The People of the Presence - Part 4

The People of the Presence Part 4 By Pastor Shane Vaughn, First Harvest Ministries This is the Sabbath Day; the day we stop what we’re doing. I’m still looking for a reset button and when you walk in the hallway you can reset it. Amen? Exodus 14:13 And Mosheh said to the people: Do not fear, stand still and see the salvation of Yahweh, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom y0u see today, you shall see them again no more forever. Amen. At that moment they were afraid of Egyptians. Do you know why? When they looked behind their shoulder that was all they could see. There were thousands upon thousands of Egyptians on the way to get them. Folks, they had zero options. Their backs were not against the wall. Their backs were against the water. They had zero options. If they turn around they go back into slavery. If they go back, they die. There was nowhere to go. Their angel stood up. His name was Moses. The angels of the Lord will always bring you the message that they brought to everyone: Fear Not. What did the angel tell Mary? Fear not. Anytime the angels come, fear leaves. If you have angels around you, you cannot be in fear. Brother Shane, it doesn’t matter how bad it gets, how rough it looks. According to Yahweh’s Word, you are a Sabbath keeper. You are a commandment keeper. You have a claim to the angels of Yahweh. And so when I see somebody in fear, all they need is an angel. That’s all they need. Fear Not, for the Egyptians that you see today, you will see them forever no more. I want you to notice the next verse; verse fourteen. 14 Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace. Ladies and gentlemen, I’m going to teach you a pivotal lesson before I let you sit down. Yahweh is going to fight for you. You need to learn something. If the angels don’t show up, Yahweh doesn’t show up. Yahweh will fight for you but we have to learn that it was not Yahweh that fought for them, and yet it was. If you’ll learn that lesson, then you’ll start entertaining more angels and you will start 1 producing a lifestyle that attracts angels. Do you know why the angels were so attracted to Daniel? He prayed three times a day. Angels are attracted to praying people, humble people, people with no pride, people who are helpless. The only time you need an angel is if you need help. If you don’t need help, you don’t need an angel. You’ve got to become helpless. Amen. And so, as we read this, I want you to pay attention to verse fifteen. 15 Then Yahweh said to Mosheh: Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israyl to go forward. I love what He said: Why are you wasting your time talking to Me? Talk to them. Tell them: Go; jump in the water. Go! You don’t have to ask Yahweh what to do. He’s told you what to do. Just do what He said to do. Amen. Verse sixteen. This is where it gets real interesting. I just read where Yahweh is going to fight for you, but now He says: 16 But lift up your staff and stretch out your hand or the sea, to divide it; and the children of Israyl shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea. Lift up YOUR staff and stretch out YOUR hand. I thought that God was. I will, if you’ll let Me use you; if you’ll give Me your hand. If you give Me your rod, I’ll use what you have and fight your battles! I hear people say all the time: that God parted the sea for them. No He didn’t—Moses did—and yet He did. Are you following me? Because what you saw as just a preacher and just a stick and just an old feeble arm when it became yielded to God, it was no longer a stick. It was no longer an arm. It was no longer a preacher. It was Yahweh Himself! That’s what happens in your life when you stretch your hand out over the sea. When you know who you are in Yahweh, the enemy fears you because you are no longer Rick Connally with a past. You yielded yourself and you became Yahweh’s instrument! In that whole chapter, I don’t see anywhere where Yahweh fought a 2 battle. I don’t see where Yahweh opened the Red Sea, but He did. He did. HalleluYah. Verse seventeen. 17 And I indeed will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will follow them. And I will gain honor over Pharaoh and over all his army, his chariots, and his horsemen. Moses couldn’t get them to go forward, so I’ll help them out. I’ll make the Egyptians chase them into the water. I’ll harden Pharaoh’s heart and if you can’t get them to move preacher, I will. I will harden their hearts to start fighting them, and drive them back to church. If I can’t get you to pray and live for Yahweh, I promise you that He will stir up your enemies to drive you where you’re supposed to go. That’s why I tell people that I have no enemies. I have no enemies. Why? Because even if you are my enemy, it is Yahweh who has to raise you up and harden your heart against me, and it’s you who will drive me closer into the arms of my angels; into the protection of the People of Yahweh. You’ve got to quit rebuking your enemies. That’s an angel driving them to chase you. The moment they start chasing, we’ll find out if you will jump in the water or not. If you won’t jump in that water after they start chasing you, your next step is they’ll kill you. You better jump in the water. HalleluYah. Let’s read. 18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have gained honor for Myself over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen. 19 Then the malak of Yahweh The ANGEL, not Yahweh. who had been traveling in front of Israyl’s army, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from in front of them, and stood behind them. There were two angels there that day. One, Moses, was in the back and then there was one from heaven in the front. All of a sudden, the one in the front removed 3 himself and went in the back, and then the pillar of the cloud went from before their face and stood behind them. 20 Coming between the armies of Egypt and the camp of Israyl. Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness to one side and light to the other side; so neither went near the other all night long. So brothers and sisters, here is your proof. When you see the Glory Cloud, you are seeing the angel of Yahweh. You didn’t catch that. The angel, as soon as he went to the back, turned into a cloud. HalleluYah. So when you say you can feel the wind, no, you are feeling the fluttering. When you say you see the cloud, no, that’s the angels of the Lord. I feel the fire. They are pillars of fire. HalleluYah. I’m trying to convince you that you need angels in your life! You need to become a people who the angels are heavenly attracted to; they have a thing for you. HalleluYah. You need angelic company. 21 And Mosheh stretched out his hand over the sea; and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, made the sea into dry ground, and the waters were divided. Look at that beautiful combination of Moses stretching out his hand over the sea and Yahweh responding. Moses went first. Yahweh never moves until you move. You see how Moses stretched his hand out and Yahweh caused the sea to go back? It was the same way when I picked up my phone in Ohio. I stretched out my hand when I took that phone, and Yahweh caused the sea to open. HalleluYah, but it never would have opened if I hadn’t stretched forth my hand. You’ve got to learn the value of cooperating with Yahweh. You’ve got to learn the value of becoming a business partner with Him. You’ve got to become a partner in the things of Yahweh. When Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind, that was that angel who was making that cloud. Now turn with me to Hebrews, chapter thirteen. Folks, you need angels in your life. And angels are not attracted to bad talk. They’re not attracted to indecency. They are not attracted to pride. You’ve 4 got to find out what the angels like. Once you figure that out, you’ll always be surrounded by them. HalleluYah. One night my wife and I were traveling, I believe to Maryland, about three or four years ago. We were traveling late at night in a blizzard in a Jaguar. I should not have been driving in a blizzard. How many people were killed that night, baby? Nineteen or twenty people were killed that night in that blizzard, and we would have been two more. For you, I can’t make it as real as I remember it, but I was there and I was driving. We were the only ones on that road that night, on the Interstate. You could tell we were from the South. When you tell us a blizzard is coming we think a little snow. No, it was something. We knew we had Mama and Daddy at home praying for us. Anytime we travel, they pray for us. So we are riding along and I looked in my left mirror and saw an eighteen wheeler behind me; the only vehicle I had seen in a long time, and then immediately I hit black ice. My vehicle turned. I felt it when it turned, and I was looking at the eighteen wheeler. It was a flash in a second. I remember the truck lights in my eyes. We were spinning and I thought we were dead. When I looked at my wife I was thinking I was going to get my last glimpse of her before we were gone. She is over there refusing to die, calling, “Yahweh, Yahweh, Yahweh!” She said His Name three times. I will never forget when that car turned and the Lord took control of it and landed us so perfectly. Well, I tell you we are sitting there, and I thought we had died and gone to heaven because I was in such shock. We were sitting perfectly still and that truck wall was literally outside of my wife’s window. I couldn’t parallel park that good; it was so perfect. I knew right then that we had had an angelic visitation from Yahweh. Somebody was praying for us and that angel spared our life that night. That was the night that Satan was going to kill me. I know that because this work was about to come forth. So that night, the angels of Yahweh protected my wife and I. I can tell you so many stories like this about angelic protection. You attract what you focus on. So what we need to know is what the job of these angels are. Let’s read about it in Hebrews chapter thirteen, verses one and two. 5 Hebrews 13:1-2 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Do not forget to entertain strangers; for by doing so, some have entertained malakim without knowing it. Angels are all around you. They camp around those who fear the Lord. So whenever you recognize they are around you, you will have no fear in your life. Honestly, they are there to do the work of Yahweh. Now let’s read Hebrews 1:13-14. Let’s find out what these angels around us are doing. Hebrews 1:13-14 But to which of the malakim has He ever said: Sit at My right hand, until I make Your enemies Your footstool? 14 Are the malakim not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those who will be heirs of salvation? They know who you are. They know that you are the future government. They know that you’re the Bride. They hear Yahweh. They know they have been sent to serve you. Not every Christian has these angels around them. The Bible says that the angels can’t be around those who don’t fear Him. Not all Christians fear God. Those who will become an heir.Yahweh already knows who will make it and who will not. Now we’re getting somewhere. How do they know you are an heir of salvation? Because what you look like right now doesn’t matter. The Father knows you are going to overcome, so He has already assigned them to the heirs of salvation already. He didn’t say He assigned angels to those who got saved, but to those who are going to endure until the end. Those who are going to rule over the angels are going to now be served by the angels. You need to understand why it is so important to fear Yahweh, why it is important to do what we did tonight–to get on our faces and walk softly around Yahweh. Why? You’re walking where angels have trod. These angels are there to bring Yahweh’s purposes to pass in your life. Now, a lot of people ask me if we believe in predestination. Let me explain. Words are so important. I do believe in predestination. I just don’t believe in Calvinism. There is a big difference. John Calvin believes you are born to go to heaven, born to go to hell, and there is nothing you can ever do to change that. That is predestination but it is Calvinism. I call that messed up predestination. It would blow your mind to know that eighty percent of Christians are Calvinists. All 6 Baptists are Calvinists. All Presbyterians are Calvinists. So all these churches believe that. So what do we believe? We do believe that Yahweh foreknew the heirs of salvation. The Bible says that those He did foreknow, He did predestinate to be the heirs of salvation. So here is what we believe. We believe that Yahweh knows all your choices. He sees your end from your beginning, and those who are going to come up in the First Resurrection, He knows who those people are, not who is going to hell or who is going to heaven, but those who are going to ENDURE to the END. The Father knows that. So He has already assigned the help you will need to do what He knows you want to do: endure to the end. Do you know why Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego had the angels around them? The Father saw that they were going to face a choice, and that they were going to make the right choice, but they would need a little help to make it. HalleluYah! He knew it was in their heart to stand up for Him, and He knew that they would be thrown in the fire. I believe with all my heart that those boys walked in such fear of God and had read Psalms which said the angels will take you up in their arms, and I believe that day, their angels were with them. That is why they were not afraid of the fire. What you attract is the way you live your life. No Fear! I have No Fear! Why? Because I know my life. If you don’t know your life, you may have some fear. The reason I don’t fear any enemy, and the enemies trying to destroy this church, is because I have seen the angels around this church. There is nothing to fear because I know my life. When you know your life, you know there is a great host of angels surrounding you to help you to make it to the end. They are there to minister to you, to serve you. Like when Yahshua was in the wilderness for forty days and forty nights, Lucifer knew that the angels were there. He said, “Look, just say the word and a legion of angels will come and feed you.” Lucifer knows why these angels are there. Here is the problem we have in the Christian Church. When I look at all these deliverance demon worshiping services that are happening around the world—and when you give the Devil attention, you are worshiping him—those people will readily tell you that demons are working everywhere. I don’t doubt 7 that. I know demons are working everywhere. But here’s my problem: They give so much credit to angels of the darkside; that they are always working, they are busy 24/7 destroying the world, but they don’t believe in your angels. They don’t believe that God’s angels are just as busy as the demons are. HalleluYah. You’ve got to know your angels are on the job, just like those fallen angels are. HAVE NO FEAR! NONE! Those angels are working! If you think demons are busy, you should see how busy your angels are. Amen. Demons are nothing but fallen angels. They are angels. So my point is that we are having entire services to get those bad angels out of people, but we never spend an entire service bringing in the good ones. If you want a deliverance service, focus on the good angels, and the bad ones can’t stay. Amen? That’s why when someone comes up here wanting deliverance I will pray for them for a moment. If it doesn’t come out, we send them upstairs to a private room and let people pray for them. We do not turn this into a circus because we have got to become THRONE focused. Our focus has to be on the Throne of Yahweh. We give Him glory. We give Him honor. Amen. All demons want is attention. Here’s what will happen—watch what I’m telling you. If a sister comes up here and tells me she has a demon, and we give her a little attention, it won’t be five minutes before someone else will get one. They need deliverance too. It is attention. Demons love attention. Any one I’ve ever sent in the back room or upstairs, all of a sudden they aren’t as interested in being cast out. Why? Because we’re throne-focused. We are so focused on worshiping Yahweh. I know my life. If a demon doesn’t come out in three or four minutes after I’ve prayed for them, I know what is going on because I kn0w my life and I know my authority in Yahweh. Amen. If they don’t come out, it isn’t a demon. It’s attention. It’s schizophrenia. It’s whatever. But it isn’t a demon. Why? Because a real demon has to bow to the Name of Yahshua. He must bow. I saw a video on Facebook reels and there was a video of a man in a church casting a demon out of a woman and he was spraying holy oil. He starts casting the demon out and she starts screaming, “I’m not coming out!” He said, “You’re coming out,” and she screamed back, “I’m not coming out.” It looked like a soap 8 opera. Then she runs, and he runs after her. We laughed at it, but that is what it looked like. We are not helpless people who cannot cast out a devil, but we have to discern if they are mocking us or if they really need deliverance. You have to discern that. That’s why the Bible said to lay no hands on someone suddenly. What does that mean? Don’t let them embarrass the work of God because they’ve learned to be demon possessed. I wasn’t planning on preaching that tonight but we must understand that our focus must be on these angels that are more powerful than the fallen angels. We welcome them into our presence and demons have to go automatically. These are ministering spirits to us. Let’s go read Daniel chapter three. You need to live an angel-filled life. I have had angels since I was a little boy. I’ve always sensed their presence. HalleluYah. I feel when they come into my room. The old saints of God knew angels. Do you know how I knew when the angels were around my grandmother? Her head would jerk. You don’t know about those head jerks. But I knew when that head jerked, she had gotten a flutter. A flutter had come on by. Praise the Lord. I’m trying to teach our church how to live an angel-filled life. Daniel chapter three, verse twenty-five. I want to show you something. Many people have mistakenly thought that the fourth man in the fire was Jesus, a preincarnated Christ, but it’s not the truth. I know it sounds good for preaching but it’s not true. And it was not Yahweh in that fire. He sends the Angel of His Presence. Brother Vaughn, that was God in the burning bush. No it was not. If you go read Hebrews, Paul said that there was an angel in the bush. Amen. It’s always the angels that bring God’s will to the earth. Let’s read who was in that fire. Daniel 3:25 The king responded, and said; But look! I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are unharmed! And the fourth one looks like a son of the gods; bar-elohim! When it says the fourth looks like a son of the gods, that is where people get Jesus as the fourth, but there’s a problem. It’s called the next verse, so let’s go down to twenty-eight. 9 28 Then Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said; Blessed be the most high God (El), Whom dShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego serve, Who has sent His malak, and delivered His servants who trusted in Him! Disobeying the king’s command, they yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god (el) except their own god. Do you know why the angels showed up? They kept the commandments. Is anybody with me? They were heirs. They are going to rule and reign in the Millennial. God already knew it so angels were sent because they were commandment keepers. I want everyone to hear me well. When you allow the Christian Church to convince you that these Laws—the Torah—have been done away with, it makes you angel-less. It makes you without the covering of angels. But when you are walking in obedience, when you are fearful to break them, to go against the word of Yahweh; when you are fearful to offend Yahweh, fearful to do anything against His pleasure, then you will have angels around you. They will follow you everywhere you go. Do you know why they show up for you and none of those other people? Because those people are not going to make it to the end. They won’t endure to the end because they got salvation under Joseph Prince. I want to show you why they have no angels. Because angels don’t get around lawlessness. They walk around submission and obedience. I want to read you a quote of Joseph Prince—the modern Church— what he told them the other day. He is one of the most popular preachers. They tell me to not pick on the Church but if that is what the Church is, I’ll pick on it all day long. Let’s read the quote. He has ten thousands of followers. He said, “The bottom line is this: Holy Spirit never convicts you of your sin. He never comes to point out your faults.” That is one of the most popular preachers in the world who is pointing out that the Holy Spirit doesn’t come to point out your sins. The BIBLE says that when the Holy Spirit comes, His entire purpose is to lead you to the commandments; to lead you and guide you into all truth. It’s preaching like that which causes a man to walk lawless and therefore, you have no angelic covering. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego had a good track record. When they first were taken to Babylon, they told the king: Sir, we will always obey you. We honor authority. We bow to the king because the Bible tells us to. We will submit 10 to a man, yes we will, provided that man doesn’t try to become our god and make us choose between him and God. We obey the government of the United States until you try to tell me to shut my church. When you do that, now you’ve stepped in the wrong place. You’ve tried to become not my government but my god. We will always obey our government; a legitimate one. We will always obey the law as long as that law doesn’t take the place of Yahweh’s Law. I talked to a husband today. Let me talk to some of you. You’re the head of your home as long as you don’t tell your wife to violate her conscience with Yahweh. Because now you have messed the whole thing up. You are in authority as long as you are under authority. You have legitimate authority when you are under authority. But Yahweh is looking for people like Shadrach who told the king, “We will obey and honor you but we will not eat your unclean food.” Why? “We don’t eat pork.” The king honored their conscience. Good government will always honor your conscience. Always. Bad government will not honor your conscience. It’s like Sister Denisa who works at the courthouse. They were not going to let her off for the Feast of Tabernacles because she was only there for a short time. She went to them and they would not let her off. I sent a little letter to them explaining they were making a big mistake because it was her conscience; between her and God. We teach our people to obey your employer but a true employer can never tell you to violate your conscience with God. We wrote that letter and sure enough, they said they had to let her off, so now she is going to the Feast. Amen. We brought to them the Law of God. The point I am making is that when you get under authority, angels are attracted to that. They are so attracted to authority that Gabriel did not even rebuke Lucifer. That is what I don’t understand about all these people casting devils out of everybody. Even the angels of Yahweh won’t rebuke the Devil. Do you know why? Because they understood he is the god of this world and has a right to be here. They understand that this is his world. They are rebuking legitimate authority. The only place Satan didn’t have authority was over someone like Daniel, because Daniel wasn’t of this world. Israel belongs to Yahweh. Michael is our governing angel. Everyone is under Satan’s dominion except an Israelite. Why? We are HIS nation. We are not of this 11 world. That’s why I’m not going to Bay St. Louis calling devils down, but if they come to my House, that’s a different story. That’s Israelite territory! Amen. You have to learn that authority attracts angels. I am going to get back to another subject I recently preached, and when I did, the whole church went crazy. That is why Paul said what he did about women’s hair and how they should have a covering over them in the congregation. He said it was because of the angels. They hate rebellion. When they smell rebellion, they don’t come near. Do you want to know why there are no angels at your house? Husband; rebellion to your pastor, wives; rebellion to your husband, children; rebellion to your parents. Angels don’t want to come there. If you want angels to flutter around your house, just everybody get in order, get in ORDER. They will be attracted to that. HalleluYah! You need angels around you! Let’s go to Genesis thirty-two. I realize I’m not preaching tonight. I am teaching, but we need this knowledge. Genesis thirty-two, verse thirty. Genesis 32:30 (BOY) And Yaaqob called the name of the place, Penily; that is Face of Yahweh. For I have seen Yahweh face to face, and my life was spared. But there’s a problem with that in verse twenty-four. Jacob was left alone and wrestled with a man, but he saw God face to face. What do angels look like? Men. Be careful that you fail to recognize angels in a man’s face. Be careful how you talk to people. You may have just told off an angel. Amen. But notice what He said in that verse—Jacob wrestled a man. But in verse thirty, he saw God face-to-face. We know no man has ever seen God face-to-face. Do you see how if you don’t know how to read your Bible that would mess you up? If I was trying to tell you that no man has ever seen God, you would take me to that verse and say, “Uh uh,” because you don’t understand the word God there (in KJV) is elohim, not God. I just gave you some good knowledge. Elohim is God. The angels are gods. It didn’t say he saw the Creator. He saw elohim. If you don’t know what elohim is, you will swear to me that somebody saw God face-to-face. Learn what God is and then you and I can talk. 12 That’s why I almost can’t talk to a lot of people. They bring this crazy stuff to me and I already know they don’t know the meaning of the word. It says in my Bible right here he saw God face-to-face. He did. Who carries His presence? The angels of Yahweh. They are ministering spirits of fire, the Bible said. That’s the presence of angels, and they carry the presence of Yahweh. Amen. Let me give you all an example. How many of you in here have ever received a prophetic word from another person? Do you know what is so funny is when they give a prophetic word? My grandmother used to prophecy just like this: Yeah I say unto you that I have never left you! What are you talking about, I? Isn’t it funny that we accept that the word spoken by her was God, but in her speaking directly to you, she was claiming to be God, if you will. You are my grandma. What do you mean you say unto me? Remember in the Bible, Yahweh said for Moses to tell them to go and that was Him speaking. So when an angel comes to you to bring you a message from Yahweh, that is Yahweh coming to you. He is coming through the angel of His presence because these angels are called flaming fire. They are called ministering spirits. Their job is to represent the THRONE in Satan’s world. They are ambassadors of heaven. He will never come here until when? He is All in All. C’mon now! Don’t you think if He were ever to come, He would have announced His Son to be born? But He didn’t. He sent an angel. When His Son was baptized in the river, He was up yonder. This is My Son... Why didn’t He come on down? Amen? And sadly, many people think that the Holy Spirit descended. No, no, no. The Holy Spirit was never a dove. The Holy Spirit descended upon Yahshua. He descended as a dove. See? When you don’t know your Bible, you’ve got doves flying. No, no, no. It wasn’t a dove. The Holy Spirit descended upon Him AS a dove. Gentle. Just a flutter, flutter, flutter. HalleluYah. 13 When Sister Ruth used to play, she wrote those songs, and I didn’t have this revelation and I thought back then, “She writes some strange songs.” Until I grew. Amen? I didn’t know what she was depositing into my life. Go to the Blue Letter Bible and type in the word angel, and then go to the book of Acts, and just leave it on the screen. Malachi 3:16. I want this ministry to be covered by angels. I want them to be more busy than the Devil is. Amen. Everytime somebody comes here to pray on Sabbath morning, don’t you understand all you’re doing is creating that angelic territory where they come? They are here now. I promise you. Oh, that you could see them! Malachi 3:16 Then those who reverenced Yahweh spoke often one to another, and Yahweh paid attention and heard them; and a Book of Remembrance was written in His presence of those who gave reverence to Yahweh, and who thought upon; considered and regarded, His Name; What a beautiful verse. I don’t know if you really read that verse. He said: When people get together, notice not gossiping, but if they are talking good things about the Lord, the angels show up. When they start talking good things, not gossip, the angels show up. And He said that is attractive to Yahweh. So the next time you are with somebody and you need some angels, just start talking about Yahweh. They will always show up. HalleluYah. I’m looking for a verse of scripture that I didn’t put in my notes but it says the eyes of the Lord go to and fro throughout the earth. Hopefully you don’t think that’s two eyeballs. The angels are the eyes of Yahweh. So when the Bible says He’s everywhere at all times, what that means is there are angels everywhere at all times. The angels of Yahweh. It just said in Malachi, the minute you start talking about Him, their eyes just pop and they come over there. Then there is more for you than against you. If you want to know if an angel has shown up in your situation, did your fear leave? If your fear left, you’ve got angels. Now I want to finish this tonight by going to the book of Revelation chapter five, verse eleven. I want to show you how many angels you have. 14 Revelation 5:11 And I looked, and I heard the voice of many malakim surrounding the throne, and the creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, One scholar has calculated just this group of angels—if there were no more—just in that group would amount to two trillion. That is about 10,000 angels for every man, woman, and child alive on earth today; and that is just for that group. So there is no shortage of angel power to work on your behalf. So these angels are always working. I want to show you something. Everybody in this room claims to have the Holy Ghost and you say you’re part of the original Church—you are apostolic. I want to take you to the original Church. It starts right here in the book of Acts. 2:53:32 I want to show you that if you don’t have this happening, you’re not apostolic. But the angel of the Lord by night opened up the prison doors and brought them out. Acts 5:19 In Acts 6, they looked and they saw the face of an angel. 15 Acts 7, here it says that on Mt. Sinai it was an angel in the flames in the bush, not Yahweh. The Torah said it was Yahweh. It was. Amen. Then Moses who they refused saying, Who made you our judge and our ruler? They wouldn’t listen to Moses, saying: Who made you the ruler of the Church? They said: Who made you the head? It says they made him a ruler by the hand of an angel. So to come against the man was to come against the angel. To come against the angel was to come against Yahweh. Amen. Some of you haters hate when I talk like that because you can’t deny the Scriptures. You hate me but you can’t deny this. Acts 7:38 This was he that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him on the mount... Now hold on. The Torah said that God came down. Paul said that it was an angel; elohim. The whole book of Acts is nothing but angels. Acts 8:26 And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza which is a desert. He was praying evidently, and he heard a voice saying: Go down there. Yes, the Lord spoke to him. But it was through the angel of the Lord. You need angels in your life. 2:56 I’m showing you angels in the Apostolic Church. The next one: Acts 10:22 Ad they say, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear the words of thee. He fears Yahweh. That makes him a candidate for angels. Have you ever been to a church that says not to fear God? Get out of that church! Run! They’ve lied to you. Absolutely. Without the fear of the Lord, you’re a fool. I’m not afraid of God. 16 You’re a fool! He feared God, was of good report, led a good life. Who warned him? Not God, but it was God. Chapter eleven. And he shewed us how he had seen an angel in his house, which stood and said unto him, Keep going. Acts 12:7 And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. The angels won’t do it for you but they will tell you what to do. He told him to arise.The only way you can hear them is if you’re in prayer. The angel said: Get up and put on your shoes. But, if it’s too much for you to handle, if you do your part, they will finish the job. Acts 12:10 When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city, which opened to them of his own accord and they went out and passed on through one street, and forthwith the angel departed from him. The angel departed. The job was done. When your problem comes, you need an angel, and I’ll teach you how to get one: live fearfully before God. Acts 12:11 And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know with surety that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews. We would have said: God delivered me. No, it was an angel. Acts 12:15 And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said They, it is his angel. 17 Acts 12:23 And immediately, the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory, and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost. See? Angels don’t like people who are lawless. Fallen angels do, and that’s why they possess people; because of their lawlessness. Even in the Church. I want to tell you the quickest way to get demon-possessed. Rebellion. What is the only thing angels cannot imitate? They can imitate tongues, but they cannot imitate obedience. What happens is that obedience is the difference in the right and the wrong. The angels that are demons are rebellious. So therefore, if they can hear you saying something rebellious, you’ve just invited them to join your party. You can trace every demon-possession to rebellion. Always. Get rebellion out of your heart, and you will get demons out of your life. That’s why I tell people that this ministry is a demon-deliverance ministry. Just listen to what we preach and they will all automatically leave. Surrender and Submit! I want to show you how even the Romans had more fear of God than we do. But if the angel has spoken to him, let us not fight before God. They had sense enough to know that if it was an angel that God sent, that was God. Acts 23:9 And there arose a great cry and the scribes that were of the Pharisees part arose, and strove, saying We find no evil in this man but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him let us not fight against God. I love what Paul says in the next verse. He was about to drown and he was calling out to God. They were all going under, and he came out the next morning with no fear, strutting. The storm had not left, but he said these words: Acts 27:23 For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve. Why? I’m an Israelite. I belong to the angels of the Lord. He didn’t come out and say, “God told me.” He said, “An angel told me.” They came and talked to him. That’s why you shouldn’t be marveled when Satan himself is transformed to an angel of light. Do you know why? Because he knows the only way to get into Israel is to become an angel. Should I break that down for you? The Church is governed 18 by angels. Angels are not just supernatural beings. They are the preachers in the pulpit. So if Satan wants an entrance to Israel, he’s got to become a preacher. He’s got to go apply for a job as pastor of a Christian church so that he can get up like Joseph Prince—that was him; that was Satan speaking in the form of a preacher. Satan can never destroy Yahweh’s Church from the outside. He always has to become a preacher and convince the church that they can live how they want to. What happens then is there are no angels to fight him in that church. Galatians 1:8 But even if we, or a malak from heaven should preach a message other than what we preach to you: May he be accursed! There are people who become angel worshipers. Do you know why they do that? Here is one thing they don’t know about angels: they never teach. Go from Genesis to Revelation. They never teach doctrine. They never teach you the Torah. They never teach you. They are messengers with a message. They never teach Yahweh’s people. These angels here teach Yahweh’s people. So if anybody tells you, “I don’t believe it because an angel told me,” the angel doesn’t teach. Ever. The other angels teach; the male, the human, the physical angels. We’re the teachers. So when an angel comes to you and says it’s not right what your pastor is teaching you, that’s not an angel. Angels don’t teach. They bring help. They bring the message, and then they help the people of Yahweh. That’s why he said, “If we are an angel from heaven, preaching the other gospel,” what was he saying there? SATAN IS AN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN. If those angels try to preach to you in the pulpit, another gospel than the gospel we have—the gospel of the Kingdom—let them be accursed. Amen? Galatians 4:14 My temptation which was in my flesh you despised not nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. This is a man, Paul, telling the Church that they received him as an angel of God, even as Christ was received. That one verse right there, Paul said, “You didn’t receive me.” I’ve heard people talk so bad about preachers—they’re just in it for the money and they this and that. You better learn to shut your mouth. I’m serious. You may be talking about an angel of God. Do you know what Paul said? 19 He said, You didn’t reject me or despise me. You recognized that I was more than just a man. You received me as an angel sent from Yahweh. You didn’t worship me as Yahweh, but you honored that I was sent from Yahweh. You received me even as you received Christ. I thank God I grew up in a different church world than you all did. There were some things they could have done better but there was one thing they taught: to honor the men of God, the work of God. In that generation there was a fear of God. I have such a fear of God. I was taught such a fear of God that when Jimmy Swaggart fell in Baton Rogue, I wept. I never opened my mouth against the man one time. I was taught the anointed man of God—up or down—was anointed by God. I didn’t care if they fell. My grandmother raised me and I thank God she did. I don’t like the modern church. There is no respect, no fear of God and the servants of God, or the things of God. So I want to receive. When I look at Bishop Kendrick, I see him as an angel in the flesh. I do. He is my angel and there is nothing I wouldn’t do for that man. I would serve, I would do anything he asked me to do so long as it didn’t violate my conscience with Yahweh. Amen. I believe that is a huge reason why Yahweh has blessed this work like He has. I have never raised my hand against the man of God. Ever. You couldn’t get me to do it. I encourage you today. Everyone of you are men and women of God. Don’t raise your hand against one another. Don’t be ugly to one another. Receive one another as angels. One night there was a lady that walked in this church and you’d have never thought she could do what she was about to do. But I remember we were at a low point and I needed to see a miracle. This little lady came into the office and said, “Pastor, I have a check for you, and I want to give it to you.” This little lady that you wouldn’t think could buy a paper bag, gave us a seventy-thousand dollar check. When she left I spoke to Yahweh and He said, “That’s My angel that I sent to feed you, that I sent to take care of you.” Be careful how you treat people. You never know who Yahweh is getting ready to use to bless you. So many of you are so busy looking to Yahweh for a miracle. You forget it may come through somebody you know. Do you know how many times my wife and I would be at the bottom, and Yahweh would send an angel? I want 20 to tell all of you something. If you will serve Yahweh with all your heart, you will never go without an angel. Somebody will feed you. Somebody will give you a car. Somebody will take care of you. Amen? Amen. I know I said I was done, and I am, but there is one more verse I want to read to you, This is the final one. Psalms 103:20. Our angels are all servants, but how do we get them to serve? Psalms 103:20 Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of the word. This just said that the angels are activated when they hear a voice. They are standing by waiting to hear a verse. The Bible said they hearken to the voice. Hearken means to listen for, pay close attention to, to hear, to listen closely. So angels are standing by, listening for one thing: the VOICE OF HIS WORD. They are not listening for your complaints or your fear. They are waiting for someone that knows the Word of God and will put a VOICE to it, and will Command the Word of God out of their MOUTHS! THAT IS HOW YOU ACTIVATE THE ANGELS OF YAHWEH IN YOUR LIFE! They are listening, not for the Word, but for the VOICE of the Word. If they were waiting for a Word, they would read the Bible. But there must be a Voice of ONE crying in the Wilderness: Prepare thee the way of the Lord. There must be a voice for these angels to hearken to. Whenever you have a bill that’s due, here is what they are NOT listening to: Oh, how are we going to make it? That tithe you paid would have paid the light bill. They don’t hear that. Here is what they hear: Philippians 4:19 And my Father will supply all your need, according to His glorious riches in Yahshua Messiah. My God Yahweh will supply all my needs according to His riches and glory by Christ Jesus, Yahshua! THAT’S what they respond to! Then they know they’ve got 21 to go find your money. They just found somebody who believes the Word enough to put a voice to it! Enough to say what Yahweh said. Enough to be afraid in Faith! How are we going to make it? The angels don’t know how you’re going to make it. They are waiting for a voice because they can’t do anything without someone who obeys the commandments, giving a voice to the commandments of Yahweh. Next time you are broke and you don’t know what you’re going to do, this is the voice they are waiting for. I am a tither and according to Malachi 3:10, Yahweh is opening the windows of heaven, pouring out a blessing to me that I will not be able to contain. That is the voice that if you put it to the Word, angels are activated in your life! They are not activated by complaints, but when they hear Yahweh’s word coming out of your mouth, they go into action, moving and influencing the spirit realm to make Yahweh’s word come to pass for you! Glory! Psalm 34:7 is one of my favorite verses. Put a voice to this word sometime. Quit just reading your Bible, but start talking your Bible after you read it. The malak of Yahweh encamps around those who reverence and worship Yahweh, and they are delivered. He delivers them from all of their troubles. Start quoting that Scripture. Say, “Angels, here is my situation.” That is the kind of talk that puts angels into position. I promise you that if you’ve got angels, no mugger, no rapist, no drive-by shooter on earth can penetrate an angelic shield of force. That’s the kind of freedom from fear that comes from knowing Yahweh’s word by enforcing mighty angels! If you want angels to leave, get afraid. A Voice to the Word drives fear out of your life. A VOICE to the Word. The Word of Yahweh is powerless without a voice. Did you know that? You’ve got to become a talker of the Word. All through the day you’ve got to walk around, sister, and say, “The angels have blessed this place. We are blessed in the city. We are blessed in the fields.” You’ve got to put a voice to the Word. You’ve got to do it. Otherwise, fear will take over your life. We don’t walk in fear. We walk by faith. 22 In the book of Daniel, Daniel prayed and nothing happened. He put a voice to the word and when the angel got there, he said, “I heard you the first time you prayed, but I got held up by the gods of this world while I was on my way. If you hadn’t prayed again, I wouldn’t be here today. Because you kept praying, I kept coming!” In Daniel 10:12 the angel said, “I have come because of your words.” I HAVE COME BECAUSE OF YOUR WORDS! If he hadn’t kept on praying, the angel wouldn’t have won that battle. You are partners with angels. They have the strength, you have the faith. You put those two together and you can move mountains. HalleluYah! Put a voice to the word and watch Yahweh move in your life! 23 24