26-0206A_THE STATURE OF A PERFECT MAN PT-32 (BOND OF PERFECTNESS)

2Pe 1:1  Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: 

2Pe 1:2  Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 

2Pe 1:3  According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 

2Pe 1:4  Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 

2Pe 1:5  And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 

2Pe 1:6  And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 

2Pe 1:7  And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 

2Pe 1:8  For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

2Pe 1:9  But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. 

2Pe 1:10  Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: 

Col 3:14  And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. 

Jud 1:20  But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, 

Jud 1:21  Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 
Jud 1:22  And of some have compassion, making a difference: 
Jud 1:23  And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. 
Jud 1:24  Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, 

Mat 22:37  Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 
Mat 22:38  This is the first and great commandment. 

1Jn 5:1  Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 

1Jn 5:2  By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 

1Jn 5:3  For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 

1Jn 5:4  For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 

1Jn 5:5  Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? 

1Jn 5:6  This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. 

*...THAT’S WHAT THE HOLY GHOST IS FOR...IT’S TO UNITE US TOGETHER WITH POWER. IT’S TO UNITE US TOGETHER WITH LOVE, BROTHERLY LOVE.

WHAT.WAS.THE.HOLY.GHOST.GIVEN.FOR?_   59-1217

   111    ....The Holy Ghost will follow God’s Word to the letter.

And a preacher behind the pulpit, that ain’t got grace enough to preach It, I doubt he’s got It. That’s just exactly! Well, that’s what the Holy Ghost is for.

   112    It’s to give unction to the preacher. It’s to give holiness to the group. It’s to set the Church in order. It’s to bring a unity of Spirit. It’s to unite us together with Power. It’s to unite us together with love, brotherly love. 

*...BEING JOINED TOGETHER WITH GODLY LOVE, FEAR OF GOD, REVERENCE IN OUR HEART TO ONE ANOTHER, DEEP RESPECT TO ONE ANOTHER, BROTHERLY AND SISTERLY KINDNESS...

THE.STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_  JEFF.IN  V-2 N-18  SUNDAY_  62-1014M

  61-1    Let's study it. Let's add to our faith these things then, that we might come in the full statue of Christ, being joined together with godly love, fear of God, reverence in our heart to one another, deep respect to one another, brotherly and sisterly kindness, never vulgarity, nothing but just the purity of Holy Ghost living. See? Live together, be a Christian; walk with faith; let the virtue of God flow through you. Let the knowledge of God when it comes to right and wrong... When the devil presents something that's not exactly Scripture, walk away from it. That's right.

*THEN THEY'RE WAITING FOR THE HEADSTONE WHICH IS LOVE; FOR GOD IS LOVE, AND HE CONTROLS, AND HE IS THE STRENGTH OF EVERY ONE OF THESE THINGS.

 THE.STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_  JEFF.IN  V-2 N-18  SUNDAY_  62-1014M

  47-1    Now, in building the virtue, building this monument, building this statue (See?), it starts off and the foundation that's on faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness. Now, what's it do? Then they're waiting for the Headstone which is love; for God is love, and He controls, and He is the Strength of every one of these things. Yes, sir. Right in here. Right in here. See, I got in between all these works in here, and here there's little waves coming. What is that? The Holy Ghost coming down through Christ (See?), Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is above all this, welding this together, building a what? A perfect church for the capstone to cap it off. What's it been done again? It's manifested through seven church ages and seven church messengers.

*“FAITH WORKETH BY LOVE.” AND THE ONLY WAY THAT YOU CAN HAVE FAITH, IS HAVE LOVE FIRST.

DESPERATIONS_  63-0901E 

   68    Now the Word plainly states, if you want to put this down, in Galatians 5:6, that, “Faith worketh by love.” See? “Faith worketh by love.” And the only way that you can have faith, is have love first. Because, after all, faith is love’s incentive. Incentive, that’s exactly what—what faith is. It’s an incentive to love. Now, you, if you don’t have love, you can’t have faith. See?

69 How can you have faith in your wife if you don’t love her? That’s in phileo. Now how about in agapao, to God? How can it be if you don’t love God?

If you said you loved your wife, and never tell her about it, and never set down and make love to her, expressed it to her, kiss her, hug her, and tell her she’s the best cook in the country, all the things that you know, and how pretty she is, and how much you love her; if you don’t do that, she’ll never know it. That’s the way. If you do love her, you express it.

70 That’s the way we do to God. When we love Him, we tell Him about it. We set down and we adore Him, and worship Him. And, see, love drives us to that.

*...BUT IF THOSE GIFTS ARE NOT GOVERNED BY LOVE, THEN THEY ARE NOT EFFECTIVE.

GOD.PROJECTING.HIS.LOVE_  EDMONTON.ALBERTA  TUESDAY_  57-0806

   16 And I think if one thing is needed in the great, universal Church of God tonight is love. We do not need other things as much as we think we do. And all these other things, our emotions and our gifts, they are wonderful, and to God we give praise, but if those gifts are not governed by love, then they are not effective.

*IF GOD IS IN YOU, THE TOKEN INSIDE OF YOU, AND YOU SEE THE CONDITIONS OF TIMES, AND PEOPLE WADING IN SIN THE WAY THEY ARE, IT’LL THROW YOU INTO DESPERATION.

DESPERATIONS_  63-0901E 

   67   I believe that the reason we don’t have desperation is because it’s a lack of love, God, the love of God. I think that the love of God causes desperation. If God is in you, the Token inside of you, and you see the conditions of times, and people wading in sin the way they are, it’ll throw you into desperation. I believe it will.

*BUT IF YOU LOVE, IT CASTS AWAY THAT FEAR.

GOD.PROJECTING.HIS.LOVE_  EDMONTON.ALBERTA  TUESDAY_  57-0806

  E-14    Love is a powerful force. It'll run a woman, a mother, right into the flames of fire after her baby, if she knows she's plunging herself to death. There's nothing more strong than love. Love will make you trust. You might go and know that you belong to the greatest church in all the provinces of Canada. You might know that you're the charter member of the greatest church in the nation. And then you would do things that you would not do if you belonged to a little mission somewhere in some corner and had the love of God in your heart.

Love has no fear. Love casts out fear. And I notice in my meetings, so much that when I come into the people... One of the great things I find among them is fear. And what makes fear is lack of confidence. If you lack confidence it'll make you fear. But if you love, it casts away that fear. And that's the way God wants His Church, not so many as charter members; He wants members that's loyal, and loves, and believes, and has confidence in Him.

*GODLY LOVE DOESN'T QUESTION. HUMAN LOVE REASONS, BUT GODLY LOVE DOESN'T. IT'S PERFECT IN ITS TRUST.

GOD.PROJECTING.HIS.LOVE_  EDMONTON.ALBERTA  TUESDAY_  57-0806

   E-6   .....There's two different types of love. And I'm almost sure that many of us has been deceived with having phileo love and thinking it's Agapao love. Phileo love is intellectual; Agapao love comes from the heart. That's human love, affectionately love, and godly love. Godly love doesn't question. Human love reasons, but godly love doesn't. It's perfect in its trust. It's perfect... It just produces faith when you really love.

*WHEN THE LOVE OF CHRIST COMES INTO YOUR HEART, YOU WOULDN'T DO NOTHING TO HURT HIM.

GOD.PROJECTING.HIS.LOVE_  EDMONTON.ALBERTA  TUESDAY_  57-0806

  E-17    And I tell you, brother, when the love of God comes into the human heart, it'll drive all these things; you don't have to worry about smoking, drinking, and running to bioscopes. When the love of Christ comes into your heart, you wouldn't do nothing to hurt Him. Not walking around, saying, "They're narrow-minded, and they're this way and that way." Just let the love of God strike you once, those things die. Your whole affections is placed on Christ. You got Eternal Life then, when you believe Him, when you really believe Him, and get married to Him, and die out to the things of the world.

*CHRIST IN THE PERSON OF THE HOLY GHOST COMES UPON YOU IN THE TRUE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY GHOST, AND YOU GOT ALL THESE VIRTUES SEALED IN YOU…

THE.STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_  JEFF.IN  V-2 N-18  SUNDAY_  62-1014M

  48-1    See, these fellows wasn't required, what these fellows was. This wasn't required what this was. See, but He brought His church up the same way. He brought His--His church up the same way he's bringing His people up. Then Peter here says first (seven things) faith, virtue (See, coming up), knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly love, and brotherly kindness and then the love of God, the Holy Ghost. Christ in the Person of the Holy Ghost comes upon you in the true baptism of the Holy Ghost, and you got all these virtues sealed in you, then God lives in a tabernacle called the building, the living Tabernacle of the living God's dwelling place.

 

26-0202P_MY STRENGTH IS MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS

2Co 12:9  And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 

2Co 12:10  Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. 

1Co 1:26  For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

 

1Co 1:27  But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 

1Co 1:28  And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: 

1Co 1:29  That no flesh should glory in his presence.

Jdg 6:15  And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.

1Co 2:1  And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

1Co 2:2  For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 

1Co 2:3  And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 

1Co 2:4  And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

 

26-0130A_LET BROTHERLY LOVE CONTINUE

Heb 13:1  Let brotherly love continue. 

1Co 13:2  And 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.

 

Joh 13:35  By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Rom 12:10  Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;  

THE.GREAT.COMMISSION_  CHATTANOOGA.TN  SATURDAY_  58-0301B

But did you ever... Let me just give you... If I have found grace in your sight through God, you take my word for this, brethren. If you want to be a blessing, and get a blessing, when a man has done you wrong, and he has absolutely justly, he... I mean he has done you wrong and you know that he's done you wrong; he's done you evil. Don't mention that; you take him to prayer before God. And don't take it in a way of just a selfish and say, "Well, I'm supposed to do this." But stand with your shoulder to his shoulder, and stand in the Presence of God our Father, way a prayer should be made in the Presence of God, say, "Father, here's my brother, and he--he is justly; he deserves punishment because he has--he's done me evil. And I don't see why he did it."

 

THE.STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_  JEFF.IN  V-2 N-18  SUNDAY_  62-1014M

45-3    All right. Coming in to perfection now... All right. Then sixthly, let's add, the Bible said here, adding brotherly love--brotherly kindness. Now, that's a good one. Right here, the sixth one--seventh. All right, adding brotherly kindness. All right. When we get to that, brotherly kindness, put yourself in his place on the matter. Now, you say, "My brother sinned against me," said Peter, "Shall I forgive him?" He said, "Seven times a day?"

He said, "Seventy times seven." See, brotherly kindness. Now, you see, if a brother's all out of tune, don't be impatient with him. See? No. See? Be kind to him. Go anyhow.

SHALOM_  SIERRA.VISTA.AZ  V-13 N-5  SUNDAY_  64-0112

Maybe sometime man get up real sharp; but if I got one thought that I didn't like that person, then--then I know one thing, the Spirit of Christ has departed from me. If I--if I can feel that I don't like that person, there's something wrong with me.

A.SUPER.SENSE_  JEFF.IN  V-20 N-7  SUNDAY_  59-1227E

And don't love only those who love you, but love those who do not love you. For it's easy for me to love anybody that loves me, but try to love somebody who doesn't love you. That's where you can test whether you're a Christian or not; somebody that don't love you, and yet in your heart you love them... Now, if you don't do that, then just keep holding onto God. It's there, 'cause I know it to be the truth. Amen. I know that it's the truth.

 

A.SUPER.SENSE_  JEFF.IN  V-20 N-7  SUNDAY_  59-1227E

  Now, don't you listen to one foul thing the devil's got to say. See? If the devil shows you some, or tells you something evil about one of the members of the body of Christ, don't you believe it. For as soon as you believe it, you mar your experience.

 

A.SUPER.SENSE_  JEFF.IN  V-20 N-7  SUNDAY_  59-1227E

  36    And if you see one of the members of the Body of Christ doing something evil, don't tell nobody else; but go to that member, and with love, and see if you can't bring them back to Christ again. And if you can't do it, then tell one person, or let them go with you. Do it the way the Scripture said. See? But don't...

If somebody said, "Sister So-and-so, or Brother So-and-so," don't you believe one word of it. You just leave it go. Because, remember, it's the devil trying to tear you to pieces. Now, just look for him to come in, 'cause he'll do it. Now, you let the good man of the house, faith, stand right there, and don't you receive one thing. These people have been set in heavenly places with you, fellowship together around the blessings of God, taking the communion at the table, and the Holy Spirit has witnessed that they are the children of God. So let's just be real sweet, kindhearted, forgiving, loving. And if the other person talks evil against you, you talk sweet against them. Watch how sweeter it comes to you then. See? That's right. Just always return good for evil, love for hate. And just...

 

TAKING.SIDES.WITH.JESUS_  JEFF.IN  COD  FRIDAY_  62-0601

There's many times that a minister will make a mistake. And if he comes into a neighborhood, a precious brother who's trying to do what's right and to lead the people right, everything that the devil can point to the unbeliever or the so-called Christian in that neighborhood to throw off on that man, he'll do it. You know, the real Christian way is to hide everything you can from a brother. Don't tell his bad things; just tell his good things. Just tell what you know about him that's good. If anything's bad, let it alone. The poor fellow's got enough against him anyhow. Don't try to take a pole and shove a man further into the ditch. The Christian attitude is to pick him up and take him out of the ditch. See? Don't never try to shove him down; he's down already. Try to help him up. And... But too many of us today, too many people today, I might say, try to do that. If they could just get something another that they could say that was real bad.

 

TOKEN_  JEFF.IN  V-2 N-19  SUNDAY_  63-0901M

When we see these things upon the earth today, oh, people, this is the last hour. Get that Token over you, quickly as you can; or, you get in the Token, get in the Token. As we see the great end sign, and the time at hand, warning us, "Time is at hand."

TOKEN_  JEFF.IN  V-2 N-19  SUNDAY_  63-0901M

  243      Oh, take this solemnly! We should love one another. Oh, my! We should be so in love! Don't never speak evil against one another. If somebody makes a mistake, pray for him right quick. We are together in this, with God. We are brothers and sisters. Oh, live godly. Live, live like daughters of God, live like sons of God. Live sweet, kind, humble.

244    Let no evil come in your mind, in your thinking. Just, just dismiss it. If it knocks on the door, take it away. Just say, just show your Token, just keep walking, "I am under the Blood!"

 

WHERE.I.THINK.PENTECOST.FAILED_  SAN.FERNANDO.CA  FRIDAY_  55-1111

If it ever gets to a place that I couldn't put my arm around any brother that's working for the Kingdom of God, and recognize him as my brother, I feel I'm backslid. Amen. Sure.

THE.WAY.TO.HAVE.FELLOWSHIP_  CHICAGO.IL  SUNDAY_  55-1009

And when you separate from Divine love, then you can't overlook your brother's mistakes no more. You got to bawl him out for it. That's right. You can't overlook sister's mistakes no more. Because you've got away from that Divine part, that love part. But if you really love the Lord Jesus, if sister or brother, does something to you, "Oh, well, that's all right, they didn't mean to do it." That's the kind of love that Christ had, "Father, forgive them; they don't know what they're doing."

 

BLASPHEMOUS.NAMES_  JEFF.IN  V-3 N-21  SUNDAY_  62-1104M

Now, you might say, "Look, I--I--I sure don't like Brother Neville," or, "I sure don't like Brother Jones; I don't like Brother So-and-so," and something like that. But just let something happen to him; brother, your heart's broke. It just nearly kills you. See? We can obtain brotherly kindness and feeling for one another. See? But to maintain in a group of people...

Why do you care for that brother? Because you broke bread with him here at the altar, as you will tonight; you fellowship with him; you shook his hands; you worship with him. He's your brother. And he might do something in the flesh that you would disagree with, cause you just kind of stay (which you oughtn't to do but)--shun him a little. But in the bottom of your heart, if something happened to that brother, it would just nearly kill you, or that sister.

again." See? See, it's brotherly love. It looks like it won't stick, but it does stick. The honey, it sticks.

 

 Mat 12:50  For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother. 

Rom 12:11  Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; 

Rom 12:12  Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; 

Rom 12:13  Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality. 

1Jn 3:11  For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 
1Jn 3:12  Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. 

Gal 5:13  For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 
Gal 5:14  For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 
Gal 5:15  But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. 

Php 2:4  Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Gen 4:9  And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? 

Gal 6:1  Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 

 

 

26-0126P_CONTINUE IN PRAYER WITH THANKSGIVING

Col 4:2  Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; 

Col 4:3  Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds: 

Col 4:4  That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak. 

1Ti 2:8  I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. 

Mat 6:5  And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 

Mat 9:37  Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; 

Mat 9:38  Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. 

FAITH_  CHARLOTTE.NC  FRIDAY_  56-0427

E-5    We're just looking forward for a great time in the Lord, and with your prayers I'm sure that we'll do the best we can for the glory of God. Prayer changes things. Prayer changes death to life. Prayer changes sickness to health, changes sinners to saints. It's prayer. You may laugh too much. You may shout too much. You may eat too much, but you'll never pray too much. The--the Bible said, "I would that man pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands." So you'll never be able to pray too much.

Now, I was noticing here Brother Osborn's book, the Evangelist T. L. Osborn. He is another bosom friend of mine along with Brother Roberts and many of the other outstanding ministers of the day. I've had privilege of meeting many of them.

BLIND.BARTIMAEUS_  PHOENIX.AZ  FRIDAY_  57-0301

E-10    That being alone... Many times I've climbed up into the mountains. Where every man thought (was with me), I was going hunting. Go up there, and set down on a rock, and just look up to the sky until looked like that my whole innermost being become filled with something that you could just feel... Oh, everything of the world seemed to pass away. Oh, for those precious hours alone with God.

And it's there that when the greatest revelation and inspiration comes, is when we're alone with God. We'd take more time on that, I'm sure, that we would live a better life, more victorious life in Christ.

A.TRUE.SIGN.THAT'S.OVERLOOKED_  JEFF.IN  V-6 N-2  SUNDAY_  61-1112

Isn't it strange that God wants the people to have part into it? When Jesus looked out upon the harvest, He said, "The harvest is ripe; the laborers are few. You pray the Lord of the harvest (That was Him.)--you pray to Me, that I will send laborers into My harvest." It's some part you have to do. God's waiting for His church to call on Him. He's always did it. God is waiting today for the people to call His servant into action. And the servant can't get into action till the people prays.

Israel could not get into action down there with signs and wonders until they fell on their face and prayed for a deliverer. God had His deliverer. God had a prophet hanging up there in the wilderness, kept him there for forty years waiting for them to get right to pray. But when they got right and started praying, then God sent the deliverer. God will do the same thing today, if the people will just get together, get to praying. All right.

 

 

26-0123A_INSPIRATION PT-9 (THE LIFE WITHIN THAT MOTIVATES YOU)

2Ki 4:30  And the mother of the child said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her. 

Job 32:8  But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. 
Job 32:9  Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
2Ti 3:16  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 
2Ti 3:17  That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. 

*THE SPIRIT THAT'S WITHIN YOU MOTIVATES YOUR LIFE…BUT IF YOU ARE OF GOD, YOU'LL DO THE WAY THEY DO IN HEAVEN…

A.DECEIVED.CHURCH.BY.THE.WORLD_  JEFF.IN  CH 67  SUNDAY_  59-0628M

  40    ...We're from heaven. The spirit that's within you motivates your life. If you are a American, you'll do as the Americans do. If you are French, you'll do as the French do, and criticize the other one. But if you are of God, you'll do the way they do in heaven, because your Spirit comes from above and It controls you.

*AND THE HOLY SPIRIT IS HERE, TRYING TO FIND SOMEBODY TO WORK THROUGH, AND WHEN IT FINDS SOMEBODY TO WORK THROUGH, IT CAN DO GOOD.

THE.ONENESS.OF.UNITY_  WATERLOO.IA  V-2 N-7  TUESDAY_  58-0128

  8-3    …..Now, when the meeting going on, a evil spirit in the meeting, that spirit is almost harmless until it can catch somebody that it can work through. Then when it can work through, it'll certainly do damage, because it is a evil spirit. And the Holy Spirit is here, trying to find somebody to work through, and when It finds somebody to work through, It can do good.

See, the two spirits, their motives, objectives? Watch how it is. Watch their works. Watch their fruits. Then you can see what spirit is on you.

THE.ONENESS.OF.UNITY_  WATERLOO.IA  V-2 N-7  TUESDAY_  58-0128

  8-6    You are motivated by spirit. If you have no spirit, you're dead. And if you have a spirit, it motivates your life. And if your life bears the fruit of a Christian, it's a Christian Spirit.

*IF WE'RE CHRISTIANS, WE HAVE A HEAVENLY SPIRIT, AND OUR SPIRIT COME FROM ABOVE THAT DIRECTS OUR LIVES AND OUR THOUGHTS.

WHO.IS.THIS_  CLARKSVILLE.IN  SUNDAY_  59-1004M

32    You'll usually do... You--you'll usually do like the spirit that's in you. It motivates your life. It makes you what you are, is the life that's in you. And when men and women claim to be Christians and still want to be like the world, there's something wrong somewhere; for we are not of this world, for our spirit...

If we were Germans, we'd like Germany. If we were Finland, we would do as they do in Finland. If they're Americans, they have the American spirit. If we're Christians, we have a heavenly Spirit, and our Spirit come from above that directs our lives and our thoughts. That's godly, brotherly love, clean life, honorable, respected peoples.

*YOUR SPIRIT, THE LIFE THAT'S IN YOU, MOTIVATES AND TELLS WHAT YOU ARE.

A.DECEIVED.CHURCH.BY.THE.WORLD_  JEFF.IN  CH 67  SUNDAY_  59-0628M

43    Oh, yes, these people call themselves Christians. They belong to churches….. We're this, that, and the other." That doesn't have one thing to do with it. Your spirit, the life that's in you, motivates and tells what you are. Jesus said, "By their fruit you shall know them."

*WE'RE EXHORTED TO HUMBLE OURSELVES.

A.DECEIVED.CHURCH.BY.THE.WORLD_  JEFF.IN  CH 67  SUNDAY_  59-0628M

  45    That's the same thing the church has done. It's adopted... Here you are. It's adopted politics, educations. It's adopted organizations, societies, big churches, high cafluting preachers. And when the real King comes, they don't know Him, and they're crucifying the very Holy Ghost that's their King. They don't know Him, but they laugh at Him and make fun of Him. As they--Jews did their Messiah, the church is doing their Messiah the same way. They don't know it. They haven't got the spiritual insight, because they're so indocumated with their eyes and what they see, great buildings, trying to compare with the world. We're never exalt--exhorted to compare with the world. We're exhorted to humble ourselves.

*ARE WE TRUE TO GOD? ARE WE TRUE TO HIS WORD? DO WE STAND UNDER TEST OF THE HOLY SPIRIT? THAT'S THE MAIN THING.

A.DECEIVED.CHURCH.BY.THE.WORLD_  JEFF.IN  CH 67  SUNDAY_  59-0628M

  46    And one is the majority in God. And today in the healing evangelists out on the fields, there's such a competiting--competitors. One says, "Well, bless God, I have so many thousand. I got a bigger meeting than you have." What difference does that make? If we have one or one million, what difference does it make? Are we true to God? Are we true to His Word? Do we stand under test of the Holy Spirit? Is it true? That's the main thing.

*THE LIFE THAT'S IN YOU MOTIVATES YOU.

WHERE HAS THY STRENGTH GONE_   59-0702

E-20    We are not looking for these things of the world. And when the Spirit of God comes into a person, it changes them. It motivates you... The life that's in you motivates you. And what's the matter with the church today, it's become too worldly. What we need is the Holy Ghost in the human being, in the heart. It'll take the new birth to do that: change that person, making him or her a new creature.

But let me tell whether it's America, Finland, France, anywhere it is, when a woman or a man is borned of the kingdom of God, he becomes a new creature and stops the things of the world. They are dead to him; for he is dead and his life is hid in God through Christ, sealed by the Holy Ghost. What we need today is a revival, is a shaking, an old fashioned Pentecostal revival. We'd be a lot better off with a tambourine down on the corner, beating the tambourines, than to live in these big morgues with the Spirit of God being grieved away from us. The devil comes to rob and to take away. That's all he knows how to do.

* BUT YOU KNOW, GOD MADE YOU A PERSON TO MAKE YOU DESIRE TO BE THAT WAY, SO THAT HE COULD FILL YOU UP WITH HIS GOODNESS.

THE.ONENESS.OF.UNITY_  WATERLOO.IA  V-2 N-7  TUESDAY_  58-0128

7-2    After you see this great something that I'm trying to build your mind into for a context, I'm trying to let you see out here that there is a--a working of an enemy. And the working of the enemy by a perverted spirit is trying to do that which the Spirit of Christ is trying to do. The enemy is trying, like the pro and con, to unite all the world under one great head. The world's a doing that, Russia, U.N. And now, let me go just a little further. And the church is trying to do it under man-made setups.

It'll never work. It's not God's program. I can prove that by His Word. But you know, God made you a person to make you desire to be that way, so that He could fill you up with His goodness. Now, if a man has to be full of something... That's right.

*THIS IS THE CHOOSING TIME.

THE.ONENESS.OF.UNITY_  WATERLOO.IA  V-2 N-7  TUESDAY_  58-0128

  7-4    This is the choosing time. You cannot stand neutral any longer. You may leave before the message is over, but you can't go out that door the same person you come in. That's right. You'll cross that threshold tonight either a better person or a--a more evil person than you was when you entered. You can't help it. It's up to you to make a decision. Now, notice. It's a choosing time. You can't be neutral.

It's a choosing time. You must choose you this day whom you're going to serve. And the devil has presented many things glamorous that you can choose if you wish to. You can't remain the way you are, because you've got to be... if you're empty...

*GOD SENT THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THE EARTH TO MOTIVATE THE CHURCH. 

THE.ONENESS.OF.UNITY_  WATERLOO.IA  V-2 N-7  TUESDAY_  58-0128

  9-2    Now, what just happened? A re--evangelist comes through. They preach repentance, and you clean up from your sins. And then when you're cleaned up, the devil goes away from you. You take your things back that you've stole. You go, confess your wrongs to your wife or your husband. You're really cleaned up. And then the thing of it is, you're just clean and make a real good target for the devil.

Now, after the people believed and was baptized, they were filled with the Holy Ghost. And that's God's Divine program. Now, if you are filled with the world... And when you get saved, you might be filled with good thoughts and so forth, but unless you are filled with God... God sent the Holy Spirit to the earth to motivate the church. And you might be filled with thoughts. You might be filled with theology. And you might be filled with education, a know it all. And you might be filled with religion, and still be a target of the devil. That's right.

*MASTERPIECE IS SCARRED BECAUSE THE ENTHUSIASM OF GOD TO SEE SUCH A MASTERPIECE, HE STRUCK HIM FOR US ALL. THERE HE DIED, TO PERFECT WE WHO ARE IMPERFECT. THE MASTERPIECE.

GOD’S.ONLY.PROVIDE.PLACE.OF.WORSHIP_   65-1128M

   130 One day, down on Jordan, after that Masterpiece had been formed and made, here He come descending down in a…on the wings of a Dove, said, “This is Him!” He was so enthused with this Masterpiece until He struck Him on Calvary, that He would die for the rest of us that’s imperfect; that through the shedding of His Blood, He might bring many masterpieces (being a Bride) to His Son. Masterpiece is scarred because the enthusiasm of God to see such a Masterpiece, He struck Him for us all. See? There He died, to perfect we who are imperfect. The Masterpiece.

WILLIAM D. UPSHAW

TESTIMONY_   51-0509

   1   I want to say that I’m very happy. I want to start this tonight, that this elderly man who’s eighty some-odd years old, about eighty-four years old. He isn’t able to work no more. He’s served his time. And if he has the enthusiasm to scatter the Message of Jesus Christ, I want to help him do it. God bless my brother. All right. Go ahead, Brother…?…May God bless each one. Come here.

[Brother Hall asks, “What are you going to start it with?”—Ed.] I’m going to start it…[Brother Hall asks, “Some money, huh?”—Ed.] Some money…[All right good, I will help you start it.”] All right, sir; that’s fine. God bless you.

   2 Just I want him to say a word. All right. Come here, Brother Congressman.

   This is the former Congressman of the United States. One time, one of the greatest men in our nation. God…He was crippled for many many years, sixty-six years, was healed here in this meeting. And I feel a great honor tonight to stand before a man, or with a man like this. That these crutches supported him for all those years of his youth, while he was being prayed for time after time to be healed. And at the age of about eighty-four Senator… 

[Congressman Upshaw gives his testimony: Just eighty-four. And I’m eighty-four years young, speak three and four times a day, preach the Gospel of the Christ Who saved me, stood by me on bed seven years, and made me happy, and then took me off of the crutches that I have used for fifty-nine years and now, glory to God I’m walking—Ed.]

   3 Praise the Lord. And you know what this offering is for? He’s not able to send this testimony around the country. He’s…He can’t do it. He’s aged, and he has no income. This here offering is to help him send this to all the big men, rulers, and so forth of the nation. God bless our gallant brother. 

   And I want to give him an…this welcome here, to anywhere in the nation that I have meetings or in the world. I’d be very happy to see Congressman Upshaw come and stand by me at the platform while in services.

[Congressman Upshaw gives comment: Remember, I’m sending this folder to every congressman, and senator, the president, and his wife, and now sending it this week to the king of England for whom he prayed, and Winston Churchill. And I’m going to send one to Joseph Stalin. God have mercy on his soul—Ed.]

 

LITTLE BOY LOOKING FOR AN ANWER IF ANY MAN HAS SEEN GOD

JESUS.CHRIST.IS.THE.SAME.YESTERDAY.TODAY.AND.FOREVER_   58-0515

   31 Now, in my city, there was a little boy, some time ago, who got all enthused in his Sunday school, and when he went home he said to his mommy, “Mommy, can anyone see this great God that they’re telling us about?”

She said, “Ask your Sunday school teacher.”

And she asked the teacher, or, he did, rather, asked the lady teacher, and she said, “Ask the pastor.”

And they asked the pastor, and the pastor said, “No, sonny, no one can see God and live.”

JESUS.CHRIST.IS.THE.SAME.YESTERDAY.TODAY.AND.FOREVER_   58-0515

   32 Well, the little fellow, that did not satisfy his enthusiasm. So he used to fish up on the river with an old fisherman, down there, by the name of Wiseheart, used to be a deacon in our church. And he, one day, coming down the river, there’d come a storm; been a dusty summer, and the water had washed all the leaves off; and the sun was setting in the west, as the old fisherman, the little boy, made their ways down after running the nets. And there was a rainbow came out. And as the old fisherman watched that rainbow, the little fellow noticed that tears begin to run down his bearded cheeks.

   33 And the crystal tears dropping off of his white beard, kind of stirred the emotion of the little boy. So he ran from the stern of the boat up into the middle, and he fell down on the lap of the old fisherman, he said, “Sir, I’m going to ask you something that, seemingly, no one can answer me.”

And he said, “What is it, my lad?”

He said, “God is so great, the God that made that rainbow.” Said, “Can anyone see God?”

   34 And the old fisherman, overcome by the child’s enthusiasm, put him in his arms, and he said, “God bless your little heart, honey, all I’ve seen for forty years has been God.” The way to see God is to get God on the inside, then He looks through your eyes. Then you know Him, you can understand, He will reveal Himself.

The way to see God is to get God on the inside, then He looks through your eyes. Then you know Him, you can understand, He will reveal Himself.

   35 Jesus said, “A little while, and the world, see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world.” Anyone who reads the Scriptures knows that’s true. Then Jesus’ promise, by His Own Word: that there—there would be people that would see Him until He came again at the end of the world. “A little while, and the world will see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I…” (a personal pronoun) “…will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world.” Now, is that Scripture right? Or was He just teasing the disciples? If He was teasing, and joshing, and carrying on, then He wasn’t the Son of God. That’s either the truth, or it is not the truth.

    58-0515 — Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever