Introduction: Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, June 30, 2024 He that heareth the word in stony places: Now, that sounds cold, dead, wrong kind of ground. He’s standing on the wrong kind of ground. This kind of person knows to leave where he is not hearing the true word of God. He is boxed in; he cannot free himself. The Holy Spirit woos him, calls him, but he is not willing to come over to where the ground is the proper ground, where power, where faith, where action, for healing, for miracles are at, where life is at. He at times hears the true word with joy. And for a moment, he’s happy, he’s full of joy. Sooner or later, he is offended by persecution because of the word, and because he does not have that divine root, he eventually becomes unhappy and fades away. He that heareth among the thorns: This kind of person goes to church, but he is also in a cult; he’s among satanic forces, he’s among religious cults, and he’s among sinners, and among thorns. In addition, the cares of life choke out the word. He that heareth the word in good ground bringeth forth much fruit. He is established. You confess I am happy in the Lord. I am joyful in the Lord. I believe that I have eternal life. I joy in God’s word. I joy in God’s power. In my good times, in my bad times, it makes no difference. I will joy in the Lord. You know you have true salvation. John 3: 15: “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.” You know in your soul that you have eternal life; no one can tell you otherwise. So, good ground is where the word of God, where the power, is at. It is there, just like the Scriptures say, the miraculous is all around the people. When they are sick, they believe in their heart they are healed by God’s power. God guides them like the cloud to the children of Israel. He guides them in the fire of the Holy Spirit. He anoints them, and they have the power, and light, and joy, within them. He gives them health, life. Life is in the place, saith the Lord, the life of the Holy Spirit. The words that Jesus speaketh, they are Spirit, they are life, and if you are on good ground, they will grow. Let these sayings, saith the Lord, sink down in your heart and in your ears. He shall come again and receive His people to Himself. He will come again. You can count on it. You can count on it whether you die or whether you live, saith the Lord. I am coming again. But did you ever realize in your heart, after 6,000 years, and you look into the Universe, and just see how great the One that created you, you have to stand back in awe. It is just not this little world down here, it’s like a drop in the bucket, He says. Just think of the greatness, the power, of the great Messiah, and how great He is, and how masterfully. That’s why He is so great, and so powerful, that the little things, He cares about them the same way as the big things, because He’s eternal, He’s sovereign, He’s infinite. It goes beyond our thinking. So, in your mind, don’t ever limit Him. Always say, I don’t have the capacity to believe how really great He is. I don’t have the capacity to believe how great He is, hardly. Just all that He would allow me to believe, that’s in the Bible to believe. Our Lord Jesus is the mighty God, the great Creator (Isaiah 9: 6; Colossians 1: 16 – 17). Christ shall sit on His glory; He shall make them ruler of many things. Then besides that, the mysteries of the Kingdom are revealed to those that have the root of the Lord and believe in the Lord. Here are some mysteries that the Lord will reveal to us after the translation: “Also we might say in due time God will reveal to His saints what He has in other parts of the Universe that has been hidden from view. Surely many parts of it is inhabited by some type of life and so forth, and after the translation He will reveal to His elect their duty and the rest of His plans for the ages into the eternities! – Rejoice that you know and understand these things and be prepared in your heart to be ready at all times!” After the translation, the Lord will reveal to us our assigned duties, and He will reveal to us “the rest of His plans for the ages into the eternities”. 1 Corinthians 2: 9: “But as it is written, EYE HATH NOT SEEN, NOR EAR HEARD, NEITHER HAVE ENTERED INTO THE HEART OF MAN, THE THINGS WHICH GOD HATH PREPARED FOR THEM THAT LOVE HIM.” Let us worship and praise our Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal God.

You will be blessed. Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas

Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, June 30, 2024 We listened to a sermon titled “Surety Root”, CD # 1075, preached by Brother Neal Frisby. In the sermon, Brother Frisby said: Divine root feeds from the word, that’s the sun, and from the Spirit, water. Finally, organizational systems on the earth, most of any that I ever saw, will finally have no root in the word, it will be blown away into man’s systems, the chaff. In the Bible, we look back, and we can tell from different men of God in the Bible, the things that they went through, and they were blown left, and blown right, but the difference between those and the others, were, if they were the true seed, that no matter happened, one of them was David. He’s blown this way and that, but he had a good root. God stayed right with him. Fact, in the very end of the Bible, the Lord Jesus said, I am the root , that means Creator, and the offspring of David (Revelation 22: 16). I created David, I come through him as the Messiah. So, He said, I am the root and the offspring too, of David. He said I am the bright and morning star, the pillar of fire. So, what tree do we come from? I used to tell the people, we didn’t come from the monkey tree. We come from the root and offspring of David. Our root is from the Lord Jesus. We are in the image of God, so forth, so that takes that other evolutionary doctrine right out just like that, and we hold with the Lord. So, you have a good root in the word. And sometimes, things will happen. You get a lot of tourists in here, towards the wintertime, they don’t know anything, they don’t want to learn anything. Some of the rest of them are interested. They get healed by the power of God. And some of them, before you get finished, they are on their way, and some things they get up here, different things can happen. I said, Lord, you know we are living in an age where you can expect that, and we are living in an age where you also have authority over it, power over it, we are living in an age, and the reason I’m preaching this message, and the Lord, this is the true, if I ever preached anything in my life, and the Lord said, they have no root. They hear the word, and they listen to the word, so forth like that, but it’s not anchored in that word. You’ve got to have a good root in the word of God, and that means, water and Spirit and if you do, you’ll grow in faith, you’ll grow in power, and the power of the Lord. Blessed are they that hear and keep the word. They that hear and do the word of Christ are Christ’s brethren. Blessed are they that hear the word, act upon the word, believe the word in their heart. There’s automatic blessing to that. In the parable of the Sower, goes forth, he sows his seed, four kinds of hearers, and he goes forth, and it falls in different places. He that heareth the word in stony places: Now, that sounds cold, dead, wrong kind of ground. He’s standing on the wrong kind of ground. He won’t come over, on, out of the system, or into, wherever he’s at, to where the ground is the proper ground, where power, where faith, where action, for healing, for miracles are at, where life is at. See, in stony places, he’s boxed in. And the Holy Spirit woos, He calls him, He wants, once that word goes forth, he knows where he better go and find out where the power’s at. Now, he hears the word in stony places, see no life, it’s just like death in there, no word, no spirit. And he hears it in stony places with joy. He receives it in those stony places, but he’s not on the right kind of ground. Watch what happens to him: Having no root, it can’t get down in the ground there, but he hears it with joy. And for a moment, he’s happy, he’s full of joy. Having no root, he is offended by persecution because of the word, because of the good ground, because of power, and because of the word. And what happens to him? Because he has no root, he goes away with sadness and forgets. People today say, and many Christians today, get caught up, and they say, well, you know, I’m not happy, I don’t have any joy. You are what you confess. The Bible said, you are, exactly. If you confess negatives, you’ll wind up with a negative mind and negative heart. If you confess doubt and unbelief, pretty soon, you’ll be all tangled up and strangled. You are choked out. You’ll be on stony ground again. You confess I am happy in the Lord. I am joyful in the Lord. I believe that I have eternal life. I joy in God’s word. I joy in God’s power. It don’t make any difference about the sinners, whoever they are, walking around, it makes no difference at all. In my good times, in my bad times, it makes no difference. I will joy in the Lord. Now, sometimes, that’s very hard to do. But at the same time, you will have more of your ups with the Lord. He will stay with you more often than ever before. You’ll have your mountain tops. But it’s when you get in your lower spells, it’s when you want, really, joy in the Lord. So, I joy in the Lord. And you know, the first thing you know, that fountain from the Holy Spirit will bring a spiritual joy. The fountain of the Holy Spirit will bring a spiritual happiness, you see, because you are confessing positive things, agreed with the word, and the more positive, of confessing it. Did you know, by just confessing joy in the Lord, and confessing happiness, and merriment of the Lord, did you know that will drive out a depressed spirit? Did you know that will drive out a mind that’s being captured by the devil? Oppressing the mind, and fear, and nervousness, and anxiety, and heart problems, and troubles, the joy of the Lord will drive it out, and give you a sound heart, a sound mind, and a good body. But, see, for a moment, they were joyful, but because the root was not in good ground, they just blowed away from what they hear; they were in stony places, they didn’t get on proper ground. He’s offended right away. Now, you see me preach, and sometimes, powerful, right, directly, a Scripture, right from the Scripture, immediately you see several offended in the word, and the Lord said, they have no root. He that heareth among the thorns: Well, he’s among satanic forces, he’s among religious cults, and he’s among sinners, and among thorns. And the cares of life choke out the word. Oh, he’s following the cares of this life, get ahead of this one, get ahead of that one, buy this, do that. Which by itself is okay, to be comfortable. It’s okay if one wants to be that way. But, when one is totally in the sports, totally in any kind of legitimate thing, fishing or whatever, totally carried away without God, and it chokes him out. And it could be in the business world where their mind is so much on business 24 hours a day that they’ve got one minute for God, and then they can’t get nothing done then. So, he that heareth among the thorns, the cares of this life just choke him out. So, even the legitimate thing that a person can do, can do too much of those things, until literally, it just chokes him out. And Satan shows the church what things they can do, and the next thing you know, they’ll overdo it. Watch him because we are at the end of the age, keep your eyes open, and keep the joy of the Lord in your heart, and your root in the right place. It don’t make any difference what kind of business that you are in, but you must put God 100% first, and He’ll run your business, saith the Lord. He that heareth the word in good ground: Now, the joy remains, the word of God remains. So, he’s in the right place, not the stony place now, not on the wayside now, he’s right in the center of God’s word. He that heareth the word in good ground bringeth forth much fruit. He is established. Now, fruit means the real thing, and that’s probably, at the end of time will be lesser than any other kind, but it’s the real thing from God. So, good ground is where the word of God, where the power, is at. It is where the apostolic doctrines at. It is there, just like the Scriptures say, the miraculous is all around the people. When they are sick, they believe in their heart they are healed by God’s power. God guides them like the cloud to the children of Israel. He guides them in the fire of the Holy Spirit. He anoints them, and they have the power, and light, and joy, within them. He gives them health, life. Life is in the place, saith the Lord, the life of the Holy Spirit. So, besides hearing the word, losing the joy and all of that, you’ve got to first be on the right ground. They’ll come in the right ground of God. Any part of this earth where the word of God is preached on the right ground, they are doing something. There’s a place here, and there’s a place there, and some cities, there’s a place. He’ll always have a place where the ground’s at, and they’ll establish themselves in there. And then ask, and ye shall receive, seek and ye shall find, knock and the door shall be opened. All things are possible to them. So, blessings on those who hear and do the word of God. He that heareth and doeth Christ’s sayings is a wise man: Somebody said, give me wisdom. All you have to do is, he that heareth and doeth what? Christ’s sayings, is a wise man. Acting upon the word, bringing deliverance (Matthew 7: 24 – 27). Cleansing through the word of God: It will cleanse all diseases. It will cleanse any kind of a germ. It will work through your body by His powers. The words that Jesus speaketh, they are Spirit, they are life, and if you are on good ground, they will grow. Perhaps in heaven someday, where God is preaching His word, He’ll give you a chance to see how that He has moved on your life, put your life in the right place, because, see, after God does so many things for you, Satan will come along; oh, that is his duty. And, did you know, when God was speaking in heaven, He told me, that that Lucifer got up and walked out on Him several times, and the third time, He gave him a talent he didn’t know he had, flight. He had flight, but he couldn’t move that fast before. Oh, he disagreed with the most High, the Bible says. He disagreed with the words that were coming out of Him, and he thought he was big in front of those other angels. And the Lord said, the Lord knew within Satan, was both good and bad, take his choice. So, he got one talent, and he left so fast they didn’t ever know he was there, he was really moving. Behold saith the Lord, he had no root. He made Satan without a root. The rest of the angels were rooted right into the throne. Revelations is better than any man can preach, saith the Lord. The mysteries of God and the eons of time, how great the Lord is. But did you ever realize in your heart, after 6,000 years, and you look into the Universe, and just see how great the One that created you, you have to stand back in awe. It is just not this little world down here, it’s like a drop in the bucket, He says. Just think of the greatness, the power, of the great Messiah, and how great He is, and how masterfully. That’s why He is so great, and so powerful, that the little things, He cares about them the same way as the big things, because He’s eternal, He’s sovereign, He’s infinite. It goes beyond our thinking. So, in your mind, don’t ever limit Him. Always say, I don’t have the capacity to believe how really great He is. I don’t have the capacity to believe how great He is, hardly. Just all that He would allow me to believe, that’s in the Bible to believe. He speaketh, He is the Spirit and He’s life in that word. And on good ground, it quickeneth, it energizes, and it quickens that seed, that power, they come into their proper place. Before the end of the age, the lights, and the powers of the Lord that be, you’ll feel it in your heart, and know exactly what God has for you. Just before the translation, He’s going to move on His people. He that heareth Jesus’ sayings shall not see death: Now, thou wilt say, you know, He made that statement, a lot of the disciples are done gone. He’s speaking this in a spiritual way. Although they die from martyrdom, they didn’t even feel death. Death, where is thy sting, o grave, where is thy victory, they said. Death to them, believing in the Lord, was just kind of like a transition period. Just transferring from one place, looking back at the body maybe, going on up in the spirit world. See, you are body, soul, and spirit. You know, this body, it just carries around, you can set it down like a suitcase, going on with Him, come back and pick the suitcase up, change to a glorified body. Why, it’s easy for the Lord to do all of that. It don’t make any difference what happened, your record is there. A vapor, fire burn up, burn yourself up, it don’t make no difference. He calls back the ingredients of that, which is neither vapor, fire or whatever you burn up, it makes no difference, he can bring right on back. See, He’s got another copy of you. So, shall not see death. We know if you live long enough, why, eventually, you’ll die. But what it means is, you’ll not see spiritual death. You will not pass into the second death of hell. You will not pass away from the eternal God. You will never see that kind of a death. You may pass from this body into heaven, but you will not see death. In fact, when you die, you will not taste of death. You will believe, and just float on with God. He’ll be there with you, if you believe in your heart. But you’ll not see the spiritual death that He’s talking about here. Passing on, sure, after death, into heaven. Of course, if you believe His word, you will, into paradise with Him. But you’ll never have to worry about the other. See, when you are separated from God, it’s automatic death too, when you are gone from Him. And when you are with Him, you are with life. When you are with Satan, you’re with death. You are with the Lord, you are with life, and it’s life with Him. Whatever He has, whatever He does, He does it well. He knows all about it. He has great compassion in His word, but He wants you to obey His word and get on good ground. And so, you’ll not see death. If you keep the sayings this morning, and allow the root to grow in good ground, then no matter how trials or mistakes or what happens to you in your life, something may come up that you cannot control sometimes, but I can guarantee you one thing, if you’re on good root, you’ll hold on to the Lord, and that takes being on good ground. Do all you can for the Lord, believe the Lord in your heart, He’ll see you right through that. So, if you keep His sayings, you will not see death. You’ll just pass on, and meet the Lord, and you will not even go near the second death there. And through the word, He just refines you, and takes out the diseases, and so forth, like that. Let these sayings, saith the Lord, sink down in your heart and in your ears. He shall come again and receive His people to Himself (John 14: 3). He will come again. You can count on it. You can count on it whether you die or whether you live, saith the Lord. I am coming again. Blessings, promises, to the watchful servants that gives the word of the Lord in the watches of the end of the age. So, blessed promises to the watchful servants. Those that are watching, those that have the root in the word of God, and believe in all miraculous, you put your root down in that word of God, and the flame will come up right through there, the anointing, it won’t burn up the bush, saith the Lord. Why servants to be made ruler over all things that God has: He rules the nations with a rod of iron (Revelation 12: 5). Christ shall sit on His glory; He shall make them ruler of many things. Then besides that, the mysteries of the Kingdom are revealed to those that have the root of the Lord and believe in the Lord. The keys of the Kingdom of Heaven are given: When signs are fulfilled, the Kingdom of God will come. The signs are all around us. Did you know, outside of outpouring and revival among the elect of God in His power, that the signs that are left in the Book of Revelation, and a few in the Old Testament, most of those signs, outside of a very few right now, those are tribulation signs. Those are the signs that run from the beginning of the tribulation, clear on into the day of the Lord. And the rest takes place, those prophecies for the millennium and the white throne, and on out. But the promises to the church, there are very few, there’s only a few left for the elect, among, while we’re here now. One of them is revival that God is going to heat up and move real quickly for His people there. And those, just very few, and we are going through those right now, we’re beginning to go through those. There’s no more, the rest is left for the great tribulation. So now is the time to make sure that you’ve got your root on good ground.

I started the sermon. Matthew 13: 3 – 9: “And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and chocked them: But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.” Matthew 13: 18 – 23: “Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side. But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.” He that heareth the word in stony places: Now, that sounds cold, dead, wrong kind of ground. He’s standing on the wrong kind of ground. This kind of person knows to leave where he is not hearing the true word of God. He is boxed in; he cannot free himself. The Holy Spirit woos him, calls him, but he is not willing to come over to where the ground is the proper ground, where power, where faith, where action, for healing, for miracles are at, where life is at. He at times hears the true word with joy. And for a moment, he’s happy, he’s full of joy. Sooner or later, he is offended by persecution because of the word, and because he does not have that divine root, he eventually becomes unhappy and fades away. He that heareth among the thorns: This kind of person goes to church, but he is also in a cult; he’s among satanic forces, he’s among religious cults, and he’s among sinners, and among thorns. In addition, the cares of life choke out the word. He that heareth the word in good ground bringeth forth much fruit. He is established. You confess I am happy in the Lord. I am joyful in the Lord. I believe that I have eternal life. I joy in God’s word. I joy in God’s power. In my good times, in my bad times, it makes no difference. I will joy in the Lord. You know you have true salvation. John 3: 15: “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.” You know in your soul that you have eternal life; no one can tell you otherwise. So, good ground is where the word of God, where the power, is at. It is there, just like the Scriptures say, the miraculous is all around the people. When they are sick, they believe in their heart they are healed by God’s power. God guides them like the cloud to the children of Israel. He guides them in the fire of the Holy Spirit. He anoints them, and they have the power, and light, and joy, within them. He gives them health, life. Life is in the place, saith the Lord, the life of the Holy Spirit. Satan has no root: And, did you know, when God was speaking in heaven, He told me, that that Lucifer got up and walked out on Him several times, and the third time, He gave him a talent he didn’t know he had, flight. He had flight, but he couldn’t move that fast before. Oh, he disagreed with the most High, the Bible says. He disagreed with the words that were coming out of Him. And the Lord said, the Lord knew within Satan, was both good and bad, take his choice. So, he got one talent, and he left so fast they didn’t ever know he was there, he was really moving. Behold saith the Lord, he had no root. He made Satan without a root. Revelations is better than any man can preach, saith the Lord. The mysteries of God and the eons of time, how great the Lord is. Never disagree with the word of the Lord. Otherwise, you will be doing what Satan did in heaven that caused him to leave. But did you ever realize in your heart, after 6,000 years, and you look into the Universe, and just see how great the One that created you, you have to stand back in awe. It is just not this little world down here, it’s like a drop in the bucket, He says. Just think of the greatness, the power, of the great Messiah, and how great He is, and how masterfully. That’s why He is so great, and so powerful, that the little things, He cares about them the same way as the big things, because He’s eternal, He’s sovereign, He’s infinite. It goes beyond our thinking. So, in your mind, don’t ever limit Him. Always say, I don’t have the capacity to believe how really great He is. I don’t have the capacity to believe how great He is, hardly. Just all that He would allow me to believe, that’s in the Bible to believe. Our Lord Jesus is the mighty God, the great Creator. Isaiah 9: 6: “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.” Colossians 1: 16 – 17: “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.” Christ shall sit on His glory; He shall make them ruler of many things. Then besides that, the mysteries of the Kingdom are revealed to those that have the root of the Lord and believe in the Lord. Here are some mysteries that the Lord will reveal to us after the translation: I read from Special Writing # 136: PARADISE – GOD’S WISDOM “Also we might say in due time God will reveal to His saints what He has in other parts of the Universe that has been hidden from view. Surely many parts of it is inhabited by some type of life and so forth, and after the translation He will reveal to His elect their duty and the rest of His plans for the ages into the eternities! – Rejoice that you know and understand these things and be prepared in your heart to be ready at all times!” After the translation, the Lord will reveal to us our assigned duties, and He will reveal to us “the rest of His plans for the ages into the eternities”. 1 Corinthians 2: 9: “But as it is written, EYE HATH NOT SEEN, NOR EAR HEARD, NEITHER HAVE ENTERED INTO THE HEART OF MAN, THE THINGS WHICH GOD HATH PREPARED FOR THEM THAT LOVE HIM.” Let us worship and praise our Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal God.

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