Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, which should betray him, Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein (John 12:3–6). What was in the Judas bag? For one thing, resentment of Mary’s act of love, of using costly ointment to anoint the feet of Jesus.

Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always (verses 7,8). Jesus was telling His disciples He would not always be with them. Mary had anointed Him for His burial.

Everyone carries a bag of some kind. The person you are in the Lord determines what you have in your bag. Some Christians do not fill their bags with ideas and traits in harmony with the teachings of Jesus, so they are not where they ought to be with God. The Lord is searching your heart; it is vital that you know what you carry with you.

Judas carried a lust for money, loving it for its own sake. Although he had closely associated with Jesus for three years, he did not have a great love for Him. Of all the miracles he had seen the Lord perform, none were as dear to him as money was. The thought of money stirred Judas more than the many messages on salvation he had heard. Money was more important to him than the Sermon on the Mount, more important than Jesus.

A Destroyer of Men’s Souls

The Judas bag carries much deceit. Deceit is a great destroyer of men’s souls. All who refuse to be rid of it will be lost completely. The Lord told us He would push people out of the way who would hinder His work in this final hour. Whoever is pushed out by God is worthy of being pushed. No need to say you don’t understand; just say, Have thine own way, Lord; have thine own way. Obey God; stay out of the pathway of God’s bulldozer lest you yourself are pushed out.

If you go over the line and blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, there is no forgiveness for you; the Lord gives you the kiss of death. Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation (Mark 3:28,29).

Two great powers are working in this last hour: Almighty God to the right and the devil to the left. This is a serious time; you are going one way or the other, saith the Lord. You will not play church; you will not play the hypocrite, saith the Lord, and get by. He will uncover your nakedness in this hour. Your fig leaves will not hide your hypocrisy in the midst of God’s people. He will open their eyes to you.

The flesh yields to the left because its every desire is to be satisfied. God’s power on the right crucifies the flesh. To go God’s way, you need God’s help; to stay in God’s way, you must keep His help. You will not walk God’s path without God to help you. The pull of the two supernatural forces operating in this hour is so great that people will line up on one side or the other. If you don’t yield to the Holy Spirit, you will blaspheme. You will grieve the Holy Spirit just so many times, saith the Lord, and that will be it in this last hour.

Your Time Is Limited

Only by wearing the love–bridle can you stay with the Lord. Some of you have not worn the love–bridle very much, and it’s caused heartache and despair; you’ve been up and down, in and out with God. He will not put up with it—He has already told me He won’t have it.

The Lord is letting me know many things, what He is going to do and how; He is not playing; He means business. The time is limited, saith the Lord; the time is limited. You won’t be able to neglect God, to play around, to hurt and degrade people with a sharp tongue, to carry poison in your words, and still get by with God. You’re going to put Jesus first. The Bride will take Jesus to fallen mankind.

How can people hold Jesus up to fallen mankind when they try to crush every child of God they can? Their news is always bad, not the news of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has a message of great joy and wonderful happiness.

The Lake of Fire, Home of Liars

What’s in the bag, Judas? What are you carrying? Do you have any deceit in you? Do you tell lies in a close place? Do you justify your lies? The devil supplies many alibis for untruths, justifies lies by telling you that you are merely sparing another’s feelings, that you don’t want to hurt anyone. The Lord does not spare the truth; His Word is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two–edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart (Hebrews 4:12). God gives you the truth; He never lies. No guile was found in the mouth of Jesus, no deceit, no untruth. Although many times He was in jeopardy, He did not tell one falsehood.

All liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death (Revelation 21:8). If you lie, the truth isn’t in you. The true and the false will not mix. You either have truth or you have lies, that which is false. If you lie a little it’s the same as if you lied a lot. You will go to the same hell for one lie just as surely as you will go for a lifetime of lies—if you fail to repent.

The devil has deceived many church members into believing that lies are harmless, that little fibs God will excuse. The Holy Spirit has never described lies as little fibs. If you persist in excusing yourself for lying, you take on deceit until you deceive your own self, thinking you will make it to Heaven and the Rapture. You have the mark of rejection that I’ve seen on the foreheads of people who have blots in their lives that stand between them and their God. It reminds me of the mark of the beast.

An Enemy in the Camp

What is in the bag you carry? How many hurtful things have you said? If you hear something unkind about another, do you run to tell that person? If so, you are not a friend, but an enemy, hurting someone for no reason. You’re an enemy in the camp of God, saith the Lord, a messenger of Satan. You carry a spirit of confusion, not one of holiness and righteousness.

Confusion goes hand in hand with wrong thinking. Many in this hour do not think right. You cannot honestly justify yourself if you don’t think right. Think through the truth. The Lord has taught you how to think through the truth, to believe the truth and accept it.

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7). If you think the things of God, the truth, you are able to walk hand in hand with Him. But if you accept hypocrisy, confusion, fanaticism, then you have wrong results. Wrong thinking takes you into despair, fear and oppression.

What are you carrying? If you have depression, why keep it? Did God will you to carry it? Are you supposed to have fear?

Walking hand in hand with Jesus, you are not to have fear, oppression and depression. If those things are in your bag, unload them, destroy them by yielding to God’s overcoming power. They’re garbage, saith the Lord. You need to be rid of everything that takes you away from the things of God. Misgivings, worry, fretting can work on your mind until it is in such a state that God can’t deal with you. The Lord gives sound, sober minds, minds of love, strength and power: those are the kind of minds He can deal with.

The reason God can deal only occasionally with most children of God—work in tiny spaces of their lives here and there—is that their minds are not anchored in God’s Word. Drifting from God’s Word, people become spiritually, mentally unbalanced, losing God’s complete protection. Now the door is open for leeches to enter and increase, to unbalance the thinking further. Minds can be leeched until people cannot think for themselves at all.

What do you carry in that bag? Strife? Clamor? Hate? Grudges? Do you have a jealous spirit? Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame (Song of Solomon 8:6). Jealousy is of the devil. A jealous spirit wants to tear down, is resentful of another getting closer to God or doing more for God than he is. Jealousy is cruel wherever it is found—in the church, at work, in society or in the home. It brings about confusion, creates problems where none need exist.

The devil becomes an artist filling a whole gallery with his works—and doesn’t charge you a penny. How many times have you let him paint a work for you? How many times have you admired his work, thinking his victims deserved misery? How many times have you justified yourself when God refused to? Although God wanted nothing to do with your actions, you told yourself that you were in the right.

Identify the False

The true children of God will not be deceived. They will recognize the Spirit of God, turning a deaf ear to those who fail to preach the whole truth. They will live in such a place with God that God can let them know whether or not a preacher is one of His. Many of God’s people have been like handicapped children being blindly led around, listening to anyone who preaches. Suddenly they discover that the preacher they were sponsoring has been uncovered as a sinner. They hadn’t recognized that the Spirit of God wasn’t in that minister’s life.

In this hour we must be able to know the difference between the Spirit of God, the spirit of the devil and man’s spirit. You hinder yourself by listening to hypocrites.

I don’t want to hear a voice with deceit in it. Recently I tuned my television in to a preacher by accident—or maybe it wasn’t—and I said, God, I want to know: Is he really saved? I had asked that about another preacher in the past, and God said, No. The Lord said about this one: No, he is not saved. He is none of mine. Some of you would be shocked if I were to tell you the name; you would say I was jealous. I’m not jealous of where he is going when he dies if he doesn’t get right with God, or that he takes a big salary and I take just a small one. I know my place in the Lord, and I delight in the place God has given to me, in the messages God gives to me.

What’s in the bag? What do you have? The devil will give you plenty to put in the bag if you let him. What Judas carried in his bag caused him to betray Jesus. If you carry the wrong thing in your bag, you, too, will betray Jesus. He will let you betray Him until He never speaks to you again, saith the Lord. That’s the way it will be in this last hour. It’s a fearful hour, but there is no need, you who are right with God, to be afraid.

Do you pout? Are you carrying any of the devil’s junk? Blow it up: destroy it with God’s truth. As you yield to His truth, it will go into operation, ignite, bring about a great explosion that will destroy the false.

God Doesn’t Excuse Sin

Preachers may excuse sins in people, but God doesn’t. Many people have never really become saved, are not born new. Not leaving the world behind, they listen to the same kind of music, go to the same kind of places and do the same things with little variation. They think they must grow into salvation. Growing into salvation is impossible. You either receive salvation or you don’t.

Receiving salvation means you are made a new creation; the old you is gone with all its sins and deceit of the devil. Sin is no longer a part of you; you’ve stepped into a brand–new life, leaving everything of the world behind. After receiving salvation, a born–again experience, you can begin to grow in grace.

It’s time people know without a doubt whether or not they are born new. Many just pray to ease their conscience as they sink steadily back into the old ways. Soothed by misguided preachers and teachers alike, they believe it takes time to come out of all their sins. That’s not so.

A New Creation

What makes you new? The Lord. He makes you new in His holiness and righteousness, and you love the things of God, not of the world. Before I was saved I thought the world was great; I didn’t want to let it go. I held to it dearly until I felt if I didn’t let go, God was going to kill me—and I didn’t want to go to hell. God didn’t leave me alone, and He didn’t go after my older brother instead of me; I felt God should “get” him first. I had some living to do: I hadn’t had time to sow all the wild oats that filled both my hands.

The Lord was going to show me that when He takes a person over and makes him brand–new, the things of the world look like trash. When I came up from the altar that night I was saved, I started on a new road altogether. I immediately left the world’s music, the dancing; I left all the world behind, and I entered a new world. The things of the world I once had loved, I now hated. The things of God that I had hated, I now loved. I was a new creature.

Live by Faith, Not Feelings

When you carry the burs of sin, you hurt and don’t know why. It’s easy to blame others for your hurts, but give them to the Lord, and stop blaming others. Decide from now on to live by faith, not by feelings. Don’t depend on others to make you feel good; depend on God. Stop looking for sympathy. If you didn’t want sympathy you wouldn’t tell others your feelings were hurt.

Reach out for the faith and love of God that will cure the hurt. You destroy yourself by giving in to your feelings. If you feel like praying, you’ll pray. If you feel like fasting, you fast. If you feel like reading the Word of God, you read it. If you feel like talking sweetly, you do; but if not, you can make people run from you. Do the feelings in your bag operate you? Feelings could cause you to backslide, to turn your back on God. Unload your Judas bag; draw on the glory of God and fill your bag with the right things.

Peter carried a Judas bag at one time.

What’s in there, Peter?

I have a sword.

You mean the Word?

I’m sensible. The Word won’t cut off anyone’s ear. I’m getting ready to cut off an ear.

Peter whipped the sword out of his bag, and off went a man’s ear. How would you have felt if suddenly your ear were gone? You reached up and, yes, it was really missing. Although Peter had the Judas bag, Jesus had the right kind of bag. He reached down, picked up the ear, put it back as good as new. Jesus performed and is still performing masterful surgery. I can visualize the man in the mornings afterward, feeling for his ear, making sure it was still attached.

The Lord will give you the Jesus bag to carry if you empty the one you have. Throw away the Judas bag; take the Jesus bag.

Look at the difference in Peter after he exchanged the Judas bag for the Jesus bag. On the Day of Pentecost, Peter stood before the crowd that so recently had condemned Jesus. It didn’t matter to him any longer whether he would be killed for the sake of Christ. He had the greatest message ever told, and it thrilled him through and through to be part of taking that message to all who would listen.

Thomas Carried Doubt

Thomas, what do you have in that bag?

I’ll tell you one thing; He wasn’t the Redeemer. He’s dead; I saw Him. They stole His body away, and I’m not having any more to do with Him. I’m sensible.

After the Resurrection, Thomas met with the wild excitement of the other disciples: “He’s alive! We’ve seen Him!” they cried. But, still, Thomas wouldn’t believe. Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe (John 20:25). Thinking he was being sensible gave Thomas the feeling of superiority.

Was there any good in what Thomas carried? Thomas was tormented. Carrying the wrong things in the bag brings trouble. Without the complete Jesus kit you come up lacking. That Jesus kit has in it everything you need, the whole supply for you.

Eight days after Thomas’ declaration of doubt, then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God (John 20:26–28). Thomas saw Jesus walk right through a closed door. Imagine how Thomas felt standing there holding his bag of trash that had denied the Resurrection of Jesus! Jesus had taught him about the things in the Jesus kit—the Jesus love, the Jesus faith and humility. Now there he stood with the Judas bag, and he couldn’t hide it. It looked as big as a barn, I’m sure, bigger than he was.

The Lord has made many people swallow their unwise words, feel the bitterness of unbelief. When the Lord comes on the scene, you can hide nothing. Thomas didn’t carry that doubt bag again. The next time you see him, he has the Jesus kit.

Ananias Lied to the Holy Spirit

The Early Church came together in a great pouring out of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost. It was a mighty time, a revival. Everyone was living holy; no deceit in this crowd—not with all the holiness of God that was present. As they were in one mind, one accord the Holy Ghost fell on everyone in the Upper Room. With great zeal the Early Church went forth to spread the Gospel.

But Ananias, what kind of bag are you carrying?

Oh, a wonderful bag!

Have you kept your promise to the Holy Ghost? Did you really sell the land for the amount you stated?

Oh, yes.

But Ananias was lying. He had the wrong bag. Truth was missing. The Lord moved on Peter, gave him a revelation of what was in the bag Ananias carried. Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost…thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things (Acts 5:3–5). The Lord is going to do a lot of that in this last hour, saith the Lord. He’s going to expose the Judas bags among His people. If you don’t have the whole truth, you don’t have the Jesus kit. Untruth will betray you, destroy you just like it destroyed Judas. It cost him his life, his very soul. How many have taken their lives because they had the wrong thing in the bag!

Some church people are spoiled brats when it comes to the Lord. They demand things their own way without taking God’s wishes into consideration. I let the Lord work on them; He works and works to get people ready to carry His Gospel.

Rooted and Grounded in Love

That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love (Ephesians 3:17). Many are not rooted and grounded in love, and this lack shows up in times of persecution, tribulation and trials when the going is rough and the storm clouds hang low. They don’t stand the test, don’t keep the rich soil of the Word nourished with truth.

When your soul is rooted and grounded in love, you have glorified soil, miracle soil that grows the miraculous things of God. Every seed from the Word finds lodging. I can preach and preach to some people, and they hardly know what I said. Others draw on every bit; they want the Word, the richness in the soil for the Word to thrive on.

It’s impossible to carry a Jesus bag and a Judas bag at the same time. Many so–called Christians think they can use the bag of the Lord, the Jesus kit, and still pull out the Judas bag whenever they want. Mean and ugly at times, grieving the Holy Spirit, they are living in flesh and causing chaos.

Serve the Fruits of the Holy Spirit

The fruits of the Holy Spirit are in the Jesus bag: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance (Galatians 5:22,23). Do you have the fruits? What’s in your bag? If it has anything unlike the Jesus bag, throw it away.

What a supply the Lord has for you in His catalog, the Bible. You pay a price to order from the world’s catalogs, but God’s provisions are freely given. Freely ye have received, freely give (Matthew 10:8). The Lord freely gives you what to put in your bag, and He is asking you to freely serve it to others. Don’t be stingy with God’s love He has given to you. Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself (Galatians 6:2,3). In other words, he is junk. Do you think you are anything without Christ Jesus? If so, you deceive yourself. God doesn’t make a nothing—junk. If you have turned yourself over to the devil, he is the one who made you a junk heap.

We’re traveling fast in the Holy Spirit today, too fast to tolerate anything in the Judas bag. The fruits of the Spirit, remember, go into the Jesus bag. If you have the fruit of self–control in the bag, you can reach over and serve it to yourself anytime you need it. You become calm in time of storm, unafraid when others are terrified. He that walked the waters has made it possible for you to walk the waters, too. You can leave the tossing boat, for you have the powers of Jesus to walk the waters of life, that strength. You’re carrying the right bag, carrying the very things Jesus used when He was here on earth. He demonstrated the greatness in His bag. The fruits of the Spirit available to you are fantastic, wonderful.

Do you let others hinder you? Never forget that as a child of God, you can find many things to excuse in people. What will you do with that which you can’t excuse? Will you let it become a grudge in your heart? Will you let it generate strife? If you don’t have forgiveness, the bitterness and grudges will enter.

People do many things we can excuse, things that don’t require forgiveness. However, some things are done to us that we can’t possibly excuse. We’re crushed. Even God won’t excuse them. What can we do? Forgive. When you forgive, you hand the matter over to the Lord; you hear Him saying, Child, I take it. For it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord (Romans 12:19). You’re to have the spirit of forgiveness; it’s God who has the spirit of vengeance to take over the matter. God will do it; He is perfect in all His ways; that means His vengeance will be right.

Excuse all you can, and forgive what is in your power to forgive, remembering that only God can forgive sin. Married couples have much to excuse; if they thought otherwise before they were married, they would be better off to have stayed single. We are not perfect in all our ways. Only when we become born new are we perfect before God. But what is perfect before God may not be perfect to someone else.

If you are unfortunate enough to be married to an adulterer or to one who physically abuses you, God does not require that you stay with that one; He leaves the decision up to you. However, for those little annoying habits a couple is bound to see in each other, forgive, not fussing about the matter, not threatening to leave if everything does not go your way. You excused the burnt toast, the weak coffee on the honeymoon. Be that tolerant throughout the marriage. When you are no longer able to excuse, it’s wonderful to forgive. You are not justified to do anything but forgive. In the church, you excuse God’s people as long as you can; and what you can’t excuse, cover with forgiveness as you turn the people over to God.

Some people have been cruelly mistreated in their homes, staying when most others would have been gone, but they forgive with no bitterness. God has taken the matter over with vengeance. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God (Hebrews 10:31).

When you turn someone who has mistreated you over to God, that one will be dealt with as God knows best. Never look back; never let the devil worry you about what God has control of. Have forgiveness in the bag the way Jesus, crucified and dying, had it on the Cross. He said, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do (Luke 23:34). Can a human have the same forgiveness? Stephen, being stoned to death, said this about his murderers: Lord, lay not this sin to their charge (Acts 7:60). Being able to forgive is a beautiful quality.

Things you can’t forget must not be allowed to kindle bitterness and hatred. You can remember hurts. If you hurt your hand you remember it as long as it’s sore. You remember the hurt feelings until they heal. It takes a while for the hurt to leave, but love will heal it. In the meantime, don’t let the hurt generate vengeance.

Jesus said, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you (Matthew 5:44). It’s easy to love when you excuse people as far as you can and forgive them for the rest. Loving is just that simple.

Do You Question Your Love?

What do you have in the bag? Do you have just enough love to get to Heaven? I once heard someone say they loved another just enough to get to Heaven. When you start measuring and questioning your love, you probably don’t have enough. A man who questions whether he has enough love to ask his girlfriend to marry him, doesn’t. Will he love her when she gets wrinkled? Will he love her if she gains a few extra pounds? He doesn’t consider whether the girl will love him under the same circumstances. Love helps him look into the mirror and know he will wrinkle, too. They both will age together. If his love grows until he doesn’t question it, he will propose.

Question yourself until love can give a perfect answer so you will never question yourself again. Yes, I love that person so much I will be with him or her in sickness or health, in the valleys and on the mountains.

I delight in couples who have good marriages, who do not fuss and fight. I couldn’t picture myself fighting with my wife, Angel, when she was here; she was gentle, kind. I couldn’t have gone to sleep if she were crying because I had hurt her. I didn’t want her to shed any tears, to be hurt. You could step on my toes, but if you hurt Angel it hurt me worse.

Unload the Weights

Let us lay aside every weight (Hebrews 12:1). If there are weights in the bag you carry, the wrong things have slipped in. That’s the reason many are in an unhappy state; they are not traveling very fast with God because they have loaded up with weights that hinder their walk with Him.

It’s time to wake up, to see what you are carrying. You who have weights, be rid of them. Run this race; we are going to go fast, saith the Lord, in this last hour. You can’t carry any weights and keep up. Unload all the weights. If you have any hindrances in serving God, be rid of them. Throw out all the Judas bags, all the junk bags and take on the Jesus bag full of love, peace, joy, happiness, goodness. You don’t have to worry about hate and strife in the world; you have love, peace enough to serve plenty to yourself and to everyone around you. You won’t run out. Every time you take something out of the bag, the Lord replaces it. What you carry in the bag is what you are going to serve others.

Only Things of God Are in the Jesus Bag

It’s wonderful to serve the things of God, to serve Jesus to the world. We will serve salvation, the baptism in the Holy Spirit and more. Serving the whole Jesus for soul, mind and body, we will tell the world about Him as we use the Jesus bag, the Jesus kit. Are you ready to move fast, to soar higher than the eagle? Are you ready to please God? Enoch pleased God, and he was raptured. The Bride will please God and meet Him in the air. Are you ready to go?

We’re going to fill our bag with all the greatness and the power of Jesus. We will face each day without any grudges, envy, strife as we take the whole Jesus bag for the whole Jesus cure. All that’s in the bag we will let become part of our spirits, part of us, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. We’re going to be just like Jesus, to talk, think and trample devils underfoot just like Him, to cast out devils, pray for the sick and know they will be healed, for it is Jesus who is doing the healing.

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men; especially unto them who are of the household of faith (Galatians 6:10). As we have opportunity we will do good. The Judas bag has no good in it, only means of destruction, things that rob, destroy, keep God’s best out of reach, and generate disobedience again and again.

The Father Always Hears You

The Jesus kit helps keep us in the limelight of Heaven, walking and being just like Him. We pray just like Jesus, saying, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always (John 11:41,42). Do you really believe the Lord always hears you? If you say a bad word do you think He hears that? If He can hear a bad word, know He must hear the good prayers His children send up. The Lord rejoices in hearing good words; He listens for them. Yield to the Holy Spirit, to the power of God and fill up your bag with the things of God.

Walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:16). They that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts (Galatians 5:24). When self is crucified, you won’t labor under hurt feelings all the time. The secret of overcoming hurt is love. Nothing will grow without love. When God takes His love from the face of the earth, only death will be left; human love no longer will work. To be effective, human love must work with God’s love. That’s the reason so much love today falls short; it has none of God in it. The world is in this deplorable condition because of a lack of reality in the Lord. We must have God’s life–giving love to carry the Gospel to the whole world in this last hour.

Stand before God today a moment and ask Him to let you know what kind of bag you are carrying; don’t be deceived. Lay aside every weight. If you have anything that favors the Judas bag, you must be rid of it. Ask the Lord to let you know what you carry; be sincere in His presence. Don’t be deceived.

Dear Jesus,

Reveal to me the kind of bag I am carrying. If I’m carrying a bag with any deceit in it, it’s a Judas bag. If I’m carrying a bag with hate, envy, strife and jealousy, it’s a Judas bag. If I’m carrying lust, it’s a Judas bag. If I’m carrying disobedience to God, it’s a Judas bag, and I’m not pure before you, God. In that bag I’m carrying something that will destroy me, destroy my soul in hell. I want to know, Lord, what I carry. I want no part, no lot in the Judas bag. I stake my claim for the Jesus bag. I know, dear Jesus, you paid for everything in this bag, everything that can help me on my way to Heaven, help me be a real witness for you, to bless your Kingdom and win lost souls in this last hour.

I take your love; I take your peace; I take your longsuffering, your gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, your self–control. I promise you, Lord, I will do my best to excuse what others do; and what I can’t excuse I will do my best to use your forgiveness, Lord, and forgive. I want to be like Jesus. Come Holy Spirit and take me over. I give myself completely to you. Heal all the sick and afflicted. Anyone unsaved or with deceit, help them surrender, confess it to you, God, and be set completely free in the holy name of Jesus.

A Message from the Holy Spirit

Yea, saith the Spirit of the Lord: I have brought you to this hour to cleanse you, to purify you, to bring you into all of my greatness. Do not give up in discouragement. I have given you my message, not a man’s message, but I have given you my message to deliver you from everything that is hindering or will hinder you. I have brought my love to you, my love to you with great discipline. I have brought my mind to you so that you will know what I want of you in this your final hour. Yield to me; don’t let the enemy, your enemy and mine, tell you that you cannot do it. You can do it! You can do it! You can do it! You can walk as I desire you to walk. You can please me because my grace is sufficient for thee. I will be with you, and I will walk every valley with you. I will climb every mountain with you. I will walk the angry seas of life that you must walk. I will be your hope, I will be your help. I am reaching out to draw you into purification. I’m calling you into my sanctification. I am calling you into my arms of perfect love and perfect obedience, saith the Lord.

Rejoice in the Lord; take the bag of Jesus and leave everything else behind, every weight and sin. Delight yourselves in the Lord, yield to Him in all His power and greatness as we take the Gospel of Jesus to all who will hear in this last and final hour. Everything you need, everything I need, and everything each person needs on planet Earth today is all in the Jesus bag. So let’s serve all of Jesus to all people throughout the whole earth!