Jan. 21, 2025

Rejecting the Holy Spirit at Azusa and the Resulting Global Turmoil - (Enmity with the Seed – Part 3 - From Islam to Azusa) – Episode 36

Send us a text Can spiritual awakenings avert the tides of war and unrest? This episode ventures into the intricate layers of spiritual warfare across history, spotlighting the 20th century's confrontation with divine interventions. We start with the dramatic Mongol invasions led by Genghis Khan, looking at how unexpected defeats reveal a divine hand at play. The transformative Azusa Street Revival of 1906 is our next stop, a pivotal moment aimed at sparking a global spiritual awakening. Desp...

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Can spiritual awakenings avert the tides of war and unrest? This episode ventures into the intricate layers of spiritual warfare across history, spotlighting the 20th century's confrontation with divine interventions. We start with the dramatic Mongol invasions led by Genghis Khan, looking at how unexpected defeats reveal a divine hand at play. The transformative Azusa Street Revival of 1906 is our next stop, a pivotal moment aimed at sparking a global spiritual awakening. Despite its potential, internal divisions fragmented the movement, creating ripples that may have altered the course of history.

The narrative then threads through the complex tapestry of the World Wars, examining how World War II was a continuation of World War I and a culmination of earlier conflicts. The human cost is staggering, yet we find solace in the lasting spiritual influence of the Azusa Street Revival. Moving into the post-war era, we dissect the rise of communism, Middle East conflicts, and the growth of Pentecostalism, enriched by personal experiences from Latin America. Here, the interplay between societal dynamics and religious movements is illuminated, revealing both challenges and triumphs.

Our journey concludes with a critical assessment of the church's fragmented state, tracing back to historical events like the Azusa Street Revival. The impact on economic stability, spiritual hunger, and church integrity unfolds, alongside a reflection on the story of Daniel. His unwavering faith offers a beacon of hope, reminding us of the strength derived from divine guidance in turbulent times. Through these narratives, we celebrate the enduring presence of faith and the lessons it imparts, ever relevant in our quest for spiritual and societal harmony.

00:41 - Revival, Division, and Consequences

17:32 - Global Impact of World War II

26:06 - Cold War and Pentecostalism's Global Impact

40:45 - Churches' Fragmented Division and Rejection

58:13 - Daniel's Strong Faith and Exploits

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Well, well, well, Well, well, well, Well, well, well, Thank you, thank you, We'll praise the Lord.

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The past few weeks we've been talking about this past century, what happened in this past century, as kind of a culmination of many, many things that we've talked about in this series on the enmity with the seed, between the seed and Antichrist, and how the Lord continually, time after time after time after time after time, shows the greatest and mightiest miracles, greatest and mightiest miracles that have ever been seen on the planet, to continually thwart the efforts of Antichrist in trying to bring warfare against the seed and against the various manifestations of the seed's appearance and ministry.

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And we ended up with this great, massive army of several hundred thousand men, mounted on horses and coming out of the east, out of the area of Mongolia, the Mongol hordes of Genghis Khan, and they swept through Asia.

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Some of the statistics that we were using were just amazing.

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At their height, they controlled a landmass that was equal to half of the landmass no, three quarters of the landmass of the known earth at that time of Asia, Europe and Africa.

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They controlled three quarters of that land mass and half of the land mass on the surface of the planet, except for Antarctica.

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This huge army was focused on coming into Eastern Europe and attacking the center of the Holy Roman Empire and then pushing Christianity into the Atlantic Ocean.

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That was their stated purpose.

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And I said at that time that we could continue to study one thing after another after another that happened as the Antichrist tried to push into Europe and attack the base of Christianity and Western civilization.

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I mean, that was just one episode.

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I mean we'd already talked about two episodes coming through Spain and through Constantinople.

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It was just one.

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Attack after another attack after another attack, all of them ending in kind of the same way that the enemy was pushed back by a mighty deliverance on God's part, which brought us to the last century, the 20th century.

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And I'm not going to rehash all of this, but you'll remember what the main high points is that the main focus of all of this attention is the week of Holy Week in 1906.

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And in 1906, that week, a revival broke out in Los Angeles, California, on Azusa Street that changed the world.

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Holy Ghost began to be poured out, Miracles began to be performed and done by God that hadn't been seen since the days of Acts.

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It was literally the second outpouring of the Holy Ghost, the second outpouring of the Holy Ghost.

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At the same weekend, a few hundred miles up the San Andreas Fault, the largest earthquake that ever hit North America in recorded history happened in San Francisco and literally just blew San Francisco apart.

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Those two things were not unrelated, Praise God.

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Those two things were not unrelated, Praise God.

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However, what we're talking about, and what we've been focused about in this three to four messages in this series that we're going to do, is what happened in the 20th century as a result of a Seuss history century.

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As a result of a Seuss history because it was God's intention to bring a revival of such magnitude that most of what happened in the 20th century could have been avoided.

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That didn't happen.

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Didn't happen not because God didn't know what he was doing and didn't send the right stuff.

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He sent himself, he sent the Holy Ghost.

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You can't, you know everybody.

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You know.

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I tell people all the time I said if you're believing for Jesus, you know, to come down here and save you.

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You know you're probably believing for the wrong thing, Because he's already sent his spirit to indwell you.

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Now I believe he's coming back, but if you're one of those people that are always looking for God to come down from heaven and give you a hand and help me, Jesus, and I've got troubles.

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And would you just give me you know if you're always looking for Jesus to come down and help you.

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You're always looking for Jesus to come down and help you.

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He's already sent himself in the form of the Holy Ghost.

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He's not going to say wait a minute, Holy Ghost, you're not getting this job done, Just move over.

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I'm going to come down here in a blaze of glory and fix this problem.

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That is not going to happen.

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The plan A plan A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6 all has one name and it is called Holy Ghost.

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Does it change?

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Amen?

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And when God answered the prayers of three and a half decades of people praying and seeking God in the last part of the 19th century, the answer to that prayer?

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They did not know it, but the answer to that prayer was the Holy Ghost.

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And he poured out the Holy Ghost in the most unusual place Praise God, A stable.

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I mean in the days when they still had horses.

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You know I'm talking 1906.

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So you know they needed livery stables.

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They had, you know.

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You can imagine how this was.

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And it was a livery stable with some apartments over the top Wasn't in a very good part of town.

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Preacher was blind and was not of the right ethnic persuasion for most people of sensibility.

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I mean, everything was just wrong with it, but it was perfect for God, Hallelujah.

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So we looked at what happened, because what happened was that within a year one of the major factions in that movement broke off and started a denomination called the Church of God in Christ, and within another seven years a major faction broke off of that denomination and formed a movement called the Assemblies of God, and those two factions divided and split the Pentecostal movement right down the middle along racial lines.

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My question is if you think God blessed that that is not why he sent the Holy Ghost, so that he can have a fragmented, racially purified Pentecostal denomination.

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Glory to God, Hallelujah, Praise the Lord.

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So we spent most of the time last time talking about the decade between 1910 and 1920, a decade where Woodrow Wilson was the president.

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We got the Federal Reserve Act, which basically transferred the wealth of the United States into the hands of a few bankers, turned the treasury over to them, turned the means of producing money over to them and we basically handed the keys to the kingdom over to them.

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We followed that up with the direct election of senators, which took the responsibility of the states from appointing their own senators as their representatives to government.

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Put that in the hands of direct election of the people, which is a far easier situation to manipulate than the hands of a few people that have integrity and have the state's interests at heart.

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They had to do that so that they could.

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Every time something came up in Congress that needed to be passed for the national bank, they could get the senators to say yes.

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In exchange, they got cushy jobs and unlimited benefits for the rest of their lives.

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They followed that up with the income tax, Because once they stole the money from the federal government, the federal government didn't have any more money to use to buy money from the Fed, and so they figured out this ingenious thing of hey, let's tax the people.

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And so they did.

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That's how we got the income tax, and that whole logic was decided when they created the Fed.

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They knew they were going to do it.

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They just had to put a couple of three years between them, so it didn't sound like they were, you know, figured.

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They figured that that you know some guy that just got off the boat from italy.

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A wasn't going to realize what happened in 1913 and certainly wasn't going to realize what happened in 1916 when they passed the income tax amendment.

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They were going to tie those two dots together, and if anybody tied those two dots together and made too much noise, they just eliminate them, which they did.

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Now you say, well, that's all, you know, that's all history.

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Why are we talking about all this stuff?

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Because there is there is repercussion for rejecting God.

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If you don't think that's true, amen, Look at what happened to the people of Israel when they rejected God.

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If you don't think that's true, amen, look at what happened to the people of Israel when they rejected God.

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On Pentecost, the first Pentecost, they were gathered around Mount Sinai and God spoke from the mountain and they told Moses you go up and talk to this God.

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We don't want to talk to him.

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We don't want to have anything to do with that.

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Whatever he says, we'll do it, but you go up and talk to him.

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The sound of his voice was too terrible.

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They rejected God.

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The penalty for that rejection was that everybody over the age of 19 was not allowed to go into the promised land, was not allowed to go into the promised land.

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So for 40 years, the wilderness was scattered with the bones of people who were just waiting to die so that the children of Israel could be led into the promised land.

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That was the penalty for rejecting God.

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So don't tell me there's not a penalty for rejecting God.

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There are penalties for rejecting God.

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So don't tell me there's not a penalty for rejecting God.

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There are penalties for rejecting God.

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The penalty for rejecting the Holy Ghost by the church at large in the United States was they lost their currency, they lost their money, they lost their treasury, they lost the ability to create money, and the citizens were now taxed at a rate that kept any of them from amassing a lot of money.

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So not only they did not get the power to create wealth, they got the power to live in poverty.

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Now, those two things that happened between 1910 and 1920 are bad things dreamed up by bad people, but God rules from heaven and those were judgments on the United States because the church had rejected him.

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It only gets better after this.

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So in 1920, we start a new decade, and this decade goes off with a bang.

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You know we still talk about it today, and it's been 100 years later, about the 20s, the roaring 20s, and it was a time when, after World War I and after the great plague of the Spanish flu, that people were relaxed, that the war was over, they were happy they didn't die in the flu, the economy was budding, People were, you know, we had moved out of a time of, you know, wagons, buggies and that sort of thing to the Model A Ford, the Model T Ford, you know, the flatbed Ford truck, and all of these things were starting to hit the 1920s.

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Electricity, radio.

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All of this stuff was just starting to happen.

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Also, there was this movement in the 20s, politically trying to get what we call now the United Nations, but at that time was called the League of Nations and it was the precursor to the United Nations.

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But the problem was that the United States would not approve it because it was not approved.

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And the same people who wanted the League of Nations were the same people that brought you the Fed.

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They said, OK, you don't want to play ball, We'll teach you what happens when you don't want to play ball.

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We'll teach you what happens when you don't play ball.

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And on October of 1929, at almost the end of that decade, the worst depression that had ever hit the United States happened and it was engineered, it was orchestrated and it was punishment for not joining the League of Nations.

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It was also a subsequent punishment on the nation for not joining the League of Nations.

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It was also a subsequent punishment on the nation for not honoring God at Azusa Street.

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What are you telling the percentage of people who came in to the things of the Spirit, the baptism of the Holy Ghost?

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Miracles, signs, wonders.

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See that kind of stuff was Ghost.

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Miracles, signs, wonders.

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See.

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That kind of stuff was not happening.

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If I say it was not happening, it was not happening before 1906, because those things are manifestations of the Spirit, Amen.

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You don't read anything about a lot of meetings where arms are growing out, eyes are growing out, the lame are walking, the dead are raised.

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You know that doesn't happen.

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But after that it started to become a phenomenon.

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We talked about people like John G Lake.

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We talked about people like Wigglesworth.

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Wigglesworth raised 16 people from the dead.

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Glory to God, Hallelujah.

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But in the midst of all this, of this judgment, there's still light in Goshen.

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Amen.

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Amy, Simple McPherson, she's not really.

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You know, doesn't have any pedigree, doesn't have any background.

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She just got to preaching the gospel and she opened up a church in Los Angeles, California.

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Now listen to this.

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It is the largest ministry that has ever been built in the United States.

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Up until that point, 40 million visitors come to her temple.

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In a seven-year stretch of time, 40 million people visited that great temple out there and out of her ministry came the four square gospel church.

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It's still there today.

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We have one right down on South main street in uh, here in Weatherford.

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Amen, it's what it was.

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For a long time was one of the cornerstone Pentecostal denominations and it came out of her ministry.

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But just think about that that in the middle of all of this judgment, God is still raising up something that is attracting 40 million people over a seven-year period with signs and wonders and miracles and the power of God, hallelujah.

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But if World War two, World War one, wasn't enough, you know there there really wasn't.

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You know we use the term World War one and World War II.

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For a long time World War I was just simply called the Great War until the World War II came along and it was greater.

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It could have been great and greater Instead.

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Then we could have World War III being greatest and maybe World War IV being last.

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I don't know.

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Don't know, but the World War II is really just part two of World War I, or you could look at it as part three of what started in 1873 between France and Prussia and then continued on in the 1910s and then continued on in 1939.

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The first thing, let me just tell you how this works and why you can say that.

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It's because the first thing that happened when the Germans took over France was that Hitler took a delegation of himself, of himself, German military officers and French military officers, but particularly French military officers and politicians who were there when Germany surrendered to France in 1918.

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And they surrendered to France in 1918 in a railroad car, and that railroad car was put in this park and you could go to this park and see this railroad car and they had exhibits that shows you the treaty and all that kind of stuff.

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He took the French there and made them sign documents in that railroad car that they were surrendering to him, just the way that the French made the Germans do it 20-some years earlier.

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Same place, same railroad car, same everything.

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And when it was all done, they emptied out the railroad car and blew it up.

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So I'm saying all that to say this From the Germans' point of view World War II was just part two of what got stopped in 1918.

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21 years later, they invade Poland, they then invade Belgium, they then invade France, they then invade Russia, they bomb England and they're basically doing the same things, exactly the same things in a lot of the same ways that they did in 1914.

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Except their technology was better, so they didn't get bogged down in the lines that they did in France in 1914.

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80 million people died between 1939 and 1945.

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80 million people.

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Europe is almost totally devastated.

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Every major city, with the exception of Paris, in Europe is in rubble.

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Generation of young people in every country is taken off to the slaughter.

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Germany entered in 1942, in May of 1942, entered Russia with six million men.

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Hardly any of them came back.

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Just think about that.

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Eastern China was totally obliterated.

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Japan, almost the entire nation, was a nation of refugees when the United States came in and took over after the surrender in 1945.

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There wasn't any place to live.

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Tokyo was in ruins.

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Kyoto was in ruins.

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Almost all of the major cities in Japan were in ruins, and that wasn't because of nuclear weapons, that was because of Nepal.

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Germany was in ruins the total number of people that died.

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You can just think of this.

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Just think of this.

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See if I can get this number right 3% of the world's population died in World War II.

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If that number today we have what?

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8.5 billion?

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So 1% of 8.5 billion is 850 million.

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85 million.

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That's almost a quarter of a billion people in today's population.

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So if we played out World War II again, in the same dimension, with the same equipment and everything else, a quarter of a billion people would have died.

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Those numbers are just staggering Just because it's fewer numbers.

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What really matters is the percentage of people that are in it, and we're talking about including the number.

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We're talking about including people that weren't even involved.

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We're talking about the Western Hemisphere, basically, was not involved.

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We were fighting in other places, but nobody here.

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Populations in Africa didn't get hit too hard 80 million people and the consensus is that World War II ended in May of 1945 and August of 1945.

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But the reality is that World War II just continued on until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

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When we really turned our attention away from Europe and the Asian theater.

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That was a result of Japan's domination.

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We turned our attention away from that and focused on the Middle East.

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That really was a break in that strategy.

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But for all intents and purposes hey, listen, when you've got an entire Marine division on Okinawa from 1945 until today, you're still at war.

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You're at war with somebody, or else you wouldn't have a few thousand Marines sitting on somebody else's soil.

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From 1945 until today, we've had divisions and major military installations in Germany.

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Somebody's at war, or else we wouldn't be there.

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Glory to God.

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We have since 1939, we have lived in a continual state of unpeace.

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We no sooner got out of out of at the end of World War II, we're into Korea.

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We no sooner get out of Korea, we're in Vietnam.

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We no sooner get out of Korea, we're in Vietnam.

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We no sooner get out of Vietnam, we're in the Balkans.

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We get out of the Balkans, we're in the Middle East.

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It just goes on and we've been at war ever since 1939.

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War is a curse and the curse is because of Azusa, Glory to God.

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Now I am not going to just throw these things out here and tell you and just throw it out there and just go.

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Well, you know, figure it out.

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We're going to spend the next several weeks, if not months, going over what has happened to the church, because the main point of the judgment was on the church.

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The church is what rejected us.

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Most people don't even know about Azusa.

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They could even they don't.

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But see, when God pours out his judgment on a people, and particularly on the church, people are going to fall under that judgment, just because if the righteous, if the righteousness of a people establish the righteousness of a nation, the unrighteousness of a people establishes the unrighteousness of the nation.

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And if you're not involved in one or the other, If you're not involved in being righteous or you're not involved in being unrighteous, amen, you'll just get caught up in it.

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Hallelujah.

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You have to be one or the other, and in this case you have to be on the Asusa side of the argument.

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See, we'll get into all this stuff later.

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If I get too sidetracked on that one, I'll never get off of this page.

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From 1945 to 1965, we have the hottest portion of what is called the Cold War.

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We almost came to the brink of nuclear war.

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Over the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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We had the international exportation of communism, which had started all the way back to when the communists took over Russia in 1917, 1918.

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But that exportation just took off.

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Marxism in mainland China became solidified after World War II.

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Before World War II it was basically just a political party.

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After World War II, there was this infighting between the Chinese nationalists and the Chinese communists and Mao Zedong won took over power in the late 40s.

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Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese nationalists got exiled to Taiwan, which was called at that time.

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The Middle East becomes this non-ending hotbed of activity.

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You know the story the United Nations approves for Israel to be formed as a nation.

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Jews start migrating back to the Middle East.

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The Middle East decides that they're going to just declare unending war on Israel.

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And it's been.

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You know.

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We had the war of 48 and we had the.

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The other wars in the sixties and the seventies.

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We had the uh hostage crisis in in Munich and the 72 Olympics Uh, just one thing after another.

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In the middle of all that, Kennedy is assassinated.

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This country goes through, uh, a healing that took a long time to happen.

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But, like I said, in the middle of all that, there's still light in Goshen Because right after World War II ends, a healing revival starts to sweep this country.

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Amen, God had not forgotten Azusa Street.

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I said God had not forgotten Azusa street.

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I said God had not forgotten Azusa street and he had not forgotten why he had poured out his spirit.

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So, in spite of the main churches rejecting Azusa, and they would reject the healing ministries and they would reject all of that, they would, they would.

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They would tell their people.

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I mean they'd take the handbills that were announcing the revival tent meetings out on the edge of town.

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They'd bring them into church and said don't you be going to this, Don't you be going to this?

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There was a restoration in almost hand and glove with the healing ministry was a restoration of the prophetic ministry.

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With the healing ministry was a restoration of the prophetic ministry.

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And you had movements like the latter rain movement and others, where prophets began to step into the office of prophet and God restored the office of the prophet, just as he restored the office of the evangelist with the, with the outpouring of the Holy ghost, he restored the office of the prophet, just as he restored the office of the evangelist.

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With the outpouring of the Holy Ghost, he restored the office of the prophet, Hallelujah.

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During this time, Pentecostalism had always been kind of this church on the other side of the tracks.

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You know, I can remember as a kid we'd go down just to listen to them.

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I can remember as a kid we'd go down just to listen to them.

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It was back in the days when church didn't have air conditioning and windows were open and stuff.

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We'd just go down and listen to them shout and dance and things like that.

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But they weren't any of the big fancy churches that we were familiar with.

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They just had a little church built, but they didn't stay there.

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They eventually got a nice building and probably lost their fire, but anyway the Pentecostalism became more mainstream.

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But here's one of the real sad things.

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Remember what I told you about that the churches split.

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The Pentecostal movement split over racial lines and because you can't expect God to bless that.

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If I sat here with the head superintendent of the Church of God in Christ and the head superintendent of the Assemblies of God, they would argue all day long that that never happened and that the power of God never, never was taken away from their movements.

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But that's just not true, because I can tell you why.

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Why I know this?

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Because I spent most of my time and I've been in and out of Latin America for now one, two, three, five decades, and I have spent most of that time ministering in various shapes and forms of Pentecostal churches in Latin America.

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They were all formed after World War II.

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There was no such thing as Pentecostal churches in Latin America before World War II.

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They just weren't strong enough to start exporting it out.

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But after World War II and the improvement of transportation, they started to move their denominations and start forming a Panama Assembly of God, a Costa Rica Assembly of God.

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You know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and every you go into, every country, there'd be an Assembly of God, there'd be a Church of God, there'd be a Four Square, there'd be Pentecostal holiness, there'd be, you know, all these denominations that come down and started a movement and every one of them was as dead as a doornail in terms of legalism.

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They were all up to their eyeballs and in long sleeves and long dresses and white shirts and towels, over the televisions and you know, and just all of this legalistic stuff that had been brought down to them by the missionaries from the United States.

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And we were sent down there.

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Our specific instructions from the Lord were that I want you to go to the areas where the big ministries don't go and I want you to preach and demonstrate a ministry of power and glory that these people have never seen.

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Let me just give you a case in point.

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You've heard this story before.

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I was sent to this one church and it was this funny they're real big on this Churches with big, long names, because they think the name is going to identify who they are.

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Really what it does is it identifies who they've split off of.

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This was one of these things where the name was so long it went all the way around the building on the edge of the roof, First Church of Jesus Christ born, of the Virgin resurrected.

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I mean they put the whole Apostles' Creed up there as the name of the church.

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It was great Glory to God.

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So we're just, you know, we're about two, three miles away from the church and I'm I'm just talking to Lord, and Lord said we're not going to preach what you think we're going to preach.

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I said okay, well, we're going to preach, Lord.

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He said we're going to preach.

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We're going to preach on Acts, chapter two.

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I said Lord, you do know where we're going.

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Right, this is a Pentecostal church.

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He says yes, I know where we're going, and there's nobody in that church that's filled with the Holy Ghost, not even the pastor.

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So here's one of these Pentecostal churches.

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I mean the name Pentecostal was at least two or three times in the banner around the building First Church of Jesus Christ.

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Pentecostal church of jesus christ, pentecostal, risen from the dead, pentecostal, you know, filled with the holy ghost.

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Pentecostal, more pentecostal, you know just all.

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You know they were making a big deal of it but they didn't know what they were talking about.

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But I thank god for that meeting because god taught me in that meeting that apostles have the authority to order the baptism.

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I looked at God like you're looking at me.

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What See?

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We were taught.

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Well, you just have to be real, Just wait, He'll fill you.

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Just be patient, You'll get it.

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Just tarry.

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Let us tarry, Terry, Terry, you know.

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And the Lord said just line them up and command them to be filled.

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I said where's that Lord?

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He said Acts, chapter eight.

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Philip couldn't even get him filled in the Holy Ghost.

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He had to send for the 18.

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He had to send for the 18.

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He sent for Peter and John and when they got there, they just commanded and the whole place was filled.

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I said really.

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He said really.

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I said glory to God, I might be dangerous.

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Hallelujah.

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Everybody in that building got filled with the Holy Ghost that night, except the preacher and his wife, because they were too proud to admit they didn't have it.

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And that's what the United States brought down there this cold deadness.

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Get filled if you want.

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You don't have to get filled.

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If you do get filled, all you're going to do is just babble a few words and you know there's no reality to the indwelling power of God in you.

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It was just all window dressing.

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You can't convince.

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I am convinced that whatever those denominations had coming out of Azusa street was gone by the second generation, the generation that were sent off overseas.

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Hallelujah.

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So the 65 of the year 2000 continues.

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We have racial conflict in the United States unlike we've ever seen.

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Cities are burning down.

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Does anybody remember the days following King's assassination?

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Detroit was burning, LA was burning, Washington was there, were.

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There were fires right all around the Capitol building and all the major buildings in, in federal buildings, in in downtown DC.

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Every, every major city was in flames.

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Through the 70s we had those kinds of things.

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Socialism took hold.

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We passed the Welfare Act, we passed Medicaid, we passed a whole bunch of things that just threw the United States into this socialist mode of let's tax people, get them to pay for people who cannot afford it, give them the Medicare, the housing, the aid for mothers, and we just turned it into this factory of over half the people in the country are getting aid from the government and we're paying for it.

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We had Vietnam, we had the Gulf War, we had the Berlin Wall, we had the fall of the USSR and then, just in case you wondered who was still in charge of your currency, Richard Nixon took the United States off the gold standard.

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Now I threw some math at you on Sunday.

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I'm going to throw it at you again.

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I threw some math at you on Sunday.

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I'm going to throw it at you again.

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From the inception of this country in 1789 until 1933, the price of gold did not vary, except during the Civil War.

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It was always $20 an ounce.

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During the Civil War it went to $27 an ounce.

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That was it.

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You don't have a lot of inflation or things like that, except when you start printing money.

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If you just deal with bags of gold and it has a constant value, then everything around you, you can listen, you can have a cow and you can sell that cow, and probably you can sell that cow today and you could sell one of its grandchildren 15, 20 years from now and sell it for the same price.

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Price of a cow is the price of a cow Now.

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If you get into shortages and things like that, then other laws of economics apply.

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But since everything's based on gold and gold has a constant value, this country prospered and became wealthy because we were on a gold standard, and what enabled us to be on the gold standard was California.

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In 1848, gold was discovered in California and it funded the United States for many, many, many, many years.

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Praise God, Hallelujah.

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1933, Roosevelt jerked the price up to $33 an ounce and in 1973, Nixon took us off the gold standard and gold was at $37 an ounce.

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It's now over $2,700 an ounce and that's not because gold became more valuable.

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It's because your dollar became less valuable, because we're not on a standard anymore.

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Amen.

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The standard is whatever the feds say.

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Now, if you want to know who has all the gold, they have a great big vault way down in the bowels of New York City Tons of stuff.

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They believe in it.

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They just don't want you to believe in it.

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What do we say on Sunday?

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The silver and the gold are mine, the cattle are mine and the cattle that are on a thousand hills are mine.

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So what does that tell you?

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Silver, gold, minerals that are under the ground, the things that are on top of the ground, the cattle that are on the ground, and the ground belongs to the Lord, so get in his economy.

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What happened at Azusa Street is that God cursed the church to live off a man's economy and not God's economy.

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And because the church was cursed, the rest of the country was cursed with it, and so we gradually sold the farm to the point that we have no standard for our money and our money is worthless.

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Everybody was real, you know, and rightfully so.

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This last economic upheaval was disgraceful, the way prices were jerked around.

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But that's nothing.

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See, you know, kids can get upset about that.

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We're the people that need to be really upset, because we can remember when hamburger was 39 cents a pound, Eggs were a penny a piece, and shall I go on?

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I mean you can buy one of those books of what things cost.

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When you were a kid, we grew up with that stuff.

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Gas, Hmm, Gas a kid, we grew up with that stuff.

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I remember I didn't pump it.

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It was 24 cents when I pumped it.

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My dad pumped it at 17.

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You told me it was 13 around here.

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Look at it, Look at what they've done.

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Glory to God.

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But in the midst of all that, God was renewing an interest in the things of the spirit in the denominational churches.

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We call that the charismatic renewal.

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Most of us came in to this movement, to this things of the spirit.

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Through that there was an apostolic restoration where now you don't see it so much in this country you do see it, but not so much.

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But in other countries there's such a restoration of the apostolic movement that they have churches in the hundreds of thousands of people and they're all organized into local cell groups.

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Because that's part of the apostolic reformation, it's part of getting back to organizing the church the way it was organized in the early days of the church, where they met from house to house and they were taught the apostles' doctrine.

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But unfortunately, even though all these things have been happening, where we had 450 denominations in the United States in 1906, we now have over 900 denominations in the United States.

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I don't think that's what God had in mind by pouring out the Holy Ghost.

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That's all man's work.

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There are 45,000 churches, worldwide denominations worldwide 45,000.

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The church is fragmented.

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It's publicly humiliated.

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Almost every day somebody's getting into trouble.

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Almost every day Somebody's getting into trouble.

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Somebody's dragging a church down.

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People are leaving, the sheep are scattered.

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It's drug out in front of the news.

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You know this has been going on for years.

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The past century has been a major, major mess and I say that lightly, I'm talking major catastrophes, major wars, major things that have just torn this planet apart.

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And the church has been divided and divided, and divided and divided.

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And I'm going to say this because this is what the Lord told me.

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The Lord told me this when he gave me this thing to present.

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And I'm not done, I'm just getting to it.

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We're going to talk less about history and more about what's really going on in the church.

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Since 1906, 130 million people at least have been killed in wars.

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120 million at least have been killed in genocide.

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Think Holocaust, Think the pogroms in Russia, Think the Great revolution in China.

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Hundreds of millions of people.

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The Spanish flu claimed 100 million people alone.

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That doesn't count countless other epidemics and other things that have happened during that time.

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A conservative estimate, things that have happened during that time.

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A conservative estimate 350 million people, or 15% of the world's population in 1900.

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So when the century started in 1900 by the Holy Ghost being poured out at a prayer meeting in Kansas, if you start counting, then the world's population at that moment, 15% of that number would die in the next century 350 million people, either by war, by genocide or pestilence.

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