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  APPOINTED FOR MEN TO DIE ONCE THEN THE JUDGMENT
  by Randy Krahn
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of heeding the true word
of God and repenting of wickedness. It calls for humility, submission to
God's authority, and genuine love as essential aspects of a believer's
life. The speaker shares personal testimonies of miraculous
interventions and the power of calling on the name of the Lord in times
of trouble.

Duration: 39:44 Topics: "Heeding God's Word", "Repentance and Humility"
Scripture References: Jeremiah 23:16, Jeremiah 23:22, Jude 1:5, Psalm 34:17, James 5:16, Proverbs 3:5, 1 John 1:9, Psalm 51:10, 1 Corinthians 10:13

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of heeding the true word of God
and repenting of wickedness. It calls for humility, submission to God's
authority, and genuine love as essential aspects of a believer's life.
The speaker shares personal testimonies of miraculous interventions and
the power of calling on the name of the Lord in times of trouble.

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I'm thinking of a verse that says, it is appointed for men to die once,
and after this, the judgment. And we, believers and unbelievers alike,
we have an appointment at the great white throne where you have to stand
before the judgment seat and give an answer to the things done in the
body, whether good or evil. But the scripture does say that now is the
time for judgment to begin at the household of God.

And it says, it begins with us first, says in 1 Peter. And what will be
the end of those who don't obey the gospel? I was thinking of a time in
my life when I used to train in judo and jujitsu for a period of time.
And I was going tournaments before I was born again.

I was backslidden. I knew the Lord when I was 12, through my teenage
years. And then I fell away and my dad fasted and prayed for me for 40
days.

At the end of that, the Lord had mercy on me, drew me back to himself. I
was able to humble myself. I never would confess sin.

I'd always try to pray and ask Jesus to forgive me of my sin, but I
never had power over sin. And I was training in this, trying to seek to
save my life. And I was in a certain bracket and I was fighting for some
perishable gold medal thing.

And the guy flipped me and dropped me on my head. And on my way home, I
began to have a lot of pain. And I didn't know if my neck was broken.

I ended up that night in the hospital and I met this man. His name was
Jonathan Burnley, the doctor. He gave me an injection, Demerol, so I
could bear through it.

And the Lord had mercy on me. I didn't break my neck. And then I got
born again a short time after that.

And then when I got born again, all I wanted to do was talk about Jesus.
Jesus was everything. I mean, when I found repentance and the Lord drew
me back to himself, I just wanted to tell everyone the wonderful things
that Jesus did for me.

Don't ever lose that. That's your first love. I called everybody in my
Rolodex.

I called everybody in my black book. Everybody who I worked with,
whatever job site I was on, I would just tell them what Jesus did for
me. I was the boss, so I could do it.

I understand if you're a worker and you have responsibilities, you have
to do it on your breaks. Or as the spirit leads, if your boss is
gracious. But that's the wonderful works of God that I could share, that
I was dead in trespasses and sins, and he made us alive.

But then begins the journey of sanctification. He sets us apart for a
purpose, so that we can become useful to him. So he deals with the sin
issue.

He takes away sin, and he sees us just as if we never sinned. And it's
like the John Bunyan. He just pulls that burden off your back.

And I felt like 50 pounds lighter driving home from that meeting that
night. I had no idea my dad was praying for me. I had no idea of these
things, that someone had made a sacrifice of love.

And that God is a God who hears. He's not dead. He's not like the bale
on vacation.

No, he's a God who hears. We don't have to cut ourselves in scream and
jump up and down. We have to call on the name of the Lord.

It says, whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. I don't
believe in once saved, always saved. I believe we're being saved.

I believe it's a journey and a process. And we have salvation yet to
receive. We need to be saved from lust.

We need to be saved from bitterness. We need to be saved from
resentments, from greed. We need to be saved from the works of the
flesh, which are evident from scriptures.

Galatians five, Ephesians five speaks of some of them. And we need to
overcome. We look at all those seven churches, speaks of an overcoming
people.

In all those churches, they had things that he was pleased with. There
were things he was disappointed with, except for maybe one of them, the
persecuted church. There was a faithful church there.

But in the end, he says, he who has ears to hear, to him who overcomes.
To him who overcomes. Of all these individual churches all over the
place, there is one church that has never been divided.

It's complete and being built up into a spiritual house in the spirit.
Jesus being the cornerstone, Jesus being the rock where he tells Peter,
on this rock, I will build my church. Jesus being the rock on which the
whole house stands, the cornerstone and the capstone, the alpha and the
omega, he says in Revelation one.

I am who was, who is, who is to come. Recently, I heard this doctor, I
got on fire for Jesus and not even the doctor who gave me the Demerol
shot. I texted him and he took time to meet me for coffee.

I met him two or three times. And I told him of the wonderful works of
God, what Jesus did for me. And I told him he could repent and be born
again.

You know, recently, Dan told me yesterday that he heard news that his,
this Jonathan Burns was in his fifties. He passed away from COVID. I
don't know the circumstances of it.

But I thought, you know what? We have a day of visitation. There's a
time and a window for each one of us where God is merciful to us. And we
get this revelation that there's something greater than everything going
on around us.

There's something greater than our pursuit for money and for fame and
for attaining all that we can and counting everything we can get. And
that there's a God out there that we have to answer to. And our
conscience tells us that.

And our pursuit for finding God and finding true righteousness, peace,
and joy, it only comes through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. And I
thought, as I laid in my bed this morning about that man, I liked him.
Seemed a sincerity about him.

But it's not good enough to have a sincerity. It's not good enough to
have good intentions and to say, well, you know what? I'm a good person.
And it's only good enough that we receive that garment of salvation and
that robe of righteousness.

That we're clothed with Christ. And when we're clothed with Christ and
we are filled with the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, then we
can become conformed into the image of Jesus. Because without that,
we're just a church that has no direction.

We have to fix our eyes on Jesus. The author and the perfecter of our
faith. Yes, we have to add to our faith.

We can have childlike faith. We have to add to it. Virtue, knowledge,
and on from there.

But for us, it's important not to lose that childlike faith. Because he
goes back to receiving love. And then he says, if these things are yours
and abound.

In other words, this is the life cycle. Increasing, growing from faith
to faith. Growing in grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ.

So we don't become spiritual cripples. And just stay on milk and not
come to solid food. You know, we talked a few weeks ago about young men.

We talked about little children. We talked about old men. You know, the
problem with teenagers.

I have a number of them. I've had some and I have a number of them. The
problem is rebellion.

And you get into those years of rebellion. And the scripture says, in 1
Samuel 15, that rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and stubbornness.
Where you just dig your heels in.

You won't relent. Like iniquity and idol worship. We would say, well, we
wanna have nothing to do with witchcraft and idol worship.

We're not for that. But you know what? We won't submit to anyone. We're
led by the Holy Spirit.

And a lot of times what happens is the young men, they're strong and the
word of God abides in them. What can happen is they can become one of
those men of renown that resisted Moses. Like Dothan and Korah.

And they can perish in the rebellion of Korah. I wanna read a little bit
from Jude. In Jude, verse five, it says, I wanna remind you, though you
once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land
of Egypt, he afterwards destroyed those who did not believe.

But you know that he who endures to the end shall be saved. He called us
out of darkness and he conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of his
love. But we have to continue to look to him and be radiant so that our
faces aren't ashamed.

And those whom he called out of Egypt who were in bondage, he delivered
them by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. And they brought them
through the Red Sea and saw the enemy perish. And they sang the
salvation song.

The horse and rider had been thrown into the sea. It was a type of
baptism that they experienced. But God led them through the wilderness.

And there it was that they grumbled and they complained. And then they
rose up against Moses. Time and time again, these men, these leaders
that were put in positions of authority, rose up against Moses and said,
we hear from God also.

Why do you lord it over us? So Moses wasn't lording over them, he was
leading them. But they felt he was lording it over them. And you know
what we say, we gotta break free from this guy.

We hear from God also. And it's important that when we start to hear
from God, this is a good thing, that we do not become proud and
conceited and puffed up. Doesn't matter what measure you attain to, you
associate with the lowly.

You don't lord it over people. When we go to the Joshua house or we went
to the vision quest, the thing, the number one thing, we might not have
had our words all right. We might not have had everything perfect in how
we led our singing and some of the notes weren't so good.

And maybe we'd stumble a bit on our words. We were in a zealot kind of
speech. But those men knew at the end of it, that there was something
different about those men because they spoke with authority.

They didn't speak like the other men. And they had the love of Jesus.
They had authority when they spoke and they had the love of Jesus.

When the crowds were following Jesus, what happened? They followed him.
And then even the centurions, and they sent them to go and arrest Jesus.
And they come back, well, where's Jesus? Well, no one ever spoke like
this guy.

What do you mean? You believe in him also? When he spoke, he had the
words of eternal life. And we wanna have that anointing. It's the
anointing that breaks the yoke.

That authority comes from God. And Jesus said to Peter, who do men say
that I am? Well, some say Elijah, some say John Baptist, some say this,
some say that. Who do you say that I am? You're the Christ.

You're the son of the living God. He says, flesh and blood hasn't
revealed it to you, Peter, but my father in heaven. And he said on this
rock, the revelation that Jesus is the Christ, that he is the foundation
and the church is being built up into a spiritual tabernacle in him.

And he says, I'm gonna give you some keys. The keys are the kingdom I'm
giving to you, Peter. He gave Peter authority in the church.

And he's given some to be apostles and some prophets and some
evangelists and some teachers and some pastors. He gives gifts to men.
But that's not how we discern a true prophet from a false prophet.

He says, you'll know them by their fruits. You might not have everything
perfect, but when you come in a place and you're right with God in your
secret life, you're right with God in your walk with him, then the love
of God is gonna emanate from you. I don't care how righteous you try to
make it.

If you are not flowing in the love of God, there's a disconnect between
you and God. Perhaps you're a Pharisee. Jesus found the Pharisees were
against him.

They were just like the sons of Korah. They did not like Jesus at all.
They were not happy with him.

We have to be careful. We don't become rebellious like that in our
hearts, that we're submissive one toward another, submitting to the
spirit of Christ in one another, not lording it over one another. He
goes on to say this.

Of those ones that he received from Egypt afterwards, he destroyed them
who did not believe. Began in faith, ended up getting an evil heart of
unbelief and they departed from God and they wanted to go back to Egypt
in their hearts. They wanted to go back to Egypt.

We have to guard against that. It can happen when discouragement comes
in your life. You come a certain ways, you hear the word, but then when
trials come, when temptations come because of the word's sake, they
stumble and they fall, being rebellious to the word to which they were
appointed to obey and they wither.

May the Lord help us that we don't wither because of trials and
temptations that come on the journey. And then he says to the angels who
didn't keep their proper place, they left their abode, has been reserved
for them under chains, under darkness until the day of judgment of that
great day as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them in similar
manner fell. He says, these, having given them over to sexual immorality
and gone after strange flesh and set an example for them suffering the
vengeance of eternal fire.

These also like dreamers, they defile the flesh, they reject authority,
spiritual authority over them in their life. And they speak evil of
dignitaries or glorious ones. They speak evil of those that God has put
in positions.

You know, there is a scripture that says, touch not my anointed and do
my prophets no harm. And God put an authority on Saul until he removed
him from office. David, when he cut his robe, even his conscience
bothered him and Saul was someone where the Holy Spirit had already left
him and evil spirits came on him, but he was in an office, just like the
high priest was in an office when Paul says to him, God will smite you,
you whitewashed wall.

And he says, you talk to the high priest like that. He said, I did not
know. We have to respect the office that God has.

We might not like the things that they're doing, but we have to make
sure that it's God who promotes us, not us who rises up and challenges
the authority of God. And I say, you test the fruit and you examine it.
And if you're in a group where the word of God is not being preached,
then find a place where it is.

But I'm saying, if there's someone that God has given authority and you
start to speak evil against them, you start to judge them, you'll be
judged and pressed down, shaken together and running over is gonna get
poured into your bosom, given or it'll be given back to you according to
the measure you use. He says, why do you look at the speck in your
brother's eye and you don't take the beam out of your own? First get the
beam out and then we can exhort one another, encourage one another. It's
not that we don't deal with sin, we have to do things in the right way,
in a humble way.

Samuel exhorted Eli. You get it in a way because God put his word in his
mouth. If you're going to rebuke somebody, make sure you have God's word
in your mouth when you do it, then God will back you up.

If you're going on your own authority, you're gonna have trouble. You're
gonna have to deal with God. You don't wanna tell you something about
true, false and prophets.

A true prophet don't call himself a prophet. He might say that God spoke
to me and he gave me a word and I proclaimed his word. When Amos, they
said, well, go you seer, we don't wanna hear your words anymore.

And he says, I wasn't a prophet and I wasn't no son of no prophet, but I
was leading the sheep and I was tending sycamore fruit. And all of a
sudden God revealed to me on the way his word and he told me to proclaim
or prophesy my words. And he said, I just went and delivered the
message.

And this is what God says. But today there's a famine in the land.
There's a famine, not of bread or of water.

Costco is full and Superstore is full. But it's of hearing the true word
of the Lord. And people are running the meetings and they're going to
conferences and they're going here and there and we can get some
encouragement, but we need to hear from the Holy Spirit.

What is the spirit saying to the church? I know your works. I know that
you're doing all these good things and you hate the Nicolaitans and you
stand for what is right and you're able to discern those who are
prophets and those who are false prophets. Nevertheless, I have
something against you.

You left your first love. You stop talking to people about how much you
love Jesus. You need to repent and do the first works or I'm gonna
remove your witness.

You're not gonna be a witness. You're gonna be selling used vacuums that
don't work to people who don't need them. You need to find something
that you are on fire for Jesus about and you need to testify of what
Jesus has done for you.

That is your witness. When people see that you believe in this Jesus,
you're not peddling him for some purpose. You're not just a Jehovah
witness that has to go door to door to do your mantra and to do your
duty.

This is the most important thing to you. That Jesus is the reason why
you get up in the morning, why you live and breathe and have your being
in him, in Christ and you don't have to sell it. People see it.

People see, man, he's radiating. You are a lampstand. You don't put a
lampshade on a lampstand.

Everyone can see, I'd say Jesus freak. Boy, that testimony went all out.
That guy, he's just radical.

Yes, I heard David Wilkerson say, let's be radical and live according to
this book. That's what we need to do. Be radical for Jesus.

We don't have to drum it up and stir it up. Has to come from within and
overflow. He said, out of your innermost being will flow.

Maybe you have a little trickle, brother said, but let it flow. If
there's sin in there that stopped up your well, start to confess and
repent of it and get it out of your life. We're not just trying to get
on track a little bit so we can get on with life.

No, Jesus has to be your feast. You have to feed on him. The one who
feeds on me shall live.

Jesus, I am the bread of life. The one who feeds on me shall live. The
one who drinks my blood.

This one shall have life. And the people who didn't understand these
things said, this guy's crazy. And they left and they followed him in
the morning.

These were disciples. And Jesus looked at the 12 and he said, do you
want to go also? He said, master, to whom shall we go? You have the
words of eternal life. Jesus had authority.

He wasn't worried they were gonna leave. He wasn't gonna try and keep
his church big. He was thinning the herd.

He was getting the goats out. He wanted to make more room for the sheep.
Wasn't so concerned about those who were there for the loaves and for
the fishes and for the bread.

He was concerned about those who really wanted to change, who really
wanted to follow Christ. He fed them all. But he said, listen, if you
really wanna have life, come to me and be free.

He told Peter, I'm giving you the keys of the kingdom and whatever you
bind on earth will be bound in heaven. Whatever you loose on earth will
be loosed in heaven. And you know what? When we pray together, where two
or three gather together in Jesus' name and we agree according to his
will, he hears us.

He hears us and we have the petition. You might not see it like Daniel
for 21 days, but when you get the petition, you know that your prayer
got through and you're waiting for the answer to come. Elijah prayed
seven times that it would rain and he kept sending his servant to go
check.

And when he had the petition, then he went to the king. We need the
petition. We need to know in our spirit.

I remember the time when Seth was being born. I shared this before. Seth
was premature and while my wife was pregnant with him, he's our number
eight child.

And I had his name before. I said, name him Seth. I didn't even know it
was a boy or whatever.

And then we found out it was a boy. And I said, well, praise God. Seth,
what does it say about Seth? Then men began to call him in the name of
the Lord.

I said, okay, praise God. So she's in the hospital and she's three weeks
early and she started to have complications and man, the heart rate was
going down and then all of a sudden I was there and all my blood
pressure went up and I started to faint. I says, no, it's time to pray.

Unbelief's got me here. I went out in the hallway and I started to pray.
Said, Lord, have mercy on this child.

You gave me a word. You said, you bring him forth. And I wanna see the
salvation of God.

I wanna see the miracle of God. And then the nurse said, get the doctor.
Some doctor came.

There was people there. They said, call the emergency C-section. Get the
other person there.

And they were calling and they were calling. They said, he's not
responding. He's not responding.

Nobody's coming. And I just got desperate in prayer. Blood pressure, the
heart rate was almost down to zero.

And I just called on the name of the Lord because I know my God. And I
said, Jesus, help us. And I heard from having a word, that shit was like
audible, but I heard it as clear as a bell in my mind.

That nurse must've thought I was crazy, but I didn't care because it was
life and death. It has to be life and death when it's about Jesus. I
heard this, now I shall bring him forth.

When I got that petition from heaven, I went straight back into that
hotel, into that hospital room there. And I saw the head crowning and
coming out and that baby come straight out. In Jesus name, it was a
miracle.

And then I thought afterwards about this. And his name shall be called
Seth. Then men began to call on the name of the Lord.

And that's how he came. I was called on the top of my lungs in that
hospital in the name of Jesus. And he answered my cry.

It says the Lord heard us and answered our cry and delivered us from all
our fears. This poor man cried out. And I heard the doctor.

I don't know if she was a believer or an unbeliever. I don't know, but
she heard me too. Everybody heard me in that ward.

She said, look at this is a miracle child. She says, we only had two.
And this is one that's lived.

And she showed me the umbilical cord. She said, this is a true knot.
Like you would take a piece of yarn and tie it in a knot.

That umbilical cord was tied as tight as someone could pull a piece of
yarn. There was no oxygen going to that brain of that baby. And she
said, this is a miracle child.

She's hold that thing up to me. I didn't care about all that. All I knew
is that baby come out, that baby was alive and that baby was in mom's
arms.

And I say, I believe in a God who hears. A God who answers by fire. That
when we call the name of the Lord, he hears us.

You have lost children, you have lost neighbors, you have lost parents,
you have lost friends. Get serious and get right with God so that God
can hear your prayers. You know, there's a scripture in Jeremiah 23.

I wanna read it to you. There's a lot of people who are preachers today.
A lot of people that are pastors, a lot of people who've gone to and fro
and doing this and that, but they were not sent by God.

Some of them decided they'd make a fantastic career out of it. They went
to Bible school, they got a job, but they don't have spiritual
authority. They might know scriptures, but they don't have the
anointing.

They don't have the Holy Spirit. So what are you gonna do if you have a
fancy car in the driveway that has all the brand new parts and
everything just doesn't run? You know what? When I was working in the
world, I probably built a couple hundred houses. I built an apartment
site.

I built a couple townhouses. And you know what? I could tell men go here
and go there because I knew authority. And I had people under me and I
had people over me.

And I understood authority. And I got a lot done as an unbeliever
without the Holy Spirit. But you know what? We can't do things that way.

We don't just add Jesus to the package. You have to be born again. You
have to die to what you can do.

And it has to be all from Christ. And I didn't understand that for the
longest time. And so the greatest have to become the least and servant
of all.

I remember time after that, I had hundreds of men underneath me. And
then I ended up in a place where I was building this one home. It was
pouring rain, there was mud out.

And this retaining wall was there. And my brother-in-law had built it
and he didn't put enough supports in there. And it was all thick clay.

And I was in the pouring rain, digging this thing out. And I never used
a shovel for probably 10 years. Like myself.

And I'm there just digging this muck out. And I said, Lord, what are you
trying to teach me here? I used to be a somebody and now I'm nothing.
I'm digging mud.

Two days in the rain, digging mud. And at the end of the first day, I'm
just dripping and this kid comes and he's got this little girl and she's
wearing the shortest skirt and the most immodest clothes. And I say, how
are you doing? And I said, how are you doing? And he said, oh, it's the
most fantastic day of my life.

He says, it's the best day. And I said, Lord, how can it be that here
I'm drenched? What is your purpose? What are you trying to teach me
here? And here's this young fellow comes here, tells me it's the best
day of his life. I said, Lord, you gotta help me to have a good
attitude, not to grumble and complain and to learn humility.

And what it is you're trying to show me? The next day he comes and he's
there walking there and he's hanging his head. And I said, how are you
doing? And he says, it's the worst day of my life. Everything went
wrong.

I said, you come over here. It was pouring rain. So he comes over and I
said, what's your name? He says, my name's Caleb.

Caleb, I said, that's a Bible name. I said, how do you go from the best
day of your life to the worst day of your life in less than 24 hours? I
said, you're running from the call of God. And I said, you need to get
your heart right with the Lord.

I needed to lay off all that sexual morality. I didn't know the boy. I
needed to put away all that sexual sin and all that rebellion that's in
your heart.

And you need to make a decision to turn your life around. Your parents,
obviously you're Christian, they named you Caleb. And you needed to
return to the Lord, repent and return.

And we went for a dinner, I bought him dinner. And I shared with him the
cost of coming to Christ. There's no easy believe-ism, guys.

There's a cost. If anyone wants to come to me, he has to deny himself.
You have to decide, hey, I'm gonna lay off sleeping with women.

I'm gonna lay off lying. I'm gonna put away lying, evil speaking and all
these things out of my mouth. And I'm gonna put on the Lord Jesus
Christ.

And he's gonna help me. And if I fail, he's gonna lift me up. There's a
cost to count.

There's easy believe-ism. Oh, just let's pray this prayer. Say these few
words, put a little check mark, sign the little registration.

Oh, we got a few today. Oh, we want born again. We don't want members.

There's some members of the body of Christ where our names are
registered in heaven. That's all that matters. And I told him the cost.

And I said, this is the cost. And I said, if you're serious about
following Christ, call me. I didn't hear from that boy for six months.

Also, one day he called me. He says, I've surrendered my life to Jesus.
I'm getting baptized tonight with you and brother so-and-so.

Wanna join me in Vancouver? I'd like you to be there. And he went
straight from there. And he came and he moved into my house.

In one day, he lived with us. We discipled that boy for 18 months. The
whole purpose of all these things is to say this.

When God does something, it's genuine. When I do something, it's a zero.
The spirit gives life and the flesh profits nothing.

I'll finish here in Jeremiah 23. And he says in verse 16, thus says the
Lord God of hosts, do not listen to the words of the prophets who
prophesied to you saying, what? They say worthless things to you and
they speak a vision of their own heart and not from the mouth of the
Lord. There's a lot of people who go out and they say all kinds of
things and they share all kinds of words.

They do all kinds of words and knowledge and they say all kinds of
wisdom that doesn't come from God. And God didn't send them. They don't
speak in whatever wisdom that comes to them from the devil, from their
own imaginations, not from the mouth of the Lord.

And they continually say to those who despise me, people who are
unrepentant, people who are living in sin, people who are not walking
according to the word. People are just living and doing what seems best
in their own eyes. And this is what these prophets say, these false
prophets.

They say, the Lord has said to me, you shall have peace even though you
walk according to the dictates of your evil heart. In other words, you
can do whatever you want and you just pray this prayer and you're on the
good. Jesus loves you, of course he loves you.

He loved Judas also. He loved him to the end. I bet you loved Lucifer
also.

And then he fell. But these dreamers, they speak evil of dignitaries.
They speak evil of what they don't understand.

They're puffed up in pride. Guard against this pride and this rebellion
because I tell you, it'll be your downfall. I don't care how much
scripture you can memorize.

If your heart's full of pride, you're gonna go in there and spend
eternity with Satan. Because rebellion is like witchcraft. We need to be
humble, humble, humble.

That's the words from Joshua House. Humble, humble, and humble. A lot of
times these guys are in addiction and doing whatever because they rebel
against the authority.

And then what happens is pride comes before the fall and haughtiness
before destruction. Next thing you know, they're back on the street with
a bottle in their hand or shooting in the arm. And this is the end and
destruction.

A lot of men have perished. But if we can humble ourselves, if we can
come under authority, we can submit to the word of God and submit to
those who preach and teach the word of God in truth. And they have the
love to back it up because love is of God.

And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. If we don't love,
we don't know God. So I encourage you, if you don't have love, then get
serious, get on a fast, start to pray, and say, Lord, I don't know the
love of God which surpasses all this knowledge that I got packed up into
my head here.

Because there's a big disconnect between the head and the heart. We need
the love of God. He told the Pharisees, they were all kinds of
knowledge, those guys.

Go learn what this means, I desire compassion. Go learn what this means,
I desire mercy, not sacrifice. We need the love of God.

It's the love of Christ that leads men to repentance, the kindness of
the Lord. And then we need the message along with the love to nurture
the men to become mighty men of valor like David, raised up these
worthless rogues, these 400 men or 600 men to become the mighty men of
valor. Men who were in submission under David, they risked their lives
to get him some water.

He was just talking, he said, oh, if I could just get a drink from that
well from Bethlehem or wherever. Those men, they broke through the
ranks, through, I think it was Saul's men, and they risked their lives
to bring David a jar of water. He poured it out.

He said, I can't believe you guys did that. He said, I can't drink that.
It's like, it's not what we write of me.

You know what? These men loved David because David loved them. And you
know what? David had a heart after God. He had his mistakes and he had
his sins.

We're not talking about that. He repented of those things. God had mercy
on him.

There were consequences. But you know what? We need to hear from the
true prophets of God. The false prophets say this.

You shall have peace to everyone who walks according to the rebellion
and the dictates of their own heart. Everyone doing whatever seems best.
And the false prophets will tell you, you're eternally secure.

You're good. You have a robe of righteousness on. You don't have to
worry about the prodigal son who had no robe.

Once a son, always a son. It doesn't matter he didn't have his ring.
Doesn't matter he had no gospel shoes and he couldn't bring any message
to anyone.

Don't matter about any of that. You're a son. Judas was a son.

Lucifer was a son. Son of the dawn. Once a son, always a son.

They'd sell you these lies. And they never caused anyone to repent of
their wickedness. But he says this.

They say, no evil shall come upon you. But this, for who had stood in my
counsel, if these people would have stood in my counsel, the counsel of
the Lord, and they would have perceived and have listened to my words,
he says, they would have repented of their wickedness. They would have
repented of their wickedness.

He says in 21, I have not sent these prophets yet they ran. I have not
spoken to them yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel,
verse 22, and they'd caused my people to hear my words, they would have
turned from their sin, their evil ways, and from the evil of their
doings.

That's what would have happened. Where are the Elijahs? Where are the
John Baptists? Where are those who preach the gospel to the poor? When
he said, Amos, are you a prophet? He said, I'm no prophet. When they
said to John Baptist, are you Elijah? Are you the one to come? He said,
I'm not.

Are you the prophet? I'm not. A prophet doesn't say he's a prophet. He
gets God's word and he proclaims it.

It's not an office and a title that is to be boasted of or to be carried
around that men line up to hear the word of the Lord, running to and
fro. Which of the prophets do they not persecute? Is Jeremiah in a
dungeon? Zechariah, they killed between the porch and the altar. I mean,
Ezekiel, he said, I'm not gonna speak your words.

They're not gonna listen. And then he couldn't hold that word back and
he just give it to them because God caused it to rise up in him like a
burning fire. We need the prophets of God to rise up and speak the truth
and love.

Call it as it is. Don't tell me the way I wish it was. Tell me like it
is.

That's what this song says. I listen to this song. It says, don't tell
me preacher, don't lie to me and tell me the way I wanna hear.

Don't tickle my ears and tell me what I wanna hear. Tell me like it is
because it's not gonna save my life unless I give the truth. It's the
truth that sets us free.

The flesh prophets nothing. Don't lie to me and tell me what I wanna
hear. Tell me like it is because I can't continue to serve a Jesus that
has no power.

We have to serve a Jesus that is able to do exceedingly and abundantly
more than we ask, think or imagine. So when you get in your crisis and
believe me, we get in them all big and small all day. You call on the
name of your God.

I just got back from Prince George and I'll finish here. And man, we had
frozen lines and this and that and the brothers were helping. My sons
were there and praise God for sons that are willing to serve.

And they did everything and they're still frozen. And I says, Lord, I'm
relieving today. You know, we're leaving at 11 and it's like nine
o'clock and it's like, the thing's still frozen.

There's no water. We got one. I just put my hands on that water line in
the house.

I seen Jesus name loose. And then all of a sudden I was painting in that
bathroom there. And I don't know, it was five to 15 minutes later, all
of a sudden the water start coming out of that thing.

I said, thank you, Jesus. I went and told my sons, I said, I rebuke that
thing and I command it to loose. And God answers.

He answers. We were coming through on the Coke and they closed the Coke
to commercial. We're a commercial vehicle and they let us go on the way
down.

But this guy was not gonna let us go. I said, Lord Jesus, help us. And
to get through there, it's another two and a half hours.

I wanna get home. So we're able to share a meeting this morning. And I
just looked him in the eye, please sir, he's a man of authority.

You know, he has the authority. We're in the right, but he has the
authority. Please sir, have mercy on us.

We need to get home tomorrow Sunday for our children. Please sir, we
have the paperwork here. Have mercy on us.

Would you please, no, no, no. 15 minutes later, yes, yes sir. Don't say
that I let you through, but yes sir, you go.

And I just went through, brother shouted, thank you Jesus. He is a God
who hears. You call on the name of the Lord in time of trouble and he
will answer thee.

And he'll show you great and awesome things, which you know it's not. We
need to hear from the spirit. We need a now word.

We need a living letter. We need to know what the spirit says to the
church today. I go so much packed in my head and all my own wisdom.

And then I get exhausted and I say, oh God, I repent. I repent Lord.
Help me Jesus.

Just like a little child just come Jesus. Jesus, you gotta help me, I
can't do this. I can't do it.

Unless you help me, I have no hope. Unless you give us guidance and
direction in this hour in which we live, I have no hope. You know the
time and the days are dark, the days are evil, but you know what? Jesus
is still on the throne and he's given us an authority.

You know what? To tread on snakes and scorpions, no harm's gonna come to
us. They can stick some needles in us. They can do what they want.

No harm will come to us if our name's written in that book. They can pin
us down and do what they want. You know what? They tried to boil John,
nothing happened to him.

If it's our time, it's our time. But if God says not your time, they
can't beat it out of you. They can't boil it out of you and they can't
inject it out of you.

In Jesus' name, go forth and prosper. And may the Lord Jesus help you
and live holy and righteous and according to his word. And if you have
things to repent of, get right with the Lord so your prayers aren't
hindered.

In Jesus' name, God bless you, amen.

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