23-1211P_EXPECTATION PT-4
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.
IF YOU COME TO A MEETING TO BE BLESSED, GOD WILL GIVE YOU A BLESSING.
WHATEVER YOU EXPECT, THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO FIND.
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E-16 You usually get just what you're
expecting. You come to the meeting to criticize, the devil will show you plenty
to criticize. If you come to a meeting to be blessed,
God will give you a blessing. Whatever you expect, that's what you're going to
find. Simeon was expecting to see the Lord. And God led him right to it,
just at the same time.
Listen. When the deep calls to the deep, there's got to
be a deep to respond to it. That's right. If there's something in here, a
creation in here, before that creation can be there, a Creator has to create
that creation.
As I've said many times, before a fin was on a fish's back, there had to be a water for him to swim in or he wouldn't have no fin. And if there's something in here calling out for more of God, there's got to be more of God out yonder to respond to it.
ACT ON YOUR FAITH, AND GOD WILL BRING IT TO PASS.
DO.YOU.NOW.BELIEVE_ WEST.PALM.BEACH.FL SUNDAY_ 53-1206E
E-92 What more could our Lord Jesus do? Oh, my. I realize, friends, I can't
stand here much longer, all the thing's becoming like one great big ball of
Light. I can't tell where or what. But with this
anticipation, with this faith believing... Have faith in God. Accept it.
Now, if you believe, then act on--on your faith. Act on your faith, and God will bring it to pass. Don't you believe that? Oh, if I could just get you to break through. If you just come through that little spot there, you'd get every one be healed before I even would call another person. You do it, friends. How can you doubt, when God is standing here, when--when God... Not your brother; I'm just a man. But your Saviour is here. A man... No one can go out of here and say... If you did you're a perfect infidel. You don't believe in God. How can you, when Jesus Christ said this would take place in the last days, and here it is right here taking place, what more would you want?
AND WE BECOME A COMPLETE YIELDED VESSEL; THEN THE HOLY SPIRIT SPEAKS
THROUGH US.
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E-10 …..I believe that every person come here tonight, with good
intentions. And I believe that your intentions is to
know something of the Lord Jesus. You would not have come out here, if
you had a--a mind of the world, you'd probably be over here, and where they
were having worldly pleasures of some sort, bathing on the beach, or out in the
museum, or the parks, or somewhere, on those kind of things. But you've come
tonight, merely because you wanted know what this was all about. Maybe you are
a renowned Christian. And every Christian person--person longs to know more the
Lord Jesus. Don't you believe that?
And I believe, if there was one thing that every person
in here would long to see tonight, would know were truly to see the Lord Jesus
appear here at the platform or somewhere in Person. And
that's our great anticipation of waiting His coming. Someday He will
return, and we will see Him. Until that time, He's with
us in a Spirit form, and He only has hands as we yield our hands. He
only has eyes as we yield our eyes, a voice as we yield our voice to Him. And we become a complete yielded vessel; then the Holy Spirit
speaks through us.
E-11 This microphone here, it--it's a mute unless there's a voice here to go through it. And that's the way we are, the church is: The church is a complete mute unless it is subject to the Spirit of God, to let the Spirit speak through the church as God will. And then it becomes a voice to the world, as long as it--it's an outlet. The church is the outlet of the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ to the peoples of the world.
AND HOW WE SHOULD BE WAITING WITH GREAT ENTHUSIASM AND AN ANTICIPATION
WAITING FOR THE COMING OF THE LORD, WINNING EVERY SOUL TO CHRIST THAT WE CAN.
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E-4 …..As I've begin to realize that--that I'm not no boy no more, and what
I've got to do, I got to do it right away for one thing. And then another
thing, knowing that the coming of the Lord is so close at hand, what type of
people should we be? How would we should conduct ourselves. And how we should be waiting with great enthusiasm and an
anticipation waiting for the coming of the Lord, winning every soul to Christ
that we can. For the hour is getting darker and darker, as the storm
clouds of unbelief and skepticism moves over our beloved nation. So it's time
to thrust in the sickle now and get what we can.
I've often wondered, "Well, Lord, You'll have--have to have to great this, or that before You come." Well, then I read a Scripture here a few weeks ago that changed my opinion on that. You know, the Lord is coming for a great church; that's right. But we've had two thousand years making up that church. They're already waiting out yonder for the resurrection, who went down in the faith, your fathers and mothers who fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas. What type of people should we be today?
E-5 There isn't one thing left, as I
see in the--in the prophetic Word, one thing left or one thing hindering the
coming of the Lord Jesus Christ this very hour, not one thing left in the
Bible. Everything has been fulfilled, waiting now for the coming of the Lord
Jesus. And how should we do this afternoon? We should speak and act today as if this is the last hour
we'll ever have. And who knows but what it might be. It may be for some
of us, and it may be for all of us. But let's act as if
it's our last hour. Let's pray as never before. And let's be a blessing to
others, and try to do all we can; for remember, this is only one time that
we're mortal.
From this on, from the time that we leave this world, we go into another world, and we'll never have the opportunity to win one soul in that world. All that's going to be won will be won right now. And if this may be our last hour then what should we do on this hour? And it's 'lotted to my time to speak this afternoon, and tonight I'm to pray for the sick people.
GOD WAS DEALING WITH HER…BUT SHE HAD HEARD OF A LIVING GOD THAT COULD PRODUCE SOMETHING NOW,… BUT A LIVING GOD THAT HAD GIVEN A GIFT TO PROVE THAT HE WAS A LIVING GOD. SO IT CREATED A THIRST.
THE.QUEEN.OF.SHEBA_ SASKATOON.SK FRIDAY_ 57-0517
E-27 Notice now, as we see this
queen, enthusiasm begin to rise. What was it? God was
dealing with her. Now, she was a pagan in Sheba. She was a pagan, an idol
worshipper, but she had heard of a living God that
could produce something now: not a declaration of creeds, but a living God that
had given a gift to prove that He was a living God. So it created a thirst.
And I want you to notice what that little woman had to do to get to him. Now, if you'll take your map, and map out... Now, she didn't come across the desert in a air-conditioned Cadillac. She had to come on camels. You know, to get to Christ is no flower bed of ease. It isn't just going up, and sign your name to a book, and say, "Well, I'm a member of this church from now on." You don't come that way. It costs something; that is, a surrendered heart to the will of God. Sometimes it costs you your friends. It will if they're worldly friends. "But he that will not forsake even his own and follow after Me, is not worthy to be called Mine." It costs something.
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E-28 So she made ready. And with the
journey of camels, it taken her at least three months to come from Sheba across
that burning desert to find out whether that gift was right or not. No wonder
Jesus said, "She'll raise up at the day of judgment and condemn this
generation.
What will it do to Saskatoon in the day of judgment? He said she come from the utmost parts of the world, three months on camels, to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and a
greater than Solomon is here, and they were condemning Him.
Listen. Notice now, not only that, but she had to prepare for other things…..And not only did she prepare to come and see for herself, but she also prepared to support it if it was right. What attitude did you come in? She brought in laden camels with gold and silver, and frankincense and myrrh, royal spices which was never compared with on the earth, what she had. She was first coming to be convinced. And if she was convinced, then she was going to support it with everything she had. We're not willing, hardly, to come the second night. And oh, well, to support something, my, that's out of the picture: "Oh, I couldn't do that..." Then what will it be in our generation?
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E-29 Now, notice, God's obligated to
send His sign. That's what they're talking about. God's obligated to send His
sign; and a-vindicate it. And then you're obligated to believe it. Bless be the
Lord God. You're solemnly obligated to believe it. It tells the nature of you,
whether it is or not.
I do not mean to be rude, but brethren, the time has come where we can't pet any more; we got to preach. And the Word is sharper than a two-edged sword that cuts even to the marrow of the bone, and a Discerner of the thoughts of the heart: the Word.
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E-30 She come prepared. And now look
what a hard trial. The devil was putting all kind of scares in front of her…..
And the devil would say to you, "You're going to get off in some
fanaticism. Don't you do it. You'll get into some error. It'll rob you of your
experience if you try it." That's just the very words of the devil today. But the woman was determined. She knowed if it was truly the
sign of God, and God's gift, God was obligated to show it to her, for she
hungered to see it. She went anyhow, no matter what anybody else said,
what the eunuch said, or what her advisor said; she had her own personal
feelings that she wanted to find out.
I wonder what your advisors would do? I wonder what the
people would say at your church if they knew you were setting here tonight? It
might be criticized. Your name might be took from the book. But if you're
determined to find out whether it's the truth or not, God bless you. God's
obligated to show you that Christ is raised from the dead, is alive tonight. And He isn't accepted by a mental conception; He's accepted
by new birth, borned again, and you become a part of God. "I give unto
them Eternal Life." And that word "Eternal Life" comes from the
word "Zoe" which means God's own life. And you can no more
perish than God could perish, because He has accepted you and adopted you into
His family, and you're a part of Him. Oh, there you are; that makes the
difference.
How do you know that you are? "Then these signs shall follow them that believe." Then you can believe the supernatural. Then you could open your eyes of understanding. You can see the Gospel unfolding around you then. First you must accept it; then you're borned again. Then you become a new creature.
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E-31 So she come across the desert. And as she got closer, her anticipation begin to rise.
The devil said, "Now, what if it isn't so?"
"Well," she said, "I've at least
made an effort. If I don't see one thing, then I'll make this to my God, that I
made an effort." But if she come and the gift is true, and really of God,
God's obligated to prove it. So
she entered the courts of Solomon and as she did she went up and...
Now look, she never come just for one night; she come to stay the whole meeting through. She was going to see it through. She was going to stay until she was convinced. She brought her maids and her eunuchs and everything right with her in her little band. And she unloaded right out in the--the palace courts there; she unloaded the camels and things. And she said, "Now, I'll go and set in the meetings, and I'll watch, and I'll see for myself if it is of God. Then if it is, I'm going to accept it."
E-32 And she watched Solomon as
he--the people were brought before him, and his great spirit of discernment
proved a hundred percent every time. Hallelujah. I know you think I'm beside
myself. Maybe I am. But if it is, I have lost my earthly possessions and my
earthly treasures, and laid them up in heaven in Christ. And she said,
"I'll watch it."
And as she seen it come before that great mighty gift
(not the man, he was just man)... But she watched that gift of God, and she saw
it time after time as it worked perfectly. And when she got ready to go, she
went up to Solomon, and she said, "All that I have heard has been right,
and more than I every heard is right." There you are. "It's all the
truth. Now, I'm going to support it." And she poured in the cinnamons, and
the spices, and the rich treasures, just as you would when you say, "If
it's the truth, I want it." Then pour in every treasure that you've got:
all your heart, all your soul, all your love, all your devotion, all your
thoughts, all your songs. Everything that you have, give it to Christ, if He's
truly the Son of God and has raised from the dead. Support it with everything
you are. Support it un--so you become so salty until the people of your
community will say, "If there ever was a change, it's in that person
there." There you are.
"I... If I'm ever a Christian. I want to be like
that man or woman, for they have love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness,
gentleness, patience, meekness, and so forth. The nine fruits of the Spirit
dwells within them. They're not easily provoked. You can't make them mad at
you; they will not become angry. They're so loving that in their very presence
you feel Christ." There you are. There you are. That's what the church
needs. Not because you can argue your religious standpoint, that doesn't mean
it. It's your life that proves what you are. That's what proved what God was
when He come down; it was His grace that proved that He's a God of grace to
visit the children…
Php 1:20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
Php 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Php 1:22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
Php 1:23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
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