26-0918A_RESPONSIBILITY OF THE BELIEVER

Luk 8:11  Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. 

Luk 8:12  Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. 

Luk 8:13  They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. 

Luk 8:14  And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. 

Luk 8:15  But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. 

1Th 2:13  For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. 

Exo 3:2  And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. 

CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY.OF.GOD.REVEALED_  JEFF.IN  V-3 N-7  SUNDAY_  63-0728

104      So, my opinion, the first thing that He made was Angels. And then they worshiped Him, and that made Him God. And He started from there. As in previous Messages I have tried to explain it, break it down. And now, then, when Angels began to worship Him, that was before there was even a molecule in the earth. There was nothing. It was all darkness. There wasn't no sun, nor no moon, no stars, no nothing, then He was God. As He asked Job, "Where was you when I laid the foundations of the world, see, when the morning stars sang together, the sons of God shouted for joy? See, now, where were you?" See? That was way back before the earth.

WHO.IS.GOD_  CLEVELAND.OH  TUESDAY_  50-0815

E-17    And in there... Now, see, this is just like a child playing before the door. It was the Son of God, the Logos. And I can see Him out there, and He spake, and said, "Let there be light." And there was nothing. But there was something happened, and a atom turned there and begin to whirl around this a way. The sun begin to come into existence, because He said, "Let there be." There's the authority.

Where did He make it from? I don't know. There was nothing to make it from. But He believed His own Word, and there was light. I can see a piece fly off of that; it's a meteor. After a few million years, or a hundred billions of years, if you want to call it, and it circled way out. I see Him standing there watching it. And it falls down in here. He stops it after it falls a few million years, and let it hang there in orbit. Here goes another one flying off the sun. It goes over here and hangs down, stops it there.

THE.ANGEL.OF.GOD_  TOLEDO.OH  FRIDAY_  51-0720

When God spoke, this--the--the--the dirt that you set over tonight, that's God's Word. God just said, "Let there be," and His Word materialized. Is that true? Where did He get the dirt, if it wasn't? He just spoke it, and it's God's materialized Word formed the earth that you set on. Oh, how wonderful, how past finding out. It's by faith that we believe Him. God believed His own Word, and it formed the world. If we had time to go into those things.

BLIND.BARTIMAEUS_  KLAMATH.FALLS.OR  WEDNESDAY_  60-0713

The very seat that you're setting on is God's Word made manifest. The very earth that you walk on is God's Word made manifest. The dirt on the ground is the Word of God. Amen. Oh, my. This building is the Word of God; this desk is the Word of God. God created it. He created it with His own Word.

There wasn't nothing to make it out of; He said, "Let there be," and He believed in His own Word. And there was a world come into existence. Oh, my. I'm ready to hang my soul on any phase of it and say it's the truth. Yes, sir. He said, "Let there be" and there was, because He's God. He made His own Word come to pass. He still makes His own Word come to pass. He always did, and He always will. He will stand by His Word; what God promises, God will do.

 

 

26-0914P_EXPECTANCY PT-3 (MAKES HIMSELF MANIFEST)

Luk 2:26  And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ. 

Luk 2:27  And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, 

Luk 2:28  Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, 

Luk 2:29  Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: 

Luk 2:30  For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,

Pro 8:34  Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. 

Pro 8:35  For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. 

Pro 8:36  But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death. 

*GOD'S WORD TELLS US WHAT WE CAN EXPECT. JESUS.CHRIST.THE.SAME.YESTERDAY.TODAY.AND.FOREVER_  TUCSON.AZ  SUNDAY_  61-0205E

  E-25    .....God's Word tells us what we can expect. And if we receive this Word without any doubt mixed into it, we will receive what we come for. But if you go away saying, "Well now, just as expected, I..." Well, you won't see a thing. But if you come expecting to see the Lord Jesus manifest Hisself amongst the people, you'll go away satisfied. You certainly will. You'll know that something happened.

But if you say, "Well, I... just as I expected, just another, oh, an evangelist standing up speaking," and that--then that's what--all you'll get. You usually get what you're looking for.

So open up your heart tonight, and take down the umbrella, and just, oh, just receive God in your heart.....

 

*AND REMEMBER, MESSIAH ONLY COMES AND MAKES HIMSELF MANIFEST TO THOSE WHO ARE LOOKING FOR HIM.

SIRS.WE.WOULD.SEE.JESUS_  LONG.BEACH.CA  WEDNESDAY_  61-0208

  E-53    Now, there's only three races of people on the earth. That's Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people; and that day, which was considered Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan. Now, the Gentiles, we Anglo-Saxon, we were heathens in them days. We worshipped idols,  Romans, and so forth, with clubs on our backs; and we wasn't looking for no Messiah. And remember, Messiah only comes and makes Himself manifest to those who are looking for Him.

The reason we don't see these things today, we're not looking for Him. We're looking at our churches, our denominations, our great structures, how much we're growing. Get your eyes off of that. Look to the Messiah. We're at the end time.

 

*AND THAT'S THE ONLY HOPE THAT WE HAVE, THE ONLY SUBSTANTIAL HOPE THAT WE HAVE, IS ON THE WORD OF GOD.

EXPECTATION_  TUCSON.AZ  SUNDAY_  61-0205M

  E-15    And I've often quoted this, that God is obligated to His Word. I like to read just a word or two of It, because what I say will fail, because I'm man, but His Word cannot fail because it's God. What... God is ever called on the scene at any time to make a decision... And the first decision God makes has to be the same decision every time.

Now, there's where you must solemnly base your faith, on THUS SAITH THE LORD. You must believe it, that it's God's Word. And that's the only hope that we have, the only substantial hope that we have, is on the Word of God. And now, God being infinite, and cannot make a mistake, and He's perfect, therefore, all of His... all of His promises must be perfect as He is perfect. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God... And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." the Word itself. So therefore, the Bible is the Word of God. It is God Himself placed upon paper.

For no man is any better than his word. If I can't take a man's word, I just can't have any dealings with him. He must be honest, he must be truthful, and especially as he professes to be a Christian.

 

*BUT IF YOU'RE LONGING, AND LOVING, AND WILLING, AND EXPECTING, GOD IS HERE TO REVEAL HIMSELF TO YOU.

EXPECTATIONS.AND.LEADINGS.OF.THE.SPIRIT_  EDMONTON.AB  SUNDAY_  57-0811E

       People come to the meeting; they see the precious Lord Jesus and every power that He used when He was here, move in the people. Some of them say, "I don't see that." No wonder, you wasn't expecting to see it. But if you're longing, and loving, and willing, and expecting, God is here to reveal Himself to you.

 

*THEY HEARD THE BIBLE; THEY BELIEVED IT, ACCEPTED IT, AND IT TAKEN PLACE.

JESUS.CHRIST.THE.SAME.YESTERDAY.TODAY.AND.FOREVER_  TUCSON.AZ  SUNDAY_  61-0205E

  E-79    .....There come hundreds of people that the day before was on crutches and wheelchairs with seven of them great big African vans, as long as them two posts together, piled plumb high, full of that, coming with their hands up. Been at war with one another in tribes, walking the next day singing, "All things are possible; only believe." Twenty-five thousand healed at one time. Why? They wasn't all indocumated with everything. They were virgin. They heard the Bible; they believed It, accepted It, and it taken place.

*NOW, YOU'VE GOT TO FIND YOUR OBJECTIVE, AND YOUR MOTIVE, AND THEN THE WILL OF GOD.

JESUS.CHRIST.THE.SAME.YESTERDAY.TODAY.AND.FOREVER_  TUCSON.AZ  SUNDAY_  61-0205E

  E-16    See, you've got to know positionally, first, Christ, where you stand. You are heir to this. It's your personal property; it belongs to you. It's God's gift to you. Nobody can take it away from you; it's yours. "What you ask the Father in My Name, that I'll do." Who can deny anything there? "Verily, verily, I say unto you, if you say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' don't doubt in your heart but believe that what you've said shall come to pass, you can have whatever you said." What promises, not limited just to healing, but to whatsoever.

Now, you've got to find your objective, and your motive, and then the will of God. And if it is the will of God, and your motive's right, and your objective is right, then the mountain will fall. But outside of that, you could scream till you got hoarse and died, and never would move. See? Your... First thing, it's got to be the will of God; the next thing, it's your objective in going and do it; and then the motive you have. You want to be some big person...

 

*THAT'S THE LITTLE GROUP THAT GOD SHAKES TO GET READY TO GO.

SIRS.WE.WOULD.SEE.JESUS_  LONG.BEACH.CA  WEDNESDAY_  61-0208

  E-8    Now, let me warn the people again and again. Do not expect the last shake of God in the church to be a universal thing. It isn't going to be. It's to the church. It's the great things that'll happen with the people in the little minority. That's the little group that God shakes to get ready to go. Them are gone anyhow. See? Now, that's Scriptural and Bible.

 

*OH, THAT'S WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR, THAT GREAT RAPTURE AND APPROACH OF OUR LORD JESUS.

JESUS.CHRIST.THE.SAME.YESTERDAY.TODAY.AND.FOREVER_  TUCSON.AZ  SUNDAY_  61-0205E

  E-33    But there is a shelter. Oh, it's not made out of steel, but it's made out of feathers: under His wings. Oh, I like that shelter, sweetly, peacefully abide, knowing this: that as soon as--'fore that bomb even gets a whistle to start, on His wings He will bear us up. Oh, that's what I'm looking for, that great rapture and approach of our Lord Jesus. And to see it coming so close, our hearts just jump for joy. To know that, it's a joy.

2Ti 4:7  I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: 

2Ti 4:8  Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

Mat 18:20  For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. 

2Th 3:5  And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. 

 

26-0911A_IN HIS PRESENCE PT-2 (IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD A MAN'S CHANGED)

Isa 6:1  In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 

Isa 6:2  Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 

Isa 6:3  And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. 

Isa 6:4  And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 

Isa 6:5  Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. 

Isa 6:6  Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: 

Isa 6:7  And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. 

1Co 2:9  But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 
1Co 2:10  But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 
1Co 2:11  For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 
1Co 2:12  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 
1Co 2:13  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 
1Co 2:14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 
1Co 2:15  But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 
1Co 2:16  For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. 

*THEN WHEN WE COME INTO HIS PRESENCE, WHEN A MAN ONCE COMES INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD, HE'S CHANGED FOREVER, IF THERE'S ANY CHANGING TO HIM.

IN.HIS.PRESENCE_  JEFF.IN  V-11 N-4  SUNDAY_  62-0909E

  42    Now, we see He never did ordain us to go make denominations. He never did ordain us to go make creed. But He warned us against such. "For whosoever shall take anything from It or add anything to It, the same will be taken out of, their part, in the Book of Life." See?

So we're not ordained to do nothing but stay with that Word. And if a man is sent of God, he'll stay with the Word, because God can only stand by His Word. See? See, He must stay by His Word. Then when we come into His Presence, when a man once comes into the Presence of God, he's changed forever, if there's any changing to him. Now, there are those who could walk in the Presence of God and pay no attention to It. He wasn't ordained to Life. But if he was predestinated of God, as soon as that first move hits, he knows it. That catches fire.

*WHEN A MAN COMES IN CONTACT WITH GOD, HE RECOGNIZES HIMSELF NO GOOD.

IN.HIS.PRESENCE_  JEFF.IN  V-11 N-4  SUNDAY_  62-0909E

  48    When a man comes in contact with God, he recognizes himself no good. How can a man walk around and brag about how big he is and what all he's done, when he's nothing? He's nothing to begin with. One day down in Memphis, Tennessee, or one of the--I don't think it was in Memphis; it was one of the places there. I was with Brother Davis and was having a--a revival, it might've been Memphis. And we was--went to a coliseum, and they had in there, not a coliseum, it was kind of a art gallery, and they had the--the great statues that they'd got from different parts of the earth, of different, Hercules and so forth, and great artists had painted. And then they had the analysis of a man that weighed a hundred and fifty pounds. You know how much he's worth? Eighty-four cents. That's all he is. Eighty-four cents is all the--all the chemicals you can get out of him. He's just got enough whitewash to sprinkle a hen's nest, and he's got enough, just a little bit of calcium, little potash. It would all sell for eighty-four cents. But we just take care of that eighty-four cents and baby it around.

IN.HIS.PRESENCE_  JEFF.IN  V-11 N-4  SUNDAY_  62-0909E

  49    There was two boys standing there, and one looked at the other one and said, "Jim, we're not worth very much are we?"

He said, "No, we're not, John."

And I said, "But wait a minute, boys, you got a soul in there that's worth ten thousand worlds, that's been--can be redeemed by the power of God, if you'll just let it."

*THE MAN OF GOD WHO STANDS IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD, AND KNOWS GOD IS GOD, AND KNOW THAT GOD KEEPS HIS WORD...

IN.HIS.PRESENCE_  JEFF.IN  V-11 N-4  SUNDAY_  62-0909E

  52    That's the way God's soldiers are today. They're trained to the Word. When anything comes up that's got a little polish to it, that's got something else that's not Scripture, they warn their congregation. Anything that's not Bible, anything that's not--that's not God-like, such as having soup suppers, dances, and everything else to pay off the pastors. Those things are wrong. Bunco games and card parties in the churches, it's wrong. And the real watchman on the wall, who's once been in the Presence of God... If he isn't on the wall, if he's just supposed to be on the wall, the wall may not be any higher than the rest of the congregation. But if he's a correct watchman, God raises him plumb up into spheres that the rest of them never gets to. But he watches the flock, and God requires it of him. The man of God who stands in the Presence of God, and knows God is God, and know that God keeps His Word, and watch God perform Hisself and do His duty and keep His Word, then no matter how many organizations or denominations tries to tear it down, he knows the rank and file of the enemy. Amen. He knows what to tell the congregation, a real watchman.

*IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD A MAN'S CHANGED.

IN.HIS.PRESENCE_  JEFF.IN  V-11 N-4  SUNDAY_  62-0909E

  68    Oh, what a great thing it was now to know that he had wrestled through. That he had seen signs of God, he had had dreams about God, but this was one time he was in the face of God, in the Presence of God. Think of it, friends, now as we hurry up.

In the Presence of God a man's changed. Jacob was changed. Now, he could walk with God. Yes, he was a different man than what he was when he went up there. The battle was now over. Yes, sir. And he begin to build an altar. He hadn't been used to building altars, you know. But I tell you, when you come in the Presence of God, you want to build an altar somewhere. You want to find somewhere where you can pray. He built an altar. He was cleansed, and God had won.

*BUT WHEN HE COME INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD, HE RECOGNIZED HE WAS A SINNER. WHAT DID HE DO?...HE HAD MET SOMETHING THAT HE DIDN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT BEFORE, AND HE STAYED THERE UNTIL ALL SINS WAS GONE.

IN.HIS.PRESENCE_  JEFF.IN  V-11 N-4  SUNDAY_  62-0909E

  69    ...That's what happened to Jacob. The supplanter, the deceiver, the unrighteous, the unholy, the deceiver, deceived his brother, stole the birthrights, as it was, from his brother took a little dirty way of doing it, such a deceiver. He deceived his father-in-law. Put poplar sticks and made speckled calves, when the cows being pregnated come there, look at it, and the sheep... would see that speckled stick and make speckled cattle, give them birth marks. Deceiver, deceiving his own father-in-law. Deceived his mother, deceived his daddy, deceived his brother, but when he once got in the... He was a shyster. He was running everywhere he went, always on the run from God; he was on the run from his brother. But when he come into the Presence of God, he recognized he was a sinner. What did he do? What did he do? He seen his opportunity. He had met something that he didn't even think about before, and he stayed there until all sins was gone. Oh, my. God got him in His Own Presence.

*THERE'S A HIDING PLACE, OH, A BLESSED HIDING PLACE. IT'S IN CHRIST.

THE.ONCOMING.STORM_  PHOENIX.AZ  V-15 N-2  MONDAY_  60-0229

  146    The storms are coming. There's a hiding Place, oh, a blessed hiding Place. It's in Christ. Let us bow our heads just a moment. I want you to think sincerely and solemnly for the next moment.

Have you ever found that blessed hiding Place from the wrath? Remember, there's no two hiding places; there's just One. You might be a good member of some church, which I have no evil to say against. But if that's all you have, and your life isn't compared with the Book of Acts, if the Holy Spirit that you profess to have is not making you live like they did in the Book of Acts, and your life could write another book, you better take warning. If the first vine brought forth a Pentecostal church; the second vine, or branch, rather, out of the Vine, will bring forth another Pentecostal church, with a Pentecostal experience, bearing the same fruits that the first church had.

*ARE YOU ABIDING IN THAT BLESSED, SACRED PRESENCE OF THE LORD?

THE.ONCOMING.STORM_  PHOENIX.AZ  V-15 N-2  MONDAY_  60-0229

Are you abiding in that blessed, sacred Presence of the Lord? Have you passed from death unto Life? Are you resting upon some emotion, some psychological affect, or some intellectual speech? Or are you constantly abiding in His Presence, with the fruit of the Spirit in your life: long-suffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness? Can you bear for someone to talk about you, and you love them so much, till in your heart you pray for them? Or is it a selfish little prayer, "O Lord, I know I ought to pray for him, but..." Oh, no, brother. Does that sweetness and love of God, "Oh, sweep over my soul. O Holy Spirit, sweep over my soul." If you haven't found that place of safety, my brother...

1Jn 3:22  And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. 

1Jn 3:23  And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. 

1Jn 3:24  And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us. 

 

26-0907P_EXPECTANCY PT-2

Luk 2:26  And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ. 

Psa 5:7  But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple. 
Psa 5:8  Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face. 

Psa 25:4  Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. 
Psa 25:5  Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. 
Psa 25:6  Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old. 
Psa 25:7  Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD. 
Psa 25:8  Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. 

*BUT IF YOU COME EXPECTING GOD TO DO SOMETHING FOR YOU, HE'LL DO IT. 

EXPECTANCY_  BATTLE.CREEK.MI  SUNDAY_  52-0817A

  E-12    ...Did you ever expect something? Usually, you get just what you expect. Did you know that? If you come to the meeting and would say, "Well, I'm going down there. There's nothing to it." Well, that's just what you'll get out of it. If you'd get down there and say, "Well, I--I'll go down there; but there's no need of me going because I--I ain't going to get healed," well, that's just the way you'll go back. But if you come expecting God to do something for you, He'll do it. If you expect to find something to criticize the meeting, criticize the way it's conducted, Satan will show you plenty of it. You'll find plenty. But if you come, not to criticize the meeting, you've come, saying, "God, I want to see where You are in it," God will show you Himself in it. Just whatever you expect, God will give it to you. It's your expectancy.

 

*IF THE HOLY SPIRIT HADN'T BROUGHT YOU HERE AND YOU'D BE OUT SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD.

THE.DEEP.CALLETH.TO.THE.DEEP_  WASHINGTON.DC  THURSDAY_  54-0624

  E-12    Yes, He's here tonight. He is risen from the dead. He's given you the promise; the Holy Spirit's drawed you together. If you wasn't here tonight... If the Holy Spirit hadn't brought you here and you'd be out somewhere in the world. But you're setting here in this hot building, fanning, because why? You're expecting to see Jesus Christ come on the scene and confirm His Word: expectations.

THE.DEEP.CALLETH.TO.THE.DEEP_  WASHINGTON.DC  THURSDAY_  54-0624

  E-13    If you expect to come just to find something to criticize, the devil will sure show you plenty to criticize. He certainly will. You get what you expect. Some of them say, "Well now, if I... If I don't get it from the prayer line... If I see something like this then I'll believe." You'll get what you expect.

I'm expecting tonight to see the Holy Spirit come and manifest Hisself in power, pour out His glory upon this building here, many receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, sinners weep their way to Calvary, sick be healed, all manners of signs and wonders because Jesus Christ has promised it. And I believe His promise.

*GOD'S WORD TELLS US WHAT WE CAN EXPECT. JESUS.CHRIST.THE.SAME.YESTERDAY.TODAY.AND.FOREVER_  TUCSON.AZ  SUNDAY_  61-0205E

  E-25    There was a question asked here in the Scripture, and this morning I left off speaking on the word of "expectation," to expect... Now, I trust that you took it home with you, and searched through the Scriptures to find out what to expect. God's Word tells us what we can expect. And if we receive this Word without any doubt mixed into it, we will receive what we come for. But if you go away saying, "Well now, just as expected, I..." Well, you won't see a thing. But if you come expecting to see the Lord Jesus manifest Hisself amongst the people, you'll go away satisfied. You certainly will. You'll know that something happened.

But if you say, "Well, I... just as I expected, just another, oh, an evangelist standing up speaking," and that--then that's what--all you'll get. You usually get what you're looking for.

So open up your heart tonight, and take down the umbrella, and just, oh, just receive God in your heart.....

*IT'S POSITIVE. YOU HAVE TO HIT THE SPOT IF YOU'LL TAKE HIS WORD, BELIEVE IT.

EXPECTATION_  TUCSON.AZ  SUNDAY_  61-0205M

  E-21    And if God made a decision in the beginning that on faith, if we believed His Word, He would make every promise come true, then God still is the infinite God to His promises. Cannot fail. It must be that way. It's positive. You have to hit the spot if you'll take His Word, believe it.

...If He give the one the Holy Ghost that obeyed Him, in the Bible, exactly as He promised there in Acts... He said, "The promise is unto you and your children, them that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." If a man meets those qualifications, God's obligated by His Word to fill him with the Holy Ghost. Because if He didn't, then He made a mistake. And if God made a mistake, He's a man and not a, and not God, then He's finite, like we are. So you see, as Abraham's children we take God's promise and just hold onto it. No matter what takes place, we hold right there just the same, because God said so and that settles it.

 

*THAT'S THE WAY WITH CHRISTIANS TODAY. THEY FAIL TO EXAMINE THE PROMISES OF GOD AND SEE THEY'RE TO "WHOSOEVER WILL, LET HIM COME." 

EXPECTATION_  TUCSON.AZ  SUNDAY_  61-0205M

  E-23  ..... If a church, a people, ever comes to a place where they completely separate themselves from the things of the world, then you can look through every promise in the Bible. It's all yours.

It's like a great big arcade. By one Spirit we're baptized into an arcade. Some people just come into the arcade by the Holy Ghost baptism, say, "Well, thank the Lord, I got in. Thank the Lord, I'm here."

That isn't it. To me... what did God say to Abraham? "Get up and look all through the land. It all belongs to you." That's the way, when I come into Christ, I wanted to look around. Not just know He saved me, but what else have I got in there? If somebody give me a big arcade and I went into it, I'd like to examine the thing, see what I got. That's the way with Christians today. They fail to examine the promises of God and see they're to "whosoever will, let him come." I found something a little high, I'd get me a stepladder and get up to it, look on the shelves and see what belongs to me.

*WHEN A MAN'S FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, GOD GIVES HIM A CHECKBOOK WITH JESUS' NAME WROTE ON THE BOTTOM OF IT. SEND IT IN.

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  E-24    You Christians sometimes don't examine, find out what belongs to you. Healing's yours, salvation's yours, joy is yours, peace... every promise in the Bible is yours. When a man's filled with the Holy Spirit, God gives him a checkbook with Jesus' name wrote on the bottom of it. Send it in. Don't be afraid to write it out. Send it in, and He will send down His bountiful blessings upon you of what He promised.

*...LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD. BE EXPECTING IT.

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  E-16    .....All right, led by the Spirit of God. Be expecting it. Simeon was expecting God to keep His Word. Abraham was expecting God to keep His Word. David was expecting God to keep His Word when he met the giant. Samson was expecting God to keep His Word when he laid his arms around the pole. Samson was expecting God to keep His Word when he picked up a jaw bone of a mule and beat down a thousand Philistines. The Hebrew children was expecting God to keep His Word when they walked into the fiery furnace. Daniel was expecting God to keep His Word when he went in among the lions. The woman that touched the hem of His garment was expecting God to keep His Word. Martha was expecting God to keep His Word when He said, "I am the Resurrection and Life."

*AND THAT'S THE ONLY HOPE THAT WE HAVE, THE ONLY SUBSTANTIAL HOPE THAT WE HAVE, IS ON THE WORD OF GOD.

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  E-15    And I've often quoted this, that God is obligated to His Word. I like to read just a word or two of It, because what I say will fail, because I'm man, but His Word cannot fail because it's God. What... God is ever called on the scene at any time to make a decision... And the first decision God makes has to be the same decision every time.

Now, there's where you must solemnly base your faith, on THUS SAITH THE LORD. You must believe it, that it's God's Word. And that's the only hope that we have, the only substantial hope that we have, is on the Word of God. And now, God being infinite, and cannot make a mistake, and He's perfect, therefore, all of His... all of His promises must be perfect as He is perfect. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God... And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." the Word itself. So therefore, the Bible is the Word of God. It is God Himself placed upon paper.

For no man is any better than his word. If I can't take a man's word, I just can't have any dealings with him. He must be honest, he must be truthful, and especially as he professes to be a Christian.

Rom 3:1  What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? 

Rom 3:2  Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. 

Rom 3:3  For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? 

Rom 3:4  God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. 

Psa 37:7  Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. 

Psa 37:8  Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. 

Psa 37:9  For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth. 

Psa 37:10  For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. 

Psa 37:11  But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. 

 

26-0904A_IN HIS PRESENCE

Isa 6:1  In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 

Isa 6:2  Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 

Isa 6:3  And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. 

Isa 6:4  And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 

Isa 6:5  Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. 

Isa 6:6  Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: 

Isa 6:7  And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. 

Isa 6:8  Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

1Ch 16:26  For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens. 

1Ch 16:27  Glory and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place. 

1Ch 16:28  Give unto the LORD, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength. 

Joh 14:13  And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 
Joh 14:14  If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. 
Joh 14:15  If ye love me, keep my commandments. 
Joh 14:16  And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 
Joh 14:17  Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 
Joh 14:18  I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. 
Joh 14:19  Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. 
Joh 14:20  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
Joh 15:3  Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 
Joh 15:4  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 
Joh 15:5  I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 
Joh 15:6  If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 
Gal 5:22  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 
Gal 5:23  Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 
Gal 5:24  And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 
Gal 5:25  If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 

*... BUT WHEN WE EVER COME INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD, THEN WE SEE HOW LITTLE WE ARE.

IN.HIS.PRESENCE_  JEFF.IN  V-11 N-4  SUNDAY_  62-0909E

  8    May the Lord bless His Word. I think that's a most striking Scripture. We find that, in the Presence of God, men recognize themselves to be sinners. We may feel pretty good when we're out different places, and feel like that we're pretty good people, but when we ever come into the Presence of God, then we see how little we are.

*THEN WE REALIZED HOW LITTLE WE ARE WHEN WE REALIZE HOW GREAT HE IS, AND HOW CLOSE WE COME IN OF COMING TO HIS PRESENCE.

IN.HIS.PRESENCE_  JEFF.IN  V-11 N-4  SUNDAY_  62-0909E

  11    Then we realized how little we are when we realize how great He is, and how close we come in of coming to His Presence. Somehow another, it's always throwed a great effect upon people to come into the Presence of God. I've seen the time in my ministry when you'd see the Presence of God come into such a place that it would bring a person up and just reveal the life to them, and call out their sins of all kinds of immoral acts, and it bring such a holy hush amongst the people till they'd drop out of the prayer line before they ever come up to be prayed for, and run to the altar and get right with God before they come up into His Presence. See, there's something about coming into the Presence of God that causes things to happen. I've seen people laying in cots and stretchers.

*... AFTER JOHN HAD WALKED WITH JESUS, TALKED WITH HIM, SLEPT WITH HIM, EAT WITH HIM, BUT WHEN HE SEEN HIM STANDING THERE, THAT GLORIFIED STATE, HE SAID HE FELL LIKE A DEAD MAN AT HIS FEET.

IN.HIS.PRESENCE_  JEFF.IN  V-11 N-4  SUNDAY_  62-0909E

  26    What about the great Saint John of Revelations 1:7, when he was showed the vision, and looked, and heard a Voice speaking to him. And he turned to look to see the Voice, and he saw seven golden candlesticks. And One stood in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, with hair like wool, eyes like flames of fire, feet like pillars of brass; He was girded with a golden girdle around the paps, and He was called the Word of God. And when the great Saint John had walked with Christ, leaned upon His bosom, when he done all these things... As I said this morning, Paul's ministry exceeded any of them. Here, after John had walked with Jesus, talked with Him, slept with Him, eat with Him, but when he seen Him standing there, that glorified state, he said he fell like a dead man at His feet. Amen. Think of it.

*WE MIGHT THINK THAT WE KEEP THE LAWS OF THE CHURCH AND RECITE ALL THE CREEDS, BUT ONCE LET US GET A LOOK AT HIM, THE WHOLE THING'S CHANGED ALL THE WAY AROUND.

IN.HIS.PRESENCE_  JEFF.IN  V-11 N-4  SUNDAY_  62-0909E

  27    We can come to church, and talk, and praise God, and so forth, but, oh, brother, when we see Him coming, something will be different in our hearts. We might think we do our religious duty by go to church and pay our tithings. We might think that we keep the laws of the church and recite all the creeds, but once let us get a look at Him, the whole thing's changed all the way around. Yes, it's sure.

This great man, Saint John, a great man like that, the Bible said in Revelations 1:7, that, he fell as if he was a dead man. After three and a half years of fellowship with Christ, was one of the writers of the Epistles, rode behind Him, eat with Him at the table, slept with Him at the bed, and fellowshipped with Him wherever He went, but when he's turned to see Him, he had no more life left in him. He fell like a dead man to the floor, or to the ground. All right.

*HE SAID, "WOE IS ME, FOR I AM A MAN OF UNCLEAN LIPS," A PROPHET, A MIGHTIEST PROPHET OF THE BIBLE, ONE OF THEM.

IN.HIS.PRESENCE_  JEFF.IN  V-11 N-4  SUNDAY_  62-0909E

  29    We see Isaiah in Isaiah 6:5, as we've just read, this great mighty prophet, he's one of the greatest prophets there is in the Bible. There's sixty-six Books of the Bible; there's sixty-six chapters in Isaiah. Isaiah starts off in Genesis, the middle of Isaiah he brings in the New Testament, at the end of Isaiah he brings in the millennium; just exactly Genesis, the New Testament, and Revelation; perfect. Isaiah was one of the major prophets. But one day he had been leaning upon the arm of Uzziah the great king, Uzziah had been taken from him, and he was down. He was a pretty good fellow; he was a good righteous man, if that righteous king (a good king) recognized him as a holy man and kept him in his temple.

IN.HIS.PRESENCE_  JEFF.IN  V-11 N-4  SUNDAY_  62-0909E

  30    Isaiah saw visions. He was a prophet. Isaiah preached the Word. He was a minister. Isaiah was a holy man. But one day, standing in the temple, he fell into a trance and he saw the Glory of God. He saw the Angels with wings over Their face, wings over Their feet, flying with wings, crying, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty."

That prophet realized he was nothing. He said, "Woe is me, for I am a man of unclean lips," a prophet, a mightiest prophet of the Bible, one of them. "I am a man with unclean lips, and I dwell among people with unclean lips, Woe is me, because I see the Glory of God."

*BUT WE RECEIVE A KINGDOM WHICH IS THE WORD OF GOD HIMSELF, AND GOD IS HIS WORD.

IN.HIS.PRESENCE_  JEFF.IN  V-11 N-4  SUNDAY_  62-0909E

  35    This is evangelism. This is the time to shake people. This is the time that--that God said there'd come a time, He shook Mount Sinai one time but there'd come a shaking again, that He wouldn't only shake Mount Sinai, but He'd shake everything that could be moved. But did you notice the rest of the Scripture? "But we receive a Kingdom that cannot be moved." Hallelujah. Everything that can be shook will be shaken. The heavens will shake. The earth will shake. "Heavens and earth will pass away, but that Word shall never pass away. For upon this rock I'll build My Church, and the gates of hell will never prevail against It." Everything that can be shook will be shaken. But we receive a Kingdom which is the Word of God Himself, and God is His Word. He don't shake Himself. Amen. Oh, my. But we receive a Kingdom that cannot be moved; it's unshakable, said Paul the Hebrew writer.

*NOT WHAT I CAN DO, WHAT I CAN JOIN, WHAT I CAN SAY; BUT IT'S BY HIS GRACE THAT HE SAVED ME.

IN.HIS.PRESENCE_  JEFF.IN  V-11 N-4  SUNDAY_  62-0909E

  38    Repentant sinners though, doesn't have any fear. Oh, no. A sinner that will repent, he knows that there's a bloody Sacrifice waiting and standing in his place. That's what gives me the consolation. I've seen the Glory of God. I've felt His power. I know the touch of His hand. I know the touch of His chastisement. I know that He's God. And I know I'm undone, but there's One standing there for me. Amen.

There's One Who stands there and says, Father, lay all of his iniquity upon Me, because he stood for Me down on the earth." Hallelujah. Then I've walked to the throne of God, boldly, having grace in my heart to know it's not by good works, but by His mercy I'm saved. Not what I can do, what I can join, what I can say; but it's by His grace that He saved me.

No wonder the poet that caught that, screamed out, "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. Once was lost, but now I'm found; blind, but now I see."