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The
New Lump
I said the kingdom is
likened unto leaven, but it is not leaven. Amen! Now we
are getting down to it, we showed you what the kingdom
underwent. He said it is likened unto leaven. What is He
talking about? It works just like leaven does, but it is
not leaven. Brother, it is corruption. While the devil was
doing his work here, while old Jezebel was inserting the
leaven in, and building up this human work, thank God, the
Spirit of God was working down through here too. It was
building together a people, a heavenly society, right here
on earth. He was getting more and more truth to them and
the Spirit of God was bringing their hearts closer and
closer together, and getting them ready for this great
call at 1880 when He said, "Come out of her, my
people." Brother, they were ready to come. God
already had them sick of the thing. They were tired of it.
They were weary of it. I declare unto you, you talk about
God getting a man ready to preach a message; if God really
gets a man ready to preach a message, He gets a people
ready to hear it. God works on both ends. It will not
always be the thousands that will hear you, but if God
definitely lays a message on your heart, there will be an
honest soul there somewhere that will be just longing to
hear that thing. The Word of God said in Isaiah, and we
are jumping a little bit ahead, but I can't hold it back!
What am I going to do? It's just like eating your beans an
bacon, and you see that nice piece of cake and it looks so
good you have to take a bite every once in a while and mix
it in with the beans.
My
friends, I love this evening light message so well that I
cannot hardly stay back here long enough to preach about
these other things, to bring you up there. There was a sad
thing. God's people were sick of it and God's people are
sick of it yet today. They were sick of it and wanted to
get out of it. All they needed, after God stirred them and
got them ready to bring them out of it; all they needed to
do was to get ahold of some men; a nucleus there, D. S.
Warner and some others. Why do you think He had more than
one? God won't let you preach until you are in unity. She
got her nucleus there, of men that had prayed down the
fire from God, and God had given them a revelation of this
evening light, and they could see eye to eye and they went
out together and preached it. Old Isaiah said back there
in the 11th chapter of Isaiah that the Lord would set His
hand again the second time to recover the remnant of His
people. How was He going to do it? He said He would lift
up an ensign for them to come to. An ensign, my friend, is
a flag. I have illustrated it this way before:
When I
went overseas we had radio communications and other
communications, but at that time when they did not have
radio communication, we took the flag over with us, and
all rolled up in a tube. Why? It was our standard that we
were fighting under. Years back, when a battle would take
place over there, hand to hand combat, it would be a
terrible masacre. And when the smoke would clear away --
here would be a wounded soldier, and over here one; and
every one, no doubt, thought they were the only one left.
But what were we instructed? The man that had the flag
would get up on the highest hill around there and hoist
the flag. Brother, when the flag would go up those
soldiers would look and say, "There must be somebody
else alive." The flag hoisted was a direct order to a
soldier to assemble to the flag. Here they would come from
everywhere. Out there laying dispersed they thought they
were the only one left. But, thank God, when they began to
gather in, they found out they had a pretty good sized
army.
Now, God
said in these last days He would set His hand again the
second time to recover the remnant of the outcasts of
Israel. How is He going to do it? Thank God, He is telling
us flag-bearers to find the highest hill you can, Mt.
Zion; get on her and host the flag. Glory be to God! And
God's people are coming back to the flag and thank God,
they are going to be a people gathered together to fight
this last and hottest battle of Armageddon, just as sure
as we are here. Poor old saints. I visit them, I hear from
them; they are laying out there, many of them, sick and
wounded and heartsick over conditions until the devil has
them feeling they are the only one left. Thank God, how it
cheers their soul to tell them that down here are a lot of
people, over there is still a lot, over here is a lot.
Just like it was back here in the 11th chapter of
Revelation. In 1880, the Word of God said there, that when
God called the witnesses out, there were seven thousand
slain right in the beginning of the harvest with the
sickle. What is that a type of?
Go back
to old Elijah, when he thought every one had quit. I'm the
only one left and they are going to kill me. God said NO,
I still have seven thousand who have never set a Jezebel's
table. Brother, right here God still has seven thousand,
an answer to that type, who have never set at old
Jezebel's table and wouldn't put up with Babylonian
captivity.
The
kingdom was like leaven. It too has a principle of silent
growth. I want to repeat, the kingdom has a principle of
silent growth. It is not leaven, but it works somewhat
like leaven. What am I talking about? Brother, the grace
of God gets in 'that' man, that man gets the Holy Spirit;
that man gets it and I get it -- there is a work begins. I
didn't know there was a man by the name of Paul Turnbow in
the country until a year ago. I didn't know there was a
man such as he and he didn't know there was a man such as
me. But, brother, that silent thing working within...it
began to work and open up paths to where we could come
together and set together in Christ Jesus. It will work
silently, but the love of God, and the Spirit of God
working in our hearts will bring us together just as sure
as we keep it. And just like this old leaven here has
leavened the whole thing and made it earthly, this
spiritually, this Spirit of God within us, it will fill us
all in all and make us all one spiritual body.
In the
second chapter of Revelation, we read part of this letter.
Let me comment just a little. The second chapter of
Revelation, verse 18; "And unto the angel of the
church in Thyatira write: these saith the Son of
God." Here we have the church in parable. Remember
back in the second parable, a perilous condition when
there were tares among the wheat. How did God take care of
the situation? He said, "I am going to cast them in a
furnace." He started up a furnace work. We proved by
the Word of God that Isaiah, in the 33rd chapter said His
furnace is in Zion, not in the pits of hell, His furnace
is in Zion.
All
right, here He comes writing to this church. What has
happened here again? Starting out in Lutheranism, my
friend, many truly lived by faith. They were sons of God,
so how did Christ present Himself in the letter? These
things saith the Son of God. Amen! The only letter He
addressed that way. Men were actually becoming sons of God
here, but, what else were they doing? They were turning
around and joining a human work that wouldn't stand the
Word of God or stand the fire. Not only did He say, these
things saith the Son of God, but these things saith He
that hath His eyes as a fire. Someone is going to get
burnt. His feet are as fine brass. What does that show?
There is going to be a furnace work. Somebody said, how do
you know? Rev. 1:15, when John first saw Him, "his
eyes were as a flame of fire; and his feet like unto fine
brass, as if they burned in a furnace. God is going to
start a fire here and anything that will not stand the
fire is going to be consumed, He tells us. You have done
good when you become a Son of God. You are on the right
foundation, the only foundation. No man can lay any other.
That is why old Babylon is built on the bottomless pit,
only one foundation laid and that was Jesus Christ and the
minute He laid it, He put a building on it. You can only
get one building on one foundation, so old Babylon had to
build on the bottomless pit.
Now it is
one thing to get on the right foundation, but let every
man take heed how he build thereon. Why? If any man build
using, gold, silver, precious stones; good! They will
stand the fire. Those are symbols of truths, but if you
get over to wood, hay or stubble, look out! It won't take
it because every man's work is going to be tried by fire.
1 Corinthians the 3rd chapter "Every man's sork shall
be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it
shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every
man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide
which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss:
but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire."
Now, you are going to tell me, that is the end of time
when Jesus comes again. I won't agree with you a second.
When is the day when our works are tried with fire? --
this day of preliminary judgment from 1880 to
approximately 1980. Would you tell me that you are serving
a God that would let you build right on wrong, right up to
the judgement and then try you and let you be lost. I am
not serving that kind of a God. He gives a preliminary
judgment here, called the day of His wrath, when He is
pouring His wrath out on Babylon, when He is shaking
everything that can be shaken and men and women that are
not built right have a chance to lay hold aright and build
right before He comes.
Someone
says, Bro. Wilson, that cannot be it. All right then,
there are only two sides to take. If you say that fire,
that He is trying people's works with, is not the fire of
God's Word in this Gospel, or this day of His wrath here
that began with the 6th seal ministry, then you have to
agree with the Catholics, that there is a purgatory. You
have to take one way or the other. There is no middle
ground. Read it. He is going to be put in the fire, his
works will burn but he will be saved. Well, that is what
the Catholics say. This day of His wrath began here at
1880, and this is the day He is trying men's works. There
is more than one man that I could have 'come and testify,'
that has come out of Babylon, but the fire of God's Word
has burnt up their works. They have come out of Babylon,
and they have been saved, but their works had to burn down
ther. They started working for God once again. Somebody
said, I don't believe that is it. I will give you another
Scripture that will prove it. The 14th chapter of
Revelation, verse 13. After God had a people gathered back
on Mt. Zion, then He said, "Blessed are the dead
which die in the Lord from henceforth." How come
their works do follow? Thank God, any work that you put in
on a solid foundation by truth in Mt. Zion will follow
you, but your works down in Babylon have to burn with
Babylon. That is why it is needful, that you hurry out of
there -- that is Bible.
There is
a reason for hurring people out of there. A ________
minister that took a stand for truth some time ago, and
now another minister ready to take his stand, ( he has
already made his move to get his name off the book and get
out); but one of the saddest things today, that wounds
this brother's heart, is, to think he was a hard worker
there and he lead any number of people to the Lord over
there, and got them joined up, and now he sees the wrong
of the thing, he sees the erroneous doctrine that is going
forth, and when he thinks...he lead them in there and got
them fastened with it, and now he cannot talk to them to
get them out -- it breaks his heart. It will break yours
too, when you see the truth in the right way.
The day
will declare it, my friend. This is the day of God's wrath
we are in, when He is pouring His wrath out on old
Babylon.
Who hath
His eyes like a flame of fire;...know thy works and thy
charity and thy service and faith and patience and thy
works, and the last to be more than the first. Nothing
more, my friends, than their works 'outrun' God's works.
You read on in the closing of the letter. He said, I am
going to judge you by your works, but he that keepeth my
works. We have got man's works raising up against God's
works. Let us read a little farther.
"Notwithstanding, I have a few things against thee,
because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth
herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants
to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto
idols." Friends, here is that picture again of false
religion. First of all, as a prophetess, a woman who calls
herself a prophet. Who is that a type of? This false
religion here, of these churches and what kind of
preachers have they got? Preachers that call themselves.
God never called any man to go out and preach contrary to
the Word of God. That would be foolishness. Brother, let
me tell you something. If God does not call you, and send
you, you will never have the message. Never have. I can
call Bro Turnbow up here and say, Come here, I want to
send you a message back to Bro. Craig, and whisper it into
his ear. Bro. Gunter can say, I am going to go; Bro White
can say, I am going to go. And I will say, God right
ahead, but you will never tell him the message I sent. A
dozen more of you want to go --I say go right ahead, but
you will never take my message. I gave it to this man.
Amen! The God we serve has never got so hard up, that He
is having to choose 'week-kneed,' jelly-fish, worldly
minded, unGodly men to carry His message. He will never do
it.
A woman
who called herself a prophetess, forgetting all about the
divine call, is cranking them out. The divine call is
being all forgotten. Paul said, how can they believe in
whom they have not heard and how can they hear without a
preacher, and how can they preach unless they be sent. I
say that, for the benefit of young people. God bless your
heart -- know that God is leading you. Don't go out and
waste a life. Bro. Runyon made an expression I never
forgot, because it was right at the time when God was
dealing with me. I will never forget it. He made a
statement when he was preaching...and maybe it didn't mean
much to him, but it did to me. He said the best evidence
that a man was called to preach was the fact that he could
preach. I never forgot that. God was dealing with my
heart. Some elderly sisters in the congregation, when my
father was still alive, would ask me, Bro. Wilson, when
are you going to preach? Why I just laughed at them and
said, what makes you think I am going to preach? But I
knew that God was dealing. I kept putting it off and
putting it off.
My father
was in a tent meeting up there 22 miles north, and in that
meeting he got thirty some people out of the ______church,
out into the light. We had a quartet. We traveled and sang
up there working with him. He spoke to me and had asked me
many times before, to 'take the pulpit,' Sunday night,
here at home. I said, No, I am going with you and sing.
But, brother he spoke that time and I said no, I am going
with you and sing, but God turned me over his knee and
took all the joy out of my soul, and I went up to my
bedroom and cried. There is where I settled it. I said,
Lord if this is you I am going to do it, but this if going
to be a test. If this is just humanity, just people
pressing me ( every preacher wants his son to be a
preacher), if this is just dad pressing me, I said, when I
get up there tonight, I want you to make me the worst flop
I have ever been and make me such a mess, that I will
never attempt it again. I meant it. If it is you, you work
just as hard the other way and let me know.
Well,
they told Sunday morning, that Emerson was going to preach
Sunday night and you can just imagine, no one went to the
tent meeting, hardly. They wanted to see what I would do.
I got over there and saw such a crowd, I couldn't go in
the church. I walked up and down in front of the church,
crying to God, what am I going to do? I couldn't go to the
pulpit stand, I was shaking too much, so I stood over to
the song leaders stand an between crying and the thoughts
God gave me, I spoke maybe an hour. Before we could give
an invitation, 19 people came to an altar of prayer. God
spoke to me, just as plain as if you would raise up, and
said, is that enough, or do you want some more? I believe
He would have saved another altar full, if I would have
said that is was not enough. These things are divine. God
does not want us feeling our way around and wondering if
we are in the place God wants. I can thank God that it has
been just as divine all the way along the line. He still
works it out.
My father
died and I was out in the evangelistic work quite a bit,
and the old brethren in the congregation came to me. I
just want to tell you it is a divine work. They said, Bro
Emerson, you will have to take the church. I said, I can't
do it. They said they would be behind me. I said, I know
you will be behind me, but what if I preach something you
don't like. If you fellows leave me I would not have any
foundation and unless God would definitely show me, I will
never take it. I will preach here and work with you until
God shows us and gets someone. The next Sunday Bro.
Mitchell spoke. Our hearts were heavy. Dad had died
suddenly. The next Sunday morning, I had a message. God
told me to open the book to the first chapter of joshua. I
had read it and preached it more than once before that,
but when I looked on it that time, it looked like it was
italicized. "Now after the death of Moses the servant
of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spake unto
Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses minister." Brother, I
can't tell you what happened to me and the church saw it
happening to me and it happened to them too. You can talk
about an installation service, brother, we had one. The
Holy Ghost did the installing. God taught me a little
lesson. He said when your dad lived, he was pastor. You
cannot have two heads at once. That is why you did not
feel any burden. Now he is gone, just stand up and read
this to these people. I stood up and read with tears in my
eyes, when I couldn't read. God said just like I was with
Moses, I will be with you, if you will be careful to walk
in my statutes and ordinances, just like my people did
when Moses was living. These things are divine from
beginning to end. The whole burden of our heart is to get
you back to a divine work. God still knows what He is
doing. God will let us know. We can know when we are in
the order of God.
The
enemy, my friend, the same enemy that worked here, has
sowed something among the saints until they feel that you
have got to use so much wisdom. I still believe in a God,
that when they went to hunt Peter, He told them what the
house number was and which side of the street he lived on,
and told him he would be on the roof when he got there.
It's the same God that told Philip to do down on the road
to Gaza. "Go on down there. Well, that is a desert
place. What do you want me to go down there for? You will
find out when you get there." It wasn't long until
there was a congregation came along that he needed to
preach to. God will still lead us and work things out in a
divine way.
That
woman who calls herself a prophetess. You have allowed her
to teach and seduce my servants to commit fornication and
to eat things sacrificed unto idols. I am hurring, but
that is a picture of protestantism, my friend, may we see
it. I gave her space to repent and she repented not.
Brother, God is a just God. He gave all of these, space to
repent. He gave Roman Catholicism a good space to repent.
When? When He took their own priest (Luther), and had them
turn and preach the Gospel to them, that was their space
to repent as a false system. He gave Protestantism 350
years sitting under this golden Gospel. She had space to
repent, but, brother, Babylon (religious/spiritual
confusion) will never repent. She is 'past her space.'
Coming right on down, God bless your heart, He is giving
us as the professed Church a space to repent. We will get
it in the seventh parable. He is giving us as a people a
space to repent of this luke-warmness. If you pass it up,
the Word of God will teach us on the lesson, in silence in
heaven, that the door of mercy will be closed. I gave her
space to repent of her fornication and she repented not.
Behold, I will cast her into a bed and them that commit
adultery with her into great tribulation, except they
repent of their deeds. I will kill her children with
death. Well, brother, it has happened. You know that thing
is as dead as it can be. How come it is dead? God said, if
you do not repent, I will kill here children with death.
Spiritual death has caused that thing. She is dead and
formal as she can be.
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