Reconciling the Body of Christ — Art Katz

Praise God, let's just join our hearts and spirits together to hear from God. Pleases him to use earthen vessels. But I know that there's a great God who is brooding over us whose heart palpitates it's full of concern for his body and he's moving upon us by his spirit and pressing us and touching our understanding and Bringing something forth every one of us is conscious of that.

God is bringing something forth we're being even despite our own reluctance being brought to a kind of maturity and understanding and depth and walk. That no one could have explained to us as recently as perhaps a year or two ago.

Where we realize that we're we're gone beyond conventional Christianity. This is Not even religion anymore. This is becoming increasingly light. So, let's see what God has to say we want all That's out of his heart for us this night and in these days.

This is not just going to be a conference. We're not just going to have our ears titillated. We're not going to just thrill and have and be flushed in our cheeks because we've been delighted by this speaker or another.

But we want to hear the full weight and wisdom and counsel that God wants to breathe into our hearts. That we might be the mature people of God in this community. So precious Holy God Praise you Lord for this.

Have your wonderful way mighty God breathe upon us even now and may we sense the magnitude of your presence. Open our hearts precious God to prepare us for what it is that you shall be pleased to speak into them.

Help us Lord God that not a syllable of your speaking shall fall to the ground. It shall be treasured up cherished. Nurtured Lord that it might bring forth life. Bless your people now and speak to them.

Prepare us for the hour to which you've called our lives. Set the tone and the spirit Lord for these days. Well, thank you and praise you for the wonder of your speaking by your spirit and your word and to you mighty God the old praise and glory.

Acknowledgement and honor now and forever in Yeshua's name. We ask it. Amen. I'm going to begin with some familiar verses. To be found in the Gospel of John in the 17th chapter. And maybe because they're familiar all the more reason to give an exhortation.

Jesus’ Prayer for the Unity of His People

That God is not wanting to titillate our ears with something new and something cunning something rare and something esoteric. God is wanting us to take a deep and Significant look at the things which have become unfortunately familiar these words.

And this concern and prayer Came out of the agony of our Lord at the Garden of Gethsemane. I think it's good to be reminded where this prayer was made. Because it's got to do with deep groanings out of the heart of God then and now.

20th verse of the 17th chapter. Neither. I 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 and the glory which thou gavest me I have given them that they may be one even as we are one I in them and thou in me. That they may be made perfect in one and that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast Loved me as many times as we've read and heard these words.

I Don't think that except by the grace of God that we can be entered into the enormous mysteries which are spoken there. God is having to reveal them to me not in Bible classes or in lectures or a discussion but in flesh and blood.

Demonstration. I Just came back from a trip to Israel. It was not just a mere tour. It was a ministry tour with a choir and dance group from a charismatic fellowship in the state of Washington. Over 90 young people many of them trembled with apprehension.

Because they had not so much as ever seen a Jew in their little community in the state of Washington. Let alone that they should be abruptly confronted with two and a half million of my kind. That's a frightening introduction to 20th century evangelism.

I'll tell you we have little reluctance to speak to some drunken sock in the gutter and Tell him that he needs to be saved. He's already familiar with the language of salvation and he knows it. But it's another thing to confront a self-assured Contemporary Jew who was not so much as ever raised his voice toward his wife.

Let alone any of the more heinous things that men perform and tell a man who has university degrees who is polite cultured dignified and is compassionate and concerned for humanity that he's utterly lost without your Christ.

And The very name that is the key to his salvation is the name which has had a two thousand year opportunity to be perverted polluted Corrupted and charged with such negative and ugly things that the very mention of the name brings back the thought of Spanish Inquisition's forced pogroms conversions exile rape looting pillage destruction and death.

Who is it who has the skill? The ability to present this gospel to this people in this last hour. And It's not that I'm making some special appeal for a singular ethnic group. But if you have ears to hear What the Jewish people represent in the modern world is The heart of a system which has been at enmity with God full of its own wisdom.

Full of its own convictions its own answers its own salvation though lightly Lotted over with religious terminology the most difficult kinds of people to confront. Who in the natural are so formidable and It doesn't matter now whether we're speaking about Jews by birth or people who are not used by birth but Jewish by conviction.

Who are humanists? Philosophers who subscribe to a variety of causes and ideologies and have their own way to their own salvation and Look upon the salvation of God as being not only utterly foolish But reprehensible and abominable and narrow and sectarian and deathly.

So you can understand the fight of these children To go to Israel who have not so much as seen a Jew let alone to be equipped to represent this gospel to them. But we saw wonders in the days that we were together.

And it had not to do with the excellence of speaking or man's wisdom it had only to do with the fact that there was a certain radiance to these children a Certain glow and a certain quality of life that could not be resisted.

I remember one afternoon We were sitting at the airport at Rome literally sitting on the concrete floor. Our plane was delayed and I was giving these young people an orientation about the land of Israel and the people to which they were coming and We noticed that there were some other passengers watching us and later on I got into a conversation with one of them and he proved to be a Jewish man a professor at the Hebrew University at Jerusalem.

And he said that he was remarkably impressed with these young people. He wanted to know who they were and where they were from. I told him that they were there from the state of Washington that they were a Christian Bible College group and Whose heart was the Ruach HaKodesh the Holy Spirit of God?

He said, you know, he said they look as if they've stepped out of the 19th century. What he was saying was that there's a quality of innocence about them. There's something to be seen in their faces and their demeanor and the way that they relate together.

That's not to be seen anywhere else in this modern world. And he's right I said listen if you're so impressed you think you might find them some opportunity to minister at your own campus. He said he would do all that he could in this power.

And I should call him a few nights after we arrived in Israel and I did and he told me then apologetically that he could not arrange it that it took extraordinary security measures and that the time had to have been too brief and therefore Sorry, I said say would you mind if we just came lunch hour and just informally came to the campus and just saying and Exchange with the students without any other formal arrangement he said well if you want to and so we came that lunchtime twelve o 'clock and three buses filled and we were stopped at the gates and They were we were asked for our official permission and we had none.

But I mentioned this professor's name and I don't know what happened, but they let us in. And we came to the plaza there. It's a great kind of a staging area where all the traffic passes by and they began to assemble and they took out their instruments their trumpets and guitars and the dancers were getting limbered up and two security guards came over and wanted to see our Security clearance and we had none.

Oh, he said you can't do this. You can't do this he said. I said listen, they're only wanting to bring a mitzvah. They only want to bring a blessing. There's no harm in them. Okay, he said go ahead. And you can't imagine the beauty of this singing.

The joy in the faces of these children singing in Hebrew about the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob about the God of Israel and It wasn't minutes before we had a crowd of two and three hundred university students circled about them.

Watching these young people dance with a purity of spirit that could not be mistaken. I'll tell you that I itched when that musical thing was over to stand up like Peter before the hundreds and begin to preach.

But I restrained myself. Preaching would have ruined it. I can just hear the cries of anguish. Oh, so that's your game. So that's it under the guise of bringing music and blessing you came to do your missionary work.

Praise God that he stopped my mouth. Because I'll tell you that no more brilliant and effective missionary work had ever been accomplished to my knowledge in Jerusalem since the book of Acts as was accomplished at that campus that day.

When that concert broke the students naturally were drawn to these Gentile children to ask them Why have you come and who are you and by what means. And one question led to another and I'll tell you some of the most Beautiful witness went forth their faces alone were an enormous testimony.

Unity as a Witness to Israel

There is something when a group of God's people Who are one? Come together and express the radiance and joy and the life of God. There's something that's so difficult to describe. That was in the heart of Jesus when he agonized in the garden that they may be one as we are one.

Because I'll tell you that in that unity something was revealed in those children that was revealed also in Jesus 2 ,000 years before something of the mystery of the Godhead. Something of the father that was resident in that Christ Jesus was also revealed out of the faces and lives of Gentile children because they were one as he was one.

They were a sermon and no additional preaching was necessary. They revealed the character of God in his very self the brightness of his glory the expressed image of his person. The invisible God was made visible.

Through the faces and lives and voices and spirit and joy and love of a group of Gentile children. Who knew Israel's God in spirit and truth better than those who are Jews in the flesh? And those Israeli students shall never forget that afternoon.

We went from that University back to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem because we had seen a sign when we there earlier that day something about blood donor and Something in my soul went click and I went from one one to another asking where they want to give their blood and Over 30 of these kids wanted to leave something behind in Israel so many tourists come and take.

But few think to leave something behind when we told the Jewish officials that we wanted to give blood. They were absolutely overwhelmed stunned and we so flooded their meager facilities that we kept them up all Afternoon and evening to take us or 25 to 30 of us giving a pint of blood each.

And when it went past the hospital hours one of the kids said do you think it's okay if we sing in the hallway? So I went in to ask the a Jewish doctor an American Jew who has been living now only in Israel two years.

I said, would you mind if these young people sing? He said listen, it's past the hour. The hospital is just about closed. We thought we're so appreciative of what you've come to do here. Now. He said the hospital is yours.

Do what you want and so those kids began to sing but I'll tell you it was pure glory. The presence of God was going forth with their voices. And it wasn't only minutes before a woman came down a doctor stalking down the hallway.

Uh-oh here it comes. She said they can't do this without coming up to my floor also and singing. She said I'm gonna send you down a volunteer nurse and she'll lead you around and this volunteer nurse came.

She was but the same ages these Christian kids and I saw her stand almost transfixed as she looked at those faces. Look precious people. I'm Jewish and I know my people they say to get two Jews together.

You get three arguments. She saw 25 Christian kids Waiting for hours to give their blood hot sweaty tired tourists, but there wasn't so much as a grunt a Rumble a murmur but the sweetest spirit going forth out of the group as if they were one person in Christ.

She had never seen such a unity. She had never seen such a love made manifest between individuals. She just stopped in her tracks. And when we had finished giving our blood in our weakened condition. We were followed this girl and we went from floor to floor from ward to ward.

From room to room singing down the hallways as we went led into one room into another. Laying hands on the sick praying in the spirit praying for the sick praying in the name Yeshua Hamashiach and the glory in the presence of God was overwhelming.

Hadassah Hospital will never be the same in one occasion. There were four doctors Who stood in the doorways with their jaws dropped watching this phenomenon? Gentiles coming to bless the people Israel.

And I'll tell you I saw smiles break out on faces of old and weary and dismayed and hopeless souls. Cases that have often no hope for recovery. When these children came bringing the breath of God with them into that room.

We tried to pass some rooms because we just couldn't get everywhere and and. The visitors who were in there with patients came chasing us down the halls and brought us back. That we should not leave before we left the blessing behind in that room.

We prayed for children. We prayed for the elderly. We prayed for amputee soldiers and the glory of God went from room to room. Breathing the spirit of life and healing and love and joy and the reality of God upon Unsuspecting Jews who had not so much thought.

That their God lives in the 16th chapter. It says in the third verse and this is life eternal that they might know the only true God. And Yeshua Hamashiach. Whom thou hast sent. This prayer of Jesus was right on Key 73 is not going to do it.

Bumper stickers are not going to do it. Clever campaigns. Literature distribution and all of the other. No fuss no stoop. No bother forms of evangelism, which we have adopted in the 20th century will not do it.

The knowledge of God In Christ Jesus, which is life eternal must be communicated in the only way that God ordained it. When we shall be one as he is one. That the world might know that the father has sent him.

I Leaned over and we had a meeting in Tel Aviv. On a Saturday night when all humanity pours out into those streets. And it wasn't long at that plaza again before a thick mob was all around us. And I was on the periphery of the crowd to make a space for the dancers.

And a woman said to me in Yiddish. She said who is this? What what is this group? I said, these are Christian children whose hearts are the rule of Hakodesh the Holy Spirit of God. She said are they missionaries?

I said no. They have only come to express the love of God for you and for Israel. And a big smile broke out on her face. We ended up that night at midnight with two circles one of soldiers and one of young Israeli kids.

Praying that the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob shall make himself known to them. These soldiers were stunned that anyone can believe that there's a living God and that the same God to whom Jehoshaphat cried standing on the steps of the temple can also be heard now.

And that he could confound our enemies if we shall go forth. Singing praises to the beauty of his holiness. They could not believe that that was anything more than a piece of fiction or a myth. But they began to believe when they saw the reality in the faces of Gentile children.

When the world can't glimpse oneness wholeness unity and diversity. Light falls on the mystery of the Godhead if we can see the living God in Gentiles. Why then can it can we not conceive that the glory of God the Father was in the Messiah Jesus.

And Whatever our Jewish theology, how can we argue with the apparent reality of God? The last hospital was the hospital for Israeli soldiers and amputees and I'll tell you tore the heart right out of my body beautiful young Israeli men.

Double and triple amputees no hands one leg gone one eye gone. Pathetic fragments of men. And they look stunned as we came into their room and didn't know whether we were curiosity seekers or what. And These children just opened their mouths with the greatest spontaneity and freedom led by the Spirit of God and began to send forth that life-giving Stream in song and in praise and worship of Israel's God.

And I could see the faces of these Israeli soldiers. Something was clicking in a soul. Something was breaking forth in their own hearts. The woman who had led us into that hospital the official guide Had to leave the room.

She was so broken in tears and sobs. We prayed blessing upon them before we left and I leaned over to one of these multiple amputees. I said dear precious brother. Take advantage of this opportunity. To seek the God of Israel with all your heart and soul that you might be found of him.

And we left. Precious people. God has given me a vision of new possibilities for reaching Israel. It has not to do with the cleverness of art casts or the well-meaning intentions of missionary organizations.

It's got to do with the cry of God that came in the Garden of Gethsemane. That they might all be one as we are one. And I'll tell you what works at Hadassah Hospital and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and in the streets of Tel Aviv.

Will also work in the state of Washington and everywhere over the face of this earth. We need to put it all together. We need to be integrated and whole and mature in God's intention. We need it as individuals body soul mind and spirit to put it all together.

Because I'll tell you if so much as one Representative of the kingdom of God an individual who is whole. Stands before an unbelieving world. There's something that emanates from that wholeness. Which is the mystery of God and the joy in the life of God, which cannot be gained said.

Far more effective than clever words Christian slogans and for spiritual laws with all due respect. Body soul and spirit, but how many of us have come to a wholeness there that we've taken dominion over the creatures of the earth our lusts and physical appetites.

Who are oftentimes more in charge of us than we in charge of them? And what shall we say for the fowls of the air over which we should have dominion if we're integrated and whole? When they're dropping their stuff in our hair and making nests and all kinds of filthy thoughts and jealousies and envies and vidious thoughts and comparisons.

We've not yet taken dominion over the fowls of the air. And what shall we say of the fish of the sea? All those subterranean creatures where the deeper down you go in the psychic levels of life in the subconscious.

They take on more garish and grotesque forms. God has called us individually as well as corporately to be whole. Integrated one. And after we may leave the unit of the individual we come to the next unit in God's scheme of things.

Which is the family? One man and one woman husband and wife. And of that mystery all of us are now being inducted and many of us have writhing and Rung our fingers and slapped our chest and pulled our hair.

And one that if God had not blown it. Say Lord haven't you ever heard about the word? Compatibility. It's as if you have gone out of your way to see to it that we've gotten mates that are so opposite.

Whose minds and spirits and ways of perceiving things are so contrary to our own that it's a continual frustration. It's abrasive. It's gritty. Exactly and just when by God's grace we're finding some Foundation and basis for unity there to thicken the plot.

God gives us children. And he says here's my model of the body of Christ first Husband and wife and now the children. And when they shall be one as we are one. Something shall go forth from the bosom of that family, which is a glory unto God.

Wholeness in Individuals and Families

We have our work cut out for us. Now I'll tell you that when we shall come to a wholeness as individuals and come to a wholeness as families. The third and final task of God awakes us which is to come as one people.

The great family of God in the body of Christ. Oh. And I'll tell you what a remarkable thing God is seeking to do in that body. What disparity what uniqueness what divergencies. What? Absolute differences in personality and temper and mind and soul.

And and God is going to make of that one new creature a Remarkable glory a mystery. Concealed from the beginning of the ages now being revealed and he set in that body. Apostles and prophets and and an evangelist and teachers pastors.

Why we apostles and prophets have enough difficulty recognizing each other's ministries. We prophets and teachers Glare at each other and think that somehow the other guy is missing it. That is the prophetic cry which needs to go forth in the earth and the other one says no with systematic teaching according to the principles.

And someone says hey, have you seen that guy? He has a wild look in his eye. He has a gleam. He's he's unbalanced. And I said, you know any prophet who's balanced is not worth his salt. We need His vision.

We need his passion. We need his great cry and the burden that God has given him which excludes any other consideration. It's not for him to be balanced. It's for us to be balanced. The cost of his contribution as well as the teachers.

I Recently came across the most interesting article that discusses the difference between Hebrew and Greek thoughts and I read that I said all of a sudden boring. Eureka, that's me. I Saw myself writ large.

I'm a Hebrew of the Hebrews and Then the writer goes on to say if Hebrew thinking is to be characterized. It is obvious first to call it dynamic vigorous Passionate and sometimes quite explosive in kind.

Corresponding Greek thinking however is static peaceful Moderate and harmonious in kind. Now here comes the punchline. To the person to whom the Greek kind of thinking occurs plainly as ideal Hebrew thinking and its manner of expression appear exaggerated in immoderate discordant and in bad taste.

I Happen to be a Hebrew, but my wife happens to be a Greek. And I'll tell you it gets increasingly difficult to ask you to come along on some of these speaking engagements. She never knows what I'm going to sound off in moderately Explosively and passionately and When I'm finished oftentimes people have hurt pained expressions or a bit bewildered or stunned.

Why couldn't I be another kind of preacher that makes nice? In nice classic and moderate lovely ways. People we need the Greek and we need also the Hebrew and our great fault has been that if we are Greek We think that the Hebrew has been in bad taste.

But it's God Who has designed the Hebrew for the edification of the body? And we Hebrews are also guilty of thinking that you Greeks are much too moderate much too impassionate. Much too conservative.

Why aren't you coming apart at the seams? But praise God that you're not. Because you provide a stability and a quiet which the body so desperately needs. Oh, I tell you there's a cry of God going out to the body of Christ on the earth.

You're not an accident. I designed you the body needs you respect each other's uniqueness and each other's differences and each other's gifts and become one as I am one. Well, we say Lord we we want to and we'd love to but there's only one problem.

People. They're so irritating and so Exacerbating and so unsightly in their differences. They've been unlike us. They don't enjoy our sweet reasonableness. They're either too excessive or they're too calm.

They're too impulsive or they're too cautious. They're too undisciplined or they're too aesthetic. Well one rejects the spirit or the other ignores the word. One stresses experience or the other is too heavy on doctrine.

One is free the other one's bound. One is too Jewish. The other is too Gentile. And so it goes and it leads to coldness suspicion separation and death. I came back from Israel about two and a half years ago and Came back earlier than we had attended because we were kicked out of the place where we were living.

Because it became known that I was a Jewish believer along with my colleague. But from the time of our arrival back in the States God began to unfold a series of remarkable things. One of the first things was that we attended a big charismatic conference in a Midwestern City.

Which we had not expected to attend and found ourselves driving 900 miles non-stop with a U-Haul rental truck. With my partner's furniture in order to get there and couldn't understand why. But got there just in time before it closed to recognize that it was hardly anything more than a full gospel carnival.

What a fleshly thing what a bunch of well-dressed studs. Banging the the the pulpit and raising fleshly excitement in the lives of people and manipulating them up and down like puppets. But before they could even fall back into their seats and this superficial joy dissipate you can see the deep and pervasive Unhappiness and this ease and unhealth in those people all our hearts were torn.

And I remember up in a room in that motel praying with some like-minded kindred spirits on our faces before God. The cry of God came forth through a prophetic word. That God has winked at such practices as this in times past.

But the hour has come and is so earnest that he's taking his sword out of his sheath and is cutting away all flesh. Oh, I tell you Hallelujah was the cry of my heart. I've been waiting so long for that sword and Indeed it came before that conference was over.

The Body’s Conflicts and the Need for Reconciliation

Although I was not a scheduled speaker it almost becoming the habit of my life to be in places where I'm not scheduled. And what a contrast to the other speakers. I don't know why I did it that night, but I came down with a cardigan sweater white shirt and black pants.

I Looked almost like a monk and the word that God gave he just spoke it in such a confined way. It was not in any way dramatic. It had no flourish. It had had no large yes, and if you were not attending to the word you would have missed it.

It was a physical and spiritual contrast to the flamboyant style of all that had been going on before. In the very last night of those those days. I went to sleep with a powerful headache. And I was gonna fight the good fight of faith, and I made it to about four o 'clock in the morning.

And then my head was just coming out of my shoulders. I couldn't stand it. I lurched out of my bed. I went to the bathroom. I took a couple of anisins with mumbling under my breath of prayer for forgiveness and I Didn't refreshing to know that we speak as our flesh and blood just like you you don't believe it just speak with anger after the service.

And I just put my head back on the pillow and the headache was going away and in that moment I still small voice said Now I'll tell you in a split second a great war was going on. Whether to let my head lie on that pillow and let the headache phase away.

Or to get up at this still small voice and and the other voice is saying you fool. Look your headache is going away. You'll move now. You're gonna ruin it. There's a great struggle in that moment. I shut up and I came and I knew I had to take paper out of a desk drawer and the moment I left the bed the headache snapped and went away and When I finished writing I had a program for Messianic conferences, which God gave us that night in which we've since had several opportunities to develop.

I Know I'll never forget the first one of them it took place in that same Midwestern City. About eight men of national reputation and ministry came together. We thought to minister to that community, but guess what happened the first night.

There was a blizzard and Hardly, anybody came from the community. Just a few souls came through that fierce snowstorm. Enough to establish a tension of who was going to speak and what message was going to be spoken.

And I'll tell you we were locked together in a Catholic convent all spirit-filled men. And what a remarkable thing began to unfold day by day under those circumstances. It wasn't long before two great camps had developed two factions the positive gospel and the negative gospel.

The cross-centered men and the Prosperity scented men and we were glowering at each other and shooting daggers with our eyes and look at each other at the end of the enemies of the gospel. Selling God's people downstream.

Subverting the glory of the cross and the necessity for suffering. Or keeping the people from the knowledge of the health and prosperity that is theirs. I Could not believe it and we would come down for prayer three times a day and look suspiciously at each other wondering what was going to happen next and So it went day by day until we came to the very last meeting and I'll tell you that by that time the snow had lifted and the community was there and the spiritual faith of The body of Christ that that community was hanging in the balance that last night.

These factions had just carried over and had been resident in that community all the time. Well, I had a message in my Bible from the first day that conference, which I knew was the message of the conference.

I had the word of the Lord and God had not given me an opportunity to speak it. I came down that last morning in prayer and I was like a lump of lead and I'd grown before God. I couldn't pray and another brother Joined me and we just persisted and finally we found God and it wasn't longer on our faces droning and weeping before the Lord.

I had never had such a time of prayer as that morning for the for the Conclusion of that conference and then some of these other brothers came down and said that they felt that there was a heavy oppressive spirit in that place.

How can it be that brothers all were spirit-filled? One claiming that they had never so much as sensed the presence and the glory of God as Deeply in supplication and groaning in prayer at that moment and others saying I sense a heavy oppressive spirit.

Well, it came to the last meeting of the conference and I knew of course God was going to call on me. I had the message for the hour. I was God's man. I knew that the cross was at the heart of his way and God was going to cut a swath through all of that flesh and all of that nonsense.

And he was going to proclaim his message and save the day. I came to that last meeting late and it had already begun and someone was giving a brief teaching. I said to the man who was chairing the meeting I said who is giving the message tonight and he said Oh brother.

So-and-so claims that he has the message and I turned and I looked and went gulp the enemy and So we waited both of us like two men on the starting line waiting for the gun to go off tensed and crouched waiting to come to the platform and take the lapel microphone and Bring the message of the hour and save the conference in the body of Christ.

Great stakes were hanging in the balance and when that gun went off that night I Sat like a dummy motionless and watch this other man get out of a seat perfectly and walk to the platform and take the microphone on and begin speaking and I could not so much as stir a muscle.

And when that man opened his mouth my jaw dropped. Why what was he doing? He was quoting my scriptures. Why my goodness he was giving my message and Yet it was not mine. It came through another personality altogether.

I would have delivered it with great gusto with a sledgehammer and he was delivering it with a with a rapier. He was like a swordsman with humor with a death touch and something's tickling began to steal over my heart.

It was a realization that he was doing a far better job of that message. In fact, I really had to admit that if Inga had been there that night She would have been far more ministered to by this brother whom I had thought to be the enemy of the gospel.

Then I myself. And I'll tell you that when he finished his message God took me out of my seat and I began to walk toward the platform and toward the microphone and you should have seen The stark look of terror in that man's face.

I Mean you never know what cats is going to do. And I just came up to him and I put my arm around his shoulder and the man was still looking at me very Suspiciously with trembling and I took the microphone and I began to tell the people what had been going on through those days.

How these two great factions had grown up? How many who are spirit-filled with national ministries were looking at each other as enemies and What God had done that night to show me that were not enemies at all, but that we need each other desperately.

And I'll tell you when I spoke that word something broke in that Congregation and a healing bomb went out over that people and God accomplished his work the next day when we were ready to fight another Lord said Go to the home of one of the founding fathers of the conference and wash one another's feet.