, coming down to verse 18, That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 19Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; 20Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. When I think of God, I cannot think of Him as a man, as a person. All I can think of God as is a BIG person or whatever, filling the whole space, and filling us. But I can think of Jesus as a man. Do you see how God is good for us? He gave us Someone Whom we can relate to. Now, if Jesus is a person, if Jesus is a man, you must approach Him as a person. I’ll never forget what happened when I prayed the first time and I asked Jesus to come into my life and I felt the quickening. That means that His blood had touched me; it touched my mind and touched my consciousness. Before that, I was not conscious of God, I now mam conscious that God is here in this room.
So, the next thing that happened, I said, “Jesus, why don’t You come and talk to me?” Now, I am not telling you to say that, because the devil might come and talk to you and you could believe that it was Jesus. That is, however, not supposed to be. The devil is not supposed to be able to talk to you and you believe it is Jesus. Do you know why? The Christ in you will not be happy. Amen. But the relationship between you and Jesus Christ must be such that you know that Jesus is a man, you speak to Him as a resurrected man, and you deal with Him and expect Him to respond to you as a man would respond to you. What kind of doctrine is that, Peter? That you would expect Jesus to respond to you as a man would respond to you?
You see, we have made a step backward. Let me tell you why. We were going upward to believe that God has a five-fold ministry in the heavenlies, in the spirit. Jesus Christ is in the five-fold ministry or the left hand, in the natural, among us. But what I have noticed is that we have started not to believe in the five-fold ministry any more. We have started to believe in our abilities to do.
Now, if you got a pastor here, immediately you would have rejected the five-fold ministry, because the five-fold ministry doesn’t have any pastor in it. Those who occupy the place of the shepherd would be too busy shepherding to be able to be fooling around and doing anything else. There is a problem that I see here and I don’t know if it is as if you have forgotten, or if you want to be like another church or something, but I don’t see the function of the five-fold ministry. I don’t see the function of the prophet in your midst. As a matter of fact, if the prophet should function, you probably wouldn’t believe it. I don’t see the function of the evangelist. I don’t see anybody evangelizing anything. I see the same old faces that I saw here the last time. I see two new faces over there. Amen. If the evangelists had the spirit of the evangelist, they would be praying and God would be sending people in. Amen. “But why should I leave my church over there with my pastor and come to your gathering with the same function?” I don’t see the function of the five-fold ministry. You don’t function in the five-fold ministry anymore. Yes. The prophetic ministry… I don’t know if you understand what I am talking about. Every ministry of these five-fold has branches in the church among the people. In other words, Christ is working in you. Amen. As Christ is working in you and among you… He will give one a vision; He will give another a dream; He will give somebody something to uplift the brethren. But if I dream that you become a dog and start barking and bite up everybody in the place, what profit is that to everybody? God is telling us to run for our lives, the dog is coming. Don’t you understand? The ministration of the Spirit is to profit withal. If the Spirit of the prophet in you, you will find that as you begin to function, there will be many more that will be functioning and together it will bring life and not death. I have gone through it for years and years and years, and I have seen the work of God destroyed by prophetic ministries who will not submit to the Holy Ghost.
Have I told you how the devil caught me one time to deceive me? I got up to pray, first of all. I was getting up like a Pharisee. Do you know what I am talking about? I had looked in the Bible – hear this one – and I calculated that Jesus Christ prayed at three o’clock in the morning. All right? So then I was going to pray at three o’clock in the morning just like Jesus. Every morning at three o’clock I was down on my knees. This particular morning, at three o’clock, I got down on my knees and the devil came in and knocked on the head of my bed. I thought it was God. But guess what? He, “God,” was telling me everything that was wrong with every sister and every brother in the church. Now, some of them might have been wrong. But most of it was lies, all lies. But you know what happened? I was glad for it. I was now going to prophesy to that church and let them know that I could see their business and “I know you and I know what you are doing,” and so and so. Therefore, my prophecy was going to be to exalt me and my ministry over the people. But God was merciful to me. God was very merciful to me. He came in the room and shouted at the devil, “Satan, you are a liar!”
You have to also learn to reject some of the dreams that you have. Have you learned that yet? All right. “Everything that I dream is of God. Nobody dare try and tell me that what I dream is not of God.” You have to learn to divide good from evil, right from wrong, what the devil says from what God says. Amen?
But then, guess what? On the other side, you are being asked of God to believe in the prophetic ministry. If you don’t believe in the prophetic ministry, you don’t believe in God. You have the prophet and you have the prophetic ministry. Do you know the difference? You have the prophet and the prophetic ministry gives a word – you have to be able to put the word before God, balance it, understand it and move in it. You are responsible! So, if God is not giving you any prophetic words, something is wrong. Amen. If you don’t believe, why should God burden you? If you don’t believe, why should God burden you? If you don’t believe in the ministry that God has set up, why should He bother you?
Don’t you understand? This is what is happening. You are going to sleep. You are backing off from the word that God delivered to you in the beginning. I remember God prophesying certain things concerning this place. How long ago was that? Oh, God, have mercy upon us. I am ashamed of myself to be part of it. Amen. I am ashamed of myself to be part of it. God prophesied certain things about this place and the place has not moved from the place where it was when it was prophesied. We have not walked according to the prophecy. Don’t you understand what I am saying? IF we believed the Word of God, do you know what we would do? We wouldn’t jump and run and do it, no, no. We would do like David. We would say, “Now, Lord God, we are ready. What is the order of battle? Where do we move next?”
But if I have something against you, and you have something against me, and you have something against this one, how are we going to be able to move together at this time? It is your death! Do you hear me, brethren? God says some of you will die because you believe not the Body of Christ. The time has come; you had better prepare for funerals instead of weddings. Well, you can doubt me if you want to. That won’t stop it. Because when God speaks to people, God expects people to MOVE according to how He has spoken and He has given you strength to move. He did not tell you that you are going to be moving because you have a million dollars. If somebody now should give you a million dollars, everybody would be, “Ooh! Now we can do this and that!” God have mercy upon us. That is why we don’t get the million – because we would be working on the basis of the million. The million would be our god instead of the Lord God Almighty that has ordained us to move forward in the things that God has given us to do.
In a very short time, your money will be worth nothing. Amen. The last time I was here was last July. Your money has decreased since then by 27%. Do you believe that? Do you know how the value of money decreases? You watch the gold. Last time I was here, gold was $300 and something an ounce, now it is $600 to $700. The gold doesn’t change. What changes is the money. So, the amount of money that it took to buy an ounce of gold last year is now 27% more for the same ounce of gold. That means that your money has decreased. You haven’t seen anything yet. They are saying that the money will decrease, that one ounce of gold will be valued at $2,000. Do you know what that means? That means that if Iran should keep on fooling around there, and God Almighty lets loose… Because He is holding back. Yes. He is saying, “Don’t loose the four angels. Don’t loose the four angels till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads” (Revelation 7:3). Are you with me? In your minds, God is sealing the people of God to think differently. He said, “Don’t you release the destruction until I have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.”
Do you think God is going to wait on you? God is not going to wait any longer than the time that He has allotted. When that time comes to it’s fullness, if you are sealed, you are sealed, and if you are not sealed, you are not sealed, and it is your business.
Tomorrow, if either the United States or Israel finds it necessary to destroy the centrifuges in Iran by attacking them, how will it effect your money? It is my belief that your money will be going south. Do you hear me? Then all the money you have been storing up for your old age, for your children or for whatever, it will be gone, GONE, GONE, GONE! You know, I was just thinking today, all those who get Social Security money, it will be gone. Your money will be gone, because the dollar will be worth nothing and you will have to take a wheelbarrow full of dollars to go to the grocery.
Everything is going to start going down hill from there. Now, I am just telling you what I am seeing, all right?
God is saying that this people, YOU of the end time, you must at this end time get together and be one in Christ Jesus. There is no other hope for us. We are totally lost. Do you hear me? I could tell you a little more, but probably I shouldn’t tell you too much at one time. But the things that we don’t like, we are going to fall into. The comforts of life we are used to, we are going to lose.
You know, we went to Nigeria, we were having a meeting there and I had a vision. The vision was that it was like mid-day break between meetings and everybody was gone for lunch. In the vision I was invisible and I was standing there in this great big hall. I saw a man come up and he looked quite nonchalant. He went up to the equipment, took two wires, separated them, covered it up and went out. Now, I thought to myself that he might have planted a bomb. But when I looked carefully, it wasn’t a bomb. He was just dismantling the equipment. That was the end of the vision. I called the brothers. I said, “Brethren, get somebody down there to watch your equipment, because I saw that somebody came in and dismantled the equipment.” Well, they said, “We will pray.” I won’t make any remarks about that, but they said they would pray, and they all got together and they prayed, “Oh, God,” and so and so. Well, that didn’t stop the equipment from being dismantled. Thousands of people went to the meeting that night and they were outside. There was no meeting that night. There were no lights. Amen. No lights. And I realized that the time is going to come when these beautiful lights we have and the fans going – what a comfort – we will lose them. Amen. There were no lights.
You know, Sister Beverly had a vision. She called to Africa and gave us the vision. Now, this was the second night now, for the first night there was no meeting – no lights. She called and told them that she saw men coming in, holding up everybody and shooting some of the brethren. Of course, we were in a war zone. I said to them, “Brethren, this is the dream that Sister Beverly had. Just pray, but please do something about it.” They said, “What shall we do about it?” I said, “Hire every off duty policeman in the city to come and surround this place.” You know what happened? We took money, paid them, policemen surrounded the place and we had NO problem. We went right through the meeting. I believe that God wants us to take certain actions at certain times. Brethren, may God Almighty be with you. May the blessed Father help you and bless you.
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