26-0817P_CONVINCED THEN CONCERNED PT-4 (KEEP GOD FIRST ALWAYS)
Joh 1:15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
Joh 1:16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
Joh 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
*NOW, THIS FALLING AWAY IS A LACK OF CONCERN FOR THE BODY OF CHRIST.
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...I believe with all my
heart, without any, hoping not to be saying anything wrong, but I believe it's
because of a lack of interest, concern--not enough concern. There's too much concern about making a
atomic bomb, too much concern about who is going to get on the moon first,
and--and... I ain't caring about getting on the moon. I want to get in heaven,
is where I--I want to get.
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E-28 Now, this falling away is a lack of concern for the body of Christ. I believe that maybe the right thing hasn't been presented. So many young students that would take a call in life sees so many failures out here, and really see that the order and program of the day has failed. Not... Christ hasn't failed, but the system that we have created has failed. Christ's program hasn't failed, but the people's system has failed. Now, Christ has a program that we must enter in.
*GOD WON'T HOLD YOU
RESPONSIBLE FOR BEING A SINNER. HE WILL HOLD YOU RESPONSIBLE FOR REJECTING THE
WAY OUT.
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And He was so
rejected by the people, He didn't have a place to die. The earth refused Him,
and heavens couldn't have Him because He was coming a sinner, not with Own sin,
but with our sins upon Him. He was
bearing the sins of the world upon Him, so He was rejected in heaven. And the
earth didn't want Him, and they had to lift Him up between heavens and earth,
and let Him die outside of heaven and outside of the earth. What a Saviour.
How could you turn down such a Person as that for modern theology, or for the persons of people when you know that you've got to stand in His Presence in that day of judgment to give an account for your life? God won't hold you responsible for being a sinner. He will hold you responsible for rejecting the way out. You can't help being a sinner. You were borned... Your nature's a sinner, but you can help it. Jesus made the way for you.
*AND WHEN YOU FEEL THAT
LITTLE BUZZER DOWN IN YOUR HEART WARNING YOU,
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And when you feel that little buzzer down in your heart
warning you, then you better stop right there and take inventory. Like I was--been preaching along
through the nights of the people drifting away from God. When you hear the Word, come right back. It's truly the
Word of God. There's a little buzzer rings; you better listen to it. Don't walk across that, 'cause you'll never get any farther till you come right
back here where you left Him.
You'll... Where you leave Christ at by failing to obey His Word, right there He will leave you. Or you don't leave... He don't leave you; you leave Him. See, you always leave--leave Him, because He's got you in the path, He's trying to lead you. But see, when you leave Him, then you have to come right back where you left Him at, to start again.
*GOD IS ALWAYS CONCERNED IN LITTLE THINGS, THE SAME AS BIG THINGS.
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62 Now, I hope this don't sound sacrilegious, but, just to
show the--the concern of God. God is always
concerned in little things, the same as big things. I want to say this
for the benefit of some of these fine preachers. That may be... And I throw
myself in it.
63 Now, we would, every one, like
to be a Billy Graham, but we... And we'd every one like to be an Oral Roberts.
But, we, we're not a Billy Graham or an Oral Roberts. We
are God's servant in the field that He has placed us in. See? No matter how
little it is, or how great, it's just the same in the sight of God, always the
same, to act right in the place where you're at. Always, it's a great thing to
follow the Lord.
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64 I would rather win... or go and have a church with fifty people in it, in the will of God, than to go have five thousand out of the will of God. Sure. God can do more with a man in His will, in one hour, than He could with a man out of His will, in fifty years. See? He is stumbling and staggering, like shooting in the dark. But when a man is really in the will of God, and knows his calling, he should abide there.
*SO YOU MUST REMEMBER; WE
MUST KEEP GOD FIRST ALWAYS.
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...Isn't it
strange? We'll get sick; the baby will be so sick till we just don't know what
to do. Mother will wring her hands. And her and dad will say, "Oh, God,
we'll serve You if You'll just heal this baby." And the baby gets well. Then you forget about it. See, see? So easy to forget about it.
Yes, sir.
And you'll see a accident that just almost takes your life and you'll say, "Oh, if I would've died... Lord, thank You for sparing me. I'm going to serve You." Then forget about it (See?), until one's done caught you. See? And then--then it's too late. See, you--you always... The people usually forget God. They don't always do it, thank God for that. But mostly it's so easy to forget when everything's going good. Then you know, He said if you would neglect Him, and wouldn't serve Him, then when your calamity comes He'd just laugh at you. You see? So you must remember; we must keep God first always.
*HE'S GOT GRACE IN THERE FOR
ALL THESE THINGS; GOT GRACE IN THERE FOR YOUR HEALING.
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E-79 God's got grace there to make you women get your hair long; got grace in there to make you men see that she does it. He's got grace in there for all these things; got grace in there for your healing. That's right. He's God. If it isn't, what are we playing about? What are we carrying on about? We're a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal, and become a salt that's lost its savour. Certainly.
*BUT IF IT'S HIS PROMISE, HE
MUST KEEP IT IN ORDER TO BE GOD. AIN'T NOTHING WRONG WITH GOD; IT'S WITH YOU
AND I.
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E-89 God keeps His promise, brother. Certainly He does. If it--if it isn't God... If--if it isn't God's promise, then He don't have to keep it. But if it's His promise, He must keep it in order to be God. Ain't nothing wrong with God; it's with you and I. God promised in the last days that what He would do, how He would manifest Himself in the last days.
*WHEN THE CHURCH IS OPEN,
EVERY SOLDIER OUGHT TO BE IN HIS RANK AND IN HIS PLACE.
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E-16 ... And now, if you have church at your own church here tomorrow night, don't come down. But if you don't have church, we'd be glad to have you. We always want the people to stay at their post of duty, regardless. When the church is open, every soldier ought to be in his rank and in his place.
*JUST WANT TO LET THE DEVIL
AND EVERYBODY ELSE KNOW WHAT SIDE HE WAS ON...
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I read a little
article in the paper the other day, where an old man... He was both deaf, dumb,
and blind, and he went to Sunday school every Sunday. And they asked him by
braille and said, "Why do you go to church? You can't hear what the
preacher says. You can't hear none of the songs. Why do you go to church?"
And he said, "I just want to let everybody know what side I'm on." Just want to let the devil and everybody else know what side he was on, I think that's good. Yes, sir.
*HOW THEY COUNTED THEIR LIVES
NOT EVEN NOTHING TO THEM. THEY STAYED ON THEIR FACE DAY AND NIGHT PRAYING TO
THE LORD.
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Now, we look back
and see the Pentecostal church at the beginning. We think about the Pentecostal
thirty, forty years ago. We think about the Pentecostal post-Nicene council. We
think about them in the early ages of Irenaeus, St. Martin, Columba, Justin,
Polycarp, all those sainted men. And we feel that, seeing them, that we got the
same blessing they had, so we can perceive that we can just go right on like
they do. We perceive that we can do the same things that they did. But we can't
do it under these circumstances, under these conditions that the church is in
now.
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Look what those men
did. Look what those churches did, what a sacrifice it was, what they had to
give up. How they counted their
lives not even nothing to them. They stayed on their face day and night praying
to the Lord. They
went everywhere they could, and searched for every--every crack and corner they
could get to, testifying of the Kingdom of God to the people. And today, we just expect the pastor to bring it in his
briefcase, or
the evangelist, and "Bless God, I belong to the church.".....
*GOD WILL HOLD YOU
RESPONSIBLE, MY FRIEND, AT THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, IF YOU DON'T SATISFY THAT
THIRST WITH DRINKING AT THE FOUNTAIN OF THE INEXHAUSTIBLE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE.
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And notice, again.
What makes you try to have a big time like that? It's because God has made you
to crave life. God made you up, your makeup. There isn't a man or a woman on
earth tonight, neither there--was there ever a man or woman on earth tonight, or
on earth at any time but what had a craving for something, a thirsting for
pleasure. And God made that thirst
in you. And He made that thirst so you would thirst after Him. And how dare you to try to quench that
blessed holy thirst that God has put in your heart to thirst after Him, and try
to satisfy It with sin. How dare you to try to quench that holy thirst for
something by some vulgarity program on television, instead of going to the
Church of the living God. How dare you to pour whiskey, cigarettes, and dope
into your body, and use your eyes for lust to try to satisfy that blessed holy
thirst that God put in you to thirst after Him. God will hold you responsible, my friend, at the day of
judgment, if you don't satisfy that thirst with drinking at the fountain of the
inexhaustible fountain of Life. "Let him that's athirst, come. Whosoever will, let him come and
drink from the waters of Life, freely." That's what your thirsting for.
You're running from church to church. Every time a little something
happens, you run to it. A little "ism" can rise up and you take after
it. Oh, it's so good to come to the
fountain filled with Blood drawn from Emmanuel's vein, when sinners plunged
beneath the flood lose all their guilty stain.
Isa 17:10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
Isa 17:11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
Isa 17:12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
Isa 17:13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
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