The Shadow of Death — September 10, 2023

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Introduction: Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, September 10, 2023 But if they are dying of a terminal disease, and especially like cancer, and they come into the scope of that power of miracles and to create, if you find out, if you can look into the spirit world, there’ll be a shadow on them. It’s a shadow of death. Death, it follows, and it will take them to death. But the gift of light, for He is the giver of all lights and the gifts of the Spirit, when the light, anointing, casts out that germinating spirit that’s there, then the body quickly begins to mend and the gift, going into the gift of creation, will create and that process will be almost immediately. If it drops back where their faith is just strong enough, the gifts of healing will take place; kind of heal fast and go into a process. The satanic forces that we have today, they are not in harmony with the body that God has given us. And it takes the power of God to cast it out. And germs and diseases and different things can come that way. In the realm of the dimension of sickness and the dimension of power to heal, God has set it up. It is wonderful. And what will be seen before it’s over with, only God knows in the manuals of heaven. What He is going to do for His people. But in His mercy, in creating of hell and what is in hell, He knew what He was doing because the people that go there will be more in harmony with what’s there, yet it will be torment. But to put them in heaven will be worse, God told me, than if they were in hell because they certainly can’t stand that, He told me. Hell draws the unregenerate. You see them in the world, in the sins. That’s a voice and hell draws them. It means the people who will not come to salvation, no matter how many times you witness to them, no matter how many times you join them in praying, no matter how many times you invite them to come to church with you, there is a voice from hell that calls them. Casting out devils: no revival can come until He releases that power to cast those devils out. You have to have the anointing come to deliver those people, and casting out the devil, it will automatically bring revival when you cast him out of the way. Jesus came to set men free and that is what we are here for. And through the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit, men will be set free. Mark 16: 17: “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues”. It will be a short and powerful revival, just before the translation (Romans 9: 28). In His great mercy, His divine mercy, and any Christian that loves God, should their child die, and they are a Christian, the Lord will never send that child, unless reasons beyond providence that we know nothing about, into a discordant place of hell that he’s never known nothing about. But a Christian family that loves God, you can be sure, God will usher that child into the bliss of heaven. I know Him. We know there’s predestination and that cannot be explained, but only by the Lord. We know that. But a Christian family, we can say that and it’s wonderful. Psalm 23: 4: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” We have no fear of the shadow of death because the eternal God, our Lord Jesus Christ, is with us. You will be blessed.   Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas

Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, September 10, 2023 We listened to a sermon titled “The Shadow of Death”, CD # 993, Part One, preached by Brother Neal Frisby. In the sermon, Brother Frisby said: The anointing is not in harmony with the world. If you are anointed, sometimes you will feel out of harmony. If you are heavily anointed, it will be discord, out of harmony with the world. Heaven is not in harmony with hell. We have cancer, it’s an omen of death. It’s a shadow of death and of evil. It is out of harmony with the body when it attacks the body. And cancer, it’s a germ-like, and Satan gets ahold of that. Now, anybody dying on cancer, I pray for them. They’ll come into the light that’s on me and there will be a dark in there until that leaves. And if they are healed, it’ll spark, it’s gone. And God will touch that body. But if they are dying of a terminal disease, and especially like cancer, and they come into the scope of that power of miracles and to create, if you find out, if you can look into the spirit world, there’ll be a shadow on them. It’s a shadow of death. Death, it follows, and it will take them to death. But the gift of light, for He is the giver of all lights and the gifts of the Spirit, when the light, anointing, casts out that germinating spirit that’s there, then the body quickly begins to mend and the gift, going into the gift of creation, will create and that process will be almost immediately. If it drops back where their faith is just strong enough, the gifts of healing will take place; kind of heal fast and go into a process. It's according to how, what develops with the miracle and how much faith is involved. The satanic forces that we have today, they are not in harmony with the body that God has given us. And when it happens, it’s out of harmony. There’s a fight, there’s a contest on. And it takes the power of God to cast it out. And germs and diseases and different things can come that way. If you only in your heart, will really believe and know for sure that it’s satanic forces that bring those terminal diseases like that, that takes place, then you have half the victory. And then you begin to believe, and once that you cause them to depart, that body will mend. Evil powers, they torment and they can destroy. We find out one place in the Bible, when Jesus, right in Mark, when He first started, He left no mistake about it. He was moving and healing the sick, and they said we know you, the most Holy One, we know who you are. Why have you come to destroy us before our time? That anointing and the light of the Eternal One was standing there. And Jesus said, Hold your peace, come out of him, and He cast the devil out. Another place in the Scriptures, they said, Why have you come to torment us before our time? (Mark 1: 21 – 28; Matthew 8: 28 – 29). They had bodies to seek rest, and so forth like that. In this, we get glimpse of the other world too. So, the anointing and power of the Lord can and will torment the devil. Sometimes, people are sick and it’s hard for them to stay around me. They have to come, maybe 2, 3 times before they even have the courage to get near me because that thing is crying out in there, to get away. Anybody, I believe, where the anointing and power as at, if they can’t stand, stay there, it’s a force driving them away. How many of you realize that? And the spirits, they wanted, Jesus, one time, the Gergesenes, get away, what have we to do with Thee, that spirit said; we don’t have anything to do with you (Matthew 8: 28 -29). Hell and heaven are different. They were looking right at heaven. They didn’t like the looks of that. If you only knew how perfect and how beautiful and how you will feel in heaven, against this discord, dissatisfaction, this kind of aggravation that you have upon this earth, oh, it will be worth it all. You will never feel what you are going to feel there. This old body, with it that you’ve got a tabernacle wrap around you, when you depart, when you are changed, there’s no way to describe the feeling that you are going to be in a bliss that you’ve never felt before. Anyway, these spirits, and Jesus knew all about them. In fact, if they had any names, He knew all about that too, and He will cast them out. They will try to discourage you, and the Christian, elect today, they will try to torment you, if they can. But you don’t have to take that momentarily. The anointing of God will go up against it. And they will try every measure that they can to do that. So, demon powers that cause this sickness, put your finger on it. Remember, in the Bible, the great David, his confidence in God. He said, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. Thy rod – word, and thy staff – power, comforteth me (Psalm 23: 4). I can walk right straight through there with God. And I will fear no evil, but I will torment all of my enemies on the way through, that’s God. While you are in this life, don’t fear the shadow of death, but have the power to torment the devil out of your way. In the realm of the dimension of sickness and the dimension of power to heal, God has set it up. It is wonderful. And what will be seen before it’s over with, only God knows in the manuals of heaven. What He is going to do for His people. It is demon powers that’ll aggravate you, they will discourage you, they will disappoint you, they will try to torment you, but at the same token, through praying and seeking the Lord, you’ll be surprised how many that you torment. People in hell will be tormented if they were in the bliss of heaven. In His great mercy, His divine mercy and any Christian that loves God, should their child die, and they are a Christian, the Lord will never send that child, unless reasons beyond providence that we know nothing about, into a discordant place of hell that he’s never known nothing about. But a Christian family that loves God, you can be sure, God will usher that child into the bliss of heaven. I know Him. We know there’s predestination and that cannot be explained, but only by the Lord. We know that. But a Christian family, we can say that and it’s wonderful. But in His mercy, in creating of hell and what is in hell, He knew what He was doing because the people that go there will be more in harmony with what’s there, yet it will be torment. But to put them in heaven will be worse, God told me, than if they were in hell because they certainly can’t stand that, He told me. You have to be in harmony with what’s healing and delivering and revealing the revelations. Be in harmony with heaven. That’s the elect of God that can do that. Hell draws the unregenerate. You see them in the world, in the sins. That’s a voice and hell draws them. There will be voices of madness, voices of unsatisfied pleasure, there will be remorse, all kinds of sarcasms; it will be like you’ve never seen before. And when a person goes there, then their minds will be completely controlled by evil power in the depths. Stay out of the dark regions, saith the Lord, stay out of the dark regions. You know, one time Jesus said there will be gnashing and wailing of teeth in outer darkness (Matthew 8: 12; Matthew 22: 13). Now, that’s out, see like Jude was describing in the chapter of Jude, wandering stars, and so forth (Jude 1: 13). There’s different places, and so forth like that. But in there, where they are at, is created. You say, well, they’ll go on and on. God in His plans, evidently, there’s something that He will do. But this I know, the things that they had in this world, when they went there, is magnified, in the torment of it too. And also what it is, the second death is separation from God. And they are separated from the Lord. And thereby, eternally being separated from the life and the power of goodness and kindness, they have only that that is with them. And that is why they will never be able to, unless there was some changed, but we have no Scriptures where they ever were, we do not know. Whether they go on to other creations that God does before He destroys them, as spirits without bodies, as also possessed people, in later God’s kingdom when He creates, we do not know. I will not make a statement. But I know this, the ones bothering us today came from somewhere too. Why have you come to torment before my time? Because in Him was the truth and when the spirit powers, making those people sick, they’ve seen that light from heaven hit the earth. And they knew that wasn’t Satan. And He began to heal and cast out devils and bodies were healed by the power of God. Infirm spirits departed, the dead were raised, and so forth like that. Because I understand the things of hell and the things that are in heaven. As He reveals them to me, my faith is even stronger to do these healings and I understand those things. You have to understand, there is the good spirits of God, the Angels of God, and then there is the evil powers and they are real, on the other hand. In God’s divine mercy, when He created heaven and made the abode and the dark regions, He knew exactly what He was doing. Those people, you say, well, don’t you feel sorry for them. Well, you feel more sorry for them if they try to get into heaven; it won’t work. He knows exactly what He’s doing. Did you know that? As a place of torment, whatever it is, I believe that God in His great providence and what He does, it’s not going to be a nice place to be. But the very fact that they were told all the times in preaching, all of their life in preaching and they lost the opportunity. You remember the rich man? And the very fact they missed the opportunity is enough of torment for eternity. Did you know that? This subject, Satan don’t like. Did you know that? How many of you are in harmony with this? You are in harmony with God. He told me to preach like that. We find out, in that place, stay out of the dark regions. Paul, the Apostle, no doubt has seen glimpses of there, but he was caught in the third heaven and what makes it so good, he couldn’t even describe, it was unlawful for him to come back and to tell us all there was about heaven. But I can tell you this thing with all my heart. If you listen to the word of God that I preach, and you love this word of God, you’ll miss the dark regions, but you’ll be in a blissful heaven. Amen. And for a few short times upon this earth, you’ll be surprised, the people, you know, they’ll rather take the other course. Time is short. It’s like a vapor. Now is the time that we make a decision. Don’t forget this message here. Those two places are a reality, we know that. What God does in the finality is His business. But we know, being separated from God, that’s ominous, it’s terrible, but it’s real. In bringing out about praying for people that are dying with cancer, so forth, I’m able to get a glimpse of that shadow of death, that lingers in there, for that’s a hold of death, but the other is a house of life. So, at the end of the age, you know our conversation, it says, is in heaven and it says when He comes we will have a body like Him (Philippians: 3: 20; 1 John 3: 2). We know one day that Satan, it says, will be ashes, and so forth like that (Ezekiel 28: 18). If you know what causes your trouble, what causes your sickness and the power that God has given us, we are more than able to deliver people from this.

I started the sermon: But if they are dying of a terminal disease, and especially like cancer, and they come into the scope of that power of miracles and to create, if you find out, if you can look into the spirit world, there’ll be a shadow on them. It’s a shadow of death. Death, it follows, and it will take them to death. But the gift of light, for He is the giver of all lights and the gifts of the Spirit, when the light, anointing, casts out that germinating spirit that’s there, then the body quickly begins to mend and the gift, going into the gift of creation, will create and that process will be almost immediately. If it drops back where their faith is just strong enough, the gifts of healing will take place; kind of heal fast and go into a process. The satanic forces that we have today, they are not in harmony with the body that God has given us. And when it happens, it’s out of harmony. There’s a fight, there’s a contest on. And it takes the power of God to cast it out. And germs and diseases and different things can come that way. If you only in your heart, will really believe and know for sure that it’s satanic forces that bring those terminal diseases like that, that takes place, then you have half the victory. And then you begin to believe, and once that you cause them to depart, that body will mend. If you know what causes your trouble, what causes your sickness and the power that God has given us, we are more than able to deliver people from this. In the sermon titled “The Revelation In Jesus”, CD # 908, Brother Neal Frisby stated: Knowing the revelation of who He is, is going to bring that great revival. Casting out devils: no revival can come until He releases that power to cast those devils out. You have to have the anointing come to deliver those people, and casting out the devil, it will automatically bring revival when you cast him out of the way. Jesus had that. Those spirits began to bow; those spirits, by the great authority in Him began to see what was happening; they began to flee the people. The power of the Lord began to strike; revival began to come. You can have no revival unless you have the supernatural power of the Spirit to break the power of the devil, and that power is casting out the devil. That is your revival. There will be opposition and persecution just before the end of the age, no matter how much He is moving. He will give grace to carry it through. Jesus came to set men free and that is what we are here for. And through the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit, men will be set free. But by the revelation of who the Lord Jesus is where the great revival is coming from. Translative faith can come by no other way but by the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. In the revelation of His name will produce the gifts of power, it will produce the fruits of the Spirit, it will produce the anointing of the Spirit and there will be great signs and wonders follow that name. It is going to be exploits among His people.

In the realm of the dimension of sickness and the dimension of power to heal, God has set it up. It is wonderful. And what will be seen before it’s over with, only God knows in the manuals of heaven. What He is going to do for His people. Psalm 103: 3: “Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases”. Mark 16: 17: “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues”. These signs, for certain, shall follow us. It is when we start to cast out devils that the real revival starts. We will, by the power of God, set men free. Knowing that Jesus is the eternal God is connected to the revival (Isaiah 9: 6). The gifts of power – the working of miracles, the gifts of healing and the gift of faith (I Corinthians 12: 4 – 11), will operate in our midst. It will be a short and powerful revival, just before the translation. Romans 9: 28: “FOR HE WILL FINISH THE WORK, AND CUT IT SHORT IN RIGHTEOUSNESS: BECAUSE A SHORT WORK WILL THE LORD MAKE UPON THE EARTH.” But the very fact that they were told all the times in preaching, all of their life in preaching and they lost the opportunity. We read about the torment in hell in Luke 16: 19 – 31: “There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.” And the very fact they missed the opportunity is enough of torment for eternity. You can be involved in praying for souls. The greatest ministry that you can have is to be an intercessor. You can pray with the spirit and you can pray with your understanding. Romans 8: 26 – 27: “Likewise the Sprit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.” 1 Corinthians 14: 15: “What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.” You can also witness to others, you can give out tracts and you can contribute financially towards the preaching of the gospel. 1 Corinthians 14: 18: “I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all”. If you only knew how perfect and how beautiful and how you will feel in heaven, against this discord, dissatisfaction, this kind of aggravation that you have upon this earth, oh, it will be worth it all. You will never feel what you are going to feel there. But I can tell you this thing with all my heart. If you listen to the word of God that I preach, and you love this word of God, you’ll miss the dark regions, but you’ll be in a blissful heaven. Amen. But in His mercy, in creating of hell and what is in hell, He knew what He was doing because the people that go there will be more in harmony with what’s there, yet it will be torment. But to put them in heaven will be worse, God told me, than if they were in hell because they certainly can’t stand that, He told me. Hell draws the unregenerate. You see them in the world, in the sins. That’s a voice and hell draws them. It means the people who will not come to salvation, no matter how many times you witness to them, no matter how many times you join them in praying, no matter how many times you invite them to come to church with you, there is a voice from hell that calls them. And when a person goes there, then their minds will be completely controlled by evil power in the depths. Stay out of the dark regions, saith the Lord, stay out of the dark regions. In His great mercy, His divine mercy, and any Christian that loves God, should their child die, and they are a Christian, the Lord will never send that child, unless reasons beyond providence that we know nothing about, into a discordant place of hell that he’s never known nothing about. But a Christian family that loves God, you can be sure, God will usher that child into the bliss of heaven. I know Him. We know there’s predestination and that cannot be explained, but only by the Lord. We know that. But a Christian family, we can say that and it’s wonderful. Psalm 23: 4: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” We have no fear of the shadow of death because the eternal God, our Lord Jesus Christ, is with us.

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