Crossroads

UNWELCOMED CHRIST JEFF IN 55-0911

71 And friends, this little old tabernacle, today, with its little crude walls, and to the strangers that's in our gates, we most heartily welcome you here in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, as His beloved children. And we love Him, and want you to enjoy this fellowship together, this morning, as we speak on the Word of the living God.

And I desire, solely, for you to pray for me. I'm at the crossroads of my life, at this time. I have been coming up to this point for a long time. And I finally arrived, this place, where I must make a great decision right away. So you pray for me. Will you do it?

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E-16 Notice. And as Noah begin to warn the people and preach, many of them laughed at him, scoffed at him, because his message seemed entirely out of reason. And today, how could people today, when they say we got the best doctors in the world, we got the best clinics we ever had, we got all this, that and the other, why do we need... Listen. Today we need Divine healing worse then we ever needed it. And as the days go on, on and on, so will it be more and more needed. And it'll come to pass after while, that unless a man is sealed with the Holy Ghost, his heart, until he's laid hisself open to all kinds of things. Come not nigh, any of those who has the seal of God in their forehead, when them tremendous plagues begin to fall. We're at the junction, the crossroads now.

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E-35 Oh, I love Him. I'm sure you do, too. I don't mean to yell at you, but it's burning in my soul. Thinking how this day...

Just before He delivered them, he done all kinds of signs and wonders. They sent a bunch of people up there to take this prophet by force. He said, "If I be a man of God, let fire come from heaven." Watch how a fire comes each time. Watch how a prophets come each time. Watch how the miraculous is done each time. Watch how God vindicates Himself in healing and powers each time, just at the crossroads, never before, right at the crossroads, at the junctions, change in dispensation, change in time.

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E-40 One day in John 17, He looked up and said, "Father, the hour has come." Hallelujah. The junction is here. All things are finished now; all things are getting ready. The crossroads is come; the world's warned. How will know any of these apostles, when they've done signs and wonders. We've pass through the land; we've combed back and forth. The time is here. The time is come.

Brother, as a Gospel preacher this morning, I believe that the Holy Ghost speaking through mortal lips today, anointed ministers are speaking, "The time has come. Time is here." And Omnipotence has answered. The miraculous is taking place. Has to with the junction.

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E-45 There's people setting in this church this morning, a few years ago was bound with cancer, dying. There's those who's setting here that was crippled, and lame, and halt, and withered. And Omnipotence spoke, and the miraculous was done. Certainly, sure. What is the sign we're at the junction? We're at the crossroads now. We're fixing to enter the millennium.

Now, watch. We moved up and when they did, when He was standing between the heavens and earth, heaven could not receive Him. The sin of the world was laying upon Him. And the world rejected Him as their king. There was no place left for Him to die. He couldn't come to heaven, for He had the sins of the world on Him. He was hated, and despised, and spit on, and rejected, and refused of the earth. But He stood between heavens and earth and bridged the way. And every man or woman that desires to, may come through that Blood stream from His side to glory. Omnipotence...

DOOR TO THE HEART HARRISONBURG VA 58-0316E

E-69 God bless you, lady, setting there, snubbing, crying, certainly. God bless you, lady, yes, setting there wiping your eyes. Someone else raise up the hand and say, "God, be merciful to me." God bless you, young lady back here. God bless you over here, sir, you little man here, you lady, you, and you, you. You back there, way back, yes, God bless you.

"Oh, I stand at..." God bless you up there in the balcony. "I stand at the door and knock." God bless you, young man setting down here, just at the crossroads of life. "I stand at the door, and knock: if any man will hear My voice, and will come, open the door, I'll come in, and I'll sup with him, set down at the table, I'll just make all of My mysteries known to him."

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E-34 And she'll rise in the day of the judgment and condemn this generation, for she came from the utmost parts of the world to hear the wisdom of Solomon, a gift. And yet I say unto you, that a greater than Solomon is here.

Let us pray. Precious Lord, we are now standing at a crossroads. We've been brought to a place, to whether it is, we must accept it or discard it. We cannot go out these doors of this place tonight as we were when we come in. We either go out better or worse. Lord, grant that every man and woman in here will go out filled with the Holy Spirit, go back to their home church, and be a real Christian in it. Grant it, Lord.

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E-122 Heavenly Father, how it grieves me sometimes when I look upon people who love me, and see how You take the Word and lay It out there. It just cuts to the marrow of the bone. But then You come right around to vindicate it to be truth. It is Truth. Here stands men and women, even little ladies, little girls standing here with bowed heads, and tears in their eyes, right at the crossroads of life. When I think where they could wind up down there in that twisting, rock and roll, devil-possessed, demon-oppressed group. Here they are, standing here tonight with bowed hearts, wanting something that they can put their hands on, to say, "Lord God, cleanse me from all the things of the world."

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222 Oh, He may permit crossroads. He may permit crossroads to try us, to perfect us for His service. He may permit that now, church, both here and on tape. He may permit the crossroads for our service.

Like He did Daniel. He give Daniel a little crossroads one day. You know, he was a great man down in Babylon. He did. He let the king turn against him and throw him in the lions' den. It only perfected him. Sure did. Let the Hebrew children go into the fiery furnace. They was determined to stand for His Word.

He may permit cross words, let them laugh at you for having long hair, let them laugh at you for saying why you become a holy-roller or whatevermore. It may, they may let you laugh. They may laugh at you for that, that--that's all right. That's a crossroad; that's a little junction. That's to prove something.

See, the only thing that the crossroad did to the Hebrew children that stood on the Word, it only loosed them from the bands they had around their feet and legs.

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227 And sometime it takes hard trials to break the bands of the world off of us. Sometimes God lets us have a little trial, you know, to see what we'll do, to take you out of the world. Or other words, let you have a little trial and knock you out of that organization, and that idea that "the Methodist is the only one, the Baptist, or the Pentecostal, or that's--that's the only group they got. If you don't believe it like my church believe it, you don't believe at all." Sometimes He lets a little trial happen. Maybe you got a sick baby. Maybe something takes place right at the hour of death, maybe someone taken from you, or something. What's it to do? To break you away, to show you something, open your eyes. Maybe you come to criticize, sometime. Maybe you're listening to this tape just to criticize. Maybe God's doing that to break some of the worldly bands that's got you bound down.

Like a drowning man in the river, you have to take the man out of the river 'fore you can get the river out of the man. That's right. You have to get him out of the river first, then you get the river out of him. Sometime God has to do it that way. He permits the junctions, crossroads to do that. Stand on His promises, the Word, for they never fail. The future, that's in His hand. Stand like they did; don't--don't give away.

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229 Abraham, at his crossroads, knew that God could raise up his son from the dead, from whence he received him at the crossroads. Abraham come to his crossroad. And after he trusted God and had seen all the miracles of God. Twenty-five years he'd waited on a boy, a promised son, and then God told him to go sacrifice the very thing that he'd waited for. My, oh, my, what a time. But did Abraham stagger? Read Romans the 4th chapter, said he was fully persuaded. Amen. He was fully persuaded that what God had promised, God was able to do. Amen. He permitted the crossroad. He was showing through Abraham to us (See?), He's able to raise the dead.

Abraham said, "I received him as one from the dead." Sarah's wombs was dead; Sarah's womb was dead; and he, his body was dead, he was an old man. She had no milk veins to feed the baby. And they didn't have... Well, there was nothing. And he was sterile, himself, and she was sterile. See? There's no way at all. And he received him as one from the dead, and he said, "If God can do that, God can raise him up from the dead. For the same God that told me the baby would come, and I stood and it come, He can raise him from the dead." For He makes everything work together for the good to them that love Him. Amen.

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180 And when somebody begins to make fun of you, say, "She's old fashion. Look at him, he's... Oh, I'll tell you; he used to be..." All right, just remember, it's growing pains. That's that persecution's good for you. It's growing pains.

Oh, yes, He permits crosses and crossroads and junctions. He always does that in order to perfect us for His service. He permits those things to happen. Can't you understand that? He does that so He can perfect you for the calling He's called you for. That's your growing pains. He did Daniel that way, you know. He did the Hebrew children in the fiery furnace. What did the fiery furnace do? The fiery furnace only broke the bands that had them bound. That's all the furnace did, just burnt loose the bands.

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185 Like Abraham, when he met his crossroads, he didn't know how he would do it. God told him, "I'm going to give you a son." Twenty-five years he waited for it. Finally the son come, then God said, "Now, by this son, I'm going to make you a father of many nations. Take him up there and kill him." Take him up and kill him, destroy the very thing that he'd waited twenty-five years on. "Take him up and kill him."

Abraham never worried. It never bothered him. He picked up the wood and put it upon a little donkey, and took his son, took him up the top of the hill, to offer him up, because Abraham knew that he had received him as one from the dead. Sarah's womb was dead; he was sterile, so there was no way. And the boy... He was a hundred years old, and she was ninety, so he come by a promised Word. The same God that made the promise, said, "I'll make you a father of nations." After twenty-five years, and being a hundred years old, him and his wife received the child. If God told him to offer him up, God was able to raise him up. Amen.

PATRIARCH ABRAHAM THE BAKF CA 64-0207

42 When a man or a woman is ready to take the test, the acid test...

You see, they had to go in the fire. And then when they did, they was in the fire and the only thing that taken place, this fiery test only unlocked, took the bands off of their hands.

Many times God lets us... When we get all bounded up with the world bound up, He lets the fiery test come upon us where we have to make a decision. And when we do that... The only thing a test can do, when a real seed of Abraham is standing at the--the crossroads of a decision, and he makes his decision to serve God, He can only cut the bands loose and make us free. Satan might give you a disease. He might give you one thing or another. How do you know it's not God's... He's got you on the crossroads to see what kind of a decision you'll make.