(February 1987) 09 - Woe to Jerusalem — Ray Lowe

Now I really wanted to go a certain direction this morning, but Last night after the service that we went home, and I got in the bedroom There's just the greatest rejoicing Came over me, and I I really didn't know what it was.

I just I went I laid down just Rejoicing just to praise. I don't know if I disturbed The brother where we was at. But I just I will lay down rejoicing him. I really didn't know what it was till the pastor read that Scripture this morning.

Because they was not too much to rejoice about what I said last night it was a tough message and It it didn't jive the message and the rejoicing didn't jive. But I understood this morning what happened why I was rejoicing.

But as I lay there in the bed, I called the main office Get a hold of the boss to Tell him what I had in mind. I told him I had in mind to run down to Laodicea. I never could get in touch with him tried till I went to sleep.

So I left a message on the recorder and told him if there's any change To call me back. Well, he called me back early this morning and uh, here's what he told me. He said I don't understand why you want to run down to Laodicea.

Said I called you last Saturday night. But last Sunday morning at 2 o 'clock Told you to run down to Laodicea and tell him that I was sick. Did you do it? I said, yeah. That's the first words I said Lord when I walked in the pulpit last Sunday morning, is that true first words He said Did you tell him this week?

What made me sick? I said, yeah, I Said I told him what I thought you told me. That you had went into your house and got a hold of some self-rising bread. And it made you sick at your stomach and it looked like the only way is He was only gonna get any better he's gonna have to vomit y 'all listening.

Also, strange. Oh, I woke up this morning crying. I went to sleep rejoicing. And I woke up this morning crying. And I couldn't. I didn't. I didn't understand why I Couldn't relate to the rejoicing when I went to sleep and I couldn't relate to the reclining when I woke up.

A Call to Jerusalem and Obedience to God

But then the boss said to me I want you to run down to Jerusalem this morning and Deliver a message to Jerusalem. Isn't it wonderful to have that kind of boss? That you don't have to figure out what to go.

But he told me in 1982 if I start calling the main office. Little little more frequent that I've quit making so many dry runs. Now I gotta obey the boss. Because he just promised me a raise and I got to have it.

Hey, man. Not only does he promise me a raise in that respect. 1984 passing the assembly of God Church. He told me That if I would walk in his wheel that nothing would touch me. Nothing. Brother I saw a place in God.

That age can't find you. The devil can't shoot an arrow in it. Amen. He said it's all simply walking in my wheel. You're covered only in my wheel. So I got to go where the ball says go now. I really would like to stay at Leo to see a while.

But I got to leave. I got to go another direction. Pastor if you've ever read a scripture. Dear God, I couldn't believe what I was hearing. It's just it's it's. It's just unreal what God's doing. What God's saying.

Don't nobody leave this service. I want you to go with it this morning. We're going to Jerusalem. I'm gonna tell you what the boss said. I like my boss. I like my boss. I Like my boss. Praise God. I'm gonna hang with this company.

There ain't gonna be no layoffs in it. It ain't going bankrupt and busted. It ain't gonna emerge with anything else. In fact, it's the only company that's gonna survive the crash. Well, you stay on with Easton.

If you want to. I'm gonna stay with this one. I want everybody's got a Bible turn with me this morning to Matthew chapter 23 and verse 13. Don't you to follow me. Matthew 12 now we we in Jerusalem. Whoa, but whoa unto you scribes and Pharisees and hypocrites.

Jesus’ Woes Against the Scribes and Pharisees

For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men for you won't go in yourselves. Neither suffer you them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you scribes Pharisees and hypocrites. For you devour widows houses isn't and for pretense make long prayer.

Therefore you shall receive the greater damnation. Whoa until you scribes Pharisees and hypocrites. For you come past sea and land to make one proselyte. When he is made you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

Whoa until you blind guides which say whosoever shall swear by the temple. It's nothing. Whose ever shall swear by the goal of the temple. He is a debtor. You fools and you blind. But what is greater the goal of the temple that or what is great the goal of the temple that sanctified the goal?

Who said what you swear by the altar there's nothing but whosoever swears by the gift that is upon it. He is guilty. You fools and blind. But what is greater the gift of the author that sanctified the gift?

Who saw who so therefore she'll swear by the altar sweat by it and all things their own. Who selves to swear by the temple sweat by it and by him that dwelleth therein? He that shall swear by heaven's worth by the throne of God.

By him that said if their own War until you scribes Pharisees and hypocrites you pay your tithes of Minton whatever and coming and have omitted the weighty matters of the law judgment mercy and faith.

These ought you have done, but don't leave the other undone. You blind guides which you strain on a nap you swallow our camel. Whoa until you scribes Pharisees and hypocrites. For you clean up the outside of your vessel or your cup and of the platter.

But within you're full of extortion and excess. You're out of control. They're blind Pharisee. Cleanse first that which is within the cup and the platter. That the outside of them may be clean also. Whoa until you scribes and Pharisees and hypocrites.

So you're just like the whited sepulchers. Which indeed you appear beautiful outward? But within you're full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanliness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous unto men but within you're full of hypocrisy and sin.

Whoa until you scribes and Pharisees and hypocrites because you build the tombs of the prophets you garnish the sepulchres of the righteous and. Say if we had been in the days of our fathers We would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

Wherefore be you witness unto yourselves that you are the children of them which kill the prophets. Fill you up then the measure of your fathers. You serpents you generation of vipers. How can you escape the damnation of hell?

Wherefore behold I send unto you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you shall kill and crucify and the others you'll scourge in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city. That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on this earth from the blood of righteous Abel.

Unto the blood of Zacharias whom you slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you All these things shall come upon this generation. Oh Jerusalem Jerusalem. Then I understand why I was crying.

Jerusalem’s Missed Visitation and the Promise of Peace

Let this mic stay up now. I understand why I was crying woke up crying. Oh Jerusalem Jerusalem. Now that kill us the prophets. Stonish them which are sent unto thee. How awful I had gathered our children together.

Even as a hen gathered her chickens under her wings. You would not. Behold your house is left unto you desolate for I say unto you You shall not see me henceforth. Till you shall say Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

I want you to turn with me. Luke 19 Chapter 41. And when he was come near he beheld the city. Luke chapter 19 verse 41. When he was come near he beheld the city and wept over it saying If thou hadest known even thou Preach.

I want you to turn back to the Preach. I want you to. I want you to flip back over to the mat to the to the scripture you wrote read. Want you to flip back over to Isaiah 54. I want you to hold your finger there and then go back over and follow this with me.

Saying if I had us known even thou at least in this thy day the things Which belong. I want you to notice that word which belong because it's an italics. It's been put in there by the translators. There were some other words here and the translators Felt that which belong would be the best but here's one translation.

I believe this is the correct one. In that word says which belong you you the words is needed for peace. If thou hadest known even thou at least in this that day the things What you needed? for peace.

If you don't know What was going to bring you peace. You know, you know, you know done different. That's what he's literally saying. If you would have known Jerusalem. The things which belong are the things which are needed for peace.

You'd have done different. But now they are hid from that eyes. I send blindness on you for the day shall come upon thee that thou shalt that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee and Compass that means circled you the around.

They gonna keep thee on every side of the siege you on every side and Shall lay thee even with the ground. That's and I listen now. Here's why I wanted the pastor to turn back over there and Shall lay thee even with the ground and thy children within thee.

This is not only you that you've affected. You've affected your children and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another. And here's the whole reason. Because thou did not know the time of thou visitation.

I want the pastor To read. I want him to stand back up. And I want him to read What he read. I want you to read it again pastor same verses. Verse 14 is explained in these words. You and your children will be made secure.

Because I'm gonna build a wall around you. Now I Didn't understand the rejoicing last night till the pastor read the message. The message the pastor brought you this morning is a message to those That has attended this revival with an open heart.

The message that I'm bringing to you this morning is for you that have rebelled To you that have heard To you that have opened your heart to you that have received to you. That's hungry To you that have become a willing to turn a loose of Tradition.

And You've chose to follow the Lord and what he's doing and where he's headed. It's time to rejoice. It's rejoicing for you this morning. It's rejoicing time for you. It's rejoicing time for you because when the Lord gave me I Did not ask for what I'm preaching.

The Preacher’s Calling and Radical Message

I would be a fool even fool To jeopardize what I've jeopardized. To preach like I'm preaching. But when the Lord comes to you and Says to you Visit you. I Was not praying. I was not seeking God. I Was passed in the church.

We was on the road. What I mean roll. That's a street turn to a building. We were turned down tearing out. We had youth programs running out our ears. We had Sports programs. I was fixing to pay part of the property and Build a basketball court on it.

We Were already up had approached the owners of the land next to us to buy more property to build to build to build to build. But the GW Lowe is here this morning. I Don't know if he remembers me telling him this he was in Alabama, but had came down to see me.

He may not remember this but I said brother GW God is fixing to visit me. I said, I don't know why. I don't know how. For the purpose, you know, I don't know. I don't know but I begin to walk for days with my flesh tingling.

With a presence on me that I could not understand. One night After service after watching television for two hours. I And they sang the Star-Spangled Banner. And I went to bed. I started to bed on my way back to that bed I put I passed the place in that the hall where the washing dry was a voice rung from the heavens and Said but the people that do know their God Shall be strong into exploits.

It almost knocked me to my knees. But that was the beginning of the Lord restoring my life. Pouring a message into me. That I did not ask for. He gave it to me in 1968 in a eight month 22 foot more a trailer.

An angel walked up my trailer after 18 days of fasting. I was on a 21-day fast on the direction of the Lord. An angel walked into my trailer and Said I'm a messenger sent from God to you. He said you will not go in the direction that you think you're going to go.

I'm fixed in to change your direction. You will not preach what you think you're going to preach. I'll give you a message to the body of Christ. You'll take that message to the body of Christ. And when the body of Christ becomes what I have ordained it to be I'll feel that body with my glory and this gospel shall be a witness in the last day to every nation on this earth.

Hallelujah, I walked out of that trailer delivered from every man's religion. I got saved at home in 1963 from a life of deep sin. After I got saved while I was a sinner not one preacher knocked on my door.

Not one church member knocked on my door but after salvation came. It went across town because I'd made some Riffles in the town because of my wildlife. It went through the town that I'd got saved. The preacher started knocking on my door.

The Baptist preacher came. To teach me and convince me that I was now eternally secure. The Nazarene Nazarene preacher came to convince me that I didn't need to talk in tongues. Amen. The Church of God preacher came and said to me we've got the right name.

If you're going to go to heaven you got to get with us. The independent preacher came and said to me. How were you baptized? I said I Got baptized in the Church of God pool. I Yeah, but what you know?

What about the water? I said it's just water came out the tap. Oh Brother you're already screwed up. That kind of water won't do it. You got to have running water. I said, I'm sure they run it in the in the tub.

Yeah, but that won't work. You got it. You got to get to a stream like the Jordan River. You got to get baptized that way the next morning. I had a preacher down on the creek baptizing me in running water.

Few more months passed and the one this preacher came by. How were you baptized? I said I told the last crowd house baptized. I've done it in the Church of God pool, but I done got that all straight now.

I done went down in running water. Oh, but what formula they use over you? I said, I really didn't pay that much attention to it. Well, I'm gonna teach you the right way. Father son, the Holy Ghost won't do it.

You got to be you when the preacher put you on that water. He's got to say this over you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And if you don't say that your sins is not remitted. So I got that baptism.

You're looking at a fellow that's covered, buddy. I'm covered. I'm covered. I Ain't going to hell. I'm covered. But what all that was doing to me is taking a man from a life of sin. From the bondage of sin and locking him up in a religious prison.

That would be more damnable than the prison of sin. Amen. That angel it came to me. Oh God. It brought me the message. And said I'll give you a message to the church to the body of Christ and my heart's cry was When I got saved from a life of a drunk 23 year old drunk.

I wanted to go so bad back to my drunken friends to them. Jesus Will set you free alcohol free. And that was my heart's cry. To start with as a save not called a priest just saved. I Went on the street with my pockets hanging full of tracks.

Oh church of God literature. Same with God literature. Walk in the street and say it to the sinner. Jesus be free. He'd do the same for you. That was the cry of my heart. I wanted to go. But when the angel of God came to me He said you can't go that direction.

Not yet. Not yet. You can't go that direction. You're going to be sent to the body of Christ. You will go directly to the body of Christ and you'll deliver a message to the body of Christ. Brother what I saw I saw was so radical.

It was so out of turn. I shared it with was the Church of God preacher. He didn't say anything, but I knew he rejected it. First man I shared it with was the man that claimed he had the Holy Ghost. But I knew he rejected it in that year.

God sent me in. That year 1968 God sent me to 12 churches. In the first few I went Dragging because I like to die and fasted. But I took a message to him. I took a message to him. And everywhere I went.

Everywhere I went and I traveled that whole year. Because I'd hear a voice say go to that church. I'd hear a voice say go to that church. I'd hear a voice say go to that church or go to that city. And everywhere I went I delivered a message.

Rejection in Riverdale and the Explosion Prophecy

And all the rejection. Right in Riverdale, Georgia. I stood in a church just like this one. Just like this one. I delivered a message about what I'd seen. I saw that church caught up in a religion that was not real.

I saw them shouting and doing all their junk and all their carnality all the Emotionalism and all the mess they had going on and I said to them this is not it. This is not it. I've delivered that church a message.

Brother every night when I got through the the pastor that was standing at that church. Would walk up to that pulpit and say to those folks in In words that that a three-year-old could understand what he was saying.

He was saying don't listen to what the man's saying. Don't listen to what the man's saying, but I stayed there and I kept delivering the message. On the fourth night I walked to the pulpit in that church.

I knew they were rejected. There was only four or five there that was receiving what I said. I walked to the pulpit. Took the mic as I walked to the pulpit. I saw an explosion in my mind. I Just saw this word and I saw Across it written explosion and then I saw the word gas and then I saw death.

I Kept my eyes closed and I said to this church. This what I'm fixed to say is related to this church in some way. I said there will be an explosion. It will be connected some way with gas and I said first I said many is going to die.

But then the spirit brought the word through me said I've changed the word for many and I said several which means two or more. I Stayed there two more nights and they were ready for me to go and thank God.

I was ready to go. I closed on Friday night. Sunday morning the former pastor Come back to that church. Walked in that pulpit. He walked in that pulpit that morning. Here's what he said to the people you erase everything from your mind that that man has delivered in this pulpit.

None of it's true. He's a false prophet. He don't know where he's at. He don't know what he's doing. The former pastor of that church I found that lady that the man that was standing in was going to him every night telling him what I was preaching.

He stood in that pulpit. I went on to another city that God had sent me to. Two weeks later Somebody brought me an Atlanta Constitution Paper. The headlines read like this. Explosion in the Atlanta gaslight building three men died.

You know who they were. The pastor that stood in this pool in that pulpit behind me and told that Congregation don't you listen to anything that man has got to say? How did he die? He laid towel on the floor that you put glue out with it.

He climbed the elevator. What rode the elevator to the 22nd story of the Atlanta gaslight building. Walked in that morning. Started to work spread his glue not knowing that nobody knew how it happened.

Somebody had lit a heater and when he spreaded the glue spread the glue the explosion the glue exploded. Blowed his two helpers out the window of the 22nd story. It blew him to the ledge and he held on to the fire burn his hands off and he fell 22 stories to his death.

They picked them all up with shovels and wheelbarrows. Don't you fool with something that you don't understand. And I went over and over and over to churches with a message. Simply saying to them what you got going is not God.

End-Times Warning and the Overcoming Church

God wants to change. The end of time is a coming. There's a storm on the horizon. This rapture thing that folks is being taught is a lie from the pits of hell. There's some good men preaching it, but they're wrong.

They've accepted because it's a handed-down tradition. It is not true. It's a lie from hell. Brother this book the promise this book gives to the church is not a call-out. It's being heard through and protected through.

There's a storm on the horizon. Even men like Jimmy swaggered that for years said it's not so it's preaching now. They see the storm clouds are rising and we're headed for a great storm. Swaggots still preaching a pre-rapture.

But he'll change if he follows God. Because the storm is going to intensify and you're going to be able to see clearly that we are not going to leave we are Going through but there's a church at the gates of hell.

We'll not overcome. I can you say man, there's an overcoming church. There's a church that's going to run into a safety a safe place with the Lord Jesus Christ. The age is going to come the plagues is going to come.

The powers of heavens is going to be shaken. The earth is going to tremble like you shake a trough big tree. Oh, everything's gonna shake everything's gonna spin out of control. The antichrist is arising, but there's a church coming forth in this last day.

That is not going out. It's going through here by the power of the Holy Ghost. Sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise to help by the keeping power of God Almighty. Can you say man? Hallelujah. I said kept by God.

Hallelujah this morning. As I woke out of my sleep I Woke up crying. I Said Lord, what's the matter? What's the matter? He said you stand at Jerusalem and you're weeping over those That have missed. They've missed it.

They've missed it not going to miss it. You have missed it you that have received and accepted. Not me not my personality. Not my style, I don't have a sophisticated style. I'm wild. I Ate locusts and wild honey, and it's run me wild.

I'm a wild man. I Said I'm a wild man. I've been raised in the wilderness. I'm a voice crying in the wilderness of religion. I said I'm a voice crying in the wilderness out of this wilderness of religion.

I Came up out of religion. I've been delivered from religion. I'm set free from religion a million. Somebody said are you one? Mr. Trinity Church of God seem to have got independent. I'm none of them.

I'm a voice in the wilderness. I've been delivered. Thank God from all the things of men. This is my Magna Carta, this is my textbook. This is my curriculum. The Holy Ghost is my God. Hallelujah. I'm headed for a city and it's not the city of faith.

It's the same city that Abraham saw the building make it of it is God. I'm headed for a city. Thank God, it ain't got just streets of gold brother. Thank God. I'm a part of that city. Can you say man?

I'm not headed to old Jerusalem. I'm headed to a new Jerusalem. I'm not going out praise God. I'm a coming down. Hallelujah. Can you say man? And I'm a wild man. I preach while I act wild. I'm a rude and I'm a crude man.

The Message, Its Rejection, and God as the Source

Message. I had delivered a strange message. The pastors get the same message. Listen to David Wilkerson to get my message or read books. I had read a book one book in 86. Drew me from books and said I'll show you the truth.

I'll tell you what you need to know. I'll read the books to confirm what the spirits already told me. There's a message rising in and see here's the problem. Here's the problem. It's not the man. Yeah, it's not the personality.

It's not the charisma. I have none. Oh charisma. I only got a 10th grade education and the last two years. My mind was everywhere, but the classroom. I was already drinking at that age. I was already stealing booze at that age.

I've done been drunk at the end of eighth grade. I was already getting caught on alcohol in eighth grade. I have no education. I have nothing to depend on. I have nothing but the Magna Carta. I have nothing but the Holy Ghost.

Amen, it's not the man. You've rejected. It's not the man you're turning down. It's not Jim Heights. It's not Ray Lowe you're dealing with. It's a message. It's a word. It's a Constitution. It's a man.

It's a great China. It's the Holy Spirit. Hey, brother and sister. Hey, I'd be a fool to preach like I preach. Hey, I'd be a fool of going to places not going to and preach like I preach. I have to have money to operate just like you do but I've come to realize that man's not my source.

God is my source. God is my source. He'll send the Ravens if he has to. He'll make the Ravens fly. Can you say man? He'll come at the widow woman to keep you in this hour that we're moving into. Lord visited me in 1982 when I got the message in 68.

Psalm 91 and the Spiritual Storm

I preached it for a few years. I Warned people of a storm in 1970. I screamed everywhere. I went. Mark Brown's here. He knows being the 1970 of a storm that was coming in. The condition of the church.

I saw it the same time. I saw the church. I saw the storm. I saw the church sound asleep. Spiritually. The storm was gonna slip. Foundations that we were built on was not right. They were not substantial.

The substance was wrong. I saw the homes crumbling. I saw the schools crumbling. I saw the church's crumbling been destroyed by the storm and I screamed in 1970 1971 everywhere. I went. I screamed there's a storm.

There's a storm, but I didn't only scream. There's a storm I said there's a hiding place. Markle tell you I preached Psalms 91. There's a not a man walking this earth has preached Psalms 91 like I have God.

I didn't only God didn't just show me the storm. He showed me the safe place in the time of the storm. I Shared this with the pastor the other day. I run into preachers that saw the storm, but they didn't know the solution.

I ran into one that was telling the folks the storms are coming and you got to have seven years supply of food. I ran into another preaching Canada that was preaching the storms coming. You got to have a year's supply of food and all the radio waves out of, California.

There's a Said I see a storm coming and you got to have three years supply of food. I went to the one that was preaching the seven years. I went to the one that was preaching the one years. I said both of you's wrong.

Both of you's wrong. The storm I see is a spiritual storm. Bread won't keep you stored up all you want to you could store. Oh God the biggest warehouse in Atlanta, Georgia. And do all you want to do. I said that's not the place to hide.

It's not in the desert. It's not in a cave. It's not with us all supply of food. It's not with seven gold in the bank. They went through this type thing of buying silver. One of the preachers the one that was preaching seven years food.

He began to save silver and the last thing I heard he had a dump truck load of silver. Because he said silver is the only thing that's gonna gonna be able you can barter with in the time of a storm. But brother and sister this book says in the time of a storm They'll cast their silver the gold into the streets because it will not deliver them in a time of trouble.

I said no, it's not silver and gold. It's Psalms 91 he that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High God Shall abound under the shadow of the Almighty. I will sell the Lord. He's my refuge. He's my fortress.

He's my strong tower. He's where I'm gonna run to. He's what I'm gonna cling to. He's what I'm gonna look to. He's what I'm gonna hold on to let age come let pestilence come. Let plagues come let wars come let famines come.

He will keep me in perfect peace if my mind will be stayed on him. Can you say man? I preached in 70 and 71 in 72 and 73 that message warning the folks. But you think it's bad now you ought to preach it back there.

Nobody wanted to hear it. Cause in the 70s was the greatest. We went through I believe they said 10 years of the greatest Economic growth that there's ever been of a nation that walked this earth and in the time the great anomical surge.

Nobody wanted to hear what I had to say. And I made a big mistake. I Made a tragic mistake. I Begin to. I was in Texas preaching revival. On the way back while I was there's watching TV one night and at that time I didn't even watch TV.

I did not allow TV in my home till 1977 but I was watching the TV because we're standing somebody else at home and across the TV screen. It come these words the Congress of the legislators. Somebody up there in Washington just passed a law Concerning the GI Bill that caught me.

I got caught in between the Vietnam of the I served in the army between the Vietnam and the Korean War. Served in South Korea, but yet that didn't make me eligible for GI benefits as far as Education was concerned, but they passed it and it caught me then.

I was already getting in a mess. In my mind, I saw that people didn't want what I had to say. They didn't want this message. They wanted this perverted thing that was in the land. They wanted to prosper in material things.

They wanted houses and lands and clothes and names. And I said I quit in my heart. I said in Texas I quit. There came the answer. I said, I don't know what I'm gonna do. I'm going back home. I'm going to enroll in that school.

The government will pay me to go to school. And I'm gonna serve God just enough not to die and go to hell. I Blew my car up on the way home. I Drove in the driveway driving five miles an hour. I threw a rod a rod was slinging in the car.

I drove up in the Busted spiritually Busted financially automobile down. You know why because nobody wanted to hear the message. They wanted perversion and buddy I quit. And the first warning I got was I got me some land.

I said I'm gonna build me a house. I Was clearing that land one day the Lord spoke to me. I said don't give you time to this. He said all I got to do is send one storm bill what you won't. All I got to do is send one storm and blow it off the face of this earth.

I Didn't heed the warning. I didn't heed the warning. I Kept building. I kept doing Preaching just enough to keep my conscience, right? I Worked while his day. There's an hour of darkness coming when you're not be able to work the next morning.

A Vision of Judgment Through His Children

I got I've got two girls are grown now. The next morning I got was the warning that would kill it all this is what I regret not eat. Because I paid dear boy. I paid dear and you go play there. There's some of you folks you go to pay dear.

You go play dear you go play through your children and I'm gonna tell you something buddy. There's no greater price to pay than through your children. I Saw my children in this raging river a river that had been swollen by the flood and the storm.

I Saw him caught in this raging river and they were about to go this high falls to be destroyed. I heard them screaming with us screams this blur this blood. Chilling scream as they were fixed to go this high falls screaming for somebody to save them.

I'm in the natural. I'm a good swimmer. My wife is not Me and my wife in this vision stood on the bank of that river with my children. Screaming the flood it caught up the flood it got him. That we're seeing the day That got him.

And in the natural I could have saved him If it would have been a night because I'm a good swimmer anybody in this vision. Naturally brother you jump in there to save your children. In this vision I begin that I was gonna jump in this stream and save my children.

But when I went to jump I looked and the garment I had on had got caught in barbed wire caught in barbed wire and I couldn't go. I Came out of that crying Oh God Oh God help me. I Took the scriptures and begin to look at the scriptures at that word tangle.

I couldn't find it. But I found the word that means tangle. It says in tangles. In tangles, I found it three ways you get entangled in sin. You can get entangled in religion and you can get entangled with the cares of this life.

I Had got entangled with the cares of this life. My mind and my my whole thought was not all for the things of God. I've got caught up in the things of this life got entangled in the warning was Take your coat off get out of this mess get back where you're supposed to be because your children are at stake.