Introduction: Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, April 28, 2024 Three appeared to Abraham, one, God in the form of a man. When God appears in the form of a man, Theophany, it’s like Messiah. When He appears in Theophany, He is in the form of a man, and the two Angels were in the form of a man, they were hidden (Genesis chapter 18). And Jesus said, and may have been this statement in Theophany, Jesus said, Abraham saw my day, and he rejoiced at the tent door. And they said, thou not yet 50 years old, and you were back there? He said before Abraham, He said, I was around a long time; it’s what He meant. It’s exactly what the Bible said. If you make it say any other thing, saith the Lord, you are doomed. John 8: 56 – 58: “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.” Remember, God was still reigning in heaven and overseeing the Universes, and yet, He was down here on earth, in the form of a man, talking to Abraham. We do not know how long He was with Abraham. He took the time to eat the food that Abraham had prepared, He talked with him, and He walked towards Sodom with him. He again came back to earth, as a human being, as the Lord Jesus, for thirty-three and half years. Isaiah 9: 6 tells us “The mighty God” was here on earth as a human being, as the Lord Jesus: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” In Sodom, in case you don’t know, there is no evils today that that didn’t cover. Jesus referred to it again, as the sins of Sodom, so shall it be at the end of the age. With God having such compassion on the sins of Sodom, and this is shown us the importance of miracles. It shows us the importance of that power, the importance of divine healing, the importance of delivering those people from oppression, depression, and possession, and whatever they have, to deliver them from the sins that they are involved with, and bringing them into Christ, the Savior. Then, what will occur at the end of the age? The same type ministry, Jesus says, the same powerful anointing. There is good news for the sinners, there is good news to the lost, there are good news to the wicked, which Paul said I am chief among all, and God saved me. There is good news for the teenagers that’s steep in so much sin today, and narcotics, and drinking, and all of this that’s happening around our country. So, what will happen at the end of the age? It will be the ministry of pure deliverance. It will be no different than what Jesus used. He will use the same method. And they can get as wicked as Sodom, and anyway that they want to get, but that knife will cut right through it. He will deliver them. They can be insane, a lunatic, He’ll set them free. Heathen, that’s never being able to hear the word of God, where men has never been able to reach him in the jungles, Paul said their conscience, and what’s on their heart, God’s foreknowledge will reveal all there is to know about that. Seeing the opportunity, which ones that never heard about Jesus, or about the Messiah, why, it’s a concluded matter from the beginning, and He knows exactly who would give his heart to God. He’s got one of the greatest master plans in wisdom of all time. When the exact number is counted for that elect, then God will translate. Trust in the Lord Jesus, set your heart upon Him, and when He comes at the time of translation, you will be glorified to meet Him. Colossians 3: 4: “When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.” You will be blessed. Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas

Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, April 28, 2024 We listened to a sermon titled “Important Facts”, CD # 1037 (Part One), preached by Brother Neal Frisby. In the sermon, Brother Frisby said: Many churches now have given up on the sinners. They are too wicked, they claim, to save. Many of them say you can’t do anything with those teenagers. You can’t do anything with those people. They are getting so wicked you can’t do anything. They don’t have power. It takes power to get in there. The ordinary way of preaching, the ordinary way of presenting the gospel is kind of bouncing back. They are confronted with walls of evil power. And they say we just work for kind of good people, the self-righteous people, give us just the good people, the sinners are getting too wicked, and too sinful to deal with, But, oh, what does God have to say? That’s when it’s getting ripe. That’s your historical movements, leaning just with salvation, sometimes preaching part of the word, or most of the word, without that dynamic. Without the dynamic of the gospel, it will just dry up and blow away. You’ve got to have the dynamic of that. But Jesus gives us words of great wisdom, and great significance, and encouragement for our age. He is doing this for a reason, and it’s for our age too. He will warn, He will reveal, and He will give the times of seasons, and He will reveal to the ones of faith, to the ones that want to hear the word of the Lord, He will reveal to us like He did Abraham. We are the seed of Abraham by faith, whether Gentile, whether Jew or what, by faith, the seed of Abraham. Genesis 18: 17 – 18: “And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?” And He will not hide from Abraham’s seed the thing which He should do, just before Armageddon. He will not hide the great restoration revival coming to that elect. He will not hide the judgment that’s just around the corner, but He will reveal it to those of the faith. And when I say of the faith, that believe all of the word of God, and that believe in the true God, and the eternal One, and believe Jesus for just what He is, that is the true faith. Do you believest thou this? Could Sodom have been saved? Sodom could have been saved if the people had seen the power of God in operation, like they saw it in the day of Jesus. Here is Jesus, He’s showing and revealing things to come, and things of His age, and things of the past, present and future we are faced with here. And it’s a great encouragement to people, to know no matter how wicked, no matter how much demon power rises upon the earth, and the forces, that God’s hand is most potent. Matthew 11: 23: “And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.” Now, we are seeing something about this deliverance ministry which was not like that in the Old Testament. Abraham did pray the prayer of faith, but it was not everyday matter of gift going around. The ministries were different. He ruled them ahead of the religious Pharisees and the sinners that turned Him down. They were so stiff in sin and the type of religion that the Pharisees, they had enough of the word of God to hang them; Sodom had no word. There’s where it lays. Matthew 11: 24: “But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.” Sodom will come up better before me, than Capernaum and a few of the cities here that have rejected this. So we see, Capernaum saw the works of the Lord Jesus and repented not, but Jesus said that if Sodom had this opportunity, the same opportunity, it would have remained until this day. In other words, if the miracles had been performed there, that were performed in front of Israel, Sodom would have returned and turned to God, and stood to this day, and judgment would have passed over. Three appeared to Abraham, one, God in the form of a man. When God appears in the form of a man, Theophany, it’s like Messiah. When He appears in Theophany, He is in the form of a man, and the two Angels were in the form of a man, they were hidden. But yet Abraham was able, by spiritual discernment, to know something was up. He could sense something in there, even though it was hidden. And he knew something was there, and God revealed Himself in the form of a man. Now, he had heard His voice coming out of heaven and he knew something was the same, but He was covered. Now the two Angels went to Sodom, but they looked like humans and they did not recognize them. Neither did they perform any type miracles, but blindness, not healing the sick or anything, the type ministry the Messiah would have. And Jesus said, and may have been this statement in Theophany, Jesus said, Abraham saw my day, and he rejoiced at the tent door. And they said, thou not yet 50 years old, and you were back there? He said before Abraham, He said, I was around a long time; it’s what He meant. It’s exactly what the Bible said. If you make it say any other thing, saith the Lord, you are doomed. There is no device, there is no ministry known to man, or Angel, or anything, that can affect the people like the deliverance ministry that Jesus had, that said the works that I do shall ye do; that will be the final kind. Nothing, devised to man, will work like that deliverance ministry, nothing else. Now, you may have the TV, you may have radio, publications, and different things, fine anointing, do great things in there, and the anointing, but the gifts of faith, the gifts of healing and the gifts of miracles, and the gifts to cast out devils, and the discernment, to let the Holy Spirit move in the gifts of the Spirit, nothing has been devised. And Jesus Himself made the statement. The kind of ministry that you see here today would have turned the entire bunch out, He would allow it to go forth in there, with the preaching of the word. And they would have repented; He said so Himself. And yet, they would come up ahead, Sodom would come up. In Sodom, in case you don’t know, there is no evils today that that didn’t cover. Jesus referred to it again, as the sins of Sodom, so shall it be at the end of the age. In the sins of Sodom, it would be bestiality, animal worship, incest, it would be children being taught in school about sex before 6 years old and putting into action as an experience. They had no, in their heart, they didn’t have any way of allowing nature to take it’s fulfillment. And then Jesus had regard, that if the ministry would have went forth in there, they would have stood till this day, Jesus said. Then, what will occur at the end of the age? The same type ministry, Jesus says, the same powerful anointing. There is good news for the sinners, there is good news to the lost, there are good news to the wicked, which Paul said I am chief among all, and God saved me. There is good news for the teenagers that’s steep in so much sin today, and narcotics, and drinking, and all of this that’s happening around our country. The power gifts, the power in the anointing, the power to set free, God is going to turn the hand of many wicked, and turn the hand of many sinners today. He not going to just speak to the self-righteous, and the good people that don’t want to hear Him, He’s going to reach into the heart of it, and He’s going to put the power of the sword in there. Sodom could have been saved too if there were just ten righteous in the city. Genesis 18: 32: “And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.” Abraham’s hope was in the possibility that ten, the number that he felt was there. He felt, he calculated down, Abraham loved numbers. He started with 50, and God is the One that created him. Got down to about 40, 30, 20, kept going on with the Lord, coming on down, finally told the Lord, don’t be angry now, I’ve got one more. Isn’t that intercessor lovely? Abraham was our first great intercessor in the Bible. God loves the intercessor. He’ll listen to him. The intercessor has a tough job. He intercesses for the lost, he intercesses to save the people of God, he intercesses for the ministries of God. Abraham was a great intercessor, and that’s why the seed of Abraham went on into the promised land at the appointed time. Why, that pillar of fire appeared to Abraham, went across the camp, and sealed it, and waived at him on through there, and saluted Abraham, a great intercessor (Genesis 15: 17). So, He’ll listen to the intercessors. I don’t know any part of the Bible, in very many places, in that form. I don’t believe anybody in that form, except in the New Testament when Messiah come. Abraham had all that time standing with God. Abraham said, I know there’s 10 there. I’ve got Lot, and I know some of them young daughters, some of them in there are okay, said, I believe they ought to be. He said, Lord, if there be 10 in there, he said, will you save them? And the Lord said, Sure, if there be 10 in there, I’ll save them. Before the Lord appeared Abraham, He allowed the conditions in Sodom to get below 5, and then He appeared. The God of Joseph appeared, and yet Joseph hadn’t come yet. So we find out, in Abraham who loved to count, bypass Jacob a little bit, here pops up Joseph, like Abraham, the great, great grandson of Abraham. See, there was Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph. And Joseph just loved to count, got him in trouble with his brethren. So, the God of Joseph was standing there in numerical values with Abraham. And He knew that Joseph would save a group. He said your great grandson is going to really take a lot of your people and everybody, and save them. So, when He dropped to 5, He appeared to Abraham, knowing Abraham couldn’t get Him. And Abraham got down to 10, wasn’t good enough. So, he’s ashamed to ask Him anymore. Isn’t that a bad shape, he says, who am I to argue with God. He had prayed so much for Lot, his nephew. To get rich, Lot went down there, to get rich. And while he was getting rich, down in Sodom, he is losing his children. See, it was only 4, and it dropped to 3. And when it dropped under 5, He appeared to Abraham. Abraham, he reasoned, why did he stop at 10, why did he stop at that number? He has a heart for the little ones of Lot. His hope laid in Lot’s family. The following was Abraham’s method of calculation for reaching the number of 10 righteous souls in Sodom, but the Lord didn’t appear to him till it was below 5, and He appeared. He knows Abraham knew how to count good, will calculate. In fact, Genesis 12 through 15 tells the whole story; Genesis 19: 15. Lot and his wife, that’s 2; unmarried daughters were 2; his 2 married daughters, makes 6; at least 2 according to Genesis 19: 14, his two sons-in-law is 2 more; and his 2 sons, they think grandsons, in Genesis 19: 12. When you add that up, you come up with the number 10. Abraham was going for it, right there, in that seed. But the Lord told him, there wasn’t. But the happy thing about it, was, at least, Lot got out. God’s hand was showing us that at the end of the age, a few will get out through the great tribulation. And Abraham got up, knowing that God’s word never fails, in the morning, and Abraham arose and he looked towards the plains, he knew God’s going to rumble down there and he looked towards Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain and he beheld. It was like a volcano went up underneath them, and erupted with, I don’t know, how many feet in the air, of salt and fire, mingled with blood, and everything, just sky high, as the smoke of a furnace, and that’s hot in a furnace. And that was the end of Sodom. Only 3 made it out. Before God appeared to him, He knew exactly how many was there. When the exact number is counted for that elect, then God will translate. And the exact number to go through great tribulation is already being allotted by the Lord, who will flee into the wilderness at that time. You are with the great Calculator when you run into Him. And we find out later, the great grandson, Joseph, was like Abraham. He was always interested in saving souls, even those not of his own kind; he was in Egypt. Sound like Abraham; Joseph, his brothers, they didn’t know nothing, they just run right into anything that got burned up by God, it was just the mercies of God they weren’t destroyed. How great God’s mercy is upon the sinner. When Jesus Himself would turn down the religious Pharisees that had the Old Testament, tied up to part of the word of God, and tell them they are worse than Sodom, and say they’ll stand before me in a better condition, for they had not the word of God like you. You entertain Angels unawares many times. Heathen, that’s never being able to hear the word of God, where men has never been able to reach him in the jungles, Paul said their conscience, and what’s on their heart, God’s foreknowledge will reveal all there is to know about that. Seeing the opportunity, which ones that never heard about Jesus, or about the Messiah. Why, it’s a concluded matter from the beginning, and He knows exactly who would give his heart to God. He’s got one of the greatest master plans in wisdom of all time. If you knew everything there’s to know about how the Lord is really going to move, you wouldn’t get your job done right. So therefore, He hides part of it. Because if you knew all about how God does things, the condition of fervent evangelism will probably slack off. But He uses men as witnesses and that is the important part. But the Holy Spirit by providence begins to choose. He foreknows, is left open to all men. He said I have no pleasure in the suffering of the unrighteous or the perishing of the unrighteous, at all. But He says to all men, it is open. Howbeit, He knows the ones who will and will not. Peradventure, He knows it all. But we are to work like we can save everyone of them, and knowing we can’t. With God having such compassion on the sins of Sodom, and this is shown us the importance of miracles. It shows us the importance of that power, the importance of divine healing, the importance of delivering those people from oppression, depression, and possession, and whatever they have, to deliver them from the sins that they are involved with, and bringing them into Christ, the Savior. So, what will happen at the end of the age? It will be the ministry of pure deliverance. It will be no different than what Jesus used. He will use the same method. And they can get as wicked as Sodom, and anyway that they want to get, but that knife will cut right through it. He will deliver them. They can be insane, a lunatic, He’ll set them free. You go down to Sodom, and get some of them that was crazy, tied up in chains down there, and you let Jesus in there, begin to snap them chains off of them, and they begin to shout the victory, you’ll see how quick Sodom turns. They had enough of their sin anyway, they got so deep in it, they’d looking for hope. You watch the dead come forth, watch him come back, see legion being delivered there, in Sodom, seeing the mental cases, begin to feed them, and create, and Sodom would have been right down there at that sea, listening. Same thing happened to the woman at the well, that had all those men, sitting at the well. At the appointed time, He appeared. We find out that the whole city of sinners ran out to meet Jesus. And yet, the Pharisees that said they were the seed of Abraham, Moses, and all of that, were the very ones that sold Jesus out to the courts. Take courage, no matter how much the wicked surround us, and they give up on them, we are not to give up, but we are to seek out ways to deliver them and, believe me, that light will go forth in that sword. And He will cut out with that sword, He will cut out that elect, and He will deliver them, from the lunatic, right on down to just mental obsession, oppression, or whatever it is. So, the deliverance ministry, Jesus Himself put a stamp on it, that when nothing else can do it, the deliverance ministry will gather the bride and it will bring them on into Him, and it will deliver the people. The Bible, outside of that, there is no other way that will have the thorough, total way, of bringing what He wants to Him. Behold, she makes herself ready with the anointing. He said, Will I hide the thing from Abraham that I am about to do? No, seeing that he will do properly, he will understand. Be encouraged, no matter what it looks like around you, no matter how it seems the world is going, remember, we can by deliverance and the miracles of God, pull them out. God is going to save people, and turn them, that’s why He returned back and revealed what would have happened to that day, and then turned around and said at the end of the age, it will be like the days of Noah in the flood, it would be like the days of Sodom and Gomorrah before fire and brimstone is rained down upon them. So, the day will be the same. So, He said, send this ministry to them, and they of my seed, or those that believe, will turn; the believer will turn.

I started the sermon: Genesis 18: 1 – 2: “And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground”. Genesis 18: 8: “And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.” Genesis 18: 16: “And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.” Genesis 18: 17 – 18: “And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?” Genesis 18: 22: “And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.” Genesis 18: 25: “That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” Genesis 18: 32: “And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.” Genesis 18: 33: “And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: And Abraham returned unto his place.” And He will not hide from Abraham’s seed the thing which He should do, just before Armageddon. He will not hide the great restoration revival coming to that elect. He will not hide the judgment that’s just around the corner, but He will reveal it to those of the faith. And when I say of the faith, that believe all of the word of God, and that believe in the true God, and the eternal One, and believe Jesus for just what He is, that is the true faith. Do you believest thou this? Three appeared to Abraham, one, God in the form of a man. When God appears in the form of a man, Theophany, it’s like Messiah. When He appears in Theophany, He is in the form of a man, and the two Angels were in the form of a man, they were hidden. And Jesus said, and may have been this statement in Theophany, Jesus said, Abraham saw my day, and he rejoiced at the tent door. And they said, thou not yet 50 years old, and you were back there? He said before Abraham, He said, I was around a long time; it’s what He meant. It’s exactly what the Bible said. If you make it say any other thing, saith the Lord, you are doomed. John 8: 56 – 58: “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.” Remember, God was still reigning in heaven and overseeing the Universes, and yet, He was down here on earth, in the form of a man, talking to Abraham. We do not know how long He was with Abraham. He took the time to eat the food that Abraham had prepared, He talked with him, and He walked towards Sodom with him. He again came back to earth, as a human being, as the Lord Jesus, for thirty-three and half years. Isaiah 9: 6 tells us “The mighty God” was here on earth as a human being, as the Lord Jesus: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” In Sodom, in case you don’t know, there is no evils today that that didn’t cover. Jesus referred to it again, as the sins of Sodom, so shall it be at the end of the age. Matthew 24: 12: “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” The power gifts, the power in the anointing, the power to set free, God is going to turn the hand of many wicked, and turn the hand of many sinners today. With God having such compassion on the sins of Sodom, and this is shown us the importance of miracles. It shows us the importance of that power, the importance of divine healing, the importance of delivering those people from oppression, depression, and possession, and whatever they have, to deliver them from the sins that they are involved with, and bringing them into Christ, the Savior. 1 Corinthians 12: 4: “Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.” 1 Corinthians 12: 8 – 10: “For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues”.

I read from Scroll # 55: ENDOWMENT OF POWER, the nine spiritual gifts of deity (Is that part of God in us which works wonders the dual nature of the spirit, salvation and then a greater measure of same spirit will work wonders! (Signs) THE GIFTS OF HEALING, there are multiple gifts of healing, notice “S” on gifts because it will take different “gifts” of healing to heal many kinds of diseases! The gifts of healing work slower, but in cooperation with the gift of miracles healings happen quickly! Each person upon receiving the Holy Ghost receives one or more gifts, but sometimes a person needs to stir up the gifts by seeking a heavier anointing! (There are different “spirit degrees”. First salvation, then Holy Ghost, then seeking more anointing!) THE MIGHTY (WORKING) GIFT OF MIRACLES – This is a spectacular gift and in almost every case works quickly leaving a (wonder) behind! Spontaneous, dramatic, powers and even staggering explosion of wonders! Notice the word “working” of miracles like (creating) changing deformed cases into normal beings! Also like cripples suddenly walking (working, activating gift) – Like when Jesus raised Lazarus the working of miracles overlapped into the gift of faith and he came forth! Also these 2 gifts worked together when Jesus turned the water into wine – THE GIFT OF FAITH – can operate all nine gifts! Reaching the realm of the 7th. magnitude of the spirit, going beyond mortal reasoning! Stopping the sun and moon, as was in the case of Joshua!

I continued with the Sermon: God is going to save people, and turn them, that’s why He returned back and revealed what would have happened to that day, and then turned around and said at the end of the age, it will be like the days of Noah in the flood, it would be like the days of Sodom and Gomorrah before fire and brimstone is rained down upon them. Then, what will occur at the end of the age? The same type ministry, Jesus says, the same powerful anointing. There is good news for the sinners, there is good news to the lost, there are good news to the wicked, which Paul said I am chief among all, and God saved me. There is good news for the teenagers that’s steep in so much sin today, and narcotics, and drinking, and all of this that’s happening around our country. You go down to Sodom, and get some of them that was crazy, tied up in chains down there, and you let Jesus in there, begin to snap them chains off of them, and they begin to shout the victory, you’ll see how quick Sodom turns. So, what will happen at the end of the age? It will be the ministry of pure deliverance. It will be no different than what Jesus used. He will use the same method. And they can get as wicked as Sodom, and anyway that they want to get, but that knife will cut right through it. He will deliver them. They can be insane, a lunatic, He’ll set them free. Matthew 11: 5: “The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.” Acts 2: 47: “Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.” Heathen, that’s never being able to hear the word of God, where men has never been able to reach him in the jungles, Paul said their conscience, and what’s on their heart, God’s foreknowledge will reveal all there is to know about that. Seeing the opportunity, which ones that never heard about Jesus, or about the Messiah, why, it’s a concluded matter from the beginning, and He knows exactly who would give his heart to God. He’s got one of the greatest master plans in wisdom of all time. When the exact number is counted for that elect, then God will translate. Trust in the Lord Jesus, set your heart upon Him, and when He comes at the time of translation, you will be glorified to meet Him. Colossians 3: 4: “When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.”

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