Brother Cecil duCille
May 5, 2009 Internet Broadcast
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Brother Cecil duCille: We bless you, Brother Gary, for the marvelous work that you are doing in this arena of internet broadcasting. We pray that the other young people might rise up to serve God in their own capacity, according to the need God sees for the Body.
I can see God scattering the gifts through the whole Body and people beginning to see Jesus in a different light because His gifts are being scattered. Some people who are gifted don’t even know they are gifted. They say, “I feel to do this or that.” When they do it, they feel a blessing and a lifting up and they do not know that it is the gift of God that has been given to them that is being exercised in them. It is peculiar. Some of us feel that we should have the gift to function as this brother here or that sister there. No, no, no. The gift of God is so variegated in its dispensation that even people having the same gift will function differently.
I remember a sister in our church in Jamaica when the Lord had just anointed us. She would come inside and her specific gift was that she could feel what was hurting another member of the congregation. She would get up and hold her side and she would cry out in severe pain and when we prayed for her, the person who had the real pain would be delivered. Hallelujah. Sometimes she would come up and hold her head, saying, “Somebody has a headache,” and we would pray. It is so amazing, the various ways in which God works His gifts in His people. I look forward to seeing this happen more often. It is at this time that the gospel of the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world.
I am going to read from Matthew 24, starting in verse 1, And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. 2And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. 3And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? When will the temple be thrown down? In Titus, the temple was thrown down, cast down, and dug out. The heathen heard that gold was inside of the bricks and they tore down every stone. Can you imagine that? It was exactly as Jesus said. And what shall be the sign of thy coming? The signs of the coming of Jesus are with us now. 4And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. Daniel 12 tells us that it will be 1290 days between the time of the taking away of the oblation and the sacrifices and the setting up of the abomination that makes it desolate. I just wonder if we have ever thought that God Almighty has set this out plainly for us to understand, 1290 days after Jesus Christ abolished the oblation. Let’s go to Daniel 12 and then we will come back to our main passage here in Matthew.
Daniel 12:10, Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. If you can understand, you will know that God classifies you with the wise. 11And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. We are talking about the abomination that declares, “I am Christ.”
Now we are going back to Matthew 24:11, And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. We are talking about the largest number of people in the world who are religious and call themselves Christians who are deceived by the abomination that is going to destroy the world and makes desolate. Now, we can read that in several different places in scripture wherein there is coming an abomination that makes desolate.
Daniel 11:32, And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. Daniel 9:27, And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. In other words, Jesus is saying that the covenant will be perfected for seven days, which is one week, or for seven years. He came and took three and a half years out of the seven year week. So, we have the three and a half years left of one week. I want you to look at these words. God said that there is going to be a consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Now, if you never understood that verse before, this is what the verse is simply saying. Jesus Christ took three and a half years out of the seven years to introduce the Kingdom of God on earth. After that was done, He brought in the new covenant which no longer required bulls and lambs to be offered, but He offered Himself as the eternal sacrifice. Why? Because His Blood was powerfully efficacious to destroy the power of sin, so that the power of an endless life came into being and the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus began to set men free from the law of sin and death. Romans 6:23, For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. So, the gift of God began to set men free from the desolation of the wages of sin. Now, if this didn’t happen, the world would already be destroyed because of the preponderance, or the amount of sin that was left, that was done by us human beings. It would be so much that Satan would get the right to destroy the whole world because the wagemaster, the collector of taxes, is Satan himself. Whenever you sin, he collects. He says to God, “Your Word says that the wages of sin is death, therefore I command death for Tom. I command death for Mary. I command death for Jill.” But Jesus says, “No. I will pay the debt.” He takes out a bunch of life and
He cancels death by giving life. So, Satan lives because we continue to sin. But, three and a half years are going to come when the sons of God will use up the rest of the covenant week. Could it be clearer than this? The sons of God are going to use up the rest of the covenant week. The reason is that they were not yet birthed, they have not yet come forth in Christ and they could not inherit the promise of the living God unless they had been born and came alive. God has come to the time described in Revelation 11:3, And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. You can see how simple the scripture is.
The end cannot come until the Christ is manifested in man in the fullness. Ephesians 4:13, Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: God is saying at this time that we are being trained to receive the fullness of Christ when the three and a half years come. So, if someone is saying that, “We have it already. We are there,” that person does not have the knowledge and understanding. What is going to bring us there? Verse 11, And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers. God never gave any pastors, He gave shepherds. Pastors, I am speaking from the Lord Himself. He calls you shepherds, not pastors. He doesn’t want pastors. He wants people who will shepherd His people, who will walk in righteousness as an example and the people will follow because they know the Shepherd. I hope you understand me. I am not cursing pastors; I am just saying that pastors have no right there.
Verse 12, For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. God is saying that this three and half years won’t come until the work of the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers is complete. For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry: What work? The three and a half years of perfect Christ-like work of men moving in the Spirit and the power of Christ bringing the gospel to all of the dark corners of the earth. We won’t need airplanes, brethren. We won’t need cars at this time when we are endued with power from God. We will go forth into places where we need to be without human transportation. We will be in the Spirit so much that we will move like spirits but still be men.
I want you to understand what God is saying here. In the three and a half years that Jesus Christ took, He brought the gospel of the Kingdom of God and brought the light in mortality. He went away and He is back in us. For the coming of Jesus Christ, the Greek word is parousia and it means “the arrival.” Jesus must come in me until all principalities and powers of the rulers of the darkness of this world and all spiritual wickedness are cast down IN ME. I am earthy. You are earthy. This is the greatest thing that God ever made on earth, the human body. You look at the body. I don’t know how men don’t just fall before God. A man studies to be a doctor and he sees how the body works and he sees parts that he knows nothing about. He asks, “Who made this?”
I jump in my car, start it and it drives beautifully. I say, “Lord, thank You for the Ford Company,” because I know someone made it. Yet in my own body, I can’t look at this flesh, this magnificent specimen that could only be made by a God like my God and not know that God made it? I look and see the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, in my fingernail, or in the hairs of my head. I admire His handiwork. As we press along into the glory of God, His glory presses along into us. God is so functioning in us that He will come forth, not only in words, but in deeds, because we preach a perfect word and we are not yet perfected. But we see the glory of His life working in our members, casting down the imaginations of our humanity and bringing forth His glory in us, that we can see Him and we can hear Him and we can speak through Him and He can speak through us.
God says that the apostle is ordained of God so that he will hear and deliver the words of God, and walk the walk of God before the people and the people will be straightened by the word of the living God that comes through from heaven. He will send prophets who will speak beyond themselves. When Isaiah or Jeremiah got up and spoke something, do you think they knew what they were saying? I don’t think they knew half of it. God said to Daniel, “Shut the book. Close it. This thing is to come to pass in the end time people” (Daniel 12:4). The scriptures tell me that the saints are learning from the church as God unfolds His plan on earth (I Peter 1:12, Hebrews 11:40). The magnificent working of Almighty God is unfolded on earth within human beings and He is seeking to walk and talk through me, for the glory of Jesus Christ to come out through human beings. This is what God is trying to do through you. God is working through sinners also, to deliver them from their ancestral burdens, from the prison house into which they were born and to set them free. This is our GOD. That is why He said in Matthew 24:14, And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
So, we see the work of the apostle, the work of the prophet, and the work of the evangelist. Yet, Satan comes in and do you know what he says? He says, “Hmm, Paul wasn’t so right after all. James and John weren’t so right after all. Neither was Peter.” Then he begins to tell you what he wants you to hear. He is trying to disfigure the gospel and has, to a great extent, succeeded among those who will not listen to God.
When you talk about abomination, I wonder if you can really analyze the word and look at the depth of the meaning. Abomination means something that is repulsive, not only to God but to man. It is so repulsive, it is so repugnant, and it is so awful that it would make you vomit just to think of the intricacies of its demonic qualities. God says that there is an abomination that is making the world desolate. This abomination could empty the earth and make the earth a dead planet. Do you understand what I am saying? He compares the abomination of desolation with the Christ. The scripture says that when that is taken away, it will be 1290 days after that that the abomination which is going to destroy the world will be set up. The truth is that the abomination cannot be really abominable until it comes out of the church, unfortunately. Satan invaded the church and what he did was to make something replace Jesus Christ.
Jesus gave His own body as a sacrifice and an offering forever. So, it causes the efficacy of the sheep or goat or cow sacrifices to be obsolete. God put them aside. No longer were they able to have any effectiveness and Jesus inserted Himself in. John 11:25, …I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. John 1:29, …Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. When you go to the altar and want your sins to be forgiven, you go to Jesus. You say, “Lord Jesus, I have sinned. Forgive my sin, O my God.” God will say, “I forgive you.” Matthew 7:8, For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Luke 11:10, For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Isn’t that marvelous? You don’t have to have money to come. Isaiah 55:1, Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Jesus Christ says, “Come now and ask Me for forgiveness and I will do it.”
When I was a sinner, I cried to God one day. God intervened so magnificently that it changed my whole way of thinking. If you ever are in trouble and you call upon the name of God, He is not going to leave you in trouble. The thief on the cross was a great sinner, murderer, killer, and thief. They caught him and they hung him on a cross beside Jesus. Luke 23:42, And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. Wow, what a cry. Jesus said, To day… He didn’t say tomorrow. He said, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise (Luke 23:43). Please remember the offering and the oblation that should be efficacious in delivering a person from sin was no longer effective after Jesus offered that one sacrifice. If we understand that now, we go from there.
Someone came and put in an abomination saying, “I am Christ.” Remember that Jesus said in Matthew 24:23, Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Now, there was a system then that was put in at that time where you could go to a priest and say, “Father, I have sinned.” Has anybody ever heard of those words? You confess your sin to him and he forgives you and splashes some holy water upon you and he deceives you that your sins are forgiven. Then there is another priest that says, “I am the vice-Christ. I work for Christ when Christ is not here. Jesus is gone to heaven; therefore, I am the Christ now.” He speaks in Latin or in some foreign tongue and you bow to him and you kiss his ring and all your sins are forgiven. THIS IS WHAT GOD MEANS BY ABOMINATION. God is saying that man has put something else in place of God.
Anything that comes in place of Christ is an abomination. That abomination is designed of the devil to cause desolation and destruction. Why? Those sins are not being paid for. So, Satan has power because you have not given God the glory.
Now, I hope that we can understand what the Lord is saying. The Lord is speaking about the abomination of desolation. Do you know who John was? He was the man who was closest to Jesus. The Bible says he was always lying on Jesus’ bosom (John 13:23). I think he was so close because Jesus was whispering in his ears. I John 2:18, Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. Can you imagine a man saying that 2000 years ago? So, what do you think he would say now? 19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. God is saying that the church departed from God and turned to another god and that was an abomination. In I John 2:22, we see another thought here. Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. 23Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
Revelation 14:1, And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads. That means the highest peak of God that God has reserved for man, a high point of God. The King James here translates his Father’s name, but what the Greek says is tou patros autou (phonetically), that is His Father’s and His name, both the Father and the Son’s name written in their minds. Now, if God writes His name that is His nature which is Love in your mind, it means that we are pretty close to perfection. When the love of God takes hold of your mind, your thinking cannot be transgression; it has to be God. Hallelujah.
We are talking about God coming, the coming of Jesus Christ, into man. When Jesus comes into you He abolishes the abomination. Take, for instance, a man who used to worship money. Now, if you talk to any person who worships money, they will say, “Oh no, no. I don’t worship money.” But really, to them, money is their life. It was so bad that when the money failed in the last war, many people committed suicide because their money was a god and their god was now dead. May God help us that we don’t worship money. There are many other things that men worship. Some men worship women and some men’s wives can tell them to do anything and they will do it, because they worship the wife as a god.
God is saying that anything that you worship and put in the place of Jesus Christ is anti-Christ. It is an abomination to God. So, if you put your church in the place of Christ it is anti-Christ. If you put your bishop or your pastor in a place where you have to go to your bishop or your pastor to ask him for so and so, to tell you what to do, or whatever else, it means that you have put Jesus Christ aside and put the pastor in the place where Jesus should be.
I remember that there were some people that we used to fellowship with who had a crisis. They wanted to know if we were the right people to fellowship with, or if they should go back to their organized churches with pastors and bishops.
So, somebody came up with the idea, “Let’s go listen to that great prophet in the United States who can see through a 9 inch wall. Let’s go listen to him.”
That act was an act of rejection of Jesus Christ. So, when they went, the prophet acted perfectly in his capacity as prophet.
“So many of you are here and you are from such and such a place and your desire is so and so. Well, my answer is so and so.”
WRONG! He gave them the wrong answer.
God called to me and said, “Look over there.”
So, I realized that these people had put someone else in the place of God. If you put a prophet in the place of God you are creating an abomination.
God says that this abomination that is making the world desolate would stand up in the Holy Place. It was so important that Jesus Christ said it. It was very important for Jesus to say it. Remember now the brethren asked Him, what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? (Matthew 24:3). First of all, the sign that the temple would be thrown down, we all know that that was done under Titus. They dug out the temple and the stones because they believed that there was gold in it. Matthew 24:15, When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
I remember when people used to collect money to go and build a temple in Jerusalem, because they said that this scripture could not come to pass unless they built the temple and have the Holy Place. It is such horrible carnality that we don’t even have to think of it. God’s church started after the stopping of the sacrifices. He set up a church, not with a building, but with the hearts of men. Those components include your spirit, soul, and body, or the Holy of Holies, Holy Place, and Outer Court. God says that when you see this church, as it is in your body, so it is in the coming together of the saints, the assembly which we call church. Now, in the assembly of the saints you must first have an Outer Court experience. If you don’t have an Outer Court experience, you can’t have a Holy Place experience. You must first be born again and receive the washing of the water of the Word of God. There must be an acceptance of Jesus Christ as the sacrifice out there in the Outer Court. Then you must go to the Brazen Laver according to the Word of God and you must wash there and that is the sign of baptism: baptized into water, baptized into the Holy Spirit, and baptized into Christ. In other words, you cannot be baptized in the Holy Spirit if you are not saved. I have heard some people talk in tongues and they are not saved. When you are saved it means that you are born again. II Corinthians 5:17, Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. When you get into a place like that then you will understand that you are saved. Now, after you are saved, there is only one way for you to go. If a man is saved and he does not desire the fullness of the Holy Spirit he is not saved.
Some may be thinking, “You are making some awful pronunciations here.”
If Jesus Christ is in you, and His Blood is in you, the Blood of Jesus Christ will cry out in you for the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the fullness of Christ. YOU WANT MORE OF GOD. It is not a case that you are talking about your desires any more. But the desire in you for more of God is a cry in you from deep down in your soul. You can’t control it because Jesus in you is crying out for the fullness.
As you go further into Christ, you might encounter more unexpected trouble. God is working on you to bring you down to the point where you will accept the fullness of the Spirit. So the Spirit of God breaks into your holy of holies. Your holy of holies is your spirit. The Spirit of God breaks into your holy of holies and begins to affect your mind. People talk about the soul and a lot of people don’t know what they are talking about. I am talking about your mind and your emotions, your will and your desires. That is your soul.
Then the Spirit of God breaks through into your spirit because you desire God. Jesus Christ baptizes you. You are immersed into the Spirit like man immersed you into the water. So, when you get baptized you come into a covenant with God.
Now, every board in the tabernacle has three golden rings on it. One is a type of the spirit, one is a type of the soul, and one is a type of the body. A golden ring means a marriage, a covenant. So, the first covenant that you make is at the altar of sacrifice, where you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord. When you do that, Jesus then begins to push you forward and you must get the baptism of the Spirit or else you are not saved. The abomination of desolation that ministers to the mind of men causes men to turn to another god. So, the doctrines of the churches that exclude the baptism of the Holy Spirit are churches which are allied with the abomination that came into the church 1290 days after Jesus Christ.
So, you see the baptism of the Holy Spirit is an essential step into Christ and into God. If you don’t have this you don’t have the movement into God. Now, let me tell you the true word of the living God that He told me personally when He came into my room. When I did not know how to read scripture, Jesus Christ came in as a man and He taught me from it 7 months straight. Every day He taught me my manna until He led me to the baptism of the Spirit.
When the Spirit came at first I did not know what it was. I thought that I was getting crazy, because I heard a voice speaking way down in my belly. It was a voice speaking inside of me and I was not speaking until the day that the voice brake out and spoke through my mouth and I knew that something had happened. God explained to me that it was the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which He calls the gift of the Spirit.
It is either that you are on one side with Christ Jesus in your life as Lord and King, OR you are on the other side with the churches that have accepted the abomination. Now, if you have not received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, just go to the Lord Jesus and ask, “Jesus Christ, am I baptized in the Spirit? If I am not, please do it now. Amen.” It is as simple as that. Matthew 7:7-8, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Amen. …every one that asketh receiveth.
He said that this abomination that is making the world desolate was spoken of by Daniel the prophet (Matthew 24:15). In Acts 2:38, Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
How would you respond if you were baptized and they called the name of Jesus over you and you went through all of the rigmarole and you did not receive the gift of the Holy Spirit after waiting for some time? He told them to tarry (for ten days) in Jerusalem. It is not always immediately. Some people say that because I accepted Jesus I am baptized in the Holy Spirit. That is not true. They are two different works. Once you receive one work you must open up your heart for the other work to be done. Verse 39, For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. Every man that God calls, God is ready to baptize him in the Holy Spirit.
Let’s read a little more here. Acts 1:4, And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. What is the promise of the Father? It is the Holy Spirit. Verse 5, For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. So, it wasn’t a matter of as they accepted Jesus they received the Holy Spirit. They had to wait.
Look at what Jesus says in Luke 24:49, And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. So, as we go into these things we are talking about the abomination that is making the world desolate, and it is causing Satan to demand his payment for sin. This is the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet. God said that Satan would stand in the Holy Place. I spoke earlier about the Outer Court church. You accept Jesus as your Savior. The next thing is that you are baptized in water. And the next baptism is in the Holy Spirit. But hear this, people, go inside of the Holy Place, and Jesus is telling us that this abomination is now standing there. In other words, people are receiving tongues and talking in tongues and they are not of God, or they are not really baptized.
Mark 13:14, But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains. The abomination should probably be able only to come as far as the Outer Court, but the abomination is now coming inside of the Holy Place church. That means that the people who believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit have a false holy ghost, or a false prophetic word. I see some men on television who are prophesying and they have great power and they have a number of people following them. They are false prophets! Amen. They are false prophets and they are talking in tongues and carrying on. It said that the abomination would be coming in to the Holy Place church and would deceive many. Amen. When you see that start happening, what do you do? Get up higher!
…then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains. Go into the Holy of Holies. Flee before God at the mercy seat and say, “Lord, deliver me from the abomination that is making the whole world desolate.”
Matthew 7:21, Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. 24Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock.
Brethren, it is possible for people to hear these words and go out and deceive many that they are Christians and they deceive themselves, so far that they will go before God and say, “We have done great things in Your name.” You called the name, but you didn’t walk in the name. You speak it with your mouth but your heart was far from it (Mark 7:6).
I want you to understand once again, the abomination that is making the world desolate, that is handing over payment to Satan and thinking that they are handing it to God, is now standing in the Holy Place and ministering to the people of God who are seeking holiness, who want holiness but they are walking under a certain religious teaching that is far from holiness. They believe that they are holy. They are paying their tithes and monies to the hand of those who are not worshipping God in Spirit and in truth. But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by
Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains: Now, we are not talking about physical mountains that can save you. We are talking about the mount of God, heading into Christ, and into the Holy of Holies. If you are in the Holy Place and you see the abomination in the Holy Place, LEAVE. FLEE INTO THE HOLY OF HOLIES. Mark 13:15, And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house. God is saying that if you are on a little height with Jesus Christ, don’t bother to come down, you just go up higher. God is speaking to us in very, very clear terms. The abomination that makes desolate is standing in your holy place. Where is your holy place? It is in the mind of the people. There are some people who love God but they were taught wrongly. They are following the priests and the bishops and the governors of the church who minister lies to them. Some of these poor men placed in authority, they don’t even know that they are lying. My God, help us. May God intervene and deliver His people from this awful abominable thing we are calling Jesus Christ. We are still offering our offerings and our oblations to a false god.
God is speaking to His people, II Corinthians 6:17, Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. Those that have a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. (II Timothy 3:5) It grieved Him that some of the people that He blessed were there among the crucifiers. One man that He had healed spat into His face. One arm that He had healed rose up and said “Crucify him.” Ingratitude. II Timothy 3:2, For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good. This scripture is talking about people who can’t contain themselves; this is like the scripture in Genesis 16:12 which describes one man as a wild ass. Ishmael was described in scripture as a wild ass. Verse 6, For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts. 7Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. 9But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was. There are those that work sorcery and think that they are serving the true and living God.
God is speaking to us. We need to examine our salvation, for the abomination that makes desolate is well established in all our churches. If you are a church man, woman or child, begin to examine what you are doing, because that very pastor is contrary to God. If the pastor loves God so much, let him walk in a way that the sheep that walk behind him call him shepherd. John 10:11, I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. “Some of you sheep are out of here if you don’t pay tithes.” Verse 27, My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
John 10:13, The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. 14I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. 15As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. 17Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
God is trying to tell us that we must walk in what we talk and we must keep away from this abomination for the day of God’s judgment is at hand. The payment for all this is at hand. God is not going to apologize for Sodom and Gomorrah. He is going to pay us the full length of the law according to what He has given us. So, the hour of God’s judgment is at hand. May God help us to understand, to believe and to walk in His truth. We say, “Oh, but I am telling the truth.” “I am telling the truth.” Do you know what the truth is? To slander another person, to tell all that you know about his or her life even before they were saved – that is not truth! That is nothing but wickedness.
If you are going to talk something to somebody else about me and it is not to glorify God, then it is not truth. It might be a true lie, but not truth. John 14:6, Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 7If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. In other words, if you are a Muslim then you are not following Jesus. Somebody told me that he was a Muslim and that he was following Jesus. NO SIR! You cannot follow Jesus if you are a Muslim. So, if you have the wrong name, put it aside, don’t call yourself Muslim any more. Call yourself a follower of Jesus if you are following Jesus. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Someone is saying, “Allah is my father. I come unto my father.”
NO SIR! It is not true. It is a lie. Somebody has pawned a lie upon you. You are not following Jesus if you are following Mohammed, because Mohammed never followed Jesus. He got a twisted form of Catholicism from the Roman Catholic Church and he made his own gospel upon that twisted form. So, his catechism looks very closely like the Roman catechism.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS:
Brother Gary Sonmore: We will open it up for questions here just in a moment. Again, I thank you, Brother duCille. My first thought is that we think of the many different dimensions that are in the Word of God. I think, also, that there are many different dimensions of this abomination. We have to be careful that we don’t just focus in on one dimension of it, but we really need to see all of it. We need to see the abomination that is out there in that church system that is coming up. We need to also recognize that this holy place is that place within our minds and within our souls. We could fail in the task if we just focus on that abomination out there and not recognize the holy place that is being represented by the type of our souls. We also need to recognize what is happening, unfortunately, within much of Christendom at the moment with the abomination that is rising up in the holy place. There are probably other dimensions where we could say the world as a whole or politically or what have you. I think of those two particularly, the religious court and the court of our souls, the holy place of our souls. Praise the Lord. Let me open it up here for questions.
Question: There are many people who are taught that when they come to accept Jesus that they are baptized in the Holy Spirit at the same time. What I am wondering is that when someone accepts Jesus, what are the scriptures that talk about the baptism of the Holy Spirit?
Brother Cecil duCille: The people who were taught that when they accept Jesus they receive the Holy
Spirit at the same time were taught incorrectly because it was not that way with the disciples. Neither was it that way with the Gentiles when Peter went to the Gentiles and preached. There is always a time between when you accept Jesus and when you receive the Holy Spirit. You asked what the signs are that you can surely say that you have received the Holy Spirit? Mark 16:16-18, He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. 17And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Now, there are five signs there and very often the only one that can manifest itself immediately when you receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit is speaking in tongues. Sometimes the Spirit speaks through you in prophecy. That is, you prophesy instead of speaking in tongues. The moment that the Spirit comes into you He takes charge of your body and your tongue. Generally, the Holy Spirit takes charge of your tongue before anything else. God bless you.
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