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by Kenneth Hagin
Churches of Galatia,
(Galations l ; l l - 2 : 2 )
told them? Folks have gone out and beat the poor
old sinner over the head and then wondered why
he quit coming to church. An old hog would have
enough sense to quit coming if someone took a
ball bat and beat his head everytime he came up
to eat. You do not find anywhere in the Bible
where God told us to go out and club the sinner.
Folks think you are supposed to do that. They are
already under conviction.
And then, may God have mercy on some
preachers and pastors. They have preached to
the saints as if they were sinners. They think
they are supposed to keep them under conviction
and keep them praying in the altar. It is good for
folks to pray, but you don't have to beat them
over the head to get them to pray. Much of the
time they don't know whether they are saved or
not. They go to church, and go home condemned.
They want to hear the truth. I am convinced that
if the full truth were given that should be, they
would run over themselves getting in.
Now let's continue reading verse 20, still from
the Amplified New Testament:
20 So we are Christ's ambassadors, God making His appeal as It
were through us. W e (as Christ's personal representatives) beg
you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favor (now offered you)
and be reconciled to God. -II Corinthians 5:20 (Amplified N . T . )
Just come and lay hold of it! Just come and take
it! Don't come and cry half the night. Don't come
and see if you can talk Him into the idea of doing
something for you. He was personally present in
Christ already doing something for you. "Come
and lay hold of this divine favor (now offered you)
and be reconciled to God." That is the Gospel!
That is the Good News!
Paul says in Romans 1:16, "For I am not
ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the
power of God unto salvation to every one that
believeth: to the Jew first, and also to the Greek."
The Hebrew and Greek words for salvation
imply the ideas of deliverance, safety, preserva
tion, healing and soundness.
Do you see that when your debts are cancelled,
you can be healed. Because sickness came as a
result of sin, not necessarily your sin, but
Adam's sin in the beginning. We all fell heir to it.
But see now what has happened. Paul said,
"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ,
for it is the p o w e r "
What is the power? The Gospel is the power!
It is the power "...of God unto salvation...."
The Gospel is the power unto deliverance, unto
safety, unto preservation, unto healing, unto
soundness.
This refers to both spiritual and
physical healing and soundness.
shall
they
cast
out devils."
Who will know their authority and who will exercise their
authority over the enemy,
Until all the enemy shall be put under His feet, for He has put
them under His feet, and they shall go forth to do miracles.
They shall stand even before the heads of nations to do miracles.
Many signs and wonders shall be wrought that shall cause many
to be amazed and shall startle others.
For they shall understand that which belongeth unto man.
Rising up quickly, they shall go outto do the work that they were
ordained to do,
F o r the plan of God shall be consumated and the work of the Lord
shall come into full fruition.
And now rejoice in it and be exceedingly glad, magnify His name.
F o r the light has come and has shined upon you.
Y e a , the light has shined upon your heart so that no longer doth
your spirit dwell in darkness, nor shall darkness envelop the
house in which ye live, even your body.
For as it was written of old, concerning Israel, the night the
Death Angel passed over, there was light in their dwellings
And Death did not touch them,
But there was light in their dwellings.
So the day star hath shined into thy dwelling,
And the light has come,
And the glory of that light shall shine in your spirit
Until ye shall rise up and walk in the light of life.
And Life shall reign supreme in thy members
And the very Life of Christ in thy body.
Thou shalt see it and it shall be so
And thou shalt rejoice in it for this is the day and the hour,
And this is the time for the manifestation of the Sons of God
And the full manifestation of His power.
Therefore rejoice in it and be glad of it.
And that which men in ages past, and those in present times,
Have only caught a glimpse of,
Yea, a little gleam here and a little gleam there,
And the light has only filtered through like the light coming
through a crack in the door,
O r a little light filtering through the blind over the window.
But now then the blind shall be removed entirely and the door
shall be swung open,
And the light shall shine in in its fullness.
And men shall glory in the light and shall walk therein
And they shall go forth to do exploits and shall magnify the
Name of the Lord their God.
And He it is that shall be glorified,
And He it is that shall work even among His own
For the Head shall direct the Body
And the feet shall tread upon the enemy,
And thy enemy shall be made thy footstool.
And He shall come in His glory and in the power of His might
And the Saints shall reign with Him In the ages to come
That He might show forth the power of His praise and His glory.
Yea, He will work speedily and hurriedly, and those that would
stand in His way He shall surely cause judgment to come
upon them hurriedly and quickly.
And those that would lay their hands upon His servants,
He will quickly cause judgment to come upon them,
F o r He shall speak by the mouth of His s e e r s ,
His prophets and they shall proclaim His truth
In these days the Lord is marshalling His forces,
Even as the enemy is marshalling his forces,
For the fight of the endtime.
The Lord will not sit idly by and let the enemy reign supreme,
But He is speaking unto this one and He is speaking unto that one
Saying, "I have need of thee. Y e a , come thou an
thee an effective minister. Y e a , I shall use you in my Body.*
So many have declared, "I am this organ of the Body*
and "I desire to do this.*
And some have put themselves unofficially in certain places,
And others the organization has placed them in certain places,
But the Lord will tear down and He will build up.
He will put His men into place in the Body of Christ.
And those who are responding unto human ideas
shall grow colder and colder and deader and deader,
For they shall go away from the plan of God and will endeavor
to carry on His program on their own strength
and by their own power.
But He will put in the place those who should be in the place,
That He has ordained that they should.
And the hand shall not say to the foot, "I have no need of thee.*
Nor shall one member say to the other, "I have no need of thee.*
For all shall cooperate and work in coordination
And His plan shall be furthered!
* * *
(The Word of God says in Colossians 3:16, "Let the word of
Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonish
ing one another in psalms...." A psalm is a spiritual poem
or ode.
It may rhyme or it may not, but there is an element
of poetry about it. It can be recited, chanted, or sung. They
teach us and admonish us. At this point in the service the fol
lowing psalm came forth.)
For the voice of the L o r d came speaking across the deep,
came speaking unto me, yea so sweet,
Tinkling like the bells of the evening tower
as He spoke out to me and said,