Here are a few highlights from today's Jubilee sermon, "Trying To Do God A Service Without It Being His Will." This was preached at the breakfast service in Shreveport, on November 27, 1965.
1 And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.
2 And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the Lord our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:
3 And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we enquired not at it in the days of Saul.
4 And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
5 So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjathjearim.
6 And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjathjearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the Lord, that dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is called on it.
7 And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart.
8 And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
9 And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
10 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.
11 And David was displeased, because the Lord had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perezuzza to this day.
12 And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?
13 So David brought not the ark home to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.
14 And the ark of God remained with the family of Obededom in his house three months. And the Lord blessed the house of Obededom, and all that he had.
1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Because thou has chosen this straight and narrow way, the harder way, you’ve done it at your own choosing. But what a glorious decision you’ve made, because it’s MY WAY. See? And said...and went ahead and said then: This in itself is that which will bring to pass, and make and bring, shall pass, the tremendous victory in the Love Divine.
And I heard a Voice, said, “That’s the King’s Sword!”
But, brethren, these things are done that you might not look at my illiteracy, but believe that I’m telling you the Truth. It’s God telling you the Truth. That’s the Truth.
And He’s wigged with that white Angel wig to show that the Message of Him being God is the Truth. He is the Supreme Judge of the universe, Supreme Judge of Heaven and earth. He is God, and nothing else but God. He is God expressed in human form called the Son of God, which the Son was the mask.
Grace is what God did for me, works is what I do for Him.
“Thank Thee, Father Thou has hid these things from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and reveal It to babes such as would learn.” See, that’s predestination. Not that He did it by, you say, “I’ll choose you, and don’t choose you.” By His foreknowledge, He knowed what you would do.
Well, that’s the way Christ is, Himself, the Gospel, the Message is. When you once see the Message of the hour, there’s nothing else you can see but That. That’s all. Everything else is gone, the rest of it’s just a filler, see, see, when you once see the Message!
Oh, they, each one thinks they got anointing, “Glory to God, he can do this and do that!” But put him on the Word test and find what he comes out at, see, the Message of the hour.
Remember, but, him being king, and got the revelation, he overstepped his place. There was a prophet in the land by the name of Nathan, he was the one that was ordained to get the revelation. There’s anything to be spoke, He said, “The Lord doeth nothing until He reveals it to His servants the prophet.”
But the Elijah of this day is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is to come according to Matthew the seventeen-…Luke 17:30, says the Son of man is to reveal Himself among His people. Not a man, God! But it’ll come through a prophet.
But now is the Bride-calling, now is when the Seven Seals has been opened, now when the complete things that the reformers left has to be opened; and only Malachi 4 can do that, because it takes the revelation straight from God to an individual to do so. That’s right! It can’t come to a group, never did. One man! That’s what God promised in the shadows of the coming for His Bride, an Eliezer.
And my dear brethren, I have this Message this morning, there is a Land beyond the river that they call that sweet forever. There we’ll glorify Him through the ages, and all the ages, and Eternity. Why do we feel that? Because the deep is calling to the deep.
It must be according to the Scripture. It must be in season, secondly. Thirdly, and it must be according to the way that God’s Word spoke it would be.
And any man that builds anything, any organization, or anything outside of upon the Word of God, it’s shaking sands and will fall! It’ll die as sure as anything, because the Word of God is a growing Body of the Bride.
Who is Jesus? The Word! The Word was put out. The husks throwed out the wheat! He said, “I stand at the door and knock, and any man in them shackles out there will hear My Voice.” O God, have mercy!
The blind means for this Laodicean church like it did the ending of the Jewish church, blind to the very Christ that they had on the outside, knocking, trying to get in; “naked, miserable, poor, wretched, blind, and don’t know it.” O God of mercy!
It is possible, a man or woman with all sincerity, trying their best to do God a service, and stirred it in the wrong way. With a genuine anointing of the Holy Spirit upon them, but stirred it contrary to God’s plan for the age, and chaos the whole thing.