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When you become a born-new child of God, you become a

completely new creature in Christ Jesus. Therefore 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). When you’re cleansed by the blood, all sin and
disobedience are washed away; and the soil of your soul is
prepared to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. This holy
baptism is promised to all. For the promise [the gift of the Holy
Ghost] is unto you, and to your children, and to all that
are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call
(Acts 2:39).

Anyone can receive the Holy Ghost, but they must be obedient.
And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also December 2010
the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey
him (Acts 5:32). People who seek for the Holy Ghost when
they’re not obeying God in everything will not receive.

When you do receive the Holy Ghost, your body becomes His temple; and you are no longer your
own. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in
you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own (I Corinthians 6:19)? You’ve given your
life over to God, and you are His. For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his
bones (Ephesians 5:30).

As members of His body, you must become just like Jesus and follow after Him. And he
[Jesus]said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take
up his cross daily, and follow me (Luke 9:23). Jesus paid a high price for you; and if you don’t
follow Him, then you don’t belong to Him. For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify
God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s (I Corinthians 6:20). You can’t glorify
God and commit willful sin at the same time. The Holy Ghost will leave you, and you’ll miss
Heaven.

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Consider the price Jesus paid for us. God told me that His Son left His home in Glory where He
had lived for trillions of years to become a member of the human race; He took on all the
weaknesses and temptations that we have. 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 4:15). He came as a baby, grew up among men and suffered the
same pain and hardships of living outside of Eden that we do.

For Jesus to become our redeemer, He had to experience everything that we do so He could show
us the way. Only divinity could have brought divine blood for our souls, died for us and given us
life. Jesus said, I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more
abundantly (John 10:10). He also said, And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall
make you free (John 8:32).

While Jesus was here on earth, He worked hard; and He had helping, serving hands. He labored in
the carpenter shop with Joseph, His earthly dad, and then later endured much sorrow and pain.
Audacious men sought to kill Him while others lied and said all manner of evil against Him.
People fought against Him and tried to destroy Him in every way…and He went through it all for
us. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed (Isaiah
53:5). Jesus went to the whipping post for our physical healing—what a price He paid for us to
have divine miracles.

No deadly disease would ever be greater than His touch, and He gave us that same touch to use.
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out
devils…they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover (Mark 16:17,18). Jesus
said, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth (Mark 9:23). He
came to earth with healing in His wings and power in His hands. But unto you that fear my
name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings (Malachi 4:2).

We were all conceived in sin and iniquities. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did
my mother conceive me (Psalm 51:5). We were born without the image of God; but once you’re
born new, the Bible says, Ye put on the new man, which after God is created in
righteousness and true holiness (Ephesians 4:24). After you’ve been re-created into His
righteousness, God sees His reflection in you just like you see your reflection when you look into a
mirror.

You can know whether or not you have the image of God by looking into His Word; think of it as
God’s looking glass. Don’t do as those who look and then turn away and forget what kind of person
they are. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man

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beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and
straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was (James 1:23,24).

A real blood experience washes away all sin in your heart; but if you commit willful sin after you
find the Lord, the Holy Spirit departs. Then you become just another sinner headed for hell. For
if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there
remaineth no more sacrifice for sins (Hebrews 10:26).

We have to take our old selves to Calvary once and for all, and the Lord has given each of us a
measure of faith so we can do just that. God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith
(Romans 12:3). Calvary is no longer a physical place but a spiritual place, so only with this measure
of faith and through the Spirit of God can you find the reality of Calvary in all of its power and
glory.

After Adam and Eve were forced out of the Garden of Eden, no one saw the face of God until the
shepherds looked into the humble manger. There they saw the face of God with all of its divine
love, divine peace, divine hope and divine faith; they saw His gentleness, goodness and patience.
No eyes had ever beheld all of that, but the shepherds saw it in the face of Jesus. They saw
self-control, longsuffering and the great, divine compassion that every child of God must have in
this last hour to win the lost at any cost. They saw the very face of God, and it changed their lives
forever.

Angels sang at Jesus’ birth and announced His arrival to the lowly shepherds. Behold, I bring
you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day
in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord (Luke 2:10,11). True children of God
should still be rejoicing over this miraculous event. They’re supposed to be the happiest people in
the world; yet so many allow the devil to defeat them and take them into despair, defeat,
oppression and depression. These things are not what Jesus paid for us to have.

God had tried everything to redeem man before giving His only Son. He had tried dealing with the
heads of families; He had tried the Law, and the Lord hated the stench of the animal sacrifices.
Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not,
neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law (Hebrews 10:8). But the Son
of God came saying, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy
will, O God (Hebrews 10:7).

Jesus came to do the will of God; and when He was in such agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, He
prayed, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I
will, but as thou wilt (Matthew 26:39). He suffered so much that God sent an angel from

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Heaven to give Him strength. And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven,
strengthening him. And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat
was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground (Luke 22:43,44).

Oh, how I’ve wept when I have thought about Jesus in that Garden, and God reminded me of His
Son’s sufferings when I was preparing this message for you. He wanted me to tell you about the
pain He bore and to let you know that He did it through divine love. If you could have only heard
the love in His voice as He told me about His Son’s suffering for all of us, you would realize that we
can’t afford to ever fail Him.

When Christ died, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom
(Mark 15:38). This signified that the wall separating man from his God had come tumbling down;
and the invitation went out, “Whosoever will, let him come!” And whosoever will, let him take
the water of life freely (Revelation 22:17).

Never forget the price Jesus paid to bring us divinity. He brought all the divinity we’ll ever need to
live free from sin and to have the image of God, to be born new and to be filled with the Holy
Ghost—power from On High. He brought the nine fruits of the Spirit, the nine gifts of the Spirit
and divine love; and the Bible says we’re nothing without divine 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 [love], I am nothing (I Corinthians 13:1,2).

Without Jesus, we would have nothing; but with Him, we have everything. Paul wrote to one of the
churches, Ye are complete in him [Christ Jesus] (Colossians 2:10). When something is
complete, nothing needs to be added to it; and it satisfies. With honey out of the rock should I
have satisfied thee (Psalm 81:16). That honey is so sweet, and the Bible tells us that Jesus is like
honey. O taste and see that the LORD is good (Psalm 34:8). Through Christ, we have joy
unspeakable and full of glory (I Peter 1:8). Praise God forevermore! There are not enough
words in any language to describe the joy we can have in the Lord and in the Holy Ghost.

Those who hated Jesus while He was on earth could have had His help; but they rejected Him, and
they’re in hell. Today, all those who hate Jesus will find themselves in hell, too, unless they become
born new; that’s their only hope. Unfortunately, many in the world have been raised in witchcraft,
voodoo, Satanism and other darknesses of the devil; and they have never heard about Jesus. But
the Lord is delivering them by the thousands wherever we go as I take them the whole Jesus, the
Deliverer for soul, mind and body.

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Jesus went to the whipping post so He could be our Deliverer. The soldiers beat Him until the
blood ran down His back, but He went through it so we could be well and healthy and work for
Him. The Bible says it’s the will of the Lord for us to be in good health. Beloved, I wish above
all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth (III
John 1:2). He also wills for our souls to be in the perfection of His will and power.

Under the Law, the Lord promised the Israelites that if they would keep His commandments and
do His will, He would keep sickness away from their door. Wherefore it shall come to pass, if
ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them…the LORD will take away
from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou
knowest, upon thee (Deuteronomy 7:12,15). Throughout their 40 years in the wilderness, their
clothes and their shoes never wore out. And I have led you forty years in the wilderness:
your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot
(Deuteronomy 29:5). If only the people had obeyed and followed the Lord, they would have been
in Canaan in just 11 days.

They had watched the pillar of fire hold back the enemy and felt its warmth in the cold, desert
nights. They had seen the cloud of His presence going before them to lead them and give them
shelter. He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night (Psalm
105:39). What protection, love and grace the Lord provided for them.

God brought the Israelites out of bondage on eagles’ wings. I bare you on eagles’ wings, and
brought you unto myself (Exodus 19:4). They had been in slavery for hundreds of years and
had been forced to serve under the rule of the most powerful army in that day, but the Lord
brought them out by the power of His might. He showed the people that He could drown every
one of those soldiers and that they could go on their way into Canaan in peace.

If you want to live in God’s peace, you must go His way and travel with Him on the high road. He
tells you that His thoughts and ways are higher than ours. For as the heavens are higher than
the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts
(Isaiah 55:9). Many so-called Christians today are traveling on the low road—dead preachers,
priests and church members alike. They’re deceived, and they think it leads to Heaven; but it
doesn’t. Jesus said, Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the
way, that leadeth to destruction [hell], and many there be which go in thereat:
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life [Heaven], and
few there be that find it (Matthew 7:13,14).

There are over six billion people on earth today, but how many of them will make it to Heaven?
The Lord’s cry to all is, Ye must be born again (John 3:7). Then you must work for the Lord
until He comes. Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man
according as his work shall be (Revelation 22:12). God will reward us for all of our works,

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whether they’re good or bad; but it’s sad to think about the people who are failing God because they
have never received the whole Jesus or given themselves completely to Him.

Jesus dictated letters to John the Revelator for each of the seven churches. He told the first church
that they had some wonderful works, but He went on to give them a sobering warning:
Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works;
or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place,
except thou repent (Revelation 2:4,5). The candlestick represents the spiritual Church, and
Jesus warned these people that He would move it away from them. In other words, He said, “I’ll
forget about you and let you wander in the darkness outside of Eden because you have left your
first love.”

Jesus came with loving hands to teach and preach, change lives, deliver bodies and save souls.
Friends of a man with palsy brought him on a bed to Jesus so he could be made whole because
there was no healing through medical science for palsy in that day. But Jesus said, Son, thy sins
be forgiven thee (Mark 2:5). This statement made the scribes and Pharisees murmur into their
beards, but Jesus knew exactly what they were thinking. Why doth this man thus speak
blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only (Mark 2:7)? Jesus answered, That ye may
know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of
the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine
house. And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all;
insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on
this fashion (Mark 2:10–12). The man stood up and was made whole all over.

You can’t make room for doubt; and if you have any, pray, Lord, I believe; help thou mine
unbelief (Mark 9:24). The Lord works through faith, not doubt. He is our God of faith, and you
can’t please Him without it. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that
cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that
diligently seek him (Hebrews 11:6).

Jesus’ hands have all the healing power that anybody will ever need, but so few people use it and
accept His great miracles. Many are so far away from God that they will let a loved one die before
they’ll bring them before the Lord for prayer. Some people attend church every Sunday morning
but don’t live for God throughout the week; and that isn’t really serving God. Their hands are not
holy, serving hands. The Lord said, I will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up
holy hands, without wrath and doubting (I Timothy 2:8). Holy hands can only come from a
heart that is made holy through divine blood.

Jesus passed His holy, healing hands on to every child of God to use for themselves and for others.
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Jesus called the first disciples from their fishing nets of the world, He said, Follow me, and I will
make you fishers of men (Matthew 4:19). Years ago, God carried me away in the Spirit and
showed me the multitudes of people on the earth; and He said, “Tell my people that if they fail,
these will die and go to hell.” We must not fail!

When Jesus came to earth, He walked and talked with man; but it took Him years to prepare 12
men to be His disciples, and still there was a Judas among them who failed completely. At first,
Judas yielded to the Lord; but he soon fell by the wayside just like many preachers have done in
the past and are still doing today. Peter cut an ear off of one of the soldiers who came for Jesus in
the Garden of Gethsemane, but Jesus rebuked him and restored that man’s ear. Peter was so
insulted by this that he backslid and even cursed to make people think that he had not been with
Jesus. But just think how Peter must have felt later when Jesus looked at him with tortured eyes as
He was paying the price for him and all mankind. And the Lord turned, and looked upon
Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before
the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went out, and wept bitterly (Luke
22:61,62).

The disciples fell asleep and didn’t stand by Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane; but if they had
been alive in the Spirit as they should have been, they would have stayed awake. And he [Jesus]
cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou?
couldest not thou watch one hour? Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak. And again he went away, and prayed,
and spake the same words. And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for
their eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him. And he cometh the third
time, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: it is enough, the hour is
come; behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners (Mark 14:37-41). Oh,
if they had only stayed awake—Jesus needed them so much that night.

The Lord teaches us to be wide-awake and watching in this last hour. Watch therefore, for ye
know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh (Matthew 25:13). It’s
almost midnight and time to go home. Jesus is about to come for His Bride.

Jesus gave His all for you, so you are not your own. You have no right to stay out of church when
you could be there. You have no right to refuse to do God’s work or to sacrifice your time for Him.
The Lord shed all of His blood and gave His whole life to serve and help you. He did nothing for
Himself, yet people still fail God again and again. Even some of those who really become born
again will only run well for a short while and then fall by the wayside.

When people let up on praying, fasting and studying the Bible, they become selfish with their time.

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They have time for pleasure, disobedience and even sin; but they don’t have time for Jesus. They’ll
want Him after it’s too late, but then He’ll no longer be there for them. If people have no time for
Jesus now, He’ll soon have no time for them.

The Bible tells us that one day, an angel will stand with one foot on land and one on the sea and
declare time to be no more. And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the
earth lifted up his hand to heaven, And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever,
who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things
that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be
time no longer (Revelation 10:5,6). Heaven’s clock will soon stop; and if you’re not on God’s
time, you’ll be left out. Most people today are not on God’s time or they wouldn’t do or say the
things they do.

Most of the apostles were not on God’s time during Jesus’ trials, His hours of great persecution or
even at His Crucifixion. Only John was at the foot of the Cross; he was the only apostle who
realized that he was bought with a price and that he wasn’t his own. Now there stood by the
cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and
Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by,
whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then saith he to
the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his
own home (John 19:25-27). One of the three women there with John was Mary Magdalene. She
had been a degraded woman of the streets; but Jesus had cast seven devils out of her with His
loving hands, and she had become a beautiful vessel for the Lord.

With those same loving hands, Jesus had stood before Lazarus’ sepulcher weeping; but this was not
the first time. He had been rejected by so many that the Bible tells us He was a man of sorrows,
and acquainted with grief (Isaiah 53:3). As He shed tears before Lazarus’ tomb, He didn’t dry
them; instead, He reached out with loving hands to dry Lazarus’ sisters’ tears. He was all they had
at that time, and they had loved their brother so much. The Lord dearly loved this family, and He
would always stay with them when He was in Jerusalem.

When Jesus arrived four days after Lazarus had died, Martha ran to Him saying, Lord, if thou
hadst been here, my brother had not died (John 11:21). But Jesus answered, I am the
resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he
live (John 11:25). Jesus dried their tears while His own cheeks remained wet with tears of
compassion, grace and love. He later shed those same tears on Calvary for you and me.

Then Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith
unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days (John 11:39).
Jesus reminded Martha,Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou
shouldest see the glory of God (John 11:40)?

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Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus
lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew
that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that
they may believe that thou hast sent me. And when he thus had spoken, he cried with
a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth (John 11:41-44). The
people who were there only had to roll away the stone, and Jesus brought Lazarus out of the tomb.

Jesus never tells us to do anything that we can’t do. Do you have the stones in your life pushed out
of the way today? If so, then victory, deliverance, good health and anything else you may need are
all on the other side of that stone.

Are you or is a loved one dying with AIDS or with some other deadly disease? If you’ll get the
stones out of the way, you can have life for you or your loved one. God promised us miracles, but
every promise is conditional. You must live holy; and then Jesus’ serving, miracle hands will work
for you. They touched blind eyes and gave them sight; they touched deaf ears, and the people
could hear and speak. His hands touched cripples, and they were made whole. Jesus said, Wilt
thou be made whole (John 5:6)? He also said, Come unto me, all ye that labour and are
heavy laden, and I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28).

Sin brought death to man and woman outside of Eden, but Jesus brought us the blessed hope––the
hope that lets us know that we will one day see loved ones who have gone on to Heaven before us.
We’ll meet them in the land prepared by God the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost; and we’ll live
in mansions built only by divinity.

When we have Jesus inside, we have the same hands that He had—loving hands, healing hands,
hands of divinity and grace. They’re His hands, and we use them in His name. When Jesus
touches someone, it’s the same as if the Father has touched them; and when the Father touches
someone, it’s all done.

I want to serve just like Jesus every day; but to do that, I have to be humble and not put myself
above others. I have to meet with people down in the valley of human needs so I can help those
who can’t help themselves.

It doesn’t matter what color people are or what nation they’re from; I see them as God sees them.
We’re all made out of the same dust of the earth, and that dust can be purified and made holy just
like Jesus was. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his
glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth (John
1:14). Jesus’ earthly body was made of clay just as ours are, but that body became a glorified body.

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Are you putting the work of the Lord above yourself? Are you using all that the Lord has given to
you? In Matthew, Jesus told the parable of the talents. A master who was leaving on a journey
gave each of his servants a different number of talents. And unto one he gave five talents, to
another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and
straightway took his journey. Then he that had received the five talents went and
traded with the same, and made them other five talents. And likewise he that had
received two, he also gained other two. But he that had received one went and digged
in the earth, and hid his lord’s money (Matthew 25:15–18). The servant who received only
one talent wasn’t happy because he didn’t think it was valuable, so he didn’t use that talent and let
it multiply. Child of God, you must always remember that anything God gives you has great value.
God has the power to give you all the help that you will ever need.

Job was a servant of God who gave his all to the Lord. God loved and trusted him so much that He
set Job up before the devil saying, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none
like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and
escheweth evil (Job 1:8)? Just imagine having such a good report from the God of all creation.

Job had such a mind for God that he would present his children daily before the Lord just in case
they might have done something wrong. And it was so, when the days of their feasting were
gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and
offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be
that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually
(Job 1:5).

One tragic day, everything changed for Job. His children were all killed, and he lost all his
livestock and servants; and later, he was afflicted with boils all over his body. But through it all,
Job sinned not and cried, Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him (Job 13:15). He also said,
When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold (Job 23:10); and Job did exactly that
because he had given himself totally to God.

Noah knew that he was not his own, and he and his family separated from the world and spent 120
years building the ark. During that time, not one soul got saved; but Noah and his family didn’t let
that hinder them. Noah continued to present himself daily before God saying, “Here I am, Lord. I
love you, and I love everything about you.” God on His great throne of love heard that voice and
spared Noah and his family from the flood. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the
LORD…Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with
God (Genesis 6:8,9).

Abraham was full of faith and put God first in everything. He started on his way to sacrifice his son

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knowing that God had promised him nations would come from his son. He had such great faith
that he knew if he sacrificed Isaac on the altar, God would raise him up. By faith Abraham,
when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up
his only begotten son, Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also
he received him in a figure (Hebrews 11:17-19).

Joseph was a humble servant of God who was not his own. He didn’t become bitter when his
brothers sold him into slavery or when the devil persecuted him and tried to destroy him in many
ways. Joseph never lost his faith in God and never compromised; he kept himself pure and clean.
God was preparing him to become the savior of his people, and He eventually raised him up to be
second in command over all the land of Egypt. Joseph had such great love for his Lord, and he was
a type and shadow of Jesus who was raised up to save His people from their sins.

Moses gave up his life in Pharaoh’s house to become the deliverer of God’s people. It took God 40
years to make Moses into the man He needed him to be, but He made him; and Moses stood the
test. He knew he was not his own. When Moses was born, it was decreed that all baby boys had to
be killed; but his parents hid him away. When they felt they couldn’t hide him any longer, they
made a little basket and sent him on his journey down the Nile River and into the arms of God.
Moses never turned his back on God. By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused
to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with
the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season (Hebrews 11:24,25).
Moses wanted to be all that God wanted him to be.

If you haven’t yet presented yourself to God, do it today; but you have to give yourself completely,
the whole you. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your
reasonable service (Romans 12:1). Notice that it says a living sacrifice, not a dead one. After all
that Jesus paid for us, this is just our reasonable service.

When you’re not your own, you’re no longer of the world. And be not conformed to this
world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is
that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God (Romans 12:2). You can only do God’s
perfect will if you have the mind of Christ, and that mind is willed to each of us. Let this mind be
in you, which was also in Christ Jesus (Philippians 2:5).

You have to leave the world behind. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye
separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you (II
Corinthians 6:17). Jesus plainly told us that He was not of the world when He was here. They are

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not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy
word is truth (John 17:16,17). The blood that stained the Old Rugged Cross sanctifies each child
of God.

When Jesus was here, He prayed for the disciples who were with Him and for all His future
disciples; and that includes us. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which
shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art
in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that
thou hast sent me (John 17:20,21).

When you’re not your own, you won’t listen to the world or self; you’ll listen to the Holy Spirit.
Seven different times in the book of Revelation it says, He that hath an ear, let him hear what
the Spirit saith unto the churches (Revelation 2:7,11,17,29; 3:6,13,22). When you listen only to
the things of God, then your speech will be like that of Heaven. Your tongue will be sanctified so
the Lord can use it. Jesus said that if you are perfect in speech, then you are perfect in Him and in
His love. For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a
perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body (James 3:2).

We must speak the same language that is spoken in Heaven—the love language. For our
conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus
Christ (Philippians 3:20). We can speak no gossip and have no grudges, bitterness or resentment.
We have to live a holy life.

When you give yourself to the Lord, you can trample devils underfoot with the Bible truth.
Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the
power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you (Luke 10:19). Resist the
devil with the truth. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will
flee from you (James 4:7).

Don’t bow down to the devil in any form or fashion; hate him with all that’s within you. God
despised the devil so much that He cast him out of Heaven along with all the angels who had fallen
into sin and disobedience with him. Jesus watched it being done; and He said, I beheld Satan as
lightning fall from heaven (Luke 10:18). If the Lord cast Lucifer and the fallen angels out of
Heaven, then why would He let any sin back in? There will be no sin in His Heaven.

I can’t emphasize enough that you’re not your own; and from the time God saved me, I’ve always
remembered that. I knew I was bought with a price. Jesus said, If ye love me, keep my
commandments (John 14:15). Jesus paid for you, and you belong to Him; but some people
resent that. I love for the Lord to let me know that I belong to Him, and I present myself before

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Him daily. How often do you do that? “Here I am, Lord” should be the start of each day. Say, “I
present my body as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to you, God, for this new day.” Get up
with Heaven on your mind and start praising the Lord. The Psalmist said, I will praise thee, O
LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works. I will be glad
and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High (Psalm 9:1,2)

Do you want to become God’s servant and live in divinity outside of Eden? Do you want to serve
Him, be ready for the soon return of the man called Jesus and live with Him forevermore in
Heaven? Jesus brought all the divinity you need to make the Rapture and to be changed in a
twinkling of an eye, so let’s get rid of all your sins and come to Jesus. The Bible says, The soul
that sinneth, it shall die (Ezekiel 18:4); but Jesus paid for your soul to be cleansed and to be
given eternal life on Calvary.

If you need salvation, lift your hands and pray this prayer with me right now. Oh, God, save my
soul! I believe your messenger today. I know you paid for my soul, my body and my salvation;
and I’m giving my heart to you today. You said that if I would confess my sins, you would forgive
me and cleanse me from all unrighteousness. I believe your divine blood washes away all of my
sins. Come into my heart, Jesus! Come on in, Jesus! Come on in!

If you meant that prayer, He has come; and He is yours. Prayer, fasting and living in the Word will
keep you on the strait and narrow road, the only road that leads to Heaven.

You who are sick and afflicted, the Bible says, And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and
the Lord shall raise him up (James 5:15). I’m the Lord’s believer, and I always give Him all the
glory. All the wonderful works are His, and I am just His servant.

Lord, here are the people. It doesn’t matter what diseases they have; you paid for all diseases and
deformities to go from the bodies of mankind. HIV/AIDS, heart trouble, diabetes, lung disease,
cancer, deformities in little children––you paid for it all at the whipping post. I curse all
weaknesses, all diseases and all deformities in the people’s bodies; and in the name of Jesus, I
command them to be made whole! In the blood-name of Jesus, heal!

The healing power of the Lord is now flowing, and you can be made whole. You gave your heart to
God, so lift up holy hands and be made well. Give the Lord the glory for all you have received, and
we’ll give Him the glory for your testimony. God bless, and I will see you in the Rapture.

December, 2010, ERNEST ANGLEY, founder & editor in chief, Vol. 55, No. 6, The Power of the Holy Ghost USPS 516-050) is published
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