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Transcript of message from TV Broadcast 434 -- taken from Closed Captioning Text -- Brother Dwight Rhodes: That song really touched my heart. I was just thinking how worthy He is to be praised and how much He desires our praise. I was thinking about the young people and my daughter back there. The Lord has just been dealing with her recently. I know it's hard to acknowledge the Lord sometimes when maybe you're intimidated by him--by the enemy. But He's worthy to be praised. I don't care...you know if we look at ourselves, I'm not worthy to raise my hands. I'm not. I mean you know the enemy can point all kinds of things at us--tell us what we have done, haven't done, should've done--but he's a liar. I want to encourage my daughter and myself and all of us. You know all the young folks, and the old folks, all of us that He is worthy to be praised this morning and He desires that. And I want to be able to praise Him from here. Not just from here because that doesn't mean anything but from our hearts. I believe He desires it and He wants it and I'm just so thankful. He's working in our hearts, my heart, the others. Lord, you know things that all of us are going through. You know He's worthy. And that is what He wants. -- Brother Jimmy Robbins: In Isaiah chapter 6. I might ask us this question this morning, how do we see the Lord? Or do we see the Lord? God help us to see Him, because when you see Him you can't help but praise Him. My God, He's so worthy, worthy, worthy. "In the year that King Uzziah died I saw also" -- that's Isaiah 6:1 -- "saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up." That's where he is at this morning. He is "high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings: with twain he covered his face." You know when you are in a presence of a Holy God, you know it pays to reverence Him and honor Him and just love Him with all your heart. "And with twain he covered his feet." We are on holy ground this morning, beloved. "And with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another." That's what we were doing this morning. "And said, holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke." That's the presence of the Lord. I believe this house is filled with smoke right now. I believe it. "Then said I, woe is me!" This is what we...when in the presence of God, it diminishes us. It diminishes us of who we are and what we are and exalts Him--who He is and what He is. That's our problem. We're looking at self. Beloved, in this flesh "dwelleth no good thing." I don't want to look at Jimmy Robbins and I don't want to look at Dwight. I want to see Christ in my brother. I want to see Christ in my sister because He's the only One that's making a difference to any of us. It's in the Lord Jesus Christ. And when we see Him, beloved, we can't help but praise Him. He's worthy of praise. He's worthy of glory, worthy of honor. Hallelujah! ( congregational praise ). "Then said I, woe is me!" That is true. Woe is us but until something good happens. "For I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the king, the Lord of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: and he laid it upon my mouth, and said, lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged." If you can believe it, your sin is taken away. Your iniquity is purged. You're white, You're clean. You're holy before Jesus Christ today. We are holy before the Lord because He's touched us. "Also I heard his voice." Have you heard the Lord's voice? I've heard His voice this morning. Through song I heard the voice. Isn't that wonderful? John the Baptist was a voice in the wilderness. God came. The voice of the Lord came in the cool of the garden to talk. The voice is here. God's here. "And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, whom shall I send?" Oh God, not me. I'm a sorry rascal. Don't send me. That's what we all say. "And who will go for us? Then said I, here am I; send me." Beloved, if you can believe it, every one of you this morning, from the least to the greatest--if there is such a thing, and there really isn't--you are as righteous as Jesus Christ. You have the blood of Christ that's been applied to your life. When God sees you, He doesn't see you as you see yourself. He sees you through the blood of Jesus Christ. We are washed. We are clean today. Let's worship him. Lord, we worship you. We lift you up, Lord. We praise your holy name. Worthy of praise. Worthy of praise. Hebrews chapter 10. Hebrews chapter 10 verse 12. "But this man"-- What man? Jesus Christ. "After he had offered"-- how many sacrifices? -- Congregation: One -- Brother Jimmy Robbins: "One sacrifice for sins." For how long? -- Congregation: Forever. -- Brother Jimmy Robbins: "Forever." You mean that I'm ok today--something happened yesterday, something that's was not quite right. That's why he gave you a conscience, beloved. That doesn't make you unrighteous. It doesn't make you unholy. When your boy or girl does something ugly, are they any less than your son? Are they any less than your daughter? You love your son. You love your daughter. We don't even have any way to measure. The love of God is so great. The love of God is so great. That conscience is to say, that wasn't very nice. And we can say Lord, I'm sorry. Or sorry, Brother Dean, or whoever and it's just taken out of the way. We are free again. We're free this morning to worship our God and He is "forever, sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering"--again he says one offering--"he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified." That's me and that's you. "Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us." That's the Spirit of Christ. He's here today. The Holy Ghost is here in us and "is also a witness to us for after that he had said before, this is the covenant." Brother Andrew mentioned the covenant. This is it right here. "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them." Now listen to this. "And their sins and iniquities"-- I'll remind them of everyday because they need to. No. No. I want to say this that when you come to prayer and when you come to church, you come to praise the Lord. The devil has got a sign. He holds up that sign to Dean. He says, Dean, do you remember that thing you did yonder, the other day? Or Jeanie you did this or that. He puts between you and God something to remind you. That's not God that does that. That's the devil. ( congregational amens ). Why does the word of God say, "Resist the devil and he'll flee from you"? Then he says, "Draw nigh to God and he'll draw ..." Why does he put it in that order? Because the devil is between you and God. Cast him down, beloved. He is a liar and the father of it. "Their sins and iniquities I will remember no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. Having"--listen--"having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest." By your good works? "By the blood of Jesus." We have that right to enter in boldly by the blood, "by a new and living way which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; and having an high priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water." Beloved we're holy. We're clean today. We had a prayer meeting last night and we were all kind of--as Brother Rhodes would say, we were bushed. We were tired and aching. But several made the effort to come anyway. We had a wonderful worship service. We prayed and praised the Lord. Then we went into the side room, the men, and the ladies stayed there. And the Lord anointed the prayers and there was an emphasis in that prayer meeting to just worship the Lord. Just lift Him up and love Him. And it's not by what you've done but it's by the blood that He shed. When you see the Lord, when you see Him high and lifted up, you can't help but praise Him. Lord--the Lord is worthy, worthy of praise. I'm not worthy to be here but thank God I belong because He washed me. He took away my sin. I don't have to worry about it anymore. I have rest. I have peace. I have hope and I'm not ashamed of the gospel for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth. I like this gospel. ( congregational amens ). I thank the Lord this morning. We can't go under for going over. Beloved, we're going to make it. I want to tell you, a lot of your problem and my problem is that we're always looking on the periphery--this problem, that problem. We are always looking introspectively. That's the worst thing you could do is look at yourself. There's no good thing in yourself. But look up. Look and live. Get your eye single on the Lord and your whole body will be full of light. Amen. -- Brother Dean Smith: Praise the Lord. I appreciate that, Brother Jimmy, appreciate it, Dwight. I had a scripture come to me when we was singing. First of all I would like to share and maybe get my thoughts together, try to get the butterflies out of my stomach here. The fact of the matter is, if we could mess it up we would. I'm so thankful. The Lord really anointed the singing Alan. He really did. One of the songs we sung was about raising our holy hands. And the service has probably been for me. The devil, you know... the first thing that come to my mind, how could our hands be holy? They are holy because of what Christ did for us. He sees no iniquity, none in Jacob--none. Our sins are wiped from His remembrance. No matter what we've done. It doesn't matter. What matters is what He's done at the cross. Something in the youth chorus choir song that really spoke to me was, "I'll serve no foreign Gods or any other treasure." And I thought about that song and it went along with what you was saying. I don't have a foreign God that's a brass or idol sitting on a pole. I don't. But what I have is this flesh. I want to live for this flesh. And that, sometimes that is, whether we know it or not, that is our God. That's our foreign God. We put our flesh before Christ. We put our flesh before our brother or sister. And the scripture came to me. It's in Psalms. Find it here. Psalms 51, verse 10. I'll read a couple and I'll probably skip over to what really spoke to me the most. It says, "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from they presence; and take not thy Holy Spirit from me." And then verse 17. This is what Dwight got up and spoke when this scripture came to me. "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise." You know that's what He wants. He wants our heart to be turned to Him. He wants our flesh and things of this world wiped away. He wants straight, nothing in between--that's exactly right-- with Him. That's what come to me. I appreciate this service. -- Brother Jim Easterly: You know we could list a long list of all our shortcomings, failures, our wretchedness. And then you could list all of our efforts that religion and all of our best efforts to try to say and do the right thing. And in spite of all of that, God has honored us once again this morning with His presence. Once again, in spite of our best efforts He loves us and He has anointed us. He has sent one more time the anointing into this place. You know this just came to me while I was sitting there and while--actually it was while Jimmy Robbins was speaking under the anointing there. Do you know why it is so critical that we have the anointing of God, the anointing of Christ? Why we have to have Christ? There is every other kind of a spirit, and beyond that there are just simply men's minds trying to teach us, give us patterns to live a religious life today. Now what's the difference? That's right. It will not work. It can't work. And I'll tell you why. You know the scripture there in Hebrews 10 that Jimmy read, one of the verses in there--two of the verses--it says, in sacrifice and offering, he says, you didn't have pleasure. But he says, "Lo, I come (lo it's written in the volume of the book of me,) I come to do thy will, O God." Who in the history of the universe has ever done God's will? His son, Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. In John chapter 8 and I think it's verse 36, he says, "If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." Indeed. Amen. No other source can make you free--no other source. Jesus did God's will. By the anointing He can come and set you free. And He's the only one that can set you free. And by their fruit ye shall know them. What is that fruit going to be? That's going to be that kind of praise that Dwight talked about. That's the kind of fruit, Lauren, you'll have in your life because the Son set you free. You didn't get that from some person with a vast amount of technical knowledge about this scripture. You didn't get it like the Jews had it when Jesus spoke to them, and he said that if you continue in my word it'll make you free indeed. And they didn't know what he was talking about. They went back and they technically showed how they were descended from Abraham and they had never wavered in the faith. And they had everything Abraham had said verbally written down somewhere and had tried to honor that, but they didn't recognize the Son of the living God. He said Abraham rejoiced to see my day. That's the truth. That's the difference. That's the anointing. God has come by the anointing again today and in his presence we can live. We can have life. We can rejoice. We can be born again. We can get everything that we need because it is Jesus Christ. Amen. -- Sister Christine Beardsley: Pardon me. I just couldn't sit there any longer this morning. The Lord has --He's just made himself real to me this morning. It's amazing how you have certain thoughts and you come to church and it's like, wow! The Lord speaks to other people too. He says the same thing. And my heart is just full this morning. The only reason I'm just on this earth is to praise him. That's our only thing we need to do in our life is to praise God-- to lift Him up. You know we think about our job. We think about our school. You know, what is my life supposed to be, Lord? It's to praise Him. And that's our only thing we need to do. And I just encourage you that if the Lord has redeemed you. It was my day to say so, and I'm thankful. -- Brother Jimmy Johnson: We sang that song this morning, "I will serve no foreign God," and course that's one of the very first commandments that was given there in Exodus. And not very far behind that, right after giving him those first commandments, He starts telling them about how to teach the servants or how they should treat a servant. And of course we know the story about how that if you had a Hebrew servant and he came in and you bought him, then he had to work for you for 6 years and then you could let him go out, or you had to let him go out unless he fell in love with you and he wanted to stay. And my prayer has been, you know Lord I'm in love with you and I want to be your servant. And I don't want just you to know that I'm your servant but I want everybody else to know that I'm your servant too. And of course with that servant they would take him to the door post and put his ear up against the door post and would drill a hole through there with an awl. And that way it would be evident to not...he wouldn't be the only one that knew it and his master wouldn't be the only one who knew it, but anybody else that saw him would know it too. My desire was, you know, because I felt like that you know that I'm one of the Lords for a long time but you know I guess as you look at yourself--and the devil, he'll make you do that, Lauren. It don't just happen to young people, honey. He'll make you look at yourself and sometimes you don't see a whole lot of evidence there. I wanted more of that and I kind of always wondered, well how could I? Somehow, if I could drill a hole in my ear and I felt like that was what God wanted me to do I'd be the first one to do it. I mean I'd cut my arm off I feel like. God means that much to me. But you know I've always known that it was just a type. But it was a type of something else. And it may be more than this but I feel like the Lord showed me as I was sitting there this morning that part of that-- of having that ear, that hole in your ear--is being issuing forth his praises. That's something that you can't do and it not be from your heart. That's it. And I mean in all circumstances and all situations as we go through life, not just here on Sunday mornings but on a regular basis. That can be a way that the world can look at us and can see that there's something different about us. I thought about this scripture in--actually Andrew mentioned this scripture-- 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 and 17. And if you'd turn over there because I want to try to point something out I felt like the Lord showed me regarding this. You know I appreciate the Lord being here this morning. I appreciate the anointing. One of the things that scripture says about where Christ said after my departure I'll send you the Holy Spirit. And it says He won't teach you things of Himself. You know there's a lot of people now that is magnifying a feeling or speaking in tongues or some manifestation of the Holy Spirit. But that's not what He is said He'd do. He said He would show you things of me, talking about Christ. I tell you right now, brethren, that's our only hope of any righteous standing before God period is in Christ Jesus. You know the word says, beware. Beware of those who would come to you and try to teach you something else. That's in Colossians; let me read it right quick. "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit after the traditions of men, rudiments of this world and not after Christ, for in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily and ye are complete in him." You know in a Christian--in a child of God--God gives you a measure of his faith. You know Paul said the life that I now live I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. You take a scripture like this. It don't say and ye feel complete in him. That's not what it says. It says, "And ye are complete in him which is the head of every principality and power." This other scripture that I was going to read that says, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature." It don't say he feels like a new creature. The next part says, "old things are passed away." It don't say you can't remember them anymore. Let me tell you something. It's because Christ don't remember them anymore. He says it and it's done. It's finished. It's just in our minds that the battles keep on raging. 
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