Speaker 1: Wave your Bibles around, make Jesus glad and the devil mad.
Speaker 1: Say this together.
Speaker 1: Say, heavenly Father, thank God for Sunday night.
Speaker 1: I'm here because I'm hungry and I'm thirsty and, lord, I shall be filled.
Speaker 1: I thank you for revelation that builds my faith, changes my life.
Speaker 1: I'm making adjustments to my receiver so that I can more fully understand what I'm to do in these days, and I thank you for choosing this time for me to live in Jesus name, amen, amen.
Speaker 1: Let's look at Matthew, chapter 11, chapter 11.
Speaker 1: Now, chapter 11 is talking about John in prison, and he was discouraged and even began to.
Speaker 1: You know, anybody can get discouraged.
Speaker 1: He was discouraged.
Speaker 1: He even began to be tempted to doubt Jesus as the Messiah.
Speaker 1: And no, jesus bragged on him.
Speaker 1: Jesus didn't rebuke.
Speaker 1: No, jesus bragged on him.
Speaker 1: Jesus didn't rebuke him, jesus bragged on him.
Speaker 1: And let's pick it up here in verse 11.
Speaker 1: Verily, I say unto you, among them that are born of women, there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist.
Speaker 1: Now, that's what Jesus said about John the Baptist.
Speaker 1: Among them that are born of women, that takes in a lot of territory.
Speaker 1: I can think of a whole lot of people, up to that point, that had been born of women and he was the greatest of all.
Speaker 1: I mean greater than Abraham, greater than Moses, greater than I mean you know he's.
Speaker 1: You start listing all these giants of the faith, and Jesus' estimationations on the Baptist exceeded them.
Speaker 1: That alone to tell you that God does rank people, god does look at people and he measures people.
Speaker 1: This whole idea that we're all you know I was talking about this morning diversity, equity and inclusion I mean it's just a lie.
Speaker 1: It's a Marxist lie.
Speaker 1: There's no such thing.
Speaker 1: Everybody's different.
Speaker 1: Some people are smart and some people are not so smart.
Speaker 1: It's just that's the way it is.
Speaker 1: And some people are this way, some people are that way.
Speaker 1: God, and here's Jesus.
Speaker 1: I mean it's amazing.
Speaker 1: You start reading that and golly, I don't know if I'd have ranked him that high man.
Speaker 1: He's good, but wow, nevertheless, nevertheless, notwithstanding I should say Notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Speaker 1: So now you see the new birth and what a status we have.
Speaker 1: That is what made all the difference.
Speaker 1: The new birth, it's not what we are in our flesh, it's not what we are in our mind, it's not any of that.
Speaker 1: It's what Jesus did and we're in him.
Speaker 1: That's what that means and from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
Speaker 1: And I want to read it out of the Amplified, the last part of that verse From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has endured violent assault, and violent men seize it by force as a precious prize.
Speaker 1: A share of the heavenly kingdom is sought for with most ardent zeal and intense exertion.
Speaker 1: A share in the heavenly kingdom is sought for with most ardent zeal and intense exertion.
Speaker 1: And so I have a message tonight entitled how Desperate Are you?
Speaker 1: How desperate, see, I add all those words up and I come up with desperate.
Speaker 1: Now, desperate means a lot of things to a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Some people mean like desperate is, you know, worried and freaked out.
Speaker 1: That's not the part of desperate I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about somebody that's unwilling to do without what God called them to do.
Speaker 1: They're unwilling to fall short in their call, in their share of the heavenly kingdom.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Because Jesus' blood paid for your share, whatever that is, whatever that inheritance is, he paid for it, and you don't want to leave anything on the table that he paid for.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be terrible.
Speaker 1: I mean you go to a restaurant and somebody said, okay, I'm going to cover their bill, whatever it is, just keep bringing the food.
Speaker 1: Bring the dessert tray, bring everything out.
Speaker 1: And you decide, well, I'm just going to have some tater tots and ketchup and I'm going to leave now.
Speaker 1: And you leave everything else on the table.
Speaker 1: You didn't eat it.
Speaker 1: You didn't eat the red snapper punch, a train with the lump crab, the ginger carrots and the cream brulee.
Speaker 1: I'm getting hungry.
Speaker 1: Let's break for dinner.
Speaker 1: Glad, it says I always preach about food.
Speaker 1: I see, when I read this, I see a plumb line.
Speaker 1: You know what a plumb line is, being a home builder for 25 years.
Speaker 1: Plumb lines, you know kind of important.
Speaker 1: Plumb line is just a string with a weight on the bottom.
Speaker 1: You know you just hold it up like that, and I mean you hold it up next to a brick wall and you can make sure that that brick wall is vertical by that brick wall.
Speaker 1: If that brick wall is leaning like this, you know you put the plumb line up there and you see that brick wall is kind of leaning one direction or another.
Speaker 1: That thing is not strong, it can fall.
Speaker 1: You know houses out here.
Speaker 1: They're not brick houses, they're brick veneer.
Speaker 1: I saw a house one time where the entire fireplace fell out in the backyard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the concrete slab under the fireplace was poorly done, it wasn't tied into the slab properly, and so the weight of all those bricks going up two and a half floor I mean, you know a chimney on a two-story house, it's way up there.
Speaker 1: I mean that thing, that chimney goes way up that's a lot of weight.
Speaker 1: And if that slab is not tied in properly to the slab and everything, well then, finally, and just over a period of time, you know all this soil is moving and everything and it cracked, even with the slab, and that pad that the fireplace was sitting on started sinking on the outside edge and the whole thing fell out in the backyard.
Speaker 1: I'm really glad I wasn't standing there when it fell.
Speaker 1: Plum line, you need a plum line.
Speaker 1: A plum line makes sure that something is plumbed up or vertical.
Speaker 1: It will show and expose things that aren't.
Speaker 1: A plumb line will show something that's inferior, something that's not done correctly.
Speaker 1: Same with a square, same with a level.
Speaker 1: So builders got to have all three got to have you got to have square, you got to have level and you got to have plumb, you've got to have square, you've got to have level and you've got to have plumb.
Speaker 1: If you don't have that, you don't have strength.
Speaker 1: If you don't have that, you don't have longevity.
Speaker 1: All of my houses are still standing.
Speaker 1: Every so often I'll go drive by them and look at them.
Speaker 1: Every house I ever build.
Speaker 1: I know exactly where it is and I go by and look at it.
Speaker 1: That's kind of cool to know.
Speaker 1: I mean you know, if you're an accountant you can't do that.
Speaker 1: You can't go back in the file and find the ledger that you worked on.
Speaker 1: It's gone along.
Speaker 1: But a home builder, I mean I can go back and look at every house I built and they're all still standing.
Speaker 1: They didn't fall down.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of glad.
Speaker 1: So I see a plumb line between hot and merely lukewarm.
Speaker 1: You know Jesus said in book of Revelation he said I would that you were hot or cold.
Speaker 1: But because you're lukewarm, laodicea in church because you're lukewarm, I will spew you, literally I will vomit you out of my mouth.
Speaker 1: That's what it means.
Speaker 1: Why you mean cold was better than lukewarm.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because cold just means they needed to get saved and weren't saved yet they hadn't been exposed to the gospel.
Speaker 1: Lukewarm had been exposed to the same thing as the hot person and chose to be lukewarm.
Speaker 1: They chose not to go all the way with God.
Speaker 1: They chose not to be filled with the Holy Ghost, they chose to just be less than that.
Speaker 1: And that's an anathema.
Speaker 1: See, when you see John the Baptist, that's a plumb line, you know.
Speaker 1: He got out there in that wilderness and he had that awful cry.
Speaker 1: That's a plumb line, you know.
Speaker 1: He got out there in that wilderness and he had that awful cry, repent, he cried, he lifted that voice.
Speaker 1: It pierced those Jewish hearts out there in the desert.
Speaker 1: They came out there to get baptized and in their culture, I mean, that meant they wanted a new life, they wanted to start over, they wanted a new experience with God.
Speaker 1: They were tired of the same old religion and they wanted some.
Speaker 1: They heard him speak and that's the first prophet they'd had in 400 years, since Malachi is the first prophet and man.
Speaker 1: They were hungry for what he had to say and he said you, generation of vipers who warned you to flee from the wrath to come.
Speaker 1: He wasn't an easy, you know, pat him on the head kind of person.
Speaker 1: He was a plumb line.
Speaker 1: He was radical, he was desperate.
Speaker 1: That's what Jesus spoke about.
Speaker 1: He was violent in his faith and he wouldn't put up with anybody lukewarm.
Speaker 1: He wouldn't put up with anybody half-hearted.
Speaker 1: He wouldn't put up with anybody trying to play some role.
Speaker 1: Are you with me?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 1: I see a plumb line between confrontation and resignation.
Speaker 1: The church has been just resigned to saying nothing, but that's changing.
Speaker 1: You know, god told me to wake up the church and this past March the 1st, a few weeks ago, was the 25th year since that happened.
Speaker 1: 25 years ago, god told me to wake up to church.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what?
Speaker 1: I have never quit, I have never stopped.
Speaker 1: We just keep on.
Speaker 1: I mean, we haven't made all the correct, maybe, moves.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I can't even judge it.
Speaker 1: I just know that we did something.
Speaker 1: We kept on trying to find out.
Speaker 1: What do we do?
Speaker 1: How do we get their attention?
Speaker 1: How do we tell them Jesus is coming soon, coming soon?
Speaker 1: How do we tell them that the church isn't ready?
Speaker 1: You know this has been going on a long time.
Speaker 1: You know that's exactly what.
Speaker 1: Oh, here's my good buddy that went to heaven, had a visitation, took God, took him to heaven.
Speaker 1: Uh, uh, from Louisiana, white-headed guy.
Speaker 1: Huh, I can't hear you, jesse Duplantis.
Speaker 1: So 1988, I heard a cassette tape where he was going to go preach and he had this urge to go back to his hotel room and he said I just went back to my hotel room and got on my knees and started praying.
Speaker 1: Instantly I was in heaven.
Speaker 1: And he has this whole description.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen that testimony?
Speaker 1: I mean, he preached it at Lakewood.
Speaker 1: I'm the one that asked Brother Osteen to get him in there and he shows the one that he was at at Lakewood sharing his testimony.
Speaker 1: That was probably the best one that they'd ever done.
Speaker 1: And so when you see it, it probably got that old marble pulpit.
Speaker 1: It's Lakewood, 1988.
Speaker 1: And the Lord said go back and tell my people to get ready, I'm coming soon.
Speaker 1: And they don't.
Speaker 1: He said oh Lord, they know that they don't know that.
Speaker 1: Go back and tell them to get ready, lord, they know that they don't know that Jesus got mad.
Speaker 1: His eyes flashed.
Speaker 1: They don't know that's 1988.
Speaker 1: 11 years before he told me.
Speaker 1: So you know, he's been trying to get our attention for quite some time, 25 more years now, and you know what I'm seeing evidence that the church is finally.
Speaker 1: That plumb line has been there, that violent assault, that unwillingness to do without what God said.
Speaker 1: Y'all get anything out of this.
Speaker 1: That unwillingness to do without what God said, y'all get anything out of this.
Speaker 1: I mean we're confronting, I mean we're going to confront, if that's what it takes.
Speaker 1: Well, you know people don't like that.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't care what they like, they're going to thank us later.
Speaker 1: We don't have to be disagreeable, but we have to be bold.
Speaker 1: We have to let people know hey, jesus is coming.
Speaker 1: Thought about a date.
Speaker 1: I don't have a date for you, but I know he's coming, praise God.
Speaker 1: And we're not ready Getting there, though we're getting there.
Speaker 1: So I see a, you know, a plumb line between hot and merely lukewarm, between confrontation and resignation.
Speaker 1: You know, resignation, that's kind of like lukewarm, isn't it?
Speaker 1: No, we've got to.
Speaker 1: We're through with yeah, we're through with that Between desperate and detached.
Speaker 1: Another word for detached would be obtuse.
Speaker 1: You ever heard the word obtuse?
Speaker 1: It's just.
Speaker 1: The word obtuse means you're just too.
Speaker 1: You know nothing bothers you, you're not bothered by anything, it's just.
Speaker 1: Oh well, yeah, I saw they had those demonstrations.
Speaker 1: No, they're evil.
Speaker 1: That's the devil.
Speaker 1: We speak against it.
Speaker 1: We're not going to allow that in America.
Speaker 1: We're not going to allow people to say death to America, death to Israel.
Speaker 1: We're not going to allow it.
Speaker 1: That's not freedom of speech, that is a riot.
Speaker 1: And they'll be answered with batons and tear gas.
Speaker 1: That's how they ought to be answered.
Speaker 1: They should not be allowed to camp out.
Speaker 1: And when you see their signs, they're all neatly done, they're printed by a printer.
Speaker 1: This is being paid for by billionaires that support Biden.
Speaker 1: Every bit, every bit of it.
Speaker 1: No, we're saying no to that, we're violent about it and we talk about violence.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about physical violence.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Holy ghost violence, not talking about spiritual violence.
Speaker 1: I mean physical violence.
Speaker 1: What good would that do?
Speaker 1: No, we've got the helper on the inside, amen.
Speaker 1: So I have some examples here, bible examples of desperate people, and I've got one in particular I want to spend more time on than the rest, and I'll just talk about them.
Speaker 1: The woman with the issue of blood.
Speaker 1: That's a violent woman right there, twelve years Going to doctors with a hemorrhaging In her body and was nothing better but rather grew worse.
Speaker 1: Heard of Jesus.
Speaker 1: See, somebody told her that Jesus heals and she got up from where she was.
Speaker 1: She came in the press behind, or she had said she kept on saying she had a systematic discourse.
Speaker 1: If I can just touch the hem of his garment, I shall be whole.
Speaker 1: Or she had said she kept on saying she had a systematic discourse.
Speaker 1: If I can just touch the hem of his garment, I shall be whole.
Speaker 1: I shall be whole, I shall be whole.
Speaker 1: Here's a woman that's probably anemic.
Speaker 1: Here's a woman that is so weak, bleeding for 12 years.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no blood transfusions.
Speaker 1: Back then, what is she running on?
Speaker 1: She has to be physically ill and weak, along with all the associated other things that go with anemia and with this hemorrhaging and everything else.
Speaker 1: So she overcame her physical weakness.
Speaker 1: She overcame the fact of her religious.
Speaker 1: She's not supposed to be outside, she's unclean, she's supposed to say unclean, unclean, and people are supposed to flee from it.
Speaker 1: She's not supposed to be walking around outside.
Speaker 1: It's against the Jewish law.
Speaker 1: So she's risking her place, plus the fact back then women did not travel by themselves.
Speaker 1: Risking her place Plus the fact back then women did not travel by themselves.
Speaker 1: It was not accepted in their society, in their culture, a woman had to be accompanied by a man, and she doesn't have one.
Speaker 1: So she's got two strikes against her and then, when she gets to where Jesus is weak, as she probably was he is being thr frowned.
Speaker 1: There's no way to get in there next to him.
Speaker 1: So what does she do?
Speaker 1: She gets down on the hands and knees and crawls through a mass of dirty feet, stinking dirty dirt.
Speaker 1: And of course they got animals, that there's manure and there's, that's what they've got.
Speaker 1: It's an agricultural.
Speaker 1: Listen.
Speaker 1: She didn't care, she's gonna get to Jesus.
Speaker 1: She's gonna tug on the hem of his garment.
Speaker 1: And when she did, he felt virtue or power go out of his body and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.
Speaker 1: And he looked around and says who touched me?
Speaker 1: And finally she said I'm the one.
Speaker 1: Oh, woman, great is thy faith, go thy way.
Speaker 1: Thy faith hath made thee whole Thy violent.
Speaker 1: That's violent faith right there.
Speaker 1: That is something that won't be denied.
Speaker 1: That is something you don't see very much of anymore.
Speaker 1: Is something that won't be denied.
Speaker 1: That is something you don't see very much of anymore.
Speaker 1: I had a couple that was coming here and a guy got Parkinson's and he started, you know, kind of going downhill and I ministered to him.
Speaker 1: I love on him, you know.
Speaker 1: I just tried to do everything I could, to you know, get him healed.
Speaker 1: And you know we have.
Speaker 1: We're Houston's healing center, we get a lot of healing done there.
Speaker 1: And then I noticed they just quit coming, you know, and ran into them in the store and said where are you?
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 1: Oh well, you know, just so lackadaisy, obtuse.
Speaker 1: He didn't care whether he had Parkinson's.
Speaker 1: He's shaking like this.
Speaker 1: He couldn't even hold a can of peas.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's doing at HEB With his wife.
Speaker 1: I guess he's shaking like this.
Speaker 1: He wouldn't even.
Speaker 1: They live right down the street.
Speaker 1: They live right down the street cutting green, and they're not going to come to Houston.
Speaker 1: They're not even going to come here, where the anointing is, where you can cut it with a knife.
Speaker 1: That, if you will just make the adjustment in your own self and be violent, have some violent faith.
Speaker 1: Are y'all with me now?
Speaker 1: How desperate are you to have what it is that you want?
Speaker 1: How desperate Are you?
Speaker 1: Violent about it?
Speaker 1: Are you lackadaisical, detached, too cool for school?
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: Some people are just too cool to be filled with the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: They're just too cool to get drunk and be seen drunk in the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: They just wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1: Oh no, that's not dignified.
Speaker 1: See, we've got a big barrel out front.
Speaker 1: You just throw your dignity in the barrel and come right on in the door.
Speaker 1: We check your.
Speaker 1: Wyatt Earp made them check their guns.
Speaker 1: We make you check your dignity at the door.
Speaker 1: So she had the plumb line between relationship and religion, just what she heard about.
Speaker 1: Jesus made her want what he had and she was not going to be denied.
Speaker 1: See, she got rid of the religion thing, she got rid of that and she went for the relationship and she got what she needed.
Speaker 1: Are y'all with me now?
Speaker 1: You know there's a poor widow in Mark, chapter 12, you know that she gave two mites and Jesus watched her in the treasury.
Speaker 1: All these other rich Pharisees widow in Mark, chapter 12, you know that she gave two mites and Jesus watched her in the treasury.
Speaker 1: All these other rich Pharisees, you know, real dramatically, they gave lots of money.
Speaker 1: They were very grandiose about it.
Speaker 1: Jesus had his eyes on the little poor widow that had nothing.
Speaker 1: She just gave two mites, just a little bit of nothing, and he said you know what she gave?
Speaker 1: More than all the rest of these people put together.
Speaker 1: You know he has a way of measuring things.
Speaker 1: See, he's measured John the Baptist.
Speaker 1: He's measuring this woman.
Speaker 1: She gave more than all the rich people Plum line.
Speaker 1: She dropped the plum line between giving and hoarding, giving and tipping.
Speaker 1: Some people just want to tip God.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll just give you a tip.
Speaker 1: She gave it all, everything she had, even her whole living.
Speaker 1: The Bible said that's one I could talk about.
Speaker 1: Woman with an alabaster box she gave a year.
Speaker 1: You know the ointment she poured on Jesus was worth a year's wages.
Speaker 1: She dropped a plumb line.
Speaker 1: Judas was all.
Speaker 1: What are you?
Speaker 1: That's a waste.
Speaker 1: What are we going to?
Speaker 1: We could have helped the poor.
Speaker 1: Well, the poor got with you always.
Speaker 1: Me, you don't always have.
Speaker 1: I'm fixed to leave here.
Speaker 1: You know what she did is a good thing.
Speaker 1: She had ordered my body for the burying.
Speaker 1: You know I appreciate her.
Speaker 1: You should drop that plumb line between religion and relationship.
Speaker 1: Glory to God, between worshiping in spirit and in truth and worshiping in vain.
Speaker 1: Worshiping in spirit and in truth is what Jesus is looking for.
Speaker 1: That's what the Father's looking for.
Speaker 1: He's looking for those who will worship him in spirit and in truth, but a lot of people just worship him in vain.
Speaker 1: Jesus said that.
Speaker 1: Way back in the 80s I heard RW Schambach said the biggest sin in the church that's back then and I think it's still true today.
Speaker 1: The biggest sin in the church that's back then and I think it's still true today.
Speaker 1: The biggest sin in the church to him was worship with no sacrifice.
Speaker 1: What do you mean, worship with no sacrifice?
Speaker 1: Well, you know, somebody just wants to sing the songs and then they just don't want to give everything they have to him.
Speaker 1: You know, we don't have to give everything we have, like money, but we do need to tithe and give and be generous.
Speaker 1: We want to lay our lives down before him.
Speaker 1: We want to do whatever we need to do to obey him.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: You know, the old timers.
Speaker 1: They wouldn't even pray without laying up an offering.
Speaker 1: The old timers, you know.
Speaker 1: You take some of these Pentecostal women, ladies, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Tell them how many people are in heaven because they prayed through.
Speaker 1: They'd go in their bedroom during the day, they'd go to their dresser drawer and they would take a little of their money and they would lay it up in one of their doilies Anybody ever remember what a doily is?
Speaker 1: It's a little piece of fancy handkerchief type thing, you know and they'd lay their offering and fold it in that doily and put it up, lay it up on the dresser drawer and get down on their knees and begin to pray, and sometimes the Holy Ghost would fall on them and they'd fall on their face and pray for hours and hours and hours and they would cry and they would give birth and travail.
Speaker 1: It's almost a lost art.
Speaker 1: Sometimes when we have prayer meetings, people get into travail.
Speaker 1: People go what what happened?
Speaker 1: They're all upset.
Speaker 1: No, they're not upset.
Speaker 1: People get into travail, people go what what happened?
Speaker 1: They're all upset.
Speaker 1: No, they're not upset, they're in travail, they're giving birth in the spirit realm.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things that are going on that they prayed about 30, 40 years ago.
Speaker 1: But they wouldn't dream of praying without that korban, without that offering laying there before the Father to honor him, worship without sacrifice.
Speaker 1: And we could talk about Zacchaeus.
Speaker 1: Let me get over to James, chapter 5 and get into this one, because I hadn't touched this in a while and I want to touch it tonight.
Speaker 1: Give you some background, kind of ties in with what I'm preaching Sunday mornings on receiving your kingdom supply.
Speaker 1: James, chapter five, verse one, that James is an end time book Talks about the precious fruit of the earth and James is the Lord's brother.
Speaker 1: In chapter 5, verse 1, go to now, you rich men.
Speaker 1: Another word, a prophetic.
Speaker 1: This is a prophetic scripture for the last days Come now, you rich men.
Speaker 1: It's talking about rich, ungodly men, not rich men in the church.
Speaker 1: Rich, ungodly men.
Speaker 1: Come ye now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Speaker 1: Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
Speaker 1: How many of you know that?
Speaker 1: He's not talking about clothing.
Speaker 1: He's talking about they don't have the righteousness, they're not saved.
Speaker 1: Are y'all getting this now?
Speaker 1: He's not talking about their clothing, so he's talking about the ungodly rich.
Speaker 1: He's talking about Bill Gates, george Soros.
Speaker 1: He's talking about these people that are funding this garbage that we're seeing.
Speaker 1: Hate to be so specific, but you need to understand who this is talking about.
Speaker 1: Specific, but you need to understand who this is talking about.
Speaker 1: Come now, reap and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Speaker 1: Your riches are corrupted, your garments are moth-eaten, your gold and silver is cankered and the rust of them shall be a witness against you and shall eat your flesh, as it were, fire.
Speaker 1: You have heaped treasure together for when?
Speaker 1: For when?
Speaker 1: The last day.
Speaker 1: So this is a prophetic utterance here in the Bible, in the book of James, and it's aimed right now.
Speaker 1: Utterance here in the Bible, in the book of James, and it's aimed right now.
Speaker 1: We're in the time when this prophetic thing is coming to pass.
Speaker 1: It's about to come to pass.
Speaker 1: I said it's about to come to pass.
Speaker 1: Behold, look at here now.
Speaker 1: The hire of the laborers, the hire of the laborers.
Speaker 1: Hire, the hire, the wages, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you, kept back by fraud, crieth, and the cries of them, which have reaped, are entered into the Lord of the armies of heaven, the Lord of the Sabbath, the Lord of the armies of heaven.
Speaker 1: They've entered into the ears of the Lord of the armies of heaven and remain.
Speaker 1: The cries remain in his ears.
Speaker 1: When you look that up in your concordance, I was reading this years ago, 2006.
Speaker 1: Just returned from Canada preaching across Newfoundland.
Speaker 1: All up in there Talk about the frozen chosen.
Speaker 1: They did not like to hear about tithing.
Speaker 1: We had some confrontation.
Speaker 1: I had a group of businessmen wanted to meet with me and the pastor had took me to lunch and said you know, I've got some businessmen want to meet with you before.
Speaker 1: I'm not meet with anybody, I'm not.
Speaker 1: You don't like what I'm preaching, pastor?
Speaker 1: You just let me know I'll be glad to get out of here.
Speaker 1: I don't like what I'm preaching, pastor, you just let me know I'll be glad to get out of here.
Speaker 1: I don't have to be here.
Speaker 1: I'm a pastor.
Speaker 1: I've got a church that I left to come here If you don't like me oh no, it's not me, it's them.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, you need to be the pastor and they need to be the sheep.
Speaker 1: They need to hear what I've got to say.
Speaker 1: They're the truth.
Speaker 1: He kind of.
Speaker 1: When you see Canadians, they're just see, they're just, they're resigned.
Speaker 1: There's no confrontation.
Speaker 1: The plumb line was dropped already and he just he's slobbering, he can't.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm going to lose my big dippers.
Speaker 1: We'll lose them.
Speaker 1: I don't care.
Speaker 1: They're not anything, they're a sharp stick.
Speaker 1: You're going to lean on them, they're going to go right through your hand.
Speaker 1: When you really depend on them, they won't be there, amen.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I'd just gotten back and I was reading this verse.
Speaker 1: I'm telling how many times I'd read it and I was reading.
Speaker 1: You know, behold the hire of the labors which have reaped down your fields, which is of you, kept back by fraud, cry it.
Speaker 1: And the Holy Ghost said you know, you Word of Faith.
Speaker 1: People don't know much about crying out.
Speaker 1: You know we know about confession, but we don't know anything about crying out.
Speaker 1: Okay, I said, well, it is kind of interesting there, lord.
Speaker 1: I said it says that the wages cried out.
Speaker 1: How is it that wages cry out?
Speaker 1: I mean I can understand the laborers crying out, but how does the wages cry out?
Speaker 1: He said it's like blood.
Speaker 1: Wages are an exchange of your life for money.
Speaker 1: It's like blood and when it's stolen it cries out.
Speaker 1: I'm in the wrong place.
Speaker 1: I belong over here with Pastor Griner and his wages got stolen.
Speaker 1: Man, I mean I turned red, I started thinking my God.
Speaker 1: And then it says and then you know you ought to have enough sense to agree with your wages.
Speaker 1: You go to faith.
Speaker 1: People don't cry out.
Speaker 1: So your wages are crying out.
Speaker 1: You're not crying out for you're not even agreeing with your wages.
Speaker 1: Why don't you cry out for your wage, don't you know?
Speaker 1: You've got some stuff, you know?
Speaker 1: And I started thinking about all the wages I had been defrauded of by these banks and by these houses I don't know how many houses I built for nothing.
Speaker 1: I mean, you get to a place where you can't sell the house and you have to keep cutting the price because the interest rates out there are 14%.
Speaker 1: One house I couldn't sell, so I moved into it and closed it with my own personal finances and got a 14, three, three quarter percent mortgage on it because I couldn't sell it to anybody else.
Speaker 1: And I got to thinking you know, I've got a lot of wages that are crying, I need to start.
Speaker 1: And then I and I thought well, cry, how do I cry in faith?
Speaker 1: I'm not a victim, lord.
Speaker 1: He said no, the cry of faith.
Speaker 1: Blind Bartimaeus sat by the highway side begging and he cried out Jesus, thou son of David, hesed, he said.
Speaker 1: He cried out.
Speaker 1: Jesus has said which means covenant?
Speaker 1: Cry?
Speaker 1: It means I make a demand on my covenant.
Speaker 1: And Jesus said what is it that you want me to do for?
Speaker 1: You See, what part of the covenant are you talking about?
Speaker 1: He might have just wanted a Big Mac and big fries and a Diet Coke.
Speaker 1: He's a beggar, he's begging.
Speaker 1: Maybe he just wants a meal.
Speaker 1: No, lord, that I might receive my sight.
Speaker 1: Glory to God.
Speaker 1: And Jesus could not not grant that, because why he cried in faith?
Speaker 1: That's the cry of faith.
Speaker 1: We don't cry in victimhood, we cry in faith.
Speaker 1: That's the cry of faith.
Speaker 1: We don't cry in victimhood, we cry in faith.
Speaker 1: And I started meditating on this whole subject and notice what it says that the wealth of this that's been held back.
Speaker 1: They've heaped treasure together for the last days, so for the last days.
Speaker 1: Now we should keep reading here.
Speaker 1: He's still talking to these rich people, he's rebuking them.
Speaker 1: He's saying you've heaped up treasure for the last days.
Speaker 1: Their wages are crying out.
Speaker 1: They are crying out and their cries have entered into the ears of the Lord of the armies of heaven.
Speaker 1: Well, who's that?
Speaker 1: Ears of the Lord of the armies of heaven?
Speaker 1: Well, who's that?
Speaker 1: Well, that's the army of angels.
Speaker 1: Angels are being commanded by the Lord of the angels, which is Jesus, the head of the church.
Speaker 1: When we cry out, they go into action.
Speaker 1: You have lived in pleasure on the earth and you've been wanted.
Speaker 1: You have nourished your hearts, as in the day of slaughter.
Speaker 1: See, do you remember about?
Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of fattening a calf?
Speaker 1: You know you'd raise a calf, you'd fatten that calf and slaughter that calf, so the meat would be tasty.
Speaker 1: You know you'd put you'd grain feed it for a while and it'd get big and you slaughter that calf.
Speaker 1: Now you've got some really good tasting beef.
Speaker 1: You know we don't do that in Houston.
Speaker 1: We don't have cows.
Speaker 1: But back where I lived, I mean we had ranchers that we knew and they'd grow.
Speaker 1: You know we had a freezer, a locker.
Speaker 1: Anybody ever have a freezer, a locker freezer?
Speaker 1: You know we had a freezer.
Speaker 1: It was a locker plant and we'd get a whole side of beef from a guy that we knew he would fatten a calf and kill.
Speaker 1: We'd have half a side, half a calf.
Speaker 1: All the meat would go in the locker.
Speaker 1: We didn't have room for it at home so we paid every month for the locker plant.
Speaker 1: John, go to the locker plant and get me five pounds of ground beef.
Speaker 1: Go get me some steak.
Speaker 1: Go get me some round steak.
Speaker 1: Go get me.
Speaker 1: You know mother would send me there and I'd go Instead of going shopping.
Speaker 1: I'd go in there and it's all wrapped up, frozen in a white butcher paper labeled on there.
Speaker 1: I'd bring it home Fatten the calf.
Speaker 1: That's what they've done.
Speaker 1: They've fattened themselves up for the day of slaughter.
Speaker 1: They have gotten rich.
Speaker 1: They've got trillions of dollars of cash and our angels are about to suck it right out of their control, some of you getting a little bit more interested in this message than you were earlier.
Speaker 1: You have condemned and killed the just, and he does not resist you.
Speaker 1: You have condemned and killed the just and he does not resist you.
Speaker 1: Verse 7, be patient, therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord.
Speaker 1: Behold the husbandman, the farmer waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth.
Speaker 1: See, that's what he calls the end time harvest Precious fruit of the earth and hath long patience for it until he receive the early and the latter rain.
Speaker 1: Be you also patient, establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Speaker 1: So you know, all these years ago, 2006 to now.
Speaker 1: So that's what?
Speaker 1: 18 years ago, I started meditating on these verses.
Speaker 1: I started thinking about all these verses.
Speaker 1: I started meditating on these verses.
Speaker 1: I started thinking about all these verses I started thinking about.
Speaker 1: Not only have I personally got wages that have been defrauded, but I have.
Speaker 1: My parents have wages that have been defrauded and my grandparents have wages that have been defrauded and, as a matter of fact, I have two grandfathers that died on the job because of unsafe labor practices and they got cheated by the big companies they worked for.
Speaker 1: My grandfather on my father's side died in an accident in the oil patch in Humble.
Speaker 1: He got hit in the head and died three months later at home.
Speaker 1: He was 60 years old when he died and left my grandmother a widow.
Speaker 1: She struggled her whole life.
Speaker 1: That impacted my inheritance.
Speaker 1: I didn't inherit anything from my grandmother.
Speaker 1: She lived in a little old shotgun house in Baytown the rest of her life and she rented part of it out.
Speaker 1: She had a room.
Speaker 1: I mean, can you imagine she had a room that she rented.
Speaker 1: She didn't have any money, so she rented a room to this guy and he assaulted her.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget seeing my grandmother all just black and blue.
Speaker 1: She had beaten her and had assaulted her and she's an old lady and I think yeah.
Speaker 1: And then I think my grandmother grandfather on my mother's side was 30.
Speaker 1: And he died in a railroad accident.
Speaker 1: They didn't have anything.
Speaker 1: They had no money, they had no insurance, they had no big company that took care of burial and all of that.
Speaker 1: My grandmother was illiterate.
Speaker 1: She could not read, write or drive.
Speaker 1: She's a Cajun woman.
Speaker 1: She could cook Talk about cook.
Speaker 1: So that's what she did.
Speaker 1: She opened a boarding house.
Speaker 1: Her son-in-law fronted the money and she had this old house and turned it into a boarding house.
Speaker 1: Her son-in-law fronted the money and she had this old house and turned it into a boarding house and cooked for the roughnecks and humble and made a living until finally, when she got too old to do all of that, she moved in with our family, my mother, who's their youngest daughter.
Speaker 1: So I got to thinking my goodness, I just go back a couple of generations and I can see all kinds of wages that have been defrauded.
Speaker 1: I'm going to start crying out for what I haven't inherited.
Speaker 1: They stole that Now.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about being a victim.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about what God said you could have.
Speaker 1: The cry of faith can enter into the Lord of the armies of heaven and he can issue a command to the angels and they can go and they can find that money and they can bring it into your control.
Speaker 1: For what purpose?
Speaker 1: For the purposes of the harvest.
Speaker 1: Glory to God.
Speaker 1: Come on, lift your hand right now.
Speaker 1: Praise God, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: You know, if your ancestors were slaves, some of you have your, your.
Speaker 1: If you go down your family line, you find out your ancestors were slave.
Speaker 1: You talk about some defrauded wages.
Speaker 1: Now they're talking about reparations.
Speaker 1: Listen, this is a lot better than reparations.
Speaker 1: This is a lot better because god knows how to keep the books, god knows where it's all at, god knows how to get it.
Speaker 1: Besides that's, politicians steal half of it anyway, if they ever did decide to do it.
Speaker 1: So glory to God.
Speaker 1: Thank you, lord.
Speaker 1: Are you thinking yet?
Speaker 1: Are you thinking about yourself?
Speaker 1: Are you thinking about your situation?
Speaker 1: Are you thinking about your life?
Speaker 1: Are you thinking about the times you got laid off for no good reason, the times that you were working somewhere and they let everybody know there wasn't going to be any raises or bonuses?
Speaker 1: Now Times are tough.
Speaker 1: Tighten your belt.
Speaker 1: Then you find out that the upper management's all you know doing just quite well, thank you.
Speaker 1: Their stock went way up and they got their golden parachute.
Speaker 1: I think about the 80s.
Speaker 1: We had 16 van pools in my subdivision in Candlelight Hills.
Speaker 1: We lived on the corner at the height of it in the late 70s.
Speaker 1: Sixteen van pools what do you mean a van pool?
Speaker 1: Well, you know they came up with van pools to take everybody downtown to work, and so we had a lot of people living in our subdivision work downtown for oil companies.
Speaker 1: So each oil company had their own van, you know, and you'd you'd get paid a little extra if you drove the van and then you could save the money.
Speaker 1: You didn't have to to make the commute, you know, and they were trying to economize on the fuel and all that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: And 16 vans stopped at my corner to pick up guys going downtown.
Speaker 1: And by the time Carter got finished there weren't any.
Speaker 1: And all those guys got laid off and all those executives got big, huge stock distributions.
Speaker 1: They had the gold and parachutes.
Speaker 1: See, that's back when corporations were paying their executives.
Speaker 1: And I'm not a communist, I'm a free market guy, but I think there's something wrong with executives making kind of money on the stock market and getting all this free stock, and so they have a built-in advantage to lay people off and they get rich laying everybody off and the stock goes up.
Speaker 1: It's not good for the company, but short term they can make their exit and they do.
Speaker 1: That happened at Enron, that happened.
Speaker 1: Well, it happened everywhere Chevron, exxon, you name it all.
Speaker 1: It happened everywhere.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're part of that.
Speaker 1: Maybe you weren't at the top, maybe you were down mid-level and got laid off.
Speaker 1: Guess what?
Speaker 1: They defrauded your wages.
Speaker 1: Am I stimulating your thinking now?
Speaker 1: Yet I don't want you to be a victim.
Speaker 1: There's no victims here.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, god keeps the books and he wants us to have enough sense to agree with our wages, because they've been crying out ever since it happened, because it's like blood.
Speaker 1: You exchanged part of your life to go down there and work for a certain amount of money.
Speaker 1: You did your part and they didn't do theirs.
Speaker 1: Oh, I tell you, I believe we've got a day of reckoning coming and for the purposes of the harvest, I mean, god wants to transfer this.
Speaker 1: Well, so we'll have plenty of money to reap the harvest of souls that are in the earth.
Speaker 1: Let's just stand to our feet.
Speaker 1: Glory to God, and we used to do this on a regular basis, but we haven't done it in a long time.
Speaker 1: So, if you feel a little self-conscious, scream in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: But the word cry means to scream.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean Jesus.
Speaker 1: It means to scream.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean Jesus.
Speaker 1: It means to scream.
Speaker 1: It means to raise your voice to a high level.
Speaker 1: And you're not doing it out of disrespect.
Speaker 1: You're doing it in obedience to the word of God.
Speaker 1: Why are you calling his name, because he's the Lord of the armies of heaven.
Speaker 1: And you're agreeing with your wages, father, right now, as we lift your name and we cry your name out, everybody in this audience, lord, we agree with our wages.
Speaker 1: Our wages have been defrauded.
Speaker 1: And, lord, just in a short moments of time, we've been thinking about some things.
Speaker 1: There's things that we hadn't thought about.
Speaker 1: There's things about our parents, grandparents, great-great-grandparents, all the way down our family line.
Speaker 1: There's been interruptions, there have been things that we should have inherited, that we didn't, there have been all kinds of things that have happened in our world and, lord, it's all coming down to the end.
Speaker 1: Time and Lord, the time is short.
Speaker 1: And so, lord, we're not greedy.
Speaker 1: We just want what belongs to us so that we can fully fund the harvest.
Speaker 1: And so, right now, in the name of Jesus, we all agree on earth is touching our defrauded wages.
Speaker 1: We agree with our frauded wages and we lift our voices.
Speaker 1: Jesus, I want my wages.
Speaker 1: Jesus, send the angels.
Speaker 1: Send the angels, send the angels.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Oh, come on, let's praise him right now.
Speaker 1: Let's praise him.
Speaker 1: Glory to God, hallelujah, that felt good.
Speaker 1: Praise Him right now.
Speaker 1: Let's praise Him.
Speaker 1: Glory to God, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Whoo, that felt good, y'all kind of got the hang of that.
Speaker 1: I might have underestimated y'all.
Speaker 1: I might have underestimated, praise God.
Speaker 1: You know we were teaching along these lines and we had a couple that they live.
Speaker 1: You know they're older, they didn't have any kids at home, just the two of them, and one prays in one part of the house, the other prays in the other part of the house, and so the wife was in the back part of the house crying out.
Speaker 1: You know she lifted her voice one morning.
Speaker 1: Jesus and her husband come running with his gun.
Speaker 1: He thought somebody broke in the house, and so I just encourage you to use wisdom there and don't put yourself at risk.
Speaker 1: You can be seated.
Speaker 1: Praise God.
Speaker 1: Did you get anything out of this?
Speaker 1: How desperate are you, and I'm desperate to have everything God has for us.
Speaker 1: Amen, we're not going to quit until we get it.
Speaker 1: Amen, amen, amen, praise the Lord.