(Europe 2008) Session 6 - the Revelation of God in Man — B.H. Clendennen

Unity and the Commanded Life of God

My how good and pleasant for brethren to dwell together. The Bible said behold, you know, whenever you find that word behold in the Bible, you want to pause stop. Because what he said there's a principle here, you know, there's a principle God's about to say something that he don't want you to miss.

You know all the Bibles are not principles. Some of it is connection between principles. But whenever he says behold, then you want to take pay much attention here because there's a principle involved.

Behold how good and how pleasant for brethren to dwell together in unity. Because there God will command this life. There God will command this life. You know when they come to one accord. There in the book of Acts it said suddenly God took no chances once he got him into that place then the wind blew through there God commanded his life.

When they come to that place of unity that God commanded his life. You know the ecumenical thing makes everything the church. That spread out took in most everything. But you know In Beaumont every Easter they have what they call a sunrise service.

I never went to it because they'd have a Jewish rabbi out there that hated the Christ. I preached talking. I you know, I did. I didn't care to go hear him or Roman priest. I didn't so I become a rebel to them, you know.

They had called me up the other assembly of God and different ones and I said well I believe if I go I give approval to what's going on. I don't know you do whatever you want. But I do not believe that I should listen to a man preach that hates the Christ that saved me from my sin.

But you know, I prayed about that. I don't want to be a rebel. I prayed and God spoke to me. I don't know whether he ever said to anybody else. He said I've given you at that time. He said I've given you 400 people and I'm not interested in you tuning up nobody across town.

You just get that 400 immunity and I'll command my life right there. Amen, you have to join up with somebody else. You're gonna have to give up something you believe to do that. Amen, that's that but you just get them 400 into unity.

You preach them into unity and I'll command my life on that place. You know, it's wonderful how he makes every local church the whole you know the whole he said the church not a church. But the church the article Indicated that he intends every Individual body of Christ to become a full expression of this Christ.

He means that when men come into that church, they ought to be a full full expression of Christ. Why weren't we blessed this morning? The man of God talked to us he just went ahead and preached this morning.

Christ's Authority Over Fear and the Unexplainable Life

I what a marvelous truth, you know the kingdom of God he that you know as he was Preaching that so many things just you know, you know when you open up a world. You know a preacher opens up something then there's a lot of things begin to come, you know I thought you know what he was really saying to him when he's walking on that water.

He's coming out. He said to him boys. Don't you be afraid because everything's over your heads under my feet. Everything that's problem you I'm walking on right now. That that that that's exactly that's what it's all about.

You know coming to meet them them to meet him. Peter said let me walk on the water. I believe that's a cry of everybody in this room. Oh, yes, I believe that's the reason we're here. We're saying God let us get out somewhere where men can't explain what we are.

Amen, you know watch my knee in his book you know, he wrote the about the Normal Christian life, but he wrote another book the normal Christian church life now. Bookstores won't care in that because he never intended that to be printed as just public domain.

He but for his disciples, but what a powerful truth. He said in there that if you can explain it God probably had nothing absolutely nothing to do. That was his the great man of God watch my knee, you know.

There's another knee that has nothing to do with him. He tried to make that and I got a lot of those books, but that that never come close to him. But he said if you can explain it God probably had nothing absolutely nothing to do with it.

That that's a cry of the heart I believe of us that are here. I Want to be and live so that world can explain what we are. They just have to say, you know, that's either the devil or God, you know, they couldn't explain Christ as well.

It's Beelzebub. They didn't want to accept him for who he was. But that probably the one statement that pushed them over the brink where he said you cannot believe. But when the church is that church then the same hatred for that church.

Because it is Christ now, you know, you can't make the church one thing in Christ something else. We're the body. He's the head and you can't separate the two. It's union with Christ alone that makes us what we are that union with him now some years ago.

The Local Church as the Full Expression of Christ

We brought had 30 coming 29's all got out but Pastors out of Iran. I brought him into Armenia there for a time with a one week. We had an Armenian man out of Los Angeles that brought him well, when we got there where we were we were we were in a in a resort kind of like this one and this Man that put it together.

He got up and he was explaining how it's going to work. Well, it's totally opposite to where it's going to work. You know, it's very embarrassing to have to you know. You have to correct that kind of thing.

I said, you know, I held up my hand. I said no sir. That's not where it's going to work. We he said, you know, we I he knew was going to have teaching and prayer. He said now what we're going to do is walk along this lake and pray, you know, I said no, sir.

We're not going to leave this room. We're gonna say right in this room and pray and right here where we preach right here where we pray. We're all going to stay right here in this room. You know, I this is wonderful, you know Brother Bob broke through I just walked through that door.

I was having a hard time getting in but when he broke through he opened it up I just walked through that door and for 10 minutes. I didn't have to say a word. He was praying what ought to be praying. So I just said a man Hallelujah, you know, it's so wonderful the brother stood up over here and began to pledge, you know that that that that is the key.

But you know, I knew in January that I'm going there in June. I knew that so I began to seek God. What what do you want me to say to these? Men of God that we're bringing out. Well, what what is the message?

Well had all kinds of Suggestions some people told me said tell them there's other people suffering persecution. I said, I'm not going halfway around the world tell people that you know I've got more to say than just to go say that well Five weeks before I was to leave I was in my office very very early in the morning I said God I'm going I'm bringing these men out.

Cost me a thousand dollars for every one of them to bring him out to keep them and I said I'm going halfway around the World to talk to him and you haven't told me what to say to him yet. Well, he spoke to me in about three minutes and it took me five weeks to outline What he said in three minutes, it took me five weeks.

Resurrection and the Revelation of God in Man

I want to share that to you this morning. Amen, what what God spoke to me that day? Well, I'd like to go back and speak it again to them because there's much more in Resurrection that there is in birth.

I can tell you preacher if you'll go back brother I just dig up those messages you God gave you back there years. You'll find you never knew half what he wanted to say it were in the resurrection. See, mr Moody said that a man has to preach a message 17 times at least.

Before he himself knows all that God said to him much less be able to give it to people and I know that's a fact. There's more in resurrection. Then there is in birth. You know, you look at the Apostle John ever where you see him and Christ while Christ was here in the flesh.

He's leaning on his bosom. But when he saw him on Patmos, he didn't lean on that bosom. He fell on the ground. There's always more in Resurrection than there is in birth and that's the way it is with ease what God spoke to me that morning Was a revelation.

I want you to preach to them the revelation of God in man. The revelation of God in a man that that that is this gospel. That's what it's all about. That's the reason we were born. God Created man for one reason that he might manifest himself through that man to a universe.

To contain the Creator. Can you imagine? You know I can imagine Paul when he's writing that you might be filled when the Holy Spirit Brought that to him that you might be filled with all the fullness of God.

I believe he laid that pen down. How can I write such a statement. I mean, it's so Overwhelming he that inhabits eternity that he might be filled with all the fullness of God. That's what it's all Christ in you the hope of glory.

That was a mystery hidden from the foundation of the world. That wasn't revealed because for one reason it was become the property of that church. That that's that whole revelation was to become the property of you and I the church of the living God.

Christ in You: Colossians, Corinthians, and Galatians

Now we're going to go to Colossians chapter 1 and verse 27, you know, I I say to people All along this line. I said, you know a man ought never start today Without reading that first chapter of the book of Colossians.

He that there's no Greater Paul almost exhausted the vocabulary and Exalted this Christ in that first chapter of the book of Colossians as he as he talked about it. But here in in Colossians chapter 1 in verse 27 verse 27 To whom God would make known What is the glory of This mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you the hope of glory That excludes every other hope folks.

There is none other now if you go backwards to Corinthians now first Corinthians I Want to go to chapter chapter 6 of 1st Corinthians. Yes, that's 1st Corinthians chapter 6 and We're going to Read here verse you could quote this and I could but it's just wonderful to read it verse number 19 Christ in you the hope of glory now.

What know you not that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost? Which is in you which you have of God and you are not your own. In Galatians chapter 2 in verse 20, you just move backwards a little here.

We could quote this this is one of one of the One of the great great Messages and chapters of I will go forward not backwards, excuse me, but to 20. For I Paul talking now I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live yet not I but Christ liveth within in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I'll live by the faith of the Son of God Who loved me and gave himself for me?

All of this says that the whole of it is that Christ lives within us. Now, you know, I don't understand how a people can preach that a man can never fall. I don't know what they think. Adam fell from, you know, where do you think that he fell from when he fell if What did he lose.

God said he created man in his own image? That is God could look at that man Adam and see mirrored in him. Both father son and Holy Spirit the very image of God was in that man. Now in the fall the greatness of that fall is that man lost that holy life of God.

He lost that image of God. That was what he was lost. Redemption means to bring back to bring back to what bring back to that. That's the reason. There must be a birth of Christ you see in the fall of man.

Inwardly that man took on the form of demons. Inwardly his nature become the nature of a devil ever man that that become his nature outwardly he took on the nature of a beast the Serpent seed was within him and the only thing that can bruise the head of that serpent is a seed of that woman.

That's Christ. That's that's so Ridiculous, let me and say if you're a good Muslim, you'll be saved. Mr. Graham said that others said that but what? How can how can you ever see see it's a serpent seed.

That's what came in to man in that fall and there must be a birth of Christ in him if he's going to be saved. That's what he must be brought back to if he's going to know Christ. So this revelation this truth that we are the temple of God.

That God lives within that human being that that has to come back as a revelation not just as a word, but as a revelation of reality. You know when Christ in that seventh chapter of the book of John when the Bible said on the last day of that piece that was an eight-day convocation and Seven days that priest they have this big candle holder full of candles that represented the light and Every day they poured water on that altar.

Representing the life and on that eighth day was a waterless day. They never poured the water. So legend says Christ was standing on that altar now whether you're standing on it or not. But I suspect he was and he said I am what that candle brahm represents.

I am the light. I'm what that water represents. I'm the light and he that believeth on me as the scripture said out Of his innermost being will flow rivers of living water. Now the Apostle John with that long Experience as an apostle said this make he of the spirit that river is the Holy Ghost.

The Holy Spirit as the River of Living Water

See that that the vessels of pearl but the river is always singular not rivers. It's a river of the Holy Ghost. Christ being who he was could look at a congregation of people and know everything about them here.

This is a religious gathering and when Christ stood that day and looked at those people He saw that vacant look they came, but they never found they came looking, but they're leaving empty. They've never found how much of that is today.

I said how much because the river is not a flowing. But what he was saying to them was and don't have to be wherever this river flows. No, man should ever leave the house of God. If that river is flowing somewhere in a real service when we're singing those praises or they'll come a message of tongues interpretation or Prophecy or in the preacher in that altar God will deal with every human.

He never intended for us to leave this house of prayer without that need that that hunger that desire. Having been met in our life. That's that's God that lives within us. You know the one goal of the church should bring the fullness of God to every person.

That that should the reason be of our gathering not to show how clever we are Preachers or to have some scheme or some something but bring reality. I believe every human on this planet ought to have the right to accept or reject God on the Grounds of reality not just a tale.

It's told but but but an absolute manifestation of this Christ about 35 years ago little lady in my church. I thought she is old then but I've learned better. She is about 87. Amen. I've learned that's not old anymore.

But she gave me a tract by A .B. Simpson Christ himself and in that in that Simpson told about what a weak body that he had he could hardly preach one sermon a week. He sought God for healing, but God told him no it wasn't what he needed.

He needed to learn to live this life of another and he did the work of ten men. One of the most prolific writers of all Christendom. He rode as much maybe as any man, but he learned he never had that body heal.

But he learned to live the life of another. That truck turned my life totally around. I realized why I was filled with the Holy Spirit. That is not a bicycle ride, it's not getting filled between every Bible.

It is a matter of a life I live. God lives in me. I learned to live that life. That's a reason I can travel this world preached in a 15 times a day when I'm old enough been dead 16 years ago. I've learned something of living this life of another this Resurrected life.

Dependence on Christ and the Life of Another

This is my life. Paul talked about it. The life also of Jesus man. He was a very frail fragile man. But he did the work of 20 men. He went when it's impossible to go because there was another life the life also of Christ that Revelation must grip the church again.

It's impossible to live the Christian life. It must be lived by Christ through us and if we're going to do the works of God. It must be God doing the work. Impossible for it to be otherwise. Amen, this gospel of the kingdom.

Jesus said shall be preached. What is the gospel of the kingdom? It is a gospel preached in fullness. It is a gospel Demonstrated. Amen. Paul said in Roman 15 and 19 Through mighty signs and wonders by the power of the Spirit of God I fully preach the gospel that he is the full gospel.

Every man every woman ought to have the right to accept or reject this gospel. Not as a tale. It's told but a living reality of Christ being raised from the dead. That's the church it cannot do that run up and down the road there has to be a Loneliness with God to know what's got going on.

Every man should have it that your faith Paul said should not stand in the wisdom of man. But in the power of the living God that I know him myself. I met this God. This is not a thing. I've talked about.

This is a reality. There was a moment in my life when I met God. I was raised from the dead. Hallelujah, that has to be the experience of every human. The Apostles preached the gospel. According to Peter 1 in 12 with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven.

It wasn't just just the story of a man told it was a Holy Spirit used in a human as a voice of God Almighty and that the earth met when they spoke the earth met. Preacher stood on that Peter stood on the day of Pentecost and he spoke.

God spoke Through an ignorant fisherman and the earth melted. 3 ,000 men were born again that I don't know how many women and children but 3 ,000 men what was as scarce as chicken teeth become common on the streets of Jerusalem in a moment's time there are 3 ,000 holy men have been produced because a man spoke and it was God.

The Vessel of the Holy Spirit and the Voice of God

The revelation that God is within me and all did he ask of me is to give me your faculties let me if you separate the clean from the unclean God says you can be my voice and My sheep will hear my voice just because you have a sermon that make you the voice of God.

But when that separation is right pure clean. Then you speak for God and not about God and it's when a man comes to talk for God. That the message becomes effective. I said that the message becomes effective.

This is the only way Amen. Preaching with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven is the only way this great gospel works. It's not the voice of a man. It is God take it. You know, it's not the acts of the Apostles.

They were only the vessels in the book of Acts. It was the acts of the Holy Spirit having found a vessel that was so dead that Christ could live through their lives. And the Effectiveness has never been repeated in all the centuries of the church, but I believe you know.

It's it's an amazing. The church was born in the second chapter of the book of Acts and right in the door of the third chapter of the book of Acts, maybe the next day maybe the same day. I don't know, but the Holy Spirit said the heavens have received him until the times of the restoration of all things.

Now we know this earth is not restored until Christ and his church come back. Armageddon has to be settled before the earth is restored. But see that Holy Ghost saw those dark ages when everything was lost.

He saw that time when that church born at Pentecost with all the graces and gifts of God. Passed through a time when all was lost. In those dark times they there was a Difficult time to find the person that was born of God.

When that couple rule of things in those dark dark times almost everything was lost but then they come that process of Restoration. The Lutheran revival came it brought the message of the new birth man shall live but not man shall live by faith.

The message of the new birth was Restored to the church the glad hallelujah Began to ring across the earth, but the thing called Lutheranism died. But the message it brought lay of dawn. Then come the Westland revival with a message of Sanctification and there unto that message of the new birth then the Pentecostal revival.

Restoration, Replenishment, and Walking in the Spirit

What's happening. God is restoring and I believe in this time. He's restoring the revelation that the God that's going to work is not in Eternity somewhere, but he lives in me. Wherever I am that God is there.

This is a message. God wants that church to come one more time to realize I don't have to look for God if I stay full of God wherever I am. That's the only way that you and I can be instant in season and out of season.

Every morning renew this be refilled. Don't let the day start. Don't talk to anybody till you talk to God. Don't talk to your wife your husband till you talk to God. No, don't do anything till you've been refilled.

Don't read anything till you read this book. Let God fill that life. Before you begin that day and now you are ready for any Situation that with the Bible said you have an unction from the father you have to believe that doesn't matter.

You know most people all it takes is a stomach ache and the anointing is gone because they live by their feelings. But I can tell you feelings are deceptive. Isaac felt Jacob, but he fooled him. Anyway, I said he fooled him.

Those feelings are deceptive doesn't matter what you feel like it's knowing what he wants and doing what he wants. And God will be there every time. God lives in me and I must believe that. See, this is the only way it works.

Supernatural Christianity and Expectation

The ministry of Christianity is a ministry of the Holy Spirit. True Christianity is 100 supernatural. There's nothing I believe what Mr. Knee wrote if you can explain what their church is doing. Then it's not the church.

God has nothing to do with it. I can tell you why the youth are not there the most time they can set it home. Watch a television. Look at a watch and say well The Canary's gonna sing now or the deacons gonna pray or the preachers gonna deliver his sermon in.

They know it why go if you know what's going to happen. Man said well I went and never expected anything. I said then you wasn't disappointed. It all works out. You didn't expect it. It won't happen. But when that atmosphere is charged with an expectation God is here.

Anything can happen now. Oh God lives within me wherever I am. God is there and God said you have an option from the father and When that man speaks, he doesn't speak words. He speaks life. I said he speaks life that man or that woman.

Under that with that function from the father as we live where he wants us to live we must learn again to walk in this revelation of God in man. Know you not that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost.

That simply means what Christ was. We become we're the skin tint of God. That's what that means the skin tint of God. Christ walked this earth as as as a skin tint of God. God was in Christ. How was he there by the Holy Spirit?

That's how we lived in Christ as a man. That's how he lives in me. Christ was the firstborn of a new race. He's the example of what we are. I say nothing, but what I hear my father say. I do nothing, but what I see my father do.

I have no will of my own. I seek no honor of my own. He lived the father was his source and devils were subject to it. He never violated that principle. Constantly under the control of the Holy Spirit and he never met a devil.

It didn't run when he spoke to him. Our problem is He's not our Lord for the most part. We're up and down in and out. But when it's that new creature talking then it's God that's a talking and the victory is always.

The secret secret of heaven's power is not in doing but in being. It's what I am. That produces the power. There's a whole lot of doing that's nothing. You know, I thought when I joined the military in World War one or World War two rather I joined the military.

I thought I'm the only infidel in the place or agnostic. I believe this God just didn't know who he was. But everybody had religion they Baptist Methodist Pentecostal, but there's absolutely no difference in them and me, you know, I just I didn't want any religion.

I married a little girl been saved when she's 14 won't go to church. I said don't believe that's for me. I saw all of that. Amen all of that I just witnessed always when me and one man fought on a Saturday night over a woman drunk in Australia and fought over one of those pretty Australian girls and the next morning.

He wants me to go to church with him. Oh, I said, I'll sleep mine off. I don't go there the headache list some preacher holler. Amen, I wasn't interested in that have no interest whatsoever. But you know, we we is in a firefight and I I have several men on to be lost most of them Wounded and killed when the replacement Replaced them.

Personal Testimony of Encountering Christ

They gave me a young man 18 years old I'm 20 myself and they gave me this young man fine-looking you you couldn't chills them anymore. 28 inch Waste the 42 inch cold. He is about 6 foot 1 how little Bible in his pocket.

Well, I introduced him into the tent and Left it when I wasn't back in my tent, but a little while one of the men comes in sergeant Need to talk to you. What about that young man? You put my tail? What about it?

I'll come out here and listen you got you could hear him pray. I said what what's going on? Well said when you left he took out that little Bible read a little nice kneeling to that cock praising him all Over the camp.

I said well, you know then Congress hadn't passed the law against prayer. So you could still pray and nothing you could do about it. Well, you know the next day I lost about a hundred dollar in the dice game.

Now when you're making $70 a month and your lives in jeopardy, that's a powerful lot of money and I lost that. I'm very upset about losing that money. And as I walked away there he sits under coconut tree reading that Bible.

I said something real smart to him. I said it won't take this Marine Corps in this war long to get that out of you. He stood up all six foot one of him. Put that little real ribbon in that Bible put it in his pocket button it up.

Didn't put his finger on my nose and he said sergeant not you know, this Marine Corps will separate me from. I Said I met somebody that day my thought I never got saved for several years. But I've never got that young man.

There was a reality that Christ was in it. I said Christ was in that. That's what I'm talking about. The secret is is in being every spirit filled Christian should demonstrate the same type of ministry.

That the Lord Jesus Christ as a man demonstrate that should be our life. Amen, this can only be as we see ourselves as God sees us. It cannot happen. Otherwise, we must learn to walk talk breathe in the flow of the Holy Ghost.

His praise David said shall continually be in my mouth. That's what God wants to bring us amen into that place. Well, this is a constant thought. It's always an upward look. Bible said pray without ceasing.

Man said you can't do that. Oh, yes, I breathe without ceasing. I can pray without ceasing. I can breathe that name anywhere along this. I can look up and say thank you to God. I Get everywhere. I can't always be alone.

I must be there but I can always have a conversation and a communication with this great and wonderful God. Amen, we must move in faith. But for faith to be bold there must be the powerful experience of this baptism of the Holy Spirit.

There must be a reality. I must know that God is in me by experience. Not enough for a preacher to say that to me. I must know that day that time when God moved into this temple to live that has to be an experience.

Boldness, Faith, and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit

Elijah never hoped he'd receive that mantle. He knew that he had and that's what gave him the boldness to go hit that water. Their prayer was when threatened God grant us boldness. What did he do? He filled him with the Holy Ghost.

That boldness you see he that comes to God must believe that God is. He'll never be bold if he loses that the reason there must be a constant praying through it that altar of God. Every day keep that experience between you and God personal alive real.

Because it's only as you know That God is that there's a boldness about you to speak to talk to deal with the devil. I was preaching in Dallas under a big ten jambalking. Had it up. I preached night and morning under that ten.

Well one night I went to pray for the people sitting on the edge of the platform and a man came before me and he said I'm the Antichrist. Oh, I said you look different. I thought you. You know, I thought he's come but he wasn't he's dead serious.

I'm the Antichrist. I realized he'd come from Pennsylvania all the way to Dallas, Texas. He'd God God did let that devil didn't want to come but he came he said I'm the Antichrist. Well, I said that to him then I realized this man serious, you know.

Well, it all worked out. I saw he was devil-possessed and I just spoke to the devil to come out. The man fell on the ground. I you know, he looked like he's having a Kidney stone is he is the devil's come out of him and he stood up.

I never saw a man so broken. He said Oh God, he said for three years. I thought it was a Christ. I thought it was Jesus and now thought of them. I believe all the while inside there was a human. No, this is not right something wrong.

But there God set him free that God set him free that that's the gospel of Christ. They came to you that man in the tombs, you know the man in the tomb he come out there. He don't want to be delivered stay up there.

Nobody's gonna hold the crusade in the graveyard but he'd come down. The devils didn't want to come but that man knew it wasn't right and When the devils were out of him, he had been naked, but he put clothes on.

Nobody had to tell him but clothes on. He knew people don't run around naked. So he put clothes on why I had his right mind. I see people out there half naked on the street. I know they're insane. Something wrong with them.

I didn't know where that is. You get your right mind get God in you. You're gonna be decent wherever you are. I don't know rules have to tell you that there's a life in you that tells you. This is the gospel of Christ.

Amen, we must learn to walk and breathe and live. Amen in all of this listen. We must move in faith. Faith to be bold must be filled. The devils prayed for that boldness. He filled this is Pentecost. As God gave it we must seek this again.

Seeking the Fullness of the Holy Spirit

We must come back not this little prayer language kind of a thing. Teach somebody how to say coca-cola real fast and tell them they got the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Let men stay there till they're filled with God.

Amen, you know, I I've had all kinds of reason why why somebody didn't get filled. Well, I can tell you doesn't matter if you wasn't filled and they get filled tomorrow. I was a year and a half before God ever filled me.

I was in the altar every time I drove nine miles. We had church from from April to frost had a brush arbor and every night I'd be driving that nine miles. I'd almost hyperventilate. I'd say to my wife tonight God's gonna move in us.

Amen. God's gonna move in that hunger that thirst at that person. It's each now two months later not hungry for nothing and nothing's gonna happen. Yeah, but you know, I I knew the reason. God had a hard time filling me.

My dad taught me all of my life that there's one born to to take him ever meant. Amen, one sucker born and two to take be careful who you give yourself to. Well I was so so held back. I was afraid to turn loose a lot of phony stuff began to come out.