Hello, and welcome
once again to another night
00:01:01.12\00:01:03.43
of our very special series,
'Where Are All His Miracles'.
00:01:03.46\00:01:08.20
And we welcome
our in-house family.
00:01:08.23\00:01:10.50
We welcome our radio
family and our television family
00:01:10.53\00:01:14.04
here in the States and worldwide
00:01:14.07\00:01:15.64
to another power
packed evening of preaching,
00:01:15.67\00:01:18.17
of music of testimony of song
00:01:18.21\00:01:21.78
as we reaffirm once again
00:01:21.81\00:01:23.55
that we serve a God
of might and miracles.
00:01:23.58\00:01:27.72
And that our God
is still very much
00:01:27.75\00:01:29.62
in the miracle working business.
00:01:29.65\00:01:32.32
We have another very good
presentation for this evening.
00:01:32.35\00:01:34.82
On last night we heard
from our own Shelley Quinn
00:01:34.86\00:01:38.76
and who did very, very fine job.
00:01:38.79\00:01:41.50
And I must give salute
00:01:41.53\00:01:43.67
to each of the
presenters this week.
00:01:43.70\00:01:45.43
God has blessed
them one and all.
00:01:45.47\00:01:48.10
And we know again,
00:01:48.14\00:01:49.47
the Spirit of God
will be here tonight
00:01:49.50\00:01:50.84
as Hal Steenson lifts
up the word of the Lord.
00:01:50.87\00:01:53.07
But before we go
into our meeting,
00:01:53.11\00:01:54.44
we want to
reaffirm our theme song.
00:01:54.48\00:01:56.24
We want to sing it again.
00:01:56.28\00:01:57.61
It is 111 in the
Adventist Church hymnal.
00:01:57.65\00:02:01.88
It took a miracle,
111, let's sing it together.
00:02:01.92\00:02:08.62
My Father is omnipotent
00:02:08.66\00:02:12.63
And that you can't deny
00:02:12.66\00:02:16.26
A God of might and miracles
00:02:16.30\00:02:20.74
'Tis written in the sky
00:02:20.77\00:02:25.11
It took a miracle
00:02:25.14\00:02:29.74
To put the stars in place
00:02:29.78\00:02:34.35
It took a miracle
00:02:34.38\00:02:38.85
To hang the world in space
00:02:38.89\00:02:43.36
But when He saved my soul
00:02:43.39\00:02:48.56
Cleansed and made me whole
00:02:48.60\00:02:54.44
It took a miracle
00:02:54.47\00:02:58.07
Of love and grace!
00:02:58.11\00:03:02.78
Very good. That second stanza.
00:03:02.81\00:03:05.25
Though here His
glory has been shown
00:03:05.28\00:03:09.55
We still can't fully see
00:03:09.58\00:03:13.15
The wonders of His might,
00:03:13.19\00:03:16.73
His throne 'twill take eternity
00:03:16.76\00:03:22.93
It took a miracle
00:03:22.96\00:03:27.70
To put the stars in place
00:03:27.74\00:03:32.07
And it took a miracle
00:03:32.11\00:03:36.71
To hang the world in space
00:03:36.75\00:03:41.52
But when He saved my soul
00:03:41.55\00:03:46.59
Cleansed and made me whole
00:03:46.62\00:03:52.56
It took a miracle
00:03:52.59\00:03:56.16
Of love and grace!
00:03:56.20\00:04:01.04
Very good. Now,
that last stanza.
00:04:01.07\00:04:02.94
The Bible tells us of His power
00:04:02.97\00:04:07.34
And wisdom all way through
00:04:07.38\00:04:11.21
And every little bird and flower
00:04:11.25\00:04:16.15
Are testimonies too
00:04:16.18\00:04:20.82
It took a miracle
00:04:20.86\00:04:25.33
To put the stars in place
00:04:25.36\00:04:30.07
It took a miracle
00:04:30.10\00:04:34.40
To hang the world in space
00:04:34.44\00:04:39.17
But when He saved my soul
00:04:39.21\00:04:44.21
Cleansed and made me whole
00:04:44.25\00:04:50.72
It took a miracle
00:04:50.75\00:04:54.42
Of love
00:04:54.46\00:04:56.73
And grace!
00:04:56.76\00:05:02.76
Again we take this
opportunity to say good evening
00:05:02.80\00:05:04.87
and to welcome you to a
very, very special series.
00:05:04.90\00:05:08.44
When Pastor
Lomacang conceived this,
00:05:08.47\00:05:10.47
it was on the heels
of a very special boys'
00:05:10.51\00:05:13.74
night out presentation
that we had some months ago.
00:05:13.78\00:05:16.81
And we realized by
the response that we got,
00:05:16.85\00:05:20.92
that we needed to talk about
00:05:20.95\00:05:23.08
this very important
aspect of our faith,
00:05:23.12\00:05:27.26
to realize that we serve a God
00:05:27.29\00:05:29.29
who is very intimately
concerned with our lives.
00:05:29.32\00:05:31.99
And that when we can't God can.
00:05:32.03\00:05:35.03
Our end is but God's beginning.
00:05:35.06\00:05:37.10
And we reaffirm that last night
00:05:37.13\00:05:38.60
in Shelley Quinn's presentation.
00:05:38.63\00:05:40.90
To know that we
serve a God who is ready,
00:05:40.94\00:05:43.04
willing and very
much able to save,
00:05:43.07\00:05:45.54
to change and to work a miracle,
00:05:45.57\00:05:47.28
if a miracle is what is
needed in any given situation.
00:05:47.31\00:05:51.31
So we welcome you
and we ask you to stay by
00:05:51.35\00:05:54.52
and to listen very attentively
00:05:54.55\00:05:56.28
as our speaker brings
the word of God this night.
00:05:56.32\00:05:58.39
Before we go much further,
let us bow our heads in prayer.
00:05:58.42\00:06:01.52
Heavenly Father,
00:06:01.56\00:06:02.96
we do thank You that
You're not a distant God.
00:06:02.99\00:06:07.13
You're not a removed God.
00:06:07.16\00:06:09.26
You're not an
absentee landlord as it is,
00:06:09.30\00:06:12.50
but You are a very present help,
00:06:12.53\00:06:14.84
not only in trouble,
00:06:14.87\00:06:16.44
but You're by our
side in the good times,
00:06:16.47\00:06:19.34
in the bad times, in
the times of rejoicing
00:06:19.37\00:06:22.54
and in the times of tears.
00:06:22.58\00:06:24.78
You're our God, our Savior,
00:06:24.81\00:06:27.85
and thank You
for being our friend.
00:06:27.88\00:06:30.02
We ask you to draw
divinely near us this night,
00:06:30.05\00:06:34.12
open our hearts,
our minds, our ears.
00:06:34.16\00:06:38.09
May we hear that
which You want us to hear.
00:06:38.13\00:06:41.20
May we know that
which You want us to know.
00:06:41.23\00:06:44.80
May we do that
which you ask us to do
00:06:44.83\00:06:48.47
because it isn't in the doing
00:06:48.50\00:06:50.07
that we are made
like Christ Jesus.
00:06:50.11\00:06:52.34
Bless both speaker
and those of us who hear
00:06:52.37\00:06:55.81
and we thank You
in Jesus' name, amen.
00:06:55.84\00:06:59.85
Our scripture lesson comes
00:06:59.88\00:07:01.38
from our general manger
at 3ABN, Mollie Steenson,
00:07:01.42\00:07:05.32
but she is also a very
fine Sabbath school teacher
00:07:05.35\00:07:07.89
here at our church.
00:07:07.92\00:07:11.06
That will be followed
by music from our pastor,
00:07:11.09\00:07:14.13
Pastor John Lomacang
singing 'There is a Treasure'.
00:07:14.16\00:07:17.37
Then the next voice
you will hear will be
00:07:17.40\00:07:19.20
that of Elder Hal Steenson
00:07:19.23\00:07:21.00
from the pastoral department
of the Thompsonville Church.
00:07:21.04\00:07:24.21
Pastor in his own right,
00:07:24.24\00:07:25.81
preacher of the word,
a student of the word,
00:07:25.84\00:07:28.04
and we know that
God is going to use him
00:07:28.08\00:07:30.25
to bring a message to
our hearts this night.
00:07:30.28\00:07:32.68
Turn with me in your
Bibles to Luke Chapter 4.
00:07:37.32\00:07:42.46
Luke 4, we're going to
begin reading with verse 16.
00:07:42.49\00:07:46.63
Are we so happy that
God send us His word?
00:07:46.66\00:07:51.33
He gave us this word.
00:07:51.37\00:07:52.87
You know, Shelley
said it last night,
00:07:52.90\00:07:55.30
there is power in the word.
00:07:55.34\00:07:57.57
The word is the seed
and the seed is the word
00:07:57.61\00:07:59.67
and it's that word that
would transform our lives.
00:07:59.71\00:08:02.81
So my prayer for
every one of us tonight
00:08:02.84\00:08:05.85
and for everyone,
those viewing and listening
00:08:05.88\00:08:08.75
all over this world.
00:08:08.78\00:08:10.25
He said the power of this word
00:08:10.29\00:08:11.75
will take route in
our hearts and change us.
00:08:11.79\00:08:13.86
How many of you want
to be changed tonight?
00:08:13.89\00:08:15.79
Change is the center,
00:08:15.82\00:08:17.16
the very image and
likeness of our creator God.
00:08:17.19\00:08:20.20
That's what we want.
Let's read this word together.
00:08:20.23\00:08:23.50
"And he came to Nazareth,
where he had been brought up:
00:08:23.53\00:08:27.74
and, as his custom was,
he went into the synagogue
00:08:27.77\00:08:31.54
on the Sabbath day,
and stood up for to read.
00:08:31.57\00:08:35.14
And there was delivered unto him
00:08:35.18\00:08:37.01
the book of the prophet Esaias.
00:08:37.05\00:08:40.42
And when he had opened the book,
00:08:40.45\00:08:42.18
he found the place
where it was written,
00:08:42.22\00:08:44.99
The Spirit of
the Lord is upon me,
00:08:45.02\00:08:47.92
because he has anointed me
00:08:47.96\00:08:49.66
to preach the
gospel to the poor,
00:08:49.69\00:08:52.63
he hath sent me to
heal the brokenhearted,
00:08:52.66\00:08:55.36
to preach
deliverance to the captives,
00:08:55.40\00:08:57.97
and recovering of
sight to the blind,
00:08:58.00\00:09:00.20
to set at liberty
them that are bruised,
00:09:00.24\00:09:02.80
to preach the
acceptable year of the Lord.
00:09:02.84\00:09:06.21
And he closed the
book, and he gave it again
00:09:06.24\00:09:10.21
to the
minister, and he sat down.
00:09:10.25\00:09:13.21
And the eyes of all them
00:09:13.25\00:09:14.58
that were in the
synagogue were fastened on him.
00:09:14.62\00:09:17.32
And he began to say unto them,
00:09:17.35\00:09:19.52
This day is this scripture
fulfilled in your ears.
00:09:19.55\00:09:23.32
May God add a
blessing to this word
00:09:23.36\00:09:26.53
as it penetrates our hearts.
00:09:26.56\00:09:31.07
When I was raised, I
never forgot the phrase
00:09:31.10\00:09:34.34
whenever I saw
rainbow, someone used to say
00:09:34.37\00:09:37.51
that there is a pot of
gold at the end of the rainbow
00:09:37.54\00:09:39.57
and I never found it.
00:09:39.61\00:09:41.31
But this song right I think
00:09:41.34\00:09:42.68
puts it best
when you find Jesus,
00:09:42.71\00:09:45.51
there is a treasure at
the end of this narrow road
00:09:45.55\00:09:49.72
that we're traveling.
00:09:49.75\00:09:51.35
I pray that you
will follow Christ
00:09:51.39\00:09:53.69
and follow Him to see that
He is in fact that treasure.
00:09:53.72\00:09:57.69
They say that
where your treasure is
00:10:08.20\00:10:13.14
There will your heart be also
00:10:13.17\00:10:18.21
Your heart stays
00:10:18.25\00:10:20.28
Where you hide
00:10:20.32\00:10:22.02
Your greatest love
00:10:22.05\00:10:28.12
Now you can leave
that love on earth
00:10:28.16\00:10:33.09
Where thieves may steal tomorrow
00:10:33.13\00:10:37.93
Or you can take it to
00:10:37.97\00:10:40.10
That hiding place above
00:10:40.14\00:10:47.34
There's a treasure at the end
00:10:47.38\00:10:52.58
Of this narrow
road I'm traveling
00:10:52.61\00:10:58.09
That gives me a purpose
00:10:58.12\00:11:02.92
For my life
00:11:02.96\00:11:08.16
Jesus is my treasure
00:11:08.20\00:11:12.73
He's the reason why I am living
00:11:12.77\00:11:18.07
And He will be my reason
00:11:18.11\00:11:22.54
When I die
00:11:22.58\00:11:26.01
So if you've been
wondering where you are
00:11:37.89\00:11:43.13
And where it is you're going
00:11:43.16\00:11:48.04
He's left a map
00:11:48.07\00:11:50.11
For you and me
00:11:50.14\00:11:52.67
To use
00:11:52.71\00:11:57.95
Just read the
map and follow close
00:11:57.98\00:12:02.82
Always walking
where it's showing
00:12:02.85\00:12:08.06
You just can't miss it
00:12:08.09\00:12:10.56
It's way too much
00:12:10.59\00:12:12.46
To lose
00:12:12.49\00:12:17.57
There's a treasure at the end
00:12:17.60\00:12:22.44
Of this narrow
road I'm traveling
00:12:22.47\00:12:27.94
And it gives me my purpose
00:12:27.98\00:12:32.71
For my life
00:12:32.75\00:12:38.15
Jesus is my treasure
00:12:38.19\00:12:42.59
He's the reason
why I'm still living
00:12:42.62\00:12:47.93
And He will be my reason
00:12:47.96\00:12:52.30
When I die
00:12:52.33\00:12:58.34
You see, there's a treasure
00:12:58.37\00:13:01.88
At the end
00:13:01.91\00:13:06.45
Of this narrow road
00:13:06.48\00:13:10.29
That I've been trying to travel
00:13:10.32\00:13:15.66
And it gives me my purpose
00:13:15.69\00:13:22.36
For my life
00:13:22.40\00:13:28.80
Jesus is my treasure
00:13:28.84\00:13:33.58
He's the reason
that I'm still living
00:13:33.61\00:13:39.01
And He will be my reason
00:13:39.05\00:13:43.69
When I die
00:13:43.72\00:13:49.82
You will be my reason
00:13:49.86\00:13:54.03
When I die
00:13:54.06\00:13:59.00
That's my pastor.
00:14:11.81\00:14:14.88
Isn't that awesome.
00:14:14.92\00:14:16.69
I like that one line
where the word is the map.
00:14:16.72\00:14:20.32
I want you to turn
in your maps tonight
00:14:20.36\00:14:23.29
to the 12 chapter
of the Book of Acts.
00:14:23.32\00:14:24.96
And what we're gonna
do is ask the Holy Spirit
00:14:24.99\00:14:27.76
to be our compass as we
take at look at the Word of God.
00:14:27.80\00:14:30.73
I would like to
reiterate one of the scriptures
00:14:30.77\00:14:32.43
that Mollie read just
a short portion of it.
00:14:32.47\00:14:35.60
It says, "The Spirit
of the Lord is upon me
00:14:35.64\00:14:37.27
because he has anointed me
00:14:37.31\00:14:38.84
to preach
deliverance to the captives."
00:14:38.87\00:14:41.84
So many of us are in situations
00:14:41.88\00:14:44.61
where we have friends, family,
00:14:44.65\00:14:46.45
acquaintances that
need to be delivered,
00:14:46.48\00:14:49.55
and we have
been praying for them
00:14:49.58\00:14:50.99
for years and years and years,
00:14:51.02\00:14:52.59
it seems like
nothing has happened.
00:14:52.62\00:14:54.49
I believe that God has
a word for us here tonight
00:14:54.52\00:14:56.59
and also for those
all across the world
00:14:56.62\00:14:58.46
that are watching tonight.
00:14:58.49\00:14:59.83
If you have
someone that is a captive
00:14:59.86\00:15:01.76
and needs to be set free,
00:15:01.80\00:15:03.47
then you might call them or
encourage them to watch this
00:15:03.50\00:15:06.57
or take notes and let them know
what's happening here, okay.
00:15:06.60\00:15:12.01
To preach
deliverance to the captives.
00:15:12.04\00:15:13.98
Let's pray before
we start, all right.
00:15:14.01\00:15:16.58
Father, we thank You
Lord that Your word is a truth
00:15:16.61\00:15:19.45
and anything contrary
to Your word is a lie.
00:15:19.48\00:15:21.65
We thank You Lord God
00:15:21.68\00:15:23.02
that we can stand on Your
word and believe Your word
00:15:23.05\00:15:26.76
that Jesus is
not only our savior,
00:15:26.79\00:15:28.52
not only our healer, but
He is also our deliverer.
00:15:28.56\00:15:31.93
And Lord, let Your word be real
here tonight in Jesus' name.
00:15:31.96\00:15:37.17
Are you in
agreement with that church?
00:15:37.20\00:15:39.13
Amen.
00:15:39.17\00:15:40.50
The theme for this meeting
is Where Are All Of His...
00:15:40.54\00:15:44.11
Notice the His, Where
Are All Of His Miracles.
00:15:44.14\00:15:47.44
What I like to propose to you
00:15:47.48\00:15:49.48
that all His miracles fall
in two different categories.
00:15:49.51\00:15:53.42
Now the first category
is the working of miracles
00:15:53.45\00:15:55.98
and you'll find
this in the Chapter 12,
00:15:56.02\00:15:58.12
1 Corinthians in the gifts to do
00:15:58.15\00:16:00.76
that are in the holy of holies.
00:16:00.79\00:16:02.82
These miracles are accomplished.
00:16:02.86\00:16:04.39
Here's my personal definition.
00:16:04.43\00:16:06.53
These miracles are accomplished
00:16:06.56\00:16:07.90
through an
individual or group of believers
00:16:07.93\00:16:09.73
calling on God to demonstrate
His divine creative power
00:16:09.76\00:16:14.20
for the benefit of His
kingdom and His eternal purpose,
00:16:14.24\00:16:17.77
thus manifesting a miracle.
00:16:17.81\00:16:20.58
Now, let me give you
some examples of this, okay.
00:16:20.61\00:16:23.41
God parting the Red Sea
00:16:23.45\00:16:24.78
through Moses holding up
his rod and it separated,
00:16:24.81\00:16:28.12
17 miles went back one
way to a town called Adam,
00:16:28.15\00:16:31.85
it said in 1700
year from the time
00:16:31.89\00:16:34.12
that sea was split to the
town that Adam gave it up,
00:16:34.16\00:16:36.76
so God took it all the way back.
00:16:36.79\00:16:38.73
Another illustration is
00:16:38.76\00:16:40.50
the crumbling of
the walls of Jericho
00:16:40.53\00:16:42.70
accomplished
through an obedient people
00:16:42.73\00:16:45.63
that just shut up and marched.
00:16:45.67\00:16:48.77
I believe more of us
need to do that, pastor.
00:16:48.80\00:16:51.71
And then Paul,
oh, Paul raised a man
00:16:51.74\00:16:54.08
named Eutychus from the dead
00:16:54.11\00:16:55.78
after he fell out
of a window and died
00:16:55.81\00:16:57.71
because Paul had
preached way past 12 o'clock.
00:16:57.75\00:17:01.38
And that was midnight.
00:17:04.85\00:17:06.62
Next is the
sovereign miracles of God.
00:17:06.65\00:17:09.62
These miracles are God
and God alone miracles.
00:17:09.66\00:17:12.13
These miracles are not
manifest through humanity
00:17:12.16\00:17:14.90
but come by the
sovereign Godhead alone.
00:17:14.93\00:17:18.97
These miracles are
executed to demonstrate
00:17:19.00\00:17:21.87
God's
omnipotence, God is powerful.
00:17:21.90\00:17:25.74
There's some examples of that
00:17:25.77\00:17:27.78
is God standing on
the edge of nothing
00:17:27.81\00:17:30.55
and saying, let there be light
00:17:30.58\00:17:32.11
and the knowledge of
Christ pierced the universe,
00:17:32.15\00:17:35.05
all through the universe.
00:17:35.08\00:17:36.92
Next is God
joining forces in the fire
00:17:36.95\00:17:39.15
with the three Hebrew children,
00:17:39.19\00:17:40.92
and the biggest
miracle of all was
00:17:40.96\00:17:42.32
they came out the fiery furnace
and didn't smell like smoke.
00:17:42.36\00:17:44.86
They didn't keep
notes of all the people
00:17:44.89\00:17:46.33
that have done them wrong,
00:17:46.36\00:17:47.70
they just came out
totally delivered and free.
00:17:47.73\00:17:50.57
And the next one of a
God and God alone miracles.
00:17:50.60\00:17:52.93
Sovereign miracle of
God is Paul's conversion
00:17:52.97\00:17:56.67
on the road to Damascus.
00:17:56.71\00:17:59.41
You know, nobody
was praying for Paul.
00:17:59.44\00:18:01.98
People were running from Paul.
00:18:02.01\00:18:04.05
This was a God
and God alone miracle
00:18:04.08\00:18:05.75
that he knocked
him off his horse.
00:18:05.78\00:18:08.58
Then the one I want
to share with you today,
00:18:08.62\00:18:10.89
the deliverance of
Peter from the prison house.
00:18:10.92\00:18:13.79
Now, you might think
that others were helping
00:18:13.82\00:18:16.39
in Peter's deliverance,
00:18:16.42\00:18:17.76
however I'm
going to show you that,
00:18:17.79\00:18:20.70
that's not the case.
00:18:20.73\00:18:22.70
It was God and God alone
00:18:22.73\00:18:25.13
that delivered Peter
from the prison house.
00:18:25.17\00:18:28.00
So if you want a
title for his tonight,
00:18:28.04\00:18:30.01
'It's Deliverance
from the Prison House'.
00:18:30.04\00:18:32.54
And I want to share with you,
those of you that are watching
00:18:32.57\00:18:34.48
and no matter what
your prison house may be.
00:18:34.51\00:18:36.95
You may be an alcoholic.
00:18:36.98\00:18:38.91
You may be bound
back pornography.
00:18:38.95\00:18:41.15
You may be addicted to cocaine.
00:18:41.18\00:18:43.22
You may be
destroyed by depression
00:18:43.25\00:18:45.59
or you might be a meathead.
00:18:45.62\00:18:47.42
But whatever it is, God
still wants to deliver you.
00:18:47.46\00:18:50.83
And I declare that
tonight is your night.
00:18:50.86\00:18:53.86
Can I hear an amen?
00:18:53.90\00:18:56.03
The first thing we
need to do is to see
00:18:56.06\00:18:58.83
is that deliverance
from the prison house
00:18:58.87\00:19:00.74
will come only after you admit
00:19:00.77\00:19:03.27
that you're
trapped with no escape.
00:19:03.30\00:19:06.98
As long as you got a plan
B, deliverance will never come,
00:19:07.01\00:19:09.98
deliverance will
never take place,
00:19:10.01\00:19:11.35
deliverance will never happen.
00:19:11.38\00:19:12.98
Have you found Acts yet,
00:19:13.01\00:19:14.38
the Chapter 12 and
the first verse says,
00:19:14.42\00:19:17.65
"Now about that
time Herod the king
00:19:17.69\00:19:19.55
stretched forth his hands
to vex certain of the church.
00:19:19.59\00:19:22.49
And he killed James
00:19:22.52\00:19:23.86
the brother of
John with the sword."
00:19:23.89\00:19:25.23
Now, remember this,
00:19:25.26\00:19:26.59
James was one of
the sons of thunder
00:19:26.63\00:19:28.50
whom Christ told that
he should drink of the cup
00:19:28.53\00:19:30.97
that he was to drink of
00:19:31.00\00:19:32.47
and be baptized with the baptism
00:19:32.50\00:19:34.50
that he was to be baptized with.
00:19:34.54\00:19:36.74
Now the words of Christ
were made good in James,
00:19:36.77\00:19:39.67
thus James finished his course,
00:19:39.71\00:19:41.61
but Peter being designed
00:19:41.64\00:19:43.81
for further
service was still safe,
00:19:43.85\00:19:46.92
though he seemed now marked
out for a speedy sacrifice."
00:19:46.95\00:19:51.75
It is when we admit
that we're in a prison house,
00:19:51.79\00:19:54.09
we have no way out,
we have no way of escape.
00:19:54.12\00:19:56.76
It's not momma
is gonna get us out,
00:19:56.79\00:19:58.26
it's not Uncle Joe
that's gonna us out,
00:19:58.29\00:20:00.40
it's not our
pastors, it's not our elders,
00:20:00.43\00:20:01.86
it's gonna take God
00:20:01.90\00:20:03.23
when we admit
that we are trapped,
00:20:03.26\00:20:05.57
then and only then
can we be released.
00:20:05.60\00:20:09.20
It's only after
you're born again
00:20:09.24\00:20:11.24
and truly serving God
00:20:11.27\00:20:12.74
that Satan takes
any interest in you.
00:20:12.77\00:20:14.98
And hear this
00:20:15.01\00:20:16.34
if you don't hear anything else.
00:20:16.38\00:20:17.71
Satan couldn't care
whether or not you live,
00:20:17.75\00:20:20.35
he couldn't care
whether not you live or die
00:20:20.38\00:20:22.12
or whether you go to heaven
00:20:22.15\00:20:23.49
or we don't
want to go to heaven,
00:20:23.52\00:20:24.85
but if you go to
hell if you're burning,
00:20:24.89\00:20:26.22
he doesn't care,
what he wants to do
00:20:26.25\00:20:27.72
is negate the Word
of God that is in you.
00:20:27.76\00:20:31.63
In verse 3 it says,
00:20:31.66\00:20:33.90
"Because he saw it
pleased the Jews..."
00:20:33.93\00:20:35.96
Talking about Herod.
00:20:36.00\00:20:37.33
"He proceeded
further to take Peter also.
00:20:37.37\00:20:39.07
Then were the days
of unleavened bread."
00:20:39.10\00:20:40.44
This was the time of Passover.
00:20:40.47\00:20:41.94
I like what the message Bible,
listen to this, this is good.
00:20:41.97\00:20:44.67
The message Bible
says, "When Herod saw
00:20:44.71\00:20:47.58
how much it raised
his popularity ratings
00:20:47.61\00:20:50.01
with the Jews,
he arrested Peter."
00:20:50.05\00:20:52.78
All this during
Passover week, mind you.
00:20:52.81\00:20:56.12
When I was a teenager
00:20:56.15\00:20:57.49
my dad and I had
66 herd of horses.
00:20:57.52\00:21:00.72
Out of all these I had one horse
00:21:00.76\00:21:02.56
that was just
really specially mine.
00:21:02.59\00:21:05.59
This was my
horse, his name was Bozo.
00:21:05.63\00:21:08.00
And he was Quarter
horse, and he look like a mule
00:21:08.03\00:21:11.23
until you got a saddle
on him, then he came alive.
00:21:11.27\00:21:14.44
And Bozo was a barn horse.
00:21:14.47\00:21:16.54
How many even know
what the barn horse is.
00:21:16.57\00:21:18.64
You couldn't get
him away from the barn,
00:21:18.67\00:21:20.58
but when you got him real far,
00:21:20.61\00:21:22.18
away from the barn and
finally got him out there,
00:21:22.21\00:21:24.81
he forgot about everything
00:21:24.85\00:21:26.21
but just jibing on
him, just going along
00:21:26.25\00:21:28.85
until you turn him
back toward the barn.
00:21:28.88\00:21:32.25
And when you turned him back
toward the barn, Pastor Joe,
00:21:32.29\00:21:35.32
you turn him
back toward the barn,
00:21:35.36\00:21:36.73
all you have to do
was drop your reins on him
00:21:36.76\00:21:39.33
click him in saddle and
say, "Go Bozo" and he win.
00:21:39.36\00:21:43.57
We'll see that's the
way the devil is with us
00:21:43.60\00:21:45.77
before we get born again
00:21:45.80\00:21:47.14
and make Jesus
Christ Lord of our life.
00:21:47.17\00:21:49.24
He just drops the
reins on us and says, go Bozo
00:21:49.27\00:21:52.17
because we're Bozo
the clowns to do it.
00:21:52.21\00:21:55.08
And he doesn't
need to ride us hard
00:21:55.11\00:21:57.15
and put up some weight,
00:21:57.18\00:21:58.51
he doesn't care
anything about it.
00:21:58.55\00:22:00.05
But you get born again
00:22:00.08\00:22:01.78
then that's when
things start to happen.
00:22:01.82\00:22:04.45
He doesn't need to hurt
you, you're hurting yourself.
00:22:04.49\00:22:07.82
Verse 4 says, "And
when he had apprehended him,
00:22:07.86\00:22:10.93
he put him in
prison, and delivered him
00:22:10.96\00:22:13.03
to four
quaternions of soldiers."
00:22:13.06\00:22:16.10
Somebody tell me
how many that is?
00:22:16.13\00:22:18.10
Sixteen soldiers, I love it
00:22:18.13\00:22:21.37
to keep this little
Pentecostal preacher,
00:22:21.40\00:22:23.74
to keep him.
00:22:23.77\00:22:25.11
Intending I like what
the King James says here
00:22:25.14\00:22:27.21
if you got it, you
will understand it.
00:22:27.24\00:22:28.61
It says
intending that after Easter
00:22:28.64\00:22:31.41
which is actually
translated Passover
00:22:31.45\00:22:33.65
to bring it forth to the people.
00:22:33.68\00:22:36.02
When I see they translated that,
00:22:36.05\00:22:38.12
pastor, they
translated that as Easter.
00:22:38.15\00:22:40.56
And the reason
why the word Passover
00:22:40.59\00:22:42.12
was changed to Easter
was to help us understand
00:22:42.16\00:22:44.89
how rabbits can lay eggs
00:22:44.93\00:22:46.49
or we can color them, hide them,
00:22:46.53\00:22:48.10
eat a lot of candy to
celebrate Jesus' resurrection.
00:22:48.13\00:22:52.50
No, it's not what...
00:22:52.53\00:22:53.87
It was the Goddess Ishtar,
00:22:53.90\00:22:55.24
the goddess of
fertility is what it was.
00:22:55.27\00:22:57.57
We celebrate Passover,
we celebrate first fruit,
00:22:57.61\00:23:00.58
we celebrate a risen savior.
00:23:00.61\00:23:02.08
Are you getting, I want an amen.
00:23:02.11\00:23:04.21
There were 16 soldiers guarding
00:23:04.25\00:23:07.08
one little old
Pentecostal preacher,
00:23:07.12\00:23:09.32
and Herod was
not afraid of Peter.
00:23:09.35\00:23:12.35
He was afraid of Peter's
God. Never underestimate God.
00:23:12.39\00:23:18.33
There was a time
when Satan thought
00:23:18.36\00:23:19.79
that he had Hal and
Mollie Steenson bound
00:23:19.83\00:23:22.56
but he was wrong.
00:23:22.60\00:23:25.20
We had moved.
00:23:25.23\00:23:27.30
Five times, four times,
excuse me in a year and half
00:23:27.34\00:23:32.67
and we were charismatic church
00:23:32.71\00:23:34.14
and Danny Shelton
at the time was elder.
00:23:34.18\00:23:36.51
They didn't have the
pastor and they let us use
00:23:36.54\00:23:39.21
the Seventh-day Adventist
church in West Frankfort
00:23:39.25\00:23:41.22
'cause our service
is on Thursday night
00:23:41.25\00:23:42.68
and Sunday night.
00:23:42.72\00:23:44.05
Danny and I loved each other.
00:23:44.09\00:23:45.42
We knew somehow
someway, someway,
00:23:45.45\00:23:47.19
that we would
finally be together.
00:23:47.22\00:23:48.56
We finally got some facilities,
God provided him for us,
00:23:48.59\00:23:51.89
it was a miracle
that we got them.
00:23:51.93\00:23:53.50
Some day maybe I can share that,
00:23:53.53\00:23:54.93
it take too long now.
00:23:54.96\00:23:56.97
But then it came the
time to purchase some.
00:23:57.00\00:23:59.77
We were a two year
old fledgling church
00:23:59.80\00:24:02.47
and they came out and they said,
00:24:02.50\00:24:03.84
yes, we got an MIR
appraising all this
00:24:03.87\00:24:05.81
and they said, yes,
00:24:05.84\00:24:07.18
you can purchase
this for $340,000.
00:24:07.21\00:24:10.45
Well, if it had been
$3,400 we didn't have it.
00:24:10.48\00:24:14.92
But see it takes the
same faith to heal a headache
00:24:14.95\00:24:17.19
that it does to raise
somebody from the death.
00:24:17.22\00:24:19.29
Faith is faith.
00:24:19.32\00:24:21.06
And so what I
did, I told Mollie,
00:24:21.09\00:24:22.72
I got to get away, I
got to get quiet on this.
00:24:22.76\00:24:25.99
I got to get
before God and find out
00:24:26.03\00:24:27.50
how we're gonna
come up with $340,000.
00:24:27.53\00:24:30.63
Two year old church 350 people,
about 350 people, maybe 250,
00:24:30.67\00:24:37.34
I don't remember, Mollie always,
00:24:37.37\00:24:38.71
she knows the exact, I
just see the big pictures.
00:24:38.74\00:24:41.44
I see the picture on
the front of the puzzle box,
00:24:41.48\00:24:43.75
she'll all see.
00:24:43.78\00:24:45.11
I can say some, she say,
no it wasn't 247, it was 246
00:24:45.15\00:24:49.38
and you spoke ecclesiastically.
00:24:49.42\00:24:51.05
I got it in my
car, Brother Donnie,
00:24:55.02\00:24:56.49
I got in my car,
I rode to Alabama.
00:24:56.52\00:24:58.03
I had some friends down there,
said, come down here hard way
00:24:58.06\00:25:00.60
and just get a
chance to get quite,
00:25:00.63\00:25:02.86
get a chance to pray, you
got to remind God on this.
00:25:02.90\00:25:06.10
So here I go to
Alabama, stayed for three days,
00:25:06.13\00:25:08.14
I prayed, I saw the face of God.
00:25:08.17\00:25:09.80
God, I got to have
$340,000, I need it desperately,
00:25:09.84\00:25:12.57
we're gonna lose
these facilities.
00:25:12.61\00:25:14.48
They got a guy in Johnson
City that wants to open them up
00:25:14.51\00:25:17.31
and use them for
bars and nightclubs.
00:25:17.35\00:25:19.58
Dear Lord, help us
with this. Nothing.
00:25:19.61\00:25:24.75
That ever happened to you?
Heaven ever been brass for you?
00:25:24.79\00:25:29.72
Your prayer
bounced off the ceiling.
00:25:29.76\00:25:34.50
I stopped in Nashville,
Tennessee at a restaurant.
00:25:34.53\00:25:37.07
Those of that are watching
nationally, internationally,
00:25:37.10\00:25:39.20
you might not know,
00:25:39.23\00:25:40.57
but Shoney's is a really
nice southern restaurant.
00:25:40.60\00:25:44.01
They serve a smorgasbord
breakfast in back that time
00:25:44.04\00:25:47.78
but I loaded it
up, I mean, I get in.
00:25:47.81\00:25:51.08
I went in there and I sat down
00:25:51.11\00:25:52.45
and I was eating, trying to eat,
00:25:52.48\00:25:53.82
I couldn't get my mind
fixed right on this thing.
00:25:53.85\00:25:56.08
All I could do
is just sit there,
00:25:56.12\00:25:57.45
didn't open my mouth
except to put food in it.
00:25:57.49\00:25:59.85
I sat there and I ate.
00:25:59.89\00:26:02.76
And finally I just said,
00:26:02.79\00:26:04.13
"God, I can't
handle this anymore,
00:26:04.16\00:26:05.49
I got to get back, I
got to get with Mollie.
00:26:05.53\00:26:06.93
We gonna have to
get with the elders
00:26:06.96\00:26:08.30
and we're gonna have to
pray and get a mind on this.
00:26:08.33\00:26:10.63
We got to have
$340,000 in a week."
00:26:10.67\00:26:14.20
Not in two years, in
a week, it's in a week.
00:26:14.24\00:26:17.54
And I think at that
time, it was in three days
00:26:17.57\00:26:19.71
because I wasted three days.
00:26:19.74\00:26:22.44
I got up to pay my bill
and I was looking at it,
00:26:22.48\00:26:25.01
and I was walking up
toward the cash register
00:26:25.05\00:26:27.12
at Shoney's in
Nashville, Tennessee.
00:26:27.15\00:26:29.28
And a lady stood up,
00:26:29.32\00:26:30.65
I've never seen
before in my life,
00:26:30.69\00:26:32.22
her name was Jeanne Smith.
00:26:32.25\00:26:33.59
I stayed in
contact with her for years.
00:26:33.62\00:26:35.62
She stood up and
she stuck her finger
00:26:35.66\00:26:37.33
in my face and she said,
00:26:37.36\00:26:39.69
"Hey the Lord has
told me to tell you,
00:26:39.73\00:26:41.23
the money is on its way."
00:26:41.26\00:26:44.63
What?
00:26:44.67\00:26:47.84
I don't know, he
just said to tell you,
00:26:47.87\00:26:50.17
the money is on its way.
00:26:50.21\00:26:53.78
I got back home,
pulling in the driveway,
00:26:53.81\00:26:55.24
I got out of car and walked in.
00:26:55.28\00:26:56.81
Mollie said, "What God said."
00:26:56.85\00:26:58.18
I said, "Well, God didn't said,
00:26:58.21\00:26:59.55
Jeanne Smith told me,
the money is on its way."
00:26:59.58\00:27:02.98
What are we gonna do?
00:27:03.02\00:27:04.35
We gonna believe
God, we gonna trust God,
00:27:04.39\00:27:05.75
the God that was
cleaning out the facilities
00:27:05.79\00:27:08.99
that already told
me that I was an idiot
00:27:09.02\00:27:10.69
that it would be
a cold day in hell
00:27:10.73\00:27:12.06
before I ever got this
properties to begin with.
00:27:12.09\00:27:15.10
I told him two things.
00:27:15.13\00:27:16.46
You don't know
anything about hell.
00:27:16.50\00:27:17.83
You sure don't know
anything about my God.
00:27:17.87\00:27:20.60
And when we got the properties,
00:27:20.64\00:27:21.97
guess, who had to
bring me the keys.
00:27:22.00\00:27:24.84
He put him right
there in my hand.
00:27:24.87\00:27:26.37
and he said, I
don't know about your God,
00:27:26.41\00:27:28.71
but I know He
must be a powerful God.
00:27:28.74\00:27:30.75
I got home, walked in,
00:27:30.78\00:27:32.11
Mollie said,
"Well, what happened?
00:27:32.15\00:27:33.48
We gonna get the
money, it's on its way.
00:27:33.52\00:27:36.42
I went to church next
morning. We had prayer.
00:27:36.45\00:27:40.82
Please hear, there comes a time
00:27:40.86\00:27:42.19
when you need to quit
praying and start praising.
00:27:42.22\00:27:45.16
We started praising God.
00:27:45.19\00:27:47.36
I got a phone call
00:27:47.40\00:27:48.73
by 11 o'clock that morning said,
00:27:48.76\00:27:50.10
"Hello, my name is such
and such with college name
00:27:50.13\00:27:51.83
but we're with a
Christian life insurance company
00:27:51.87\00:27:54.50
and I was about to go to Alaska.
00:27:54.54\00:27:57.71
And somebody told me said,
00:27:57.74\00:27:59.07
there's a guy, a little
Alabama southern preacher down
00:27:59.11\00:28:01.84
there in Illinois
that need some money.
00:28:01.88\00:28:04.45
And I know you all in
the money lending business.
00:28:04.48\00:28:07.22
You might want to talk about it,
00:28:07.25\00:28:08.58
think about it.
00:28:08.62\00:28:10.69
I said where are you? He
said I'm Marion, Illinois.
00:28:10.72\00:28:14.36
I said, well, I'll just
meet you in the few minutes,
00:28:14.39\00:28:16.32
brother, I'll
buy you some dinner,
00:28:16.36\00:28:17.69
I'll buy you
some lunch, you know,
00:28:17.73\00:28:19.59
a Cadillac if you want me to.
00:28:19.63\00:28:23.57
I went down to Marion
airport, picked him up,
00:28:23.60\00:28:26.77
brought him back to the place,
00:28:26.80\00:28:28.14
he looked it over and
looked over the appraisal.
00:28:28.17\00:28:32.77
And I said, well,
trying to make conversation.
00:28:32.81\00:28:35.28
Where were you
headed? He said Alaska.
00:28:35.31\00:28:39.61
I said, "Where
did you come from?"
00:28:39.65\00:28:40.98
He said, "New Jersey."
00:28:41.02\00:28:42.35
And I want to tell him
00:28:42.38\00:28:43.72
but you need to
buy your roadmap.
00:28:43.75\00:28:45.25
You don't fly
through Southern Illinois,
00:28:45.29\00:28:47.09
but how many of you
know that God's in control
00:28:47.12\00:28:49.19
when it's a God
and God alone miracle,
00:28:49.22\00:28:51.06
God's in control.
00:28:51.09\00:28:52.89
He had this man fly
through Southern Illinois.
00:28:52.93\00:28:55.16
And when you fly
from New Jersey to Alaska,
00:28:55.20\00:28:57.27
you fly out to Canada.
00:28:57.30\00:28:59.50
But God had other plans.
00:28:59.53\00:29:01.04
He has looked at me
00:29:01.07\00:29:02.40
and this is the
words that he said.
00:29:02.44\00:29:04.31
He said, "Pastor Hal,
the money is on its way."
00:29:04.34\00:29:10.08
Confirmation
God will confirm it.
00:29:10.11\00:29:12.35
You know
something that's prophetic,
00:29:12.38\00:29:14.22
it's never directional,
00:29:14.25\00:29:15.72
it's
conformational is what it is.
00:29:15.75\00:29:17.79
And I knew God would
do it somehow, someway,
00:29:17.82\00:29:20.16
so this old
Pentecostal preacher that he had
00:29:20.19\00:29:22.92
and he thought he was
going to get down and kick,
00:29:22.96\00:29:24.79
he didn't have the
opportunity to do it.
00:29:24.83\00:29:27.06
See, that was a God
and God alone miracle.
00:29:27.10\00:29:28.90
How many are you
with me here tonight?
00:29:28.93\00:29:31.00
And I want to show you
the following scriptures
00:29:31.03\00:29:32.37
of where we put aside
the working of miracles
00:29:32.40\00:29:34.27
through man and understand
that Peter's deliverance
00:29:34.30\00:29:36.97
from the prison house
was a God alone miracle.
00:29:37.01\00:29:40.58
In first and fifth verses
00:29:40.61\00:29:42.58
and Peter
therefore was kept in prison
00:29:42.61\00:29:44.18
but prayer was
made without ceasing
00:29:44.21\00:29:46.05
of the church up
unto God for him.
00:29:46.08\00:29:49.05
Now, this
scripture seems to indicate
00:29:49.08\00:29:51.65
that this miracle came
about by the petitions of man.
00:29:51.69\00:29:54.52
However, this is
not the exact truth.
00:29:54.56\00:29:57.66
What kind of truth? Exact truth.
00:29:57.69\00:29:59.89
Although these prayers
came to God's attention,
00:29:59.93\00:30:02.33
they had nothing to do
00:30:02.36\00:30:03.73
with Peter's
ultimate deliverance.
00:30:03.77\00:30:06.30
Now I'm gonna show you, okay?
00:30:06.33\00:30:07.94
Now I'm not saying here
that prayers are fruitless.
00:30:07.97\00:30:10.01
Don't take that to bank.
00:30:10.04\00:30:11.54
Pastor Gilley and I were
talking about last night,
00:30:11.57\00:30:13.38
the reason Paul
stayed in prison,
00:30:13.41\00:30:15.04
'cause he had
nobody praying for him.
00:30:15.08\00:30:17.18
At least these
people were praying.
00:30:17.21\00:30:19.65
When I first got born again,
00:30:19.68\00:30:21.02
I've been born
again about three months.
00:30:21.05\00:30:22.38
Mollie, you
remember this, new life,
00:30:22.42\00:30:23.75
Christian fellowship, we
had about 25 people in it.
00:30:23.79\00:30:26.59
We've been born
again about three months.
00:30:26.62\00:30:28.56
We were just kind
of floating around,
00:30:28.59\00:30:29.92
trying to find a church,
00:30:29.96\00:30:31.29
and every time
they had a service,
00:30:31.33\00:30:32.83
we went to
every service in town.
00:30:32.86\00:30:34.73
I'm surprised, we didn't go
to Seventh-day Adventist church.
00:30:34.76\00:30:36.73
If we've known they were there,
would have probably gone to it.
00:30:36.77\00:30:39.57
We walked in that place,
and it was few minutes late,
00:30:39.60\00:30:43.27
sat down, and the
guy strung the guitar
00:30:43.30\00:30:45.84
and he said, "Thank you Jesus."
00:30:45.87\00:30:47.68
That's first time I
ever heard that expression.
00:30:47.71\00:30:49.54
I thought what,
"Thank you Jesus,"
00:30:49.58\00:30:51.55
he just began to worship
God, the spirit of God moved in.
00:30:51.58\00:30:54.88
And then after the
service was over with,
00:30:54.92\00:30:56.82
they broke up
and the pastor said,
00:30:56.85\00:30:58.79
"Oh, wait, I have
some visitors here,
00:30:58.82\00:31:00.66
why don't you
tell us your name."
00:31:00.69\00:31:02.26
And we stood up, and I said,
00:31:02.29\00:31:03.86
"Well, this is my wife
Mollie, my name's Hal Steenson."
00:31:03.89\00:31:07.56
And it was like
E. F. Hutton talking,
00:31:07.60\00:31:09.16
everybody went, "What."
00:31:09.20\00:31:12.33
Turned to me
silence in the entire place.
00:31:12.37\00:31:15.80
And the pastor said,
00:31:15.84\00:31:18.37
"Hal, we've been praying
for you for over a year."
00:31:18.41\00:31:25.01
Did not even know
me, had never seen me,
00:31:25.05\00:31:28.15
somebody had turned my
name into them and said,
00:31:28.18\00:31:31.59
would you pray for this man,
because he is a rank sinner,
00:31:31.62\00:31:35.06
a heathen, and his wife
00:31:35.09\00:31:36.93
is tired putting up with him.
00:31:36.96\00:31:43.00
We don't know what the
prayers would do, we don't.
00:31:43.03\00:31:46.90
So you got two, you got
the workings of miracles,
00:31:46.94\00:31:48.84
and then you have the
God, and God alone miracles.
00:31:48.87\00:31:51.67
Verse 6, it says,
00:31:51.71\00:31:53.04
"When Herod would
have brought him forth,
00:31:53.07\00:31:54.41
the same night
Peter was sleeping..."
00:31:54.44\00:31:56.01
What was he doing?
He, what was he doing?
00:31:56.04\00:31:59.05
He's gonna have his
head cut off the next day.
00:31:59.08\00:32:01.68
And he's asleep.
00:32:01.72\00:32:03.55
He's chained in,
bound up between two guards,
00:32:03.59\00:32:08.26
and it says,
"bound with two chains,
00:32:08.29\00:32:09.66
and the keepers before the door,
00:32:09.69\00:32:11.89
that kept the prison."
00:32:11.93\00:32:13.40
Hey, Shelley, Peter was
under the fig tree, wasn't he?
00:32:13.43\00:32:19.13
Now I challenge, hey
Danny, evangelist Danny Shelton,
00:32:19.17\00:32:21.54
I challenge you to
find out what that means
00:32:21.57\00:32:23.34
that he was under the fig tree.
00:32:23.37\00:32:24.71
When Jesus told Nathaniel,
00:32:24.74\00:32:26.14
"Hey, I saw you
under the fig tree,"
00:32:26.17\00:32:27.91
and Nathaniel says,
00:32:27.94\00:32:29.28
"Wow, you're the
king of all of Israel."
00:32:29.31\00:32:31.21
It wasn't because he
saw him under the fig tree,
00:32:31.25\00:32:33.85
it's because there
was something in Nathaniel
00:32:33.88\00:32:36.55
that had the assurety
that Jesus was the Christ,
00:32:36.58\00:32:39.55
and that he
rested in that assurety.
00:32:39.59\00:32:41.62
And this is where Peter was,
he was resting in the assurety.
00:32:41.66\00:32:44.89
"Hey, win, lose, or
draw, head on, head off,
00:32:44.93\00:32:49.03
I'm still gonna
serve, and serve my Lord."
00:32:49.06\00:32:52.73
"Why did God
allow this to happen?"
00:32:52.77\00:32:55.54
And then all of
a sudden intervene.
00:32:55.57\00:32:57.77
I'm gonna share
something with you
00:32:57.81\00:32:59.14
that we don't hear much about,
00:32:59.17\00:33:01.38
but before there can be
a fulfillment of a vision,
00:33:01.41\00:33:03.51
there must be what appears
to be the death of that vision.
00:33:03.55\00:33:08.38
I've never known anyone
that really fulfilled a vision
00:33:08.42\00:33:12.09
that God had given them
00:33:12.12\00:33:13.66
that had not
first at many times,
00:33:13.69\00:33:16.39
Pastor Gilley, how
many times is Isaac been
00:33:16.42\00:33:18.03
on the altar in your lives?
00:33:18.06\00:33:19.83
We used to...
00:33:19.86\00:33:21.20
Mollie and I used to
call our church Isaac,
00:33:21.23\00:33:23.03
because it had been
on the altar so much.
00:33:23.06\00:33:25.87
And this is what happens
00:33:25.90\00:33:27.24
before there can be a
fulfillment of a vision,
00:33:27.27\00:33:29.87
there has to be what appears
to be the death of vision.
00:33:29.90\00:33:32.51
Those of you out there
00:33:32.54\00:33:33.88
that your sons or
daughters who are in prison,
00:33:33.91\00:33:35.74
if they are captivated by drugs,
00:33:35.78\00:33:37.45
if they are into
witchcraft, whatever it is,
00:33:37.48\00:33:39.91
then what's taking place is,
00:33:39.95\00:33:41.28
when they get to the
point where you look like,
00:33:41.32\00:33:43.49
and they look
like, there's no escape.
00:33:43.52\00:33:45.75
Then what you have
to do is say praise God,
00:33:45.79\00:33:48.79
that we finally get
to the end of ourselves,
00:33:48.82\00:33:50.63
and allow God to do something.
00:33:50.66\00:33:52.36
And it's not
within our own strength.
00:33:52.39\00:33:54.03
And let me give you
something to back it up, okay.
00:33:54.06\00:33:56.43
"Abraham was about to drive
a dagger through Isaac's heart,
00:33:56.46\00:33:59.23
the seed that was
supposed to father of people,
00:33:59.27\00:34:01.07
that's like the
sands of the sea."
00:34:01.10\00:34:02.70
Did Isaac die? No.
00:34:02.74\00:34:05.74
Did the vision come to pass?
00:34:05.77\00:34:07.84
Yes, but only after
the death of the vision.
00:34:07.88\00:34:10.85
Samson's in the dungeon blind,
00:34:10.88\00:34:12.65
threading out
corn like an animal
00:34:12.68\00:34:14.35
until the Spirit
of Lord came on him,
00:34:14.38\00:34:16.15
and he killed
more enemies of God
00:34:16.18\00:34:17.75
in his death than
he did in his life.
00:34:17.79\00:34:19.52
There had to be
the death of a vision
00:34:19.55\00:34:21.36
before the vision was fulfilled.
00:34:21.39\00:34:23.46
Jesus Christ dropped his head
in the locks of his shoulders
00:34:23.49\00:34:26.23
and he died, he died,
00:34:26.26\00:34:28.26
but is that the
end of the story?
00:34:28.30\00:34:31.10
No, absolutely not,
the treasure brother,
00:34:31.13\00:34:33.54
when He returns for us.
00:34:33.57\00:34:35.24
It's not the end of the story.
00:34:35.27\00:34:37.34
When the thief on
the cross taunted Him...
00:34:37.37\00:34:40.01
I love this.
00:34:40.04\00:34:41.48
He taunted Him, and
said, "If you be the Christ,
00:34:41.51\00:34:44.25
then why don't you
come down from the cross,
00:34:44.28\00:34:46.41
and save yourself and save us."
00:34:46.45\00:34:49.58
And Jesus didn't
speak one mumbling word,
00:34:49.62\00:34:53.56
but in His silence,
it was as if to say,
00:34:53.59\00:34:56.16
"You just wait
till Sunday morning,
00:34:56.19\00:34:58.29
I'm gonna show you
00:34:58.33\00:34:59.66
there's more powerful
to come up out of the grave
00:34:59.69\00:35:01.56
than it is to come
down from a cross."
00:35:01.60\00:35:04.13
This is our savior.
00:35:04.17\00:35:05.80
Death of a vision, yes,
but he is alive, he is alive.
00:35:05.83\00:35:09.77
The next step to deliverance
from the prison house
00:35:09.80\00:35:12.04
is to let God smack
some sense into you.
00:35:12.07\00:35:17.38
How many of you
like to smack some sense
00:35:17.41\00:35:19.01
into somebody in your household?
00:35:19.05\00:35:22.88
Amen. Shut up Mollie.
00:35:22.92\00:35:26.42
No, I'm sorry
honey, just be quiet.
00:35:26.45\00:35:29.39
Verse 7, it says, "And, behold,
00:35:29.42\00:35:30.76
the angel of the
Lord came upon him,
00:35:30.79\00:35:32.13
and a light
shined in the prison:
00:35:32.16\00:35:33.50
and he smote Peter on the side,
and he raised him up, saying,
00:35:33.53\00:35:36.93
Arise up quickly.
00:35:36.97\00:35:38.30
And his chains fell
off from his hands."
00:35:38.33\00:35:40.87
What did it take
for him to be set free?
00:35:40.90\00:35:43.34
God did what to him?
00:35:43.37\00:35:44.71
First thing he did to him was,
he walked to him and said Paul,
00:35:44.74\00:35:48.98
and all the chains
fell off, he was set free.
00:35:49.01\00:35:52.05
Let me tell you something, okay.
00:35:52.08\00:35:53.82
Before God smack
some sense into Jacob,
00:35:53.85\00:35:57.65
it was give me
that and give me this
00:35:57.69\00:35:59.49
on my never
ending shopping list.
00:35:59.52\00:36:02.19
He made him a Bethel,
00:36:02.22\00:36:03.56
and here's the
well, that Jacob's Well.
00:36:03.59\00:36:05.13
You know what heavy
trouble live in this well.
00:36:05.16\00:36:06.86
Listen to this, "If
God will be with me,
00:36:06.90\00:36:09.86
and will keep me
in this way, I go,
00:36:09.90\00:36:12.50
and will give me bread to
eat, and raiment to put on.
00:36:12.53\00:36:14.90
So that I come again to
my father's house in peace,
00:36:14.94\00:36:17.77
then shall the Lord be my God."
00:36:17.81\00:36:19.77
What he do?
00:36:19.81\00:36:21.24
"And this stone, which
I have set for a pillar,
00:36:21.28\00:36:23.41
shall be God's house:
00:36:23.45\00:36:24.78
and of all that
thou shall give me,
00:36:24.81\00:36:26.31
I will surely
give the tenth of."
00:36:26.35\00:36:27.78
You know what he's saying,
00:36:27.82\00:36:29.15
"Hey, give me everything
I need, furnish my food,
00:36:29.18\00:36:31.05
and provide everything cattle,
land, house and everything."
00:36:31.09\00:36:33.52
"You know what God, I
just might tithe to you.
00:36:33.56\00:36:37.76
However, after God whooping,
00:36:37.79\00:36:43.30
say you know what a whooping is?
00:36:43.33\00:36:45.73
How many of you here
know what a whooping is?
00:36:45.77\00:36:49.30
"After God whooping,
Jacob was a changed man."
00:36:49.34\00:36:53.48
Many of us have
heard of... This is a...
00:36:53.51\00:36:56.11
Many of us have heard
of "drive by shooting."
00:36:56.14\00:36:58.28
Did you heard this?
00:36:58.31\00:37:00.15
What we need in America
are some drive by whoopings.
00:37:00.18\00:37:04.49
Whenever we see
kids doing something
00:37:04.52\00:37:06.29
that we know it's wrong,
00:37:06.32\00:37:07.72
we want to stop the
car, go over the bush,
00:37:07.76\00:37:09.49
cut a switch
off, and whoop them.
00:37:09.52\00:37:12.93
What was that for
as I drive by whooping,
00:37:12.96\00:37:14.70
you shouldn't
have been doing that.
00:37:14.73\00:37:16.43
I could get two
miles from my home,
00:37:16.46\00:37:18.53
and I do something wrong,
00:37:18.57\00:37:19.90
I thought my momma had
eyes on the back of her head.
00:37:19.93\00:37:22.60
Because some little
lady come out of her house,
00:37:22.64\00:37:24.67
and she get a
switching, "whoop me."
00:37:24.71\00:37:27.04
And before I got home,
00:37:27.08\00:37:28.41
there would be four
other women in the neighborhood
00:37:28.44\00:37:30.28
that would whoop
me before I got home.
00:37:30.31\00:37:32.31
Then my momma would whoop me,
00:37:32.35\00:37:33.75
and then when my daddy got home,
00:37:33.78\00:37:35.22
he would whoop me again.
00:37:35.25\00:37:38.22
But God's whoopings,
God's whoopings are different.
00:37:38.25\00:37:42.89
Jacob's next encounter
was, God was at Jabbok,
00:37:42.92\00:37:46.29
when Jacob
walked away from Jabbok,
00:37:46.33\00:37:47.80
he walked away with
a limp that proclaimed,
00:37:47.83\00:37:49.70
whatever you want
God, not what I want.
00:37:49.73\00:37:53.44
And this is what
had to happen to Peter.
00:37:53.47\00:37:55.60
You know, had you all noticed
00:37:55.64\00:37:56.97
that Peter was
a little arrogant,
00:37:57.01\00:37:59.77
a little into himself.
00:37:59.81\00:38:02.38
When Jacob left Jabbok,
he walked away with a limp.
00:38:02.41\00:38:08.48
And when Jesus through
the angel, smote peter,
00:38:08.52\00:38:12.25
I believe that he walked
away with the limp, that said,
00:38:12.29\00:38:17.26
"No more big I, no more king me,
00:38:17.29\00:38:20.23
no more my ministry,
00:38:20.26\00:38:21.86
it's just you God,
just me and you God."
00:38:21.90\00:38:25.70
And this is what
turned things around.
00:38:25.73\00:38:28.50
I can't find a
scripture in the Bible
00:38:28.54\00:38:31.34
that says Peter
are you with the angel?
00:38:31.37\00:38:33.11
If he had to say,
"Hey, wait a minute,
00:38:33.14\00:38:34.48
who are you to
be giving me orders?
00:38:34.51\00:38:36.04
We would me
missing a couple of books
00:38:36.08\00:38:37.41
out of the New Testament.
00:38:37.45\00:38:38.78
Do you know that?
00:38:38.81\00:38:40.15
Because he would
have got his head cut off.
00:38:40.18\00:38:42.15
Verse 8, it says, "An
Angel said to him finally,
00:38:42.18\00:38:44.39
Peter, be strong in the Lord,
and in the power of his might."
00:38:44.42\00:38:46.65
Now listen to this okay.
00:38:46.69\00:38:48.02
If you're
following along with me,
00:38:48.06\00:38:49.82
"Put on the whole armor of God,
00:38:49.86\00:38:51.19
that you may be
able to stand against
00:38:51.23\00:38:52.56
the wiles of the
devil, deny yourself,
00:38:52.59\00:38:53.93
and take up the
cross, and follow me."
00:38:53.96\00:38:55.86
That's not what that says.
00:38:55.90\00:38:57.23
Yes, but that's
what they're saying.
00:38:57.27\00:38:59.43
He says, you'll find the...
00:38:59.47\00:39:00.94
You'll find this to
be biblically correct
00:39:00.97\00:39:02.77
and theologically sound
according to Ephesians 16,
00:39:02.80\00:39:06.14
"Because the angel
says unto to him Peter,
00:39:06.17\00:39:09.01
"Gird thyself, and
bind on thy sandals,
00:39:09.04\00:39:11.61
And so he did
and saith unto him,
00:39:11.65\00:39:13.95
Cast thy garment
about thee, and follow me."
00:39:13.98\00:39:19.15
And he went out,
and he followed him,
00:39:19.19\00:39:23.43
and wish not that it was true,
which was done by the angel,
00:39:23.46\00:39:28.83
but thought it was a vision.
00:39:28.86\00:39:32.30
You all have to stay with
me in this next verse here,
00:39:32.33\00:39:35.54
when they were
passed a first ward,
00:39:35.57\00:39:39.04
everyone of us have a
chance to go through wards,
00:39:39.07\00:39:42.58
those that are out there
00:39:42.61\00:39:43.95
that you're praying
for, your lost loved ones,
00:39:43.98\00:39:45.61
those of you that are here
00:39:45.65\00:39:46.98
that are
praying for your family,
00:39:47.02\00:39:48.35
those of you that are here
00:39:48.38\00:39:49.72
that are praying for
those that need deliverance,
00:39:49.75\00:39:51.39
that are addicted to so
many things in the world.
00:39:51.42\00:39:54.26
You know, we did not,
00:39:54.29\00:39:55.62
and I used to
say, no, it's not so,
00:39:55.66\00:39:57.16
but we didn't face
the addictive problems
00:39:57.19\00:39:59.39
in everything that our
young people face today.
00:39:59.43\00:40:01.56
It's just horrible.
00:40:01.60\00:40:03.70
But everyone of us
have the opportunity
00:40:03.73\00:40:05.57
to go through different wards
in our service to Christianity,
00:40:05.60\00:40:10.24
Pastor, our Brother J.D. Quinn,
00:40:10.27\00:40:12.01
Elder J.D. Quinn
will be talking about
00:40:12.04\00:40:13.61
that more tomorrow night,
00:40:13.64\00:40:15.31
but I went past the
first ward, when I was told
00:40:15.34\00:40:17.65
in my evangelical denomination
that I was raised in,
00:40:17.68\00:40:21.25
that salvation
is all that it is,
00:40:21.28\00:40:23.49
there's nothing
else that goes with it.
00:40:23.52\00:40:26.59
But I got passed the first ward,
00:40:26.62\00:40:29.52
and I got into the second ward
where the charismatics told me,
00:40:29.56\00:40:32.89
"Well, once you
receive the baptism
00:40:32.93\00:40:34.83
with the Holy Spirit,
then that's all it is.
00:40:34.86\00:40:36.83
And if that's all it
was, I would have quit
00:40:36.87\00:40:38.63
a long time ago,
that's not all that it is.
00:40:38.67\00:40:43.00
But the third
thing that happened is,
00:40:43.04\00:40:44.47
Peter came to an iron gate,
00:40:44.51\00:40:48.78
"Man, this iron
gate is the illumination
00:40:48.81\00:40:52.85
that the entire
word of God is true,
00:40:52.88\00:40:55.45
not just a portion of it.
00:40:55.48\00:40:58.52
It leaded into the city
which opens down the court,
00:40:58.55\00:41:01.56
it is only about the Holy Spirit
00:41:01.59\00:41:03.06
that the truths of the Sabbath,
00:41:03.09\00:41:04.43
and the truths of
the state of the dead,
00:41:04.46\00:41:06.13
and that the truths
of hell can be opened."
00:41:06.16\00:41:08.43
It cannot be bowed,
it cannot be prowed,
00:41:08.46\00:41:10.93
it has to be
brought by the Holy Spirit
00:41:10.97\00:41:13.57
for you to come into
the full illumination of it.
00:41:13.60\00:41:17.14
Now I walk pass that, that gate,
00:41:17.17\00:41:20.31
you know what, I love this,
00:41:20.34\00:41:22.44
Wal-Mart thinks that
00:41:22.48\00:41:23.81
they invented the
self opening doors.
00:41:23.85\00:41:27.78
Jesus had one 2000 years ago
00:41:27.82\00:41:30.29
in the prison that
opened of its own accord.
00:41:30.32\00:41:33.05
And it says that,
00:41:33.09\00:41:34.42
"Here's which opened up
00:41:34.46\00:41:35.82
here's not its,
but his own accord,
00:41:35.86\00:41:38.36
and they went out and
passed on through one street,
00:41:38.39\00:41:40.80
and forthwith the
angel departed from him."
00:41:40.83\00:41:45.70
In verse 11, it says,
00:41:45.73\00:41:47.07
"When Peter came to himself,
00:41:47.10\00:41:51.77
truly came to himself,
00:41:51.81\00:41:54.48
he said, "Now I
know of a surety,
00:41:54.51\00:41:58.15
that the Lord
had sent his angel,
00:41:58.18\00:42:01.02
and had delivered me."
00:42:01.05\00:42:02.38
I was 27 years old,
and I was an alcoholic,
00:42:07.82\00:42:12.79
I had been since I was 14.
00:42:12.83\00:42:17.27
God was gracious
enough to give me Mollie Sue.
00:42:17.30\00:42:22.30
When I was 21, she tells people,
00:42:22.34\00:42:24.57
she led a 19-year-old girl,
00:42:24.61\00:42:26.14
make life long
decisions for her,
00:42:26.17\00:42:29.31
but she was so crazy about
me, she couldn't help herself.
00:42:29.34\00:42:34.52
And at the age of
27, my life was wrecked,
00:42:34.55\00:42:37.09
my life was ruined,
there was nothing left
00:42:37.12\00:42:40.86
that I was a shell of a man,
00:42:40.89\00:42:42.39
and she had held me
together for many years.
00:42:42.42\00:42:44.53
And outside of Jesus Christ,
00:42:44.56\00:42:45.89
she's the best thing
that has ever happened to me.
00:42:45.93\00:42:50.97
But I got to the point,
00:42:51.00\00:42:52.33
where I
couldn't take it anymore.
00:42:52.37\00:42:54.67
And so I decided
there's got to be a way out.
00:42:54.70\00:42:57.11
Say, I now realized that
Jesus is the only way out.
00:42:57.14\00:43:00.98
He didn't say that...
00:43:01.01\00:43:02.34
Well, I'll show you the way,
00:43:02.38\00:43:03.71
I'll tell you the truth,
and I'll teach you about life."
00:43:03.75\00:43:06.88
He said, "I am the
way, I am the truth,
00:43:06.92\00:43:10.15
and I am the life."
00:43:10.19\00:43:11.82
He didn't tell Martha,
I'm here to resurrect Lazarus.
00:43:11.85\00:43:14.66
He told Martha and
Mary, "I am the resurrection."
00:43:14.69\00:43:18.13
This is who He is,
this is what He is,
00:43:18.16\00:43:20.56
but I didn't know that,
00:43:20.60\00:43:21.93
and I didn't know
there's a way out.
00:43:21.96\00:43:24.47
And those that
are watching tonight,
00:43:24.50\00:43:26.27
those that you are praying for,
00:43:26.30\00:43:27.64
do not have a clue
that there is a way out
00:43:27.67\00:43:30.54
until you release
them, turn them over to God,
00:43:30.57\00:43:33.64
give them to God, and
say, "Here, I dedicate."
00:43:33.68\00:43:36.54
You know we dedicate babies,
we dedicate little babies,
00:43:36.58\00:43:39.31
somebody say,
00:43:39.35\00:43:40.68
"How could I possibly
give my child to the Lord."
00:43:40.72\00:43:42.38
There's no safer
place for your child to be
00:43:42.42\00:43:45.29
than dedicated and given to God.
00:43:45.32\00:43:47.52
But if your child,
00:43:47.56\00:43:48.89
I prayed with the
lady today her son,
00:43:48.92\00:43:50.26
she sound like she's 35.
00:43:50.29\00:43:52.49
She said, I need
to pray for my son.
00:43:52.53\00:43:54.40
He's going through a
crisis, and he's wanting to do
00:43:54.43\00:43:56.93
all these young
things and everything.
00:43:56.97\00:43:59.10
He's just going
off the deep end,
00:43:59.13\00:44:00.84
he's out drinking and drug,
00:44:00.87\00:44:02.20
and then doing everything else.
00:44:02.24\00:44:03.57
And I said,
"Sweetheart, how old is he?"
00:44:03.61\00:44:05.64
She said, "He is 58."
00:44:05.67\00:44:09.41
And I said, "Well, we are about
to have a baby dedication."
00:44:09.44\00:44:13.15
She said, "Well, he
doesn't have any children."
00:44:13.18\00:44:14.98
I said, "No honey,
we're going to dedicate him,
00:44:15.02\00:44:17.85
he's your baby."
00:44:17.89\00:44:19.22
And on the
phone, over the phone,
00:44:19.25\00:44:21.29
we dedicated that 50
year old man to the Lord,
00:44:21.32\00:44:24.73
lifted him up and gave
him to the Lord, and said,
00:44:24.76\00:44:27.20
"Here he is
Lord, now you take him,
00:44:27.23\00:44:29.53
you mould him, you make him
00:44:29.56\00:44:31.47
into what you want him to
be, not what I want him to be."
00:44:31.50\00:44:35.47
Did you hear that?
00:44:35.50\00:44:36.84
My mama used to pray,
00:44:36.87\00:44:38.21
"Oh, God, save Hal,
get him off the streets,
00:44:38.24\00:44:40.18
he's out hard driven,
00:44:40.21\00:44:41.54
driving race cars
on the drag street,
00:44:41.58\00:44:44.21
running and
drinking, get him off."
00:44:44.25\00:44:45.91
You know what, I
didn't just get saved,
00:44:45.95\00:44:47.68
I got save saved.
00:44:47.72\00:44:49.92
Before I got born
again, Mollie and I,
00:44:49.95\00:44:51.99
we went everywhere
and did not everything,
00:44:52.02\00:44:54.22
but we were in the
world, and nobody cared.
00:44:54.26\00:44:57.06
And once we got born again,
00:44:57.09\00:44:58.43
and gave our lives
totally to Jesus Christ,
00:44:58.46\00:45:00.36
you know, our family
thought, we'd gone crazy.
00:45:00.40\00:45:03.57
They said, "Well,
Hal Steenson's butter
00:45:03.60\00:45:07.44
don't slipped off his brain."
00:45:07.47\00:45:10.97
Boy's porch lights
on, but nobody's home.
00:45:11.01\00:45:15.34
And they said, I remember
one person in my family saying,
00:45:15.38\00:45:18.91
"Let him alone,
it will Passover."
00:45:18.95\00:45:21.92
And I said, "All right,
not only did it pass over,
00:45:21.95\00:45:24.35
it also Pentecosted."
00:45:24.39\00:45:26.15
And not only did it Pentecosted,
00:45:26.19\00:45:27.79
but it also
Seventh-day Adventist did,
00:45:27.82\00:45:30.33
and it went into
the deep things of God.
00:45:30.36\00:45:32.06
Yeah, it passed over.
00:45:32.09\00:45:33.46
That's what we need to do is,
we need to give those children,
00:45:33.50\00:45:36.13
give our children to
God, totally and completely
00:45:36.16\00:45:38.67
and let God do
what He wants to in him.
00:45:38.70\00:45:42.14
Whether we think this...
00:45:42.17\00:45:45.07
it's mixed up, it's
a termite nor yo-yo.
00:45:45.11\00:45:49.91
There gonna be people
in India watching this,
00:45:49.94\00:45:51.85
they don't have a clue
what I'm talking about.
00:45:51.88\00:45:56.69
I had taken all
that I could stand,
00:45:56.72\00:45:58.05
I came in one night.
00:45:58.09\00:46:01.29
Mollie had left for
her own sanity, not safety,
00:46:01.32\00:46:05.06
I didn't do
anything to harm of it.
00:46:05.09\00:46:06.43
Her own sanity, she's taken in,
and left and taken my daughter,
00:46:06.46\00:46:09.83
and gone to, I
think her sister's.
00:46:09.86\00:46:12.87
Now she had left me once
before about six months early,
00:46:12.90\00:46:15.10
but I didn't know she left
me, she went down to her mom,
00:46:15.14\00:46:17.07
I just went down
and had dinner with her.
00:46:17.11\00:46:20.84
Spent a day, and
brought her home.
00:46:20.88\00:46:23.21
But this time, I
knew she had gone,
00:46:23.24\00:46:25.91
and I sat down in the
middle of the living room floor,
00:46:25.95\00:46:29.85
and I opened up a
bottle of alcohol.
00:46:29.88\00:46:32.59
At the time I couldn't sleep,
00:46:32.62\00:46:35.19
when I couldn't
sleep during the day,
00:46:35.22\00:46:36.56
I couldn't stay going.
00:46:36.59\00:46:37.93
Some of you know
what I'm talking about,
00:46:37.96\00:46:39.29
some of you out there,
00:46:39.33\00:46:40.66
you might be
sitting there right now
00:46:40.70\00:46:42.03
with a fifth of
alcohol, sitting in your...
00:46:42.06\00:46:43.63
holding in your hand,
you might be there right now
00:46:43.67\00:46:46.00
snorting coke,
got that $100 bill,
00:46:46.03\00:46:48.30
no that $1 bill,
00:46:48.34\00:46:49.67
if you have
been on it very long.
00:46:49.70\00:46:51.11
One dollar bill rolled up,
00:46:51.14\00:46:52.47
sucking up that
thing up your nose.
00:46:52.51\00:46:54.01
You might be to the
point where you're thinking,
00:46:54.04\00:46:56.14
I shouldn't be watching these,
00:46:56.18\00:46:57.51
'cause there is pornography
on the other channel.
00:46:57.55\00:46:59.01
Let me tell you something, okay.
00:46:59.05\00:47:01.92
God is there waiting for
you, waiting to set you free
00:47:01.95\00:47:07.06
and deliver you
from the prison house,
00:47:07.09\00:47:08.49
and tonight is your night,
00:47:08.52\00:47:09.86
if you will, hear
what is being said.
00:47:09.89\00:47:14.10
I couldn't sleep, I
couldn't stay awake,
00:47:14.13\00:47:16.67
I had pills to go to sleep,
I had pills to keep me awake.
00:47:16.70\00:47:20.14
And I've just owned...
00:47:20.17\00:47:21.50
I think on one of the
news channels this morning,
00:47:21.54\00:47:23.41
they're talking
about this young man
00:47:23.44\00:47:24.77
that had just died of
an overdose this actor.
00:47:24.81\00:47:26.94
And how many people
are actually dying daily
00:47:26.98\00:47:29.08
from prescription drugs?
00:47:29.11\00:47:32.38
I sat down in the
middle of the living floor,
00:47:32.41\00:47:34.78
I just had the
prescription filled,
00:47:34.82\00:47:36.69
it was 6300-milligram
methaqualone sleeping pills.
00:47:36.72\00:47:42.06
So those of you that
are not familiar with it,
00:47:42.09\00:47:45.39
10 of them should've killed me.
00:47:45.43\00:47:48.50
Ten of them, and I
took sixty of them.
00:47:48.53\00:47:53.07
I took 30, 30 milligram Dalmane,
00:47:53.10\00:47:55.84
which is also a sleeping pill.
00:47:55.87\00:48:00.04
And I said
okay, come and get me.
00:48:00.08\00:48:04.41
My brother
drove up about an hour
00:48:04.45\00:48:05.91
after I had done this.
00:48:05.95\00:48:07.28
I was not even at myself.
00:48:07.32\00:48:10.72
And he came in,
and he walked up to me,
00:48:10.75\00:48:14.39
I was laying on the floor,
and he said, "What'd you do?"
00:48:14.42\00:48:17.69
And he picked up
the bottle of pills,
00:48:17.73\00:48:19.06
"You take all
this?" And I said, "Yeah."
00:48:19.09\00:48:20.56
This is where you think,
00:48:20.60\00:48:21.93
"Thank God, he got you up
00:48:21.96\00:48:23.33
and he took you to the hospital,
00:48:23.37\00:48:24.70
he had your stomach pull."
00:48:24.73\00:48:26.07
No, he got me up,
and put me in his car,
00:48:26.10\00:48:28.00
and took me to his house,
00:48:28.04\00:48:29.64
and put me in his
bedroom for me to die.
00:48:29.67\00:48:34.04
Why?
00:48:34.08\00:48:35.41
Because everybody was so
tired of putting up with me.
00:48:35.44\00:48:40.75
We get so tired of putting up
00:48:40.78\00:48:44.12
with our children,
our spouses, our friends,
00:48:44.15\00:48:47.46
because every time
they get around us,
00:48:47.49\00:48:49.22
they throw up on
us, and we pray for him,
00:48:49.26\00:48:51.23
pray for him, and pray for
him, and they turn right around,
00:48:51.26\00:48:54.00
and stab us in the back.
00:48:54.03\00:48:55.43
But let me tell
you, don't stop praying,
00:48:55.46\00:48:57.80
don't give up,
don't put them in a room,
00:48:57.83\00:49:00.54
so that they can die.
00:49:00.57\00:49:03.41
In case you didn't
know, I didn't die.
00:49:03.44\00:49:07.48
I woke up the next morning,
00:49:07.51\00:49:09.68
and I went into
my brother's room,
00:49:09.71\00:49:11.05
and said, "What did you do?
00:49:11.08\00:49:12.41
Did you take me
to the hospital?"
00:49:12.45\00:49:13.78
He said, "No, I
didn't do anything,
00:49:13.82\00:49:15.15
I put you in there to die."
00:49:15.18\00:49:16.52
He wasn't ashamed of it.
00:49:16.55\00:49:18.72
I love him very much
too in case you didn't know.
00:49:18.75\00:49:22.09
He's a good man.
00:49:22.12\00:49:26.46
I walked out in my
car, November 8, 1976,
00:49:26.49\00:49:29.40
6 o'clock in the morning.
00:49:29.43\00:49:33.40
It was dew on the ground,
00:49:33.44\00:49:34.94
it wasn't frozen,
dew on the ground,
00:49:34.97\00:49:36.30
I reached out to
open the car door,
00:49:36.34\00:49:38.67
and I slipped
and fell in the dew,
00:49:38.71\00:49:42.08
in between the
car door and the car.
00:49:42.11\00:49:45.38
Now this is where it might
get confusing for some people,
00:49:45.41\00:49:49.02
because it was a
little confusing for me.
00:49:49.05\00:49:52.49
But it's like Paul when he said,
00:49:52.52\00:49:53.89
"I was caught up
to the third heaven."
00:49:53.92\00:49:55.66
I knew a man that was
caught up in third heaven.
00:49:55.69\00:49:57.46
Whether he was in the body
or in the spirit, I don't know.
00:49:57.49\00:50:00.90
So whether I was in the body
or in the spirit, I don't know,
00:50:00.93\00:50:03.87
but I'm just gonna
tell you what happened.
00:50:03.90\00:50:06.50
And what happened was, I said,
00:50:06.53\00:50:08.40
"Why did you not let me
leave, and I was cursing God."
00:50:08.44\00:50:11.41
One lady said one time,
00:50:11.44\00:50:12.77
and I've not shared
this but a few times.
00:50:12.81\00:50:14.44
How could you be cursing God,
and God saved you, and I said,
00:50:14.48\00:50:17.81
"Because God did not hear
00:50:17.85\00:50:19.51
what was coming
out of my mouth."
00:50:19.55\00:50:21.25
God heard what was
coming out of my heart.
00:50:21.28\00:50:24.95
"I can't live like
this any longer God,
00:50:24.99\00:50:26.96
I can't go on
like this any longer."
00:50:26.99\00:50:29.46
And so that when
I got born again,
00:50:29.49\00:50:30.83
God touched me, well,
God didn't, God smacked me.
00:50:30.86\00:50:34.86
He said, "This is
not where it ends,
00:50:34.90\00:50:37.57
this is not where
it ends, when you die,
00:50:37.60\00:50:39.43
it's not where it ends.
00:50:39.47\00:50:40.97
You got an eternity
to live with me forever."
00:50:41.00\00:50:43.81
And I say, now
I'm gonna tell you,
00:50:43.84\00:50:45.17
I'm gonna live until God dies."
00:50:45.21\00:50:46.68
God's never gonna
die, can I hear an amen?
00:50:46.71\00:50:48.51
Amen.
00:50:48.54\00:50:49.88
That means, I'm
gonna live forever.
00:50:49.91\00:50:51.81
And I slipped
in the grass there,
00:50:51.85\00:50:53.62
and I was on my knees,
and I heard a voice say,
00:50:53.65\00:50:56.42
when I said, "My
life is worthless."
00:50:56.45\00:50:58.59
This voice said, "I'll take it.
00:50:58.62\00:51:01.89
I'll take it, Hal."
00:51:06.06\00:51:09.06
And I looked up,
00:51:09.10\00:51:11.53
in the body of
spirit, I don't know,
00:51:11.57\00:51:12.97
I'm just telling you
what I know happened to me.
00:51:13.00\00:51:16.17
I looked up, and
the Lord was standing
00:51:16.20\00:51:17.84
on the other side of the car.
00:51:17.87\00:51:19.74
Now some people, we
get 150 phone calls on it,
00:51:19.77\00:51:23.08
hope not, I hope I'm
speaking to you heart.
00:51:23.11\00:51:25.98
The Lord standing on
the other side of the car,
00:51:26.01\00:51:28.08
and I looked up,
00:51:28.12\00:51:29.45
and I could see
him very detailed.
00:51:29.48\00:51:31.22
I've never seen a
picture that looks like Jesus,
00:51:31.25\00:51:34.62
and he handed me a
blank sheet of paper,
00:51:34.66\00:51:39.03
just, "Here Hal,
hand it over the car door
00:51:39.06\00:51:44.83
and said, "Sign this."
00:51:44.87\00:51:46.87
And I looked at it, and down
00:51:46.90\00:51:48.24
in the right hand of the corner,
00:51:48.27\00:51:49.60
it had signed in red, I
don't know if it was blood,
00:51:49.64\00:51:52.91
but it was
signed in red, it had,
00:51:52.94\00:51:54.54
"Jesus Christ,
Lord of the lords,
00:51:54.58\00:51:55.94
and King of
kings," right hand corner.
00:51:55.98\00:51:59.61
Over on the left hand corner,
00:51:59.65\00:52:00.98
it was another line,
he said, "Sign this."
00:52:01.02\00:52:02.95
And I signed
willingly, not under pressure.
00:52:02.98\00:52:06.76
I signed my name to
it Thomas Hal Steenson.
00:52:06.79\00:52:11.93
And I thought,
there's nothing on this paper,
00:52:11.96\00:52:16.83
what am I signing?
00:52:16.87\00:52:18.20
And he said, "This
is my covenant with you.
00:52:18.23\00:52:22.54
This is your covenant with me."
00:52:22.57\00:52:27.31
And I said,
"There is nothing on it."
00:52:27.34\00:52:28.68
He said, "We will
fill it in as we go."
00:52:28.71\00:52:33.31
So he filled me and baptized
a similar God, charismatic,
00:52:33.35\00:52:37.59
and now he's filled me in
as a Seventh-day Adventist.
00:52:37.62\00:52:40.96
And I know that this
word is the word of God,
00:52:40.99\00:52:44.26
but only God contains
all of the word of God."
00:52:44.29\00:52:47.76
So if He's got further
things for all of us to go
00:52:47.80\00:52:50.70
as the end times comes,
00:52:50.73\00:52:52.27
and revelation is
unfolded before us,
00:52:52.30\00:52:54.80
and the laity
comes out, in the pew,
00:52:54.84\00:52:56.97
if it begins to get
competition from the pew,
00:52:57.01\00:52:59.54
I want to be
right in there pastor,
00:52:59.57\00:53:01.54
hearing what God's got to say.
00:53:01.58\00:53:04.31
I'm not gonna say
salvation is all that there is,
00:53:04.35\00:53:06.35
that baptism of Holy
Spirit is all that there is.
00:53:06.38\00:53:08.68
He's the one
that's got all of these,
00:53:08.72\00:53:10.39
and I want all that
there is to receive from Him.
00:53:10.42\00:53:13.82
And that's not the selfish one.
00:53:13.86\00:53:18.53
After that I did
everything that he said to do.
00:53:18.56\00:53:21.56
Tried to do everything
that He wanted me to do.
00:53:21.60\00:53:25.00
And did I mess up? Yeah.
00:53:25.03\00:53:28.20
How many of you know that
00:53:28.24\00:53:30.77
babies really get nauseous
00:53:30.81\00:53:32.94
around clean suits.
00:53:32.97\00:53:38.18
Burp.
00:53:38.21\00:53:40.52
Well, baby
Christians will throw up on you,
00:53:40.55\00:53:43.18
and they will
dirty their diaper.
00:53:43.22\00:53:46.02
And we have to clean them
up, and I did a lot of that.
00:53:46.05\00:53:49.56
And you know what he did?
00:53:49.59\00:53:50.93
He was always
there, pat me on the back,
00:53:50.96\00:53:53.19
picking me up, encouraging me,
00:53:53.23\00:53:55.56
but every now and
then, when I knew something
00:53:55.60\00:53:57.17
that I did something that
should not have been done,
00:53:57.20\00:53:59.27
and I knew better,
you know what you do.
00:53:59.30\00:54:01.87
He give me whooping.
00:54:01.90\00:54:04.14
He didn't give me an F
and put it on my refrigerator
00:54:04.17\00:54:06.37
for the whole world to see.
00:54:06.41\00:54:07.74
What he did was, he
got me in the Word of God,
00:54:07.78\00:54:10.18
and the Word of God
began to pierce my heart
00:54:10.21\00:54:12.51
to chastise me,
and chastise my heart
00:54:12.55\00:54:15.22
that I should
not have done that,
00:54:15.25\00:54:16.99
because it goes
against the Word of God.
00:54:17.02\00:54:21.26
That was 1976, 32 years ago,
00:54:21.29\00:54:26.83
and I still got long way to go.
00:54:26.86\00:54:29.16
But you know what?
00:54:29.20\00:54:30.53
If you don't hear anything else,
00:54:30.57\00:54:31.90
I say, hear this.
00:54:31.93\00:54:33.27
I would rather be one
foot out of hell facing heaven,
00:54:33.30\00:54:35.64
than it would be one foot
out of heaven facing hell.
00:54:35.67\00:54:39.11
So we're headed
the right direction,
00:54:39.14\00:54:40.48
how many of you
are headed with me?
00:54:40.51\00:54:42.94
Let me read this to
you right quick, Okay.
00:54:42.98\00:54:45.31
verse 11, it says,
"When Peter come to himself,
00:54:45.35\00:54:47.18
and he said, Now
I know of a surety,
00:54:47.22\00:54:49.38
that the Lord
had sent his angel,
00:54:49.42\00:54:51.32
and have delivered me,
00:54:51.35\00:54:52.69
the Lord did this
out of the hand of Herod,
00:54:52.72\00:54:54.69
and from all the
expectations of the Jews."
00:54:54.72\00:54:57.43
And then what happened was,
when he considered this thing,
00:54:57.46\00:55:00.96
he came to the house of
Mary, the mother of John,
00:55:01.00\00:55:02.96
whose surname was Mark,
00:55:03.00\00:55:04.33
where many were
gathered together praying.
00:55:04.37\00:55:05.77
And as Peter knocked on
the door of the gate at...
00:55:05.80\00:55:08.54
a damsel came to
hearken, named Rosy."
00:55:08.57\00:55:11.41
It's Rhoda,
00:55:11.44\00:55:12.77
but it actually translates Rosy.
00:55:12.81\00:55:14.88
"And when she
knew Peter's voice,
00:55:14.91\00:55:16.24
she opened not
the gate for gladness,
00:55:16.28\00:55:18.61
but ran in and told,
00:55:18.65\00:55:19.98
how Peter stood before the gate.
00:55:20.02\00:55:21.62
And they said unto
her what, thou art mad,
00:55:21.65\00:55:24.85
but she
constantly affirmed that,
00:55:24.89\00:55:26.25
it was, even so,
then they say it,
00:55:26.29\00:55:28.79
"it is his angel."
00:55:28.82\00:55:30.23
Now catch verse 17,
00:55:30.26\00:55:33.29
"But he, beckoning unto
them with his hand told them,
00:55:33.33\00:55:35.80
hold their peace,
I'm not his angel."
00:55:35.83\00:55:38.80
And then I can just
imagine Peter saying this,
00:55:38.83\00:55:42.17
"What have you guys been doing?"
00:55:42.20\00:55:43.54
They say, "We've been having
a prayer meeting for you Pete.
00:55:43.57\00:55:45.91
We've been praying and seeking
00:55:45.94\00:55:47.28
the face of God for you."
00:55:47.31\00:55:48.64
He said, "Well, then why
did you believe it was me?
00:55:48.68\00:55:52.81
Why didn't you
believe that it was me,
00:55:52.85\00:55:54.18
it was my angel
that was standing here,
00:55:54.22\00:55:56.69
what were you praying?"
00:55:56.72\00:55:58.29
"I prayed that you
would die graciously."
00:55:58.32\00:56:01.69
"I would pray that it
would be a quick execution,
00:56:01.72\00:56:05.53
and I was praying
that you had taken out
00:56:05.56\00:56:07.63
life insurance for
your mother-in-law,
00:56:07.66\00:56:09.56
and you know, let
me tell you something,
00:56:09.60\00:56:11.77
whenever you begin
to pray for somebody,
00:56:11.80\00:56:14.00
here's what you do.
00:56:14.04\00:56:15.37
You hold them up and
you say, here they are God,
00:56:15.40\00:56:18.27
I've been praying for my son,
my daughter, my aunt, my uncle,
00:56:18.31\00:56:21.38
my brother, and my
sister for years and years.
00:56:21.41\00:56:25.35
Nothing has happened.
00:56:25.38\00:56:28.65
See, it's not the workings
of miracles all the time.
00:56:28.68\00:56:32.45
Sometimes it is a
sovereign move of God.
00:56:32.49\00:56:36.59
And this is what we
need to ask God for.
00:56:36.62\00:56:38.43
If you're out there,
and you have somebody
00:56:38.46\00:56:40.36
that you need to stand
in for, I want us to pray.
00:56:40.40\00:56:44.70
Father sovereign move,
00:56:44.73\00:56:47.44
move on their
lives, whatever it takes,
00:56:47.47\00:56:50.11
move in their lives
and show yourself great
00:56:50.14\00:56:52.47
to each and
everyone of them father.
00:56:52.51\00:56:54.48
And let each and every person
that's in this program tonight,
00:56:54.51\00:56:58.21
that needs to be
delivered or family delivered
00:56:58.25\00:57:00.65
from the prison
house, let it be so.
00:57:00.68\00:57:02.45
Let us turn loose of
them, and give them to God,
00:57:02.48\00:57:05.95
and yet hold onto him
through diligent prayer.
00:57:05.99\00:57:09.72
If that's been your prayer,
stand on that, give that child,
00:57:09.76\00:57:13.63
give that person to God,
and He will honor that gift.
00:57:13.66\00:57:17.27