We are nothing without God’s love. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity [love], I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing (I Corinthians 13:1,2).

It doesn’t matter what we think we’ve accomplished, if we don’t have the love of God we’re as empty as sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. In other words, without love we’re absolutely nothing. Heaven’s love that Christ brought for us to use includes the whole heart of God. In the love language is the love of God, preparing us to receive profound revelations concerning the blood.

The way to draw nigh to God is through the blood; the way to receive power over the devil is through the blood; the way to defeat the devil is by using the blood. People say, Plead the blood, plead the blood, but most Christians don’t know what pleading the blood means. To plead the blood means to use the blood; it’s that simple.

Colossians 3:11, Christ is all. Realize that the blood is everything. There would have been no divinity in Christ had it not been for the divine blood. That great love, that great faith could not have been brought down from Heaven without divine blood. But God’s love and faith were brought to Earth with all the strength, greatness, and power they have in Heaven. Divine blood has all power.

Colossians 2:10, Ye are complete in him. If you feel your life isn’t complete, you don’t have all of Christ. Material things in life don’t make you complete in Him. To be complete in Christ Jesus is to be complete in love, grace, wisdom, knowledge, direction, understanding. To be complete in Him is to have a heart full of assurance, freedom and liberties in the Lord just as Jesus had when He was here. Nothing is quite like the freedom to use God’s deep thoughts for your very own and to speak the thoughts of God. This is blessed indeed.

Jesus Is Our Supply

Colossians 4:12, That ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. Are you standing complete or are you thinking of all the things you want? Forget about the material things; if you have Jesus, you have everything because He is your supply.

Jesus will stand by you. He is the way-maker for you; He will give you all the directions in life you need, all the wisdom and knowledge, all the peace and joy. Everything needed Jesus can provide: All you have to do is turn it on. We turn on faucets to get water; we know which faucet is for cold or hot water; but when it comes to turning on the things of God, we don’t realize it is just as easy as turning a faucet; the Lord has made it that way.

You turn on the things of God in your life through faith in the blood and the promises of God. Jesus said, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find (Matthew 7:7). Jesus was speaking of blood seeking: Seek through the blood. Fast only through the blood. Pray only through the blood. Read your Bible only through the blood. It’s a divine blood covenant that Jesus brought; you’re out of the covenant if you don’t use the blood. The blood covenant makes the New Testament exciting to study; it fits our lives better than the Old. As far as the Law is concerned, Jesus fulfilled it all when He brought in the wonderful dispensation of grace.

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect (Matthew 5:48). The standards set forth in the Bible have been ignored by so many today that even some of you might be affected by it. If your morals, your thinking are shabby, you don’t have the character the Bible teaches. Can your mind quickly be filled with degraded thoughts that you hold on to? If so, turn to the Lord and let Him cleanse your mind.

God Desires Holiness in His People

Many today put no stress on a girl being a virgin. To some the idea is almost laughable, and this God knows. It’s necessary for both boys and girls to be virgins. America has not upheld the Bible standard; we’ve let the spirit of Antichrist come in and sweep our standards away. Many think nothing about a girl not being a virgin today; they think a boy is really a greenhorn if he is a virgin; but this isn’t what the Bible teaches. Seducing spirits are taking people over.

Realize that God’s standard today is the same as it has ever been—holiness. Without holiness no man shall see the face of God. Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord (Hebrews 12:14).

God was very strict with the Old Testament priesthood. Under the Law, the priests offered sacrifices that didn’t even please God, but the qualifications to make such offerings were rigid and exacting. If God was so strict with the priesthood, think how much more strict He is with the ministry today. Holy men of God preaching the holy Word of God have to meet God’s qualifications of holiness.

Recently I had a chance to speak with a young minister, a fine looking young man—single. He needs to know what to expect, what direction to take. If you let this modern civilization control your mind, you will not be an inspiration to him and people like him. If you let the godless values of this world rule your senses, you’re in bad shape: Repent and get them out of your spirit.

The Bible is a holy book, a standard of holiness. Having sex outside of marriage is unholy, ungodly, and God calls it whoredom. Under the Law people were burned or stoned for whoredom. Wake up and get rid of any light talk concerning the scriptures.

A Virtuous Woman

Proverbs 31:10, Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. A virgin, a virtuous woman is treasured by God. Why do you think so many marriages are in trouble today? Why do you think that out of four marriages only one is a success? Holiness is not brought to the wedding bed, not kept honored in the marriage.

The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil (Proverbs 31:11). A husband can safely trust in a wife who was pure and clean before he met her and who has kept herself that way. There’s no room for one doubt; he doesn’t have to worry about her being unfaithful.

If you have failed to keep your virginity until marriage, you can’t go back and undo your past; but you can encourage young people who are coming along, warn them not to give away their virtue, not to sell it to the devil. Those who have already done so need to let the young ones know how awful it is, and how much they regret it. Those who are sincere in the Lord, both young men and young women, if they had it to do over would not sell their virtue.

Although we live in a grace dispensation, grace doesn’t erase the physical relationships you have had before you came to the Lord. Your virginity is gone forever; you don’t have that something that makes the wedding night so beautiful, so sacred, so holy. There possibly won’t be a more holy night in your whole life than your wedding night if you go to it the right way. Young people, don’t sell out.

Angel and I taught the boys and girls in the beginning of this ministry, advised them how to keep themselves pure and clean before God. Many boys and girls were virgins when they married. It was a delight to Angel and me; she would talk to the girls and I would talk to the boys. We knew what it was like; we knew how sacred and holy it was.

The wedding night is one I look back to after all these years—such a holy sacred night. Angel was holy, clean and precious to me. She couldn’t have been more holy to me had she been an angelic being. I never thought one time of mistrusting her all the days of our marriage.

Proverbs describes a virtuous woman: She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms. She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night. She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy; She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple (Proverbs 31:12-22). Her coverings are not inexpensive; she toils.

Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land (Proverbs 31:23). The gates were the gathering place in the Old Testament days. The men were proud to have wives so true to them that they could trust them completely.

She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant. Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come (Proverbs 31:24,25). Strength and honor are her clothing; she’s pure and clean. We need to tell the young ones coming along that God puts all value on keeping themselves clean, all value on being a virtuous young maiden, a virtuous young man.

She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness (Proverbs 31:26). This is God’s kind of wife; she’s close to Him. I had this in Angel; this scripture in Proverbs describes the characteristics that I found to be in Angel.

I know what it means for God to pick your mate, for God to choose the one He wants you to have; it’s the mate you want. No one but God could have pleased me in choosing a wife for me. All the qualifications I delighted in, Angel had. Such sweetness poured from her—she never had a fuss with any one of the church members all the years she helped me pastor before she went to Heaven. She didn’t fuss with people.

She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness (Proverbs 31:27). Angel was like that, she didn’t want to be idle.

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her (Proverbs 31:28). Angel had many children in the Lord to call her blessed.

Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised (Proverbs 31:29,30). Favour and beauty are skin deep; the qualities God desires are more than that.

Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates (Proverbs 31:31). This is God’s kind of woman.

Stand for God’s Word

Some parents want their kids to be with the “in-crowd”; they’ll even buy condoms and birth control pills for them. How could there be any God in a person’s life who would do that? That’s telling a child to go ahead and have sex just as long as he or she is careful. Safe sex is abstinence; that’s the only kind of safe sex there is; condoms can break. Why do you think AIDS is raging today? God sent it as a curse for sex outside marriage.

In the past, people put value on virginity; but in the sixties values changed. I believe the Antichrist was born the last part of the sixties; the devil took over and we’ve never been the same since. Having sex without marriage became almost as common as shaking hands. Parents got swept up into thinking, Well, what can I do? They let it go on and just ignored it. You failed, you failed, is what God is saying to those people; but we’re not going to fail God by making light of any of the Word of God. Even when I was a sinner I didn’t believe it was all right to have sex before marriage. I knew it was an awful sin in the eyes of God, a terrible sin.

Stand for God’s Word, put your life on the line for it. Of course this doesn’t mean people can’t be made holy in spirit if they’ve had intercourse before marriage. It means their virginity is gone, the most precious thing they had in life to take to their wedding night.

When people had good morals, there weren’t a lot of divorces. Divorce was so rare when I was a child it was like some dreadful contagious disease that gave one chills to even hear about it. But nowadays divorce is a common thing, for marriage is not taken seriously. Why? Because people have no respect for each other’s bodies or for the Word of God.

I believe what the Bible teaches: holiness or hell. We’re to be pure and clean before God. If you have sinned, God will forgive you, but you can’t undo it—and you can’t make others think that sin is all right. If you think it’s all right for people to have sex before marriage, run to God and get all of that deceit out of you. Premarital sex is wrong, it’s sinful.

By having had sex outside marriage, people are in hell today. Many have died with that awful disease called AIDS not to mention other sexually transmitted diseases. Some have carried those diseases to their wedding beds.

Don’t take lightly the statement that a minister should marry a virgin. I wouldn’t have married any other kind—even before I got saved. I was taught good character; and I was taught if you could go to bed with a girl before marriage, why marry her? In marriage you give your life to your mate if you have a godly marriage. I wasn’t going to give my life to some girl who had been intimate with another man.

In our home as we were growing up, godly principles were kept before us. My daddy was proud that my mother was a virgin when they married, and my mother was proud of it, too. She taught her girls to be virgins, to keep themselves for that great night of holy matrimony.

God had commanded that the high priest be chosen from the family of Aaron, that he should take a wife in her virginity. A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife (Leviticus 21:13,14). God was strict in Old Testament days, and the ministry must be strict today. The wife has to be just as pure and holy as the minister.

Young people, if you’ve already failed God but have since found salvation, don’t let that failure damage you in God’s work in any way. When you’re talking to other young people warn them, tell them, advise them, let them know if they don’t stay pure and clean they’ll regret it. Tell them it’s not the “in-thing” at all. Tell them how terrible it is in the eyes of God.

These things I am bringing to you are a part of life, a part of growing up, a part of knowing truth. When I was growing up I didn’t know what made the Angley family so different from a lot of other families, but I do now; the truth made the difference. The blood protects and helps you; the blood keeps you, preserves you and the Word of God in the home. Every one of you should have family prayer. We were taught about God in the home; we didn’t have to be taught in school. Our foundation was a home foundation. However we were taught God in the public schools in those days.

A Priest after the Order of Melchisedec

Consider Melchisedec who had a priesthood 422 years before the Law was given. Psalm 110:4, The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou [Jesus] art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. David prophesied that another priest should arise after the order of Melchisedec, not after the order of the priesthood of the Law, and this was prophesied nearly five hundred years after the Law was given.

Melchisedec had nothing to do with the Law whatsoever, but he was a holy, righteous priest; and we must be holy, righteous people. God doesn’t require only ministers and their wives to be holy and righteous; He requires all of us to be holy and righteous; we’re all to be members of the Bride of Christ.

If Jesus tarries much longer, many won’t feel a need to go through mock ceremonies called marriage because those marriages won’t last long enough to bother with. Few people place the value on marriage and the holiness in it that God requires. In the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry (I Timothy 4:1-3). We have come to the fulfillment of this scripture; we live in the latter days.

The Priesthood Was Changed

When we think of the priesthood today, we think of Christ, not the priesthood of Aaron. Christ brings a wonderful priesthood, the choice of God. Jesus our righteous priest is not associated with the priests under the Law.

God was never pleased with the priesthood under the Law, and He changed it with the coming of Christ. For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law (Hebrews 7:12). Christ is to be our priest forever after the order of Melchisedec, the order of righteousness and holiness.

Israel was in terrible bondage. Just a drapery stood between them and God, but they couldn’t get past that veil. They were meant to be free, for the New Covenant offered them a personal relationship with the Lord, tore down that veil. As a whole, Israel rejected that personal relationship, that freedom. If only the Israelites would have accepted Jesus Christ as the true priest when He came, their story would be different today; their history would be different. But they keep fighting Jesus, and as long as they fight Jesus, they’re at war with God. As long as they’re at war with God, they are a nation in trouble.

Recently certain people in Israel have tried to get a law passed that states a person can’t be a citizen of Israel if they believe in Jesus Christ, no matter if that person is Jewish or not. The same hatred that crucified Jesus is still alive in Israel today. Until Israel is delivered from that hatred, the nation as a whole will never be a great success. They’re headed for more and more sorrows, more and more heartaches. Jesus would be their strength, but they won’t let Him.

On the other hand, many Gentiles have also turned away from Jesus. In America people are chasing after different religions, ignoring the divinity of Jesus. Many ministers no longer preach the virgin birth of Christ, and no wonder—their theological seminaries don’t teach the virgin birth anymore.

A Misunderstood Scripture

This is a most dangerous age. Live in the Word of God to make sure you are pure from all the works of the devil and false doctrine. You can’t afford to accept anything outside the pure Word of God.

In Hebrews we read how carefully Moses did everything God told him to do, but none of it took away sin, none changed hearts, none were made perfect by the Law. The Law found man dead in trespasses and sin that consigned him to eternal death. The Law was weak and not profitable to man. For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. For the law made nothing perfect (Hebrews 7:18,19). The soul must be perfect to get into Heaven. There is a vast difference between the Law and grace.

A great hindrance arose in the beginning of the Church because people had been indoctrinated in the Law and it was hard for them to give it up completely. They were afraid to launch out into this New Covenant. We can’t give all that up. What chance will we have?

Hebrews 6:4-6,8: For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

People have used this scripture to claim that if you backslide after you have received salvation, you cannot get back to the Lord; you are damned. This passage doesn’t mean that whatsoever. It simply means that if you backslide, there is nothing left to be renewed. You’ve got to start over; receive salvation and then go on to be baptized in the Holy Spirit. The sinner must be made new, he can’t be renewed.

Hebrews 10:26, For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins. The sacrifice Christ made to save sinners is good only when those sinners repent, not when they are still in sin. You must be made new all over again; you can’t be renewed in sin. People who need to be renewed in the Spirit are people who have grown lukewarm but haven’t actually committed willful sin. Because they haven’t lived close to God, they have to renew their covenant, bring it up to par, put it into full operation.

If you sin willfully after you have received the knowledge of the truth, there is no more Jesus between you and God—and that means judgment. The only security you have is the Jesus blood between you and the Father; that’s your protection, your pardon, your deliverance, and your life. To willfully sin against God means you know what you are doing is a sin and you don’t care. Jesus is no longer your high priest. How tragic to lose Him!

If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (II Corinthians 5:17). If any man be in Christ he’s not a renewed product, he’s a new creation, brand-new.

A Cruel Brother

When I was a child, a young woman knocked on our door one Sunday morning. I will never forget it. She was crying as though someone had died. In her hand she held her little New Testament opened to Hebrews 6:4. My family had known her for years, but we had no idea now what in the world was wrong with her. Wanting desperately to see my dad, she was pointing to the part of the scripture that said if she fell away from the Lord, it was impossible to be renewed. Although she had once been saved and filled with the Holy Ghost, she had backslidden. She lived with her brother and sister who hated holiness, hated Pentecost, and they had told her she had backslidden from the Holy Ghost and could never get right with God—and they didn’t even believe in getting the Holy Ghost in the first place! See how the devil will work! Think how cruel to tell a sister: There’s no hope for you; you’re damned; you’re doomed!

I watched as my dad took her little testament, began to read to her, to point out that what her family had said wasn’t true at all; no, it wasn’t like that. He explained the verse to her, her burden lifted, and after prayer she went back home. That night she came to our church, was saved, and received the Holy Ghost. I heard the Holy Ghost speaking through her myself. The incident marked my life in a special way.

When I first came to Akron over 45 years ago in a tent meeting, I remember one lady whose brother told her she had blasphemed against the Holy Ghost and could never get saved. He was wrong. When she received salvation, her brother didn’t like it at all. Ignoring me, he told her, “You didn’t get saved; you’ve blasphemed against the Holy Ghost and you can never get saved!”

“Well, she did get saved!” I said.

How cruel for a brother to try to make his sister think that she had blasphemed against the Holy Ghost! But there she was, gloriously saved!

I told her to pay him no mind, that she had salvation just like I had salvation, and it was real. She went away happy, and as far as I know she kept journeying on with the Lord.

People need to wake up to this scripture in Hebrews 5:11,12: Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. Paul told the people they were still on milk after all those years, not meat. They never grew up in the Lord; they didn’t understand the scriptures. Paul was quite a direct preacher; he gave the pure Word of God to the people straight from the shoulder just the way God gave it to him.

We Live in a Most Dangerous Age

The world council of churches is the spirit of the world church. Making light of anything concerning the holiness of God is also in the spirit of the world church. The Antichrist and the world church will rule together in the beginning of the Tribulation Period.

Paul Separated the Law and Grace

Paul had great influence; no one could explain the Law and grace as well as Paul. Peter couldn’t do it, John couldn’t do it, none of the other apostles could do it; but Paul knew the Law to the letter, and he learned the grace of God from the very heart of God. Paul could show the Jews every detail of the separation between Law and grace. Those who were sincere would listen to him and be convinced that Jesus was the Christ. His dedication and consecration to Jesus threatened the Jews, filled them with fear, and they wanted to kill him.

Paul became a terror to the rulers of the Jewish people. When they confronted him, he not counting his own life dear stood up to them. Paul knew in whom he believed, for he had met Jesus.

When you’ve really met the Lord, met Jesus in an unbelievably great way, He becomes the most important thing in your life. I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day (II Timothy 1:12).

Let us draw nigh now to grace leaving the Law behind. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; And having an high priest over the house of God; Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water (Hebrews 10:19-22). In the new and living way you can be holy soul, mind and body.

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised) (Hebrews 10:23). We can’t afford to let go of even one of the promises of God given to us by grace. Be careful, however, not to misuse grace. Some people say that grace forgives everything. As far as your going to Heaven, it forgives everything; but grace can never make everything right here on Earth. Grace does not change what you’ve done in the past. You may have to suffer for things you’ve done, but you can still go to Heaven if you have found grace.

Be so grateful you have found grace that you teach others grace, warn others through grace.

The Bible says, It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God (Hebrews 10:31). When people go against God, they have a price to pay. You don’t ever want to fall into the hands of an angry God. Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord (Romans 12:19).

Jesus Is Touched with the Feeling of Our Infirmities

There’s no need to go deeper and deeper in faith until you learn the priesthood. Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin (Hebrews 4:14,15). Learn what it means to have a high priest who can be touched by the feelings of your infirmities, a high priest who understands everything about you, and who does not keep you waiting.

Your high priest doesn’t offer a sacrifice for you day after day, year after year; He offered the one supreme sacrifice, the only one needed. He sits at the right hand of the Father and makes intercession, getting your prayers through to the Father. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man [Jesus], after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God (Hebrews 10:11,12).

If you can use the faith, you can boldly approach the Father, and your High Priest will make intercession. But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them (Hebrews 7:24,25).

Jesus said, remember, to just ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you (Matthew 7:7). It’s simple. Our High Priest said, If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you (John 15:7).

The Faith Chapter

The Bible speaks of the holiness, righteousness and faith of Old Testament characters we read about in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews. What made them holy? The blood of animals? Absolutely not! They used divine blood. If you want proof that divine blood worked in the Old Testament, all you need is the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, known as the faith chapter. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1).

Different prophets and servants of God are named in the faith chapter, but nothing is said about Adam and Eve. However, their son Abel is mentioned: By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh (Hebrews 11:4). Have you ever wondered why nothing is said about Adam and Eve?

I’d like to think that Adam and Eve did get right with God; I would like to think that perhaps God’s reasoning for not mentioning them was that He didn’t want people to think no matter what they did that they could still live in His Heaven. Maybe He thought they had done enough damage to the human race by destroying His plan for them so completely. Did they or did they not make it to Heaven? How sad if they didn’t—after having lived in Eden!

The beautiful eleventh chapter of Hebrews is a chapter I adore, a chapter I caress with my spirit, a chapter that tells of the faith of God through the lives of Old Testament saints. This chapter has great deepness, great strength and power for us to use, a faith with a direct line to Heaven that the devil can’t do a thing about. A direct line connects us with Heaven as long as we stay obedient.

Moses’ mother and father put much faith in a tiny mite of humanity. By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment (Hebrews 11:23). It meant death to spare a boy child, but they did it anyway. They put their lives on the line for their son.

The faith chapter tells of many ways that the Old Testament saints used their faith—but no Adam, no Eve. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days (Hebrews 11:30).

By faith, fire was quenched; it had no power over the three Hebrew boys in the fiery furnace, And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens (Hebrews 11:32-34). Incredible things took place; mouths of lions were closed…but no Adam and no Eve. The first man whom God—Jesus and the Holy Spirit with Him—got down into the clay to create is not mentioned. God breathed into Adam, gave him divine blood. Divine blood—Adam had it, Eve had it. Because of divine blood they were never meant to be sick; they would have lived forever. Divine blood in the soul is the reason we’re going to live forever, but Adam and Eve lost the divine blood. There will never be eternal life for them unless they were able to find that blood again.

The blessed faith of God, the blessed roll call of the faithful in the Old Testament day is in this chapter—but God said, Adam, Where art thou? (Genesis 3:9).

God has never gotten over Adam and Eve; He’ll never get over them until civilization as we know it is no more, until all those who reject the Lord are cast into the lake of fire and sealed off forever. Then the Lord will wipe out of His mind all sinners who didn’t get right to never remember them again; and He will have peace, peace, peace.

We must hurry to bring in the lost at any cost in this last and final hour, and we must be careful with our lives, careful with our speech, careful to never back away from the Word of God.

Some people become offended if everything isn’t preached the way they like it. Jesus said, Blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me (Matthew 11:6). Take your opinions to the Word of God instead of to people. If your opinions stand the Word test, they’re fine; if they don’t, don’t use them.

I preach the Word in love and in truth. I want the truth; I want a preacher to preach the truth. The Word is to go into us, to touch our hearts. We’re to be reached by the Word any time and all the time. The Word gives that extra “go ye,” that extra move we may need, that nudge for more prayer, more fasting, more thinking upon God, more time with Him. Oh yes, we all need those nudges.

I am here, saith the Lord. I am here in the midst of this people and I am preparing you, you who will allow me to prepare you, but you must yield to me. You must put your opinions down and take thus saith the Lord. You must yield to my Word or I will pass you by; I will pass you by; I will pass you by.

I seek to bring you into my arms of love and grace, into my arms of power, understanding and strength. I desire you; I desire your fellowship; I desire you and I need you. I need you for this hour, but I need you in the purity and in the holiness and the righteousness of my blood. I need you to yield to my blood, to yield to the righteousness and the holiness that’s in the blood. I must have you pure; I must have you clean; I must have you holy, and then I can use you as my very hands; I can use you as my very eyes; I can use you and I can serve through you.

Salvation and Healing Come from the Lord

Some of you are ready to meet the Lord; others are not. If you are not sure of your salvation, pray this prayer with me now. Oh, God, save my soul! I have failed you. I have sinned against you, and I’m so sorry! But I believe the blood of Jesus washes away all of my sins, all of them. Come into my heart Jesus! Lord, I want to be ready when you come. If I have one spot or wrinkle, if I have one leech, set me free! Set me free so I can do all the work that you want me to do and win every soul that you want me to win. In the name of Jesus, I have come to do your will, oh Lord.

If you are sick or afflicted, know that you have the power of Jesus with you to bring physical deliverance. I am not the healer; Jesus is the healer. Get ready for your miracle now. With His blood stripes you can have healing. Claim this promise in the Word of God: With his stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5).

You who have cancer, AIDS, heart trouble, paralysis, or any other disease or affliction: There is nothing the Lord cannot heal. You can be made whole. That little afflicted baby can be healed. In the name of Jesus, I bring the sick and afflicted to you, Lord, today to be healed. In obedience to your Word I pray for them. From your supernatural gifts of healing and your supernatural gift of miracles, through the power of the Holy Ghost in the name of Jesus, Heal! Heal!

His power is flowing into your body or into your child’s body if you believed that prayer. That power will work night and day when you accept it to get you or your loved one well. Watch every sign of improvement. Be a witness to God working daily, and then write and tell me about the results. I want to rejoice with you. God bless and help you to be ready when Jesus comes.

We have come to the hour you will be either in or out with God. The Lord said He was going to push people out of the way. When the Lord pushes you, you may never stop until you land in hell. This is the final hour, saith the Lord. You are living in an hour of greatness, but it is also a tragic and fearful hour if you are not ready to meet your God. This is your hour of visitation, this is your hour of revelation, this is your hour, saith the Lord.