Cecil J. duCille
Mahomet, IL, July 2002
(Published in Keeping in Touch August 15, 2004)
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Brother duCille:
Father, we thank You for Your presence with us. We thank You, Lord God, that You have already broken the bread of Your presence with us. We pray, Lord God, that You might resurrect our hearts with Your Word, that You might bring us to the place where we might see very clearly, where we can see You clearly. Lord God, move away the shadows. Take away the darkness. Move away carnality. Break down every separating wall. Pull down every fence, every barrier that has been built between us and You. Lord, let us see You clearly, and let us feast upon You today in the name of Jesus. Amen.
Song:
Every knee shall bow; every tongue confess,
That Jesus Christ, You are my Lord.
A vision from Janet Jantzi:
As we were singing “He is Lord,” I saw the angels from heaven, that God had sent down on earth to walk with us, to minister to us, to strengthen us. The Lord says that there is a darkness coming that we have never, ever known upon the earth, but that He is going to walk with us and be with us. The enemy of your soul will come, but he comes as a trespasser, he comes as a trespasser, illegally. The Word that Brother Cecil brought us, we have to remember: “He comes as a trespasser.” He has no right to us. But the Lord said to open up your eyes because greater is He that is with us than he that is in the world. But I saw another thing and it blessed my heart. I saw heaven spill over into the earth and this is something that the enemy has not counted on. He has not counted on this, that heaven would spill over on the people of God on the earth. The enemy is angry, but he cannot touch you. He cannot reach you. He is a trespasser. Hallelujah!
Brother Peter Schneider: reads a vision Sister Patti LS. had last night.
I saw this thin, horizontal line, and then I heard the word, “demarcation.” I had heard of a demarcation line, but I didn’t know the definition of demarcation, so I looked it up and this is what I found. Demarcation is the act of marking or ascertaining and setting a limit; a limit or boundary ascertained or fixed; line of separation, marked or determined; to mark the limits of; to set apart; to separate.
Brother duCille:
The Lord is impressing upon my heart to speak to you about where we are at this time. Every now and then on your journey you have to look out for the milepost to see where you are. When you are traveling along on a journey, you need to know how many miles you have left and how many hours driving it will take to get to your destination. You need to know how long you have left to go and if you have enough fuel to take you on the road, and if your fuel is running low, you better know not to wait for the last gas station. You need to get gassed up to have enough power to go on the journey. This is the same story that we read in the Word concerning the five wise virgins and the five foolish virgins. The five foolish virgins were risk takers. They took the risk of having no oil in their vessels and they ran out because they did not know that the bridegroom would tarry so long. They thought He would come long ago (Matthew 25).
I remember when God first began to speak to me. I was very young and very zealous and excited about the Word and I said some things that weren’t so. One of the things is that I believed that Jesus Christ would be here within two years. Afterwards, when the two years passed and He didn’t come, I extended it to five. Amen. At present I am at ten. I say that Jesus will be here before the end of the decade. But, you know, I really believe what I say. Now, the point is that I’m going to be right sometime and, I tell you what, I believe I’m right this time. Because Jesus didn’t tell us when He is coming, we are free to guess. He also told us that we should be ready so that whenever He comes, we would be ready. Nevertheless, He has given us some mark posts along the way. Hallelujah! I feel that I should continue to point out the mark posts for you as I see them, so that nobody can blame me that I didn’t tell them. It is amazing, but here come the people and they begin to blame the government that the government didn’t tell them that 9/11 was 9/11. The government didn’t know. Nobody knew what 9/11 was going to be except the people who were planning to do it. The peculiar part about it is that God says He will tell His prophets. I have seen many prophets now getting up and saying, “Yes, I told you so.” “We told you.” Nobody knew. God just did not want us to stop it from happening. That is the plain bottom-line truth. If God wanted us to stop them from bringing down those towers at 9/11, He would have told us, the Church of God. The people who are hearing from God would have heard it clearly and we would have broadcasted it and somebody would have been saved.
I remember before the inauguration of Mr. Bush, we got a word that there was going to be an assassination attempt upon his life. We broadcast the word, got the word into the right places, and the government believed it. The FBI believed it. When the assassination was about to be attempted, they stopped it. I saw them put him in the car saying, “Don’t walk here.” Normally the President should walk and greet everyone. They said, “Get back in the car.” They put him back in the car and there was a clash at the point where they had planned. Amen. I heard this morning that they have assassinated the Vice President of Afghanistan. Amen. The forces of evil are planning, but God is giving you the power to disrupt their plans and to stop them. So, there is a people who are being anointed before God to stop the works of the devil. This is why we have been pressing you that, because you are instruments of God, you clean up your instrument so that you can function right, for God must have a Body functioning correctly before Jesus comes. So every dream, every vision, every thought that God is putting through the minds of His people is an intention to disrupt the enemy, to clear the way, to allow to happen what God has ordained to happen. You do not realize how important you are. We hardly realize, we count ourselves for naught. Some of us actually want to throw away our lives, not realizing that God is using us and bringing us into the place where He can use us to the maximum. Do you hear? There is a minimum use and a maximum use. Brethren, I am encouraging you to maximize your usefulness.
These are the members of the Body of Christ, the MEMBERS of the Body. He said, Blessed [be] the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight: (Psalm 144:1). Have you ever thought about it? If a man is going to fight with a sword, he not only has to hold it with his fingers, he has to learn to fight. You are his fingers! He is teaching His fingers to fight. Let us lay aside every weight, And the sin which does so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us (Hebrews 12:1). Amen. Meaning to say that a man doesn’t run a race like I am here. He doesn’t put on his coat and tie. He strips down and he puts on his shorts and he runs, without hindrance, the race that is set before him. Hallelujah! AMEN! AMEN!
We are fighting for, not only the Body of Christ militant, that is, those who are alive, but also for the Body of Christ triumphant, those who are in Heaven. Have you ever thought of it, that those in the heavenlies cannot beat up the devil anymore? They can’t do anything to the devil. According to God’s order, they are in their rest and cannot come and participate in the fight we have here. They cannot be tempted anymore. Amen! They cannot overcome anymore. Come on, now, didn’t you think of that? The only thing that the saints in the heavenlies can do is to learn from us how we overcome, for the devils that are loosed now have never been loosed before. The Bible said, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates (Revelation 9:14). Those spirits were so bad that God had them in tartaro which is Greek for the deepest abyss in Hades. Down in the depths of hell. They could not come out to tempt us. When God let them loose, it is because God is letting you loose! Amen. If the “bad dog” is let go, then the man who can handle “bad dogs” must be let loose, too. Do you understand me? God is directing His business, and He is going to do it according to His will and His way.
So, we the people of God need to get tuned up. Amen. Amen. Somebody has been telling us that a lot of our problems are because of the parasites we have in us. We want a cleansing. Amen. You have been eating food with parasites. You have been drinking water with parasites. You need to be cleansed from both in order to be functioning right. We are talking about spiritual parasites that have been hanging on to our entrails and need to be cleansed out. When are you going to do it? You have to do it now.
Let us turn to Ecclesiastes 3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; (After all, when you plant, you must have a time to reap) 3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; (Some people have a time to mourn, but they have no time to dance. I don’t see them dancing.) 5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. 9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? 10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. 11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. Isn’t that a strange verse? That God set the world in our hearts so that we cannot find out what God is doing. Let us examine that for a while. Now, why would God set the world in my heart to prevent me from knowing what He is doing? Amen. The only reason and the only way that God would do that is if God already gave you the power to get the world out of your heart. Amen. God set the world in your heart and then He gives you the power to get the world out of your heart. So, the dimension of worldliness that you have within you can be your responsibility. The quantity of worldliness that you keep has become your responsibility. You have the power to get the world out of your heart.
Let me give you an example of God’s ways. God gives someone a problem. He gives you a problem. Then He turns around and puts the solution to the problem on a table out there. He didn’t come and say, “I’m going to force you to use the solution.” He says, “If you look out there, you will see something that could help you.” You have to go and take it, and sometimes you have problems in going to take it. You have to fight to get it, to bring deliverance to yourself. God sent evil angels. Come on now, that sounds funny now, right? God sent evil angels. God is God. God is sovereign. God can command any devil to do what He wants him to do. He can stop a devil from doing anything, too. You had better know, that if a devil is fooling around with you, that God is able to stop him, too. But I’m just trying to show you God’s ways.
God called out the spirits of death in the land of Egypt and He gave them an order to kill everybody, every first-born. If an Israelite first-born was out in the field, he would be a dead man. Amen. Then God went and whispered in Moses’ ear and said, “Take the blood of the Lamb, and by faith, put it on the door posts and the lintels. Put it around the windows, and then tell ALL of the Israelites to get inside.” Amen. Now, do you think that Moses knew why or how? He didn’t know anything. All Moses knew was obedience. God said to put the Blood, so he put the Blood. He would be safe then and nothing will touch them. Then God said, “Time for death,” and He called out hell, the death angels, and He let them loose in the land of Egypt. The scripture says, “He sent evil angels in the land of Egypt.” Psalms 78:49 says, He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. They went out with an order to kill.
Now angels, devil angels, will kill and get blood because they cannot survive without blood. Every time they kill a person, they get the person’s life. Now, if you are going to ask me where I get that principle, I would have to preach you another message. Since I am preaching this message, you will take that note and search it up and we can talk about that later on. What I am saying is that angels of the devil will kill anytime because they are murderers. They want blood. As a matter of fact, the more blood the devil gets, the more he can function. Do you notice how he is functioning now? It is because he is getting a lot of blood, and the more blood he gets, the more powerful he will get. Hallelujah! Blessed be the Blood of Jesus Christ, for we have a Blood that is greater than the blood that he has. The blood of men that he is getting, and the authority of Adam that he is getting, we have a CURE for it. To stop the authority of Adam, we have a greater than the authority of Adam. Are you understanding God, now? If God puts you in a fight, don’t worry, He has given you the tools to fight. If God puts you into a fight, you are going to win because of the tools that God has given you to fight with. Amen.
So, the death angels came along and they started killing. They wanted the Jewish blood even more than they wanted the sinners’ blood. Why? Because the Jewish blood had more life in it, more power, for they believed God. By faith in God, your soul gets more life, it gets more power. Isn’t that wonderful? So, they wanted the blood of the Jews. So when the devil rushed to the Jewish house, there was a light shining from the lintels of the door, and down the sides of the door. He rushed around to the window, remember now, God gave him an order. Now spirits don’t have to go through doors or windows. You know that? Spirits can just come in here without regarding the walls. Physical walls don’t stop spiritual beings but this time, God gave them an order that they could only go through the door or the window. AMEN. Then God whispered to Moses, “Cover the door and the window with the blood.” So, they were frustrated, and they went forth with wrath and they killed all of the firstborn of Egypt. But, the principle still works, that if any man, any man calls upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved!
Come on, let’s take up any man. Give me a name of a man that you think might not be able to be saved. If any Muslim calls upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved. If any Hindu calls upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved. If all of your life, you’ve said, “Oh, I am an agnostic. I’m agnostic, I don’t believe in God,” and death hits you like this… I’ve heard them calling out, “Oh, God, help me!” for he had a doubt somewhere there in his being, that he knew there was a God. The point is that EVERY human being has God planted in him. His breath, his body, his life… No man, no creature, no devil can make a human life, or can make anything close to it. As a matter of fact, no, he can’t make any physical life at all. Therefore, every scientist that studies the handiwork of God must eventually come to the conclusion that there is a God.
It is so funny that I hear these people talking that they don’t believe in God. We should not be saying “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, and so-and-so. The same creature that claims that he is an intelligent human being, walks out there, jumps into his car, starts it, and drives off, without considering. Why? That car has to have a factory that makes it. I don’t know the factory, but I could bet my life on it, that there is a factory, because the car is the evidence. If I can look at a car, a wretched thing like a car, and say that it is must have a maker, what about my body? My body must have a maker. This thing could not evolve. Yet there are scientists that come and say, “Oh, evolution, and so many million years.” You know? And when the million years come in, you know that they are unbelievers. Million years, huh? Do you know that every day is a million years? Every day will be a million years. Sure! We would see some men popping up around here that had no mother and no father. Everybody would evolve. Some monkey would come in and ZAP, he would become a human being. His million years would have come and he would have turned into a human being, and had no father and no mother. I think these men are joking, really.
It is like the man who called me when I was in California. This man got a great idea that he was going to confound preachers in his class. He would call preachers and confound them before the children, to prove to the children that there was no God, and that these preachers didn’t know what they were doing. So, one girl that was in the class asked that I preach and that they would question and question and question. She said, “Brother Cecil, would you come to our class, on such and such a day? We have a time when preachers come and we question them pertaining to the Gospel.” She well knew what this thing was, but she didn’t tell me. So, here I march into this college that I’m going to teach at that morning and Mr. Teacher jumped on me. My goodness! I ate him alive. I mean, the Spirit of God came down on me and I said, like Paul did, “You foolish Galatians.” I said, “A man must be a total idiot to not conceive, to not realize, that his body could not be made by anything else, but by God.” I said, “You talk about faith.” He was attacking “stupid faith.” I said, “You have faith. You went to New York and you went to the ticket counter and you bought a ticket. You didn’t see the plane. You didn’t care that one million bolts hold that thing together. It could fall apart in the air and yet you sent to New York and you said, ‘Meet me there. At nine o’clock I’ll be there.’” And so it was. I said, “That is faith.” My goodness, when I was finished with him, he could not say a word. He dismissed the class. Amen!
So, God has brought us to a time. Remember now, this time, that time, the other time… We have come to a time where we must be manifesting as “sons of God.” Do you hear me? If the Son of God is not manifested on earth, the world will be destroyed. I am quoting scriptures right along now. He said, And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse (Malachi 4:6). Do you understand? The reason is that we have cursed the earth, and because we have cursed the earth, and because the curse on the earth comes through man, then the deliverance of the earth must come through man. Because natural men curse the earth, God gets some natural men who He is going to move through to bring deliverance to the earth. I’m telling you, brethren, I see the Body of Christ growing right before my eyes. The point is, some of us are looking at one another and saying that this one is wishy-washy, this one is so-and-so and that one is so-and-so. You had better start looking at yourself. NONE of us are going to be able to function as a total man. Are you with me? NONE of us, brother, will be able to function as a total man. The only total man there was, is Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Let me tell you what I mean. When God made Adam, he was a total man. He had everything in him to reproduce his own kind, to rule nature, to do all of God’s perfect will. But God said, “This is not good, because this man will be lonely. This man will be lonely and this is not good. I’m going to give him something of his own kind.” And He went into the man. Apart from the physical incision and separation that he made within the man, taking out the womb and ribs and putting it in another being, He took a nature out of the man, so that the man was never complete, neither was the woman complete. The woman was the other side of the man. He made it so that man would begin to love woman as his own flesh and his own body. When man and woman get together in perfect love, the power of God goes back together in two beings who move as one.
God’s will is that those of us who are married, should strive to move as one with our wives under all circumstances. In other words, when I say “under all circumstances,” there are circumstances that are in your nature, the human physical nature, that struggle against moving with the circumstances of the feminine nature of your wife. But, you have to put it under subjection in order to get that oneness, in order to attack that power. Hallelujah!
I remember when God first sent my wife and me out. We had been working together since we were young kids. When God first sent us out, the moment I laid my hand on anyone, she would see everything pertaining to that person. Amen. My hands would be upon the person and as I prayed for them, she saw everything that pertained to the person. I remember one case, it was somewhere here in Danville, or somewhere like that, a man was brought to us. The moment I laid my hands upon him, she saw the whole of his insides. He had some plastic tubes in him and she whispered it to me. I said, “Brother, we are going to pray for you that God would deliver you from that problem you have, for there are plastic tubes inside…” The man just started trembling. He said, “No, no, no.” He just could never believe that we were seeing inside of him.
Brothers and sisters, you try it. God works between you both. But somebody says, “I am an unmarried person, I’m condemned.” Oh no, no. As an unmarried person, you will function to a degree, but God will give you a partner if you want a partner to function in with God. God will give you a partner so you can function together, even in this hour it will be greater than it ever was before. Amen. Sometimes we used to see the whole of the day before it happened, before we got up. When we got out there, we would see people that we had seen in our vision and we would know exactly what that person was going to say.
I will give you an idea of what would happen. We were in Montego Bay and Mavis came up to me and said, “I had a vision that a man came up to you and said to you, ‘Will you come preach in my church?’ and that you said, ‘Yes, I will go,’ and that was it.” Well, we went out into the market, and we were just walking around in the market and a friend of ours came up. He said, “I have a man I want to introduce you to.” She touched me and said, “That is the man.” Amen. Now I know what to do, so I tell him, “Yes.” When asked to preach by his friend, I told him, “Yes, I’ll come to preach.” We preached the whole week, and a lot of things happened. I don’t need to go into details, but I’m just telling you how God functions.
You see, there is a time for this function to come forth in the Body of Christ, but we have to be one. We have to stop talking about each other. Amen. There are some ways that others have that don’t please you at all. Don’t expect them to please you. Just thank God for them and you pray and God will take care of the faults. Amen. When you are seeking a wife or a husband, you don’t want the prettiest girl, or the prettiest boy, or the one that looks most wonderful, you want the one that God chooses. If you don’t get the one that God chooses, you don’t want any. You don’t want any. Amen. In other words, you will function without a spouse, with Jesus Christ as your Head. So, this is the kind of thing that we must come to in this hour. He said He would teach your hands to war and your fingers to fight (Psalm 144:1). It is no longer what I like, and what I love. It is what God wants me to have that I might function.
Let’s go on with the scripture here. What scripture did I leave off at? Oh yes, I came down to, “He put the world in your heart” (Ecclesiastes 3:11). Now, let us turn our Bibles around to the New Testament, I think it is in John, and that speaks of the world. I John 2:15, Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Now, He just told you that He put the world in your heart. Amen. You begin to judge by the seeing of your eyes. You begin to judge by the hearing of your ears. You begin to judge by what you feel, by what you know, and here He tells you that you shouldn’t love the world. That means that there must be something between that point and this point. Here you come with the world in your heart, but there must be something in here to take the world out of your heart, to take the love of the world out of your heart, to take the desire of the world out of your heart. Hallelujah!
I used to live in a house with a sister that spent all of her day going around picking up little things off of the floor. Amen. You came in and you had to take off your shoes at the door. You were in torment. You had to be careful where you walked, where you sat down. If a crumb dropped on the floor, she was right behind you to pick it up. Amen. Am I talking against cleanliness? No, but if you have the love of the world in your heart, if you love that carpet more than you love your brother, you would rebuke him. You would turn him off. You would throw him out if he ever came in here with a piece of dirt on his feet, because the carpet is more important than the brother. Amen. There are some of us, who our houses become a burden to us. Now, God is saying that this is not of God. God is saying that we should turn our hearts to God and forget the carpet. When it is spoiled, we will get a new one. The same God that gave you the first carpet will give you another one. Amen. You know, God is more important. The things of God are more important. I am saying that we should turn our hearts to God and forget the carpet. Get your priorities in place. Amen.
Tell God you want to be holy, you want to be righteous, and be not afraid of finding out that you are not holy and righteous. If you find out that you are unholy and you find out that you are unrighteous, then you are finding out the heart of God. God is leading you. AMEN. Hallelujah! But, if you feel you are righteous, and if you feel that you are holy, you are in bad shape. Yes, you are in bad shape, because it is a constant watchfulness over your thoughts, over your desires, watchfulness over your operation that makes you what God wants you to be. There is a secret! When you are what God wants you to be, you do not know it. Amen. When you really hit the mark with God, you don’t know. Hallelujah! You will not know, but you will be so busy seeing to it that you walk right with God that you won’t even know that you have hit the mark with God.
God said this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased (Matthew 17:5). Immediately after God said that, the Man went on a forty-day fast. If God said, “This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased,” to you, you would say, “Oh, thank God, I’m all right,” but Jesus Christ went on a forty day fasting to get that flesh under subjection. Do you know why we fast, brethren? I’ll tell you why. You fast because you can’t live righteous without fasting. There is no man or woman that can hit the mark with God without fasting and prayer, and I’ll tell you why. Fasting puts the Spirit over your mind, the mind over your body, and your body becomes an absolute servant of the mind. Your body will not do anything unless you let him loose to do it. Are you with me? Fasting is an exercise of the Spirit to get the mind over the body, and get the Spirit over the mind. Hallelujah!
I don’t know about you, but when I fast, I get such powerful results. Amen. The Spirit flows much more freely with me. I get the results from God when I fast. I’m standing before you here and I’m getting a flow. I get a flow. I have no script. I have no thing to lead me to tell me what to preach, but I get a flow from the Lord. Hallelujah! I get a flow from the Spirit. The Spirit keeps flowing. Hallelujah! If He gets to you and He flows through you, He comes back to me. Amen. He strengthens. Therefore, the gift of the Spirit that He has put in me must function for the edification of the Body. If you have a gift that does not function for the edification of the Body of Christ, then your gift is not being used by God. Amen!
All right, I have seen brothers have a gift and they use a gift to draw crowds, and when the crowds come, they take up an offering. They get fifty to sixty thousand dollars in one time. Amen. Now, if I got that money and I turned it over immediately into God’s business, to bless God’s business or God’s something else, then I would be functioning in the Body of Christ, as the Body of Christ should function. But what happens is, you have one brother out here who is a multi-millionaire. His house is valued at two to three million dollars. Amen. Everything he has is state of the art. Then you have another brother out there that can hardly meet his bills at the end of the month. Something is wrong. The money that flows in there should have flowed through the Body of Christ. Hallelujah. Amen.
Now, let’s talk about something else besides money. The Spirit of God that flows in you, if you don’t make it flow out of you to the other person, to the brethren, to people somewhere, then you are frustrating God. You are stopping Him. You have a blockage. Amen. When you have a blockage, you are heading for a heart attack because you are stopping God from flowing, and you are using up the grace and the power of God for something else. Hallelujah! “Enrich yourself.” “Do this for yourself.” There is no individual in the body of Christ! No individual. Hallelujah!
He said, “Love not the world.” This is a hint that God has given you. You ask, “But, God, how am I going to do it?” The first thing that you do is you begin to hit the love of the world that is in you. Remember now, I can’t fix you. You are the only person in the who can fix you. The way you fix you is to open up to God, and to let God come in and fix you. So you say, “Lord God, I really love the world too much.” Amen. I love the world too much. Let me give you an example. I have to go home to see the game. If the game starts playing and I am in church, I am being distracted. Immediately, a distraction comes because this is the hour that the game should be coming on and I have to go see my football game. And not just a game, somebody has a program you are looking at on television and you want to go and see it. It begins to pull while you are in the service, and you will find all kinds of excuses so you can get back to see your program or game. Something is wrong. The world has crept into your heart and it is taking up a portion of your heart where God should be. Amen. Anything you love, anything that you love so much that it takes priority, you have gotten into trouble with God. It is time to cut out all of that.
He said, Money is the root of all evil (l Timothy 6:10), but it is not just the love of money that is going to destroy people, it is love of anything. Let’s look in Romans 8 at what God says and see something here. It says here, Romans 8:1, There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Now, it gives you two things there. It says there is a place, a realm, a position in your life where there is no condemnation. I don’t know if you fully understand it, but I will go in and sit down and look at the news, and I will go into the details of the news and look into it. Sometimes I look at what is happening and so and so and so. But my whole motive is comparing the news with what my Bible said will happen. Someone comes in and sees me looking at the news and says, “Oh, boy! This is nonsense.” For me, there is no condemnation. I know where my heart is. My heart is not on the news. My heart is not on this and that and the other. But, my heart is there with Christ. If you are in Christ, that means that Christ becomes your head, that Christ motivates you. There is no condemnation. Don’t let anybody condemn you, for you are motivated by Christ. Your whole intention, your whole desire is to do the will of God.
You know, when it comes to money, I have a covenant with God. He said to me, “If you will look after My business, I will look after yours.” From the time that Jesus said that to me, it released my wife and I from any thought about money at all. Sometimes we do need money. Amen. Oh yes. I went out to the Post Office one day and I got a letter from a sister and the letter had twenty-five dollars in it. At the time, we didn’t have a cent. At that time, we didn’t have a cent. It means to say that God told that sister to send twenty-five dollars – raw cash in an envelope. When we took it out of the envelope, we had twenty-five dollars and we went for lunch. Amen. We never thought of it. If it wasn’t there, it wouldn’t bother us. Do you follow what I am saying? You have to get where your priorities become so big that all the other things underneath don’t matter. What matters is that God is leading you and guiding you and that you are going to win. Hallelujah! So, there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus, and I want you to understand what the meaning of being in Christ Jesus is. If you are under the leadership and guidance of Christ Jesus, there is no condemnation. You never act in self. You never act to fulfill your desires. You are always acting on the basis of the Body of Christ you want to bless. You put yourself out every day to bless the Body of Christ. You have no other thought, no other reason to live. Glory to God.
One little song says “The reason I live is to worship You.” The reason I live is to worship You. If we could come to that point – not “if,” but WHEN we come to that point. It is a thing that God is bringing us all to. A body is rising up out of the earth. Do you hear me? The Bible said, “One angel ascended from the earth.” You always read about angels descending, right? But in Revelation 7:2, it says the fifth angel was ascending, rising up – out of carnality, out of earthiness, out of self, and into Christ. Don’t you understand? It is a growth. You are growing little by little. All of the little things that you are fighting with every day – glorify God. Praise Him for them. For this is how you are getting rid of them. Amen. I see the picture. Come on, now. I see the picture of someone resurrecting up with all the earth all around him, and the earth is dropping off, and he is rising. Amen. Why worry, when we can pray? Why worry, we are rising. You look at your progress. Look back last year. A little song says “the things I used to do, I do them no more, places I used to go, I go there no more.” You know, I heard something from Peter yesterday, but he probably doesn’t even remember, but he said he used to enjoy a certain type of music and now he can’t enjoy it any more. That shows you are growing. If you see your brother enjoying rock, pray for him that he rock out of the rock. Amen. Pray for him that he will rise, and he will rise. You know the little song says, “I will rise again, no power on earth can hold me down.” AMEN.
There is a resurrection that is being resurrected. Amen. Being resurrected. It goes by stages. There is a time to resurrect, a time to leave the earth, a time to rise in maturity in Christ, a time to see God. I remember the time I struggled with love. I struggled with love. I would still feel that, what you would call discrimination, something against some people. Amen. I had to pray to God. I prayed to God and said, “My God, help me, because I can’t love this person.” Amen. You need to be honest. Amen! “I can’t love this person. My God, help me!” I didn’t say, “Help the person that he become a better boy so that I can love him.” No, sir! I said, “Help me, Lord!” And God said, “If you can’t love him, have compassion, have compassion on him.” So, I began to think of the man, in the light of his suffering, as a human being, and saw him lying down on a slab, and I asked God to forgive me. Is that what I was fighting against? Amen! God said, Ephesians 6:12, For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Princes, princes, mighty princes and their palities – that is, their area of rulership. Amen! We are wrestling against the prince of the state of Illinois. We wrestle against the prince of the state from which we came. He planted lies in our souls so that we feel certain things. Amen. Certain things have been planted in us, deep down in our ancestral lives. God is redeeming us out of our ancestors! God is redeeming us out of ourselves and bringing us to ZION with rejoicing! Don’t you understand? Amen. The man from Africa who has his ancestral implantment within him is coming to the same point that the man from England and the man from Ireland is coming to, that we will meet in one place that is called Christ!
If you can understand it, you must overcome your ancestral endowments and bends and leanings, and oppressions that your ancestral spirits put upon you. You must overcome these spirits. Amen. Paul said, “In Christ, ONLY IN CHRIST will you overcome it.” In other words, you see the thing, you know the thing, you feel the thing in your bones, and you cannot help yourself. You need to say, “God, let the blood of Jesus Christ deliver me” AMEN! “Redeem me from myself! Deliver me from me!” Lord Jesus, help us! You know, I can look back and see me, and I saw the demon that was out there, a demon that people were afraid of, but then God saw something there that could be redeemed. Amen. Then He began to redeem me.
I don’t know how the poor people say, “Once saved, always saved.” They are saved, sanctified and filled with the Spirit and they just feel that they are all right. Brethren, it is a long struggle after you are saved to get rid of yourself. Oh yes! That is why there are seven stages in the Tabernacle. There are seven stages of human development in the Spirit. You must be born again, washed by the Blood. You must wash in water. You must go walk in the candlestick. You must eat the bread at the table. You must go to the altar of incense and become incense. You must be smothered and leave no residue. Do you understand me? You burn wood and ashes come forth. Amen. When you burn the incense at the altar of incense, there is no residue. It goes off into gas. God wants you to become that incense before you are assimilatable into the Body of Christ. AMEN! The Bible says God takes it in His nostrils. God has nostrils! You see, the only way we can understand some things is if God puts it into human terms.
When the priest burned the incense it became a sweet smelling savor unto God. It means you have entered into God, you have gone up into God’s nostrils. You are burnt out… In other words, you give up your humanity. Go before God and say, “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in me as it is in heaven.” God will give you the energy to pray this prayer, to mean this prayer. God will do it.
You see, if you go outside to be a good boy, and try to be a good girl, and to make yourself good, you will have nothing but a man-made thing. But if you believe that God can do it, He will do it. That is how simple it is. If you believe God will do it, He will do it. Amen. All the songs we sing, sometimes we don’t believe half of what we sing, because we are not even listening to us. We are just loving the music and the sweetness of the feeling, and the swaying and the strumming of the guitar, and the humming of the music. Praise God! Amen. You know, you hear the guitars humming and the music strumming and it is pleasant to your soul. But don’t let that fool you, brother. You can’t praise God without words. A human being must be sending up words before Godto serve Him. Did you know that? I notice that some of us, we forget everything and we love the sweet singing song, and we are just singing the words, but they don’t really have the meaning because we are not consecrating the words up to God. “Take my life and let it be, consecrated, Lord, to Thee.” What are you saying? You are saying that you don’t want your life here. You are giving up your life. Yes, it is no joke. That is a dead serious thing, because when you go outside there, you have to live it. Amen. Praise God.
So, we are talking about the time that we are in. We have come to the time and I’ll tell you what it is. Do you remember the picture of the tabernacle that I have drawn? Or do I have to draw it again for you? All right! We are at that fifth stage. Standing before the veil. Now the veil is covered with images of cherubim angels. The veil has no entrance, yet you are going to enter in through the veil. Amen. Now look again with me. The veil is in you. Are you with me? The veil of the tabernacle is within you, because you are the tabernacle. The veil exists between your mind and your spirit. All right now, you are imagining with me, now. Your mind is the thing you use to think. You think about everything. You are thinking about what I am saying now. Now, that veil is between your mind and your spirit. There is a hole in the veil, the Spirit is going to seep into your mind, and you will stop thinking human and begin thinking God. But, it is not enough, because the veil is still there. So, therefore, the veil has to be rent in twain by the Blood of Jesus and you enter in. Now, when you get to a point of suffering, your veil gets thinner, and more of God gets in.
Let me take you a little further on. Let’s say you are dying. Can you imagine you are dying? You get to a point where the veil separates, where your mind gives up and you are into the Spirit, and you begin to see all of your faults that you have done all of your life. Your whole life rolls before you in one second, your whole life rolls before you just like a movie picture. Every deed that you did in your body, you’ll begin to get sorry for it. “Lord, I am sorry for this. Lord, I am sorry for that.” Where you thought you were righteous, you will see all the filthiness before you, because, remember now, God is judging you even for everything you thought. You see, we can’t judge a person for what they think. If a man was thinking he would like to kill you, you can’t judge him for murder. Amen. He might overcome that thought and come and hug you. You would never know that he was thinking he would like to kill you. Amen. But God saw it and the judgment comes down upon that. So the creature comes to the Creator for the Spirit now enters into your mind, and you are going to say to God, “I am not worthy. I am unworthy, oh, God. I am unworthy. Have mercy upon me for I am unworthy.” And God says, “I give you life. I died for you. I forgive you of all your sins.” Imagine a prisoner coming to the point of his execution and someone walks in and says, “I forgive you. You are free.” This is the kind of loosening and deliverance a man gets when he goes into the presence of God, into Christ.
So, I always wonder at men who go around boasting that, “I am this, and I am that, and I am apostle so-and-so, and I am prophet this-and-that.” You see, those men have not seen God. When you see God, you are nothing. Your soul bows down before God in a broken contrite condition because the God out there is so magnanimous. Hallelujah! He swallows up everything.
I want you to understand where we are then. We are by that veil now. Historically, that means in the world, the veil is going to be rent. But, individually, our veil is being rent right now, it is getting thinner, and the smoke is getting through. Do you understand? So, as you make your offering before the throne of God, now is the time of the offering, the time when God is saying, “Sons and daughters, give Me your heart, and I will give you My Father’s kingdom.” Amen. You are before the altar. Historically, the world is standing before the veil. All that must come to pass, must come to pass within these few years going on before us. Do you understand? The Sons of God must be anointed very shortly. I will tell you why. If they are not anointed, a curse will hit the earth and there will be no flesh saved. AMEN! No, I am not talking about the whole church. The whole church is not going to be anointed. God is letting us hear this so that we might make up in our heart whether we want this life or we want the Christ-life. It is not what you do that is going to help you, but it is what you believe. If you believe it, don’t look at yourself. Don’t even say to yourself, “God, I am wishy-washy, I am so-and-so, I am no good, I did so-and-so wrong.” Put away all that you did wrong before because God says, “I’ll wipe them away! I’ll remove your sin from you as far as the East is from the West.” Don’t worry about what you did. Worry about what you are, what God can make of you. “Lord God, I come to You with this vessel that is unworthy. Break it and make it and bring deliverance that I might be one of those that You can use in the last hour.” Hallelujah! AMEN!
In this hour, man will have to walk in a height that man has never walked before. Men have seen it. Men have touched it. But men have not walked it. In other words, Jesus Christ was arrested, and it was not time for Him to be arrested. The devil wanted to do a premature job on Him. He took Him to the brow of the hill to pitch Him over the hill. When they were ready to pitch Him over the edge, there was nobody in their hands. They started looking around, and the Bible said that He gently walked out of the crowds. They didn’t see Him. He was invisible. He just walked out of the crowd and said, “God, forgive them.” Don’t you understand where you are going? You are going to come to the point where the scripture said they could not kill the two witnesses (Revelation 11). They could not kill them until the time was ready. Hallelujah! We must begin to believe God. Hallelujah! Praise be to God! Thank You, Jesus!
Let’s ask some questions. If there are any questions in your mind, I am going to give you some time to ask some questions. Let’s just talk a little bit together before we close this session. Hallelujah! Amen.
Question:
You said the veil was thinning. I thought the veil was already rent.
Response:
The scripture says that the rending of the veil made a way for us. Another scripture says that the veil was His flesh. So, then, you have to understand that there is a veil in you, and your veil isn’t rent. Through the rending of the veil by Jesus Christ, He made a WAY for us that we, too, will follow Him through the veil.
Question:
At what time will we guide ourselves to be more Christ-like? Is there a time for the veil in us to be rent?
Response:
There is a special time in the timetable of God when the Body of Christ will enter through that veil. All of us will come together at the same time. Ephesians 1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: So, we are being prepared for that moment, but we have to make our offering before the throne of God before that happens.
Question:
Will anything else happen in that time or period?
Response:
Everything is a period. It couldn’t be just “ZAP” and it happens to all of us at once. You know what I mean. It is a period of time. I don’t know how long it will take. I don’t know how many days, how many years, or how many months. But I know that it must activate the sons of God when men get to the point where they can destroy the world. Anytime it comes into the heart of men to finish the world, and God knows they will have to do it, then God will have to activate the sons of God to stop them. You see, it is going to take three-and-a-half years of suffering and labor before that point comes where they finally are stopped.
Question:
Show in the scripture where the devils need the blood of men to get their power.
Response:
It is a long story. We start out with God calling Adam, giving Adam dominion over the world, God giving man life through Jesus Christ. Look at your whole Bible and there is no place where God gave the devil dominion. Amen. Now, the scripture said that the devil took Adam’s dominion and took Adam as a prisoner. Therefore, it is the life that is in Adam that the devils use. So, the blood is the life and devils cannot function unless they get that life from us. That is the basic principle. We would have to go through many, many, scriptures which we will get through sometime, but at this moment it is not convenient. But that is the principle.
Question:
You talked about a historical rending which happened at Calvary. There is an experiential rending in us that happens on a daily basis. I want to be sure I am understanding what you are saying. We are coming to another historical rending is what you are saying now?
Response:
Because there are historical rendings of the Body of Christ. The Head went through. The Head went through (Christ), but the Body hasn’t gone through, so it is time for the Body to go through.
Question:
But that time is also dependent upon when each of our individual lives, our individual beings, makes a whole (as you put it earlier), for us to rend that veil, or to make it thinner, until we are saturated. Am I hearing you right?
Response:
Yes! You see, at the Day of Atonement – you remember that was a specific time? I believe that there is a specific time in the history of the world where we will come historically to the Day of Atonement. We came to Passover and that was a historical time. We came to Pentecost and that was a historical time. So, the Church must, historically, come to the Feast of Tabernacles. Now, when we get to the Feast of Tabernacles, the first thing that happens, the scripture never explains how the altar of incense got into the Holy of Holies. Brethren, Bible students, are you with me? In other words, it is in the wrong place. Hebrews 9:6, Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. 7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: 8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: 9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; 10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. 11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 12Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
There is a verse that tells you the things that are in the tabernacle. Let us go up further. To verse 3, yes, this is what we are talking about. Verse 3, And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; 4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; Do you notice where he put the Altar of Incense? Inside of the Holy of Holies. It is only once in a year that the Altar went in there, and it could only go in there by slitting the vail, because there was no door into the vail. Praise God. Am I explaining it? If you don’t understand it, just look at the Tabernacle. We teach the Tabernacle.
In the Outer Court there are two things; the Brazen Laver and the Brazen Alter. There are just two.
In the Holy Place there are three things; the Candlestick, the Shewbread and the Golden Alter of Incense.
BUT this scripture (verse 4) says that the Golden Altar of Incense is in the Holy of Holies. Of course, the theologians have a big war over this. It is very simple. This, that Paul spoke about was on the Day of Atonement, and one day that Golden Altar is inside there. Do you know why? Because the smoke had to cover the Golden Ark of the Covenant before the priest could go in. How would the smoke get in there if the altar was not in there? So the scripture tells you that the Golden Altar, on the Day of Atonement, was in there.
Question:
How did the altar get in there if the priest couldn’t get in there to take it in there?
Response:
NO, not that he couldn’t go in there, but that he could not start his service before God, because God said if he did that, he would die. So, he would have to lift the altar, put it in there and step back and wait until the smoke covered the Golden Ark of the Covenant. Amen.
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