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By Cecil duCille

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THE SLEEPING CHURCH

(Message given at the Nov 2002 Sonlight Gospel Nebraska Convention)
God moves by certain principles. If we understand the principles of God,
we can walk with God. But we cannot walk with God by our own principles,
by our own plans. We must walk by His principles and by His plans. So
then, God has brought us here. Whatever circumstances that you might think
have brought you here, it is the hand of God; and God is still striving with us
to bring us into conformity with His Son Jesus Christ. Amen.
The difference between the Christian and the sinner is that the Christian
has the power to resist and overcome sin, and the sinner has no power
against sin. Amen! The Christian has the power to resist sin and the sinner
has no power, yet the Christian sometimes commits the same sins and
sometimes might do the same things that the sinner does. At one time I was
surprised, but I am no longer surprised at seeing Christians cursing and
Christians doing wrong things, because I know that we have the power to do
it. We have the power to do it, but you pay the consequence. Amen. God
gives us power over the power of the devil, and some people want to have
power so that they can heal the sick and so that they can speak the word out
there and that this happens and that happens, and that they can do this and
they can do that. But is the power of God “doing”? The power of God is to
“be.” It is not power to “do,” but it is the power to “be.” Amen!
When you tell me that you have a sin in you, you are confessing that you
reject Jesus Christ. (I am being hard, but it is true. I am just throwing out the
truth as the Spirit of God gives it.) You cannot have a sin in you that
continually bugs you unless you reject Jesus Christ. For the Holy Ghost will
stop you from sinning and you have to overcome Him and put Him aside in
order to sin. Amen! So, therefore, the sin that besets us, it is not because
God is not God that we sin. It is because we reject God, why we sin. “For
the Son of God (Jesus) was revealed so that we should not sin.” Amen! I am
quoting now from 1 John,
“And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is
no sin. Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not
seen him, neither known him.”1
If you sin, Jesus Christ is not revealed to you. Whatever sin we have, it
is because we want it. Somebody goes crying, “Oh God! Take this away
from me!” The Bible said that Esau sought repentance with tears, but that
1 1 John 3:5-6
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repentance was elusive to him2. Repentance was running away from him.
Why? Because he was only sorry that he had lost the birthright and the
blessing. He wanted them to consume them unto his lust. You take God’s
goods, God’s goodies, and then you turn them into your lust. Amen! To
make yourself great. God help us! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
There is a curse in the land. There is a curse in the land; and if I tell you
what the curse is it is going to be very hard for you to swallow it. But it is the
“religion” that we have in us. Amen! You were brought up in a Catholic
home, and you say, “Oh, I am no more a Catholic! I am born again now, and
I am filled with the Holy Ghost!” I would prefer it if you said that you were
“baptized” instead of saying that you were “filled” with the Holy Ghost,
because if you say that you are filled with the Holy Ghost you are involving
God into something that is not godly. Are you with me? You were baptized
in the Holy Ghost, but even though you had the change from being a
Catholic, your mind still thinks the same way that Catholics think. And this is
happening without your knowing it. Amen! You said you used to be this and
that and that you were the other, but please look into those things that you
once were, for some of those things you still are. It is still hanging on there,
like a disease that did not come out at the first touch. Amen.
I want to talk to you about “The Sleeping Church.” Turn your bibles with
me around to Matthew, and I am reading from Matthew 25, beginning with
Verse 1.
“Then shall the kingdom of heaven (the church) be likened unto ten
virgins which took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom.”
You talk to the people—everybody—and they all say, “We are waiting!
Jesus will soon come! We are waiting for Jesus!” All the denominations are
waiting for Jesus! But it is going to be “…weeping and gnashing of teeth!”3
It goes on in Verse 2 and says,
“And five of them were wise and five were foolish.”
Now, spiritually, it is not saying that half of them were wise and half of
them were foolish. If half of the church was wise and half was foolish, it
would be a wonderful thing. But it is not even ten percent of the church that
is wise. We do not have ten percent! So, therefore, we are dealing with all
foolish people. Foolish ministries! Foolish congregations! Do you hear me?
Now let me explain to you what “foolish” means, because, you know,
sometimes you have to say what the meaning of “is” is. The Bible (in Psalm
14:1) says,
“The fool hath said in his heart there is no God.”
2 Ref. Hebrews 12:16-17
3 Refs. Matthew 8:11, 24:51, 25:30

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Come on now. It says that the fool has said in his heart that there is no
God. But here am I (saved, sanctified, baptized in the Holy Ghost) and still I
will hide and do sin. I still will tell a lie. When you do this, you are saying that
there is no God. You are saying that there is no God, but God is standing up
there looking at you while you are lying and thinking that you are hiding
because the other person does not know about it. The people do not know
and so you feel quite confident that you are hidden, and that your situation is
hidden. You come to church, and you straighten up and you try to sing—but
you do not fool the Holy Ghost! Amen!
Let me tell you, if we came in here and if our hearts were pure before
God, when we would open our mouths to sing, this whole area would be
shaken! Yes! I am telling you we have had prayer meetings where we would
go through the whole night. And when you would get to like three o’clock in
the morning, for some reason or the other the Spirit always falls; and people
would come running out of their beds. They would come running out of their
beds, running to the altar. They wanted Jesus, and the stories they tell is that
they could not sleep. “I was tormented! I had to come!” So then, the glory of
God and the power of God is getting into you and fastening right there, but it
is not coming out. If the power of God was let loose in us here, this place
could not hold the people. This whole town would be shaken! Sinners would
be shaken! Sinners would die! Oh, yes!
Forgive me please to deviate, but I mean I have seen sorcerers….
Sorcerers! You don’t believe in sorcery, of course. You don’t believe in
sorcery, but let me tell you something. If you do not believe that there is a
living devil, you do not believe God; for God said that there is a living devil. If
you do not believe in sorcery, then you do not believe God, for the Bible says
that there is sorcery. Amen! In Ephesians it speaks of “…spiritual
wickedness in high places.” What do you think He is talking about?
I have seen sorcerers oppress a whole church. Yes! They make the
leaders of the church to get sick, and some to go crazy and to go out of their
minds. Amen! The people are there praising God and clapping and singing
and jumping and leaping, and yet they could not overcome the spirit of
sorcery that was let loose upon them.
So I am saying to you that the church is SLEEPING, and there is a time
to wake it. Now, you remember that “virgins” means “Christi ans,” and so the
foolish virgins in Matthew 25 are those who half-believe and half-don’t
believe. Amen? In other words, they believe, but with a doubt. If you believe
God, then why don’t you just believe Him? If you believe that God is God,
why don’t you serve Him? Serving God is not running up and down the
streets, telling people and handing out tracts. To some people, that is serving
God. That is part of it, but that is the least of it. The greater part of serving
God is to ALLOW the power of God to come into you (into God’s temple) to
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what He wants to do. You do not have to go all around telling everybody
about Jesus. You do not have to go, doing something. This Sister here, you
went to China. The day is going to come when we will walk through China,
saying nothing at all. Not a word! Breaking down the power of hell! Amen!
Because the POWER of God is coming through you! Amen! Hallelujah!
You have read of Charles Finney and men like that. I mean, I am not
talking about those who you know, but I am talking about what you have
heard about. He went to a factory and as he walked through, people fell from
their seats and accepted Jesus without him saying a word. Some people
say, “Well, we hear Brother duCille talk about God, but we have not known
Him for ourselves.” But if you believe God He will manifest Himself to you
also.
Now, let us get back to this thought, that the church is asleep, and “Are
you a part of it?” Going back to Matthew 25, it says here in Verses 2-4,
“And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were
foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in
their vessels with their lamps.”
Isn’t that very simple, Brethren? To me that is a very, very simple
statement that says that God has given you the cure. He has given you the
cure for not being a foolish virgin, and the cure is that you must have oil in
your lamp and oil in your vessel. You have long ago known that spiritually
“oil” means the “Holy Spirit.” Even in your dreams, oil means the Holy Spirit.
You must have the Holy Spirit in your lamp and the Holy Spirit in your vessel
(your soul). Well, what is my lamp? The Bible tells you what your lamp is.
Isn’t that right? The Bible tells you that the “spirit of man” is your lamp.
“The spirit of man is the candle (lamp) of the LORD, searching all the
inward parts of the belly.”4
In other words, God gives you something inside you to light your lamp.
When things get dull, there is a contact with heaven, and the Spirit that you
have from God will light your lamp (which is your spirit) and if the vessel
(which is your soul) does not have the Holy Spirit in that vessel, you will
continuously fall into sin. I wonder if you understand me? The way to get the
deliverance in your flesh is to OPEN up and allow the Spirit of God to pour
into your flesh.
But somebody is talking about “emotionalism.” Let me tell you
something, you have not seen anything yet. Are the angels emotional?
When they shout and praise before God, are the angels emotional? Well, let
me tell you, I feel Jesus Christ move sometimes, in my hands and feet and
head, and down to my toes! Amen! Some people say, “Oh, duCille teaches
the people to shout.” But did I teach David to shout? The David that is in the
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Bible, did I teach him to shout? I heard that he shouted, and he lifted his feet
so high that his under clothes showed.5 Right? He didn’t care! How can you
care, when you are in the Spirit? You are like a man possessed!
So when the Spirit of God shouts though you or moves through you, you
should have no “method” of restricting it or holding it back. Amen! Yes! You
should have NO method. You should not be so strong that you can stop God
from moving through you. Amen. You need some weakness in certain
sections, there. Amen! You should not be strong enough to be able to stop
the Almighty God! Amen! To stop the JAHWEH! To stop the Eloihim! To
stop the anointing (the Christ) from moving through you involuntarily. Do you
hear me, Sister? Where the Lord moves so strongly through you so that you
are frightened because God moved through you. Amen! Hallelujah!
Foolish virgins! Foolish Christians! Foolish Christians!
“But the wise took oil…!” Amen. You ask me then, “Brother Ces, how do
I take the oil?” I just told you how you take the oil. You just open up! Open
up! Go before God! Some of you are too ashamed to talk before anybody of
what you really are. I do not know of anybody who is going to talk what he
really is before anybody. Amen! But when you get before God alone, you
know that you cannot hide anything from Him. The lust that came into you
this morning that nobody else knows about, you know that God knows it. You
know that you want deliverance and you say to God, “God, set me free! Set
me free! I will not live with this devil any longer! Set me free!” Hallelujah!
Amen! God said to Pharaoh, “Let My People go. If you do not let them go, I
am going to throw disease and death upon you.” Amen! He said, “Israel is
My firstborn, and you must let Israel go or I will DESTROY your firstborn!”6
Hallelujah! Yes, Jesus! So then God is in the business of destroying the
things that the people love the most. Do you hear me?
You know, when I preach to some of us, we think of others. I am not
talking about those other people out there. We are basically concerned with
us. Do you know why? If we fail, the world fails! We are holding up the
whole world. God said (in 2 Thessalonians 2:7),
“He that letteth will let, until out of the midst the devil comes forth!”
Oh, you did not know that this is what this scripture actually says? Look
in the Greek and you will see that this is the proper translation.
“He (the Holy Ghost) that letteth will let, until out of the midst he (the
antichrist)… is revealed!”
So it is the Holy Ghost that is holding us up, and we are holding up the
whole world. Believe you me, Brethren, if we were not here, hell would have
broken loose already. God said,
5 Ref. 1 Samuel 6
6 Ref. Exodus 4:22-23

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“…lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”7
Do you realize that the greatest blessing that God has given us is the
Word of God? Yes! The greatest blessing on earth is the Word of God; and
the Word of God was revealed by speech, by written word, by a man.
Hallelujah! So that the “living Word” walked among us.8 Amen! And as you
meditate on God and release yourself in the Spirit, that living Word walks in
you. So that, God reveals Himself by His Word.
Now, if you were the devil, where would you hit? (This is warfare, now.
Put yourself in the place of the devil… I hope you will never be….) Where
would you attack first? The Word! Yes! You would attack the Word; and if
God makes a Bible, you would make another bible. Amen! Some time ago, I
was sitting down listening to a man just reading the Bible over the radio, and
all of a sudden I realized that he had left out one whole big piece. Why?
Because the devil hit the Word! He was reading from an alien translation!
Sooner or later there is going to be a head -on clash between the Word of
God and the word of the devil. Are you with me? Now, if you become the
word of God (if you become what God wants you to be), you become the
walking, talking, living word of God. So what is going to happen then? The
devil will have to attack you. The devil will have to attack you, and in past
years and in past dispensations the brethren were murdered. And God
allowed them to be killed. God allowed them to die. Yes! God allowed it to
this point in time. He still allows it. The Psalmist said,
“Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us
among the heathen. Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not
increase thy wealth by their price… Thou makest us a byword among the
heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. My confusion is
continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me. For the
voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and
avenger.”9
Amen! This has been happening in every dispensation coming down
through time. But in every dispensation God taught us something. He taught
us “Victory.” We had the first dispensation that we call “The dispensation of
innocence,” where Adam began to teach his children what happened to him
when he walked in the garden with God Almighty. Have you ever thought of
it, the privilege of walking with the Living God? Adam had this experience,
and he began to teach his children. He taught them hundreds of years, and
then, after somewhere around nine hundred years, somebody got the
message. One man! One man (Enoch) had the capacity and the
7 Malachi 4:6b
8 Ref. John 1:1-12
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determination and the power of faith to break through into the presence of
God and to COMMAND the deliverance! Yes! Do you hear me?
“And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And
Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.”10
Adam taught Enoch, and the Bible says here that it took 365 years.
Now, that number 365, doesn’t it look suspicious to you? 365 days make one
solar year. Amen? So then, in 365 years one man got the message. God
translated Enoch when he was 365 years old, and thereby by type showed us
what is going to happen at the end of time when God will bring man into the
fullness. Amen? And at the end of the Jewish year there is the “feast of
tabernacles,” the third and final feast, which is a type of God tabernacling
Himself within man (God and man becoming one).
“Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy
God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread,
and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles…”11
“…And Enoch walked with God….” Now, the first man that we read of
that walked with God was Adam. It says that Adam walked with God. He
taught Enoch, and Enoch learned to walk with God. And Enoch’s wife said,
“Enoch walked with God and is not for God took him.” For the Bible says that
Enoch had sons and daughters.12 That shows that the man was a natural,
normal man who had a wife and children, and a home, and it says that he
walked with God!
“And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.”13
Now, she didn’t mourn. She wasn’t crying and weeping that she lost him,
because she didn’t lose him. She gained him! Enoch “walked with God,”
and she said, “Enoch is not.” That means to say that, “He is no longer here.
He is no longer a natural, carnal, physical man. He has ASCENDED!” And
the Bible tells us that he did it by faith!
“By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not
found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this
testimony, that he pleased God.”14
He walked with God by faith, and it said, “And…God took him.” What
would make God want a man? You can imagine how much God must have
loved that man? See him walking, walking like the perfect NEW CREATION
MAN! God had a plan to make us into a new creation man, so when Adam
10 Genesis 5:34-35
11 Deuteronomy 16:16
12 Ref. Genesis 5:22
13 Genesis 5:24
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fell it did not bother God. For this same Adam that fell, God saw him ahead
at the end of the day, WALKING IN POWER AND GLORY! Amen!
So then, God said to Enoch, “Would you like to come with Me?” And
Enoch said, “That is what I want.” Amen! “Nothing else would satisfy me.
The reason I live is to worship Thee!” Amen! Yes! “The reason I live is to
worship Thee, God!”
“And Enoch… was not; for God took him.”
This was absolutely amazing! I cannot imagine how it must have
seemed. He just stepped from natural into supernatural. Enoch never died;
and Enoch is alive this very day. He just went from natural into supernatural.
Amen!
That then, was “the dispensation of innocence.” I mean, we can call it by
any name; we do not have to be theologically correct. Then there was
another dispensation, “the dispensation of the law,” and in that dispensation
there was another man, Moses. I remember one time in my meditation that
God showed me Moses. It is going to be something marvelous for us to see
these men. Moses was a natural man, a man that had a bad temper, and yet
he overcame. He overcame to the point where God said of the man, “On all
of the earth, there is no man like this man.”
“And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the
LORD knew face to face.”15
When God has a testimony for you, when God can trust you: it must be
something marvelous! I see somebody kneeling down tonight and saying,
“My God! I want to be like that.” Amen! Yes! As I am talking to you, I see a
sister kneeling down and saying, “God, I want to be like one of these men.”
But do you see that we have an inheritance that is above theirs. Did you
know that? Let me explain it to you.
Here in the dispensation of the law, Moses towed the line of the law with
God; and Moses discovered something. He would be a dunce if he didn’t
discover this. Some of us are dunces. Moses discovered that within every
dispensation there was a hole, a place where you could escape through into
God. In the previous dispensation, Enoch had found a hole and he escaped
into immortality. Now Moses wanted to find that hole through the law, and it
was very simple. Moses (who was a type of Christ) was the only other
person apart from the high priest who could make a sacrifice. Now, what
about the situation of one offering the sacrifice and then dying on the
sacrifice? Because, remember that when you would offer the sacrifice, you
were delivered from your sins by the type of the blood of Jesus Christ. So
then, if you were smart you would make the sacrifice and then (although we
do not control it) you would try to die right there. You would make the
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sacrifice and die right there, so that you did not have the time to sin anymore;
and so you would be sinless. You would go right up to God!
In the law, when the priest approaches God he had to have a sacrifice,
and he could not approach God without blood.
“Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into
the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. But into the second
went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he
offered for himself, and for the errors of the people.”16
So then, we read (in Deuteronomy 32) that God called Moses; and why
do you think that God here at this time told Moses exactly when he was going
to die? It was because Moses had asked God for that “hole” (for that place of
escape), and God was not about to just hand it to him, but to make him find it.
God did not tell him to do it. God just said, “Moses, you go up into the
mountains, and there you will meet Me, and there you will die”
“And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying, Get thee
up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab,
that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto
the children of Israel for a possession: And die in the mount whither thou
goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in
mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people.”17
Now Moses never went to meet God without a sacrifice. You do not go
to God empty-handed. You go to God always with a sacrifice. The
Scriptures tell you that every time you go into the house of the Lord you
should have an offering, a sacrifice. Hallelujah! We should use this example
and pray for the remission of our sins every time we go before the Lord.
Now, some of us feel that if we bring a good offering and we offer God an
offering that this satisfies God. Amen. But God wants your heart with the
offering. Amen. He wants your heart along with it. So never you come and
throw your collection or give your offering without offering your heart to God
also at the same time. Amen!
So, Moses took the lamb under his arm and up he went into the
mountain, and when he offered the sacrifice, he died right there on the
sacrifice. And the Scriptures said that the angels came down and took his
body.18 He escaped! He escaped the ritual of an earthly burial, and his
eulogy was sung by angels. Moses therefore escaped through the law.
The next dispensation was “the dispensation of the prophets.” There was
another way of escape. If you are a prophet, what happens to a prophet?
Do you know really what happens to a prophet? Now, there are two
16 Hebrews 9:6-7
17 Deuteronomy 32:48-50
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manifestations of the Spirit of God. One manifestation is without, and one is
within. God said that the Spirit of God shall be with you and also in you.
“And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that
he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world
cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know
him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.”19
Now that is the promise to us, but God never said that to Elijah, or Elisha,
or any of the prophets. The Spirit of God would fall on them, but when the
Spirit of God lifted from them they were just as natural as the day that they
were born. Amen! Why do I say that? I will give you an example.
Do you remember King Saul? You know how bad he was. We see him
(in 1 Samuel 19) going with murder in his heart and trying to kill David, but
when he meets the prophet Samuel the Spirit falls upon him and he starts
prophesying. So then we see here that he did not prophesy because he was
good. He did not prophesy because he was a good fellow (He was a “demon
on wheels”), but he prophesied because the Spirit of God fell on him and he
could not help himself.
Now, when Elijah the prophet died, it was not because he was sick. Did
you ever hear of Elijah’s sickness? No. I never heard of it either, because he
was not sick. God just said, “You are going to die.” He didn’t even say “die,”
He just said, “You will be taken away today,” meaning to say, “No longer do
you have to depend on the earth to suffice your physical needs. No longer
will you need to eat fruits and vegetables.” Somebody said that you must eat
up your veggies, and all that sort of thing. No! God said we have come to
the stage where we are not going to be wanting any more of these things, for
the rich pure oxygen of God’s holy power will be flowing through our veins,
and our mortal bodies will be immortalized by the power of God! And it is
very simple, for we have a dual-purpose body. Amen? A dual-purpose body.
This body must live by energy. Amen!
I was reading the other day that they have found a cure for cancer, and
that they had it long ago but they refused to use it. The cure is oxygen in the
blood. If they can get oxygen in your blood (to bring the pH up in your blood)
then you have no cancer because cancer cannot live in an alkaline
environment. It must have an acid environment to live. So it was so simple,
but if they had given it out, then all these millions and billions of dollars that
the doctors are getting, they would not be getting it anymore because these
things (to eat vegetables, and so on) are very cheap. Amen!
So then, the dual-purpose body that you have, it can have both the Holy
Ghost inside of you or the Holy Ghost outside of you. But God has curtailed
the outside operation. God does not do much of the outside operation
19 John 14:16-17
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because the devil can do it also, and if God trains you up to listen to Him with
your natural ear, then you’re going to hear a lot of other things with your
natural ears, and confusion will set in.
So this dual-purpose body, if the Spirit of God floods into you, certain
things will happen to you that are unnatural. Amen?

He cancels out the seat of iniquity within you. Do you know
there might be a stool within you where some demon spirit sits down and
feels comfortable? Yes! A rocking chair, inside of your soul! The Spirit of
God cancels it out, smashes the chair, and drives the devil out. But the devil
feels comfortable with some of us. Not just with some of us, but with all of us
sometimes.
If you allow the devil, he will be in you, and then he is going to start
manifesting as “God.” Now, many of us think that to manifest in the gifts of
the Spirit exults your position in God. But the gifts of the Spirit, it is God
working in man. It is far above the spiritual stature of the believer. Amen.
You remember that I told you already of the bad man King Saul, and how he
prophesied and yet it did not add to his spiritual stature. Because the Spirit of
God in you wants to do one work in you more than any other work. He wants
to take the devil out of you. The Bible says that we are “the temple of the
living God”20 and that we are looking for “a new heaven and a new earth,
wherein dwelleth righteousness.”21 This is what God is creating: a new
heaven and a new earth.
You are the temple of God, and we have allowed the enemy to come into
the temple and we have allowed him to do many things in us. I do not excuse
any Christian for having a temper. So when you go around talking about your
having a temper, you had better realize that you are confessing to having a
demon that God does not want in you. You MUST get rid of the temper!
I cannot agree with any Christian that says, “I have lust.” Amen? Oh
yes, I know what lust is. I know that it can be a haunting thing that haunts
you through your whole life. “Put fire upon him! Burn him! BURN HIM OUT!”
Tell God, “Take this lust, or kill me!” Amen! I remember the time when I went
to God and I said, “Kill me! I do not want to live one more inch. I do not want
to live one day more.” I stopped eating and I said, “I will not eat until You
20 Ref. 2 Corinthians 6:16
21 Ref. 2 Peter 2:13
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deliver me from lust.” Amen! I stopped eating, and God challenged me. Oh
yes, He challenged me! The same day, I was hit with pneumonia, and God
said, “All right, I am going to see if you really mean it.” But of course God
knew that I meant it. So I said, “All right, God. This is a good chance. No
food. No water. Pneumonia! Vomiting blood! Now is the time—take me
home!”
He would come to me every morning and show me my progress up the
hill. Yes! There is a little song, a Negro spiritual, that says,
“I am climbing up, up, climbing up to Zion
I am climbing up to Zion to see my Lord”
Amen! “…up, up…!” Every morning He came and He showed me where
I was that morning. Hallelujah! The month of April came, and it went into
May, and at that time I could not even move off the bed. My eyes could not
even remain open. My eyes sank down into a hole. I looked like a ghost!
But, who cares? I would rather look like a ghost and get rid of that demon
than look good and have the demon with me. Amen! MEN AND WOMEN
OF GOD RISE UP AND REJECT SATAN FROM THE TEMPLE OF THE
LIVING GOD! Amen!
Sleeping church!
Amen! So then, you know the story (in 2 Kings 2) when this man Elijah
went across the Jordan. He smote the river and the river parted. He went
over on dry land. Hallelujah! He went to meet God. Elisha was there with
him, and I will not tell the whole story now, but that day the chariot of God and
the whirlwind took Elijah into heaven. The chariot of God took him into
heaven alive. Where do you think it took him? Did he go to Jupiter? Or
Mars? Or maybe a little farther on in the Milky Way? As carnal people, these
are the things we would think. But heaven is not a place in the natural sky.
Heaven is a spiritual realm. Heaven is a place on a high frequency of power
that we cannot attain unto in our physical form. Do you understand? So then
God has to divide heaven so that where the terrible power is, we don’t go
there. Yet the promise of God is that “in Christ” we shall be sitting at the
“right hand” of God. Amen?
So the man Elijah went to heaven. That means that he went into a higher
frequency than where we human beings are, and into the high frequency
where God is; and that frequency is everywhere. You ask, “Where is
heaven?” It is everywhere! Elijah went into that frequency and he began to
learn the things that he never learned as a prophet. But that was “The
dispensation of the prophets,” and guess what? That dispensation passed.
It passed and then there came a great distress in the world because the
prophets were all gone. No more prophecy! No more prophets! Then one
man (John the Baptist) came, and he started baptizing in the river Jordan. It
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in this dispensation you would be just a child. Isn’t that what Jesus said? He
said that the smallest child in this dispensation would be greater than the
greatest prophet.
“For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a
greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of
God is greater than he.”22
Now I wonder if you are really with me and that you are understanding
what I am saying? So that dispensation (the dispensation of Christ) passed
and we have been in a different dispensation (the dispensation of the
fullness). You cannot look back and begin to live like those in that
dispensation over there in the past. You have to be up to mark with the
dispensation in which we now live. Now let me read the changing of the
dispensation for you. Matthew 25, and Verse 6,
“And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh;
go ye out to meet him.”
We are talking about this dispensation and then another dispensation
coming in. Now, “the dispensation of Christ,” when we look at what
happened there, we saw great miracles and wonderful things happening. I
mean, people being saved, being born-again, being delivered, and so and so
and so; and you have seen what has happened in these past 2000 years.
But we have now gone into another dispensation (“the dispensation of the
fulness)” and the age of the church is finished.
Wake up now. Wake up now. God said in His Word that you should not
have a “hierarchical church.” That means having a one -man ruler in the
congregation (a big Christian and little Christians). You should not have laity
and clergy. You know the Word of God. Amen. You should not have laity
and clergy. The idea is alien to the true doctrine of Christ.
“But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all
ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your
Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your
Master, even Christ. But he that is greatest among you shall be your
servant.”23
“But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of
the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise
authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you…”24
But the whole system of the church today was built upon having laity and
clergy, and that it is the clergy that must minister to (rule over) the people.
One man even came up with a message that he said he got from God, that
22 Luke 7:28
23 Matthew 23:8-11
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we now have what we call a “husband ministry,” so that the ministers began
to look at the church as their “wife”; and they were ministering “themselves”
unto the church. Because when a man ministers to his wife, she brings forth
a child that looks like him. Amen! So therefore, in this same church, God
smote them with adultery. Are you with me? God allowed them to be smitten
with adultery. In one little congregation there were fifteen people swapping
wives and husbands! So then, because of the falseness of their doctrine they
went wrong. Once you get the Word of God wrong, your life gets wrong. So
God smote them with adultery, and eventually He smote them with death.
They had several plane crashes in that little group of people, and many
deaths.
Now, the dispensation of the church age has therefore already come to
an end. If you doubt it, Sunday morning go into one of the churches, the one
that you think is the best church around here, and you let God teach you.
You will see that what is going on there has no place in a church. But, you
see, God told us beforehand in Matthew 24. Let us look at it again. Matthew
24, and Verses 15-16,
“When ye therefore shall see the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION,
spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let
him understand:) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains”
Now, what is this saying? It is saying here that the “holy place” church is
going to be destroyed. Now, I am not talking here about the “outer court”
church. I am not talking about the denominational people. I am talking about
those who have fled from the denominations and have begun to walk in the
principles of God and have begun to have the manifestations of the Holy
Ghost within their midst and within their souls and their lives. This scripture
says that this is the church that is going to get the antichrist standing up in the
midst.
When ye therefore shall see the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION,
spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let
him understand:)…”
Do you know, when a Jew reads this he understands more of what it is
saying than you do, because he knows that in their synagogue, that
whenever you take the book, everybody knows that you are going to read
and everybody submits his or her mind to you. And the Bible says that this
thing or person will be standing in the holy place church, proclaiming itself as
“God.”25 Are you with me? Have you seen it? The antichrist, that is written
of in Daniel 11 (“the abomination that maketh desolate”) is standing in the
church now and giving orders!
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So Jesus said here, “When you see him get up and stand in the holy
place, FLEE!” “Run! Leave! Leave it! Leave the holy place now, because
the holy place has become Babylon.” Let me explain it to you. If you turn
your bible around to Revelation now and look at that 18th Chapter you will
see there what I am talking about. What I am preaching to you is the exact
word that I am getting from the Lord? Verse 2,
“And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is
fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every
foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.”
Is God talking about birds? He is talking about the spirits that occupy
the church and the people. It brings it into confusion! It causes “Babylon.”
Amen! The spirits of devils working in the midst of the church! I have been
working in this church area for many, many years and I have seen all the
demons and the devils that work within the churches and govern the people.
The pastor must have a certain amount of psychology. Do you hear me?
BABYLON must have a psychologist as a minister, and when you go to Bible
School one of the chief subjects that you must learn is psychology, where you
learn how to manage the crowd. You learn how to manage the sister that is
“giving trouble.” We always have it as a joke. We say, “Kick her upstairs!”
Do you know what that means? A sister who belonged to a church came and
she began to fellowship with us, and she was so blessed that she had to take
it back to her pastor to show him all the goodies that we were giving, and the
books and all like that. Immediately in her church, she was promoted to choir
leader (musical director) so that now she was so pressed for time that she
had no more time to come to our meeting. She had no more time to come to
our meeting and she just got “absorbed” back into the system. This is what
we mean by, “Kick her upstairs!” If a minister is giving trouble, then you
would transfer him, “Give him a bigger church!” “Send him off to Bird
Mountain!” (a nondescript place) And there are other things like that, and
there is all this psychology that they use in these churches.
But then, we also have psychology amongst us. We are using
psychology on one another. One bishop used to say, “It is wisdom!”. When
he would trick you or do you something bad, he would say that it was the
wisdom of God. So can you understand then what is happening, and why we
have to watch our own temple? Because we too are tempted to go the way
of the “abomination of desolation” that is in the middle of the church.
But then, why would God allow the holy place to be destroyed? It is
because we have come to a new dispensation, and He wants you to move
on! Now is the time for you to get into the holy of holies! NO MORE
FOOLING AROUND!
But, guess what? To get into the holy of holies, you have to die. Amen.
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die physically you won’t earn any more stars or crowns. It is down here that
the battle is being fought. We are the church that is fighting, and when we
get the devil out of us we are the ones who will be the overcomers. And the
heavens will declare the joy of God that we have overcome.
Now, let us look at the dispensation that brings us out of Babylon. Let us
read about that. Turn to Ephesians 1:9, and we see here that it says this of
God,
“Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his
good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself (Christ Jesus)”
What is the will of God for you and for each person here? It is that we
become exactly like Jesus Christ Himself. Romans 8, and Verse 29 says,
“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to
the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.”
Now you do not have to worry how the caterpillar is going to become a
butterfly. The caterpillar doesn’t worry. He just keeps eating. Right? You do
not have to worry how you are going to become like Jesus, because God said
that it is His will. It is God’s will that you be like Jesus Christ!
Going back to Ephesians 1,
“Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his
good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of
the fulness of times…”
The dispensation of the “fulness of times” is the seventh millennium. We
are now in the seventh millennium. It is in this millennium that the fullness of
Christ must come forth! Amen! I was just encouraging a sister here. I said,
“Do not go off to college and go into some long four, five, or six, or seven
years program at this time, because it will not have any use to you in the
kingdom. Your college degree will not have any use in the kingdom. It will be
child’s play, and as far as the kingdom goes, it will be petty knowledge, and
some of it spurious and wrong knowledge.” Ame n!
Now, I am not going against education, but at this particular time, it is not
time. Young people, it is not time! If you need to find something so that you
can earn a living for the time being, then go get something that is quick.
Amen! I said, “Go get an eighteen month course, or get a short course that
can help you to earn some money and know something and do something at
this time. But don’t you go into any long program, because, for instance, after
a person takes seven years to go into medicine to become a doctor, it is
going to take you another twenty years before you justify your seven years
labor. You do not have the time!” We don’t have that time! We are through!
Time has come to an end. Amen! We are through! Brethren, it is the end .
Many do not believe. Yes! But God said that those who do not believe
will be in the darkness and will suffer the penalties of Babylon. The penalties