Topic: The Christian walk

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Can the Holy Spirit bless a hypocrite?

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“But by their fruits ye shall know them.” There you are. See? Now, the same Holy Spirit can bless a hypocrite. That knocked some of you Arminians out, but that’s the Truth. That’s the Truth. Been taught holiness, which I believe in holiness, too. But the same Spirit, the rain falls on the just and t...

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What does it mean when deep calls unto deep?

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You usually get just what you’re expecting. You come to the meeting to criticize, the devil will show you plenty to criticize. If you come to a meeting to be blessed, God will give you a blessing. Whatever you expect, that’s what you’re going to find. Simeon was expecting to see the Lord. And God le...

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What does David mean by the deep calling to the deep?

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And as the—David said, “When the deep is calling to the deep…” If there’s a call in my heart calling for a deep, calling in here, there’s got to be a deep to respond to it, isn’t there? In other words, as many times have I said, “Before there was a fin on a fish’s back, there had to be a water, firs...

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How should a person who says he has the Spirit of Christ behave?

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Let’s watch the type of person He was. Let’s look at His character; watch His ministry. And as He worked then, He works now. As He was then, He is now, and will be forever. And just what He did in them days, He’ll do it today, He’ll be just the same forever. He’s the same Jesus, yesterday, today, an...

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What does 'the deep calling to the deep' mean?

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And as long as there’s something on the inside’s telling you that it will do it, there’s bound to be something there to respond to it: The deep calling to the deep. As I’ve often said: “Before the fin was on the fish’s back, there’s a water, first, for him to swim in, or he wouldn’t have had that fi...

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What does 'deep calleth unto deep' mean?

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Now look, David said, “When the deep calleth to the deep,” if there’s a deep calling to a deep, there’s got to be a deep to respond to that call. Here, as I’ve often used the illustration: Before a fin was on a fish’s back, there had to be a water first for him to swim in, or he wouldn’t have had no...

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How does a person serve God?

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I’ve always knowed this and I found this in my life of ministry. If you’ll…If you want to serve God, serve His people. That’s how we serve. As we love one another, we love God. And I love His people, and I’m doing all that I know how to try to represent our Lord Jesus Christ to them in a way of His...

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What does 'a deep calling to the deep' mean?

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Listen, let me tell you something now. If there’s a deep calling…Here not long ago, when the church begin to cool off and get formal through the great Wesley revival, the people begin to hunger for more of God; if you hunger for more of God, there’s bound to be more of God to respond to it somewhere...

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What should you do if a pastor or prophet tells you something contrary to what God told you?

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Now, look. Some of these, this going on around…You always seek the face of God. And I don’t care who tells you anything contrary to what God tells you, don’t you believe it, and you obey God. Will you do it? I don’t care who he is, how righteous he is, how much of a pastor he is, how much of a preac...

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Does the Bible call it the 'highway of holiness' or the 'way of holiness'?

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No, every one of them that says that, rushes to the hospital as hard as they can when they get sick. They get out here in an accident, and break their leg, or something another, away to the hospital right quick. First thing you know, as soon as they get a little cramp in their stomach, call the doct...

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What does 'deep calleth unto deep' mean?

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Now, you know when the deep calls to the deep, there’s got to be a deep to respond to it. You believe that, don’t you? See? David said, “When the deep calleth to the deep…” In other words like this: Before something can be here calling out for something, there has to be something out there for this...

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What should you do when others disagree with what God has told you to do?

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Now, He may never deal with you like that in that manner. I was born to this end, as a different person. I guess I’ve been odd and misunderstood. Your life might not be like that, but this one thing I do know. You do what God tells you to do. Don’t pay any attention to what anybody else says; you do...

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What happened to the prophet in 1 Kings 13 who obeyed another prophet instead of God?

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You remember one time where there was a—a prophet in the land, and another one went down and prophesied, and God told him what to do. And He said, “Don’t eat or drink, nor it…” First Kings 13. And this prophet sent and told him, “The Lord said to come back here.” And he minded the prophet in the ste...

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Does what a person reads show what kind of person they are?

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Let me see what you read. Let me go in your office, in your house, and see what you read, I will about tell you what you are. That’s right. See, everything to its nature. And you keep the Bible laying close for your children, read It yourself, be an example. That’s what I didn’t have in my younger l...

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Is a person blessed just for hungering after righteousness?

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Now, when this meeting’s closed, you’ll go out somewhere, and somebody say, “Well, I’ll tell you. I got that figured out. See? Now, that was a mind reading. That was this, that, or the other.” And the devil will rob everything away from you that God has given you. What you do when you got it in your...

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Does God accept a person on the basis of their own holiness?

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Now not only the Word, whatever they want to say about It, that’s one thing or another. But we know we have the Scriptures right for we have the Holy Ghost as a Witness. That’s the Witness. So God looking down through the—the optical eye, as it was, and looked down through the—the—the magnifying gla...

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Are the Scriptures meant to be argued over?

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And I said, “Now, I won’t argue,” because the Scriptures are not to argue, They are to be lived. That’s—that’s, you live me a sermon. That’s the best thing. I’d rather see one lived, than I would to hear one preached. Wouldn’t you? Live a sermon. “You’re written epistles, read of all men.”

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What does a longing in the human heart for more of God indicate?

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Here, before there was a—a fin on a fish’s back…You here you have much fish that gets along these bays here. Look, before there was a fin on a fish’s back there had to be a water first for him to swim in, or he wouldn’t have had that fin. See, God put that fin on him to swim in the water, so there h...

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Who are the scoffers the Bible says will come in the last days?

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Now, tonight, the Holy Spirit is in His Church to fulfill what the New Testament said that would come to pass in the last days. And you see the people on the street and around who criticize and say, “Those things are not right.” Just feel sorry for them. For that is the people…maybe…There’s got to b...

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What is a Christian's greatest weapon?

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Now, there’s a perfect way and a permissive way. And I feel that if God, here on the platform, can show me things that has been, and in my rooms and so forth, He’s able to tell me just where He wants me and what He wants me to do. But I feel as long as I’ve got it all hooked up, or I—I feel like the...