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(HE SATISFIETH THE LONGING SOUL)
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*SIGNS
OF HIS COMING SHOULD THROW EVERY MEMBER OF CHRIST INTO DESPERATION NOW, ABOUT
OUR SOULS
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Desperation. Signs of His Coming should throw every member of Christ
into desperation now, about our souls, about our--our--our welfare for
hereafter. Well, what are we going to amount to if we gain the whole
world? What are we, what are we living for? What do you work for? What are you
eating for? What are you struggling for? To live. What
are you living for? To die. And you're not fit to
live until you're fit to die. It's true.
*I BELIEVE THAT THE REASON WE DON'T HAVE
DESPERATION IS BECAUSE IT'S A LACK OF LOVE, GOD, THE LOVE OF GOD.
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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.
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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?
*WHEN
WE HAVE GENUINE LOVE, WHAT DOES IT DO? IT PUSHES OUR FAITH OUT ON THE
BATTLEFRONT FOR GOD.
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Now what if
something has got to be done for your wife? Why, it'd throw you into
desperation to get it done. What if somebody says your wife's got cancer? What
if somebody says your--your wife's got TB, and she is fixing to die? Yet, you,
you'll--you'll do anything. See, it'll throw you into desperation.
72 And that's the same thing that it is. We must have love before we can have faith. And
faith... When we have genuine love, what does it
do? It pushes our faith out on the battlefront for God. See? Genuine godly love for God and for His Word and for His
people, will push faith out there. Love just takes a hold of faith, and
just, "Come on, let's go!" And out it goes, 'cause that's what love
does.
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John 14:23,
Jesus said, "If a man loves Me, he'll keep
My Words." Now you can't keep His
Words without having faith in what He said. So, you see, if he loves God, then he keeps God's Word. If He
said, "I'm the Lord that healed thee," he believes that. Love makes him believe it, because love dominates all.
"Though I speak with tongue of man and Angels, have not love, it's
nothing, see. Though
I have faith to move mountains, and have not love, it's nothing." Love dominates all, 'cause God is love, a God of love.
Now, yes, sir! If Jesus said, "If a man
loves Me, he will keep My Words."
*... GOD WILL MEET A DESPERATE SOUL.
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We know it is
true that God will meet a desperate soul.
Now, we all know that. But it usually takes
something to drive us into that, to that despair, to the desperation. It takes
something to do it.
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We find out, in
James 5:15, that the Bible said that. "The
effectual fervent," that's desperation, "effectual fervent
prayer of a righteous man availeth much. When a righteous man, a
good man, gets in travail," or soul travel, or travail, either one. I--I
think "travel" is a better word. Travail, or travel, either which one
you want to call it. But when a--a--a soul gets
in--in desperation, in travailing, an effectual fervent prayer of a man that
can show the Token, it does something. See?
*AND
I LOVE YOU WELL ENOUGH THAT I'LL PRAY FOR YOU, AND YOU PRAY FOR ME; AND WE'LL
STAY WITH IT, WITH EFFECTUAL FERVENT PRAYER, UNTIL IT'S ANSWERED. THAT'S,
THAT'S DESPERATION.
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Notice what the
Bible said here also, in James 16, 5:16, said, if... "Confessing
our faults," getting right, making ready for it, "confess our faults
one to another." Having no--no faults... Ask people to pray for
you, confessing our faults one to another, and praying one for the other. There
you are. With love, love, that I got confidence I can confess to you my wrong;
and you can confess to me your wrong. And I love
you well enough that I'll pray for you, and you pray for me; and we'll stay
with it, with effectual fervent prayer, until it's answered. That's, that's
desperation. That's what we should have all the time.
*... HOW THAT THE CHILD, AFTER IT WAS BORN IN
THE FAMILY, BECOME A SON. IT HAD RIGHTS TO THE BIRTHRIGHT, BUT IT HAD TO BE
PROVEN, CHILD-TRAINED.
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Pentecost, there
is where you failed! You thought because you were born of the Spirit, born of
the Spirit of God, the Birthright, that settled it. But it only starts it. You
remember in the message of--of Hear Ye Him, how that the child, after it was
born in the family, become a son. It had rights to
the birthright, but it had to be proven, child-trained. And then if it did not
prove out to be a obedient child to the father's will, then it must be, well,
it did not get the--the... was not the... become heir. It heired
nothing, yet it was a son, but he heired nothing if
he wasn't interested in the father's work.
80 And so when the Holy Ghost fell upon the Pentecostal
people and they begin to restore back the gifts and things that was in the
church; they thought, because they were born of the Spirit, that settled it.
But, you see, there is a placing of a son. And
after this son proved to be a real son, then he was taken in a public place, and
then was set up, and changed robes, and set up there; and then there was a
placing of the son, that he had heir of everything the father had.
* UNTIL YOU GET TO THAT PLACE, UNTIL THE WHOLE
CHURCH GETS TO A PLACE, THAT IT'S BETWEEN DEATH AND LIFE, YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE IT
NOW OR PERISH, THEN GOD WILL MOVE ON THE SCENE.
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There may be men
and women setting here tonight, that's, death lays right before you. And the only way that you'll ever be able to achieve the
thing that you're wanting, is to desperately come. "I must have it,
tonight. I get it now, or I'm finished. Tomorrow is too late. I must have it
now!"
When you pray for the baptism of the
Holy Spirit, the Token, don't say, "Well, now I'll go up and try. Lord, I,
I'm a little tired." Oh, mercy, stay in your seat! Don't even--don't even
make an attempt. If you come, say, "I'll pass through the prayer line; put
the oil on my head, I'll see if it does me any good," might as well set
where you're at. Until you get to that place, until
the whole church gets to a place, that it's between death and life, you've got
to have It now or perish, then God will move on the scene. It takes desperation
to bring God on the scene.
*JACOB CRIED LIKE NEVER BEFORE... HE WRESTLED
DESPERATELY UNTIL THE BLESSING COME.
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Jacob cried like
never before. Desperately he called until he got a hold of God. And when he
did, he wrestled; not for fifteen minutes. He
wrestled to keep Him, in his soul, all night long; and still he knew he didn't
have the blessing, and he was able to hold on until the blessing come. He
wrestled desperately until the blessing come. Then, and when he seen...
until God came on the scene. And then, in despair, "I'll not let You
go," when he begin to feel the blessing coming down on him.
*... HEZEKIAH, HAD BEEN TOLD BY THE PROPHET,
"THUS SAITH THE LORD, YOU'RE GOING TO DIE... AND, IN DESPERATION, HE
CHANGED THE PROGRAM OF GOD.
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One time there
was a man named Hezekiah, had been told by the prophet, "THUS SAITH THE
LORD, you're going to die." Hezekiah turned
his face to the wall, and in desperation he wept out, "Lord, consider me.
I've walked before You with a perfect heart, and I need fifteen more
years," after God had told him that something was going to happen,
he was going to die. And, in desperation, he
changed the program of God. Desperation, though, he wept bitterly in
desperation.
*AND YOU GET DESPERATE UNTIL YOU GET THE
ASSURANCE.
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Jacob stayed
there until the blessing came, and changed his name from "a deceiver"
to "a prince with God." Even the nation was called by his name. Yes,
sir! What was it? The results was because he got desperate about the thing. And
the next day when he met Esau, he didn't need any guards. He walked right out
and met him. See? Why? He had got in desperation
till he got the assurance.
And you get desperate
until you get the assurance. If you don't, don't
even come to be prayed for. Don't even come to go at the altar. Wait till it's between life and death, to you, then
something will happen. Certainly, desperation!
*OUR DEAR LORD JESUS, HIMSELF, IN THE WORLD'S
GREATEST BATTLEGROUND, GETHSEMANE, HE CRIED OUT, IN DESPAIR.
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Our
dear Lord Jesus, Himself, in the world's greatest battleground, Gethsemane, He
cried out, in despair. Should He take the sins of the world, or should He just remain on earth
with His beloved disciples, what He wanted to do? But
watch His humility as He humbled Himself, "Not My will but Thine be
done," humbled Himself to the Word, the promised Word of the God of
Heaven.
Notice, then, He went a little further.
And if He went a little farther, how much more ought we to go a little farther.
See? And notice, the Scripture says here, in Luke, that He
prayed earnestly. Brother, sister, if Jesus had to pray earnestly, how much
more have we got to pray earnestly. If Christ, the God of Heaven, made flesh,
had to pray earnestly, then how much more are we, sinners saved by grace, pray
earnestly! If--if the decision throwed the Son of God into despair, what
will it do to you and I? Desperately we must cry.
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