(February 1987) 03 - Out of Control — Ray Lowe

Now, I'm not picking on the pastor. I didn't mean for him to have to reveal his weight last night, my motive. But, you know, we need to have some understanding in the 5 -4 ministry, because if we don't, then we don't understand what's happening and going on.

I'm really not an evangelist. I'm a watchman. Okay? Now, a watchman, I mean an evangelist, he goes through the land and gets folks saved that knows they're lost. A watchman has to call them back. So, we're in a time right now that the Lord has not sent us to the lost.

The Lost Sheep and the Coming Feast

He sent us to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Deal with them first. Call them first. They're the bidden to the feast first. Then, if they don't come, He'll go to the highways and hedges. I'm going to believe the Lord's got a feast for us.

And somebody's going to partake of it. You know, we've heard a lot about the millennial and things that's going to be going on and things that's going to be done. And one Sunday morning I talked about Ezekiel 41, 40, 41, 42, 43, and they're about the building of a temple, a structure, a city.

And that is the millennial temple, but it's been built in the church age. Do you hear that? It is going to be the church, the body, the temple, the city. It's going to be in the millennial, but God puts us together in the church age.

Hey, we ain't getting ready to leave. We're getting ready to rule. Amen. Rule with Christ. Reign with Him, praise God. How many wants to reign with Him? I'll be glad. I was talking to somebody a few days ago, and we got talking about the conditions that we're living under in this country and under this system called the American Dream.

But it's becoming a nightmare. And the further we go, the more it's going to be a nightmare. Because I don't know about you, but I'm getting upset with the taxes we're having to pay. You're working five months out of the year for the system.

Now, that's two percent lower than the Romans were under. Two more percent, and we'd be caught up with the taxation of the Roman Empire. And there's no end to it, brother and sister. The only hope is that Jesus will come again and fix everything like it's supposed to be fixed.

And I want to be a part of that, don't you? But if you're going to be a part of it, now you listen, you catch this. You cannot rule with Christ. You cannot rule and reign with Him until you're first ruled by Him.

You must be ruled by Him. I want you to turn with me tonight to the 20th chapter of the book of Acts. Acts chapter 20. And we're going to deal with what I feel the Lord would have us to deal with tonight.

I want you, if you're here tonight, I want you to be sure and come back tomorrow night because I think the Lord is going to let me back up what I'm saying tonight with something else. And if you miss, you don't miss a part of it, then there's a piece of the puzzle gone.

Paul's Charge to the Elders in Acts 20

Let's turn to Acts chapter 20 and verse 17. Verse 17. And from Miletus, how do you say that? Miletus, he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church. And when they were come to him, he said unto them, You know from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons, serving the Lord with all humility of mind and with many tears and temptations, which befell me by the lying and weight of the Jews.

How I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have showed you and have taught you publicly. And from house to house, testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks, repentance towards God and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ.

And now behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there, save that the Holy Ghost witnesses in every city saying that bonds and afflictions abide in me.

But none of these things move me, neither count my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy. And the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

Now behold, I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more. Wherefore, I take you to reckon this day that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

Verse 28, Take heed therefore unto yourselves, take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Now it looks like I'm going to preach to the preacher tonight, and I am, but to the flock too. Okay? Now, I've never noticed this, I don't know if verse 17, where this is only the elders of the church at Ephesus, I always took this that he called all the elders of all the churches together, but now there's a question in my mind, whether he did.

The elders is in plural, but he called the elders of the church, I don't know if he's talking about just from Ephesus, which it really doesn't make that much difference, but he's simply saying to them, in verse 28, Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost has made you overseers.

Now, this word overseers, is a very, very important word. I didn't even study it all out, but it deals with oversight, but it also means to beware, it means to look diligently, it means to watch, it means a sentry, and it also means a scope, like a telescope.

Okay? And when you see the meaning of this word overseer, you're seeing the scrutiny, or the closeness, that he's dealing with this word, take heed to yourselves, and to the flock. Watch yourself like a sentry.

Watch yourself with a telescope. And watch the flock the same way. Because the Holy Ghost has made you overseers. Now, I believe that the problem with the church today, does not lie with, and I'm not saying this church, but the church as a whole, lies in the five-fold ministry.

Amen. And I want to tell you something. I want to tell you something, flock. God is changing the five-fold ministry, and bringing something to pass, and something to work in their life. But you've got to be willing to go along with it, or you're going to be in trouble.

Because there's no doubt, there's no doubt, we've been through a time, that we have not took heed to ourselves, we have not watched ourselves with a fine telescopic sentry, watchful oversight vision. We have got loose.

Amen. And it has brought on problems. It's brought on conditions in the church, that God never intended it to bring. But praise God, the Lord is doing something about it. Judgment has began at the house of God.

And it don't start at the back, it starts right here. But don't you ever think it quits here. It starts here. It's not going to quit until God has shook everything, and moved everything, and dealt with everything, and purged everything, and cleansed everything, till we can be a vessel under honor to the Almighty.

It will not stop until God gets finished. And I'm glad I'm a part of it, praise God. Aren't you glad that He didn't throw us in the pile, and say, I'll just pick me another one. Aren't you glad He said, I'm going to fix this one, I'm going to break this one, and redo this one, and remake this one, that I can have a vessel under honor.

Self-Discipline and the Race of Faith

Now I want you to turn with me to 1 Corinthians chapter 9. 1 Corinthians chapter 9. We're going to read in verse number 24. We're going to start reading at verse 24. 1 Corinthians chapter 9. Know you not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize?

So run, that you may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is tempering all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we are incorruptible. I therefore, so run, not as unstrictly, so fight I, not as one that beateth the air, but I keep under my body.

Now, you know, if you stop right there, that's exactly what's happening. In the case James rendered, we've got under our body. It's in control. But I keep under my body, bring it into subjection, lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway or disapproved.

Now, I want you to notice chapter 10, verse 1. God did not put chapter 10 up there. Because, moreover, ties verse 1 to verse 27. Moreover is a word that's not expressed in English. It's a word that's expressed, that we express also.

Okay? Or but. Okay, let's read verse 27 again. But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. Also, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant, having all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and did all eat the same spiritual meat, and all drink the same spiritual drink.

For they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ. But when many of them God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now, these things were our examples to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they lusted.

Neither be you idolaters, as some of them, as it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink, rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted and were destroyed of the serpents. Neither murmur you, as some of them also murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer. Now, all these things happened to them for examples.

They are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Now, isn't it amazing that you can tie verse 9, the last part of chapter 9, and the beginning of chapter 10 together? That they never was meant to be separated.

They were meant to be tied together. Isn't it amazing that the writer here, who was Paul, just to the Corinthian church, but speaking prophetically because he brings in upon whom the ends of the world have come.

How many believe the ends of the world have come on you and I? Isn't it amazing that the writer of this book takes us back of the children of Israel to Canaan to say to us your example in the last days.

Example. This has been recorded for your admonition. To take it to your advice. You be instructed from Egypt to Canaan. We are in a wrong race. It's not the one who gets ahead that's right, which is different.

Finish line first. Endure to the finish line. It's a marathon run. Okay? Marathon. It's an endurance course. It's he that endures to the end that's going to be saved. Okay? How many wants to endure to the end without talking about those of the church?

Now, if he's talking about just the church at Ephesus, then there was more than one elder in the church at Ephesus. Because the word there is plural. Elders. Watch yourself. Take heed to yourself. How do you take heed to yourself?

That's why I brought you to the ninth chapter of the book of 1 Corinthians. Paul used the athlete. He said, One that's got control over his body. He's a man that has got charge of his body, and he makes his body his slave.

He does what he wants to do. Okay? He gets his body not in shape first. He gets his body under control first. And then the body getting under control under him. Amen? Whatever to train and make it be what he would have it do.

Can he endure the race or whatever the competition is that he speaks to it into? Whether it's the boxer in the boxing ring or a wrestler in the wrestling ring or a man in the race running. Whatever is needed, he makes that body subject to him first.

And make it go where it needs to go. Come off where it needs to come off. Shape up where it needs to shape up. All of these things come under subjection where the body can endure the things it's going to be put to.

He uses that. Spiritual man. Self-control. I am not preaching the gospel of self. It's not self-control you need. You need spirit control. That's our problem now. Self-sin control. Preaching a gospel of self-control.

The gospel that will bring God's people back to spiritual control. Where the spirit will number one control this body and take control of the corporate body and thereby we can control the devils of this age.

How many would like to have control over the powers and principalities and the governments of darkness? Okay. Isn't it amazing though that he went ahead talking about bringing the body under subjection and tied this to the children of Israel.

Do you know how many finished the course that started at the start line in Egypt went across the finish line of the original starters out of Egypt? Can you believe that? Three million lined up and took off.

Across the finish line. I'm going to be one of them. Across the finish line. What Paul tells you in chapter 9. That's when he tied them together. They never could get their body submitted to the Spirit of God.

And what happened to them? This is where we are today. With their toes in the waters of the Jordan said turn them around take them back into the wilderness and let them wander for 39 years or 40 years.

You know what God done? He raised up their seed. They didn't have to start in Egypt. In the wilderness. And endured and crossed the finish line into the land of Canaan. It's amazing. Finishing. The beginning were able to go.

Endure. What God would put the wilderness the same problem that you and I got tonight. The same identical problem. Now the book of Corinthians I believe somebody spoke this to me since I've been here.

But that ain't where I got it from. I got it from the Spirit. The book of Corinthians is the book of excesses. Extremities. Writing to the current church is the people in excess. Excessive. Are in the extremity of things.

From Egypt’s Government to the Rest of Canaan

Leadership of the Holy Spirit. Who say how? Notice something. You'll have to check this out. But I've done my homework on this. ...of Israel. ...Egypt's brother than God. Of government. We're dealing with government, brother and sister.

We're dealing with control. Egypt controlled. ...the customs of the Egyptians. ...his people controlled by Pharaoh. By Egypt. By Babylon. From under a government to a land of Canaan where they would be governed by God and God would be their king.

Nobody wants the Lord to be your king. King, you're at rest. Place of rest. Hebrews, the first three or four chapters, chapter 3 and chapter 4, tells us what Canaan is. It's a rest. It's where you're not a slave of Pharaoh anymore.

You are a slave to the Lord Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. It's a place of rest. They never could, they never did, to cement themselves in Egypt too long. 420 years had took its toll on a tradition. None of them could do it.

Y 'all listening? What's amazing about this story is they have to chart their course under the cloud. ...in the care and the oversight that God has for His people. All He says, I put a cloud up there by day and a fire by night and you just move when it moves and do what it does.

And it leads you right into a land of rest. They couldn't submit to it. Why couldn't they? Their body, the master of their body, the thing classified, all the flesh of the old human nature. I hear what it says that they lusted.

Do you know what they were lusting after? Was it food or sin? Y 'all talk to me. Why'd they get in trouble lusting after? There you go. You can't tell me it didn't if Paul never tied the two together.

Something that was not wrong. Eating fruit. This is going to be a silent service tonight. But we're going to get somewhere tonight. We're headed to Canaan. This church is headed to Canaan. We're coming out from under a government and a system of men and we're headed for the rulership of the Holy Spirit.

Amen. I believe it's time for the Stone Mountain Church, praise God, to cease wars and start declaring war on the powers of darkness. Can you say amen? They committed idolatry. What did they worship? The gold and the silver that God gave them?

Rings and rings. There was no sin in that. There's no sin in the gold and the silver. It's what they made out of it. All that stuff out of Egypt. They went up, brother and sister, out of Egypt with their pockets full of gold and silver.

And that's what God told them to do. Barred from your neighbors. Egyptians. Journeyed to watch the rest and the government of God. And here we go. God calls His men up on the mountain to get a word. It's not, we're behind God.

We're way ahead of Him. The biggest problem you have between you and God, He's too slow for you. Too slow for us. Especially in the Americas. Too fast. We're the turtle. We're the heron. God's a turtle.

God tells us over and over, wait on the Lord. Wait on the Lord. Let Him catch up. While Moses was up there waiting on the Lord to get them a word, they said, man, there ain't no way. We're going to wait on that dude.

We don't even know where he's at. We've got to have church. Christmas is going. It's seven o 'clock. And we've got to have church and the preacher hadn't showed up. The angel told John to measure the worshippers.

Okay, don't forget that. So they took the thing that God had made them. Of course, they found them a preacher that would be governed by them. Is that right? They found them a preacher politicking on what they wanted.

A God of their materialism. What's wrong with the gold and the silver? They're done with it. Don't restrain me on this next one. I'll get too plain. But I don't know if that ain't the right road to take from here on out.

Just get plain, bless God. The Lord, I was praying in 82 for God to make me prosperous. And I really do want to prosper. But the sad thing about it, what He showed me was Jeremiah in prison. So I'm headed for prosperity.

So I guess I'll just go ahead and get plain. But the next thing they got in trouble with was fornication. The ones who made that stuff are going to be your example in the last hour. This generation that the end of the world is going to come on, this is going to be the message for you.

This is what you're going to have to look at. This is going to be an example for you to go by because the same thing that tripped them up, if you're not careful, is going to trip you up. And you're not going to endure the race.

You're not going to go to Canaan. You're not going to go to the place that God's prepared for you. You're going to die in the wilderness. The same thing that tripped them up is going to trip you up. Fornication, up with the day, is not outright the wrongs of things.

It's not the thou shalt nots that's messing a lot of God's people up. It's the very thing that God ordained and God blessed that is out of excess or out of control. Or we don't have any control of it.

Say amen, somebody. Because sex out of control leads from one thing to something else. Brother, if it's out of control, you're never satisfied. It's just like now we go to restaurants and we have a problem not figuring out if we're hungry but figuring out what we want to eat next.

Because everything's on the menu. We done had so much and done eat so much and done tried every food you can try. Our battle today is not with getting some food. It's trying to decide decide which one we want next.

Is that true? I went back and I told him, I said, here's what I'm going to tell you. I do not have any Scripture but I have a word from heaven. The church of Jesus Christ has got to be cleaned up all this stuff.

Somebody say amen. We got to get back to the sanctity of all of these things. Amen? And get all of this. Now all of these things that I've mentioned thus far are bodily. They're things of the body that God will never, never, never deliver you from.

Hey, you don't want God to deliver you from eating. Bury your hide. What's left of it. And you sure ain't going to pray God deliver me from my possessions. No man prayed that. Because if you do you're going to be out in the cold child.

Walk in the stone mountain church of God. Don't you pray. God will never deliver you of your possessions. Deliver me. You've been a mess. The partner you're married to would be. Hello? Hey, I'm not out of the Scriptures.

Amen? He does not deliver you from the things that He ordained to you. You've got to get it under control. If you don't, it will control your vocation. It leads to adultery. It leads to overeating. Oversex.

It leads to worshiping the very possessions that God has blessed you with. And brother and sister, this is a problem from the state house to the general office all the way down to the pews of the church.

Amen? We've got a generation of people totally out of control of the very things that God has blessed us with. Body in the fall. Now, this body was created by God, but in the fall, because of sin, He deals with it over and over and over and over.

And dwell in sin. This body. Jesus to deal with the body. Tree. To deal with the body. The Bible says that He was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. What is the works of the devil? He took the created body of God, made for God, by God, for God, and made it the body of sin.

Body for sin to dwell in. It was Satan's rebellion that entered into man. It was Satan's self that entered into man. It was Satan himself that got into this body and it became known as the body of sin.

And Jesus was manifested to destroy the works of the devil, which is the body of sin. Read it in Romans. The people of Egypt, they started on this journey at the starting line and the penalty of judgment.

Amen? It was the blood that God sent to Moses and put it on the doorpost. And when I pass through, I will pass over them. A death that was pronounced on Egypt, on sin, on anything outside of God, it was a guilt.

And the blood of them, it delivered them. It started them. But you listen now. The blood delivered them all of the penalty of judgment, which was death. Listen now. Eat the body, the meat. The Bible said, into the wilderness of the Red Sea wilderness.

In other words, that was as far as they could go. They couldn't go another step. Anything else of God's provision to take over right here at the Red Sea. Now, the blood done its job. Anybody that had the blood on the doorpost, brother, when that angel got to that house, he flew over that house.

The blood done the job. Okay? I'm not discrediting the blood. Don't you ever say that. Because it won't be true. The blood done its job. But at the Red Sea, facing the Red Sea, after them, to continue their journey, God had to manifest.

You know what the first chapter deals with? It deals with the same thing I'm talking about tonight. A people that has messed things up and end up in perversion. And the end result of a people that does these things, the end result is, unless they turn, God turns them over to a reprobate mind.

I started this meeting talking about a revolution in our minds. But the first five chapters of Romans deals with that blood that justifies, that delivers a man from the penalty of sin. Hallelujah! Makes him stand straight and right and justified in the sight of God.

But from there forward, justification is not mentioned anymore. He picks up the story at the Red Sea. The sixth chapter deals with the dominion of sin. The deliverance over sin. The power over sin. Victory over this body of sin.

Amen? Look at it. Don't look now, look later. Sixth chapter of Romans deals with the dominion over sin. God's power over sin. It's not enough to be washed in the blood. You've got to get full of the Holy Ghost and then get controlled by the Holy Ghost to make it to the end.

Amen? He deals with the dominion. Don't yield your members. Hey, brother and sister, these hands of mine will still sin unless there's a power ruling these hands. Hello? These eyes of mine will still sin unless there's a power controlling these eyes that's stronger than sin.

Is that right? And on and on. This mind will sin. And I'll guarantee you you'd be shocked tonight of how many Christians is bound. And you say, oh, they're Christians? They're Christians that's got caught in a trap.

You'd be surprised how many folks Brother G .W. one night walked up on a man in Salem, Alabama, a preacher, caught him in the pornography section. Of course, the next time he seen him, he said, I've been delivered.

I ain't doing that no more. You'd be shocked how many of God's people is caught up in stuff that like I'm talking about tonight. You're out of control. And see, the overseers is out of control so they ain't going to say nothing to the flock.

I've done a study and please, please don't take this carnal and natural. I've done a study on fat. The reason I haven't preached it yet, I'm not ready to be a martyr. I'm going to skip that tonight. But one place fat represents the blessings of God.

Another place fat represents a people out of control. Like Eli. He lost his sight. His telescope got blurred. He couldn't see. His oversight was messed up. His vision got dim. Hello? The end result is the ark was stole.

The ark got stole by the Philistines. And the next event is the glory left out. Hello? But it all started with a fat Eli that had not took heed to himself. Preacher, I'm not talking about you tonight.

But how am I going to preach this? You know, it's not the size. That ain't what I'm talking about. You know why I ain't fat? I can't get fat. Won't nothing make me fat. I eat everything but the legs on the table and I still don't gain no weight.

That ain't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about out of control, okay? But in Paul's dealing with this thing called the body, he deals with that which we've got to have. And that is the spirit of life in Christ Jesus.

Now what has happened in our day? Why? Why is there no more life in our churches today than there are right now? I'll tell you why. We've moved the spirit out of the corporate body of Christ and put the natural blood back in it.

Instead of the Spirit flowing through it, the natural man's flowing back through it. The blood, the natural life, is flowing back through the church. Somebody say, Amen. And we can do almost everything we're doing in the natural.

But I'll tell you what we can't do. I'll tell you what we can't do. We can't do the works of Christ until the blood's pulled back out, spiritually speaking, and the life of the spirit of life is put back in the body, and it begins to flow through the body, control the body, dwells in the body.

And this whole thing is wrapped up in one word, dwell. It's mentioned three times in Romans 8. If the same Spirit that was in Christ, raised Christ from the dead, dwell in you. And that word dwell means it's not just the Holy Spirit coming in, it's the Holy Spirit comes in and takes control of the members of your body.

And through the Holy Spirit dwelling and living in you, He gives you victory over this body, and you put to death the desires of this body that's out of control. You know, you preach this, and some folks, I've had folks teach lately that we wasn't saved.

And I've heard folks teach lately we don't have the Holy Ghost. But you can be saved, you can have the Spirit in you, but all of that Spirit, all of it that counts, they had, look brother, they drank of the spiritual drink, they drank of the rock, they drank of everything.

Everything was Christ. They drank of it. They ate of it. They partook of it. They followed it. But they never did come under full submission to the leadership and the controlling force of God Almighty.

And they did not go in. They did not go in. God let them die in the wilderness. I was in Selma, Alabama the last five nights of 1978. Brother Lowry, Sister Opal at that time lived there. I was there in revival in a black church.

I don't mean the building was black. The people were black. We closed that meeting out and I stayed in Selma on January the 1st of 1979. Early that morning before anybody woke up, the Lord woke me up and spoke these words to me.

Becoming a Voice of Faith

He said there will be an event that will take place before this year goes out that will signal the beginning. Now not the end. Will signal the beginning of the end. There will be an event that will take place before this year 1979 goes out.

Will be the beginning of the end. Okay? I simply laid there and talked to the same Spirit that was telling me this. And I said to Him, if the end is on us, if we are entering the time called the end of time, the latter time, the last moment of time, what is the message You would have me to deliver?

Lord, please don't leave me knowing there is an end, that we are at the end. Show me and tell me what kind of message You would have me to deliver from here till it closes down. I heard that Spirit say these words to me, Become a voice of faith to the people.

Become a voice of faith to the people. And what was so strange, and it took me years to unravel this, what was so strange, He led me to read 1 Corinthians 10. The one I read tonight that follows 9, that is tied to 9.

Read this, He said. And I read it. More of a brethren I would not have you in you. And I was led to read down to where He said upon whom the ends of the world have come. I could not tie preaching that message to becoming a voice of faith.

So in my carnal thinking and understanding, I took 79 and everywhere I preached, I preached on faith. If the woman had the issue of blood, I preached about her. Blind boy and a male, by his faith got healed.

Everywhere I went, I accumulated all and homogenized all the messages and the examples of faith in the Word of God. And I thought that's what I was supposed to do. Become a message of preaching faith.

But along about the end of that year, the Lord spoke to me and said, your message is wrong. It's what you told me to do. It's when the Spirit takes this book, the sands of this book, and writes them on the tables of your heart, then they become the living Word, the revealed Word, and faith gets in your heart.

Hallelujah. So we're in a time of the thing that's going to keep us out of the place that God would have us to be. In the borders of Canaan. In the secret place of the Most High. In the place of protection where the overseer is the watch.

See, I got into this. I got into this. I got to the place that I let the flock I preached to get by with anything. Malachi. I let them bring their lame sacrifices. I let them bring their three-legged lambs.

I let them bring their blemished limbs. I let them buy with anything. But buddy, that priest was to watch that tabernacle and watch that altar and watch that congregation and keep the oversight. Watch them with a telescope.

Watch them close. Take heed to yourself. Watch the flock. Watch that guy, the lame. Because if you do, you made my table of not effect. He made the table of the Lord as a priest. I quit watching the flock.

I started shouting the flock. Shearing the flock. Eating of the flock. But my call is not to eat your lamb chops or enjoy your wool. My job is to watch you with a telescope. And when you come, if you come with a blemish, it's to point that blemish out.

Somebody say amen. It's to have an oversight. And one night I'm going into the house of prayer. To the corporate house of prayer. And bring something out that probably you've never seen before. But our job as overseers is to watch the flock with an oversight and that's with a telescopic view.

That means it's not just a natural view, brother and sister. It's a view that's magnified by God. It's a view that's like a magnifying glass. You see what the natural eye cannot see. And you look into that flock and when that flock begins to do whatever, any of these things that I'm talking about tonight, then that overseer is to say to that flock, this must cease.

It must stop. But here we are tonight. Amen. The churches and the messes are in is because we've not took heed to ourselves. Thank God. Aren't you glad God's doing something about it? How many is ready to take heed to yourself?

How many is ready for God to take His telescope out and take a good long look at you? See, He sees you when you're back at home. He sees you in your bedroom. Y 'all didn't know that, did you? It's strange I had to come all the way up here and tell you God sees you everywhere you go.

He knows your motives. He knows where you're worshiping out of your heart or not. He knows. He knows how much those things you possess has got control of your life. He knows how bound you are. He knows what's in control of your life.