Transcript of message from TV Broadcast 654 -- taken from Closed Captioning Text

-- Brother Chip King: Praise the Lord...Luke chapter four to a familiar scripture. I just thought of something here as I was reading it. I thank the Lord for His presence here tonight. He's here. Praise God! You know this is the account of when Jesus returned to Nazareth and He stood up in the temple and He was handed a book. And He didn't just go to any place. He went to the place where it was written in verse 18 when He said this, "The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord." Praise God for that.

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Let me tell you what I saw in this scripture. You know it's been said many times. It's been said many times leading up to this meeting. It's been said here tonight right from this pulpit that Jesus Christ is here to meet our needs. Jesus Christ is here to heal, to save, to deliver. He's here. But you know I believe there are a lot of us, there are a lot of us that are interested in the healing but not the healer...

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...that are interested in the deliverance but not the deliverer. Praise God! And did you know here He was standing up in the temple reading this, talking about the Spirit of the Lord being upon Him and those who were there weren't able to accept it. The scripture says a little later on in verse 29 they rose up and they thrust Him out of the temple. They wanted to kill Him. They wanted to kill Him for saying what He said. How dare you say this! Did you know that you can't have healing without Jesus Christ? Did you know that you can't have deliverance without accepting Jesus Christ? We need Him.

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We all want to feel better. We all want healing. We all want deliverances from whatever problem we might have. We all want saving that we might be in Heaven one day. But do we really want the one who is able to give it to us, the one who has it, who offers it to us? That may be your problem. You've not accepted the healer. Something stood in your way whatever it was. You didn't like the messenger however it came. You saw human flesh and there's flesh here. They didn't see, couldn't see past the flesh of Jesus Christ. The Son of God stood there and they didn't recognize it. Would you have recognized Him? It's a good question to ask. He's here tonight. He's here tonight but you must, I must, we must accept the Savior.

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We must accept the Savior. John chapter 6...you know this scripture as well as I do. But I tell you what, there is a truth in this. We cry out to the Lord. We say, Lord, help me in this situation I'm in. God, help me and then help comes and we can't receive it because we've not received those that it comes through. Something offends us. Something gets in the way and we wonder why we continue on as we are.

This is the account of Jesus Christ later in chapter 6 here where He's talking to the Jews that were here and He's talking to them about eating his...I'm just gonna paraphrase here. He talked about eating His flesh and drinking His blood. He says in verse 53, I'll say this... "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him." Isn't that what you want? That's what I want.

"As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me." There's the secret right there. "This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever." So He was right there giving them the secret, sharing with them what they really needed. And in verse 60 He said, "Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it?" They didn't get it. There He was--Jesus Christ the Son of God giving them the very truth that would save their souls and they didn't get it.

"When Jesus knew himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." Here He was offering Himself to them saying if you drink my blood, if you eat my flesh, if you accept me as I am standing here right before you there is deliverance for you, there's healing for you. Praise God!

"From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him." Just like those ones over there in Luke chapter 4, they didn't get it. They didn't see. They couldn't get past the humanity that was talking to them. My God, give us the eyes to see, ears that can hear.

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I want to be like Peter here. He says in verse 67, "Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God." Praise the Lord! Do you believe that?

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Let's accept Him the way He comes to us. Let's accept Jesus Christ as He comes to us. We need Him. Then the healing will occur. We need Him and the delivering will occur. Let's not seek after the sort of the end result of it. Let's seek after the one who's able to give it to us and accept Him as He is. He is Lord and Savior. Hallelujah!

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-- Brother Tony Talbert: Praise God! I had a scripture come to me as Chip was talking there and you know it's like he said there. Everybody wants a healing but they don't want to pay the price to get the healer. And everybody wants a blessing but they don't want to pay the price. There is a price to pay and that price is your life.

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You know we're not here... I hope that you're not here to want to hear a bunch of blessings. This is not a place where you're gonna get a lot of blessings preachers and where we wave a magic wand and you jump from one side to the other. This is where you're gonna hear truth, beloved.

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It's gonna be truth that's gonna cross you. It's gonna be truth that separates you down the path. It's gonna bring you to a crossroad and you're gonna choose one way or the other. And if you want your life then you won't choose Christ. I can tell you that right now. If there's any other way you have to go you'll go the other way.

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What you have to do is you have to come to the end of yourself. What has to happen is the Lord bring you to the end of yourself 'cause you're not gonna come to the end of yourself. If you got a way out, you're gonna take that road every time. But if God's dealing with us and bringing truth to us we need to listen to it.

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There is a time accepted that God has for His people. He don't preach to everybody all the time. There's a time accepted. I believe this is a special occasion we have here tonight.

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And we need to hear what He's saying to us. You know we need to hear with an open heart. You know you need to lay down all the little thoughts you got that would take you here or there. God is speaking to us, beloved.

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He's giving you opportunity. He's giving me opportunity here to speak and to actually bow the knee is what it is. We need to bow the knee, beloved. We don't know how. We're like Solomon saying we don't know how to go out or how to come in. I don't know if you think that you can or not but you can't. You can not go out. You have no understanding about how to direct your footsteps. We need the Lord, beloved.

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This scripture came to me over in Matthew 10, real familiar. You're gonna hear... I believe we're in a road. We're in a separation point here. I believe God has been dealing with us. He's been bringing us Word, giving us opportunity. But I believe--I honestly believe, I could be wrong. I don't want to by dogmatic but I believe this is the crossing road for many people that are sitting here tonight. There's a crossroad. You're gonna decide to either get in or to get out. I believe there's gonna be a point in this meeting here when we leave there will be no more sitting in the middle of the road. You're gonna go on with God or you're gonna go with your own way. You know I tell you we're blessed, beloved.

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God, we're blessed that God would even give us an opportunity. There's many people that are going through religion every day and they don't even have an opportunity. It says in verse 34, "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth..." He didn't come to rub your feathers the right way. "...I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household." The ones that will try to hinder you from bowing the knee are gonna be the ones that's closest to you. You gotta forsake all beloved. I don't care if the whole world goes to hell we need to accept Christ as our hope.

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We're talking about eternal life. We ain't talking about...you know Moses he was in the position to where he had everything his heart could desire but he chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God. Why? It was eternal life that way than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.

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"He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me." And listen to this. "And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me." You have to lose your life beloved. "He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it."

You know this is not an easy thing. I know we may want something palatable for you, something that you could hear but this is the truth beloved tonight. We need to realize it's worth more to bow the knee to Jesus Christ. You know this world... I tell you this world is something. It makes you feel like that you know the best way but you don't.

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Let's take heed to what we hear tonight. God's speaking to us face to face.

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-- Brother Ron Peters: Praise the Lord! I appreciate this tonight. You know before this meeting the prayer on my heart was, God, meet with us and speak to men, women, boys and girls--speak to us. There's no other reason to be here tonight. You know, if we're not here desiring to hear from God... you know and I don't know why everybody's here. I want to be positive and say everybody's here because they want to receive something from the Lord, they want to hear. But you may not be. If you're a child you may be here 'cause your parents made you be here. Or maybe you feel obligated because a friend invited you or whatever, but you're here and God is here and God is speaking. And where you've got that combination God can do something.

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God can do something. But first He's got to do a work in your heart. He's gotta get you to a place where you want it like someone has said here tonight. You've gotta want it. And of course I was just thinking about some of the things that have been said tonight. You know Kenny got up first and said how important it is to have God's ways, you know to walk in God's ways not our ways. And then Chip got up and said what he did and then, I'm not sure who got up after Chip but, Tony, and he was talking about us hearing God's Word and not seeking our own way but seeking His way. And God is...well I guess what I'm trying to say is this--you know there's a scripture in Jeremiah chapter 10 I believe that says, "...the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man to direct his steps."

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There's another scripture. I believe it's in Psalms where it says, "There is a way that seemeth right unto man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." You know and I was thinking of, just recently I've been thinking about the days that we're living in. I mean if you've been watching the news or you've been seeing some of the things that have been happening, my God, how close we are. I don't know how close we are, but I know we're closer than we were in Paul's day.

And I thought of this scripture over in Genesis chapter 6. Because in thinking about the coming of the Lord, there are some issues that had to take place. You know Paul over in 2nd Thessalonians said, he wrote unto them, "That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit," as to the coming of the Lord. And I was talking to Brian about this a little bit tonight. You know you can imagine after Christ departed and the church was formed and some of the things that were happening in the church, why the people might have thought the Lord's coming was soon right then because there was persecution. They were being put to death. You know all these things that Jesus prophesied were taking place in their day.

And you think about it down through every generation, probably every generation could say the same thing, because the farther we get away from Christ and the original church, the farther the get away the worse condition man gets in. Man has grown worse and worse and worse and Jesus speaks of the very last day. He says it's gonna be a time as never been on the face of this earth, and my God if we aren't getting there in his hour. And it all has to do with this one thing that we've been talking about here tonight.

And if you read over here in Genesis chapter 6 and I'm just gonna pick it up in the first verse. It says, "And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose." Now I want us to look at that for just a minute. I mean sure, he's talking about marriage here and I think marriage is very important. And I think that you girls, you boys, you find a girl and you think that's the one. You gotta have her or you've gotta have him. I'm gonna tell you, what you need to do is be like the servant of Abraham that went out to find a wife for his son Isaac. That's what you need to be like. You need to be saying God, what's your will for my husband, for my wife.

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You don't need to be choosing and picking and choosing who you think is right. See, but that's the condition of man. And I'm gonna get to that in a minute, but we need to say God, help us. Help us. See that's a heart that's wanting to do God's will above their will. See, because if you read that scripture over in 2nd Thessalonians--and I'm gonna turn over for just a second--when Paul is talking about the end and what some of the things that had to happen before the Lord came. One of the main things that he pointed out and this is in 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2, in verse 2.

I'll just pick it up there. It says, "That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand." I don't think we need to worry about that. I know the Lord's coming is gonna be when it's coming. I mean He's gonna come when it's time. The thing I want to be concerned about is God, am I walking with you.

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Am I walking with my brother, the bread that Chip talked about, partaking of His bread and His blood? You know who that is? That's your brother and your sister. That's the Body of Christ and if you reject the Body of Christ you just reject Him. You've just rejected Him. I don't care if you think that this is just some jerk that's coming over to tell me something that ain't true. I'm gonna tell you, you've just rejected Christ. If Christ resides in your brother and that brother comes to you out of a heart and a concern for you and you reject that you've rejected Christ.

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And you're not gonna be blessed--you're not gonna be blessed until you say blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

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But anyway we don't need to worry...you know I don't think we need to worry about it. Sure I think it's gonna be soon. I don't know if it's gonna be in my generation or not. It doesn't make any difference. I want to walk with the Lord.

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But he said, "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;" Now who is this man of sin? Well Paul's gonna explain who is right here in the next verse. "Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God shewing himself that he is God." Let me tell you something--when you make up your mind that you're gonna do something and you don't think about God, you don't care what God has to say, you're not gonna listen to anybody but your own mind, you are sitting on the temple. You are sitting on the throne of your life. You are calling the shots.

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I don't care what you say. That's exactly what you're doing. That's exactly what you're doing and you know who that is? Paul just said. He's a man of sin. And I'm gonna tell you, if you've been watching the news you saw this basketball thing that happened. I'm gonna tell you there's no restraint anymore.

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God has pulled back His restraint. You know men used to have a conscience. Men used to...you know things or thoughts might come into their mind at some point maybe not too many years past people used to go to church. Sure there may not have been any Christ there but there was some Word. There was some truth and that little bit of truth served as a restraint. Well let me tell you, that ain't happening anymore 'cause people don't care about God. They're not looking for God. And now when that thought comes into their mind there's nothing there to help resist it. They just give into it. The thought comes they react, and that's what's happening in this hour beloved. But I'm gonna tell you something it's not just the world that it's happening to. I see it affecting the church.

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And that's what we need to be concerned about and that's what we are concerned about. And it's not to browbeat people or hurt you or beat you up. Christ doesn't bring His truth to hurt you. Jesus said in John chapter 8 I believe, verse 32, he said, "If ye continue in my word, ye shall know the truth..." and what will the truth do? Is the truth gonna kill you? It's gonna set you free.

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It's gonna kill you.

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You're gonna die but it's not gonna be a physical death. And I'm gonna tell you something once you die you're gonna enter into such a wonderful, blessed life.

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The life of Christ is gonna come out of you. That's all that can come out of you because out of death comes life. But I wanted to bring that out tonight because I think the Lord's speaking to somebody--not just me. I believe He's speaking to me. I got needs. You know I got problems. I keep ascending to the throne of my life and wanting to do my own thing but thank God He's bigger than me and He can knock me off that throne.

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And I thank Him for it. I praise Him for it. I mean that's a good thing. It's not good for my flesh but it's good. And we need to rejoice and we need to thank God for it.

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But I'm gonna tell you, God is speaking tonight. God wants to get a hold of our hearts and our minds tonight. He wants to stir us up. He wants us, like the articles Phil's been writing, to examine ourselves, not examine yourself so that you keep going down farther and farther and farther. Oh God. Oh woe is me but examine yourself and if you see that need there that you'll cry out to God and not just cry out to Him, but expect Him to answer you and come and meet your needs because He will. "He's a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." He is a rewarder.

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And He's here to reward tonight.

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