YOUR NAME IS KNOWN IN THE HEAVENS | BISHOP G.E. PATTERSON | CHRISTIAN SERMON

Verse 11, chapter 22 in Genesis. And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven and said,"Abraham, Abraham." And he said, "Here am I." And he said, "Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him, for now I know that thou fearest God, sin, thou hast not withheld thy son, Thine only son, from me." And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in

thestead of his son. And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah Gyra, as it is said to this day, in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah Gyra. And the reason that he called it Jehovah Gyra was because the Lord proided a lamb to be offered up in thestead of uh Abraham offering up his son. I just want to talk to you in brief uh this afternoon from the theme. The Lord will >> provide. Yes. Yes, he will. The Lord will provide That. There are

so many different sermons and stories uh that can be gleaned from this one chapter of uh the 22nd uh chapter, shall I say, of Genesis. Uh because the whole ordeal, if you want to use it as Old Testament prophecy, even of the messianic sort. >> Yes. Yes. >> Uh where God told Abraham to go and to offer up his son. Uh there are many who argue to this day that the same place where Abraham tied Isaac to the altar was the same place where Jesus would later be crucified. uh the fact that the ordeal from

the time when the Lord told him uh to offer your son and when they left home going to the designated place for the offering And by the time he got back home it had been three days and nights. So even in the length of time when the son was really set free from the penalty of death, it pointed to the crucifixion, the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when you come to the point that when God uh rescued Isaac, it was because there was a ram >> caught by his

head >> in the thicket. >> It is said that that thicket represented our Lord's crown of thorns >> and that he died. Jesus did. The ram rather died in the place of Isaac and Jesus died in our place. >> And to emphasize that point uh when he came before Pilate, Pilate set forth two, one Jesus and the other Barabus. >> Yes sir. >> And actually that name Barabus is Barabbus which is really saying son of a man. Yes. >> So, Barabus was released and Jesus was crucified. >> So, Jesus died in the place of Barabus.

>> And I am a son of a man. >> So, he died in my place. that there are so many stories here that parallel the life, the death and the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. But I want to deal with the fact that the Lord provided >> Jehovah Gyra and he is today >> Jehovah Gyra. He is our provider >> and he provides all things that are needful to his people by providing I see a threefold uh provision here. First of all, he made available something in the physical Which was necessary. Secondly,

he also made it possible for Abraham to fulfill a spiritual imperative. >> And thirdly, God through sparing the life of Isaac reestablish the prophetic link >> to Abraham's future. Let >> let's just look at this. He made available something needful in The physical. Abraham left home with the res distinct obligation and intention of offering up to God something that was physical and tangible. >> Yes, sir. I I you may as well get this in your mind that when you come to the Lord, when you succumb to all of the teachings of the critic, >> that

all the Lord wants is your heart. And here you are boasting about your Raises and boasting about the new position. Boasting about how much money you have been blessed with. Boasting about the fact that now all of my bills are paid. I'm debtree and my bottom line is constantly going up. and then go to church and get upset whenever something is stated about bringing to the Lord a physical offering. >> I want you to know that there is a spiritual problem >> going on inside of you. >> We live in a physical world. >> No

two ways about it. I know that we emphasize and we especially emphasize it at a time like during a funeral. Uh it helps to dry up the tears. It helps us to look on the bright side when we can say that in that casket where there is a physical structure physical body that that is not the real person that that person the real person is the spirit being. But see, when the spirit being is totally the only existent one, it's Because that body can no longer move around on this earth. As long as you can

walk and talk and eat, you are in the physical. >> And your way of showing your love for God has to be in the physical. Don't talk about, you know, well, you see, uh, my spirit, uh, was there, but I didn't make it. No, every once in a while, you need to, uh, wrap your spirit up in some clothes and bring your spirit to church Because you live in a physical, >> in a material universe. And as long as you are in this physical, this material universe, physical things are going to have to be done.

>> If you can't say amen, just say ouch. It'll be all right. That's why uh two Sundays ago uh when we dealt with the scripture on name it and claim it, that's why some of you had on your prayer request that you got to have a decent car because God gave you a job. But you can't lie there in your bed and by osmosis send your spirit >> to fulfill your obligation at your place of employment. Your body has got to take your spirit >> to that place where you can put in an honest day's

work. >> So because you live in the material universe, you you got to have somewhere to lay your head. You got to have food to keep the body operative. You got to have an automobile to get you from one Place to another. >> And truth of the matter is uh those of you who uh have found love in your life and certainly I believe that when you find love in your life, it ought to be between a male >> and a female. Because God made it where the male and the female >> in the act

of marital love can create another life. Amen. >> You can get married and love all you want to >> and never touching each other >> and there is no fruit of that love. >> Hello. >> You are in the physical and everything that you do has some kind of a physical release. God provided Abraham with what he needed in the physical. >> He had to go and make an offering. >> Why was that important? Because it was clearly pronounced even before Moses came to write the law that when one came into the presence of God,

he could not come before God empty. >> Come before the Lord and do what? Bring an offering. And the first two uh sons that we read about born to Adam and Eve, God judged the kind of men they were >> by the offering that they brought. >> Abel Brought an offering that had blood in it, >> a costly offering. his brother Cain, who was a tiller of the soil, he just went and gathered up some vegetation, probably mixed with weeds, and said, "Here, God, take this." And God didn't receive Cain and didn't receive his offering.

>> And I say even now that Cain must have Been the father of drug abusers. preacher, where you get that from? >> Because when you go back and read creation story, all of the herbs, the fruit of the ground, when God made it, he said it's good. >> But for Cain, who was dealing with the fruit of the ground to end up getting a hold to something that made him crazy enough >> to kill his own brother. He must have taken God's good herbs >> and abused >> that which God said is good. >> See,

God may tell you something is good, but it's good when it's used right. >> When you abuse it, you mess up. So God had established when you come into my presence, DON'T COME EMPTY. BRING AN OFFERING. And the Lord spoke to Abraham and said, "Offer to me your son, your only son." Now, now here's something that I want to establish and reestablish. God never has, he does not now, nor will he ever demand that any human being offer another human being up as a sacrifice. >> He told Abraham to offer your son, >> but although

he offered him, God would not accept him. Jeffa got right there. Jeffa made a foolish vow. If you deliver me, deliver the Ammonites into my hand. First thing that come out, >> I'm going to off it to you. >> And what happened? It was his daughter. Now, biblical historians are not sure yet whether he really offered his daughter in sacrifice. Now, whether the fact that it talks about the virgins lamenting her, that he isolated her so she could never be married. Either way, it was a sacrifice and her life ended with her. But God did

Not demand that the daughter be offered up. And anytime you start dealing with these foolish cults, >> and a lot of that stuff is going on in our nation, we have people offering up children. There is something demonic in the fact that every few days you read about children disappearing, children being killed. >> You got people that are warped and demented. But I want you to know God Does not require that you offer anybody's life up to him as an offering or as a sacrifice. You don't even have the power to offer your own life

as anything but a living sacrifice. He says present your body a living sacrifice. Even when you get ready to kill yourself, you are out of the will of God. You don't have the power to kill your own self. So you sure don't have the sanction from God to kill anybody else. And a lot of folk have found out That even if they try to kill themselves, you can't kill yourself if God don't let you. >> You can inflict pain and cause yourself uh to walk around or not even walk but be handicapped for the rest

of your life in attempting to take your own life. But when you get around and this is a day when all kind of spiritual insanity is in the world and sweeping our nation and while you are always talking about I got to have more. You know this this is just Uh this is just too too common. I I got to have something more. You better watch when you start reaching for that moore. Because if you don't know what you're reaching for, you'll be like those young men that were gathering with the prophet Elisha and somebody

got a lap full of poison weeds. And they said, "Man of God, there's death in the pot." And you got a lot of folk now, they're gathering junk and they don't know what they gathering and it's driving them nuts and Everybody around them. So you better be watchful >> with the religious teaching >> that you catch a hold to >> wanting more and you can get something that displeases God. Uh I'm just I'm just talking to you all today. I don't know how long I'm going to be before you. I'm not going to I'm not

going to wear you out. Uh but I got to get some things out of my heart. God wanted him to have A physical offering. >> SO HE GETS HIS SON, puts on him the wood. >> And here again, it represents Jesus because the wood, the cross on which he would die, he had to carry his own wood >> to the place of the crucifixion. They get to the place and uh the young boy, he is old enough to know what's happening >> and he said, "Father, uh uh here is the wood and HERE IS THE

FIRE, BUT WHERE IS THE LAMB?" >> And Abraham says, "The Lord >> will provide himself a lamb." Amen. >> God provides what we need in the physical. >> Amen. >> Uh let me diverse one more time, digress one more time. I don't think you have a greater scriptural witness to the fact that God provides the needs of his People in the material greater than Elijah. Here is a man that when Israel being led by Ahab, >> had gotten into bondage >> to a foreign and idol God >> serving Baal and Asteroth. >> And God reached

over behind the mountain and brought out a man that nobody knew. He didn't even have a birth certificate. They didn't know who his mother was. They didn't know who his father was. It is only stated that he was Elijah the Tishbite of the inhabitants of Gilead. And he steps in before Ahab and says, "As I live, said God, there will not be due nor rain falling on the ground, but according to my word takes an invisible key and he locks up the heaven and it does not rain and the dew does not descend on the

ground for 3 years and 6 months." But when he pronounced that there won't be any rain, there won't be any dew, he himself Was still a man in the flesh. So if there's no rain for anybody else, there's no rain for you. If there's no do for anybody else, there's no do for you. But what does God do for his servant but tells him how he can be sustained through this great famine? Go down to the brook of Kirth and dwell there. >> Don't Don't go wandering through the wilderness. But I got a designated place

for you. I wish you'd tell somebody Where God guides. >> Where God. >> God provides. >> God provides. >> HE SENT HIM TO A DESIGNATED PLACE. Go to the brook Kirth. Dwell there. I have commanded the raven to feed thee there. Now, you know, we look for food to come from that uh waiter, a waitress down at the uh restaurant that hopefully has a uh category A in health. I don't know anything that's worse than you just get Through stuffing yourself, go home, and turn on the television and find out where you just ate, came

up with a 60. Ah, we we'd rather know that that we are in a place that's really uh a place that is sanitary. >> But God sometimes provides through methods that seemingly uh are the worst ways or the last way you would think that God would provide. Go to the brook Hearth DWELL THERE. I HAVE commanded the Raven, >> a nasty bird, and he's going to bring you bread and flesh. Now, whether it was clutched in his tentacles or whether it was in his mouth, that still is not the way you would prefer to be

fed. All right. >> But when you starving >> and there's no food coming from anywhere Else, that's when you will say, "Anyway you bless me, Lord, I'll be satisfied." TWICE A DAY. Every morning, EVERY EVENING, RIGHT ON SCHEDULE, HERE COMES A RAVEN with a sandwich in his mouth. and he ate that sandwich twice a day, could drink water out of the brook, but it came to pass >> that the brook dried up. >> Now, he had sense enough to know when The brook dried up, God must have another designated place. >> The raven might keep

coming with the sandwich, but if I don't have any water, I'm still at the wrong place. You got some folk, my God, uh they they they uh trying to drink water from a mud hole. >> You can't do it. >> As a child of God, you've got to have a steady diet of food >> from God's word. And when the place becomes so contaminated that all that's going on Sunday morning, Sunday night, midweek service, Bible study is people are cutting one another's throat and people are fussing about what is and what ain't >> if you

let me say it that way. >> And the stream becomes too muddy to drink. Something in you >> ought to tell you that it's time for you to move on. I I've known people who stayed in a place uh that nothing was going forth >> from the word of God, >> but they stayed because they promised somebody that's dead and gone. >> I promised grandma that I wasn't going to ever leave this church. But baby, when the brook dry up, >> you better know where you can get some water. >> When the brook dries up,

you got to know where to march to. for The next meal. >> IT CAME TO PASS THAT THE BROOK DRIED UP and then God said, "I'm still going to provide for you. Go down to Zarifat, >> which belongs to Zidon." >> And if you understand the psychology of that, here is another place that you wouldn't expect God to send him. When you back up, the trouble Israel is having is because Ahab went down to Zidon >> and married the daughter of the king of Zidon, Echbel's daughter named Jezebel, and brought her from Zidon into Israel.

Now, God said, "I'm going to send you to Zidon in order to have something to eat. Go down to Zarapath, which belongth to Zidon, and I'm not going to send you to a rich woman. >> Not going to send you to a couple that's got a LOT TO SPARE. BUT I'M GOING TO SEND YOU TO a widow woman, >> and she's going to sustain you. >> And when he gets there, the widow woman Is picking up sticks, >> getting ready to cook the last she had, >> saying, "I'm going to cook this, and my son,

and I are going to eat it and die." >> But what does the prophet say? bring me >> some water. >> She has a little water left, so she goes and get the water. But while she's on her way to get the water, he say, "Uh uh uh, one more thing. When you bring the water, bring me also a cake of bread." >> Mister, didn't you hear what I said? I told you I didn't have enough meal but just to cook one cake. >> And I'm going to eat that and my son and I and

we're going to die. >> That's all right. But bring me the first cake. >> Yes, sir. Lord have mercy. He would have been in trouble if he had said that to most of the people that's in here now. You'd have had some choice words for that preacher. But he guaranteed her that I want you to know. DO IT AND YOUR meal shall not fail. When I was a youngster growing up, I used to hear people preaching on that that God ran the meal barrel over. So, I think when I first started preaching, before I actually

got in there and studied it, I might have said that a few times, but he didn't promise that the meal barrel was going to run over. He just said it will not fail. >> And when I came to the realization of what he meant by it will not fail, that's when I preached the sermon living from the bottom of the barrel. So, you got a lot of folk think you're not blessed unless you have a bank account that's running over more money than you need. And yeah, the Lord have blessed me like he blessed so

and so. But let me tell you, they may have millions laid up, >> but they can't eat but one day at a Time. They can't live but one day at a time. AND AS LONG AS GOD is blessing you every day, hallelujah, when I get up, I've got something to eat. I've got something to put on. When the evening come, I've got a place to sleep. And when I GET UP THE NEXT MORNING, I STILL GOT SOMETHING TO EAT. God blessed this prophet to the extent that he didn't run the widow's meal barrel over. But

when she cooked that first cake, sit down, y'all. She brought It to him. >> And when SHE WENT BACK, THAT WAS enough for her to cook a cake for herself and her son. >> I believe she went to bed with a empty meal barrel. But when she got up in the morning, God had put enough in there for breakfast. I believe when she got through with breakfast, it was an empty meal barrel. But when she went back in the afternoon, that was enough for dinner. Listen, I want you TO KNOW THAT WHENEVER YOU NEED IT,

I SERVE A GOD WHOSE NAME is Jehovah Gyra. He will provide. GLORY TO GOD. WHATEVER IT IS YOU NEED, HE will provide. You don't understand right now. Children are crying and already talking about what they want for Christmas and what they want you to do and and you up here already talking about I know I can't do it. But let me tell you something. You cannot say >> on October the 20th what God is going to Do by December the 3. You don't even know what he's going to do this time tomorrow. I serve a

God that gives out 24-hour miracles. 24 HOURS I'VE KNOWN him to turn things around. Have you he done it for you? My God, YOU DIDN'T SEE HOW YOU WERE GOING TO MAKE IT. BUT 24 hours and God turned things around. I wish you'd just tell three people, "My God's name is Jehovah Gyra. He's the God who does provide." Oh, thank you, Jesus. Glory. Hallelujah. >> One thing he made available something in the physical which Abraham needed. But he also made it possible to fulfill a spiritual imperative. >> First I talked to you about the fact

that an offering whether it's a check whether it's currency. It's a physical thing. But although it's a physical thing, it serves a spiritual purpose. Whenever God said, "Don't come before me empty." >> And you come before God complying with what he says in scripture, you're not only making a natural commitment, >> but you're also fulfilling a spiritual purpose. >> So God made it possible for Abraham to do something in the spiritual Realm. And when you get into the spiritual realm, you into the realm of things that are intangible. Yes, sir. >> Physical things you can

see, >> physical things you can touch, >> but spiritual things are intangible. >> You don't see a spirit. I don't care if you were born with a veil over your face. You don't see spirit. >> I don't care if you are the seventh son of a seventh daughter, you don't see. Most of the times when people really think they're seeing things, it's because they get older. And when you get older, they have some things. I think um um Dr. Sims, I don't know what it's floaters that's in the eye. And and sometimes people look and

and that little floater was in the way. Oh, I saw my dead sister. No, you didn't. You saw a floater. >> Spiritual things are intangibles. >> But that is not to say spiritual things are not real. >> God is a spirit, >> but he's real. But in order that he could have a greater relationship between you and me in Colossians Paul says in him in Jesus dwells all of the fullness of the godhead bodily. So the father is spirit the holy ghost is spirit but god had to come Into our midst. >> So he empties

his divinity into a bodily form. >> And you can't touch the father. You can't touch the Holy Ghost, >> but you can touch Jesus >> because he's the only member of the Godhead that's got a body. >> Yeah. >> Spiritual things. >> God made it possible for Abraham to fulfill a spiritual imperative, Something that exists in the realm of the intangible. Some of you are in the midst of spiritual warfare. >> Oh yeah. >> Oh yeah. You don't understand why it looks like that same spirit that you have to fight with at home. You get

to the job and it's another person, >> but it's the same spirit. >> Or maybe you go to the classroom and you run into that same spirit. >> May even be in your neighborhood. You keep running into that antagonistic spirit, that accusatory spirit. >> Different people, different names, different locations, >> but the same spirit. >> And when you are in the midst of spiritual warfare, >> it brings about temptation. >> Sometimes you are tempted to say, "I ought to give up the fight." Oh yeah, >> you're tempted >> to say, "I'm destined to lose no

matter where I am." >> BUT PAUL SAYS THERE IN 1 Corinthians 10 and 13 that even when you in the midst of SPIRITUAL WARFARE, THERE have no temptation >> taken you, but such as is common to man. >> When the devil is testing and trying you, the one thing he wants to make you believe is that you're isolated. that nobody has ever gone through what I'm Going through. >> I'm going through this and nobody I look down the street, that couple don't go through what we go through. Sometimes they just better hypocrites than you. They

come out of the door smiling and you come out frowning. >> And you'd be surprised to know they got a smile on their face and what they're going through is much worse than yours. No temptation has taken you but such as is common to man. Anything you go Through, somebody else is going through the SAME THING. >> BUT GOD is >> faithful. >> Oh my God. People may not be faithful. >> Your own blood relatives may not be faithful. Your best friends may not be faithful. BUT GOD IS FAITHFUL. AND his faithfulness dictates that you

will not be tempted above that which you are able. >> Tell somebody, if God lets it come on You, God, >> it's because he know he's given you strength to take it. >> Hallelujah. >> Oh yeah. You up here talking about this is the last straw. That's all I can take and I can't take no more. If you WERE AT THE POINT WHERE YOU COULDN'T TAKE NO MORE, GOD WOULD BLOCK IT AND WOULDN'T LET it come. But he only lets it happen because he realized THAT WHAT HE PUT IN YOU is stronger than what the

devil is Throwing against you. I don't know how many times when I've read that 54th chapter of Isaiah and get down I believe it's around the 17th verse where we love to quote no weapon that's formed against you will prosper. But you got to read those verses above that >> because that's only the bottom line >> before the no weapon. He says, "Behold, I've created the smith, >> the gunsmith >> that blows the coals in the fire. >> I've created the waster to destroy." In other words, God is saying, "The reason I'm about TO GIVE

YOU THE bottom line is because I've already >> examined what's in the gun. I know what caliber it is. >> I know the weight and strength of the bullet. >> I know how distant how much distance the bullets will cover. >> And and BECAUSE I ALREADY KNOW WHAT'S IN THE GUN, >> I know what's in the bullets. I KNOW WHAT'S IN the person that's using the gun. >> I KNOW ALL OF THE OPPOSITION THAT'S GOING TO COME AGAINST YOU. >> I am the ONE THAT CREATED ALL OF THAT. HE SAID, "THEN when I created you,

I weighed AGAINST WHAT I PUT IN YOU AGAINST WHAT IS in the weapon. And I'm determined THAT WHAT'S IN THE WEAPON IS NOT AS POWERFUL AS WHAT'S IN YOU." AND BECAUSE OF WHAT I PUT IN THE WEAPON, WHICH IS MINUS WHAT I PUT IN YOU, NO weapon >> that's formed against you will prosper. Tell somebody, "God knows what he put in you." And he KNOWS WHAT HE PUT IN THE WEAPON. >> He knows weapon. >> And the weapon isn't made out of the stuff you are. >> Hallelujah. No weapon. >> Oh, let me hurry up

and get finished. That's right. This is communion day. >> God made it possible >> when he provided the lamb. for Abraham to fulfill a spiritual commitment. >> But thirdly, >> when God provided the lamb, >> he reestablished Abraham's prophetic link >> to the future. >> Listen to how it starts. Abraham, take Thine son, thine only son. Here's what you got to understand. >> God said to Abram in the 12th chapter of Genesis, "I'm going to bless you. >> I'm going to make you a blessing. I'm going to make your name great. I'm going to bless

him that bless you. I'm going to curse him that curse you in thee and in thy seed. All families of earth will be blessed." And yet when God said it to Abraham and He was 75 and here uh Sarah was 65, 11 years later when he was 86, >> Sarah still hadn't conceived. So they attempt to help God out. >> She gives her husband Hagger >> and Hagar conceives >> and the son is named Ishmael. But because God has said >> that my promise will come through Isaac, >> he blessed Ishmael in a whole another

category. >> But as far as the covenant that he had Made with Abraham and Sarah, it was like Ishmael didn't exist. So God said, "No, the only son that that uh my promise through you >> can be brought about through >> is Isaac." >> And now that you've had to wait 25 years for Isaac, >> now take Isaac and kill him and make him an offering. >> Offer him up to me. >> Hallelujah. SO IF ISAAC HAD been killed, >> and if God had not resurrected him, >> all of what God said about in thee

and in thy seed, all families of earth will be blessed. It couldn't have happened >> later on when he told him to count the grains of sand and count the stars, and I'm going to make your seed just that big, >> just that innumerable. If Isaac had died, all of that would Have been wiped out. >> So when God said, "Abraham, Abraham, stay your hand. >> Don't kill the boy. There's a ram that I've provided." >> God made it possible for the prophetic utterance that he gave to Abraham to be fulfilled. Amen. >> Some of

you all are saying, "I don't see how God's going to do what he said, >> that he's going to do in my life." >> But I want you to know that if God said it, >> you may not know what road he's going to lead, >> but he's going to do >> just what he said. >> When he GAVE HIM BACK ISAAC, he reestablished the covenant that he made with him. Oh, somebody's saying, "I know that the Lord said some things to me years AGO AND LOOK LIKE THOSE THINGS ARE NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. I

THOUGHT I WAS ON MY WAY. I was being blessed financially. I was being blessed in my health. I was being blessed TO HAVE INFLUENCE IN HIGH PLACES. AND NOW LOOK LIKE FOR THE LAST few years, ALL OF THAT IS DEAD." But I hear the Lord said, "You forgot about my power to restore." I RESTORED Isaac back home to his mother. He went to be offered, but he ended up right back at home in the normal sequence. And the Lord said, "I want you to know that for Years, the locust have been eaten away. and even

the promises that I said I was going to accomplish in you. You don't have the physical health you used to have. You don't have the money that you used to have. Look like your mind doesn't even focus like it used to. But God said, "I've got the power to restore. I WILL RESTORE THE years that the locust has eaten. the cankerworm and the caterpillar, my great army. GOD SAID, "I'M STILL GOING TO DO WHAT I told you I was going TO DO. DON'T WORRY ABOUT UNFULFILLED PROPHECY. IT'S UNFULFILLED ONLY BECAUSE I HAVE NOT ALLOWED the

time to come. But I want you to know your time is coming. Don't be weary in welloing. IN DUE SEASON, YOU'RE GOING to reap if you just don't faint." I wish you tell somebody due season is on the way. Your reaping time is on the way. WHATEVER GOD PROMISED, HE'S going to do just what he said. THERE'S NOT A DEMON IN HELL that can stop God from doing what he said. EVEN DEATH ITSELF CAN'T stop God from doing what he said. How many times have I told you if you still got unful commitments from God,

>> you can't die >> until God does what he says. I wish you'd tell three people, get ready for it. >> Get ready FOR IT. GOD IS GOING TO DO JUST WHAT HE SAID. HE IS YOUR PROVIDER. HE IS YOUR WAY MAKER. HE IS JEHOVAH GYRA. HEY, thank you. He can do exceeding and abundantly above all that we ask or think. >> God will provide. >> If you're wrestling with a spiritual problem, >> fighting against dependency, >> fighting like Paul said, "Oh, wretched Man that I am, >> who shall deliver me >> from the body

of this death?" He said, "I want to do good, >> but I get overpowered by evil. >> And then the evil that I say I'm not going to do, I find that's exactly what I end up doing." But I want you to know when Jesus became a reality in his life. I hear Paul say there is therefore now no condemnation To them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit because the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus have made me free from the law of sin

and death. I want you to know that whether it's physical or whether it's spiritual or whether it's prophetic, whatever you need for God to fulfill his work in you, the Lord, he will provide you up here talking about what I can't do. I don't know how to do this. I don't have the Strength to do that and look like I'm just a stuck stuck in the mud and can't go no further. Quit worrying about yourself. You don't have the power to even make your dreams come true. I don't care how the positive thinkers tell you

that you can do it. You can only do it when God is on your side. For Jesus said, "Without me, you can do nothing." But I hear him say, "I CAN DO ALL things through Christ that strengthens me." When I got Jesus on my side, I can run Through troops. I can leap over walls. I can do that which is impossible. Not in my own strength, but by the power of God that strengthened me. He knows what I need. Just like he knew what Israel needed. On their way to the promised land, but they got

him in by the Red Sea. God provided a rod. Said Moses, all you got to do is point the rod at the sea and the waters will divide INTO PARTS. I WANT YOU TO KNOW I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE BATTLE IS YOU'RE FACING in your life, BUT WHEN YOU GET DOWN TO the river, IF GOD DOESN'T GIVE YOU A BOAT, HE'LL CUT A highway in the middle of the sea. He will He will provide. Whatever you need, look for it. WHATEVER YOU NEED, WAIT ON IT. WHATEVER YOU NEED, REJOICE IN IT BECAUSE GOD, he will.

Anybody in here ever tried him and you know he's a provider? I'm through. I'm stopping right here. But just tell three people, he is a provider. He's a provider. He is. Everybody standing on your feet. >> Hallelujah. >> Before I offer this general prayer. >> And I know that there are those of you that you worship God by the clock. You work a full 8 hour day and beg for overtime. But you just can't give the Lord longer than two hours. So you who have to go, >> you're not pleasing God and you're certainly not

pleasing your pastor. >> But uh you just got to go. You just go on. >> But those of us who remain, >> we're going to see what God will do >> in the midst of his people. Somebody in here today that's trapped. You're trapped on the other side of a Red Sea. Not the Red Sea that Israel crossed Over. But your sea is a sea of chemical dependence. You're trapped in sin. But I want you to know God has provided Jesus to be your way of escape. If you're here today and you don't know Jesus,

don't put it off another moment, but make your way to the nearest aisle and come here right now. Bless you, my brother. Stand there and face the front. Stand right there. Stand right there. Bless you, my sister. Come on. The Lord is speaking all over this building. Come here. Come. Come. Come. Come. Lost in sin, but God has provided a way of escape for you. Thank you, Jesus. From wherever you are, Come here right now. Don't worry about who's not moving. If you make an effort to get out of your road, the people there will

gladly let you out. Thank you. That's it, saints. Keep giving God the praise. Come on. Keep giving him the praise. Glory. Hallelujah. Bless you, Reverend Wardell Johnson. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Don't stop praising him. Yolks are breaking While you praise him. Jesus breaks every Jesus break. Come on. Come on. Come on. Please thank the Lord. >> W I'm going to give you another 2 minutes. Bless you, my sister. Come on. >> 25 more of your God's call. >> Jesus grace. Yeah. Woo! Jesus, I'm waiting on you. Heaven is waiting on you. Bless

you, my brother. Come on. Hallelujah. Bless you, young man. Hallelujah. That's right, my brother. Come on. Hallelujah. Jesus Christ. Woo. Come on, my sister. I'm waiting on you. Heaven is waiting on you. Oh, hallelujah. That's right, young man. Come on. Jesus. Jesus. be free. >> You know my heart rejoices whenever I see any soul coming to the Lord. But something special happens in me when I see our young men come. Satan has Sets me free. >> So many tricks >> for our young men. >> Sets me free. >> When you read up on the history

of Israel when they left out of Egypt, >> Zahan, the king of the Amorites, tried to stop him and couldn't. the king of Bashan tried to stop them and couldn't. >> They got to the borders of Moab And uh the king of Moab hired Balam to come and curse him. >> But God wouldn't let Balam curse him. Every time he opened his mouth, he blessed him. But when you keep on reading, you get down about two chapters lower and Israel still messed up while they were camped out at Moab because although Balam couldn't curse him,

evidently he gave the Moabites the secret And the Bible said that they committed whoredom. They got involved in sexual sins >> and Israel still >> got defeated >> not with a brute army but with their own weaknesses. We've talked about the days prior to the civil rights movement and how we marched and we got to the lunch counters and we can ride anywhere on the bus and all kind of things, >> gains that we think we made from the civil rights movement. >> But after the civil rights movement was over, we looked up >> and

we had lost our young men. They're able to go to the lunch counters and able to go anywhere. >> But all of a sudden, we found out we had a generation, and this is about the second generation of young men who don't want to be men. >> They get married and they don't want to Support their wife and children. >> Increasing in homosexuality. And the harder you preach against it, the more they switch, >> the more they turn. >> And Satan himself is rejoicing >> because we are a race almost becoming extinct because we got

more young men in jail than we have in college. >> And when I see young men that's willing to step away from the game, willing to step away from the norm and Say, "I'm going to give my life to Jesus." I don't know what it does to you, but something on the inside starts rejoicing inside of me. God can take these young men and make them as busy >> working for Jesus >> as Satan wants them in the streets and they can help turn this thing around. >> Young man, don't you let nobody fool you.

Right now, you are doing the most productive thing That you can do in your life. coming to Jesus. He gives you power to live a new and a victorious life. I'm going to step down and shake hands with all of you and then you're going to go with Elder Eddie Amos and he's going to instruct you. That's all of you, male and female. But let me say if there's anybody else that want to give your life to Jesus, step to the nearest aisle and come here now. There's some more of you and I know you're

here. And while they are coming, you that's already saved and you want to make this your church home, you come on down, too. Hallelujah. You're already saved, but you want to make this your church home. Come quickly. You got just about 20 seconds. If I see you moving in this direction, I'll wait on you. Hallelujah. Coming to be saved or coming for membership in this church? one scripture is a passage that I have planted deep in my mind and in my heart >> because any one of us >> doesn't matter how God use you >>

the day that you look in the mirror >> and see what other folks see that's the day that God begins to cut you off >> I think you need to look at somebody and tell them that the day you look in the mirror >> the day you look in the mirror >> and see yourself great >> and see yourself GREAT. >> THAT'S THE day >> That's the day >> that your rejection begins. >> that your rejection Jess's house. >> I HAVE CHOSEN AMONG HIS sons >> a king. >> And here goes the prophet >> down

TO JESSE'S HOUSE DOWN TO BETHLEHEM. >> JESSE, I've come to do sacrifice today. >> And I also have a secret mission that Saul can't hear about. >> I've got to anoint one of your sons as king. AND WHEN THE OLDEST BOY WALKED IN, even the prophet Samuel was deceived. >> HE SAW HIM STANDING THERE. HE SAID, "SURELY THE LORD'S ANOINTED IS BEFORE HIM." GOD SAID, "I haven't chosen him." The second boy and the third one, and the fourth one, and the fifth one, and the sixth one, AND EVEN THE SEVENTH SON OF JESSE CAME IN,

AND GOD SAID, "I HAVEN'T CHOSEN ANY OF THESE. HUH? >> DO YOU HAVE ANOTHER SON? >> YEAH, I got a little lad out there with the sheep. >> Little strange fella out there playing on a homemade harp, plucking on the strings, talking about the Lord, he is my shepherd, I shall not want. Now, you don't want the young boy. HE SAID, "GO GET HIM." WHEN SAMUEL WHEN DAVID WALKED IN, THE HORN OF OIL tilted >> and David in 1st Samuel 16 AND 13 WAS ANOINTED FOR THE FIRST time at home IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS

BROTHERS. >> So you got a LOT OF FOLKS THEY want to go cross the water and cross THE LAND, BUT NOBODY CAN REMEMBER WHEN THEY GOT THEIR FIRST ANOINTING at home. BUT THERE OUGHT TO BE A HOME BASE WHERE PEOPLE WHO KNEW YOU BEFORE YOU MET GOD WILL KNOW THAT THIS IS NOT THE PERSON THAT WE USED TO KNOW. I've often wondered why out of all of Those eight brothers why God chose David. >> He was the youngest. And usually we like to go by seniority. But God does not choose the way we choose. HE

GOT HIS OWN STYLE. AND AND WHEN I TRIED TO WONDER WHY WOULD DAVID BE CHOSEN above the rest. And then I thought about it. >> The harp. >> He was A PSALMIST. >> LOOK AT SOMEBODY AND say he was a Praiser. >> And you can say what you want to. God loves people who will praise him. Uh, you can sit up looking deep. You can sit up with the motto, "Nothing shall move me." BUT GOD LOVES PRAISES. HE LOVES FOLK THAT DON'T MIND GIVING HIM THE GLORY. HE LOVES PEOPLE THAT DON'T ALWAYS BEG FOR SOMETHING

NEW. BUT I'M STILL THANKING HIM FOR WHAT HE DID YESTERDAY. I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE'S GOING TO DO TODAY, BUT BECAUSE OF WHAT HE'S ALREADY DONE, I CAN ENTER HIS GATES WITH THANKSGIVING. I CAN COME INTO HIS COURT WITH PRAISE. YOU OUGHT TO TELL SOMEBODY, "DON'T WAIT FOR HIM TO DO SOMETHING NEW. >> PRAISE HIM FOR WHAT HE'S ALREADY DONE." >> YEAH. Thank you, Lord. HALLELUJAH. NOW, >> David's first anointing, 1st Samuel 16:13, was at home amidst his Brothers. >> And the Bible said from that day forward, >> the spirit of God came on him.

And one thing about it, whenever God anoints you, >> look out. >> Satan is after you. >> He's not after you because you're so pretty. >> He's not after you because you're so smart. >> He's after you because the anointing of God is on you. And after David was anointed, it wasn't long before he was summoned into the presence of a rejected and now demonpossessed King Saul. >> And in those days, they didn't have anything to calm down somebody who was possessed of demons. >> They hadn't discovered Prozac. And the only thing that would quieten

him down was for David to go and sit in the corner of the room plucking on the strings of his heart. >> BUT IN 2 SAMUEL chapter 2, David is anointed the second time. And when you read chapter 2 of 2 Samuel, it says that the elders of the tribe of Judah >> anointed him. Now, that's something you need to see there. that although God through the Prophet Samuel anointed him at home, >> Samuel's anointing did nothing but cause the spirit of God to come upon David. >> But before David could begin to be king,

he was not king over the tribe of Judah until the elders of the tribe anointed him. In other words, the people had to give him the right to be their king. >> Oh, you didn't get that one. >> In our church, we have not only a Bible, but a constitution. All right. >> And our constitution mandates that every four years >> that the church of God in Christ holds an election. >> Yes, sir. >> To elect its board of trustees, to elect its general board, to elect its presiding bishop. >> And you cannot go around

preaching the evil of election. when we've been doing it ever since Bishop Mason died >> in 1961. >> The first election wasn't an organized general assembly, but we elected Bishop Jones, OT Jones, Senior. And then from 1968, we began to elect our presiding bishop every four years. And from 68 all the way up through 96, elections have never been evil. >> But now, for some reason, the election has become evil. PEOPLE HAVE TO GIVE YOU a right >> to serve them. >> You cannot rule people by divine right. >> That's a monarchy. Oh, y'all not

listening at me. >> THE ELDERS OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, they anointed David to be their king. And it wasn't long after they anointed him to be their king, Saul finally died. But he had a son named Ishbosett. AND ISHBOSEF WANTED to be king. >> And it took David two years to put down The rebellion of Ishbos. >> BUT WHEN WE GET TO 2 SAMUEL CHAPTER 5, >> IT STARTS OFF WITH ALL OF THE elders of all of the 12 tribes coming to Hebron. AND THERE ALL OF THE ELDERS OF ALL OF THE TRIBES anointed

David AS KING OVER ALL ISRAEL. >> I keep telling you the original anointing that came from David >> WAS GOD DEALING WITH DAVID'S SPIRIT. >> But he had to have the second anointing >> to be king over Judah. AND HE HAD TO HAVE THE THIRD ANOINTING TO be king over the whole nation. And touch somebody and TELL THEM THE PEOPLE WHOM HE WAS TO SERVE >> THE people he was SERVE >> HAD TO ANOINT him >> to be their king >> to be their king. >> Somebody ought to give God some praise about that. We've

had a glorious convocation, but the only thing that really grieved me, Nothing said against me bothered me. I expected all that. But what bothered me was Thursday night at the pyramid >> when a false prophet >> along the saints >> saying God sent him to Memphis. What a message >> to say to the church of God in Christ and to the 12 bishops that if you allow this damnable election, all 12 of you are going to drop dead. Now that's how I Knew he was false. Understand? Understand that we as the 12 board members, >>

we are servants >> of the church >> elected by the general assembly. >> AND IF ALL 12 OF US >> WOULD HAVE STOOD LOCKED ARM IN ARM AND SAID, "CHURCH, WE WILL NOT HAVE AN ELECTION. WE DON'T HAVE THE POWER BECAUSE THE CONSTITUTION AND THE GENERAL Assembly mandates the election AND THE 12 OF US DON'T HAVE THE POWER TO STOP IT." AND GOD KNEW THAT. SO WHEN THE MAN GOT UP WITH THAT PROPHECY, IT HAD TO BE A LIE. IT DIDN'T COME FROM GOD BECAUSE GOD KNEW WE COULDN'T STOP IT. And it grieves me when

I can see >> a hoax >> being perpetrated against the saints of God. >> Oh my God. Do anything you want to do to me and to any of the other leaders. We Can TAKE IT. BUT DON'T DO IT TO THE SAINTS. >> HALLELUJAH. GOD WILL NOT HOLD YOU GUILTLESS >> BECAUSE THE CHURCH DOESN'T BELONG TO US. >> HE SAID TAKE HEED TO YOURSELF >> AND TO THE FLOCK >> OVER THE WHICH THE HOLY GHOST HAVE MADE YOU OVERSEERS TO FEED THE CHURCH OF GOD. GOD SAID THE CHURCH DON'T BELONG TO YOU BISHOPS. >> THE

CHURCH BELONGS TO ME. >> HE SAID I'M THE ONLY ONE THAT SHED MY BLOOD. the elders of the 12 tribes, >> they anointed David >> to be king over ALL ISRAEL. BUT AS WE BEGAN READING, WHEN THE PHILISTINES heard >> that they had anointed David, >> they said, "Wait a minute. Israel has been in a state of civil war, and don't worry about it. The devil doesn't have To attack us as long as we fight each other." That's right. >> So the Philistines stood back >> as long as it was David and Saul. >> David

and Ishbosett. But when they knew Saul was dead and Ishbosett's rebellion had been put down and now David was the king of all Israel. They knew it would take him a little time to CONSOLIDATE THE KINGDOM. AND THEY SAID, "Let's go get him before he has a chance To consolidate the kingdom." AND THE BIBLE SAID THEY CAME UP LOOKING FOR DAVID. BUT DAVID went down into the H O L D. Into the hold, not a H O L E. To say went into a hole would say that he was a coward. But he went into

the Hol D, an abbreviated form of the word stronghold. >> He went into a fortified place. And when the enemy is after you, you got to know how >> to go into a fortified place. We're living in a day now when many of the charismatics, they speak in tongues more than we uh Pentecostals, but most of them don't believe much in fasting and they don't believe in waiting. In fact, now they tell you, you're born again, you got the Holy Ghost. Uh, you just got to go in and let us teach you how to develop

your tongues. But I'm glad that I got saved and got That Holy Ghost that didn't nobody have to teach him how to talk. I'm sorry for you folks that got that new Holy Ghost that somebody had to teach him how to talk. But back in those years growing up as a youngster in the church, they taught us that when the enemy is on your trail >> and you need a hiding place, >> you got to learn how to shut in >> and how to shut out, >> how to get into a time of fasting and

prayer. had a number of people say to me this week, "Bishop, uh, I tell you, I'm just so glad to see how you're looking and everything is great." Well, I told you all on the 29th of September, uh, that I was beginning a period of 40 days of fasting and prayer. >> And if you saw me at dinner the other night, I didn't say 40 days and nights, I said days. And my 40th day was the day the convocation ended. I mean began rather on the 7th. >> Uh but the Lord said, "No, you just

keep right on." >> So I think now I'm in probably day number 45. Uh when you learn how to have fasting and prayer >> as your stronghold, >> you can hide And the devil can't find you. He can push all your buttons and you still won't react. He can wave a red flag in front of you like he's waving it in front of a bull and you still stay at peace. David said, "I'm not quite ready yet to go out and fight the Philistines. So, let me go into my stronghold." >> And he went into

his place of retreat. >> WHEN YOU GO INTO YOUR PLACE OF RETREAT WITH GOD, >> and when your spiritual muscles >> begin to flex and you're ready for the enemy, >> then you can come out like David did. You can come OUT OF YOUR STRONGHOLD AND YOU CAN TELL THE devil if if you think you WANT SOME OF ME, COME ON. HALLELUJAH, SATAN. Come on. I'VE GOT GOD'S PROMISE OUT OF THE 54TH CHAPTER OF ISAIAH. NO WEAPON THAT IS FORMED AGAINST ME WILL PROSPER. >> You ought TO GO AND TELL SOMEBODY, GET IN YOUR STRONGHOLD

>> UNTIL YOU HAVE GOD'S ASSURANCE >> THAT NO WEAPON >> FORMED AGAINST YOU >> AGAINST YOU >> WILL PROSPER >> AND THEN YOU CAN COME OUT FIGHTING. >> HALLELUJAH. MY SOUL DELIGHT in you, Jesus. >> WHEN DAVID CAME OUT, where were the Philistines? >> THEY WERE CAMPED OUT >> IN THE VALLEY of Refum. >> Tell somebody the word reffam means giants. Refiants. >> SEE, SEE THAT'S THE DEVIL'S STRATEGY. HE ALWAYS WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE >> THAT WHATEVER YOU'RE FACING is so big >> that IT'S GOING TO SCARE YOU TO DEATH. >> YEAH. We Philistines, we

came from giants. >> SO WE GOING TO CAMP OUT IN THE VALLEY OF GIANTS. >> The devil brings you not LITTLE PROBLEMS BUT GIANT PROBLEMS. >> HERE THEY WERE SPREAD ALL ACROSS THE VALLEY. WE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT DAVID WOULD HAVE USED SOME KIND of military diversionary tactic >> and would have hit him on THE LEFT OR HIT HIM ON THE RIGHT. >> BUT DAVID CAME OUT OF THE STRONGHOLD AND HIT THEM WOUND >> RIGHT STRAIGHT THROUGH THE MIDDLE. >> IN OTHER WORDS, HE SAID, "I DON'T CARE. I'M GOING HIT YOUR LINE RIGHT IN THE

MIDDLE." >> AND HE SAID, "I'VE MADE A BREACH ON THEM." GOD HAVE MADE A BREACH EVEN LIKE THE BREACH OF WATER. >> IN OTHER WORDS, GOD LET DAVID AND HIS MEN BREAK THROUGH JUST LIKE FLOODWATERS CUT THEIR OWN PATHS. >> AND DAVID SAID, "LOOK AT HERE. THIS PLACE HAS BEEN TURNED FROM REFF." And I'm GOING TO CHANGE THE NAME. I'M GOING TO CALL IT BELL PARISM BECAUSE GOD HAS MADE A BREACH UPON MY ENEMY. AND THE WORD BAL PARISM MEAN LORD OF BREAKING THROUGH. I WANT YOU TO KNOW IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW THE ENEMY HAS

SOLIDIFIED HIS FORCES AGAINST YOU. WHEN GOD IS ON YOUR SIDE, HE'LL GIVE YOU A BREAKTHROUGH. I WISH YOU'D LOOK AT SOMEBODY AND GRAB THEM BY THE HAND AND TELL THEM, "GOD DOESN'T WANT YOU TO CRACK UP. GOD DOESN'T WANT YOU TO BREAK DOWN. HE'S READY TO GIVE YOU A BREAKTHROUGH. DOES ANYBODY IN HERE NEED A BREAKTHROUGH? YOUR BREAKTHROUGH TIME HAS COME. IT'S TIME FOR YOUR BREAKTHROUGH. THE ENEMY HAVE BLOCKED YOU LONG ENOUGH. THE ENEMY HAS HELD YOU BACK LONG ENOUGH. Your breakthrough is on the way. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.