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Leonard Lucas Season 1 Episode 18

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God used us in a tremendous way. My vision for India was God show us show us your glory. Let it not be what man did, let it be what you did. And we saw God do some unusual things and touch some people, and it was just a wonderful time. So it's good to be back home. I think I kind of miss home. You know, when the assignment is over, you kind of feel like it's time to go home. Then you can't wait to get home. And that and that did take place. But it's exciting to uh be back home and to be here. So let's just move on and let's talk about. Let me just share some things with you. I'm gonna take you down some paths that's going on in my thinking. And we're in a season and a time, and folk were trying to figure out what's going on. Um people talk about the last days, and we're hearing that, and we know that we are in the last days because Peter stood up and prophesied saying, uh quoting what Job chapter 2 said about the last days, and he made reference to that. And so we know that we're in the last days, and some people try to say that we're in the last of the last days as if we know when when Jesus is coming back. But we don't know when Jesus is coming back, and scripture tells us that. But we have people who will uh who are you know getting food together, uh hiding out, getting water that lasts for a lifetime. And and then my thinking, in my thinking, if it's the last day, why do you need water? Why do you need food? Why do you need a place to go if it's the last day? Anybody listening? If it's the last day, you don't need no water because it's all over. So don't get caught up in people thinking about the last day and this, that, and the other. Let's just live today and give God the praise, give God the glory, give God the honor for living and just do what God called you to do. Now, why did I say that? I said that because God is so powerful, so magnificent, so marvelous, so wonderful. He knows everything. It's already prophesied, it's already written, it's already done. So why are you trying to figure out what God is trying to do? He has given us 66 books, and uh we know that our Ethiopian brothers have 88 books, and what's so uniquely different about those books is so powerful, and they they're so deep, they take you into a whole new understanding of the of the spiritual things of God. So if you get an opportunity to read some of it, you'll be impressed with the revelation knowledge that God has given. It talks about one person who has a book called the Book of Enoch, and you know, Jude says something refers to the book of Enoch, and Enoch takes us into a revelatory understanding of the heavens. And you see, I like the studies of the heavens because it's just so magnificent. If you do a study of the heavens, you will find how magnificent God is. Let me say this to you. You can you can you can find out how great God is in the earth realm by seeing how everything is interconnected and how God has connected everything and made it all work. If you ever get an opportunity, I'm gonna share this with you. If you ever get an opportunity, look up in the YouTube and and and and and see if you can go and and get a picture of uh an ant tunnel. And when you see how magnificent that tunnel is, you have to say there's a God. And it's it's just it's a it's just like a mansion underground, and everything has a purpose. And and think about all of the rain that we've had, how do they sustain themselves? How do they keep from drowning? How do they keep from losing all their eggs? It's just magnificent to see how God has given them the wisdom to be able to do what they're doing. Why am I saying this? Because I want to introduce you to God with an understanding of who he is. You see, we go to church, but we still don't understand who God is, and we don't understand the magnificence of God. So we can't truly praise him in thinking because we don't understand how magnificent he truly is. How, if he can give an aunt an underground mansion and make sure that it doesn't flood, that it doesn't get destroyed, what he'll do for you and me as his children. And we spend our time not trusting God, we spend our time trusting our own abilities. And when God our waves are past finding out, and he truly wants you and I to trust him. We're gonna go into the book of Malachi, chapter three, and I want you to turn there, and um, and I'm gonna go in chapter three. You know, we looked at chapter one and two, and I want to deal with chapter three and four. But when I study Malachi, and I'm not the greatest person when it comes down to revelation. I know that God has given some people greater revelation, and I'm just grateful for the revelation that I receive. And I trust and pray that he will give me even more as I move forward in life. But look how he stops the book, the old testament. He stops the old testament. Look at this, let's look at this. He says, Behold, verse 1, he says, Behold. He says, Behold, I will send my messenger. Now, you have read this, and I know I've read it. Maybe it made no sense to you at all. He says, I am the now. Here is Malachi, and his name means messenger. And here's the messenger saying that God is going to send his messenger. So God is going to end the old testament with a man by the name of Malachi, and Malachi means messenger, and he is saying that God is going to send a messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me. Everybody say before me. He is going to prepare the way before the Lord. Now, this is amazing to me how God made sure that He He ended the last book of the Bible preparing us for what's about to take place 400 years later. You don't think God is intricate? If you don't think God is smart, if you don't think God is all in all, if you don't think he's magnificent, if you think he just gave us these 66 books with no understanding and how they work together and flow together, he is telling us, getting ready. Now, here's the important thing that you need to understand. Israel spent 70 years in Babylon. Now, Babylon is a magnificent place. The hanging gardens is marble, is opulence on the highest level. Now you know as well as I, and God said to Israel, He says, When you go there, I want you to buy and sell, I want you to go and live. And you know, as human beings, when we go to a place, we become accustomed to the way they operate. Israel got caught up in the magnificence and the glory and the sins of the people. Anybody listening? She got caught up in the sins of the people, and she stopped worshiping God as she should have because she got caught up in the magnificence of the culture. Now God says, you're going to stay here for 70 years. And after the end of the 70 years, God wanted them to turn back to him. Now remember the walls of the buildings, the temple that Solomon built. Remember that magnificent temple built of gold? It's gone, it's destroyed. The Babylonians went in and stripped it all down, burned the gates, burned the walls, tore up everything. So there's really nothing but rubble left. And for 70 years, Israel had to make, let's say this, Israel had to pass by this rubble or live in the opulence of Babylon. Which one do you think they're going to do? What would you do? But here's the problem here. The problem is you can get to the place where when you move and you start getting caught up in the culture, you begin to take on the culture of the community that you're a part of, and you begin to lose your identity as to who you really are in God. Now you know as well as I, sin is not wrong. It's just fun. Isn't that what our children tell us? They don't see sin as right or wrong. They just see it as, boy, did we have a good time. Knowing that God has said to them, these are the things you should not do. They got to the place that all that they knew about God, they seemed to have gotten caught up into the Babylonian structure and all of the opulence, and they just tended, they just got to the place where they just put God on the side. They stopped being the children of God. They stopped serving God as they should have. They got caught up in all of the opulence and the can you imagine that's where we are today? You get caught up in all of the opulence. You get caught up in the culture. We as a culture of people, we don't know who we are because we're caught up into this American culture. We don't know our names, we don't know who our ancestors are. If we go back to the country we originated from, we would know nothing about that country. We are comfortable right here and we are convinced, we are convinced that we don't want to go back. Apostle was talking about, we'll be in Africa this August, and they're already working out where we could come and buy property and be a dual citizen. They're trying to get us back and they want to work some things out. They want to get us caught up in the business world. Now, I've been to Africa several times, and this the places I've been was nice, but I don't want to live in no doggone Africa. I don't want to get caught up into that world. I love America. Can you imagine? Watch this. Can you imagine going to hell because you lost your culture? Israel found herself in a position where she lost her identity, therefore, she was in trouble with God. And in our culture, now watch this, and I'm gonna go into this a little bit. I wasn't trying to go into this. We as a group of people in America, we've lost our culture. God put his magnificence inside of us. He just didn't put it on us, he put it inside of us. Have you ever seen us dance and compare the way we dance to everybody else? And if you had the opportunity, who would you want to dance like? Have you ever seen how we do our hair and how we could do almost anything with it? We can have it one way today and the next hour do something totally different. And people say, Man, how could you do that with your hair? They want to touch your skin to see what makes it so uniquely different. Everything about us we've lost because watch this, we are trying to be who we're not. Can you imagine Israel got caught up in a system where Toronto they stopped serving God? And they went to church not to serve God, but they went to church because in Babylon, you go to church to service your own sensual desires now. Somebody help me here. Wouldn't it be better to go to a church where you could go to the altar instead of getting delivered from your sins, you can have fun in your sins. Who don't want to go to that kind of church? Anybody listening? Who don't want to go to a church where you can drink and play around and sleep with, and nobody says nothing is wrong? Wow. Israel got so caught up in the way that they were living, they told their Christian wives, baby, I want to give you a bill of divorcement. Because that's not how we roll in Babylon. You see, no doubt in Babylon, their favorite song was Let the Good Time Roll. Y'all know that song, right? Come on, baby, let the good time roll. And then I think the rest of that song says, roll all night long. Feel so good. Y'all don't know that song? Feel so good. What did you say? Huh? Oh, oh, we she said the older ones know it, but the younger ones may not know it. So, so here in Babylon, you can go to church and let the good times roll. But then when you get to God's church, you dress from head to toe. Can't see nothing. You go to Babylon, you see everything. Which church y'all think we're going to? Come on, somebody. You see, in Babylon, we don't talk about heaven and hell. But at church, you go to hell if you don't do right. But see, in Babylon, there ain't no such thing as heaven and hell. We can do whatever we want to do. Because we have created a world that is so magnificent and so marvelous. We're already seated in heavenly places. Y'all want to get there. We're already there. We have all of the opulence and everything the uh the marble and all of the magnificence. Our streets are paved with the most powerful uh uh marble that you can find. And y'all talking about y'all live in what? Huts, tents, and whatever? What are you talking about? You see, you need to understand that it is important that we don't lose sight. We're living in a day right now in the world where the world is taking us to a place in the church where we're we're going downward. Everything is acceptable. Nothing's wrong. We don't talk about sin in the church anymore because now there's no such thing as sin. There's a group that we know says there's no such thing as fornication as we knew fornication was. Well, you could fornicate all day. They're doing now, they're doing uh places in the church where you can come to church and smoke cigars. Without the cigars, it's gonna be what comes with cigars. No, no, alcohol. Can you imagine going to church, smoking a cigarette, and drinking a little alcohol on the church property? You see, we have gotten to the place where we're comfortable substituting righteousness because it's not immoral. I'm amoral. See, see, see, what we're saying is there's absolutely nothing wrong with what we're doing. So Israel got caught up into the Babylonian system as you and I are caught up into this magnificent country called America. And and what used to be wrong, we're now saying there's nothing wrong with it. And we want to do what seemed right in our own eyesight. We came over here knowing God, having a personal relationship with Him. We knew what to eat and what not to eat before we got on the boat. Now you are eating what you never would have eaten in your country. You never would have taken a pill. You would have gone in the backyard and took a piece of grass up, start mixing it up with some water or have you mixed it up, swallowed it, and instantly got delivered. Now you're on some pharmaceutical stuff that can't deliver you, but maintain you with the same sickness and disease for 30, 40 years till they kill you. Anybody listening? And they said you're going in the backyard, it's voodoo and hoodoo and witchcraft. Now they're telling you, let's take these vitamins, and now you're buying vitamins that man made to try to function as what God created you to take, and we have substituted the glory of God because we're in a system that don't understand the magnificence. Watch this. You see, what some people get is in a book. What God has placed on us is from Revelation. Oh, y'all missed that. You see, they say. If you want to hide anything from a certain group of people, what do you do? Put it in the book. But what you don't understand, they're going to write a book. But before they even put the first chapter in the book, he's already given us revelation on how to do what they got in the book. So you have substituted revelation knowledge for book knowledge. And so today the preachers are preaching not from a revelatory understanding, but they're preaching from a book understanding. And so now we have taken on a spiritual culture that don't fit us, but we're now becoming comfortable because we knew right from wrong at one time, but now we've been so caught up in a culture that we've lost our identity to worship God in spirit and in truth. I was in a white setting in a white church, and they said we can't dance here. We can't clap here. But when I read scripture, scripture told me David danced, clapped and sang. But in the white setting, they said we could not do what God said. Do you not realize that there's something that he put in your feet that's uniquely different from everybody else's feet? If you don't think your feet have power, watch this. What did he tell the children of Israel? He said, everywhere the sole of your feet shall tread, that land I have already given to you. Y'all want it, watch this, watch this, watch this, watch this. You want a piece of real estate. You don't have no credit, you don't have no money. That's their system. If you just do what he says, when we came on this property and all the properties that we bought over the years, we came and we did what the word of God said. We walked on it. And I came with the understanding, God you said, if I walk on it, I own it. You know, on St. Maurice, when we didn't have, well, on St. Maurice, when I didn't have this understanding fully as I have it, and I still don't have it fully, but I have it better than I used to have it. When I claimed a piece of real estate, didn't have no money, have no credit, had nothing, I went and I walked on it, and I cut the grass and acted like it was mine. And I now forget as I was cutting the grass, people would walk up to me and say, You own this property? In the natural and the physical, I didn't. But guess what? In the revelatory understanding, I knew I owned it. So I was asked the question, and the temptation was, are you going to lie about ownership? And you know what I did? I B E L I E, what that said. I belied. I believe to the point that I receive the promise. Anybody listening? You need to recognize and realize that he's gonna work a miracle out for you if you do it his way, and you're gonna struggle if you do it their way. Watch this, watch this, watch this. So when we bought all of the real estate that we bought with no money, no credit, big cash for it. When we do it their way, we're gonna get a 30-year note. You buy it for $20,000, $40,000, $100,000, 30 years later, the $20,000 is $40,000, the $60,000 is $120,000, and the $100,000 is $200,000. You've paid two or three times the price. If you would have trust God, you would have bought it at a better deal because He would have worked it out. And guess what? And over a period of time, the equity would have gone up. I wish I was talking to somebody up in here today. You need to recognize and realize that you are in a culture that have said to you, you can't carry your name anymore. You can't carry your people anymore. Matter of fact, you're in a culture that says you can't even read. But what they didn't understand, we're the ones that created reading and writing. Hello, somebody. What am I saying? When Israel got caught up in the culture of her day, when Israel got caught up in the Babylonian system, it pulled her away from God. Everybody said pulled her away from God. What's happening today? We're being pulled away. I think about all the great singers that you and I have seen in our lifetime. Michael is the new movie. Michael's songs now are back in the number one spot. His movie made over a billion dollars. Not his movie because he's dead. He since he's died, he's made three point something billion dollars. Can you imagine God sending one of the best psalmists in the heavens in the earth realm? Like Aretha Franklin, like Sam Cook, like Otis Reading, like Marvin Gay, like like Gladys Knight. Somebody help me. I said Aretha Franklin, Aretha Franklin. So many of them, even Whitney Houston, the best psalmist in the world, who were in the church, but got caught up in the glamour and glory and stepped outside of the culture and got sucked up. Anyone hearing what I'm saying? And now they're no longer here, died prematurely because they lost that identity. Now watch this. Theophilus. I can just see God saying, let me go get my praise leaders and bring them back home so they can worship me 24-7 every day because they've lost their way in the earth realm. Did y'all get that revelation? Maybe God had to take and bring them back home because they lost their place. Because they got caught up in the world system, walked out of the church, and God says, I've had enough of the things you've done. Let me get you home before I have to send you to hell. And now God have them back where they belong. I'm not, I can't tell you where they are, but I can tell you they had to be great psalmists. Who else? They said, oh, Gladys Knight was the queen of soul. You try to identify the voice of Whitney Houston and the magnificence of Michael. Michael Jackson was as great to the music and the entertainment world as Lucifer was in the heavens. Every award, all over the world, the top awards was given to him. They had to make awards. When they ran out of awards, because he was so magnificent, his face was one of three most powerful faces on the whole globe. Anybody listening? He heard these sounds and this these this music inside of his existence. Who you know goes that deep to the point he can't sleep, you know what he did to go to sleep. But but I understand when God begins to pour this revelation that thousands of his songs has never been sang because he did not see the perfection. Every song that he sang was was as he and Quincy was putting them together over and over, they had to start over because Michael said it's not perfect enough. And when Thriller and when the music came out, it was the ultimate, so much so that now, today, it is as popular today as it was the first day you saw it. When you see him backing up what we call the moon walk, you you see him praising like no other guy we have ever seen. Out praise Spread Astaire. Outpraise uh uh uh what's your boy's name, James? James Brown. He was the ultimate in music, he was the ultimate in dance. God used him in a magnificent way. He was a child. His mama told his daddy, you ought to look at this child. This boy got something on him. His daddy said he was too young. And when his father finally heard him, he said, Boy, I'm putting you in the front of the line. And he took the whole world by storm. May I say something to you? What God has put in you supersedes what he's put in anybody else. Y'all getting this? You need to understand. Israel was a chosen group of people. She didn't need to be a Babylonian, she needed to be an Israelite. Somebody help me here. You don't need to be an American, you just need to be who he called you to be. And when I use the term American, I want you to understand that this culture doesn't fit us well. Stop trying to be like them and be like him. I'll talk to y'all that's listening from around the world because these in here don't even hear me. I want you to understand, no matter who you are, wherever you are, don't you allow anybody to strip the Christ that's on the end. Listen to what he says. Christ is inside of you. Don't substitute Christ for the natural things of this world and lose your. What will it profit a man to gain all of this? Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, and all of our people who gained the world and losing their identity. One of the things I like about Aretha, I don't know too much about her, but she was a Baptist preacher kid who got caught up into the world. But before it was over with, she had to come back home to the church. Elvis Presley, who was in the church, got caught up in Bill Street. And he he he he didn't win not one award as a rock and roll king. He only won awards in the gospel. Somebody shop with me here today. He said, What are you saying? Let me tell you, let me take you to where I want you to go here tonight. I need you to understand, God has sent you as a messenger in this generation to tell them that the God you serve is greater than the world. So don't you get caught up into the world standard and try to operate as they do? Do you not know that God has called you and I to believe his word and know what he promised is going to come to pass? It's so easy for you to get caught up in the magnificence of America. But it's far greater that you understand who you are and that God has called you to live a certain high quality standard. Let me say it this way: He's called you to live according to righteousness. And what is righteousness? It is making sure you are in right standing with God. It is making sure that you are putting God first. It is making sure that when you meet your brothers and sisters, you don't put your foot down on their neck, but you love them and you respect them because you recognize them to be an ambassador of the kingdom of God and you honor them and you do your best to love them and to help them as opposed to putting your feet on them and trying to demote them. How many times they try to demote us? You know, I tell you the story, but for those that's watching around the world, I went to Bible college, instead of them promoting me, they demoted me, but it never stopped the Christ inside of me. It didn't stop anything. And I'm still here. And all the churches that they sent out, I'm the only one in existence today. Fifty plus years later, I give glory to God because there was something in me that would not be destroyed in spite of what they believe. Anybody listening? You need to understand, God says this I am going to send, watch this, my messenger. I want you to put your hand, those of you, all you preachers, put your hands on your chest because I want you to know that you are the messenger of God to a generation. You are a messenger of God to the people where you live in the country, the community, the village. You are God's messenger, and it is incumbent upon you to say what the Lord is telling you to say because He has placed you exactly where you're supposed to be. Coming out of India, we went into some cut places that I would not even visit, let alone eat from it. Go to it. And I'm in the automobile watching the communities that I wouldn't even visit. And we are going off. Where? Can I use the word H E L L? Are we going? It's taken us forever to get here, and we're going through a horrible pit, and everything, oh y'all, everything around us is miserable. Everything around us is just horrible. There could be no reason for us going wherever y'all taking us. And right when we make the last little turn into the yard, there's a whole bunch of people who love God with all their heart. And you can't help but feel like, Lord, how does this work? How can you have your people in this? And we live in America and we wouldn't even visit this neighborhood. I wouldn't even visit where I preached. But God manifest because He loved His people. And I'm sitting there, Theophilus, saying to myself, they asked me to come 10 years ago and I refused to go. And I wouldn't have gone hadn't that Apostle gone. But I'm grateful now that I went because God taught me that He's everywhere, that He has people everywhere, places that I would never go to in America. I went to in India, and hundreds and thousands of people sitting on the floor with their Bibles and their ink pens and their notepads, taking down every word, looking at you with so much intensity that it almost, their eyes going through you. And they're praising God and they're crying and they're speaking in another language. They supersede us in spirit. Where they may not have an automobile or may not even have a beautiful home to go to, but whatever they have, they seem to be so much better off, and they respect each other. I couldn't understand it. And we went from place to place to place. And we saw his presence. You need to recognize something. God says, I am sending my messenger, and watch this. He shall prepare the way before me. Can I help you? Can I help you? It is our job to prepare the way before the Lord comes back. It is our responsibility not to play church because we're caught up in the foolishness called church. It's not what he told us to do. He told us to do what he put inside of us. And we lose our focus. We lose our assignment. We lose our commission. And we get caught up in a group instead of understanding the relationship. We're supposed to prepare the way for the next generation to understand that the God that we serve, He is able. Are you convinced that God is able? Do you understand that God sent you into the earth realm to prepare the way of his second coming? Do you not even realize while you're caught up in the glamour of America that people are going to go to hell because you are so caught up in your own soul and your own theology? In your own foolishness, and you are passing by people who need I saw people break through the lines, wanting to touch my feet, wanting to touch my body, want me to lay hands on them. They they I saw ladies take my hand and put me, put my hand in places that I wouldn't even touch on them. I don't even speak their language. I don't even know what they're doing, but they got a problem. I don't know what that problem is, but they are desperate because they see somebody they think can help them. They're not like us. They are desperate for the grace of God. They want to heal him. When you tell them to get back, they burst through because they've dragged their babies. They got children in their arms that needed to be touched because of whatever is wrong with them. And my prayer is, Lord, I'm thanking God every day. Thank you, Lord. I don't know so many people who what was, but healed them, delivered them. Bible says if you lay your hands on them, they'll get the victory. My prayer is I send the word to them. I did my best to fulfill what I knew to be the word of God because so many people were pulling. Everywhere you go. I walked through the crowds, and when I walked through the crowds, they started walking. They wanted to be touched. Whatever their problems were, I don't know what their problems were, but they knew what they were facing. God says, I sent you into the earth realm to prepare the way. Don't get caught up in the foolishness. But you are the preacher, you are the apostle, you are the whoever, whatever. Your job is to prepare people for the second coming. Let me say that again. To prepare people for what? The second coming. Say it again. We read through the through from Matthew all the way up to the book of Revelation. It talks about the second coming. And it tells us that men are going to be deceived. Have you ever sat down and talked to some people in America, church people, who don't want you to talk about the sin that they're committing. They are uncomfortable with people who come and tell them that they're wrong. They have come to the place where they enjoy living in, walking in, the lifestyle that's destroying them. They do not understand, nor do they realize that when you die, it's not the end, it's the beginning of forever. You hear what I'm saying? It's the beginning of forever. Everybody said the beginning of forever. Now, here's the key. Here's the important ingredients. Here's Jesus with the keys in forever. And he's got a key for the left side, and he's got the key for the right side. And every soul that walks to Jesus, he is either going to open up the right gate, the right side gate, is that the right way to say that? Or the left side gate. And wouldn't it be amazing that the people who should have gone into the right side did not go into the right side because when you met them, instead of you preparing them to prepare them for the Lord, you passed over them and they died and went to hell. Because you were caught up in being too busy, you were caught up in your world, you were caught up in the system that you have become accustomed to, and you did not have time to touch that individual that God sent your way. Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me. Your job is to prepare the way before the Lord. You want to know where the temple of God is? Read the book. Study the word temple. And you know what you're gonna find out when you get into the New Testament?

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This is the temple. This is the temple.

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God wants to come into the temples of the people that you walk by, but you're so busy doing your thing that you cannot restore them back to their rightful place. Anybody listening? God is looking for you and me to get his people right. Now watch this. You see, he's preparing the Jews, he's preparing heaven to get ready to do what has never been done up to this point. Jesus did not have this responsibility. This is our responsibility. So what responsibility did Jesus didn't have? He did not have the responsibility to preach to the people of the various cultures that exist in our world. He only went to the house of God. He told his disciples, don't you go to the Gentiles. I got a special group of people. Somebody help me here. And you need to recognize that God has deposited something so unique inside of you that even you don't fully understand it. And when you tell Christian people about it, they will laugh at you and tell you and say to you, you don't understand, you don't know, I don't think you ought to go. What did they tell us about India? Don't go. What did they tell me about Africa? Don't go. We'll be talking to Pastor in Africa Friday. We're going back. They got Ebola there now. Trump told us we couldn't go. Ebola saying we can't go. But let me make a declaration. Can I make a declaration? We're going back. And Theopolis, if the crowd was a hundred thousand, I'm doubling it. Because he told me something to do that they didn't do. But you know what I'm gonna tell him when I talk to him Friday? Let me do what God says. And if it ain't God, and if it don't work, then I'll fly my behind back home.

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But don't put no restrictions on me.

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And I believe this time, like he said, the last words he said, when you come back, whatever you want to do, ain't nobody gonna put no restrictions on you. Because you see, maybe Ebola wouldn't have come if they'd have listened to what God told me to do the first time. And how come it's in that country, Theophilus, where we have a church of a hundred thousand people or better?

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Anybody listening?

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So when we go back, we're going to teach them how to gain the victory that God Almighty has given them from the beginning of time. These original people in the original state that God created them in from Adam and Eve. They are on the very continent that God decided to create man, and God decided to put the Garden of Eden in there on that very continent. And they've never left. So their original genealogy goes all the way back to Adam and Eve. And the promise of God goes all the way back through them. And I pray that they will not try to be like Americans, but that be that they will be like what God's original intent was for them, and that they will watch God restore the promises back to them. Oh, somebody lift your hands and tell God, thank you. My goal is to go back and to be the messenger, to tell the people here's the way God is saying for you to walk in it. The most powerful place in the world where the Spirit of God is moving right now is the country called Africa. That's not its original name, but that's the name they gave it some 2,000 years ago. But those people in Africa look just like you, look just like me, and they're gonna be another billion of them. So God is gonna end where he began. It ain't gonna end in Europe, he's gonna end right where he began. He's already promised the mountain he's gonna be on. You need to recognize and realize the word of God cannot lie. And God said, I'm gonna raise up and prepare somebody that's gonna go before me. Anyone listening? Before I come back, Isaiah chapter 40, verse 3 says this. The voice of him that cried in the wilderness. Isaiah chapter 40, verse 3 says this. The voice of him that cried in the wilderness. Where is he crying? He's crying. Where's the wilderness? It's not a place where there's sticks and trees and bushes. It is the people who have no God. It is the Gentile nations. God is going to end a magnificent explosion of his spirit in the Gentile nations. That's why God is all over the world today because he promised he'd be in India, Theophilus. My God, they want us to go to uh overseas somewhere, Pakistan. They've been crying for 20 years for us to come. And I pray, Theophilus, that I get there. And I pray, those countries that's been calling that I get to where God wants me to be. And go cry in those wilderness places. Say, prepare ye the way of the Lord. Now watch this. Africa make straight in the desert a highway for my God. India, Pakistan, Canada, Australia, and all the nations that God has called us to go to. I want to say something to you. We are coming not to prove we got something, but we're coming to say to you, we're coming for you to prepare a way in that design nation, in that place where it looked like nobody should come and go. But I believe that God has called us in these last days to be able to send a signal to the world. That's why next week, hopefully it's not raining tomorrow, that God's gonna put the signal on the building so we don't have a radio station that'll be all 24 hours, seven days a week, 99.9. We're gonna take that signal and send it completely around the world. You're gonna hear about what God is doing in this house completely around the world. We're not gonna compromise. No church games, no political games, no worldly games. We're gonna tell it like it is, whether you like it or not, whether you accept it or not, whether you believe it or not, we're gonna tell you what thus saith the Lord, and we're gonna tell you get your life ready. Because the day of departure is at hand. God's got to find some voices. Hear me now, and send them into the wilderness and tell the people I've come to prepare a way for you to get back to glory. Hello about Saint Telepray. We had one pastor. We preached at his house, his church house. Two o'clock in the morning, he called the pastor who invited us. And he stood on the phone crying. The pastor said, Well, why are you crying? Is what I understand. He couldn't even get out how thankful and grateful. Lisa was telling me that when we did what we did, his wife was on the front row on the floor wailing because what they saw demonstrated to them all the years they had been preaching had never been demonstrated. This is a new day, y'all. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about what we think. He has called us to prepare the way. Look at somebody and say, it's time to prepare the way. Come on, it's time for God to send us. It's time for God to send us. I want to, I want to end. I want to end in the book of Revelation.

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You see, the last book is a book of messengers.

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The last book in the old testament is a book of messengers saying to us, go tell the story. Now watch this. The last book in the New Testament is the book of Revelation. Everybody say the book of Revelation. Say it again. What's the name of the last book? You see, the problem is we don't understand the book of Revelation. Let me say that again. We don't understand. Go to Revelation chapter 3, verse 22. Here's how he he wants us to end, Toronto. And here's what I trust and pray you receive tonight. He says in the book of Revelation, chapter 3, verse 22, he says, He that he that he that has have an ear, let him hear. Watch this. What the spirit. What the spirit. Now I want you to understand so you don't get caught up in foolishness. Not what Lucas is saying, but what the spirit is saying. And the the and John tried to tell us. No, John did tell us. He says, My sheep. Hear my voice. And I want to tell you today, it's okay to pray. It's okay to praise. But you need to hear. Because if you don't hear, you won't know what the spirit is saying. And when you don't know what the spirit is saying, hear me now. You're gonna make up something. And when you make up something, it just might be different from what the spirit is saying, and it will get you caught up in foolishness. So it's amazing that God in the Old Testament with a messenger and in the New Testament with revelatory or revelation. Now watch this. Why did God in the Old Testament saying, I'm sending a messenger? Because he had to get ready to prepare the way by way of John the Baptist getting us ready for Jesus to come to change the world. Jesus has now come. He's gone all the way back, but he's coming back again. But from the time Jesus left until the time he returns, you're not gonna need Theophilus book knowledge. Hear me, preachers. You're gonna need revelation knowledge. You're gonna need to hear what the Spirit is saying. And I want to say to you, preachers, too many of you are preaching from book knowledge, and you're not speaking from revelatory understanding. And that's why your message has no power, it can't change nothing, it can't deliver nothing, because you don't understand that the last book in Scripture is a revelatory book, because revelation is going to continue till Jesus comes back. So that you will know in every generation what the Spirit of the Lord is saying. Watch this to the churches. And if anything I know have lost their way to the churches. The churches have lost their way. We have some beautiful scholars who will give you some good Bible stories. But they don't they don't have no notes, they can't get no revelation. And if they don't have notes, they ain't got nothing to say. I want you to understand, God wants to use your mouth. But before he could ever use your mouth, you have to hear with your ears what he's saying to you with his mouth. And when you speak, you're not speaking from your mouth, you're speaking from his mouth. His mouth to your ears to your mouth through your mouth. We need preachers today that will say what the Spirit is saying, not with the book or the tape you just read. So to all of you that's listening, to those of you that's watching, you need to spend more time in prayer until God visits you and speaks to you what He's saying and doing in this generation because you have been sent to prepare the way to the Gentile nations to make it straight until Jesus comes back. Lift your hands and tell God thank you. Lob said Telebraka. Lobach, come on, lift your hands and tell God.