Brother Cecil duCille
Mahomet, IL, May 7, 2002
(Published in Keeping in Touch June 15, 2003)
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Fifty years ago I was hungry and now I am hungrier! I never seem to be satisfied with the abundance of the goodness which God gives. It’s something that creates the hunger in me and it’s like getting closer to the tape and seeing the finish line. You know, when you’re a runner you make a leap when you get to the tape line, because it is the thing for which you have been striving.
We thank God for His blessings to us, His revelations that have filled us with glory. I’m sorry that some of my revelations fill people with fear, but it seems to me that the more God shows me these things that are happening and coming to pass on the earth, the more it gives me strength to go on. Amen. Fifty years ago I saw the thing dimly, but now I can see it close, and I have to thank God for what He is doing.
At the present time we are heading up to Jacob’s trouble. The scriptures speak of a time of trouble as never was before on earth, and never will be, and He speaks of Jacob’s trouble. The Jews are going to have some problems that they never had before, and they are going to come to the point where only God can deliver them. Only God can deliver them. You know, they are trying to make peace, but it is coming off to be pieces, because even tonight while the two men sat down talking about how to make peace, somebody was setting off a bomb in Israel. It seems that the leaders of the world cannot understand that they will not be able to make any peace until Jesus comes. It is Jesus that is going to stop that war in Israel. What blesses me is that the war is getting hotter and it is getting to the place where Jesus will have to intervene. The Pope intervenes, everybody intervenes, every President we have had for the last, how many Presidents? Maybe eight Presidents, have been trying to bring peace in Israel but cannot bring peace in Israel, because the time hascome for Jacob’s trouble, when they will call to Jesus Christ and when He will help them.
There is a confusion with the thought of Israel, and Israel. Some churches say, “We are the Israel of God and there is no other Israel.” But if there wasn’t any other Israel, there wouldn’t be, “Us, Israel,” for it is the Israel out there that brought forth this Israel. Amen. So therefore, they are the root of what we call Israel. And God will punish Israel. God has punished Israel, and God will punish the church. Amen. So we don’t need to worry about that. God is going to punish it, but God says that, “I must have My church without spot, without blemish, or without wrinkle, or any such thing.”
Now, in the ancient law, He put forth a ritual of cleansing, how you are to be cleansed. Now, I am going to talk about the cleansing and the ritual and then I am going to talk about what God desires from us now as cleansing because God is at this time cleansing the temple.
Now, if God is to come and to live in the temple, remember we had three temples. The first one was the tabernacle, amen? God would come into the tabernacle, His presence would come and overshadow the whole tabernacle and there was a fire over and a cloud over the Holy of Holies and they knew that God was there. Only one man could go in there when God was in there and it was the High Priest or Moses. Now, what marked the temple was the fire. When God told Moses how to build the temple, he built it with every detail and when it was correct he said, “Now, God, I am finished.” Then God sent the fire down, amen? So, then, we knew that that was God’s temple. Then again now, Solomon built a temple. God directed David. David gathered all the materials. Solomon came, finished it up and built the temple. The day when the temple was finished, Solomon went to God and said, “God, I have finished the temple and I ask Your presence to come into this place and to bless Your people and to deliver them, and if they sin I want you to forgive it.” What happened? Fire came down. Fire came down, and that fire lasted until Jesus Christ. Yes. Fire lasted until Jesus Christ. Some four hundred and ninety years, seventy weeks, it lasted until Jesus Christ. And when Jesus came, He made the sacrifice. His blood was sacrificed and He said, “Tarry ye in Jerusalem until ye be endued with power from on high, for I am about to build my third temple.” (Luke 24:49) The third temple, therefore, was at Pentecost when thefire came down on their heads and that was the proof that God ordained that as His temple. So, we had three temples. Now, that fire has lasted from Jesus Christ and it must, fire must come right down to the Manchild. You understand? For Jesus must inhabit this temple, and we are the temple of the Living God, and He must inhabit us.
Now, what happens before He can inhabit the temple? Before God came down in the temple of Solomon, what happened? Solomon made an offering of blood. It was cleansed, sanctified. Before God came down in this temple, Jesus offered the sacrifice. His blood cleansed it. Now, what do you think will happen now, when He must come down to fill His temple, because for 2000 years the temple has not been filled? We have a way of saying, “The person was filled with the Holy Ghost.” It’s a wrong statement. He was baptized in the Holy Ghost. When Peter was filled, he was filled temporarily for some specific purpose for an anointing and then afterwards you hear that Peter was filled again. (Acts 4:8)
So, what God is saying to us is that we are in the time of the cleansing of the temple. Now, when Jesus went down just before His crucifixion, He saw people selling doves and making the temple into a market. Now, I’m talking about the natural temple. Jesus platted a cord, went down and whipped them out of the temple and that was a symbol to us that He is going to cleanse His temple just before that great infilling, that great coming. Before the Lord Jesus Christ comes here in this temple, He must fill it, He must cleanse it. You accept Jesus, you receive the Blood, you receive the Holy Ghost, but you still sin. You still have areas of darkness. God is going to rid us, don’t you feel good about it? God is going to rid us of all the areas of darkness that are within us!
I tried it, and I couldn’t do it. I cannot rid me of the ancestral spirits, of the ancestral evil that I have inherited. I cannot rid me of it! I would like to get rid of it, I hate it! Yet, God has promised me that this is the covenant that I will have with the house of Israel. In those days, He said, I will plant my law in their hearts and in their inward parts, and I will be to them a God, and they will be to me a people. (Hebrews 8:10) No more transgression. We have a promise of God that He will cleanse the temple. Now, it is something we should rejoice over. Yes, it is something we should rejoice over! When God shows you something that is wrong with you, you should rejoice over it! Thank You, Jesus.
If you turn with me to Leviticus, chapter 14. God speaks here of the cleansing of the leper, and He speaks of the cleansing of the leper’s house. We can’t read all this here, but there are a few things that I want to show you in it. If you go around from chapter 13, And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying, When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons. God says that leprosy means sin. Leprosy means sin. We were born in sin, and we were shapen in iniquity. But God had a cure for sin, and the cure for sin was that He would send Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ would be sinless, and Jesus Christ would be offered for a sacrifice for our sin so that He would take our place. When He took our place, then we were supposed to be made sinless. Amen. After God forgives you of your sins, you are sinless. Then how come you have sin again? Huh? He forgives you of your sin, you are sinless, but then, as we sit here tonight, we have sin! Sometimes we can’t account for it. Well, God spoke that there are three sacrifices that are going to be made. The first sacrifice in the morning, the second sacrifice in the midday, and the third sacrifice in the evening. What are we talking about? Didn’t Jesus Christ die one time, and He said it is forever? How come, then, this leprosy seems to be so stubborn that they had to have a sacrifice in the morning, and then they had to have another sacrifice for the man in the midday, and they had to have another sacrifice in the evening to cleanse him? I’ll tell you what happens. In the morning, Jesus came and He offered Himself a perfect sacrifice that would deliver us from ALL sin. But then, in the midday of time, the church rises up and the church begins to get sinful. The church begins to accept the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, yet they have demons in them, and working with them. What am I saying? The church has demons? Well, if you’re a Baptist you can’t believe me, because a Baptist doesn’t believe that you can have a demon. I always tell the brethren, “Listen. A demon cannot have you because you are the possession of God, bought and purchased by His blood. But you can have as many demons as you want.” Let’s look at that. A demon cannot have you because you are the purchased possession of God, but you can have as many demons as you want. Some people don’t believe it, but I am telling you that I have been beaten up by more demons in Christians than demons insinners. I don’t know if you hear me. I have been beaten up by demons in Christians more than demons in sinners, and when I went to God it was a paradox. How could a Christian do such-and-such a thing? Was he not a Christian? Some of us would say, “No. He wasn’t saved. He’s not saved.” And we are free. No, sir. He was saved. I knew him to be saved. I fellowshipped with him. I walked with him in the Lord. Amen. But then I discovered that something was in the man that the man did not get rid of, that the man refused to get rid of. If anybody tried to touch it he would…..you know, hit them away. He would not allow you to touch his demon. He covered his demon and he was not cleansed. God had to carry him through tribulation, sickness, terror, plead with his soul before He took him home.
I knew a man, a brother in Philadelphia, he was sweetly saved. Used to meet for prayer meeting every morning. He was an executive in a company. He began to get prosperous. Business began to get good. He started a little social drinking. He started just a little social drinking. “Oh, the Bible is not against it. You know, the Bible didn’t say you mustn’t drink.” And so-and-so. He started socially drinking and he didn’t realize what happened until the drink took him over. Let me tell you, brethren, if you start socially drinking, the devils are looking at you, and they bring the Bible to you. “Oh, Jesus Christ drank. Jesus Christ drank wine with the sinners.” You know what I mean. They tell you things like that. The devils tell you that! Something happens in your physical body. There are demons of liquor that come into a person and the man has no more control over his drinking. I am saying that demons can come into a Christian and the Christian hides it! Hides it! You wouldn’t find a bottle anywhere around his house. It’s all hidden under his bed. Takes a sip now and then. He becomes a slave to that drink and that demon is comfortable because he is well hidden. Somebody smells something, “Brother, it smells like you’ve been drinking!” “Oh, no! No, no, no, no.” You get another demon of lying and they come in one by one, and you minister. Oh, you get up and tell how wonderful Jesus is. Amen. He’s wonderful, isn’t He? And you do all manner of things to cover up! You’ll cover up, and you’ll keep on covering up, and the demon is very comfortable, for you have hidden him and he is hidden in a place of darkness within your soul and he takes in other demons. You know, a demon of lust will come in with a demon of liquor and they will come in one by one. That’s why I advise Christians not to drink anything at all. Don’t drink any alcoholic beverages, amen. Whether you think it was in the Bible that you can drink it or not, I say, “Don’t drink it,” and there are two reasons why you shouldn’t. The first reason is that a demon will come in with the liquor. The second reason is that somebody else having seen you drink will drink. They will take your example and you will be responsible for sending somebody to hell. Yes. This brother, he began to drink and then he dropped out of the prayer meeting and he just, you know, made all kinds of excuses, still sent his tithes to the church, but made all kind of excuses and then he dropped out. Well, guess what? God was very good to him. God loved that man so much. He got cancer and he was dying. Two women in his family began to bombard heaven. “No, God. You can’t take him, God. Save him, God! Deliver him, God!” God said, “Alright. I’ll heal him.” They are sure they heard the voice of God. They went to that hospital and laid hands on him and rebuked that cancer and the man was healed! The man was healed. He came back. He went back to work and for awhile he was clean and everything else, but the same thing happened again. Same thing happened again. After a couple years the cancer came back and again they went to God, and God said, “I’ll heal him.” Those women felt so good. They are bolder now because they did it before. They took his clothes to the hospital and they asked for his discharge and they laid hands on him and they rebuked the devil from him, and they were sure that he was going to be healed this time. He died. They could not understand God, but you know, God is love. God loves you so much that He’ll kill you rather than let the devil have you. He’ll take your life, take you out of this world rather than allow the devil to have you. He loves you. This is the kind of insurance policy that we have with God, that He loves us, and we love Him, and we will not let Him go and He will not let us go. Remember, a blood covenant is a covenant unto death, a blood covenant is covenant unto death. You made a blood covenant with Jesus Christ and if you believe it, you can say, “I am saved and I cannot be lost.” Oh, yes. So, there is something to “Once saved, always saved.” There is something to it. Don’t throw it out without considering it. If you believe God, there is no power in hell, on earth, anywhere, that can remove you from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus! Cannot! You cannot be lost! If you believe God. And so, the man believed God; God took him home, amen.
God is determined to cleanse the temple. Now, where we are today is that this temple, which we are, which the church is, is being cleansed. The temple is being cleansed and I do not know if you realize what is happening. All the problems that Christians are having now is that God is determined to finish the job, to cleanse the temple. Now, when Jesus took the cord, He whipped the money changers. He whipped the money changers out. He turned over the table with the money, and those money changers represent the demons that occupy the temple of the Living God! Remember now, the temple of the Living God, the third temple, the temple on which the Holy Ghost fire blazed at Pentecost, that temple you are! Not only you, but the church and every one who is born again is part of that temple of the Living God. God has ordained you as His eternal dwelling place. Do you think He’s going to let go and walk off and let the devil have you? Think again. You belong to God and you can’t help it any more. You made the covenant with God. Yes. You made the covenant of Baptism with God, and He baptized you in His Holy Spirit and He made a covenant of love with you. It’s not, “Till death do us part,” but it is to part never! To part never! And I will walk in them, and I will talk in them, and they shall be my people, and I shall be their God! (Hebrews 8:10) There’s no power or force on earth or hell that can stop that from coming to pass. The Almighty God has made His covenant in blood! Amen! Hallelujah!
So, the church begins to suffer and the church goes through all this terrible suffering. Betty (Peckmann) sent me some of those persecution letters of the church, and you see the church going through some horrible sufferings! Why? Why did God, Jesus Christ, suffer and die for us, and then we have to suffer again? Why? Listen brethren, if we don’t suffer, the church will have no church. I asked God the question, “My God, is the church going through the tribulation?” “Yes, the church must go through the tribulation.” The tribulation is the only hope that the church has of being clean. When the church is under tribulation, the church is a clean church. We stop being jealous of one another. We stop all the problems that we have now in spirituality. We don’t have those problems because the fire is on our backs. Amen. Hallelujah. Tribulation is the reason why the church in China survived the Communists. The Communists decided they would wipe the church out, they crucified some people with their heads upside down. One man, they crucified him for seven days. He was there dying and they poked him, poked his body with different things. They took bamboo and pushed it up under his nails and they broke up his fingers. Yes. All that they did and the church is still alive! Hallelujah! The church in China is still alive and I believe they are more alive than we are because we have not suffered any persecution! We have had it too good! So, will we go tonight and pray and beg God and say, “Lord, please send some persecution for us, Lord?” Mmm? “Oh, God, I would be afraid of such…” Nevertheless, we’re going to get it. The only way this church will rise to the height that Jesus Christ will be pleased with us, when we are without spot, without blemish, and without wrinkle is when we have gone through the fire! AMEN. So, the second lamb is the church. Amen. We are coming to the end of the time when the church will bleed. But, He said there is a third lamb. Amen? You wonder what the third lamb is? Brethren, where are we going? Just think of it. You are going to pray to God, and you are saying, “God, I want to be like Jesus.” There’s a longing in your heart, “I want to be like Jesus!” Somebody’s going around saying, “Why can’t we do miracles? Why can’t we have this and that and the other?” We want to be like Jesus! We are praying for that. You know what will happen? One day, you’re going to be like Jesus, amen. You tell me now, if you are like Jesus walking down the streets of Mahomet, do you think the sinner would be satisfied to have you walking in the glory of God and having to hide from you? No, sir! Hell will rise up! That’s what we call the battle of Armageddon. Hell will rise up the moment you begin to rise in Christ, you begin to be hated by everything that is in the devil.
The devil wrote a book named the Koran. He writes many books, right? But the book called the Koran, he wrote that to rival the Bible and I was surprised to see in Newsweek that they put a comparison between the Bible and the Koran. It’s like cheese to chalk. It’s like cheese to chalk, but you know what they said? The chalk is better than the cheese. Yes! They said, “Look at what the God of the Bible says, ‘Kill all the Amalekites!’” Huh? “Look what the God of the Bible says, ‘He brought down fire from heaven and He burnt up Sodom and Gomorrah. These beautiful homosexuals were burnt up.’” I’m telling you, I might be a little more vivid than what the article did say, but that’s what it said! It said that when you compared the God of the Bible and the God of the Koran, the God of the Bible is even worse than the God of the Koran. You know what I know about the God of the Bible? He creates and He destroys! Amen. He’s like the potter and the clay and if the pot doesn’t suit Him, He crushes it, and He makes another one. Amen.
Now, what is happening is that the world is leaning towards accepting Islam over Christ. Somewhere down the road there is going to be a clash between Christ and everything else that is not of Christ and that is what we call the battle of Armageddon. It will be a spiritual battle, but it will also be a natural battle. Everything that is spiritual manifests itself naturally in the world.
But, then this third lamb was offered in the evening. Yes sir! They were offered in the evening. God said, in Revelation 11, that they slew the two witnesses and they would not bury them because they wanted their bodies as a show, to show on television, and to show everywhere how, “We have overcome these cultists who call themselves Christians and at last we have overcome them!” Then God said that after three-and-a-half days they rose up and stood upon their feet and the whole city fell. Amen. I don’t know if you understand what kind of victory we are talking about. The only proof of life that you have is death. Let’s look at that again. If I said, “My coat is uncrushable,” how do you prove it? Crush it! That’s it! Jesus said, “I am the Son of God. I have eternal life dwelling in me. You kill me and I will rise up again in three days.” What’s the proof of that? Kill him! Kill him! That was the only proof. Mohammed couldn’t say it. He had a one way ticket! Jesus had a return ticket and He is coming again. The glory about the coming of Jesus Christ is that I feel Him in every fiber of my body, coming again! Yes. The closer He comes, the more He comes in me! Don’t you understand it? We have the proof, they have nothing. Amen. A man comes to me, he says, “Prove God to me. Prove to me that Jesus Christ is alive. Prove to me.” I say, “That’s simple, very simple. All you have to do is to kneel down right here. You kneel down right here and accept Jesus Christ as your Savior, and ask Him to come into your life.” Proof! Outside of that, you have no proof! Yeah! When I was finished with him, he walked off, but he’s coming back again. He’s my neighbor and he comes and provokes me all the while. Get him down on his knees, that’s the only way he will prove Jesus, for you can’t prove Jesus by studying books. You have to prove Jesus by submitting to Him. “If, then, this is not God, if, then, I am lying to you, you kneel down on your knees and genuinely call to the living God and ask Him to save you by His Blood and see what happens to you.” Amen!
When the fullness of the Life of God comes into me, I will go around begging people to kill me. Oh, yes! Jesus said, “No man took my life from me.” He said that they are not guilty! The Jews did not kill Jesus, they are not guilty of killing Jesus, for Jesus Christ said, “I am, my Father is more guilty than they are, because I gave my life up, and I wanted them to kill me!” The only proof that I will have of immortality that I am going to scatter among the people is for you to kill me. So they did, and He rose again. Amen. Someone says, “How do we prove, there is no historical proof, apart from what the Bible says.” I say, it’s simple! You just submit to Jesus Christ, and you will find out that He really rose again. He’s alive, amen! When Jesus walked into my room as a young man, I was shocked. I said, “I didn’t really know that you were real!” Amen. The first thing happened to me, I didn’t know God was real, I didn’t know Jesus was real, that He was alive and real. He came into my room as a man. Somebody is now trying to convince me that I didn’t see Jesus. You know? Fool. Yes. Couldn’t convince me. I saw Jesus, I lived with Him for seven months. I talked to Him every day as a person. I got to know Him as a friend. Then, knowing Him, I got quickened. How are you going to tell me that I don’t know Jesus?
So, here it is, the third lamb. But, let me tell you something about the third lamb. The third lamb will be Jesus Christ the head, and we the Body. So it is a God-man. Christ in you, not just the hope of glory, but the glory! I don’t know if you understand. You hope for something, but when you get it, you don’t hope anymore. You got it! So, it’s just Christ in me the hope of glory because I am now kind of wishy-washy. But the time will come, when Christ is in me, the glory! Amen. Why should I allow the world to fool around and disturb me? I mean, you get discouraged sometimes because you submit to the devil. Do you know the reason why you get discouraged is because of the devil? Amen. One time I was getting a little discouraged, you know, I’m there under the shadow. God came to me one time and said, “The shadow is around your head. All the darkness is around your head. Outside there it is sunlight. The sun is still shining. The day when you dance and be happy with God, it’s still there, not a change. It’s your head that is covered. Take off the veil and throw it away, and you will see the sunlight.” Amen. Yes. The ostrich runs, but when he is tired he gets a brain wave. If I push my head down into the sand, they won’t see me. So, he pushes his head down, and his big bottom is hanging outside there. Praise be to God. Somebody said, you know the little song says, “Standing on the promises of Christ my Savior.” I say to him, “Oh, brother, instead of standing on the promises, you are sitting on the promises. Get up! Stop sitting on the promises and do something!” Amen.
God calls you to be alive, to be a part of the Body. Even the hairs on my head have some use. You notice I wear a hat? That’s because I have lost the hair on the top of my head, I have to put on a hat! The hairs of my head have a certain purpose. You are part of the Body of Christ and you have a purpose. No matter how you feel, no matter what you do that is wrong, go around and try to tell somebody about Jesus and see how good you feel. Oh, yes! Praise be to God.
So, the third lamb is God and man, walking and talking together. And I will walk in them, and I will talk in them, and they shall be my people, and I shall be their God. (Hebrews 8:10) This is what we long for. Hallelujah. This is what our souls cry out for. Amen!
Let me touch one little thought here before I close. Why is it that when I would do good, evil is present with me? (Romans 7:21) He said, “I see a law working against the law of life. The law of life in Christ Jesus, makes me free from the law of sin and death.” (Romans 8:2) So the two laws are battling. The law of life, and the law of sin and death. Oh, wretched man that I am. Who shall deliver me? (Romans 7:24) And he said, “Jesus Christ will deliver me.” Yes. “My father was like that. My grandfather was like that. I find myself like that and I can’t help myself from being like that. How will I be delivered from the demons of my family?” Yes. Demons are living beings! They are living beings that work havoc in our lives. You know, it will be so glorious, as God promises us, that the time will come when He will chain the devil and cast him into the abyss for a thousand years and He is going to do it in this seventh millennium in which we are. So it’s about time that God is going to cast out the devil, but He is allowing him to have his last fling. Okay, can you imagine when there is no devil around, how you will feel? Oh man! You couldn’t keep those people down in the seats! We wouldn’t need to have any seats, we would have a dance floor! People would just come and they would just be dancing all over the place because there was no devil! Amen. No devil to tempt me, no devil to disturb me! I want to think about God, I think about God! No ancestral spirits to cause me to be this or that or the other. But, thank you, Jesus, it’s close to come. God said He would send Michael the Archangel to help us cast the devil out of the kingdom of God! What do you think He’s talking about? This is the kingdom of God! The kingdom of God is within you. But there’s a little devil there, a little ancestral spirit, a dirty demon that needs to be kicked out that causes me to think wrong when I want to think right. It causes me to go against the brother, go against the sister, go against somebody else, a jealous feeling. These are demonic thoughts bombarding us. We think about the song we sing, “Flow Through Me,” and you know what happens? The good spirit that is in you flows through the brethren and through the people. If you see somebody discouraged, don’t pass a discouraged person and just go about your business. You talk to the discouraged person and while you talk to them, there’ll be a flow. The Spirit of God will flow through them no matter who they are. Once they listen to you, you will be bringing peace and deliverance to them. Even as we sit here tonight, there is a flowing of the Spirit. The Spirit of God is flowing through and through each other, one another. Amen. We speak about Jesus, we sing about Jesus, we pray and the Spirit of God flows, and there is a flowing. But when this flow comes, it hits upon a blockage. What is the blockage? The blockage might be the spirit of your ancestors, a familiar spirit that you never let go.
I wish I could talk to you about it without you getting afraid. Oh, Lord Jesus. One night I saw a certain brother on the television preaching and I said to Burt, “Watch that man. He has a spirit of lust.” There was no reason, he was preaching, “Come to Jesus.” And he was preaching and he began to cry. I said, “That is a spirit of lust.” He couldn’t understand what I was saying, but it was a discernment that I discerned, the spirit of lust on the brother. It didn’t go long before the thing came out. The brother should have gotten rid of that spirit of lust many years ago. God dealt with him and dealt with him, but every time he would push it under the rug, hide it under the rug.
I remember, in days gone by, none of you here are old enough to know the time I was talking about, but I was with brother A. A. Allen. Any of you here ever heard of brother A. A. Allen? Amen. Powerful man of God. I mean, he did mighty works of God. I’m not talking about those people who bring off tricks and all that. This man, he brought off some really powerful things. Like, a mad man that they brought in a truck and he told them to lock him up in the truck with the mad man. This man was weird because it took ten men to put him in there and A. A. Allen went in there, and they knocked on the truck, they opened it, both of them came out, the man in his right mind, clothed and in his right mind. Allen had the gift of the Spirit. But guess what? He had a demon. He had a demon! And you could not talk to him about it. Oh, he would get mad with you! He went on until a woman, a sister. You see, when people come to church you should be so part of the Spirit and part of the Body of Christ that you should function. If the minister has a demon, you should be able to help him to get rid of it. Amen. We had a whole church that was being led by an occultist. The man studied the occult, he worked in the occult, and he came and started a church and he had so much power, “I can tell you about what’s happened to you, and you, I discern so-and-so, and I discern….” And the people just said, “Wow. He’s wonderful, he’s of God because he can tell me what I did at home.” I’ll tell you what happened. A. A. Allen would not allow anybody to talk to him. But this woman, you know, we thank God for women. Thank God for women! Whereas men are afraid to do some things, women go there and do it! So she just simply went up to him and said, “Brother Allen, the Lord gave me a word for you.” “WHAT? Who are you that the Lord should give you a word for me? I talk to God every day! If God wanted to tell me something, God will tell me. God won’t give you a word for me!” Now, if someone comes and says God gave them a word for me, I tremble. I say, “My, God. I must have messed up somewhere.” Amen. “What is it?” But he did not want to hear and drove her away and the woman walked down there and she turned around now, and she’s going to give everybody the word. She said, “Whether you want to hear or whether or want to forbear or not hear, God says, “He is going to kill you unless you repent!” Now, you don’t want a woman like that in your churches. It is a case to cast out of the temple. Anyhow, it didn’t go a month, he was dead. He died of ceros is of the liver. His whole inside was parched dry, liquor. Amen. He died.
Many of the mighty men, I’ve told you about liquor tonight, many of the mighty men died from liquor. Yes. There was brother, Tommy Hicks, mighty man! Mighty man of God! The man loved God with all his heart. Mighty man of God. This was no cheap Christian! Mighty works down in South America. God translated him to Russia. He preached to all the churches in Russia and found himself back in his bed. Amen. Died a drunkard. Spirits took him and I could tell you many, many more cases. Why am I telling you this? I don’t really know, but the Spirit of God is making me tell you, and I believe that you should realize that if you resist the devil he will flee from you. If you find that you are doing something in your life that you can’t stop doing, you lie or you cheat or you have a lust that is going on in your life, and you can’t stop it, don’t say, “I need to get married,” because you would be just hiding it. Get to God and say, “Get this thing out of me! I don’t care where it comes from, whether it comes from my Grandmother or my Grandfather, I don’t care! Get it out!” If you find yourself with a spirit of anger, a spirit of anger, it’s a SPIRIT! Have you ever looked at a person’s face when he’s angry? The person is smiling and they’re beautiful. And they’re angry, ….Why is he going on like that? A spirit is in him! And that spirit will motivate him to do wrong things. You have a spirit in your emotions that everything that comes to you, you apply it emotionally. A Word of God comes to you and instead of applying the Word of God, take your mind, and put it on the Word of God. God said, your mind will be stayed on God, he’ll keep you in perfect peace. (Isaiah 26:3) Instead of that, you put it into your emotions, and you begin to feel some emotional feeling that you must do something. God help us.
The temple is being cleansed! Look out for everything that is in you that is not of God! Don’t try to cleanse the other person. Hallelujah. The temple must be clean before the King will come in. Jesus is on His way! Amen! Jesus is on His way. He wants to fill this temple! And unless you submit to Him, you won’t be filled by Him. Praise be to God. Amen.
The ancestral spirits, you say, “But Jesus Christ cleansed me. Didn’t He cleanse me from the ancestral spirits, too? Huh?” Jesus Christ cleansed me. Do you know what happened after He cleansed you? The spirits came back to you and you accepted them. Oh, yes. You accepted the fact that your father was like this or your mother was like this, and before I close let me explain that part. I know somebody is hitched up right there, because if Jesus Christ cleansed you, you are supposed to be clean. I got saved, and I began to preach the word of God, and I thought that I was all right. I was so good, I was so sweet. I couldn’t find anything in me. Anybody else been like that? I just couldn’t find anything in me. I loved everybody. I wanted to preach the Gospel, that’s all I wanted. God sent a devil to provoke me. I was sitting on a horse, and this man came up. One of the men from the farm and he said, “You know, get down off that horse. If you come down off that horse I will show you something here today.” You know, he was ready to fight me and he was mad! As a sinner, a man like that would never dare to look at me much more talk about fighting. And here am I sitting on the horse. He challenged me, “You dare not put your foot down off that horse!” I began to tremble, and the same old time thing that I used to know, as anger, started to come over me. I said, “Boy, I better not come off this horse.” I couldn’t trust myself to come off the horse. I went to God, and said, “Oh, God, I thought I was all right.” I said, “I’m not all right at all. I need help.” I went on fasting and praying and I believe I was cleansed again now. But then, one day, I saw two men fighting. The one man was beating the other man, and he knocked him down on the ground, and he picked him up and he knocked him down again, and he picked him up. I ran and said, “You’re going to kill the man!” and I thought the man would have backed off, but the man attacked me! I’m telling you, for that one moment I don’t know what happened. I only know that I was running with the man over my shoulder. You know, in my youth, I was strong as an ox and I was running with this man on my shoulder. Running towards a wall and something in my little mind said, “Put him down on the wall and lecture him.” The man must have weighed nearly 200 pounds. “Put him on the wall and lecture him.” And instead of putting him on the wall, I slammed him down on the wall. The man was dazed and the wall scattered. When I saw that, “I didn’t do it. I’m sure I didn’t dot!” When I saw that, I ran! Ran back to my office, sat down at the desk. “My, God. I thought I was delivered!” You know what I mean? It says, some kind cometh not out but by prayer and fasting. (Matthew 17:21) If you are serious about cleansing the temple, you must pray and fast for that temple to be cleansed! Amen! So I began to fast and pray. Oh, I don’t know how long I was fasting, but here comes another young man. Now, he’s working with me, and he’s making mistakes and I chastise him, “You need to do better. You make too many mistakes. I have to correct all your mistakes.” You know. I did not notice, I had my head down, and suddenly I saw a fist coming up to my face. I jumped off backward off the chair, and the man was on me, bam, bam, bam, bam! You think God can send the devil sometimes? He did. But, it was a blessing to me because I was determined in my heart that I was not going to hit him. I was determined that I was not going to hit him. And the devil was in my ear. You see, when the man hit me like this, the devil said, “Get him under the arm. Get him under the arm,” because that is what I would do when I was fighting on the street. I said, “No, God. No.” He kept, bam, bam, bam. And I, “No. No.” I’m there praying while he’s hitting me. When the man went to his seat, a bubble of joy came up. I started laughing and guess what? The demon left! The demon left! Do you think a man could have hit me and I laugh? He couldn’t even think of it, but the demon left me and I had joy! Everybody, all the women in the office began to say, “The man is mad! He’s an idiot!” But I am telling you, it was such a joy! The demon of my forefathers, the demon that had taken my brothers and sisters, and father and grandfather had been defeated that day! Oh, yes! And it set some of them free! My sister got saved. My brother got saved. The demon got hit! Amen. Praise God.
You represent your family when you go down to pray, you take the whole name of the family before God like the priest with the twelve stones, six on each shoulder. He would go before God and all Israel, and God would accept his prayer for the whole Israel. You represent your family, and all those who God has ordained for you to save. Those who are working, those you work with, you see, God wants you to save them! God wants you to do something for God. If you don’t do something for God, the devil will come in and give you something to do. God bless you. Hallelujah. Amen.
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