Wholehearted Surrender: Living by the Spirit and Preparing for Eternity

Speaker Identification

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo, Host and Preacher. He identifies himself in the opening and delivers the prayer, sermon, commentary, responses to the letter, salvation invitation, and final sign-off.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader. A woman reads the listener letter and extended passages from the teaching text while Tony Alamo interrupts periodically with commentary. The transcript first addresses someone named Lydia during the letter segment, but it is not fully clear whether the same woman reads every later passage.

Speaker 3 – Sharon, Closing Announcer. Tony Alamo asks Sharon to provide the instructions for obtaining the program, and a female voice gives the website, mailing address, telephone number, and fax number.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo, Host and Preacher::

Hello, again, this is World Pastor Tony Alamo. Today we're in part 114 of How to Have God's Life Living in You. And this will be tape 216, program 216. If you'd like a copy of it at the end of the program, Sharon will tell you how to receive it four different ways. We have some letters, some from the United States and elsewhere. And another message that I'm sure you'll be glad you heard. Right now, let's go to the throne of the Lord to ask Him to anoint His program. Father, from your place in heaven, pour out your Spirit. Lord, it's so good to have your Spirit for spiritual strength and physical strength. I thank you when I was in the gym the other day. I didn't feel like working out at all.

And when I said to you, I wish there was some kind of way to have more strength. These guys take steroids and everything. And right then I felt the power and your Holy Spirit coming down upon me. And I felt like I was a hundred times stronger than I was ever. And so I realized that there are heavenly steroids. Lord, and I really appreciate that. Lord, give spiritual steroids to the spiritual realm today. That everything you say gives spiritual power to the listener. Power, open their minds and give them the power to be able to receive what you're saying through me. And open up their hearts and their spirits to want, put the desire in them to want to receive.

The most needed thing in the entire universe, which is your everlasting life. And make Lord them understand the things that are being said that the church may be identified. And souls should be saved in Jesus' name, amen. And everybody says amen. Okay, I was just saying on the tape the other day that I Iran and Iraq. For one thing, they gave the Jews the authority to go and rebuild the Jerusalem. This is the Persian Gulf, which consists of, back in those days, Persia was the ruler of the entire known world at that time. Which went clear into Egypt and even passed and covered Turkey and all the whole Middle East at that time.

And so they allowed the Jews to go and rebuild the temple and the different things of the Lord, which are Jerusalem. And God blessed them. Look at all the oil they have over there now and all the absolute wealth that everyone, that even the United States is desiring to have their wealth. But they also are Arabs and their religion as Muslim and now they've turned on the Jews and now they're being cursed. When they blessed the Jews they were being blessed. But when they cursed the Jews they are now being cursed. So if the Jews will turn to the Lord Jesus Christ and if the Muslims will turn to the Lord Jesus Christ, there will be peace in the Middle East.

Mohammed never died on the cross for your soul to take away the sins of your soul. And when the Lord takes the sins of your soul he takes your former sins away. And there's so many people that are preaching today that God is a God that loves us unconditionally and that is not true. With God everything is conditional. He says, if you do what I tell you then you're my friend. You are my friend if you do everything I say. But if not you are my enemy. I love those that fear me and keep my commandments. And the Lord tells us that we are to seek him with all the heart, all the soul, all the mind and all the strength.

I know that when I didn't believe in God at all and in the office in Beverly Hills when I first was acquainted with the Lord, I first thought I was going crazy. But he really showed me that it was that I was not crazy that he really did exist when he started pulling the breath in and out of my body and showing me his tremendous intelligence and power. And I did things that I would never do. I didn't know the Scriptures at all. And some people may think that God is unfair because the way that in the world the realm that we're living in that people are preaching against the truth and saying that it's unprofitable to serve the Lord. But I know that ever since that the Lord showed me that he was real.

I feared him and I went out to seek him to all the different churches. And I never went to a church, not even one of them that showed me that God really was. They were trying to tell me that God was different than the Lord showed me that he really was. And that's how I knew that all the churches were false and that they didn't really know the Lord. And you don't see any fear of God. Everything is just God will give you sins, former sins, sins, past, present, and in the future. I just heard Charles Stanley preaching that stuff again. He taught real good but so did Hitler. Hitler was wrong. All these features sound really good. And they say a lot of truthful things that makes them so deceptive.

And then all of a sudden they'll throw that false teaching in and just absolutely destroy everything that the Bible says. The Lord says that we are not. If we continue on in the faith, then we shall be saved. But if we don't continue, we will be lost. He even threatens his saved ones in the book of Revelation when he tells them that we must have zeal. We must have heart. We must have the Lord living in our heart. Like when we are in sports, you see people playing sports with all their hearts. So minor injuries, they get beat up. They get their limbs broken and they just can't wait to get back in.

You see people fall off horses in horse races and they've been in automobile races and they bust their heads up and they break their bones. And three or four weeks later, or maybe three or four or six months later, you see them back in the car. They have this desire to speed and to be excelled in whatever sport it is because that sport is in their heart. They can't stop from doing that. And this is what the Lord says, we must have this zeal, this fire for Him in our heart. We must convince the gainsayers that what they are doing and that they are living in this earthly realm that they must begin living in the kingdom of God. Now we're in the kingdom of God right now if we are born again in the Spirit.

And eventually we'll be in the kingdom of heaven. We are baptized in the Spirit to be in the kingdom of heaven. The Lord prays, you know, he tells us to pray, our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name? Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth, the kingdom of God. He wants it to be here on earth as it is in heaven. And so he wants his representatives to bring about, he wants to put the kingdom of heaven in them. Because that's where he says the kingdom of heaven is. It's not here on earth yet. It's in his people here, the kingdom of God.

But eventually when the trumpet sounds and the Lord ends everything by great fire here, the only ones that will survive the fire will be those that are the kingdom of God here. But then heaven after the earth has been burned and heaven has been burned because sin has been in heaven and sin has been here on earth. And the Lord wants to refurbish both of them. So he's going to burn them to a crisp, purge all the sin that was ever in it out of it. And then he's going to come back to earth in heaven, the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven will come down here where the kingdom of God was established by his servants. And then heaven and earth will be together.

And so the kingdom of heaven is where God is and the kingdom of God is in us and we're here on earth. And so he wants us to have this love for the sport of destroying Satan's ill-gotten kingdom here on earth by preaching the gospel convincingly as convincingly as you hear boxers talk about how they knocked all these people out and as convincingly as you hear these people that drive these formula one cars and these other kind of vehicles in Daytona and also riding racehorses. I have a son that has won over 2,200 or 300 thoroughbred races and he's broken many bones in his body and everything. And it was just almost everything. He's in his 40s now.

And on one of the visits to me I told him, look, you're too old to do this. He was running 10 miles a day with clothes on and going around the track trying to stay at a certain particular weight. And for what? Son, for what? I mean, this is not going to give any stature to you in the kingdom of God. Why don't you come over here? And in case you need to check on him, his name is Michael Moran. He was one of my sons when I was unsaved many years ago. And his mother and I parted. He has a son by her also named Corey and a daughter, Maureen. And they're in their 40s. And sure like him, you know, to come into the ministry. Because there's so much more here than there is by him being in a horse barn.

And now he's managing riders. But the Lord wants us to serve him with all the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength. And he states in the book of Revelation that if we don't, if we don't have a zeal, that kind of zeal is a person in sports. Like football, basketball, baseball, car racing, or horse racing. That he's going to spit us out of his mouth. Because after all this is God talking to us and telling us that. And after all, all things belong to us if we do what he says, but nothing. There isn't anything that we could gain, like trophies or anything on the side of eternity, or money, or fame that we're going to take with us. Because all these things will be forgotten here on earth.

Only what we do for the Lord Jesus Christ is going to be enduring, what's going to last forever. And so we need to be concerned about the things that are going to last forever. We're not going to take even one hundredths or one thousandths, or a millionths of a penny with this. We're going to stand nude naked before the Lord God of whom we have to do. We have to do business with God when we stand up there. We have to do it here, or we're not going to be standing before the mercy seat of Christ. We're going to be before the great white throne of God. And so that's the most important thing to do. So the main thing the Lord is looking for is not just people that are casper milquetoasts.

Where they just browse, they go in. He wants us to abide in us, to live in us, and represent himself in us, and allow him to take us wherever he will in this earth. For no matter where we go, if he's with us, and some of these people say God never drives us to do anything. Well, for heaven's sakes, he deals with us as sons. He, the Holy Spirit drove His Son into the wilderness. Amen, the Lord wants to drive us wherever he will. And he wants us to do it. He wants us to have him totally surrendered unto him so that we can have the zeal to not be spit out of his mouth. I don't want to be spit out of his mouth after putting in almost 42 years in this gospel field.

I want to stand with him in heaven as a, and stand with him here on earth. I know if I stand with him here on earth, I won't have to worry about whether I'll be standing with him in heaven. Because as we are in this world, so also shall we be in eternity. If we serve him whenever we please, or if we serve him halfheartedly, or just 99% of our heart, we're not going to make it in. Charles Stanley is wrong. The Lord does not love us unconditionally. Everything, you read them. All the different scriptures would say, if you do whatever I tell you to do, I'm going to bless you. And if you don't, I'm going to curse you. And he tells us that the parable of the ten virgins five, they're all virgins.

They were all saved. But five of them didn't keep the Holy Spirit in them and five did. And when the Lord came without any announcement, the five that were saved went to meet the Lord and they were not afraid. The other five that didn't have the Spirit living in them. They were saying, let us borrow some oil. In other words, some of the Holy Spirit from you into us. And no, I'm not going to give you any of the Holy Spirit that's in me. I've worked. I've done the work of the Lord. And I've sought him. And I'm not going to give any of it up. I'm giving the things of the Lord to you now by the Holy Spirit talking in me and through me and to you. And that's where you're going to be able to get the Spirit.

If you hear what the Spirit is saying unto you, and if you do what the Spirit says unto you, then you won't be afraid when the Lord cometh when he comes to get you. When you hear your name called, you're not going to be able to get yourself in the order that fast. I have to study every day. I have to pray every day in order to be able to keep the Spirit dwelling in me. And if you don't do that, you're going to be terrified. That's a coming into the Lord. I believe many people are terrified right now because they know they're not living the life of the Lord. They're not allowing the Lord to represent himself in and through the people. The Lord saved ourselves for a purpose and that was for us to be able to rule.

Now the two first people, Adam and Eve, had the Spirit of God in them. And he said, OK, now reign and rule and have dominion over the earth. Over the fish, the foul, the animals, the worms, the bugs, everything on the face, the earth have the power and dominion over them. And the Spirit of God was in them to be able to live forever. But with these instructions don't let anything, the evil thing come into the garden. The only law then was to eat only from the tree of life, of the tree of life. See the everlasting power, the tree of life, which is representing the Lord Jesus Christ in the Garden of Eden. Because Christ is life, He's our life. The Word of God is Christ.

The Bible says that Christ is the Word of God. He came to dwell with us in, chapter 1 of John 1:14. Verse 1 you must read that and then for verse 14 afterwards. And so when Adam and Eve, Eve had the first disobeyed God. See that's the thing that the Lord knows that we love Him if we keep His commandments for love towards Him. Is if we keep His commandments, we don't know His commandments are unless we read the Bible. His Word. If you love His Word, then you'll be saved because His Word is His only the God, the Son Christ. So God so loved the world that whosoever believes in the Word of God that says you must love God with all the Word, with all your heart, soul, mind, and sense and you can be saved.

And then if you continue on, you shall be saved. And it's all conditional because you'll read in the Bible all the different conditions of His love. They say that God just loves everybody unconditionally. No, He does not. Jacob have I loved. Esau have I hated the Lord the Scriptures say, okay, so God loves and He hates. God makes alive and He kills. God sends people to heaven by Him because He shows them how to go to heaven. And He sends, has written this pathway to heaven in His Word. And if we read it and study it, not just read it like a novel, but if we study it with all of our hearts, soul, mind, strength, and He'll uncover hidden truths.

And, uh, Pilate asked Jesus, “What is truth?” Jesus says, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man can come unto the Father except through Me, the Word of God. Anyone attempting to get into the kingdom of God by any false religion, any false doctrine, any other thing other than Me, the truth is a liar, and the truth is not in them. I'm not in them. Esau, we have to be careful to be faithful to Christ to the Word, the Old and New Testament. We cannot fully understand the New Testament unless we understand the Old Testament. And you say, well, it's too very simple. You don't get very plain basketball, football, baseball, and barefoot water-skiing.

You have this news for a barefoot water-skiing, you know, where you don't use water skis, you use only your feet that you just ride on top of the water on the surface of the water. You only want to put that zeal, and you see them flying off these cliffs with these wings and some of them crash, and, oh God, they're so dead. Dead set to tempt the Lord God, parachuting. So is God saying, here we go. I had to go on a great big day like today, flying through the air. Why don't you, does that happen to get them into the kingdom of heaven? I say the Bible says no, okay? That's the sport, and not only is the sport the tempt the Lord.

You're trusting in parachutes more than you do the Lord, and some of the parachutes don't open. Pity. All right, so remember to study the Word of God seamlessly. That's why most of the pastors today, especially the Mount Television are so wrong. You'll hear a lot of them as they say this right, but then they steer you. You don't have to worry, they say God just loves you and has forgiven your sins past, present and future. That is the devil talking to you. The Lord says, now that I've forgiven you, go and sin no more. That's the worst thing happened to you.

And he says to those that were saved, and they go back to a life of sin, or just living their old kind of life before they never give it up to be a belive life of Christ. He says you're like dogs that have gone back to their vomit, to laugh up your filthy vomit, and like sows that have gone back to the wallowing in the mire. I'm giving you a lot of things to think about. The Word of God, tape 216 program, number 216, and Sharon will tell you how at the end of the program. We have some letters now, Lydia.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader::

From Little Rock, Arkansas.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader::

Dear Pastor Tony, yesterday afternoon I found one of your newsletters at a Walmart shopping center in West Little Rock. I found it in a shopping cart by the grace power of God. I found some others, some cards and tracts nearby, put there by your distributors. Praise and glory to God to them always.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo, Host and Preacher::

Right, because they tell us to get the Word of God out, because they know that the time is short. The ones that I think are saved in all they do is go to church, clap their hands and give a few bucks, or even a lot of money, doesn't matter. That isn't being merciful to people. Well, we're being seen on television, yeah, but you're preachers teaching the wrong stuff. And so my literature preaches the right stuff. And I'm not looking for your money. The Lord says that he's looking for it, so you have to tie it and give our things to churches or people, such as myself that are preaching the truth, so that we can pay for all this literature and tapes and books and Bibles that we're sending out.

But you don't want to do that, and so that's okay. I'm doing it. I'll take your reward, okay? Whatever the money comes in from us working, which you read, people don't realize that we're not government sponsored at all. What we do is we work for our money, and we put it into Bibles and literature and radio broadcasts. I know we don't pay as much money as some people, but we pay in 90,000 or more per month on radio. And we spend a lot more than that on literature and on feeding, clothing, and housing people. And so we do it with zeal. I mean, we're not at all. I just like a labor of love. I mean, I don't feel that I'm working in yet. People say I've done more than, you know, Sue and myself.

When Sue was alive, she's been gone 24 years now, but we've done more than all the other ministries combined with the truth. Now, I know there's a lot of people that are preaching fallacy, but as far as we are concerned, we're preaching the truth. And remember, we were on television 10 years, too. 10 years solid. But in the meantime, we're preaching on the radio, shortwave, and the AM stations here and there. And continue the letter. Let's do it with zeal, though, everybody. Amen. If you give, don't give, gradually. I'm not asking for your money. The Lord is the one that does that read the Book of Malachi. Go ahead.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader::

I read your newsletter over and over again, and I'm still reading it as of now, along with an extra newsletter. I read Mass Suicide several times over again. I follow that industry in the 21st century, and everything in these two historic newsletters is true. And the word of the Almighty is true. I would like you to send me the newsletter for this month and next month. I listen to you on KAAY 1090. The good news in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, is that He's coming back to turn this wicked world upside down and inside out. Thank you, Tony Alamo, for informing me with this true piece of information, praise Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, amen. Brother Edward from Little Rock, Arkansas.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo, Host and Preacher::

Okay, well, Sharon, you better come over here. We had a lot more letters to read. One was a Mexican man, a Spanish from New York City, and he found a piece of literature on the street, rejoiced tremendously. We'll probably read that tomorrow, and he called over here, and one of our Spanish people witnessed it. I mean, couldn't get over the fact that the literature, all of it, is free of charge. If you need a Bible, it's free of charge. Shipping and handling is all paid, postage paid. You don't have to pay anything. We did these tapes or CDs are all free. The Messiah books are all free. Everything. Because God gave me eternal life freely. I didn't pay a penny for it. He's given me so much since then.

I was sure we went through some terrible times, and I've been through firing. But the Lord wants to test us to see if we, just like you test a team of horses, you go out to the racetrack, like my boy was in California. You see these thoroughbreds racing. Nobody's interested in the one that doesn't do good. The one that's at the end of the race, or anything, but the ones that are tested and tried, the ones that win the race, and so the ones that, the other ones that get purchased. Amen. And the Lord will test us. He doesn't want to exalt somebody in the world. As a world leader in the spiritual realm, unless you've gone through firing, unless he knows, you've got him in your heart. You've got him in your soul.

You've got him in your mind. You've got him in your strength, and you just give everything of yourself for the Lord. Even until the time you drop each night. And now I've gotten to be almost 72 years old. I'll be 72 in September, September the 20th. And I'm still a cellist. I'm not able to do as much physically, but I realize that the things that I do, it's not me. It's the Lord anyway. So the Lord doesn't want us to start directing, leading, guiding, and directing. Everybody wants to have control of their life, but the Lord doesn't want you to have control of your life. He wants to have control of your life. He wants you to surrender your entire life over to him, and for you to let him have control over.

And you know, Jacob in the Bible had to wait until he was a pretty old man before the Lord was able to take him over. And when he did, all of a sudden he found out that his son, Joseph, was the ruler of Egypt. Now, Israel, Jacob didn't do that. Did he? God did that, amen? He didn't do one thing to do that. And that's what the Lord really does is when he's a work of the Lord, he's got all kinds of surprises for you. So just let the Lord live in you, and don't try to take leadership of your own life. Discipline yourself to be disciplined to surrender your life unto the spirit of the Lord, the mighty powerful spirit of the Lord, because the Lord wants to harness you and to lead you.

Now he's not going to force the issue. You have to do it willingly, amen? And if you'll surrender yourself unto him and let him drive you around, where he will, then great and mighty things will happen unto you. When you try to do it in your own strength, forget it and never happen. And that's what happens when we get to a little older in age, as we start realizing that we can't do anything. He says, without me, you can do nothing, amen? No, amen? No, no, nothing. So surrender yourself over to him so that he can do everything. He said, but we can do all things in him. Amen? And us in him, and him in us. That's where we have to get. We have to be there.

Okay, let's start reading how to have God's life living in you so he can live out his life, in and through you so that he can represent himself. The world doesn't want to see any of you or me. They want to see Jesus. It's like those people that came and said, we would see Jesus. Amen? We don't want to see you. Brothers, we would see Jesus. Amen? The three wise men didn't come to see Joseph and Mary. They came to see the King, the King of the Kingdom. Amen? Amen. All right, let's read.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader::

The Bible tells us that when the fullness of time came, God sent his son, the Lord Jesus Christ, into the world.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo, Host and Preacher::

Right, the fullness of time there was almost 4,000 years. Okay, then what? Then all of a sudden everything was in place. All the prophecies that foretold of his coming were in place, and then that was considered the fullness of time, and then Christ appeared on the scene. He was a perfect baby, a perfect boy, a perfect young man, and then a perfect man. And then the Lord baptized him with the Holy Spirit, and he was the perfect God man, ever since he was a baby. Amen? Okay, then what? You can read Galatians, chapter 4, verse 4.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader::

But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his son, made of a woman, made under the law.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader::

And quote, what this means is that God patiently waited to send Jesus until everything was right, until the environment was absolutely perfect.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo, Host and Preacher::

Yeah, like I just planted a field of corn out here. And when we put the thing in, everybody was looking to see the first blades come out. Well, pretty good side is the field of corn. Now all of a sudden, you know, we patiently waited pretty soon. It got up to ankle deep, and then clear up to our half way up to our knees, then into our knee, now past our knees now. But we had to patiently wait for it to happen. Nothing's going to really happen unless God gives us the increase. Amen? No. The grass and all the leaves on the tree and all fruit and vegetations and all vegetables and everything. This is the perfect illustration of resurrection because it came from a seed.

Jesus stated that he was, the Bible says, per seed, the seed of the woman will crush the head of Satan. And Satan would bruise his heel, amen? So we go through a little bit, but it's more fun to crush his head. And we crush his head by a head. It's not us. It's the Lord in us. The Lord already has the victory. So why should we not live in the Lord and allow the Lord to live in us, surrender, so see him? Because all riches in glory and here on earth are in him. All riches, amen? Amen. Praise the Lord. Amen. All right, then what?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader::

Jesus came at the very perfect moment in time and place in history.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo, Host and Preacher::

Yes, he did. I've written a book called the Messiah and a lot of people think, how is this that everything fits like a puzzle and makes it the most perfect time 2,000 years ago? What makes it perfect? There are many things. A among them is the time was perfect because there was a major earthly kingdom in place that was able to provide tangible and visible illustrations for Jesus' teachings regarding the kingdom of God.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader::

The Roman Empire serves as a pseudo-model because it was a kingdom that Satan imitated and put together.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo, Host and Preacher::

See, Satan was alive in the kingdom of heaven at one time under the name Lucifer. And so he knows how God's kingdom was run. He was there. They say he was there, Charlie. He was there and so he saw how God operates. There was a king. And so he figured, now the Bible says that Satan's seat is Rome, Italy. That's his seat. And so that's where he decided to set up his throne and it's the Vatican. There's no other power. There at the world bank, the world religion is right there. And the government, all the world governments are there, the head of it. And he dictates to the, he has his governors set up.

We call him presidents and kings, but these are governors of Rome that this pseudo king, this earthly king, this demonic king, sits. And the Bible says that he is given his power by that big red dragon, the devil. And what they do is bomb all the different countries and put their representatives in there. And in the kingdom of heaven, God has representatives over different jurisdictions in heaven and he has different governors of his here on earth. The region, God gives you as big of a region as he's giving you the gifts to be able to rule over. So he, God has his princes here on earth and his princesses and he has his kings, his ministers, which are the rulers of God here on earth.

And they are not the civil powers. Not that we don't have to obey the laws of certain laws that they have, like speeding laws and all that, but we're not to believe that when they say that we can sin. And that's what they do. We're not to believe that we can't read the Bible or pray, or we're not to believe in evolution. And all the other satanic things that this Roman satanic Antichrist kingdom tells us to do. Okay, continue.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader::

He foresaw what the people of the kingdom of God would do because he was in the kingdom of God.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo, Host and Preacher::

Why are he doing exactly how it is there? And so Rome is the exact setup. Only is God's kingdom, is the imitation of God's kingdom in heaven. But God doesn't set it up that way. God's kingdom is set up by him living the kingdom of God entering in us. The kingdom of heaven entering into us so that it's the kingdom of God here on earth. Okay, and it doesn't come with the observation. We're living in the spiritual realm now. You can't see Satan living in these different people. You can only tell Satan living in them by the things they do and the things they say. And you can also tell the kingdom of God by the things that we say and the things that we do.

If we're living lives that are similar or like the people of the world, if we're lying, stealing, committing adultery, fornication, homosexuality, lesbianism, stealing, and lying, and all these different things, we know that those kind of people are that Satan is living in those people. They're possessed by Satan. And the Lord has different leaders here on earth explaining these things so that the people of the world are able to determine. They can look at themselves and begin realizing the difference between God and Satan. The earthly kingdom here, this false satanic earthly kingdom and also the kingdom of God. You have to learn to differentiate between the two.

Then when you are able to differentiate by the preaching of the gospel, then you can choose which kingdom that you want to live in. You want to abide by God's law or by living in his spirit. The Bible says there's no, he forgives your sins and there's no more condemnation for the former sins that you've committed. So long as you don't go into any more and less, it's a sin committed in ignorance. And then God can forgive sins of ignorance, but not if you willingly, want to willingly begin living a life of going to clubs, partying, and living, you know, going to baseball, basketball games, watching rock and roll, or certain kind of music that you are looking for truth in music or sports or something like that.

Then you're not giving your whole heart to the Lord. You're giving your heart to sports or music or something else. I'm not skydiving barefoot water-skiing or water skiing, whatever you want to do, you know, racing. Then your heart is into that instead of the Lord. He wants you to have no other God, no other desires, no other goals other than getting into heaven. Because if you love the promises of God, which is eternal life, immortality, and heaven, well then he knows that you are the desirous of entering the kingdom of God.

If you're interested in the salvation of human souls by distributing my literature or soul-winning literature to people and you are desirous of backing up a gospel ministry that is really 100% for the Lord, and that's not involved in the earthly things here. Because God doesn't want 99% of your heart. He wants all of my heart and your heart. That's what he says. That we must eat him and drink him, just like you eat and drink baseball, basketball, football, racing, or whatever sport you eat, your hobby, craft, work. Like you want to just be an attorney so that you want to be the number one attorney, or the number one president, or you're competing who can make the most money, you know.

You're not going to take any of these things with you. And so stop desiring the things of this world as the plan, begin planning for the world to come, where you're going to stay, because just as surely as you're breathing now, even if you're breathing by some mechanical device, just as surely you're going to meet God, whether you want to see him or not. Well, you don't want to meet God. Well, you'll see that God doesn't love you any more than you love him.

If you, because he's done everything, and he has power to show you the way, the truth, and the life, and if you don't, you just want to thumb your nose at that, the mercy that he's shown on to you, and you don't want to show mercy to anybody else, it's just everything is just for you and yours. You'll show no mercy, and you'll receive no mercy at the great white throne of God. No mercy whatsoever. And the Lord wants you to live every day with zeal, gusto, fuego, fire, Holy Spirit fire. And remember, God is not a ghost. He's not the Holy Ghost. He is the Holy Spirit, not a ghost. That's one thing in the King James wording that he disputes. He's not a ghost. He's the Holy Spirit. God is Spirit, not Ghost.

And in order to worship Him, we must worship Him in our spirit, with our spirit, and in His Spirit, in His Spirit in us, and in truth, which is the word of God, in Jesus. Okay, continue on. He knew how everything was run there. God, see, the devil knows how everything was run in heaven. As a matter of fact, he was God's covering angel, but he was Lucifer.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader::

Everything was under Caesar. The Roman Empire was a kingdom.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo, Host and Preacher::

Right, so when he started building his kingdom here on earth, everything was Catholic, and everything was Caesar. The religion of Caesar was Catholicism, and he took his orders from Satan. That's where Satan's seat is. If you don't believe God, then who do you believe? If you believe anyone other than God, then you're going to hell, because you don't have the love of the truth of the word of God. And if you don't, then he sends you strong delusions. God sends you strong delusions. Read that in 2 Thessalonians 2, so that you'll believe a lie that your soul might be damned. Well, what kind of a God is that? He's the kind of God that does that, and he's a dictator, so what are you going to do about it? Amen?

You're going to do it. Come on, God, let's go to duke it out. You don't front street. Come on, put up your dukes. You're going to lose, okay? You've made things that you look macho to whoever you're grooming with, but you're not going to look that way when you stand before him. It's a fearsome thing to fall into the hands of a living God. God is so awesome that he would frighten the earth when he looks at the earth in shapes. Amen? Amen. Satan, just at the name of Jesus, he trembles. Amen? Amen. He's afraid of the word Jesus. That's why if you see some dog even come barking after you say the blood of Jesus is against you, because you know the devil's in that dog or animal. Start pleading the blood.

Start coming against it in the blood. All right, go ahead. The blood of Jesus, that is. Then what else?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader::

The Roman Empire wasn't a Republican democracy, but a kingdom. Caesar was a king. He wasn't a president. During Jesus' day, Rome ruled most of the known world. Its government laws, institutions, and culture were everywhere. Everywhere that Jesus spoke about the kingdom of God had a physical equivalent to Rome, the Roman Empire, making his message understandable to the people who listened to him.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo, Host and Preacher::

Right, but you have to reverse it that it is Satan's kingdom, because that's where God said Satan's seat is. So all the people that follow Satan are people that will take the mark. They've already taken the mark from the beast in them, because as they believe in their heart, they have Satan in their heart. Their love of this world, the lust of this world, are in them, not God. The Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit is not in them. They're doing the will with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength. You can see him, it's so boring. You know, you watch those channels where they're on there, and C-SPAN and all that. They're just up there barking up the wrong tree, so to speak. Okay, keep going.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader::

A good example was that the Roman Senate was called...

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo, Host and Preacher::

They look so stupid to me, you know, because they're not saved. They're not born again. They don't have any real knowledge of the valuable things of eternity in them. And they look so stupid. And they look so stupid to me, and they look so stupid to me, and they look so stupid to me. And they look so stupid to me. And they look so stupid to me, and they look so stupid to me, and they look so stupid to me. You're going to hell. We're positive. You're a negative. Okay? Go ahead. A good example was that the Roman Senate was called the ecclesia, a Greek word that means assembly or called out ones.

Greek and Latin were both widely spoken throughout the kingdom or the Roman Empire. throughout the kingdom or the Roman Empire. They had the Satan's Antichrist Empire. And Paul said, there are many Antichrists today, amen? Amen. And so Antichrist is not just one person. Antichrist is a corporate body of the whole world that follows Satan. CBN, all these news networks and everything, they just put on what the people want to hear. But the thing that we're for each of you is what the people don't want to hear. And because the spirit of Satan is in them, and they love death. All those that hate me God said, loves death. And they love misery. And they're going to get plenty of it and for eternity. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader::

The Jesus was speaking Aramaic in Hebrew, the common language of the Jews of Israel. But the four gospels were originally written in Hebrew. The rest of the New Testament was written in Greek. Hellenic Greek. The Greek written spoken by the Jews. Then what? The Gospel riders used the word eccrezia in passages where Jesus talked about building his kingdom or his church. Jesus says Caesar had an assembly of called out ones that he called the Senate. Jesus also, both the son of the living God and the king of kings, had his assembly of called out ones.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo, Host and Preacher::

Which was? Amati, bag, and book, and an apostle pawn, myself, people like us. Amen. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader::

He had his assembly of called out ones which were the New Jerusalem or the church or his bride.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo, Host and Preacher::

And John Albin.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader::

The coins that Caesar issued were stamped with his image and inscription. People understood that whatever board Caesar's likeness and image belonged to Caesar. And he had every right according to the law of that day. Likewise.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo, Host and Preacher::

But not the law of God. Amen. He says give to Caesar what Caesar could set all Caesar's going to get. There's a little bit of money. I mean, I think it's a lot of money, but the streets of heaven are lined with gold. That's so hard for the many of brain. But I understand the many brain because I had one at one time too until the Lord gave me supernatural visions and visited me in so many different supernatural ways. I thank God that he did because there isn't any false creature that can sway me. There isn't any government agency that can sway me. I've seen Jesus. The Da Vinci Code is nothing but sheer cow manure. I would say more like pig manure.

I don't even, it's not even worth talking about or chicken manure. That's a variety of manures. Okay, then what?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader::

Likewise they could understand that anything that bore God's image and stamp of ownership belonged to God and was his for keeping because he paid the price for it. His precious blood.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo, Host and Preacher::

So God really owns everything. And if you want to have everything he owns, he says, come unto me all you that are heavy laden and I will give you Sabbath to yourselves. So Seventh-day Adventist people, it is not just one day. It is not Saturday, Sunday, Friday, and Jews. It's not Friday afternoon till Saturday afternoon. It is every day we are to be forgetting our old life and living, resting in Christ, letting him live out his life and in through us. Amen? It says Seventh-day Sabbath and every day's Sabbath. 365 days of the year Sabbath. Ah, hallelujah. That's the Lord live in you. He doesn't want to live in you one day and then let the devil live in you. Others say six other days. What are you crazy?

Then what?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader::

When we come to Jesus and give him our life as a living sacrifice, the first thing he does is our image is changed and he changes our name. He gives us his name and calls us his sons and daughters.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo, Host and Preacher::

Right, and you can become a son or a daughter of the Lord Jesus Christ right now. Do you want to be a son of God or a son of Satan? Do you want to be a daughter of the Lord God or do you want to be a daughter of Satan? You have a choice and you must make that choice on this side of eternity. You really don't know that you're going to live. I don't either another day. That matter another minute or hour. Then we don't know when the Lord's going to come together. We don't know. He says he's going to come as a thief. We could be laying in bed, sound asleep and all of a sudden our eyes open up and there he is and he said he'll say it's too late. Come on for judgment. You go fast. It isn't some drawn out thing.

Some people think that God drew us, was just lagging with the creation of the world, but he did it in six days. This says in the morning and the evening were the first day. He meant it was a 24 hour span. The Lord is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. He's able to speak things into action very quick. The Lord showed me, he says, how quickly people enter eternity. I was lying there asleep and I was laying on my stomach. I'm so afraid now to lay on my stomach when I'm sleeping because right out of my back went the spirit went. There was like the whole sky was gray with clouds. It was like a vision and a little opening opened in the clouds and my spirit went up there and then slung down.

He showed this is how fast people. It happened so fast that you couldn't say, oh God, have mercy on my soul. I just went, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Just that fast. I was up there and down, right into hell. I said, oh thank God that I wasn't lost. Praise the Lord, oh God, you know, I was really so happy. And that's how fast the judgment is. You'll go up there and down. And you'll process, it's no big thing because there's so many people to judge. It's just very fast. And God is so quick and so powerful and so wise and so full of knowledge. And he would get bored if it was like, you know, you go into a court and you have attorneys, none of that stuff.

You actually, you know what you've done in your life and the things that you did will come right out of your mouth just like a tape recorder that is on full speed. I did that. I did that. I did that. I cursed your name. I did all these things. I would say. I was devoted to basketball football baseball. I was devoted to this, it would just slow right down so fast it'll make your head swim. So you could become the son of God or a daughter of God right now by just saying this prayer to the Lord. Say, my Lord and my God have mercy upon my soul of sinner. I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of the living God.

And I believe that he died on the cross and shed his precious blood for the forgiveness of all my filthy sins. And I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit. I opened the door of my heart and I invite you into my heart, Lord Jesus, wash all my filthy sins away in the precious blood you shed for me. You will not turn me away, Lord Jesus. You will save my soul. I know because your words say so. Therefore, I know you've heard me and I know you have answered me and I know I'm saved and I thank you, Lord Jesus, for saving my soul. And I'm going to serve you now, Lord. Praise the Lord.

Just raise your hands and praise the thank the Lord and share them how they can receive a copy of program number 216.

Speaker 3 – Sharon, Closing Announcer::

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