PENTECOSTALISM
UNDER THE MESSAGE:

MY SOUL AND MY
SAVIOUR

# 62 x 2006

<Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man
be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh
not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and
superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which
is able to save your souls. > (James
1:19).

What a great
exhortation by the apostle James, and the word “superfluity” means “super
abundance.” Superfluity of naughtiness. Super abundance of wickedness. A
human being could get to that place of super abundance of wickedness in his
heart.

<Brethren, if any of you do err from the
truth, and one convert him; Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner
from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a
multitude of sins.> (James 5:19).

How
strange a scripture! We know that there is one Saviour, and one Lord to save
man from his sins, but here the apostle James is crediting one who converteth
the sinner from the error of his way, with the salvation of that person. Let
him know that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall
save his soul from death. Think of the great opportunity that you could have in
converting a sinner from the error of his way, that it will be attributed to
you throughout eternity that you saved that soul. Yes, and that is a great
scripture, and may the Lord add a blessing to the reading of His Holy Words.

And
we welcome all tonight within our gates, and the night is just fleeing away. I
feel like if it is so short, because the Spirit of the Lord is here and where
the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. And right tonight this meeting is
being streamed to different parts of the world, insomuch that if you yawn they
can see you across the globe. They can hear your singing and some tuned in as
early as eight o’ clock just to enjoy the praying and the worshipping,
the singing and they will continue with us.

So,
the letters that were read tonight; I must pause to tell these brethren that
are tuned in, thanks very much, for their New Year Greetings, and the great and
the wonderful words of encouragement to all the ministers, to me His little
servant, and to encourage us along the way for the approaching year, in a
matter of an hour here in the western world. But the new year has broken
already in China, and in Japan, and in India it could be anywhere around eight
o’ clock or around there, it could be a little later, and they already
gave the Lord their dues, and the sun has risen in India, and we send special
greetings to all our precious brethren that are hooked in tonight on this
electronic system, and those that will listen to these tapes that will go
around the world shortly, and the DVDs.

We want to state here that we appreciate
all your letters, and we appreciate all your support for the past year, and the
years before, and we love you all. We appreciate all the labours of Brother Watson, a gallant
man of God that He has raised up to control the ministry in India, and all
that goes with it. Our precious Brother Gaitan and his team there: Brother
Bruno, and now Brother Gutts Bhatto, translator of our work, and contenders for
the faith, and over in Africa, the names are too numerous to call, but many
send their love and their greetings, and if they will hear this tape, we are
returning our love and our greetings here from Bethel, and we are thankful to
the Lord.

And
even our Chinese brother wrote from China,
expressing his New Year Greetings to you, although many letters were not read
here tonight, our brother, Paul and our brother, Peter Lim from Australia, and
different parts of the world. Our precious brethren in Guyana, St. Vincent, Grenada, and not forgetting
our next home church, Grace Covenant Church, and I can imagine the saints of
God sitting there tonight, yes, if the winter is too much for them to come out,
they will be in there private homes, and it was the night that our precious
Brother Mc Gahee said that he is going to come out to service after a long
time, and I can just picture them sitting and listening to the saints of God,
and hearing the words of life. We want to say we love each one of you, and love
you with an even burning flame, and wish you all the best for 2007. May this be
that year that the Lord outpours His Spirit. May the Lord bless your hearts.

And
then, our gathering here tonight, we welcome each one of you from around the
country, precious and faithful brethren who had been serving the Lord for many
years. Children grown up to be men and women. The young become old, but we are
pressing the battle. I wish you a prosperous new year, and may the Lord
continue to bless you, and prosper you in leaps and bounds, even in 2007. Bless
you with happiness and peace, but above all, with eternal life. And last but
not least, it is a miracle tonight, and it is a great blessing to my soul to have
seated here children who had gone astray and some of them for many years; but
the Lord so rich in mercy could do the impossible, that He can have you seated
here tonight. It is my pleasure, and it is a great blessing, and although you
have returned and not, in full, it still rejoices our hearts. Many of you had
been crying and begging for many years and I believe that the heart of the Lord
is touched. Now, that is quite a number of sheep that had gone astray in time
past, and we allow them this opportunity to sit in Bethel here, to hear the words of life.

We
are happy and grateful to the Lord, and not forgetting these young ladies,
several of them have brought along their husbands tonight, and we welcome them,
and we want you to understand, and have the correct understanding that nothing
is wrong with you as a human being. You found a decent young lady, and you got
married according to the law of the Land. The problem and the wrong are upon
the young ladies, because they were grown up here as children and they had the
front row, seated here. Some were born here, were grown up, and they knew the
Word of God.

This
chance that we have given these people is to actually see what the Lord will do
for them. I do not know what the Lord will do for them. I believe if a chance
is given to you, you ought to make full proof, and you husbands, though I do
not know you, you stand in a position to help your wives; but you cannot do it
in yourselves, the Lord will have to do that. And if you are a backslider given
a chance here, two young men, I believe that you ought to respect the House of
God, and not try to enter here in a defiant manner. If you are a backslider you
should not enter here in a defiant manner. You had been grown up under our
customs, and our policies, and under the Word of God, and when you walk in here
contrary to that, you are defiant, and then the only thing that I could do, is
to ask you to stay away, and not return. Do not let that happen.

I
trust that the Lord could say something, and have said something to stir your
hearts tonight, and these men that are seated here, as we refer to them as
unsaved men, I want you to know that you are most welcome. Do not feel even as strangers
in our midst. I believe that this is your opportunity to hear the words of life,
and decide what you want to do with your
soul. And I cannot tell you to baptize and join the church on account of
your wives. That will just be another religion. It takes God to help you to
understand and to give your heart and soul to the Lord. May He grant you that
grace tonight, is my prayer.

I
will bring out a little message which will continue later and I am still
preaching on “Pentecostalism Under The
Message,” but I will dwell upon a little portion of that for the
understanding of all, and especially our visitors. We have some other visitors,
and may the Lord bless you, and you are most welcome

My soul and my
saviour

I
just want to dwell for a few minutes upon the subject of, “My Soul and My Saviour.” Yes. It is so wonderful, and
the soul of man is the greatest creation
that God has ever created. He said that heaven is my throne and earth is my
footstool, but where is the place of my rest? The Bible reveals that the soul
of man is the resting place of God, and that is what makes the soul the
greatest creation of all that God ever made in the whole universe. Yes. Man in
himself was the greatest creation that God ever made, but man does not evaluate
that. He behaves worse than a dog, worse than a worm, worse than an animal,
because he lacks that knowledge of who he really is. Yes.

And
I go back a little bit to forty years ago when I was just a teenager, and I
always look back to the rock from whence I was hewn. When I lacked knowledge of
God, salvation, and even of my soul, at about the age of eighteen, or nineteen.
Up to that time nobody told me that I had a soul, and if that soul is not saved
then it can go to the regions of the lost, to a place called hell, and remain
there in torment. But then I came to that knowledge by the guidance of the
Lord, by looking into the Bible, and I found out that I had a soul, and there
is a hell waiting for that soul and after that a lake of fire, and by
God’s grace I endeavoured not to go to that place called hell.

That
vision and that understanding,  that
quest, and desire has brought me forty years past that time, and if there is
another forty years that vision will
take me on. But I endeavoured to save my soul, and not only that, but to
save the soul of every man that I can possibly come in contact with, and warn
them of that dreadful place called hell, and to preach unto them the
blessedness of another realm of peace and happiness, joy and contentment, and
life eternal. My vision has not changed, my desires, my ambition for the
spiritual has not changed. As a result you are seated here tonight. I endeavoured
that many will come and sit under the words of life, and because of that vision
and understanding and by God’s grace it has spread out to many around the
world.

How
privileged our children are that the smallest child here with understanding is
conscious that they have a soul, and before baptism I ask many of them, why do
you want to be baptized? They say, “I want to be baptized because I do
not want my soul to go to hell.” When I compare my life at the age of approximately
nineteen years, I was totally ignorant that I had a soul that could live on
after this death. Friends, I envy these little fellows, and thank God for the
blessing. But then I think another thought. I met many a man on their dying
bed, and led men up to the age of ninety, women the same who was not conscious
that they have a soul. Is that not sad?

It
never dawned to them. It never dawned to them that there is a place of torment
waiting, yes, a lake of fire at the end of this life; because we were born
sinners upon the earth, and I hear people say that I was born in this religion,
and will die in this religion. But that is so wrong. Even because they lack
knowledge on their soul, and their Saviour. Their soul and salvation. You were
not born a Hindu, or a Muslim, or a Catholic, or a Christian. You were born a
sinner. And the proof of that is you commit
sins. You say, “I was not born a sinner.” That is wrong. You
were born a sinner. The very reason that you were born a sinner and the very
proof of it is that you commit sins. You lie, you thief and commit all manner
of sins.

Now
that little thought changed my entire vision of life, entire vision of life,
and the proof of this in the scripture Luke:16, when the Master walked the
dusty streets of Jerusalem, He told a story, which is a true story. He told of
a beggar that was begging and full of sores, and the dogs licked his sores, and
he yearned to eat the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. O yes.
And then He said, “The beggar died.” But after the beggar died and
was buried, he was taken into Abraham’s bosom, showing that there is some
part of you that lives on after death, and he said that the rich man also died,
and in hell he opened up his eyes and being in torment he cried. We live after
death. That was enough to seal my decision.

Transformation of
the soul

Yes.
When I read the Bible in the privacy of my little room, being from a Hindu
background I contemplated. When I looked around to the churches of the world
and religions, I realized that my religion that I was born into never taught me
those things, and all that I could see around the churches brethren, is hypocrisies,
money begging, and a form of religion. I was not interested in joining a
church. I was interested in one thing and that is; my soul and my salvation.
This is what I preach. This is what we have established. This is our vision,
the salvation of the soul. Not church joining, a roll book, baptize you in some
water and you become a member. We believe in the saving of the soul, and the gospel
that I preach speaks of the transformation of that soul from a sinner and from
sin to righteousness. That is the gospel,
and that is the gospel that Jesus preached. That is the gospel that the
apostles preached. That is the gospel that is contained in the Bible. That is
our emphasis.

It
only takes God to transform the soul, and by God’s grace we can say that
what you witness here in our lives is the transformation of the soul expressed.
Not a form of religion. That is our emphasis. We became conscious that our soul
lives on, and Jesus confirmed that in so many words in the Book of Matthew, and
He said, “Fear not those that can kill the body, but can do no more. But
rather fear Him that can destroy both the body and the soul in hell
fire.” Therefore, friends, after this body dies, there is a part of you,
the spiritual part of you which lives on, and the spiritual part of you is called the soul. That lives on, and must
stand before Almighty God to give an account for the things that you have done
in this life.

After
contemplating on the scriptures for a long time, and only one fear I had, I did
not want to be bound down by a church formality, I shunned religion and
churches, but secretly read my Bible, and told the Bible stories, and then I
turned over to the grand Book of Revelation, and it says, “And I saw a great white throne, and that sat on it, from whose
face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
And I saw the dead, small, and great, stand before God; and the books were
opened: and another book was opened, which is the book
of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the
books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead
which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them:
and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell
were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was
not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.”

That was enough,
friends, to scare a teenager to God. That was my first conversion; the fear for
hell. I am being honest with you. Not the love of heaven, but the fear of hell. After you are dead,
though you died; in the sea, or under the earth, and in whatever manner, one
day it will deliver up your soul, and you will stand before Almighty God. These
words were just not another book that I was reading, but it was the counsel of
God. Yes. And it put fear down in my heart never to stand before that white
throne judgment, and I endeavoured to find the way of salvation, and salvation
means to save yourself from going to this dreadful place called hell. That is
what it means, and to inherit the land of peace that God provided for His
children.

Hell is a dreadful
place

I
was afraid, and I am still afraid. Brethren we should never get brave enough to
think that we could go to this place and we do not care if we go to this place.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Yes. And I want to warn each person under my voice locally
and foreign: those that would see the DVD,
and hear the tapes, those that are streaming here today. No matter where this
little message will go, hell is a dreadful place. The lake of fire is a
dreadful place. Your religion cannot buy you out of it. Church membership
cannot buy you out of it. Your pride cannot buy you out of it. Your wickedness
cannot buy you out of it. When you hear salvation offered to you, you need to
accept it.

How
shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? How shall we escape what? How
shall we escape that place called hell and the lake of fire if we neglect the
counsel of God that tells you how to escape? God is not sending anybody to hell
because they are sinners, or because they are doing the wrong things, or
because they are helplessly a marijuana smoker, or a cigarette smoker, or an
alcoholic, or immoral person of some kind, or you are a "cuss bird"
of some kind. God is not sending anybody to hell for their sins, because sinners commit sins. But friends, God
is sending people to hell because they have rejected the counsel of
deliverance, and the provided way of deliverance.

God
has provided a way of deliverance, and that way of deliverance is by the transformation of the soul. I can say
by God’s grace tonight that my soul is transformed. I can say by
God’s grace that your souls are transformed. Does God transform the souls
of men? Yes, He does. We have an example in the scripture. Yes, one time there
was a proud king called Nebuchadnezzar. He was king of kings, lord of lords
upon the earth, and because of his pride the Lord said that, I will turn you into
an ox, and the Lord gave him the spirit of an ox, and the man went seven years
eating grass. At the end of those seven years the power of transformation was
again applied upon him, and the Lord said; “I will now return you back to
your kingdom.” And the power of transformation turned the ox back into a
man. He was in the form of a human being while he was eating grass, but he had
the spirit of an ox.

The
Lord changed him and brought him back upon the throne, showing that our God is
a God that can transform you from one to the next. We are not people here that
were born good people. If you are a visitor here, we confess that we are
sinners saved by grace, and the power of transformation went to work in our
lives. You did not come in amongst a bunch of people that have no sins, or have
no faults, or dropped from heaven, or are a bunch of angels. We were all cuss
birds one time. We were thieves; we were sinners, marijuana smokers, and coke
addicts, some of us. O yes. Women wearing shorts, wearing pants, like any other
person upon the face of the earth. We were no good people. Yes. But we met God and
He transformed our souls. And the women put on clothing, and the men
transformed their lives. He gave us another spirit. For that is the
transformation of the soul. The transformation of the soul, you must receive
another spirit.

A touch of immoRTality

When
that spirit comes in you, it is a touch
of immortality. That is the anointing of the soul. It is a touch of immortality
and only in God dwelleth immortality. And when it touches your soul, it begins
a transformation of the soul. I will show you why God does not send people to
hell because of adultery, and fornication, but He sends them to hell for
refusing the plan of transformation, and the plan of transformation was provided
on a cross called the cross of Calvary, and by
the shed blood of a man called the Lord Jesus Christ. That is how it was
provided, because all our works of righteousness are as filthy rags. And true
Christianity is based upon forgiveness,
and not works. Yes. We come as sinners to Him, begging Him to forgive for all
our sins, and our transgressions, and promise to do them no more, and that is
the way of salvation. That is the way of transformation. That is the way of the
anointing of the soul.

Yes.
You have begun to walk the right road. You have joined the race. When you
repent and you are baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of
your sins, you are now on the right track. Yes. You are heading for a touch of
immortality. That is what happened to us. We had a touch of immortality. Now,
that is the truth of it. The truth of it is that we were all rank sinners, but
we are saved by grace. The ladies that you see seated here today, dressed
immorally one time, yes, except those that were born and grown up in the House
of God. How and what a wonderful privilege that is? The young men done the
same, except those that were born here, and were grown up under the preaching
of God’s Word. I am jealous over you.

It
is a wonderful blessing, but generally the congregation was back there in the
world. We lived like dogs, and we lived like hogs, and I will tell you why we
lived that way, and why God do not send people to hell because of what they
lived in the past, and that is our soul was anointed by an evil force from the time that we were born here, and
dropped from the womb, our souls were anointed by an evil force. “How do
you know it was an evil force? You are telling me about a little child, and a
little nice fellow two or three years of age growing up.”         All
right! Wait a little bit, friends, until that child starts growing up, and you
will come to find out the kind of force he came into this world with, because
as sure as the world, he will do evil. It is an evil force, therefore we done
evil. Your soul was anointed by an evil force, therefore we done evil. We were helpless. We came into this world speaking
lies. We came into this world as sinners. We came into this world with evil
within us, therefore God was not sending the human race and a man to hell
because he is a sinner, and he committed sins. No. He is sending that man to
hell because when mercy is offered to him, to change and transform his life, he
turned it down.

Yes. And that is
right in your Bible. Mark 16 says, “Go ye into all
the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is
baptized shall be saved.” Saved from what? Hell and the lake of fire. But
he that believeth not shall be damned. Yes. Go out and meet sinners who are victims of circumstances. Go out there and
meet the rum drinker, the cuss bird, the immoral person, the adulterer, the
fornicator, the liar, the thief, the murderer. You say murderer too? Yes,
murderer. Go out there and meet them, and offer them the plan of salvation and
the way of transformation. If they accept it and they believe, and they prove
that by water baptism, then they shall be saved, and if they reject that, then they
shall be damned. That is the gospel right there. Go into all the world and
preach the gospel. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, and he
that believeth not shall be damned. The power of transformation. When you do
that the power of transformation starts in your life.

Backsliders; Why?

You say, “Well I know people who sat here and after a
while they got up and went their way.” Well they started the race, but
never waited long enough for a touch of immortality. They were anointed on the
outside body, and we refer to them as backsliders. I invited some here tonight,
children, lost sheep who have gone astray. Maybe you cannot understand how you
done what you done. You sat under the anointing of the spirit, and you enjoyed
the singing, you enjoyed the dancing, you enjoyed the Word, you enjoyed the
ministry, you enjoyed the fellowship of the church, you enjoyed the peace of
the Lord. But then because of your insincerity and your dishonesty towards God that
anointing of the Holy Ghost never went deep enough, and it never reached soul-deep to touch the inside, and to
anoint the inside of you. Now, if it had anointed the inside of you, then you
could not have been backslidden, and go out and smoke marijuana, wear the wrong
kind of clothing, marry the wrong kind of husband, go back and join sinners,
and enjoy the things of this world the way you done.

Now,
because of that the Lord is plenteous in mercy, and He called you back to see
if you will be honest enough. If you
can pay the price. If you would accept His grace and the provisions that He
made for you, then if you will sit long enough until that anointing touches
your soul, then you will be saved, you will be in lineup for the outpouring and
you will be in lineup for the rapture. But if you come back with the same
dishonesty that took you out, you will repeat what you done before. Yes, my
friends.

It
is not a time to be self-willed. Yes. It is a time to yield to the Holy Spirit,
and when God gives you a chance, you do not come in here with an earring in
your ear. No. At least you should have enough respect to take the earring off,
if you could not get the hair cut. And that backslidden young man that came in
tonight with an earring, and Rasta-hair, stay out of here please. Do not come
back. Your wife will be allowed to come. Stay out. You would not be able to
come back. It shows that you are not yet
ready for this. Because as a backslider you was given a chance to come to
the House of God and you did not appreciate it. A man who is not a backslider,
even though you come in here in the wrong attire, that does not apply to you.
You are a sinner. But there are people that was grown up in the House of God
here, they know our standard and when you are given a chance, for you to walk
in here with an earring in your ear, you are a bastard, and you might have
crossed the line of repentance, that is why you could be so defiant to the Word
of God.

May
the Lord have mercy upon each one of these people, and may they work out their
salvation with fear and trembling, and I speak for the rest of the world. May
the Lord have mercy upon His people, and my brethren, tonight who have heard
the gospel, and you gentlemen that are married to these young ladies, and you
took them out of the House of God, you have committed a great sin, yes, but you
done that as a sinner. God is able to forgive you, and you should try to make a
way for that young lady whom you have destroyed or your portion will be very
great before the judgment bar of Christ. It is a terrible thing to interfere
with a child of God, and the Bible said; “It is better that a millstone
was hung around your neck, and you be cast into the depth of the sea, than for
you to offend one of these little ones that believeth on me.”

God
has given you a chance tonight to come to His house, and hear His Word. My
admonishment to you is to repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus
Christ for the remission of your sins. That is my last message for
2006, and I thank God for the grace and messages that He has given to me
throughout 2006. It will go down in history. We thank God for all the blessings
that He has blessed us with in 2006. The food that we eat, the clothes that we
wear, the air that we breathe, all the natural blessings, and the Words of life
that your ears have heard. You will one day give an account for the things that
you have heard.

We
want to acknowledge the Lord in this 2007, while the musicians come, yes, and
raise a song meanwhile. For a few minutes, my beloved, without formality, but
we want to make a fresh dedication unto the Lord right away, and acknowledge
the Lord in the breaking of the year. This is not the time to go out. This is
not a time for the urinal. This is the time to really acknowledge our God,
asking Him for the grace and the strength, for 2007. Let us all stand. While
the music plays, and let us lift our right hand to Him, and you talk to the
Lord in your own way, just you and God. Amen.