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RULERS HAVE A CONTROVERSY AGAINST GOD I was told that President Truman went to an insane asylum to speak. As he arose he said, "Ladies and gentlemen, I am President Truman." An old man in the back of the house arose and said, "You won't be here long, until you get out of that notion. You will make a change. When I first came here, I thought I was Napoleon." Some people would say the man had a loose screw, not meaning any offense. Many of the men there were one-time wealthy citizens or good businessmen. Some of them lost their minds and lost all they had. Some were at one time devout Christians. When they backslid and knew that they had sinned they were turned over to a reprobate mind. (Rom. 1:28). They no longer knew good from evil. (Heb. 5:14). When Peter preached on the day of Pentecost, thousands of people were "pricked" in their hearts, meaning they were under conviction for their sins. (Acts 2:37). The Lord told Saul it was hard for him to kick against the "pricks." In those days men changed ends with an ox goad, using the sharp end. He pricked the heels of the ox, causing him to pull the load. The ox soon learned if he kicked the ox goad, it would only stick deeper into his heels. 'I'he Lord, in this scripture, was speaking in their language, when He said, "It is hard for you to kick against the 'pricks'." Today, we don't have ox goads, but in this machinery age, we all know what a screwdriver is. When the Lord wants to convict us of sin, He calls things to our remembrance. He reproves us. In one sense of the word, we could say he "tightens up the screw." God said of a wicked king that came against His anointed servant, "I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips" (Kings 19:28). He used the words hooks and bridle as 1

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symbols of judgment. To the people of this generation He could well use the word "screwdriver." Paul explained it like this: "Gird up the loins of your mind," or put a girdle on your brain, (I Peter 1:13). We can well say that when the Lord wants to set our thinking straight, He tightens up the screw. Then, He makes us think straight. We could say that Nebuchadnezzar had a loose screw after God brought him to a halt. He could not think right, (Dan. 4:33). This happened because he tried to take the glory away from God. Nebuchadnezzar was the first world ruler. At one time he was used of God. God called Nebuchadnezzar His servant, (Jer. 43 :10-11). He used N ebuchadnezzar to punish His people and to smite the Egyptians, who were enemies of God's people. God used Nebuchadnezzar to perform judgment and to bring the enemies into captivity, war or destruction. Nebuchadnezzar trained and educated the Hebrew boys while they were in captivity. GREATER THAN GOD

him to have fellowship with beasts. He had beastly desires, and had a beastly nature. He thought and acted like wild beasts. His. lustful desires were base. The Bible says that the last world ruler will have a beastly nature. He is called the "Beast," (Rev. 13:1). Out there in the cold, sleet, hail and rain, N ebuchadnezzar shivered, a man who had once been God's servant. People today, who were at one time servants of God, have become as natural brute beasts. They have eyes full of adultery, and are made to be taken and destroyed, (2 Peter 2:12). They were one time a servant of God and a brother to the church. Now they have committed the "sin unto death," (James 5:16). They have crossed the deadline. There is no use in praying for them. Their well is without water; their cloud without rain. Eternal darkness is reserved forever for them, (Jude 13). LAST WORLD RULER Space will not permit me to tell about other world rulers who went berserk after they defied the Lord and tried to rob Him of His glory. His glory He will not give to another, (Isa, 42:8). Belshazzar's days were numbered. He was slain the same night he defiled the vessels of God. Alexander the Great died in a drunken state. The last world ruler will sit in the temple of God telling people he is God, (II Thess. 4:2). He will go berserk and sit in God's seat, there in God's temple. There is something wrong with the thinking of all these great men. They are lifted up with pride; in some parts of the country, it is illustrated like this: "They have a loose screw." I imagine that I can see this last world ruler there in J erusalem in the height of his power. The Jews will accept him as their Messiah, (John 5:43). It seems as though I can see God's long screwdriver at work. He reaches down through the heavens to that new temple that will be built in Palestine. That screwdriver will loosen a screw in that man's head and he will actually believe that he is God. The screw has been turned in the elements. God will begin to turn loose the hail. Each piece will weigh about as much as a hundred-pound block of ice. All the waters in the world will 3

It came a time that Nebuchadnezzar was lifted up with pride. He took the glory that belonged to the Lord. He said, "This is great Babylon that I have built," (Dan. 4:30). In one verse, he used the letter "I" five times. "I" is the middle letter in pride. In this case, God knew exactly what to do. He took His long screwdriver, so to speak, and reached past the sun, moon, stars and clouds. He reached down into the palace in Babylon, reached past the golden crown on the king's head, down through the skull of the world ruler, (and just for the sake of illustrating it) let's say he loosened a little screw in N ebuchadnezzar's brain. Immediately, Nebuchadnezzar did not think right. He thought he was a cow. When someone spoke to the king, he mooed like a cow. Something in him drove him out into the pasture with the wild beasts. He ate grass with the oxen. When someone spoke to the king, he thought he was an eagle. He tried to flop his wings and flyaway. His nails grew out like bird claws, (Dan. 4 :33). For seven long years something drove 2

turn to blood. Men will have blood to drink because they have come against the anointed one. The greatest earthquakes in history will take place. The sun will be seven times hotter than its usual strength. It will scorch men with fire. Men's tongues will consume in their mouth. Their eyes will consume in their sockets. Their flesh will consume on their bones, (Rev. 16:16-20). (Zech. 14:12) . The little screw is turned and the rocks and mountains will crumble. Another screw is turned and the islands will flee away. The elements will melt with a fervent heat, (2 Peter 3:10). .Jesus will come back. The screw will be loosened there on the Mount of Olives and this mountain will break half in two. (Zech. 14:4). Tens of thousands of God's people will come back with Jesus, (Jude 14). He will slay the wicked with the brightness of His coming. (2 Thess. 2:4-12). Every man in the world will be slain and fed to the fouls of the air, (Rev. 19:21). There are some things that God will not tolerate. When the nations around about Israel worshipped idols, He let them be destroyed. There is a death penalty on idolatry. Incidentally, the Bible says covetousness is idolatory, (Col. 3:5). When Achan coveted God's part, he was stoned to death. The first fruits always belong to God, (Josh. 7:18-26). The other day I flew thousands of miles to pray for a man to be healed. The Lord gave me a dream that this man was living under a curse. How could I bless whom God had cursed? This man had coveted and taken God's part. I found him only semi-conscious. He could not talk intelligently. He could not understand. We could illustrate it like this: A small screwdriver had loosened a screw. A screw had worked loose He failed to tighten it. God's glory He will not give to another. Covetousness is idolatry. Paul explained it like this "When they knew God, they glorified Him not as God. Neither were they thankful. They became vain in their imaginations and God turned them over to a reprobate mind. He let them believe a lie and be damned." A reprobate mind is to believe something that is not true. In one place the Bible says people come to the place they cannot 4

discern good from evil. They call good evil, and they call evil good. They change the truth of God into a lie. They interpret black and make it mean white. They interpret white and make it mean black. THE TOWER OF BABEL J list after the flood, men organized and tried to dethrone God. They said, "Let us make brick. Let us build a tower, whose top may reach into heaven, and let us make a name," (Gen.
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As they began to make themselves a name instead of giving God the glory, the Lord moved. He would not give His glory to another. It seems that I can see Him reluctantly take his little screwdriver and loosen a small screw in the people's heads. The men couldn't think right. They started to ask for brick and the workers brought them mortar. The boss, no doubt, grew angry and fired one after another. They couldn't talk right. They were scattered all over the face of the earth and they stopped building the tower. UNITED NATIONS

Today, people are trying to undo what God did. They are trying to form a one-world government, one-world court and one-world church. They want one race, language, and soon, a one-world ruler. But, they have left the rightful ruler on the outside. The anti-Chr ist group have not recognized our God. While we were in the headquarters of the United Nations in New York, we saw an image of the Greek god, which has the record of adultery for thousands of years. There is no peace for the wicked, (Ps. 57 :21). There "is no peace at peace conferences when the Prince of Peace is left out and rejected. I see Daniel, as he looked down through the telescope of time, and saw the one world government. He saw, as it was revealed to him, in a symbol, the form of an image. The ten toes of the image represented the ten kingdoms which will be formed. The man of sin, who will take the reins of this anti-God organization

is called the beast. He will have a beastly nature, a reprobate mind and a seared conscience. One thing they are forgetting, that is God's screwdriver. We use the screwdriver as a symbol just as Daniel used the image as a symbol. A small screw will be loosed. The ten toes will crumble. Christ's kingdom will be set up. There will be no end to it. We will neither have a dictatorship nor a democracy. Both forms of government will vanish. We will have a theocracy. Christ will rule. He will rule and reign and we will rule and reign with Him. He will be King of Kings and Lord of Lords. PROPHETS OF DOOM

There was a great famine in Samaria because Syria had it completely surrounded and besieged. People even ate their own children. They paid eighty dollars for a donkey's head and five dollars for a cupful of dove's dung. The king of Israel seemed to blame Elisha. Some people blame God's man when things go wrong. Others blame God because He let it happen, but maybe the King of Israel had done something about causing this famine. He sent men to arrest Elisha. Elisha saw them coming and the Word of Knowledge began to operate. Elisha said, "There comes men to an-est me." Elisha told this man that the war would be over in twenty-four hours and there would be plenty of food for everyone. This unbelieving minister of the King, said that this was impossible for God to do such a miracle, (II Kings 7:1-3). Today, we are predicting there will be a great world-wide revival in the land. God will pour out His Spirit upon all flesh. His people will eat in plenty and be satisfied, (Joel 2:26). There is a famine in the land today for the Word of God, (Amos 8:11). The negative prophets of doom say that the days of miracles are passed, that the last day New Testament revival is an impossibility. FOUR MEN MARCH A great, miraculous victory took place because four insignificant men decided to march. They were sitting at the gate of the city starving to death. They used wisdom and they used reason. 6

They said, "Why sit we here until we die?" They as much as said, "We are going to die anyway. Why not die trying to do something?" (Verse 8). I suppose the family of the woman with the issue of blood tried to get her to stay at home since the physicians had already said she was going to die. She reasoned within herself that she would die sitting there and that she might as well die getting up and trying to do something. She did her best and God did the rest. These four men had determination. They had a backbone instead of a wishbone. They did not sit there and do nothing. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. How shall we escape if we neglect this great salvation. If we know to do good and do nothing, we are sinners. (James 4:17). As four men started to march, something took place. Someone said that God put microphones on their feet as they marched. The sound went into every tent of the enemy. The people thought that many nations had been hired against them. Fear fell upon them. They fled, leaving all their food, clothing, beds, gold, silver, animals and transportation. The symbols of the microphones might be all right, but the Bible didn't say that the four men made that much noise, (verse 6). It could be illustrated like this. When He began to loosen a little screw in their heads, they began to hear noises. Thousands of people in the institution today hear voices. Many people out of the institution hear voices. Could it be that some of them just rejected God until God withdrew his presence of a sound mind? His glory He will not give to another. (Isa.42:8). We tried and tried to get a man to quit smoking. He said he knew it was wrong, but he kept smoking. Finally, he began to think it was right. It fell to my lot to take him to the insane asylum. He began to tell people how he heard voices. The doctor said they had thousands of people hearing voices like that. Maybe not all of them rejected God, but many, many of them used to be right with God and received a reprobate mind. These four men did not keep this blessing themselves. They divided it and brought salvation to a nation. If we will be un7

selfish and divide the blessings with the nations, this famine of the Word of God will be over. We will bring revival to our generation. The prophets of doom saw it, but they did not share in it. They were trampled to death under the feet of the people who were receiving the blessings. Something happened to them that they did not think right. They died in the impact of the great revival. What will happen to the prophets of doom in our day who say the days of miracles are passed and that God cannot bring a revival to us in our time? God led me to begin a church. A pastor in a nearby church gave me much trouble. In a few weeks he had to resign his church. He lost his mind.

CHAPTER COLLEGES

HAVE A CONTROVERSY WITH GOD

In Lubbock, Texas, a young man by the name of Don Sheets stood up in his college class, put his heels together and said, "Teacher, just a minute." All the class was tense. The teacher had made this remark, "The Pentecostal preachers are nothing but a bunch of jackasses." He had been fighting God's people. He had been fighting the church, and holy living for many months. Don Sheets said, "Teacher, I want to say one thing. I want you to know that you are the biggest jackass I know." He went ahead to explain that his father was a Pentecostal preacher and pas tored one of the biggest churches in that city. Since then, Don Sheets has gone out and become pastor of a large Pentecostal church. Many college professors shake their fist in God's face. They breathe His pure air and spit it back in His face, defiled with alcohol, nicotine and blasphemous words. There is only one heart beat between them and eternity. There is only on breath between them and death.

The filthy dreamers teach that their ancestors hung by their tail every day from a coconut tree, a half-billion years ago. They make God a liar. (John 5:10). God created Adam a fullgrown man. Adam was the first man. (I Cor. 15:45). Adam fen and needed a Savior. (Acts 4:12). These professors, with a reprobate mind, say they are growing better every day and will lift themselves by their own bootstraps. They say they will save themselves and they will need no Savior. It is legal now to teach the "God is Dead" theory in school, but it is illegal to teach the Bible or prayer. I imagine that I can see a little screwdriver begin to work on those nine men who interpret the Constitution, which was founded on the Bible (rather they re-interpret it). Their minds have become corrupt. They call white black and call black white. A reprobate mind cannot know good from evil. It seems that I can see the little screwdriver turn a little. It turns off all the blessings from the minds of these professors. Their conscience becomes defiled. (Titus 1:15). Professing themselves to be wise, they become fools. (Romans 1 :21). This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish, (James 3:15). But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world, which none of the princes of this world knew: For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory, (I Cor. 2:7-8). But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: For they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (Verse 14). GOD IS HERE Who saw God die? Who preached His funeral? Who attended His funeral? Who read His obituary? Where was He buried? What grave is large enough to hold Him? The earth is His footstool. The heaven is His throne. Go five miles down into the ocean, into a submarine, and He is there. Go seven thousand miles high, in a satellite, into space, He is there. Where can you flee from His presence? (Psalms 139:7-8). 9

. God is in flesh. He is in my body, (I Cor. 6:20). (Matt. 6.~2_). These peanut-brain" professors have the anti-Christ SPIrIt, (Ps. 43:44). .~ost of these anti-Christ colleges were originated by some relIgIOUSgroups who have a form of godliness denying the power thereof. Many of ~hem claimed to be started by churches, yet they produce t~emIng thousands of agnostics, athiests, degenerates, dope addicts, unwed mothers and free thinkers. Many of ~hese would-be teachers and professors refuse to pledge allegranee to the. flag. Many of their pupils burn their draft cards and under~Illne. Americanism. Why should they be sheltered and protected In this country? If they have any doubt about whether or not they should be loyal, true, red-blooded Americans, then I h~ve a doubt whether they should be allowed to stay in this nation. . Th.ere are men with loose screws, natural reason, with devilIsh w~sdom. (Jam~s 3.:15). This wisdom comes from beneath. Why IS t~ere a price In the hands of the fools to get wisdom whe~ their hearts are full of ignorance and blasphemy? (Pro 17:16). The word "agnostic" comes from the word ignoramu::
If a man is not in the Spirit, he is not worshipping God (~ohn 4:23). If he is in t~e flesh, he cannot please God, (Rom: 8.8). A natural man receiveth not the things of God (I C 2:14). ' or.

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there in the Sputnik. God is nowhere." Someone moved the letter "w" over just a little and this statement read, "God is now here." Khrushchev may die, but God will never die. Khrushchev, like Hitler, Mussolini. Stalin, and others failed to give God the glory. Like Nebuchadnezzar, they tried to take the place of God. It seems that I can see the little screwdriver at work again. A little screw became loose in Khrushchev's head. He made one wrong decision. Now he is under house arrest. He is in captivity for the rest of his days, it seems. There will be no Communists in hell. One second after they are there, they will know there is a hell, and they will know that God lives and that God is true. HARLOTS AND HIPPIES I went to the world headquarters of Hippiland in San Francisco, where I saw beatles, hippies, and cockroaches. I saw boys who did not look like boys. I saw teenagers who looked like they were forty. I saw them going to the welfare office to get a govel.nment check. They are degenerates who need a bath, a haircut arrd a job. Not all of them are from poor families. Many of them are from wealthy families. Many of them come from God-defying colleges. They became "educated fools." When they failed to recognize God, a little screw was turned and they became a genius with a reprobate mind, (Titus 1:16). He let them believe a lie and be damned, (II Thes. 2:12). They mocked the Holy Ghost and denied the existence of God. Now they have a religion of their own. They have been turned over to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. They love one another, they say. They share equally, like the Communists. They share with one another freely, whether it is food. money, clothes. girl-friends, beds, or anything they desire. Fifteen of them may bunk up in one room. They do have base desires. Many of them live like "brute beasts." Using the symbol of the screw again, it has become loose in their thinking. To these, Hippiland is their church; LSD is their sacrament. These degenerate souls go off into trances. They call 11

COMMUNISM OR CHRIST Everyone in the world is either for Christ or the anti-Christ The anti-Christ is now in the world ,. (I John 42) H IS now In .. . e your city. A ~ew. years ago, the Communists drew a cartoon of some men ch~bIng up a high ladder. They had a hatchet in their hand. They. said they were going to dethrone God. They are like a dog barking at the moon. After the dog is dead the moon is still shining. ' Khrushchev said, "We told you there was no God W t completely around the world hundreds of miles up in es;~:, 10

it going off on "trips." Whil e "trip" and killed his dad One ~ was th~re, one went off on a O hem put a bottle into its bod; in th ~l~led her own baby and said to us as we passed b "I' e pace. 0 Its heart. One of them I will squirt you." y, m an orange. If you fool with me,

would destroy the 99 trees that had blight in order to save a good tree and get another start. Otherwise the blight would destroy all the trees of the orchard. Unless time is cut short, there will be no flesh saved. (Matt. 24:22). I read that some of the men who worked on the atom bomb commission resigned their jobs and went out to warn the world that the world would not be standing within a few months. God still has some people who can hear His voice. I am writing these lines to warn this war-torn, whisky-soaked, beerguzzling, short-wearing generation to flee from the wrath to come. I have heard His voice. I have prayed all night. I am nineteen stories high in a hotel in Cincinnati. It is ten minutes until five o'clock in the morning and I have not slept at all. Jesus went out and pI'ayed all night. (Luke 6:12).

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They are allowed to take th publish their own propaganda ove~ d e town to a certain extent, them. How long will it be untila~1 % efy anyone wh~ tries to stop belong to that group? Th 0 of the people in our nation people in that group' in Se: si the! have one hundred thousand n the majority can make their O~~ClSCO alone. I~ our democracy, and tell the other 49% what t d aws, elect thel: own president, devil plans to take over ado kO. You can plainly see that the ma e a one-world government run by the man who has a beanstl y na t ure. John and Joel saw 200 rnilli .., bottomless pits and out of th 1 .len CIea~Ules come out of the had long hair like women fee ~~ents in the last days. They They will take over the c~u~~:s .1 e men .an? teeth like lions. way, (Joel 2'1-10) Th dY and run It in the anti-Christ . b .. ese are emons but c th III oys, girls, men and women? When an ese demons be like creatures from hellv it k' en t?ey begin to look and act ,1 rna es us think so. DAYS OF NOAH As it was before the flood, so it will' . forgot God. They laughed at G d' be in our time. People y o hear God's voice anymore Th 0 s man. T.he said, "N one can God is dead." . e days of miracles are passed and I imagine that I can see God's Ion . .. again as he t . g, invisible screwdriver urns on the water He f t the deep. Water came f bt un as ened the fountain of . tl rom a ove and from b 1 N ~n .ne ark over a year. He had to I . e ow. oah was in order to save a few peopl If et the anti-God people perish e. you had a peach orchard, you
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I was taking an offering in a convention in Houston, Texas. A newspaper reportel' did not like the method I used. He blasted me in the newspaper, telling falsehoods. I didn't answer him back. I didn't pray for anything bad to happen to him. He went to his car a few days later and started the motor. As he stepped on the brake, a bullet went through his head. He died suddenly. Someone had tied a pistol to his steering rod, which came up from the floor. They tied a string from the brake pedal to the trigger on the gun. Will God do a thing like that? All he does is to withdraW his protection and the devil will kill a man. God is not obligated to protect a man after he defies the Holy Ghost anointing on one of God's servants. It so happened that I was directed by the anointing of the Holy Ghost to take the offering that night. The man can say all he wants to against me, but when he speaks one word against the Holy Ghost, it will not be forgiven him in this world nor the world to come. (Matt. 13 12:32).

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We only salute a captain when he has on the uniform. We respect the man of God because of the anointing of the Holy Ghost on his life.

1t so happened that the reporter received a "loose screw" when he began to publish these ungodly falsehoods. His mind SUddenly became reprobate. Instantly, he no longer knew right from wrong. He became as a beast. His conscience was seared. When a man crosses the point of no return, why should he stay here to tear down the work of God and keep people from being saved?
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. . to happen. He wan ted them . to . felt like somethmg was about d not to have fellowship WIth show which side they were on an the wrong crowd. .' .t seems that I can see To speak of this in a sym~?1 ~i:I;~e:Us as though the earth God's screwdriver at work ag:I~o' slide under the feet of these was taken apart. Rocks ?ega b to slide! They screamed . modern theologians. Their feet egan (Tone too far.. Th ey were TI had for help, but it was too late ~ tl~od' They had crossed the line not fighting Moses, but ag~ms ne to pray for them, (I John where there is no need for anyo 5'16). d all the people who were . The earth swallowed these men ahn the priesthood. They had t tl They ha d soug , lac influenced by tern, . d t take the preacher space. Th had trie 0, offered incense. ey . . h tl m because they were 00 s mpathizers died WIt 1e Over 14,0 ~ with modern methods. . influenced by the men . re found riding in this car WIth me If I steal a car and you a . 'It also If I rob a bank ' when r am caught, ~ou ~r e counted gui car with me. If I kill .a et-away y. I you had better not ride III ~he g food and shelter, or you Will man you had better not grve me . If I have a controversy , . to the CrIme. c be counted an .accessOlY etter withdraw yourself from me, with God's anomted you ha~ b Y had better not even ., II hip with me. ou and have no fe ews 1 h . I'S wrong but you are . M be the preac er , ld sympathize With me. ay hi to your hands. You shou t . to take t IS mId wrong also by rymg. . not have any fellowship with me that I might be as lame, (Numbers 16:20). THE EARTH OPENS TODAY

This newspaper reporter was a man of reputation, but there were two hundred and fifty famous men of renown who decided that Moses was outdated. They decided that they had better methods and that they were more up-to-date. At this time Moses was about 100 yeal'S old. They wanted to put him on a pension and retire him. They wanted to take his place. If they had taken his place, they would have had a big election. They would have voted in someone. Moses begged them to be careful and not to intrude into the priesthood and try to take the preacher's place. They wouldn't listen to Moses. Moses didn't argue or debate or call an election. He was out-numbered. He simply fell upon his face before the Lord. He asked God to make the decision for him. I can almost hear the you know the Lord spoke His voice as he told me heard His voice as he sent I heard His voice as He careful about seeking the old man now saying, "Now, brethren, to me from the burning bush. I heard to go bring judgment on Phal'aoh. I me to bring His people out of bondage. led me aCl'OSS the Red Sea. Please be priesthood." (Numbers 16:10).

No doubt they answered, "People have heard His voice in years gone by. He has performed miracles long ago, but we have a better Way now. We have a deeper life and We no longel' need miracles. We have a more modern way of doing things." Moses separated himself from them. He was meek, but he was not weak. They mistook his meekness for weakness. Moses asked all the people to get away from their tents because he 14

.d "I am going to tear A lady called on the telePhonbe. She StaI h'ave prayer ~eetings . "She egan 0 that church all to pieces. .. t th church I did not argue . pposition 0 e . from house to house mOd I f 11 on my face, as Moses. I did t say one wor. e . with her. 1 no. . The turned. against their Some people sympathized WIth h~r. .y f II hip WIth this lady. best friends and had e ows allowed into the earth. Well, the earth opened and she ithizers backslid and quit the I preached her funeral. Her sympa I 15

church. In a vision, I saw her later dwel1ing with the demons forever. She had now become just like one of the demons. Oh, people who get away from God always come back-unless they cross the deadline. Then a screw becomes loose and they can no longer discern right from wrong. If there is no coming back, then why shouldn't God withdraw His protection and let Satan have the people who are fighting His work in order to let the church roll on and let people go to heaven? Why should God continue to give them life and health and let them tear down His kingdom? God is merciful, but when it comes to choosing between one soul and a thousand souls, He will take the thousand. After a person falls away, there is no way to renew him to repentence, (Heb.6:1-6). I would rather play with forked lightning. I would rather hug a big rattlesnake or to walk out into the path of Hurricane Hazel, than to hear "second-hand" talk about God's anointed man and carry it on. God commands us to "Touch not my anointed and do my prophets no harm," (Ps. 105:15). Receive not an accusation against a preacher unless you have the evidence, (I Tim. 5:19). GOD CAN READ The King of Assyria sent a letter to Hezekiah. He told Hezekiah that he might as well surrender, for he would be taken into captivity. King Hezekiah merely spread the letter out before the Lord. The Lord read the letter, (2 Kings 19:15). God sent a messenger to Hezekiah, telling him that his prayer had been heard. That night one angel of the Lord went to meet the Assyrian army. It seems that I can see this angel silently turning a little screw that caused the heart to beat in those soldiers. Anyway, their heart stopped beating. The next morning there were 185,000 corpses lying there! God fought the battle for Hezekiah and all the nation. The Lord does not need to kill the enemy. Al1 He needs to do is to stop the flow of life. His glory He will not give to another. 16

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Why would He keep giving a man the right exercise of mind while that man is using all his energy to destroy the church and God's people. His kingdom would be divided. It would have to come to an end. The other night a lady started into the church. She met me. Suddenly, she cursed me publicly, It did not hurt me, but it hurt her. A screw came loose in her head. She began to have imaginations. She is now in the institution. It seems that I can see God's little screwdriver making one turn. One time Saul began to do things that he had preached against for years. He received a reprobate mind and went to a witch. Saul felt big in his own sight. God could not use him. He tried to take the preacher's place, (I Sam. 13:]2-13). God answered him no more. God let him go, and quit str-iving with him. Then, the spirits of envy, murder, hatred, lying and witchcraft took over. Next, he was possessed by a suicide spirit and killed himself. He was a man who had a new heart and was turned into another man and preached for years, (I Sam. 10:6-9; 28:6; 31:4). The devil laughed at him. No doubt the devil said, "You have played the fool. Fall on the sword, just one time. It won't hurt anything. Go ahead and fall on that sword." Saul did. He did because he couldn't think rig-ht. He couldn't discern right from wrong anymore. Saul had gone too far. Why? Because he had touched God's anointed. You SEe, Saul did not like David because David had slain 10,000, (I Sam. 29:5). Had David only slain two or three thousand, things would have been different. David made a decision that showed the spirit of Christ. He has been an example to people for centuries. He said that he was not going to speak against God's anointed, (I Sam. 24:10). He believed that God would take care of that himself. He said it would come Saul's time to die or that something would happen without him having to do the job, (I Sam. 26:10). Some people think they have the ministry of straightening out preachers. They say they have the "g-ift of discerning" but they have the "gift of imagination." They have a reprobate mind and they don't discern right from evil. God will take care of His 17

. b Noone is entrusted to do t h a t JO, not even King own men. ibilit David would take that responsi 11 y. . gainst David. David Saul made the m!stake. o~ ;u~~~~~:g n~t an elder, (I Tim. happened to be God s anom e . 5:1). .' Id r without the evidence, Don't accept a rumor against ~n e eon lest you play with (I Tim. 5:1~). Don't carry ht~ ~~:~: is due, (Rom. 18:7). dynamite. GIve honour to w 0 . THE SAME MEASURE

Judas made the 'mistake of coming against the anointed one. The next day Judas found himself up in a tree. lIe, no doubt, stood there in that tree with a rope in his hand. It seems as though I can hear a spirit saying, '''Put it around YOl!]' neck Come on, it won't hurt anything. Just once. Don't be it coward. Now, tie it to that limb. Come on now. Now Jump! Come on. It won't hurt. Just once. That is an awful thing that you did. Come on. Jump!" He leaped. That was a man who had ])i'eached, cast out devils and had his name written in heaven. What happened'? Why did he have a loose screw? He had gone a step too far and he touched God's anointed. GAMALIEL AND THE APOSTLES

. re that you use on one of God's With exactly the same measu With the same judg. t . t Jesus the same way. . ministers, you lea . d d (Matt. 7:1). If you receive ment you judge, you shallfb~ JU .g\~t you receive a prophet's a prophet in the name 0 <1 PlOP , reward. h threw the Hebrew boys into What happened to the me~ w th fire The men who threw thrown into e 1 . the fire? They were t b .~ lion The people who ,"' lion' d were ea en y.. . . Daniel in the IOn sen, h d ff when he was in prison, were were ready to cut Peter s ea . ~ the same gallows he built slain by the sword. Haman d ie on for Mordecai. . t a church to criticize a I was told that two mend cJame ~~16n the French language. i Of them quote om l 0. . d' preacher. ne 0... . ith the Lord, you are weighe m The-preacher said, Thus S~ll ." the balance and found wan~m.g~nd laughed him to scorn. They They mocked the preac ~l c inter retation to that message, told him that was not ~he r~ghth I dP had not spoken in other that they had spoken in FI enc , an tongues. preacher The id sal, "TI 1at is the message the Lord put in my spoke throug h

Gamaliel was a man of wisdom. He was a doctor of the law. The apostles were arrested and put in prison. This man said, "And now I say unto YOU, refrain from these men and let them alone for if this work be of men, it will come to nought, but if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it, lest you be found even to fight against God," (Acts 5:38-39). Why can't people who claim to have the Holy Ghost have as much wisdom as that man? Why can't deacons see that God will take care of preachers. If you lay a hand against one of God's men who is anointed, you are fighting God. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God, (Heb. 10:31). Two men reached out and placed their hands on the ark of God, where God's POwer dwelt. They both fell dead suddenly, (II Sam. 6:6-7). Let this be a warning to anyone who touches a vessel that contains the presence and power of God.

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When Jeroboam heard a man of God speak under the anointing, he put his hand out to takt:! hold of this man of GOd, because he didn't like the message. Soon -Jeroboam had a loose screw. A screw was loosened that caused the artery to work that pumped blood into the hands. His hands dried up instantly-the hands that reached out to get God's man, (I Kings ]3:4). That teaches lIS to never reach out Our hand against God's anointed. You may never pull back your hand again. 19

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Elisha was in his bed chamber. He knew each move the Syrian Army made. He had all his screws in- place. The gift of the word of knowledge was working through this man. The enemy army could not make any progress, because Elisha told their secrets. The king sent his army to take this unique man of God. He needed Elisha, and the work he was doing, to work on HIS side so he could win every battle. Elishas was in connection. He was a man with his eyes open. He could see into the spirit world. He prayed, "Lord, open my servant's eyes that he may see." He said, "They that be with us are more than they that be with them, (II Kings 6:16-17). The optic nerve stopped operating in each of the enemy soldiers. That was the optic nerve that went to their eyes, and they couldn't see; the screw had come out of place. They groped in darkness. I have an angel with me at all times to deliver me when I get in to trouble, (Ps. 34:7). MURMURING AGAINST GOD

. I was preaching in Louisiana. A zirl who used to be f"1I d with the Holy Ghost b . t t <> I C Sh ,.... egun 0 remble under the power of God. e wa.s .. I'.mk sinner- .. She turned and went the other wa . She ~ a ~<1I .\'/leck that night and was killed instantly in a dr~nken Shaed"d:1;tl mother wanted me to have her funeral service but S e I n want any preach ino'. , . '. _ c e" any smgrng, 0[" any praying. Slle Just wanted us to put her in the ground as a brl1~e beaat.

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One time the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, They were told that they were not really murmuring against them, but they were murmuring against the Lord, (Ex. ] 6:8) If we murmur against any of God's leaders, we are murmuring against the Lord. Each time you do it, you are stepping upon God's scales. You are weighed in the balance. Your liability may exceed your assets at any time. The scales may tip over with you. In our tent meeting in Monroe, Louisiana, three men made a move to close down the revival one week before it was to have closed. Hundreds of people were receiving God in a single night. I did not place judgment on them. A screw Lhat cau>;ed the heart to beat right, was loosened a little bit. In three weeks, they were all in their graves. God will take care of his own men. When Ananias and his wife lied to Peter, Petel' told them they had not really lied to him, but they had lied to the Holy Ghost, (Acts 5:3). Within a few minutes, they were both in their graves without a funeral. There were no songs, no sermon and

~ ~an rose to his feet and told his wife that he was going o.te~ll the church to pieces. He was going to blow it to b't Wlthl11 a few days something happened to thl's m" IJ IS. t tl I . nn. ~e went o 1e 10spltal. He was operated on for '1 bI'" t to pra f . I . _. < am umo!'. I went y ~] 11m, but the little screwdriver that controlled tl valve to hiS bl"'lin' j, d' 1e < "me Cdllse It to operate properly had I' d been turned! ' a 1ea y He was operated on for th is tumor of tIle I .,' N b . )} am. ow he goes a out bemg led by others. He talks but I I t k ' 1 e ( oes not seem o now what he js saying. 21

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THE CASE OF GEHAZI Naaman wanted to give Elisha money after he was healed. Elisha refused any gift. Elisha's servant ignored the man who was anointed of God. He did not seem to realize that he was dealing with the Lord. He did not realize that a man who had been used of God to bring healing can receive a revelation. Elisha knew where Gehazi went. Gehazi lied about it. He lied to God when he lied to God's man. Gehazi followed Naaman and accepted money from him for the healing when Elisha had told him not to. Suddenly, this spiritual screwdriver was turned. The hedge that kept back the disease automatically, was torn down and this same disease that left Naaman took hold of Gehazi. There was no turning back. He had crossed the deadline. The leprosy that came on him followed him to his grave. There was no healing, (II Kings 5:27). Elisha said that was no time for him to be thinking about houses, land and personal property. There are some ministers who are sent by the Lord to bring deliverance to the sick. They are going to get into serious trouble simply, because they want money for their service. Instead of investing that money back into God's work as they should, they invest it in houses and land, to use it for themselves, (II Kings 5:26). PAUL WAS GOD'S ANOINTED When people were dealing with Paul, they were dealing with God, (Matt. 10:40). Paul almost had someone ready to accept salvation, when an old sorcerer tried to disturb the altar service. The sorcerer had gone a long way. He had disturbed many people in his lifetime, but not in this fashion. No doubt, he never before came up against a man who happened to be God's anointed. It seems like I see the little screwdriver turn the screw that controls the optic nerve. The blessing of sight was shut off. The man groped in darkness, (Acts 13:10-11). A lady came to the church. She disturbed and grew angry with me while I was ministering to the sick. One day, after I had gone to her house to see her, she looked up and screamed, "My feet are burning. My feet are burning." This little screwdriver, rio doubt, began to turn. She suddenly set her eyes and began to scream. She left this world. I see her now as she screams, "My feet are burning. My feet are burning." I would like to remind you that God did not send destruction and death. All God had to do was to just loosen the screw that c~ntrolled the hedge that kept back destruction. How could He gIV: her the blessings of life, health, strength, food, and raiment while she . was tearing up the .'church? He would b e an accessory to the crime. Well, after this happened, revival came and the church almost doubled within a few weeks. A. man rna! lift hi.s fist in God's face and get by with it for a .whlle. GOd.IS mer.clful, long-suffering and kind, but He will wlthd.raw HIS ~er~les from a man who hinders His work of rescuing the perishing. The line is drawn. A man can cross that line. APPLIES TO PREACHERS

One preacher may think that he can blast another preacher and get by with it, but not for long. God's Word works for the preachers as well as lay m em bers. 1 h ave h eard preachers preach g~~d sermons to their members. They would teach against backbiting, envy, jealousy and unforgiving spirits. Then I have heard th:s: same preachers backbite other preachers. It was the same spirit of en~y in them that was in the lay members. Even James and John .dldn't know what spirit they were of when they acted as they did, (Luke 9:55). They were forbidding other ministers because they didn't follow them. Maybe a preacher does do you wrong. You can do as David y?U have enough of God. You can say "I'll t lift h aga t G d' . , no I my and ins 0 s anomted. God will take care of him." f An e~angelist heard another evangelist was coming to a city or. \re~lval. He set his tent close to where he knew this revival wa~ 0 ~. The evangelist in the auditorium did not say one wor d against the tent evangelist. He left it all in God' h. d ~ engeance belongs to God. On an almost clear day a Stor<~:d~ dipped down and destroyed the tent completely N' tho was hurt. . 0 mg else
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A lady preacher told me to get rid of a certain pastor of a church of which I was overseer. She called me up and told me he was a whoremonger. [ asked for the evidence. I stood on the Scripture, "Recei~e not an accusation against an elder except by two or three witnesses." Both Moses and Jesus required eye-witnesses before they would receive any evidence whatsoever, (John 8:10, 17). This preacher should have done like David, left it up to God to discipline His anointed. She had no evidence except wh~t she said was a revelation from God. The pastor prayed, but did not fight back. One day this lady preacher, in her resistance and stubbornness, began to hemorrhage. She was prayed for, but there were no results. She grew worse. She came to me crying. She said she was sorry for what she had done and wanted me to forgive her. But I wasn't the one she should have been asking to forgive her. I told her that she should go to the man she had talked about. He happened to be God's anointed. She stubbornly refused. Another preacher told her that she should go to the man she had talked about. She phoned him, but she would never go to him. She never said she was sorry. She would never confess that she was wrong. She never confessed that she was lying about it. She kept hemorrhaging. How can you do what God can't do? How can you bless the one who has walked under a curse? His glory He will not give to another. Well, this lingered on and on and on. Finally this lady preacher went out to meet God in this condition. Well, I am not her judge. I don't keep the Lamb's Book of Life. I do know what the Bible says. If we do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will our Heavenly Father forgive us. The Bible says that when you go to the altar and pray, God will not accept your prayer unless you go back and be reconciled to the man that has ought against you, (Matt. 5:24). So, at the day of judgment we will meet the Scriptures, not our church book, but the book called the Bible. We will be judge by it according to our works. 24

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CONTROVERSY WITH GOD'S MESSAGE When I was a teenager growing up, there was an evangelist who came through our country. He preached, played the guitar, shouted and sang. Thousands of people flocked out to hear this brother. He built churches all over the country. Within a few months he came back. He had changed. He was preaching that the resurrection had already taken place, that Jesus had already come. Somewhere down the line, a screw had turned in his brain. W:....st because he had sinned and walked out of God's presence? i Because he wilfully, maliciously, and purposely disobeyed God? Was it because he had received a reprobate mind'? He had the symptoms of it. Well, the shine had gone from his face. The beam had gone from his eye. The joy had gone from his souL The shout had left him. He had received seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. Soon, he was out of the ministry. He was lying under cars, in Hot Springs, trying to make a living as a mechanic. He was not the first one who had preached that the resurrection had passed already. There were two preachers in Paul's time who erred in this truth, saying that the resurrection had passed and overthrew people's faith, (II Timothy 2:18). Paul turned such people over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, (l Timothy 1. :20). They did not believe his message. They took a leap in the dark and made a shipwreck of life .To keep them from overthrowing the faith of others, he turned them over to Satan and let them be destroyed. God didn't do it, but Satan did it. God did not kill these reprobates. He just let the screw begin to turn, so to speak. When the blessings are cut off people have no protection. They are open for any kind of spirit to take hold of them, suicide spirit, insanity spirit, lying spirit, or a deceiving spirit. Satan was free to come in and destroy this man. The Lord won't always furnish a man protection when that man is sending men's souls to destruction. God would be an accessory to the crime. In the early church, a man committed fornication. Paul said, 25

"By the anointing of God, the church could turn the screw which would turn the blessings of God off from that .man." Paul commanded them to do it, (I Cor. 5:1-5). A man should not get by with it when he sets out to tear down God's work and keep souls out of the kingdom of God. AGE OF REASON Today 1 received a letter. When the stamp was cancelled, there was a motto printed on it, "Pray for Peace." I thought that was a good idea until I opened the letter, attacking God, God's people and God's Word. He said blasphemous things against the Bible. He wanted to destroy preachers, the Bible and churches; and solicit money to carryon his satanic work. Then, 1 remembered that there can be no peace for the wicked. As long as men like that are permitted to breathe God's pure air and spit it and beer back into His face and curse Him, they have a controversy with God. No doubt this man was raised by good parents. When he rejected God so long, when he received not the love of the truth that he might be saved, he received strong delusions that he might believe a lie and be damned, (II Thes. 2:1.1). It probably happened around some old-fashioned meeting when the spirit of God was striving with him and the preacher was dealing with his soul. He thought it was the preacher, but it was God. He grieved the spirit of God away. Since the little screw was turned, he will never know right from wrong again. God withdrew the blessings. The man sold himself to Satan. Now the man is deceived and trying to deceive others, because he is a messenger of Satan. There will be no infidels in hell. One second after a man steps inside hell, he will know, good and well, that God's Word is true. He will know that God told the truth when he spoke of hell. COLLEGE STUDENTS

Forty-two of these teenagers, who rebelled against God and crossed the line of no return, decided to have a demonstration and march against a plowboy who had been called to preach. It wouldn't have made any difference, except that this plowboy happened to be God's anointed. They screamed out blasphemous words against the doctrine of the rapture. They rejected the message of the country preacher. They began to scream, "Go up old bald head : go up old bald head." They made fun of the man, his doctrine and beliefs, (II Kings 2 :24) . It seems as if I can see this little screwdriver begin to turn. The angels that had protected these children dropped their heads and slowly went away; the wan of protection crumbled! Soon, some bears came out of the woods and destroyed everyone of these children. That should be a lesson for all of the boys and girls who go on demonstrations against right and truth today. Don't rise up against the message of God. THE ANOINTED ONES

Teenagers today have been taught by their elders to blaspheme God and to mock God's messengers. They attack the truth and try to make His Word void. They can cross the deadline where they can never come back. They should be warned. 26

When God moved on Gideon, He actually "clothed Himself" with Gideon. Now, you can understand how Gideon could win the battle. It was actually God going to battle, (II Chronicles 20:15). God clothes Himself with men today. We become God's temple, (Cor. 3:16). Your body becomes the habitation of God, (Eph. 2:22). It becomes the temple of the Holy Ghost, (I Cor. 6:19). We go in Christ's stead (11 Cor. 5:20). The only body that Christ has in this world is our body. We are His hands, His feet, His eyes, and we follow in His footsteps, (Peter 2:21). As He is, so are we in this world, (l John 4:17). We do the works of Christ, (John 14:12). From Paul's body, which was full of virtue and the glory of God, was taken handkerchiefs and aprons which had touched his body. These handkerchiefs and aprons healed people, or the power in them did, (Acts 19:11). Can you say these words, "Jesus is in me?" (John 14:17). God is manifested in my flesh, my whole body is full of light, (Matt. 6:22). God is that life. The Spirit that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in my mortal body, (Rom. 8:11). God is in my bod ynow. I am His dwelling, (I Cor. 3:16). That is 27

why people can be set free from sin and wickedness, when I come in contact with them. That is why they are healed. It is God that dwells in me that does the work. That is the anointing. This anointing stays in me all the time, (I John 2:27). "No burden or yoke can remain where the anointing is, (Is. 10:27). No prison doors can remain shut where the anointing is. (Luke 4:18). Captives are always set free where the anointing is. I can comfort nll that mourn. With this anointing, I can bind up the broken heart, set at liberty those that are bruised and encourage people, (Isa. 61:1-3). I am the son of consolation, (Acts 4:36). 1 have the ministry of reconciliation, (11 Cor. 5:18). No one can be discouraged with this anointing. I have the Comforter. I can walk into a funeral and say, 'Why do you sorrow as they that have no hope?' (1 Thes. 4:13). I can say, 'What maketh you to weep? This person is not dead, just asleep,' (Mark 5:39). That will make the people in this funeral procession feel like shouting and praising God because they will feel the consolation and comfort. That is what the Comforter does .. The Word of God worketh mightily in me, (Col. 1 :29). 1 can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me, (Phil. 4:13). He supplieth all my need, (Phil. 4:19). Nothing shall be impossible unto me, (Matt. 17:20). I am more than a conqueror, (Rom. 8:37). I always triumph in Christ," (II Cor. 2:14) . If you say these words, you are only confessing what God confesses. He that is of Goel speaks God's words, (John 3:34). It is not wrong to say what God says. Y Oll are only boasting in Him, (Ps. 34:2). He that is of God speaketh God's words, (John 3:34). There is none good but one. That is God, (Matt. 19:17). Without Him, I can do nothing, (John 15:5). Joseph, Barnabas, and many others were good men, (Acts 11:24; Luke 23 :50; Heb. 11:39). It was because they were dead and their life was hid with Christ in God, (Col. 3:3). IN HIS NAME Can you say these words? "I am God's anointed. As the Father sent Jesus, so sends He me, (John 16:17). I have His representative. I go in His name, (Mark 16:17). 1 have His 28

power, His love and His mercy. I have His life, (John 3:16). He is the resurrection and the life, (John ]1:2!1). He is dwelling in me at this moment, (I John 4:15)." You can say the Name of Jesus all clay long with your mouth without Him dwelling in you. You cannot cast out devils without that, (Acts 19-]3). If he dwells in you, the devil will flee without you saying a word with your mouth, many times, (Acts 19:12). It is because you go in Jesus' name, (Prov, 18:]0). If you have confidence in an anointed man of Goel, He can get you out of debt, (II Kings 4:7). If you wi Il COOpel"H with te an anointed man, He can cause yOUI"meal barrel to never be empty, (I Kings 17:14). He can bring life and deliverance to your family because the Word of Cod dwells in His mouth, (l Kings 17:24). He speaks as the oracles of God, as if it were God speaking, (I Peter 4:11). We arc men of like passion as Elijah. Our prayers availeth much, (James f):16-18). All the walls of opposition will come tumbling down before an anointed man, (Josh. 6:5). Nothing shall be impossible with him. Nothing shall be able to stand before him all the days of his life, (Josh. 1:5). All things are mine. (11 Peter 1:3). He can say, "1 cast out devils and cause the sick to recover," (l Cor. 3:21; Luke 9:1; Mark 16:17-18). 1 can speak in a heavenly language, (1 Cor. 14:5). He can say, "Lhave power over serpents and over all the power of the enemy, (Luke 10:] 9). I have power to get wealth," (Acts 1:8; Deut. 8:18). .A whole nation fled before Gideon's pitcher. The Red Sea divided before Moses' rod. Four nations were defeated when God's people began to say, "Praise the Lord." (II Chron. 20:1923). A lame man walked as Peter shook hands with him, (Acts 3:1-6). The sun was shifted into reverse as Joshua spoke the words of God, (Joshua iO:12). Hunger left the lions as Daniel walked into the den. The Hebrew boys had more power than the fire. Elijah lived three and one-half years without a ration book. God can do things through an anointed man. It is not always His will to divide the Red Sea, make the iron to swim, or raise the dead, but it is always His will to forgive all of our iniquities, and heal all of our diseases, (Ps. 103:1-3).

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WALK WORTHY Since you are entrusted with so much, since you have "this treasure in earthen vessels" (II Cor. 4:7), be sure and walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called. Wait on your ministry. Prophesy according to the proportion of your faith, (Rom. 12:6). Fast often, (II Cor. 11:27). Wait on the Lord, (Isa. 40:31). Get out of the natural. He that is in the fle~h cannot please God, (Rom. 8:8). A natural man cannot receive the things from God, (I Cor. 2:14). Spiritual gifts work only through the Spirit. Go with the anointing. Keep the anointing. Don't depend on past experiences. Don't disappoint God. Don't disappoint the men of God who have ordained you and trusted you. Don't disappoint the neighbors who are.watching you. Don't disappoint your children who have confidence in you. Don't disappoint the poor people who are looking to you for deliverance. You are God's anointed. You are God's representative. Have a regular time to pray. Do personal work every day. Win souls everywhere you go. Stay converted. Stay connected. Don't be a ball of fire. His ministers are a "flame of fire," (Reb. 1:7). A ball of fire will soon burn out. A "flame of fire" stays burning because it is continually connected to the source of supply. Keep connected and you will resemble the son of a king, (Judges 8:18; Rev. 1:6). That is what you are. The other day, the maid in my hotel room said she felt different when she came to the room. I shook hands with her. She was instantly saved and filled with the Holy Ghost. She was healed of a growth. The next day she was there with her sister and her mother. Both of them were saved, filled with the Spirit and healed within five minutes. It is only because of the anointing. There will come a time when God's people will be put to death, (Matt. 24:9), but not a hair of your head will perish, because God will give you a mouth 31

We are not a group of silly people with our heads grown in the crack of the fence in "pumpkin' hollow," way back in the foothills of the Ozarks. We are in God's family. We are His children. We are kings and priests unto God, (Rev. 1:6). We have royal blood. We are it chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, (l Peter 2:9). We are called-out ones. As we pray in a heavenly language, we are edified, (I Cor. 14:4). We are built up as no nerve medicine can build people up. As we pray in a heavenly language, our faith is built very high, (Jude 20). The anointing brings all things to our remembrance, (John 14:26). Since the average man forgets 90% of what he learns, that makes our mind seven times better than the natural mind. I have the mind of Christ, (I Cor. 2:16). God has given me a sound mind, (II Tim. 1:7). 1 have no loose screws. I am redeemed from the fall. Jesus came to redeem me from the curse. He came to bring us all the way back. vVe were created before the fall in the image of God, and we had dominion over all things. 1 have a heavenly language. The Holy Ghost always prays through me according to God's will, He hears and answers, (1 John 5:14). Paul says, "Gird up the loins of your mind, (I Peter 1:13)." If he can say that, I can say, "Tighten up the loose screws." Meditate on His law day and night, (Psalms 1:2). I am led by the Spirit. He guides me in the way of all truth, (.John 16:13). The worldly wisemen said, "How can this man know letters being that He has never learned." Jesus even taught the doctors and lawyers. A college graduate called Peter and John ignorant and unlearned men, (Acts 4:13). Yet they confounded the wise when they wrote several books of the Bible. They had no loose screws. They spake as the oracles of God, (I Peter 4:1). The first time in your life that you are normal is when you have the Holy Ghost Baptism. He is the Comforter. A policeman, schoolteacher, merchant, or even the president of the United States is not qualified to do their jobs without the Baptism of the Holy Ghost and the anointing. 30

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and he will give you wisdom, (Luke 21:15). It will be the Holy Ghost that speaks through you, (Mark 13:11). It won't be you that speaks. "Dear heavenly Father, help this dear reader to begin now to walk, talk, and to go only as the anointing directs. Send forth a double portion now. In Jesus' Name. Amen and amen."

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