Cecil duCille
March 10, 2001
Dubuque, Iowa
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First John 3:1-3, Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 2Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3And every man (and every woman and every child) that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he (Christ) is pure.
He went further and began to show you the details of this love. Verse 4, Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 5And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. Watch the logical development of the thoughts of God. This is God’s thinking that we are talking about now. God is saying, “NOW we are the sons of God.” Amen. He is saying that we are not yet what we will be. So, don’t expect yourself to be all glorious with wings and everything NOW, because you are not yet what you will be. But what we do know, we know it for sure, that when He appears, we will be like Him. Whatever He is, that’s how we will be. How simple it is. He is developing. Then he goes on to say further, that anyone who sins is under the law, for sin is the transgression of law. If I ask you if you sin, you are going to be baffled, and some will say, “Well, maybe…” and so and so. But the answer is, “No.” You do not sin. If you are born of God, you do not sin. If you are not born of God, you sin. That looks hard and it’s very silent. But let us go on.
Verse 5, And ye know that he (Jesus Christ) was manifested to take away (your) sins. Therefore, if you have Jesus Christ, He has taken away your sin. Let’s go on, because somebody doesn’t understand. Verse 6, Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not (does not sin). Whoever abides in Christ does not sin. I’ll explain that to you. Whosoever sinneth… You know the word “sinneth” is the present continuous, like sinning. It’s the way that the Greek is written, in the present continuous tense, that means continues on to sin. Whosoever continues as a sinner then, verse 6, hath not seen him (Jesus), hath not seen Yeshua, hath not seen God. Neither known him (he does not know him).
All right. Now, some of you feel that I’m condemning you right here with the scripture. But the scripture is right, and we are wrong. So, this is what we decide right now, that the scripture is right. Verse 7, Little children, and you notice what he says, little children, “teknion.” He is not talking about big sons now, he’s talking about little children. The reason he said little children is because we are struggling with sin. Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth… You notice “doeth.” “Doeth” is another present continuous, he that continues to do sin, eh? He that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he (God) is righteous. And he that continues to do sin is unrighteous, amen. That’s what it says. Now, let’s go on.
8He that committeth (again, continuous present, to commit) sin is of the devil. You notice how gradually he comes to it. He doesn’t just come right out and say, “You are of the devil if you sin.” But here he gives you the whole logical sequence coming down and bringing the thought down, and this is God’s thinking, you know. He that committeth sin (continues to commit sin) is of the devil; for the devil sinneth (continues to sin) from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil (that is, sin). 9Whosoever is born of God doth (does) not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil (world) (that’s where the difference comes in).
We are talking about “committeth.” Now, the word “committeth,” in the Greek, is speaking of… The reason why I have to say “in the Greek” is because we are dealing with two languages here. We are dealing with the thing written in Greek, but actually, this brother did not speak Greek, neither did he speak English. Brother John’s native tongue was Hebrew. So, you have to see that somebody translated what he said into Greek, and then translated it again into English. So, we have to go back because God used the two languages that were the most powerful languages to express God. The Latin could not express God. So, you see, if you translated the Bible again in Latin, it would not express God very well. It is from the Greek, then, that the word “committeth” is what we call an active verb. Do you know what we mean by an active verb? A little English here may help. Active verb: I go. That means I must do some action to go. I go. I hit. I talk. I leap. It’s an active verb. When it says an active verb, it means you must actually, deliberately commit sin. Now, those who are born of God don’t actively, deliberately commit sin. They fall, help me, INTO sin. They make mistakes. They stumble. That’s why he said, “Little children.” You know, little children, they go on, they stumble, they fall, and they get up again. Little children. So then, God is saying, “My little children.” It is good for you to know that those who go around committing sin are of the devil. It is good for you to know that the Sons of God do not go to deliberately commit sin. Amen. Now, I didn’t say they don’t sin. I didn’t say they don’t sin, because they fall into sin. They didn’t want to do it, but they did it anyhow. They didn’t want to say it, but they said it anyhow. It means that they are careless. But as they grow up and get stronger, they stop stumbling, and stop falling. But then, I notice when they get old, they start stumbling and falling again, breaking hips and things like that. So, you must never get old. Don’t get old. I mean, in God! You won’t get old, anyhow, according to my doctrine. Praise God.
So, we’re talking about love, the love of God. God began to speak to me about the love of God and the love we have one for another. You know me, and I want you to know me very well, because when I speak to you like this, I am speaking from the gift of the Spirit. Now, not because I am especially holy, not because I am good or anything like that, although I’ve had a long time to try to be good, right? Amen? Seventy eight years, this year will be 79, next year it will be 80! I will be an octogenarian! Amen! But then, I’ve been at it such a long time, I’m supposed to achieve more than you achieved. But when I look at you all here, I remember something. I remember that you are all better than what I used to be. Does that sound good to you? You are all better people, believe you me. I don’t want you to get your heads swollen, but you are the best set of people that I know. Amen. Every one of you. And I love you because God loves me and I remember when I was like you and I was not good. I used to smoke, I used to drink, and I used to carouse. One thing I couldn’t get away from was fighting. I just couldn’t help myself. If anybody said anything to me, I felt a twitch in my head, and I got as mad as the devil. I would be very quietly mad and I would try to destroy him. After I was finished, I would be sorry and I’d be sorry for it a whole two weeks. I’d be in a depression, sorry. Sorry for how I did it. I wanted to change, but I never knew how to change. I almost killed my brother. There were seven of us, and we fought every day. Every day we had to have a fight. It was like we couldn’t live a day without having a fight, because it was part of our nature, our very souls, amen? I don’t know; you know, I’m sorry for some of those people I see in the prisons and all like that. We could have been in the prisons or somewhere long ago, amen. But God must have had some extra mercy upon us.
I remember the day when the devil decided to take me. I was sitting on my porch, and remember, I’m talking about the love of God,and I want you to know, that without the love of God you wouldn’t have me here moving in the Spirit of the Lord. I was sitting on my porch in my white shirt on a Sunday afternoon, reading (I love to read) and I was at peace when a boy ran through my gate, and he screamed, “They are killing your brother outside!” I lost it. I just lost it. I knew that whoever was attacking my brother would be totally dead in a short time. I looked around for a weapon. I couldn’t find anything but a piece of iron pipe. The devil had the pipe there, set down waiting for me, because it had a bend like a handle, where you could really hold it and get some power out of it. I rushed through the gate, and when I rushed through the gate the man was coming, and I backed off, you know. I knew he was a dead man because the devil began to tell me exactly how to deal with him. I was going to fake with the pipe like this, and he would do that. Remember, I saw all of this in a vision beforehand, you know. He was going to do like, and then I would get him across his temple. This is exactly what happened, except God did something. When I did like this, and he tried to cover up, he fell to the ground. I took both hands to give him the “coup de gras” – finish him off. As I was coming down with the blow I said, “God, if You are God, only You can help at this time, because I have no more power but to kill this man.” There was a madness; I had no more power but to kill the man, and I knew it. There was a madness in me that when I got mad in a crowd, ten men couldn’t hold me. This was a devil that was on me, a familiar spirit. My family was like that, you see? Think of the Africans over there fighting one another. When I look at them I say, “Oh, my God.” That’s where we (duCilles) come from, French and African. My grandfather was a French man and the rest of them were Africans. They mixed together, and it was murder, murder, murder. God Almighty came behind me. (Stand up here, brother.) God came behind me, (turn your back to me) and He lifted me up like this. (You can sit down now, brother, I won’t lift you.) He lifted me like this, and I felt a woozy feeling. Wooo! And when I came to myself, I was standing way down the street! I was translated out of a fight by the Spirit of God. The man was still on the ground. When the blow didn’t take him, he started looking around, and he didn’t know where I was. People started running and crying for murder. I mean, Kingston is a city, and at that time, it was the most densely populated area in the whole West Indies. The people ran, a big crowd formed, and nobody noticed that I wasn’t there. I don’t understand what they saw, you understand? What I saw was that I was down the street looking at this crowd, looking at the man, and they were searching around for me, and nobody saw me. I entered into the yard of a friend who lived down the street and I stayed there until the excitement was over. But I learned a lesson that day. I learned that God loved me more than I could ever have conceived. Amen? For He saved me; it was not the man’s life He saved, it was my life. Yes. He saved me from killing that man that day, and the peculiar thing was that I lost the temper. Generally, when I got in a temper it would last me for weeks. I lost the temper, and the spirit left. The demon spirit, YES! And let me tell you, I’ll go a little further with that story. Once, two years before that, my brother provoked me. I took a sharp machete and went to take off his head and when I slammed the machete at him, he ducked like that, and the machete went into the wood of the porch, and I couldn’t get it out. You can imagine how powerful the blow was. The machete fastened into the wood, and I could not get it out. It left this big gash on the wood, and every time I stepped through the door, I saw this gash on the wood, and I said, “God, I will not let a demon use my body anymore.” Believe you me, when I made that decision… I was a sinner, you know. I mean, I was a sinner, as far as I knew. As a little boy about twelve years of age, I did go to the altar and pray to God, because I felt the Spirit of God. There was a preacher from England, and I felt touched, but you know, it was a Baptist church and they don’t believe in salvation and all like that, so I went wild after that. Brethren, I made a decision, I was not going to let any devil take my body. And time went on. My brother came again, “Fight man, fight!” and he began to punch me and I stood up, and I wouldn’t move, and I stood on that spot, and my whole clothes were wet from head to foot. Black suit, white shirt, wet! I didn’t move and the demon left me. So, this is the second time the demon left me. He left me that time, and for two years I never fought. Considering a person who fights every day and for two years he didn’t have a fight, didn’t have any more desire to fight, you must know it was God. And then, what broke the two years, was that evening sitting down at peace on my porch, and this criminal got another criminal to attack Frank, my brother, but Frank was good on his feet, and he got away. I rushed through the door to meet them, and that was the occasion. Brethren, “The love of God is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell.” Hallelujah. When I see how God loves me, I am ashamed of myself, how I love you. Because when we realize what God does for us, we must understand that He wants us to do that for His children. I know that God, Jesus Christ, shed His Blood for you, and that His intention is to make us one. If we’re not one, we have lost, remember? Believe me. If we don’t become one, we have lost.
Do you know what God is doing with us to make us one? Remember I was talking to you last night about walking in the Lord? It is step by step by step. That’s how God designed it. When we start out there, we’re just creeping. I’d say, “Brother Shepherd, How are you?” He’d say, “I’m just crawling.” I’d say, “Brother, keep crawling! Don’t stop crawling!” But the story is that God gave the Blood of Jesus Christ, which is His Blood, in order that it become a nexus, a joining between us. Then He goes and He gives us families. I mean, I was as wild as they come. You know, I had no intention of marrying, settling down, having a wife. First of all, I didn’t believe anybody loved me. Anybody here like that? Well, praise God, you all know somebody loves you. Yes. But, I didn’t believe anybody loved me, and when God gave me a wife, especially a woman that loves God so much, so gentle, able to bear with some of my rough ways, and my misbehavior sometimes, I feel honored. Honored beyond measure. You know, when the marriage vow says to love and to cherish, you know, do you have something that you cherish? To love, and to cherish, to honor. When a person turns to their wife or their husband and says a rough word, something out of order, that honor is being breached. You don’t have the honor that you should have for her. God is saying to us, “It is time now! It is a late hour. It is time now for us to grow up! For if you cannot be one with your wife, you will not be one with this Body!” That is what is affecting the Body of Christ here. There is no alternative. God is not giving us an alternative as to whether we want to or not. God has given you a wife, God has given you children, and He is making you. He is actually making you! You have got to be made into what God wants you to be, for He says, “When He shall appear you will be like Him.” When is that? Well, turn your Bibles to I Corinthians. I don’t remember, did we preach from I Corinthians chapter 13 at anyone’s wedding here that we did? Well, you know, the Lord has been dealing with me all night about love. He’s been showing me some of you here. He’s been saying to me, “Let us get back to our first love.” Let us get back to our first love. It is sometimes very easy to get used to the person, and you get used to the people and you forget that the first step in love, is to love one another. Love one another, as Christ loved us and gave Himself for us. Come, we take the 13th chapter, verse 1, Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity (love), I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. Empty! Some of us believe that coming to church, singing, playing, prophesying, everything, that that is godliness. God is saying that you can come to church and speak with the tongues of angels and speak with the tongues of men, and not have the love of God in your heart, and He says ALL your manifestation is vain! I began to learn love… Strange enough, I have the love of God, He gave me His love, He gave me salvation, but it was a new dimension of learning when I got married. Oh yes. You have to learn that here you are, strong and very active and full of life, and you are dealing with a delicate person who might not be feeling too well this morning. Amen. “What about my breakfast!” Huh? “What about my breakfast? What is going on this morning?” You never inquired and found out that she wasn’t feeling well. You should have gone out and made the breakfast for her. Amen. Yes. You have children and sometimes the children are not really feeling right. You have to have bowels of compassion for them. The scriptures speak of God being El Shaddai. El Shaddai. You know what that means? El Shaddai means the big breasted father God, who has milk to feed all His children with, and to supply them, and that’s the only way that our language can express a certain part of God, El Shaddai. Oh, God. Do you know that God put El Shaddai in the Body, among you? That God put His El Shaddai compassion spirit upon you and some of us only have compassion for our own children! We don’t consider the suffering of others out there that need us. Hallelujah. Yes. God put mothers in your midst, mothers whom you are supposed to listen to, fathers whom you are supposed to listen to, those who must have compassion on you in the Spirit. You know, there’s a scripture which, of course, you know, the theologians really stumble over. I don’t stumble over it. He said, Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him (Psalm 103:13). The theologians say, “Oh no, no, no. It is wrong. It should have said, ‘As a mother.’” Hmm? The word used there is El Shaddai, and it means a strong, powerful, Father love. Amen? Yes. A strong, powerful, Father love. Love between husband and wife is the basis of the love and the ministry in the church. God said a man should not be an elder unless he had a wife and he brought up children, huh? So it is your wife that is making you an elder. Now, if you don’t treat that wife properly, then you cannot be an elder. Because God is teaching you, but remember, we go step by step. So, if you haven’t taken the first step, how are you going to take the second? How are you going to have compassion on the people of God, how are you going to love the people of God, how are you going to pour out life upon them if you can’t do it to your wife? Yes! Sometimes God sits by and allows the wife to provoke you. She provokes you, and then the devil comes upon you, and you get mad. God says, “Now that you are mad, what are you going to do about it? Huh? Are you going to get rid of that madness, because it is the thing that is destroying your ministry, your life! As a Son of God, you are losing out!” That’s why, in one place, he said, “Little children.” He said, “My little children,” because
you haven’t grown up to the point yet where he could call you, “My sons.” NOW are we the Sons of God, but it really does not yet appear what we shall be (I John 3:2). You notice he did not talk about daughters of God. He doesn’t have any daughters. Hmm? Thank you. You said, “Amen.” Amen. When a person reaches a certain level with God, God says, “My son.” Because you know, really, you know why you are women, don’t you? Do you know why you are women? It’s not just for the procreation of the species. It is also because the woman is the other half of the man and there’s no strength in a church unless the man and the woman come together. That’s where our strength is. Therefore, the very glue that holds the church together is love. Amen.
I Corinthians 13:1, Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity (love), I am nothing. I cannot conceive why they translated this word “charity” because it really is love, “agape.” 2And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. In other words, God is saying to us that He is going to give us the gifts of the Spirit, amen? But then we have to grow in maturity, and the growth in maturity is love. Do you understand? When you are able to love your wife when she is not pretty, you know, because all of us love very pretty things. We look at her and we say, “Boy, you are beautiful,” but that’s your eyes. But then, sometimes, she gets broken down like any human being, gets tired, and gets fussy. That’s the time you must love her. When she is hitting you, that’s the time you must love her. Yes. I know something that changed a man’s whole life for the worse. He was with his wife and children, and they had a little quarrel about something and the woman turned around and pulled back her fist and slammed him right in his mouth. He lost control. If he had overcome that one, the rest of his life would be victory, but he didn’t overcome it. He slapped her down. They got a divorce. What I am trying to say to you today is that God is love, and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love (I John 4:7-8).
So, love, then, is something that overcomes the evil that is in us. In other words, the temper that is in you is no good. It is of the devil. It comes from your ancestors, and they want to minister death to you, and the moment you resist that temper, and don’t say anything… When somebody slaps you, and you do not repeat it, you don’t say anything and you just burn, you have hit the devil! Hit the devil, and he will flee from you! He will come back again, but he is weaker, and every time you hit him and he comes back, he is weaker. Let me tell you something. When it comes to temper, God has given you the power over the temper! You have to use the force of your own will, because God has given you the power. It’s not like the sinner who has no power. You have power to overcome the devil, and the devil is coming from your ancestors, and whatever is happening to you, happened to your ancestors.
Go with me on a different level, a higher level now. Let’s look at heaven now. Let’s read it. It’s Hebrews 12 the first verse. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed (round) about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, (and let us lay aside) and the sin which doth so easily beset us, (our ancestral sins), and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Let me explain to you what he is saying. In this room, here is Jesus standing on one side, and He has a class with Him, spirits that He is teaching because the spirits that are in heaven must receive from us the manifold wisdom of God. Do you know why? Why is it that heaven has to learn from us? Because we are in the battle. We are the weak ones. We are the ones who are susceptible and subject to satanic attack. They are not. Amen? So, teaching them wouldn’t help. The only way we are going to overcome is to actually go into the thing and come out victorious. All right. So here is Jesus standing, let’s say, in your bedroom, and He has with Him some spirits of the brothers who have gone on before because He sees a devil who is provoking, tempting your wife and tempting you, and they start a little fire between you both and you start to quarrel. Then the devil comes and whispers in your ears, “Are you going to let her do you that way and get away with it?” Huh? And your antennae’s go up. The spirit of God says, “The Lord is with you, peace, be quiet.” And the devil comes and says to you, “Get on with it, man. You can’t let her get away with that. She’ll just continue walking over you all the while.” And the Lord comes and says so and so to you. A scripture comes before you, and the battle goes back and forth. Jesus is standing there with some of the saints who were in the same condition in their life. Remember now, they can’t be in that condition anymore, but they are seeing the exact thing that was happening to them. The only difference is now they are seeing the devils that are doing it, and you are not! While this temptation goes on, the Spirit of God comes to you and says, “Resist the devil and he will flee from you” (James 4). And the wife starts telling you so and so and so and so… And you resist; you don’t say a word. The devils flee from you, and the angels of God shout, “Hallelujah!” You are not hearing anything, you are not seeing anything, you feel like a dog! Don’t you understand? You feel as low as a dog, like you have been crushed and so and so, and she feels all upset, and she is gone crying. You had a victory, but you didn’t even know it. Hallelujah. Next thing that happens is you have the strength to go put your hands around her. “Oh, take your hands off of me!” “Oh, come on…” You follow her up, and finally she begins to, you know, complain to you and weep and you just kiss her and so on, and the love of God overcomes! But what about the time the love of God didn’t overcome? Huh? The little devil jumps and just rejoices, “I’ve got him! I’ve got him! I’ll come back again!” You see what I mean? The next time he comes back to you he has more power. Then he says, “Divorce!” Yes. He says, “Divorce.” And you say, “Oh, God. Did God tell us to marry?” Then somebody begins to say, “Well, we didn’t hear from God. We married before we heard from God.” And this and that and the other. Let me tell you something. Every one of you who marries, whether you were married before you heard from God or not, God has sanctified your marriage and He said your bed is sanctified, and your marriage is sanctified of God, both of you together (Hebrews 13:4). Don’t you EVER think you can walk out of the Body of Christ and go and divorce and live. You’re a goner! You are a dead man! Hallelujah! You are a dead man! Anyone who ill-treats the sons of God, the daughters of Jesus Christ, my children in the Lord, those I pray for, they will NEVER prosper, they are finished! Let that soak in a little, because this is what God showed me. All right? I am not speaking of my own manly feelings. Somebody will say, “Well, Brother Cec…” Brother Cec is working under the power of the Spirit. I have not prepared a message to give you. I am hearing what I am saying. Flashes come in to me, and I’m passing them on to you. I just need to say that so you will understand that there is something greater than what you are used to. This is not church! This is not the old time church where you can go and do this and do that and get away with it. You are not going to get away. You are finished! Yes. I’ve seen some finished. And I know they’re done. You see, they’re running on compression, but they are shot already. Amen. Hallelujah. I’m saying, brethren, that God is binding us together. There is nothing greater in the heart of God. Now, when I say God, do you know who I’m talking about? I mean Yahweh! Jehovah! You call him Jehovah, I’m meaning Yahweh! The Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, the One who made everything that you see around you as well as what you can’t see! We are in His presence! Let us be afraid! Let us fear Him! My God! You take a child of God, and you murder her, spiritually. What do you think you’re doing? You’re killing yourself! God is going to slay you! You cannot live! You cannot be happy, ever! You’re finished! Brethren, I’m saying that God gave you somebody to love. I’m talking now to you children, you young ones who are not married. God has given you some people to love. You must love this people, this Body, your brethren, with all your heart, with all your soul, with all of your mind, and you must love the Lord God. He says, “Love the Lord thy God,” help me, “with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy might, AND thy neighbor as thyself” (Matthew 22:37-39). Jesus, have mercy upon us! We are short, yes! We are short. We sin against one another. Sometimes we say things against one another. But we need to repent. We need to repent, because God is creating a Body in the earth! This is what God is doing! God doesn’t want any mighty preacher to go around healing and delivering everybody. Everybody has to wait until Brother So-And-So comes to lay his hand on them. That’s over with! That’s over with! God is creating a Body. Jesus is calling His bride. Yes! The word comes to me, “That they may be one.”
Somebody read that for me. John 17:20-22, Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one. So, if anybody comes to you, and says he is preaching, and says he is doing miracles, and he is doing anything at all in the name of the Lord, and he is not creating a oneness among the people of God, he is not doing the will of God. For the perfect will of God is that we all may be one! You hear them talk about black church, some talk about white church, some talk about all the different kinds of ethnic and whatever else religious organization churches, all those are outside of Christ. He said, “In Christ, there is neither male nor female” (Galatians 3:28). IN Christ! So you have a wife that IN Christ, you must realize that in the Spirit she is neither male nor female. It’s just God lying down beside you, in your bed at night. And you have to be careful with her, tender, forgiving one another for Christ’s sake. As Jesus Christ forgives us, let us forgive one another (Ephesians 4:32). Let us love one another, as God loves us!
It is like a final word being given. You know why? We are at the end of the business. If we fail, God will turn away from us and choose another people. God chooses a group, He chooses one over there, He chooses one over there, and every one that fails, He puts them aside. If they turn church, He finds another group. Don’t you understand? God is trying to melt people into one. You cannot bring anybody in to be with you and be one with God unless you are one with each other. In other words, the nucleus must be right, and everybody else that comes will be coming to the one-ness. We must be one in Christ Jesus. We must have no dissimulations, no divisions that will divide us. We must have repentance. Amen. Repentance. For right now we are not what we ought to be. But we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him (I John 3:2). So, the more of Jesus you have, the more you will be one with the brethren who are one with God. Amen? Hallelujah. For that reason, God has set certain things in our midst. God has put in our midst different arrangements. The brethren asked Paul, “How do we relate, one to another in the church?” He said, “The older women should be mothers.” He said, “Then you have fathers, then you have brothers, and then you have sisters” (I Timothy 5:1-2). So we should look at each other as brothers and sisters. Why? It’s not reality to you? Let me tell you how real it is. It’s more real than your natural brother because the Blood of Jesus Christ which you have in you is in him, and in her, and in this one and in that one. The same Blood that flows through you, flows through them.
We have a song which we sing, “Flow Through Me.” That means the glory of God is flowing in this building, and it’s flowing one through another. You’d be surprised to know what’s going on. You sit down there, and you think certain things in your heart. And it starts flowing through him, and he thinks certain things and it flows through, and it flows, and it flows, and it flows, and it flows. So, the love of God flows through and through us, one another. Now, there’s something more that flows through one another, too. If we have wrong thoughts, it flows through each other. If we have wrong thoughts, the wrong thoughts also flow. You follow me? So, we need to flow one through another, we need to flow one through another IN Christ. Now, I understand that in the heavenlies, this thing is going to be on a bigger scale. I heard one man saying, “Boy, heaven wouldn’t be right if I didn’t have my wife in heaven.” You know what I mean. He’s talking about having a wife up in heaven. Many of you must have thought of what’s going to happen, wondering if we will have a wife and husband in heaven. No. You know why? Because the level on which we are in heaven is so much higher than the wife or husband level down here. God only gave us a wife or husband in order to keep us together and let us learn how to love one another. But up there it’s different. There is a flowing through and through. When you flow into the brother’s or the sister’s heart or mind you see a whole vast area of magnificent glory. God calls it His mansion. You walk into God’s mansion, and you see all the glory that God has put into one soul. And you know what? God has put His glory into every one of you here and you need to begin to flow it out! Amen! Praise God.
I look in your midst and I see mothers. There is so much blessing in here, so much glory of God in this place and you don’t know it! So much blessing. Begin to recognize one another. Begin to recognize the things, the way God is dealing with one another in love. I remember when we were back down there in Jamaica, and we first started, you know, it was just all fire and glory. I don’t think we will ever see that again in our lives. There was one humble brother that didn’t preach, he didn’t do much, but when it came to counsel, we would always ask Banker. We would call him and ask, “What do you see? What is the Lord saying?” And he could give you a proper counsel as to what God was saying. We have to realize that each person has a special manifestation in the Lord. We used to talk of Sister Hermin, and how she would come. I would be preaching in the middle of the message, and she would come, “Ha! Ha! Ha!” She would hold her side. “What’s the story?” It was a manifestation of the Spirit. Nothing was wrong with her side, but it would be paining her. And she would say, “Somebody here has a problem in their side.” And the person would stand up and as we would pray for the person, Sister Hermin would be set free. I mean, sometimes you have to laugh at the manifestations we saw there.
But praise be to God, every one of you, there is something God is doing, and it’s got to be done now. We have to stop fooling around. Time is short. I believe we have three and a half years. Whether you believe it or not, let’s go! You hear me? It’s got to be! It’s got to be! God must bring to pass what He has ordained to be done here and now. He must bring it to pass! Oh, God Almighty, help us! Whatsoever ye desire, ask, and it shall be done. You all believe that, brethren? Now, let me tell you something about prayer. Don’t you ever pray, “Oh God, poor Brother So-And-So. Have mercy upon him, oh God.” In other words, you are telling God to have mercy as if God is not a merciful God, so you have to tell Him to have mercy. Huh? NO! NO! “God, this man is blood of my blood, flesh of my flesh. He’s in trouble, he has a problem. Save him from that spirit in that house now. Heal him, deliver the household. Thank you, Jesus.” That’s what we are going to pray from now onwards. No more will we allow the devil to have pre-eminence in our midst. He must stop. Must STOP right now! No more “poor me”! God has given us power! All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth! No devil must be able to divide this people. Let Jesus reign in your hearts! Thank you, thank you, brethren. Thank you, God bless you, brethren. Next session let us come in the Spirit and get more of what God is doing! Oh, glory to God. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah!
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