Church Values - Wayne Jacobsen
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This is what the kingdom of God is... from time to time, experiencing now what we will live in for eternity. |
George Dodson [sound bite] I would be a Christian if for no other reason that nobody else has a better story. You can go the world over and take every pagan religion, you can take every modern religion, you can take every fabrication of man -- there is nothing to compare to this story, nothing. And what is this story? What have we heard? Very simply, that the God who made us, has redeemed us. That He who created, became one of us one day. That the old ancient of days looked out through eyes of a baby one day... and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. And not only that, loved us, and not only that, loved us to the tree. There is no better story than that. Dec. 24, 1995 |
David Hogan [sound bite] Do you understand that I get put into these hard situations and it hasn't changed who I am? I'm a red-neck from Louisiana..... always have been, always will be and I'll die that way. But, do you understand that even though I am who I am, it has not changed the freedom that's allowed to happen....? Are you hearing that? You can stay who you are, it's alright. God made you that way, it's ok. But you can't let that dominate you. You must be dominated by the Holy Ghost. You must allow the truth to set you free. You must allow suspense and expectancy to rule your spirit, and you must tabernacle with the great God of Heaven! I'm right... I'm right !!... and I want to invite you to those things. July, 29, 2005 |
The Neglected Cup- Philippians 3:10 ....there is also another cup on the table, a cup that is very near the Master's hand, a cup which we very frequently forget or ignore. It is a bitter cup, the cup of the Lord's sufferings. "Are ye able to drink of the cup that I drink of?" Are we prepared to have "all things in common"? We drink the cup of kindness, the overflowing cup of redeeming grace. "Are ye able to drink of the cup that I drink of? |
The test of everything we call "Christian" is the cross. |
The day I was baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit, was the day Kathryn Kuhlman died. |
He! is Able (Heb.7:25) [sound bite] I feel as happy as a man tonight that has found the secret of life and he could go to every dead person and grant them life. I feel happy as a man who has found somehow the mystery of solving the curse that enslaves millions of people diseased in hospitals tonight. People in whom the lamp of reason is flickering because they are mentally imbalanced. I feel as though I have that answer in my hand. And I won't feel more happy tonight to go and emancipate every sin shacked body than I am tonight to preach to limited audience like this, and say to you irrespective of your need tonight that I don't care a stamp of the things about your malady. For the malady doesn't matter, it's the remedy that matters. And however cursed and crooked and deformed and twisted your life may be, if you're in bondage to secret sin, the Word says here in it's wonderful emancipation that He! not a system of religion, not a series of pilgrimages, not by genuflecting to the altar, not by turning to the east to say your prayers, not by making the sign of the cross, not by the resolution of your will, not by something which is hereditary, or something imagined hallowed, but free grace abounds tonight whereby He is able to save you to the uttermost on one condition, and that condition is that you come to God by Him. |
Our Father [Entire article here] There are two things we need to know about God: Some people go all through life understanding in their mind, and it never ever filters down to their heart. We must see past the natural. Beyond a hard meeting, beyond a rebellious child, beyond a difficult work situation, beyond all the earthly things, we need to see the spiritual. |
It has to be Settled The whole history of the Church is one long story of this tendency to settle down on this earth and to become conformed to this world, to find acceptance and popularity here and to eliminate the element of conflict and of pilgrimage. That is the trend and the tendency of everything. Therefore outwardly, as well as inwardly, pioneering is a costly thing. It is a costly and a suffering thing to come up against the religious system that has ' settled down ' here. It is far more costly than coming up against the naked world itself. The religious system can be more ruthless and cruel and bitter; it can be actuated by all those mean things, contemptible things, prejudices and suspicions things that you will not even find in decent people in the world. It is costly to go on to the heavenlies, it is painful; but it is the way of the pioneer, and it has to be settled that that is how it is. The Christian life is not by effort, and not by struggle; not merely by trying to put into practice certain maxims, or by trying to attain to a certain measure; but from beginning to end, and all together, it is a matter of knowing the Lord Jesus within. |
My One Desire [sound bite] David says "...one desire..." [Ps.27:4] and that's where I've come to. Thank God for family, thank God for ministry, 50 years of ministry. But folks it's boiled down to one issue! One desire! It's more than wanting to be loved and appreciated by the cheers and praises of man. It's more than being comfortable and knowing that you're secure in your old age and you've got some retirement plan set aside. That means NOTHING! It comes down to this one issue.... I want to be like Jesus. I want to see His face and I want to be a reflection of who He is. That's all of our missionary work.... you know people say oh, "the issue is soul winning"... "the issue is missions".... "the issue is reaching the world". But if you don't know His face it's all in VAIN! How do you influence people? How do you reach the conscience of men? .... unless you have seen His face, you know who He is and you reflect Him. Seek His reflection. That's the answer. Aug.21, 2005 |