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03:18Hey, hi friends
03:20Good morning
03:21Sunday morning again
03:22Another week flew by
03:25The weeks go fast, particularly when you get my age.
03:28I'm telling you, not a fun deal.
03:34Hey, welcome to the Deep Things of God with Brother Mike.
03:37Welcome to the Arizona Deliverance Center.
03:40Welcome to hardcorechristianity.com.
03:42Got a good Bible study for you today.
03:47Gaius, the person I want you to become.
03:53Please remember this Friday is our monthly healing service.
03:56It's going to be big.
03:59It's going to be wonderful again.
04:02Please bring somebody who's sick and needs to be healed.
04:06You'll be quite surprised when you see these people healed.
04:11Right on the live stream.
04:12You can watch it on youtube.com slash house of healing a Z.
04:20And we are in the works of planning a revival for this summer.
04:25It will be in the middle of May sometime.
04:29So I hope you're planning on attending.
04:33We'll have some good guest speakers for you.
04:35And we're going to expect you to get filled with the Holy Ghost and healed and delivered from demons.
04:41All free during the revival in May.
04:46We have two live services every week.
04:48Thursday, Friday nights at 7 o'clock.
04:49Ladies night is 6.30 every week at the Deliverance Center.
04:54We have three Zoom services.
04:55You can get healed or delivered over the Zoom.
04:59Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings.
05:04Plus we have other wonderful services that will be a blessing to you.
05:12So, Gaius, I want you to become him today.
05:15I do.
05:16Let's take a look at him.
05:18Go to 3 John.
05:20And remember, this was written by the great apostle John, the one and only.
05:28This guy was a monstrous servant of God.
05:33He had an anointing that was like freaky.
05:40He's in his 80s or 90s now.
05:42He's an old man.
05:43I can relate to that.
05:46And he's writing these books.
05:52First, second, third John.
05:54First John in particular was an absolute must.
05:58If you want to be a powerful Christian, you got to master First John.
06:01It is really something special.
06:04And, of course, the book of Revelation is unparalleled.
06:07But in 3 John, this one is really good, too.
06:11Quite remarkable.
06:13Check out verse 1 there.
06:15It starts out interesting from right out of the get-go.
06:18The elder to the well-beloved Gaius.
06:23Okay, in the Greek text, the name means Gaius.
06:30But whichever way you want to pronounce it, it's fine.
06:33But he calls him well-beloved.
06:36Akapetas is a Greek word there, and it means someone that you cherish,
06:42someone that you respect, someone you see as credible,
06:45someone, someone you value as a person.
06:52Akapetas, a well-beloved person.
06:56That term was used by Jehovah to Jesus,
07:04and that term is used by God to you.
07:11Chapter 1, Ephesians.
07:15You are, in God's eyes, a very well-beloved,
07:21cherished, important, valuable person.
07:26And John calls himself an elder here.
07:29He doesn't call himself an apostle.
07:31He has in the past, but he calls himself an elder,
07:34which is the Greek word presbyteros, which means what?
07:38Well, in our society, the word means presbyterian.
07:41That's where we get the word for presbyterians.
07:45But a presbyterist was an elderly, anointed, respected man of God in the church.
07:52An elder.
07:54It was a senior saint who had a reputation for godliness and serving the Lord, you know.
08:05And that's my goal in life.
08:06I want to be an elder.
08:07I want to be an older person who people look at and go,
08:12you know, Brother Mike, he will tell you what the word of God says.
08:15He'll give you a straight answer.
08:17He won't sugarcoat anything.
08:19And you can rely on Brother Mike and trust him.
08:23He will give you the straight dope, as they say on the street.
08:30And that's what I want to be someday.
08:31I want to get there.
08:33He says, Gaius, you are well-beloved, and I love you in truth.
08:38I'm telling you the truth.
08:39I love you.
08:40Agape.
08:41Truly love the guy.
08:42Now, was this the same Gaius that Paul had?
08:47We don't know.
08:48Paul had two of them.
08:50But we do know that everywhere the name is mentioned in Scripture,
08:56it's always a powerful, respected man of God.
08:59And that's what you're going to become today, a powerful woman and a powerful man of God.
09:05Well-respected and well-beloved.
09:09That's what you're going to be.
09:11Then he does it again.
09:13Beloved, same Greek word.
09:16Beloved, I wish, I wish above all things.
09:23The Greek word is eukomai.
09:28Eukomai, I wish.
09:31Which also means to pray.
09:33So, John is saying, I wish, I pray above all things, that you personally may prosper.
09:47Eudoa'o is the Greek word.
09:52And it means something that will surprise you.
09:58Eudoa'o was a word that people said to other people when they were going to travel from point A
10:05to point B.
10:06And it was used a lot to describe merchandisers, traveling salesmen, so to speak.
10:12They would make, let's say, they had a pottery business.
10:16And they wanted to expand the pottery business beyond their village or their little town.
10:20So they traveled.
10:22They were travelers.
10:24And you would travel from this place to that place.
10:27I'm going to leave in Jerusalem, and I'm going to sell my pottery in Bethlehem.
10:31Then I'm going to go to Nazareth, and then round around.
10:35And so, the person would say to the person leaving, Eudoa, have a good trip.
10:44Have a safe trip.
10:46I hope things go well for you on the trip.
10:49I hope when you travel on the road, you don't get hit by muggers, or you don't get hit by
10:54thieves.
10:54You don't have a wheel fall off your cart.
11:20I hope everything goes well on the trip.
11:26And I hope you keep your health on your trip.
11:29I hope you do well on your trip.
11:33And I hope you're physically doing well, just as your soul is doing well.
11:43Eudoa.
11:44Same Greek word used for health and used for traveling.
11:54Going from here to there.
11:55I hope things go well for you.
11:58Why is he saying that?
11:59I love you.
12:01And that's what you'd do, wouldn't you?
12:02You would say the same thing for somebody you loved and you cared about.
12:08Where are you going?
12:09Oh, you're going to visit your parents in Texas or something?
12:13Oh, and I hope you have a good trip.
12:15I hope it's a safe trip.
12:17Hope the plane doesn't crash.
12:18Hope you don't get in car wreck.
12:21And I hope you stay healthy and enjoy your trip.
12:27I hope everything's going to go for you.
12:30Cool.
12:32Okay, that's what that verse says.
12:33That's kind of the summary of it.
12:35But also note something here.
12:40Your healthiness on the trip was connected to your what?
12:51Your soul prospering.
12:58I hope your traveling is going great.
13:01I hope your soul is progressing well.
13:05And your health will follow.
13:07And what a divine truth that was, particularly somebody with my background coming out of the field of psychology and
13:15counseling.
13:17I've literally sat down across from a few thousand people over the years in counseling sessions.
13:24And there is a direct correlation.
13:27This is the truth.
13:29By how people travel through life, so to speak.
13:35Between their physical health and their soul.
13:38There is a direct correlation, and it's been documented through scientific research, that emotions directly affect your mental health and
13:55your physical health.
13:57Your emotions determine the health of your mind and your body.
14:06If you go to the doctor and you're complaining about certain pains, the doctor can't find anything wrong with you.
14:12They call you a what?
14:16Hypochondriac.
14:19Someone who has imaginary physical illnesses.
14:26Your soul is the seat of your emotions.
14:30They're all right there.
14:32That's where your emotions come out.
14:34Love.
14:35Hate.
14:36Passion.
14:38Right here.
14:39It's in the soul.
14:41And if those are negative, it's going to directly affect your health.
14:49And you know that's true.
14:50Everybody knows that's true.
14:52It's not some deep spiritual concept.
14:56It's an actual medical fact.
15:01Hello?
15:07There's a whole host of medical problems a person can have.
15:15They're directly tied into, directly connected to their emotions.
15:23And so, John is saying to Gaius, hey, I love you.
15:29I want your soul to prosper.
15:31Remember, and I know if your soul is prospering, your health will prosper.
15:36Because they are directly connected.
15:39Your health is directly connected to your emotions.
15:46And your negative emotions on a consistent long-term basis can actually generate a terminal illness or a mental illness.
16:06If you have chronic negative attitude, and you speak chronically negative things, and you feel or sense negative emotions about
16:23what people do, about what people say,
16:27you're literally making yourself sick.
16:30Remember when your mom called you that when you were a kid?
16:33Listen, stop doing that.
16:34You're making yourself sick.
16:37Well, your mom didn't know anything about the Bible, but she did know about human common sense.
16:42Didn't she?
16:43Sure.
16:44Verse 3, I rejoice greatly.
16:47Why is he doing that?
16:48Because he loves the guy, and he's happy when things go well for him.
16:53And the brothers came to me, he says in verse 3, and they told me about the truth that is
16:59in you.
17:02And that you walk in the truth.
17:03Here you can see now, reading 3 John, these great revelations.
17:09Look at that.
17:11Spiritual health, emotional health, and receiving and living in truth.
17:21What's the number one cancer of people who are mentally ill?
17:27What is the number one cancer?
17:31They don't live in truth.
17:34What is the number one problem when people have multiple personality disorders?
17:41Dissociative identity disorders.
17:43A dipsicus.
17:44I've taught on that many times.
17:46What's the number one problem?
17:48Not living in truth.
17:52Jesus says, you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.
17:59And so, John is so happy here.
18:05He's using the Greek word, kairo.
18:08Kairo means to be cheerful and joyful.
18:13For I rejoiced greatly.
18:17When the brothers came to me and said to me, John, check this out.
18:22Gaius is living and walking in truth.
18:26And so, you can see the three that are connected.
18:29If you don't have truth, you're not going to have safe traveling.
18:35You're not going to have safe health.
18:40None of those things are going to be a part of your life.
18:43It's just not going to happen.
18:46You're going to die a spiritual and mental loser.
18:51You've got to get all three streams going in your life.
18:57And it will all happen for you.
19:00Verse 4.
19:01I have no greater joy.
19:02Same Greek word, kairo.
19:06I have no greater joy than to hear that my children.
19:13Now, this is interesting.
19:15That's the Greek word, technon.
19:17That's a junior high type kid or a grade school, junior high, young kid.
19:23Not an adult and not a child, but in between.
19:27He said, my children.
19:29Here you see, John apparently had won these people to Christ.
19:34And he said he was so happy that after he had left, they were walking in truth.
19:42And that's the key to your healing, physically, mentally, spiritually.
19:47You must walk in truth.
19:50For I am the way, the truth, and the life, the Lord Jesus said of himself.
19:57Couldn't have made a more truer statement.
19:59The truth will set you free.
20:03Truth will heal you.
20:06Truth will prosper you.
20:09Truth will give you safe journey.
20:15Truth will keep you healthy.
20:20And then he calls him beloved again.
20:23John must have been very close to this Gaius guy.
20:26They must have been tight.
20:29Beloved.
20:30Verse 5.
20:32It says, you do everything to the brethren and you do it fully.
20:41Well, see, this is a natural expression of somebody who has safe journeys,
20:49who lives and walks in truth and whose soul is under control and healed and who is prospering.
21:02What's the natural outcome of that?
21:06You're a faithful servant of God.
21:11He says, you not only serve Christians, the brethren, but you also do it to strangers.
21:21And these people are bearing witness.
21:23Verse 6.
21:24They bear witness of you, of your charity.
21:27Greek word, same Greek word, agape, love.
21:30Your unconditional love.
21:32They bore witness to it.
21:34They told me about it.
21:35But you are a lover of people and a lover of strangers.
21:39Because you are healthy, emotionally, mentally, spiritually.
21:49You're healthy.
21:53Verse 7.
21:55Because he says, you don't forsake anything.
22:06And you serve the Gentiles without charging them.
22:10See, Gaius was a polar opposite of a TV preacher.
22:15Those people are kind of like, I don't know, bargain basement whores.
22:20The pitch is always, God told me, if you send in $1,000, that God's going to multiply your business,
22:28your money.
22:30All of that stuff is, to use a Latin term, a crock.
22:37But verse 7.
22:39For the name of Christ, you went forth to the Gentiles, and you did not charge them for the gospel.
22:51And that's why the guy was so beloved and so popular among Christians.
22:59He was apparently a powerful man of God, well-respected everywhere.
23:05And that is what you are going to become.
23:08You're going to become Gaius.
23:10You're going to become someone who lives and walks in truth.
23:19You are going to become someone whose soul is going to be under control.
23:26You're going to control your emotions through the word of God and through your anointing.
23:32And you're going to become like Gaius.
23:35Somebody who produces huge amounts of fruit.
23:42And you're going to be a very respected person among those who truly love the Lord.
23:51When you travel from here to there, you will have prosperity.
23:56When you control your emotions, you will have sound health.
24:03And you will be healthy.
24:06Beloved, I just want you to prosper and be in health as your soul does.
24:12Well, if I'm a crotch-rot TV preacher, I'm going to take that verse out of context and throw it
24:18on the wall and see if it sticks.
24:21But we can't do that.
24:23Okay, we're not allowed to do that because each verse has to be interpreted in context.
24:30You can't just take a verse out and throw it around.
24:34But in this verse, it's kind of telling a story of Gaius and a person that you would be so
24:46blessed to imitate.
24:48Somebody that lives and walks in truth.
24:51Somebody who has control over his soul and his emotional life.
24:59Because you cannot live for Christ and not have control of your emotions.
25:04It's not possible.
25:07You can't do it.
25:08It's going to be a life of misery.
25:10You'll be a yo-yo Christian.
25:12Up and down, up and down.
25:15Yo-yo up, yo-yo down.
25:18And it's going to be a life of misery and sorrow and heartache for you.
25:24You'll love your spouse today.
25:25You'll hate him tomorrow.
25:27You'll love your kids today.
25:29They'll be driving you nuts tomorrow.
25:31You'll want to go to church Sunday morning and praise.
25:34The next Sunday you'll go, you know, I don't.
25:37I'm not in a mood.
25:38You'll be up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down.
25:43No.
25:45You cannot live like that.
25:47You cannot live like that.
25:51What's the problem?
25:52Well, it's a lot of problems in this life.
25:53And then when you die, which will be very soon, you're going to transition over to heavenly glory.
26:01And then you have to sit before the judgment seat of Christ.
26:04And this yo-yo Christian life you lived is going to be evaluated and judged.
26:11And you don't want to do that.
26:13You don't want that.
26:17You want to have a yo-yo Christian life up until this podcast with Brother Mike on Sunday morning.
26:24Yes, sir, on February 22nd.
26:28It all ended for you.
26:29And from that day forward, you're going to be happy to be at the judgment seat of Christ.
26:35And your rewards are going to be just stacked to the ceiling.
26:39You're going to be a stone-cold killer on judgment day.
26:46It's going to be a day of rejoicing for you because you prospered your soul and you got control of
26:56your emotions and you renewed your mind and you became another Gaius.
27:06That's right.
27:08You became like him.
27:11You learned the truth.
27:15And you now walk in truth.
27:20And you're going to get the respect of your peers who also walk in truth as John respected Gaius.
27:33Not only that, but John was so happy that his children, how many were there?
27:41We don't know.
27:43But presumably dozens, a few hundred or whatever it was, they were walking in truth.
27:51John's huge fruit spilled over into Gaius and his family and the converts he had in his area.
28:01John was a super-powered man of God, why he had control over his emotions, why he had renewed his
28:07mind.
28:09All right?
28:10And then James chapter 1, I taught on this Friday night, when you do that, you do not become a
28:19waverer, somebody who wavers.
28:24James wasn't using what John is using in 3 John.
28:30John, to illustrate it, he was using a ship at sea.
28:36He that wavers is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
28:42Let not that man think he will receive anything from the Lord.
28:50Wavering is the Greek word diakrino.
28:52It means to vacillate.
28:55I believe today, oh, I'm doubting tomorrow.
28:59Oh, I'm positive.
29:00I love the word.
29:02Oh, let me think.
29:02The word that is the word, does it mean that?
29:05I mean, what, what's your, diakrino, vacillization, driven by the sea, the winds of the sea, tossed around in the
29:17sea, vacillating.
29:21Gaius wasn't a vacillator.
29:24He knew what he believed.
29:26He walked in truth.
29:29He had received the truth from John, presumably from John, goes to saying.
29:35He kept the truth.
29:38And he walked in it.
29:40And that's the problem with so many Christians.
29:43Jesus explained it clearly.
29:44The sower goes out to sow.
29:47And he sows seed.
29:50And some of the seed accidentally falls in the road.
29:56Hodas is the Greek word for road.
29:59The wayside, the road.
30:00Well, seed that falls in the road is worthless because the demons immediately come.
30:09Jesus used burrs to describe demons in that parable.
30:13The demons come and snatch the word up.
30:16They eat the seed.
30:18It's gone.
30:20And it doesn't prosper.
30:23They don't.
30:24They hear it.
30:25And then, boom, it's lost.
30:27And so many Christians are like that now.
30:29They sit through sermon after sermon, sometimes hundreds of them, sometimes thousands over the years.
30:35They sit through these sermons.
30:37And the word never gets implanted in the spirit, man.
30:42It just stays up here, swirling around in the mind.
30:44And then when something comes in to distract them, boop, it's gone.
30:52Then Jesus said, some of these seeds produce a lot of stuff.
30:58Some of them falls in good soil.
31:03Some of them falls among thorns.
31:06And it does spring up.
31:08And things go well for a while.
31:10They become kind of like gas for a while.
31:13And then what?
31:16Yeah.
31:17The cares of this life, the lusts of other things, the distractions of life grow up, and they choke out
31:26the word of God.
31:29And they become unfruitful.
31:33That's Christianity in America.
31:36The thorns are the number one description of Christians in America in that parable.
31:41There's four kinds of ground in that parable.
31:43Stony ground, thorny ground, the road, good ground.
31:50And most Christians fall in the thorn area here in America.
31:54There's so many things to do here.
31:57So many distractions of life.
32:03Family, friends.
32:04Now, number one distractions, social media, cell phones, those kinds of things.
32:09So many distractions.
32:11And poof, poof, it's gone.
32:14And they become unfruitful.
32:17That's not going to happen to you.
32:20Yeah.
32:21We're near the end of the dispensations of grace.
32:25And you know that.
32:27When I was a kid, the signs of the times weren't even close to what they are now.
32:35You just couldn't see it.
32:37You couldn't imagine it.
32:38I mean, if you were a Christian in the 60s or 70s, you couldn't even imagine how the Antichrist
32:47could possibly influence the entire world, the whole planet.
32:53Nobody could grasp it.
32:55It didn't make any sense.
32:57How could one person influence the entire planet Earth?
33:03It doesn't make any sense.
33:04Well, now, it doesn't not make sense.
33:11The Internet?
33:12Are you kidding?
33:14When we were young, or when you were young, or when you lived in the 70s or 60s, the revelation
33:22didn't make one lick of sense.
33:24You read through the book.
33:25You said, this is, what is this book?
33:28Is this all a fable?
33:30The false prophet creates a statue during the tribulation, and it comes alive?
33:39Well, now, how could that not happen?
33:45If you go to Instagram or Facebook, every single day, one fake AI post after the other scans
33:55right through your head.
34:01It just goes one after the other.
34:03Here's Barack Obama talking.
34:05Here's President Trump talking.
34:06It's not them.
34:08It sounds like them.
34:10It looks like them.
34:15Animal AI videos are constantly on Facebook.
34:19Lions, tigers, and bears.
34:21Oh, my.
34:23And it's all fake.
34:25They look like animals.
34:27They sound like animals.
34:30Nobody could understand it.
34:31But now, the way we live now, you and I both know this thing's about to wrap up.
34:37We don't have much time left, and you need to make your move now.
34:40Things need to go.
34:42You need to get rid of the distractions, the thorns in your life.
34:45Pull them out.
34:46Pluck them out.
34:49There are some friends that do not promote your spiritual growth.
34:53Get rid of them.
34:54Cut them.
34:56You spend too much time with your kids.
34:58You give them everything in the world.
35:00Stop it.
35:03You've got to reorganize your time, restructure your life, so that you're ready for the end.
35:09Because the rapture is only a few years away now.
35:13Very hard times are coming for the planet.
35:16Whether we're already here, brother, I'm like, no, this is just a warm-up.
35:20We haven't seen hard times yet.
35:25Jesus said the things that happened during the tribulation period,
35:30are worse than anything that happened in the history of the world.
35:34I mean, that's a bold statement.
35:37Because a lot of incredibly horrible things have happened to this planet.
35:43But your job is not to worry about the tribulation.
35:47Your job is to receive truth and walk in truth.
35:54Because you want to be...
35:58The most powerful man or woman of God you can possibly become.
36:04Even if...
36:06And I'll close with this.
36:07Even if...
36:10You're going to fail in the future.
36:13Let me tell you something.
36:15Listen, when you come to God in the present tense, right now, God does not judge you by your future.
36:27So let's say, for example, you come to God with current sincerity and honesty.
36:35But later on, you're going to fail God really bad or backslide or something like that.
36:46God will not consider that.
36:48He will take you as you are.
36:50Remember Billy Graham crusade?
36:52Remember that?
36:53And they sang that song, Come As You Are?
36:55That's exactly the way God takes you.
36:58He takes you as you are.
36:59I'll give you a couple quick examples.
37:01Then I'll let you go.
37:03Number one.
37:05Oral Roberts pastored a church in Enid, Oklahoma when he was young.
37:11When he was a young man.
37:15And he pastored it for several years.
37:18And his reading of the word started bothering him.
37:23And he started to see that his church that he had put together did not resemble the book of Acts.
37:30And that really bothered him.
37:32And he...
37:34It bothered him so much, he got sick of pastoring.
37:42And he started to seek the face of God.
37:44And I mean seek it hard.
37:45He spent long hours in prayer.
37:48He started fasting about God giving him the book of Acts.
37:56Because his church didn't have any miracles.
37:59They didn't have any signs.
38:02They didn't have the book of Acts.
38:03It really bothered him.
38:06And guess what happened?
38:09Well, he got so skinny people started to worry about his health.
38:14When he felt the time was right, he rented the downtown auditorium in Enid.
38:22And he told the Lord,
38:25Lord, I need to have these things happen at this meeting.
38:30Or I'm quitting the ministry.
38:32I'm out.
38:36He said,
38:39I got to have enough money come in in the offering to pay for the auditorium.
38:47There has to be an unmistakable, notable, legitimate healing that people can see
38:59and cannot doubt.
39:03There has to be a bona fide commercial healing, so to speak.
39:10It has to happen in real time right there at the altar.
39:19So he has a meeting that night, or that Saturday night.
39:25And the word got out, rumors got out, that Oral Roberts was going to leave the ministry
39:31if God didn't show up at this service and crank up some miracles.
39:36And that night, he preached a short message on miracles and divine healing.
39:45And he said, at the end of the sermon, he said,
39:48Who wants to be healed?
39:49He jumps down off the stage.
39:52The first person that got in line was an elderly woman who had a withered hand.
39:58She had a disabled hand from polio.
40:03And Roberts walks up to her and grabs her hand aggressively,
40:09puts it up in the air, and says,
40:12Be healed!
40:14And that woman's polio hand went just like that in front of everybody.
40:19And Roberts said electricity poured through the crowd like nothing he'd ever seen.
40:25They lined up down the aisle to come down for healing.
40:31And Roberts said one healing after the other after the other occurred in that meeting.
40:36And that started his worldwide healing ministry.
40:41Decades later, Roberts, under the influence of demons,
40:46leaves his healing ministry behind
40:48and listens to a gigantic crock of crap from demons
40:56telling him to combine medicine and healing from God
41:00and to build a city of faith
41:03and a nursing school and a Bible study and all this stuff.
41:09And he wants him to build that.
41:12And so Oral, listening to demons, thinks that's God's will.
41:16So he builds all these facilities in Tulsa,
41:22works at it for years,
41:25nearly collapses financially numerous times
41:28in an act of total desperation.
41:31The demons told him,
41:32Listen, why don't you tell these people
41:36that you're going to die if you don't get $8 million?
41:41And sure enough, he told them,
41:43he sent out newsletters, email,
41:45Hey, if I don't get $8 million by this date,
41:49God's going to take me home.
41:51This is a true story.
41:52I'm not making this up.
41:53You can check it out on your own.
41:56And he got the money.
41:58He got about $6 million,
42:01came in,
42:01and a friend of his who was a dog track owner,
42:05a professional gambler,
42:07multi-millionaire,
42:08paid the other two
42:09and gave him the $8 million
42:11so he wouldn't have to die and go home to heaven.
42:15And then years later,
42:18when he retired,
42:20the ministry was $40 million in debt.
42:25He started the prosperity doctrine
42:27and quoted the verse I taught on today
42:30numerous times over the years.
42:33$40 million in debt.
42:35He hands the ministry over to his incompetent son,
42:39Richard,
42:40who didn't know his head from the holy ground,
42:43and they ran the ministry into the ground
42:45until the board of directors finally fired the guy
42:48and replaced him.
42:50Why did I say all that?
42:52Well, you're being hard on Oral Roberts.
42:54No, I'm not.
42:55I love Oral Roberts.
42:57He's one of my favorite people.
43:00I'm illustrating hope for you, okay?
43:03If you come to God today,
43:05like Oral did,
43:07and he was praying and fasting,
43:10or if you come to God in your way,
43:13God will take you as you are,
43:15even if he knows omnisciently down the road
43:18that you're going to fail.
43:22Hello?
43:23The same thing happened to A.A. Allen.
43:25The same thing happened to Jack Coe.
43:27The same thing happened to Alexander Dowey.
43:31The same thing happened to Amy Simple McPherson.
43:35Same thing happened.
43:38They came to God originally,
43:40and God took them as they are,
43:43even though he knew down the road
43:46they were going to fail
43:48because God knows everything.
43:49He's omniscient.
43:51There's nothing the Holy Ghost doesn't know, correct?
43:55I don't think anybody would argue with that.
43:57At least I hope they wouldn't.
43:59And that's my encouragement for you.
44:01I want you to be like Gaius,
44:03but what I want is not that important.
44:06In fact, it's not important at all.
44:07God wants you to be similar to Gaius.
44:11He wants you to be as close to Jesus as possible,
44:14of course,
44:14and Gaius was a man who was respected,
44:17a man that was an evangelist,
44:20an anointed man of God,
44:22a man who had received the truth
44:24and rejected lies,
44:27a man who had his soul under control
44:30and his emotions under control,
44:32and a man who walked in truth
44:38and a man who spent a life with huge fruit,
44:43spiritual fruit.
44:45He was awesome,
44:46and you are awesome.
44:49And I'll close with this.
44:52The word that John used for Gaius,
44:55the word that Father used for the Son
44:59is the same word Father uses for you.
45:05You are His beloved.
45:13Yep.
45:14I love you.
45:16See you next time.
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