“Out of the Will of God”

ANGEL OF THE LORD TOLEDO OH 51-0718

E-59 059 When Israel got out of the will of God, they suffered for it, and we will too. So you be reverent, and remember that now.

All right. I trust that the Christians will understand. How many Christians is in here? Raise your hand. Believers in Christ...

ISRAEL AT KADESH BARNEA JEFF IN 53-0328

183 086 Next in the road after that, come Balaam the hireling prophet come down to stop Israel. Oh, my. We'll get into that tomorrow night, how that that fellow... And a dumb mule had to speak and rebuke him. A preacher out of the will of God, and his mind on money, go down there, and a mule had to rebuke him down there, a dumb mule. If God can speak through a dumb mule, surely He could through a man. Yes, sir.

EARNESTY CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH CONNERSVILLE IN 53-0614A

E-42 042 Here was the mule. Seeing the Angel of the Lord, he shunned off to one side. He knowed he was out of the will of God. Then notice what taken place then. Then he gets down there and he looked out.

Now, Balaam, or Balak, rather, the king of Moab, he wasn't a infidel. He was a believer. Sure he was. And Balaam wasn't a infidel. Balaam, the prophet, he was a believer. But a two... Here's two sets of believers, them same spirit, like Cain and Abel, they'd come right down again.

Now notice, here was a man, the king of Moab said, "Come down and curse this people," believers cursing the believers. Now, Balak come down, got up on the hill, and Balaam showed him the most--uttermost parts.

AFRICA TRIP REPORT OWENSBORO KY 53-1109

E-2 002 Now, could you imagine on a stormy sea, and all hopes, and knowing they were out of the will of God, 'cause God had warned Paul not to loosed from Crete, but he couldn't help it. But they went ahead. The ship master, he knowed more about it then what the Holy Spirit did, you know. So he just loosed and went ahead anyhow. And they got out on the ship there in the sea, and there come up a great storm, and for several days and nights there was no moon, no stars, fourteen days and nights. And all hopes that they'd ever be saved was all give up and gone. They was bound to be drowned. They throwed out the tackle of the ship and everything, and still just let it drive, and it was just going anyway. And Paul went down into the gallery and prayed. And there was an Angel that stood by Paul, and said--told him the message.

AFRICA TRIP REPORT OWENSBORO KY 53-1109

E-32 032 I say this with reverence brother, if you want to get in trouble, just mess with a preacher. You sure get in trouble. So that's right. Now, they're God's servants. They have to be a little suspicious and things. But, brother, I've had more trouble of preachers getting me out of the will of God then anything I've ever seen in my life." Yes, sir! 'Cause one will say, "The Lord..." See, the man's right. If the Lord told him to do that, let him go do it. He may tell me something else. And no matter whatever tells you, if he's a prophet, if he's a preacher, whatever he may be, if God's told you something contrary, don't you pay no attention to that prophet, preacher, priest, or whatever it is; you listen to God. Always listen to God.

AFRICA TRIP REPORT OWENSBORO KY 53-1109

E-51 051 I said, "Of course, Brother Bosworth, that's the exceedingly, abundantly (You see?), that we..." I said, "We're out of the will of God."

Brother Bosworth said, "I just can't stand that preacher acting like that." And downtown he went on his own hook, went out there, and rented a great big stadium that seated them every one real nice, had the meeting. Went on down through Capetown, on the road coming back, coming out of Capetown, here the story starts. I got sick, started getting sicker. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] By the time I got to Durban about two weeks later, I was really sick. I couldn't even hold my head up.

And I got to Durban, and their meeting there consisted of a nearly a hundred thousand people, where thirty thousand converts in one day's time. And they said, "We promised Brother So-and-so." Two thousand miles farther up in Rhodesia I should go, after about two or three days meeting in Durban: walk off and leave a hundred thousand natives that had toiled for as many as a hundreds of miles, and packing their loved ones on reeds through the jungles to be healed. That's the exceedingly, abundantly.

LOOKING FOR JESUS PHOENIX AZ 54-0228E

E-13 013 I was in the room and a praying for anointing. And as the meeting goes on, you'll notice that the Anointing will get greater and greater as you begin to build faith. Because it'll take all the superstitions and things away from you. And then, you begin to see that what God says is the truth. And there your faith will just keep moving higher and higher. 'Course, it weakens and weakens all the time.

Now... And I would by no means, Christian friends... I would rather be up in Jeffersonville, Indiana, shoveling the snow off of my doorstep tonight, than to be down here in this lovely country where you live, in "The Valley of the Sun." Rather be up there in the will of God, than to be down here, out of the will of God.

And I would, rather, never enter a door of a meeting again, than to have God to say at that day, "Why, you deceiver." I want, if anything, to be truthful. I want to be honest. And there's many things that'll go on perhaps, in these meetings, that may seem very phenomenal and may cause you to arouse your superstitions. But don't let it bother you. Just settle down, say, "I'll just watch it and see what it is." That's the way to do. Give it a... Give God a fair chance at you, now, to let Him... See what He can do.

GOD HAS A PROVIDED WAY LVL KY 54-0404

86 041 And Israel, when they were down in Egypt, they were in bondage and in trouble, and they begin to cry to God for deliverance. Notice, the way God will provide is when we're in God's Word. Israel had God's Word that they were going out of there someday. So they went to crying to God, according to the will of God, for God to provide what He had promised to do.

There you are. You're praying for something that's out of the will of God, you can't have faith for it. But when God promises anything, I believe that He will keep His Word. So they knew.

That's the reason Abraham knew that God was going to deliver him somehow, because He had promised that through Isaac, all the nations in the world would be blessed.

The children of Israel down in Egypt, they knew God had promised them deliverance, so they went to praying for the promise.

DEEP CALLETH TO DEEP WASHINGTON DC 54-0624

E-48 048 That's the same thing we have to do here. If an evil spirit... If there's unconfessed sin or something, or some out of the will of God, you could anoint them all night long, and cry, and scream and do all you wish to, that demon will stay right there. That's right. He has a right to. Well, that's what you have to watch. God has put a curse on somebody for something, then you come along and take it off, you get in trouble like Moses did. That's right.

He's here, the Holy Spirit. Now, in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, I take every person in here under my control for God's glory.

WHAT IS THAT IN THINE HAND MACON GA 55-0611

E-23 023 We find out then, that he fled into the land of Midian. And there he married a Ethiopian girl by the name of Zipporah. Moses in the beginning had a real high temper. We know that. God had to take it out of him. So then we... He married this girl and he become a servant to his father-in-law, herding the sheep back out the back side of the desert.

One day, I can just imagine, seeing this old man now of eighty years old. He had two children born to him up there and... Here he comes down now herding the sheep, just a sheepherder, a man out--got out of the will of God, and murdered a man, and back over there now as a sheepherder.

But if God has foreordained anything, it's just as sure to come to pass as God is in heaven. So it's going to be anyhow. There's nothing in the world can stop Jesus Christ from coming the second time. God has ordained it to be so. There's not a way in the world that you'd ever stop the message of Divine healing. You could fight it as much as you want to, but God's ordained that it should go forth, and it's going forth. That's right. No matter, somebody... God's able to these stones to rise children unto Abraham. So the best thing to do is join up with God's program and march on with the church, is the best thing I know to do.

JEHOVAH JIREH SIOUX FALLS SD 56-0224

E-48 048 So They went on to Sodom. And Sodom was wiped out. And then I want you to notice a beautiful thing here, that gives us, oh, a little on our talk just now, and a lot of encouragement for us all, if we got a few more minutes before we get to the point, the place.

Look here. Did you notice that Abraham kinda got out of the will of God after that? And he went down to Gerar, which was down in the Philistine country, because there was a famine in the land. And when he got down there, I want to show you what God did. Now, you might not agree with this. I preached on this about six years ago, one time at a place; a fellow wrote a book on it.

DIVINE LOVE AND SOVEREIGN GRACE PRINCE ALBERT SK 56-0814

E-22 022 Now, Israel, in our text tonight, had come into a spot where God, by His grace through His Word, had promised father Abraham that his seed would sojourn in a strange land and among a strange people for four hundred years. They would be aliens, but God grant at the end of four hundred years He'd bring them out. When the time of the promise drew nigh, as it pictures our text tonight, there came a time that God's promise was nigh at hand. And God will always keep His promise. No matter how ridiculous it seems, God keeps His promise. Do you believe that? Always keeps His promise. And sometimes it's the most ridiculous way He does it.

Now, Moses had failed with all of His military training to deliver people. He was trained up under Pharaoh, under his mother's Bible teaching, that he was to be a deliverer. He was trained up to take Pharaoh's place, to be the great military leader of the powerful nation; he had all over the world beat down. And one day he thought, "It's time for me to go. I got my B.A. and my D.D., so I'll just walk out and take things over." And he slew an Egyptian and found out that he was out of the will of God, and was a stranger in the land for forty years.

THEN JESUS CAME JEFF IN 57-0407E

E-10 010 Oh, how that I could stop here for a moment. How that many times with good intentions, people try to call people out of the will of God. A man should know his absolute calling. You should know what you're doing. And with not just a haphazard way, or let money pull you from one place to another or popularity do it. No matter how popular you are or how rich you are, you should always first seek God to know His plan and His will.

Now, when Lazarus was sick, it seemed strange that He would not go back. But Jesus said, "I'm glad I wasn't there." 'Cause they'd been persuading Him, saying, "Now, why don't You come on over here? Won't You do this." And "Why don't You raise him up? You raised others."

THEN.JESUS.CAME.title JEFF.IN 57-0407E

E-11 011 But Jesus knew better. Jesus knew what the Father's will was. And, oh, what a blessed privilege it is that we can know the Father's will. If we will seek God, God will make known His will. I'd rather know that I was in the will of God if I never spoke to another person, then to preach to ten thousand people every night out of the will of God; I'd rather know the will of God.

I believe that it was David that said, "I'd rather be a doormat at the (or something), at the house of My Lord, than to dwell in tents with wickedness." What a privilege to find our place and there abide. No matter how the devil shakes, what he says, or how he scoffs, stay right straight in the will of God.

BELIEVE FROM THE HEART JEFF IN 57-0623

E-39 039 If the Church would only stand still long enough... God will do a little something, and they'll get all excited and run around doing it (See?), get out of the will of God. Be still.

One time He was going to show His power in the Red Sea. He said, "Red Sea, you just stand still." And He marched His children right through it.

What if they'd turned around and said, "Let's do it again, Lord." It wouldn't have happened. Certainly not.

HEBREWS.CHAPTER.7.PT.1.title JEFF.IN HEB 57-0915E

297-53 030 Now, we notice Abraham; I want you to notice this real spirit. Oh, the whole blessed thing here is grace. I want you to read with me now from the 14th chapter of Exodus, just a moment.

Now, the first thing taken place when they got down there, Lot got in trouble. Why? He was out of the will of God. And if you're get in trouble when you're in the will of God, God will help you out. But if you're in trouble out of the will of God, there's only one thing to do: get back in the will of God again.

BE CERTAIN OF GOD LA CA 59-0412A

E-10 010 Now, Brother David was reading out of the book of Kings, of Elijah the great prophet. And it must have been a terrible morning, dry and hot. There hadn't had no rain for three years and six months. It was so dry and hot till the world was ready to blaze into fire. The people were starving in the streets and there was a cry everywhere. All this had been brought on because of the moral decay of the nation. Israel was loved of God. But when they got out of the will of God, the enemy taken them over.

God loves His church. But when we get out of the will of God, the enemy takes the church over. And Ahab, who was king of Israel at that time, and to my thinking, the most wicked king Israel ever had, because he married an idolater, Jezebel. She was a sinner and a ungodly person. And instead of being a man of his own house, he gave in to her. And through that they had caused the nation to come to moral decay. They'd went after--brought the nation into idolatry, because that they'd went after her idols.

ADOPTION OR PLACING JEFF IN 60-0522E

152 077 Looky here. Old Saul, the old backslider, he could not get through to God, yet he wasn't lost. He certainly wasn't. He was a prophet, but he just got outside of God. That's the reason, brethren, I said, "You're not lost." So then you remember, he just got out of the will of God; so then the first thing you know, he--he wouldn't agree. Now, maybe I shouldn't have said that. All right, I'm just going on 'fore a happy congregation tonight. So then, you know, and the first thing you know, oh, my, then he went to the--the Urim Thummim.

You know what the Urim Thummim was, it was the breastplate, the ephod that--that Aaron wore. And it was always, God always has been a supernatural God answering in supernatural ways. And when a prophet prophesied, and them mystic lights didn't come across that Urim Thummim, he was wrong. When a dreamer told a dream, and it didn't flash on that Urim Thummim, I don't care how good it sounded; it was wrong. That's right.

QUEEN OF SHEBA KLAMATH FALLS OR 60-0710

E-41 041 And Jesus had surely proved to them that He'd give them the sign of the Messiah, that the end time was there for them; and they did not believe it. And He was upbraiding them and telling them. And He referred back then, back in the verse preceding this one, in the 41st verse; He preferred there--referred (rather) to Jonah: "In the days of Jonah..."

I always felt sorry for Jonah; so many people condemn Jonah. Why, Jonah was a prophet; he was a great man of God. You hear them say, "Well, he's a Jonah." I believe that Jonah did just exactly what God told him to do.

I don't believe that any servant of God, led of the Spirit, can get out of the will of God. Because as long as he's led by the Spirit, that's God's will. Sometimes he does things that he don't even what he's doing hisself and don't realize why he does do it, but it's God working it around for the good. "Everything works together for good to them that love God." said the Scripture.

QUEEN OF SHEBA BEAUMONT TX 61-0119E

E-29 029 So then, we find out that the days of Jonah... Now, a lot of people make fun of Jonah, saying, "He was a Jonah." Why, Jonah was no bad fellow. Jonah was a prophet, and he couldn't have got out of the will of God like that. It was all by the will of God. He never took the wrong ship. He took the right ship.

Did you ever read the history of Jonah? It's wonderful. You know, I always felt sorry for him down in the belly of that whale. He had his hands tied, and his feet tied, and in the stormy sea, and throwed out, and the whale swallowed him. And when the whale... A fish feeds; then, when it gets through feeding, it goes down to the bottom and rests itself on the bottom. Feed your little goldfish and watch them. They'll go down, put their little swimmers on the bottom, after they get the belly full, and--and rest awhile.

QUEEN OF SHEBA BEAUMONT TX 61-0119E

E-34 034 Now, notice. Now, we always thought Jonah got out of the will of God. He did not. Nineveh was a big city, full of sin, backslidden. Just about like, almost the size of St. Louis, great city. Many thousands of people there that went off in sin, begin to worship idols. And now, their main idol, their main god of the sea... Their occupation was fishing, and the main god of the sea was the whale.

And when this whale come right in amongst the fishermen, licked out his tongue for a gangplank, and the prophet walked right out of the whale's mouth, sure, they're going to believe it. God delivered His prophet right out to them. God knows how to do things. Might sound silly, but that's what He did.

WHY PHOENIX AZ 61-0128

E-19 019 Now, we see that the world has invited you, and you come to their banquet, just like Jehoshaphat did to Ahab. And we find out, while they were in this conference that Ahab finally showed himself, what he wanted with the king of... to come down, and he wanted to go up and take a piece of land. He wasn't able to do it himself, and he had to have the king's help.

But you know, when a man gets out of the will of God, or a church gets out of the will of God, or a nation gets out of the will of God, or an individual gets out of the will of God, God's got somebody that's going to tell you about it, somewhere. If your pastor won't, in the pulpit, there's a Businessmen's meeting, or a choir singing, or some way God's going to have of telling you the Truth, and get you straightened out. That's... He always has.

EXPECTATION TUCSON AZ 61-0205M

E-26 026 He--he--he slew the Egyptians. He went out there one time and slew one out of the will of God, and it was a stain on his hands; come down the next time and slew the whole nation, it was a glory on his hands. Because one time Moses was doing it, and the next time God did it. That makes the difference. He was expecting God to deliver them, because "I've heard their cries; I've seen their affliction and I (personal pronoun) have come down to deliver them, and I'm sending you, Moses, in My place." That did it.

He's seen your suffering. He's seen the doctor say, "I can't do no more about it." He's come down in the form of the Holy Spirit to take over, if you'll just let Him do it. Be expecting Him to do it, know that He promised to do it, hold on to His Word. He said He would do it, therefore be expecting it.

GREATER THAN SOLOMON IS HERE BLOOMINGTON IL 61-0412

E-64 064 There's one man here that I'd like to talk about just a minute, and that's that fellow, Jonah. So many people turn Jonah down, say, "Oh, he's a Jonah." But Jonah never got out of the will of God. How can a prophet get out of the will of God? He was God's prophet, how could he? I was reading a book here not long ago, on something of it. It might've been fiction, it might've been true. But Jonah took... God told him to go to Tarshish. Elijah told Elisha to tarry back at Gilead too. But he went on. See?

GREATER THAN SOLOMON IS HERE GRAND PRAIRIE AL 61-0515

E-61 061 Then we find that he referred to Jonah. He said, "As it was in the days of Jonah... A evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign. There'll be one given them. As it was in the days of Jonas..." Now, Jonah, we know, we think, that God sent him over to Nineveh, but he got on the road and went to Tarshish. We think the prophet backslid. He didn't backslide.

I was reading something on him here not long ago. And it sounded very good to me, and here's the way it went. Jonah got on the boat, and he went down... And people thought that he was out of the will of God, but he was in the will of God. We know a storm came up, and they tied his hands behind him, and his feet, and throwed him out into the water. And God had a big whale to come up, or a big fish, and swallow him.

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BEHOLD A GREATER THAN SOLOMON IS HERE COLUMBIA SC 62-0612

E-35 035 Now, Jesus was speaking here of some of the people in the days that God had showed signs. One He spoke of was Jonah, and Jonah was sent down to Nineveh. And I always felt sorry for Jonah, because many people, I think, misunderstood Jonah. Now, they said Jonah was backslidden, and he was this, that, and the other, and I've said the same. But let's just study Jonah for a minute.

I don't believe that he was backslid, because he was God's prophet. And he seemed to be walking out of the will of God, but the little story I want to tell you in a moment, I believe you'll see that God made it all work out just right.

You know the footsteps of the righteous are ordered of the Lord. That gives us ministers a time--a chance sometimes to kind of catch our breath when we think we made a wrong move. But sometimes God's just moving with us. We think it's wrong, but maybe it's God moving.

BEHOLD A GREATER THAN SOLOMON IS HERE COLUMBIA SC 62-0612

E-48 048 So all of them out there fishing in the sea, and all at once, up raised their god, run right up to the bank, and licked out his tongue, and the prophet come walking right out of the mouth of their god. How could they keep from believing. See? Sure. No wonder they put sackcloth on their animals, for the--the sea god had spit the prophet right out, and he told them to repent. Now, you see, Jonah wasn't out of the will of God; he was right in the will of God.

And Jesus said that a wicked and adulternous generation will seek after a sign. Did you notice that? And they will receive it. He promised that they would receive their sign. He said, "As Jonas was in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights, so will the Son of man be in the heart of the earth."

TRUMPET GIVES AN UNCERTAIN SOUND PHOENIX AZ 63-0114

E-61 061 Let's just take one old character for a moment. Let's take the prophet Job. Now, that man went through a test, but he knowed that God required a burnt offering. That's what God required, and that's all He required. And no matter how much disaster happened to his home... God don't always... When you see something going wrong for a fellow, that don't mean that he's being whipped by God. It might not be that he's out of the will of God. He knows in his heart whether he's listening to the trumpet or not. God required this burnt offering, and Job stood right on it. That's all.

They said, "Job, you're a secret sinner. You're doing something that's wrong."

But he knowed better. He stayed right there, because he had heard the sound of the trumpet, and he stayed right there with it.

SIXTH SEAL THE JEFF IN 63-0323

423-6 {223} 080 And these Jews coming back to the homeland, they were... First thing, when they went down in Iran and down in there to get them, they asked--they said... He... The--they wanted to take them back to Israel, give them their--take them back to their land, Palestine, where they was supposed to be. And remember, as long as Israel is out of that land, she's out of the will of God. Like Abraham, who it was give to. And when... They wouldn't get on that plane. They didn't never seen anything like that. There was an old rabbi stepped down there and said, "Our Prophet told us that when Israel went home, it'd be on the wings of an eagle." On the plane away home...

There she is now, building, the fig tree restoring. Amen. The old six point Star of David flying.

The Gentile days numbered,

With horrors encumbered...

WORLD'S FALLING APART ALBQ NM 63-0412M

E-97 097 When a woman gets from behind the table in the kitchen, and the house taken care of her own little ministry God give her, her babies, she's out of the will of God.

Put her in a pulpit, she's out of the will of God. There's no Scripture for a woman preacher. I want some man to stand and tell me that, look me in the face. There's no such a thing. That... Pentecost is the grassroots of that stuff. Never was. Adam was first formed and then Eve. Adam was not deceived. But yet you do it, and you see where you got yourself? Way out here on a limb that you can't come back on now. But there you go. That's it. That's the world. That's what you want. That's what you want; that's what you got. See?

SIGN OF THIS TIME NY NY 63-1113

95 042 Notice, He referred to Jonah. "As it was in the days of Jonas," meaning Jonah, "so shall it be in the Son, coming of the Son of man."

Now, many people condemn Jonah. I do not condemn Jonah. You know, they say, "Well, he's a Jonah." You've heard that expression. But you mustn't do that, Christians. You shouldn't condemn God's servants. Jonah was a prophet. He was not out of the will of God. He did just exactly. He must do that for a sign. Everything happens, not by just happening; it happens for a sign.

DOES GOD CHANGE HIS MIND JEFF IN 65-0418E

141 071 Now, Balaam should've knowed better. He should've dismissed himself from such company, but all them nice gifts and a--a--the promise that this king said, "You know, I can do it; I'm the bishop. I can do just whatever I want to, and I'll promote you if you'll come do it for me."

And God done told him, "Don't do it," but yet Balaam said, "You--you stay all night, and I'll--I'll try again." See? He had the Word. You don't have to argue anymore about it; God's done said so. With a group like that, they always talk you out of the will of God if you'll let them.

DOES GOD CHANGE HIS MIND LA CA 65-0427

100 030 Notice, God... He knew he shouldn't have been in this group, or Balaam should've know it. They--they get out of the will of God. Them fellows will talk you right out of the will of God. When you find the will of God, don't let nobody talk you out of it.

I've knowed of good people, come to the meetings, get healed, and go back. And they'd say, "Oh, well, there's nothing to that. You're just worked up. There's nothing to it." And the people go to doubting. I've seen people come and receive Christ in their heart, go back; maybe speak in tongues, and go back. And the church would say, "Why, you're a--you're a disgrace to Christianity," and so forth. And, oh, my, don't--don't do that. See? Get out of that group. Stay away from it...?...

TRYING TO DO GOD A SERVICE JEFF IN 65-0718M

175 086 Look when they brought--and they built the temple and brought the ark into it, God went in there with a Pillar of Fire. Amen. It was David jumping and screaming. It was all the singers and the priests a-carrying on when they was out of the will of God. But when God identified the ark in His place and position, before they could get the ark in there, here come the Pillar of Fire leading the way, right down over the cherubims wings and right in behind the holiest of holies, His resting place, the Pillar of Fire. And the glory of God was in there till the see--they couldn't see how to minister. Amen. It'll close the eyes of every theologian when He comes for His Bride. She'll be taken up in the--in the middle of the night, as it was, to them. They won't even see Her go. Oh, praise be to God.

TRYING TO DO GOD A SERVICE SHP LA 65-1127B

163 073 So you see, David, being inspired... Now, you remember I said the anointing, the false anointing? Remember the Holy Spirit can come and anoint a person, and still it's out of the will of God. Here proves it right here. See? We have to go through God's way of doing it, not our ways, God's way of doing it. 'Cause, David being a king, anointed, anointed with the Spirit of God upon him (a type of Jesus Christ), but that wasn't God's channel.

And all the congregation, it pleased them, the Bible said. Notice, captains of thousands and of hundreds, also the priests and theologians thought that was wonderful. There is your Bible schools and everything else; they thought it was wonderful. Even all of the people agreed, and the priests, and--and all of them agreed that the king's anointing was right. Notice. But God had not promised to reveal His Word in Its season to them. God had His way of revealing His Word, but not to them. Remember, it was contrary to God.