Speaker Identification
Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo
Speaker 2 - Sharon / Ministry Assistant
Speaker 3 - Congregation / Response Voices

Corrected Publication-Ready Transcript

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Hi, this is World Pastor Tony Alamo. We're at part 118 of How to Have God's Life Living in You. This is program 220, and if you would like a copy of it, Sharon will give you the four different ways to receive a copy at the end of the broadcast. Be sure to have your pen and paper ready. The CD and audiotape are free of charge, and shipping and handling are included. We do not charge anything for that.

In the background, you can hear the live choir and orchestra playing "Yes, Jesus Loves Me." It is part of a beautiful CD that is available through our website. For a love gift, you can find out on the website exactly how much it is. If you do not have the finances, we will send it to you free of charge. This choir and orchestra is conducted by H.B. Barnum. If you come to our church in Los Angeles, California, at 13136 Sierra Highway, you will be able to hear the choir and singers. The choir is not there every day, but we would love for you to come to the church and become part of the choir as well.

We have some letters and a real good message, so do not turn your dial. Praise the Lord.

Before we start with the letters and before we start with the message, let us all go to the throne of the Lord and ask Him - ask Jesus, ask the Father through Jesus, the mediator between God and man - to anoint this service with the Holy Spirit.

Father, I love it when You talk through me, and I never want to do a broadcast without it being You who does all the talking. Open up the windows of heaven and pour out Your Spirit. Let every word that is being said be Yours, not mine or anybody else's. Lord, open hearts, souls, and minds, and give everybody the knowledge of Your truth. We are living in a world that is the kingdom of darkness, and yet we have to keep a very sensitive balance between living here in this world of darkness and being with You in the kingdom of light.

We pray, Lord, that You will show the people of the world the difference, and also instruct the children of light into more light, into more of Your marvelous light through the Word, that souls may be saved and the church may be strengthened. In Jesus' name I pray.

Speaker 3 - Congregation / Response Voices:
Amen.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
All right. Where is the first letter from?

Speaker 2 - Sharon / Ministry Assistant:
From Zambia.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Zambia. Go ahead. Let us hear what they have to say.

Speaker 2 - Sharon / Ministry Assistant:
Dearest Pastor Alamo, first, I greet you and your family there in America. How are you? With me, I am very well and enthusiastic. At this time, I just want to thank you for sending me literature by airmail, which is the fastest way of communication.

Your literature is enlightening people to the truth of God, and they are getting saved. It is like a remedy healing all the sores and other diseases in the human body. May God still use you more abundantly. You are so compassionate. Moreover, there is the power of God in you.

Your literature has been distributed in streets, towns, suburbs, schools, and offices. People struggle and surround me terribly, asking for your newsletters. So many men of God want to join the Tony Alamo Christian Church. This is because of the newsletters, the powerful Messiah books, and Bibles.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
And let us get involved with our tapes that we have here on the air. A lot of people do not know about that yet, but that is what we are here for - to inform the world that there is even deeper knowledge, more knowledge on a daily basis from these television and radio tapes. All right, then what?

Speaker 2 - Sharon / Ministry Assistant:
The newsletters are shining in Chipata town like stars now. Thanks very much. God bless you abundantly. Yours in Christ, Brother Redson from Chipata, Zambia.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Praise the Lord for you, brother. Glory to God, and God bless you. I know He is. Then what?

Speaker 2 - Sharon / Ministry Assistant:
From the Solomon Islands. Dear Pastor Tony Alamo, greetings to you in the blessed name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Pastor, I really thank God for the wonderful work that you are doing. I believe this is what God wants His people to do in these last days.

Thank you for the newsletters and literature that you send. I have distributed them to my community and in the church. They have had a very big impact on the lives of many people, especially when they read about your testimony and the other things your ministry is doing. These newsletters and literature are very useful in my witnessing for the Lord.

Fifteen families just repented and came to the Lord, and these families are from pagan worship.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Praise the Lord.

Speaker 2 - Sharon / Ministry Assistant:
We go to them and share the love of God with them and show them the truth of the Word of God, and they realize that there is a true God who lives. So, Brother Alamo, I ask for your help, especially for these newly converted families who just came to the Lord. If you could provide fifteen Bibles, and one main problem for them is that they really need clothes for their children and themselves. Each family has five to seven children, ages ranging from two years to fifteen years old. These are the main needs identified with these families. We would be grateful indeed if you could kindly assist us with these few needs. Thank you, and hope to hear from you soon. Yours in God's service, Pastor Philip from Malaita Province, Solomon Islands.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
It would be real nice, for you people who are requesting clothing, if you would give us the sizes, how many pieces of clothing, and the sizes of shoes and so on, so that we can pack them up quickly and get them to you immediately. On the other hand, I would like to find out if you have clothing stores there that are moderately priced, so that in some cases it may be more reasonable for us to send you the money, or choose some clothing store there, so that you can go pick them up yourself.

Where is the next letter from?

Speaker 2 - Sharon / Ministry Assistant:
From Malawi. Dear Pastor Tony Alamo, I hope you are fine. There is no one who writes attractive gospel literature like you. After reading your gospel literature, many people are receiving Christ as their eternal Savior.

I am reaching long distances, preaching the Word of God and distributing your gospel literature. Here the ministry is growing day and night. If I could have a printing machine, I would print even more of your literature. I need some more gospel literature, and if you can include a megaphone and assist me, I would appreciate it. I do pray for your work. Yours, Pastor James from Malawi.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Well, if he would let us know what a megaphone costs, we could maybe send him money, or send it to whoever there is that has the megaphone, so he can have it. He wants more literature, of course, and we will send that to him right away. The people who want Bibles, get them off to them immediately, as we always do. Is that it?

Speaker 2 - Sharon / Ministry Assistant:
Yes, it is.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Right now, Sharon, you come forward here, and God, open the windows of heaven in Jesus' name. We will start with part 118 of How to Have God's Life Living in You.

We are talking about the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of darkness. When we come and preach the kingdom of heaven, as John the Baptist and Jesus did, then this shows the children of darkness - the people of ignorance, the people of stupidity in this world - that it really gets back to the Lord, who is still in this world. He is in us, in flesh, incarnate inside flesh. The continuation of His incarnation here on earth is us.

So do not say that the Lord is not here, because He is in us - everyone who really is walking in light. We are the children of light. Jesus said, "Ye are the light of the world." In one place He said that He is the light of the world. This world lies in darkness, and the darkness does not understand the light. So the kingdom of darkness does not understand the kingdom of light.

Therefore, those of us who are of the kingdom of light are only that way if we are walking in the light. He said, "Let your light shine." Just because you read a few Scriptures or because you said the sinner's prayer does not mean that you have enough light in you yet, because the light is the Word of God. This is why the Lord commands us to study the Word of God so that we may be more and more the children of light, so that the people who are in darkness are able to see, hear, and understand what the kingdom of light means, and so that they are no longer in the ignorance of darkness.

We have the two kingdoms here on earth, and the only way people are drawn out of darkness is when the Lord's children of light are preaching the light, which is the Word of God. Jesus said, "The words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit and they are life." So when you are reading the Word of God, studying it, you are studying the kingdom of light, the kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of heaven is being increased in you, and you are becoming mature children of light.

Your maturity is necessary in order to lead people who are in the kingdom of darkness, or ignorance, out of the kingdom of darkness. Only the light is able to do that. The way that God fights darkness is through His children. Jesus was the Son, the Christ child, the child of light. Jesus began leading people out of darkness, and He led many of them out. He expects us, who are children of light, to allow Him - the King of Light and the kingdom of light - to live in us, so that He can shine through us.

If we have mature light, if we study the Word of God, we are able to explain - or back off from our own words and let the Lord in us explain - the kingdom of light to the people. This is the way God fights the kingdom of darkness: with the double-edged sword, the Word of God, which is the light of men and the lamp unto men's feet, to lead them successfully while they are living here in this kingdom of darkness.

It is a very sensitive walk. It can only be accomplished by the light being in us, by the Spirit of God being in us, who will teach us all things, because He is the Comforter that He promised He would send to us after He ascended into the kingdom of God and sat high above all principalities and powers in the heavens.

There is a level of light, a level of knowledge. The light is the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of God is the Bible. If you want the knowledge of God, or the light of God, you must study the knowledge of God, the Word of God. He says to get it with all your getting, because it is your very life. Eternal life is not just given to you apart from the Bible. It is given to you to study.

The commandment is not just to go to preachers or teachers. You can believe what I say, but find out if I am telling you the truth. Pick up the Bible and read it for yourself, because you are not going to get into the kingdom of heaven by saying, "I used to just listen to this preacher or that preacher, and I just followed what they said." The command is to study the Bible, and then listen to people who are preaching, and match up what they say against what is in the Bible.

Now there are a lot of people who do not know what a child of light is. A child of light is one who preaches the light. There is not anybody who is a cult that is going to preach the Word of God. A cult is somebody who renounces the Word of God, like the Vatican, Buddhism, or Mohammedism. These people do not exalt the Word of God. They tell you that it is dangerous to read. But the Word of God - the kingdom of light - tells you that it is impossible for you to enter the kingdom of heaven without studying the light, to know the light, to have knowledge of Christ.

This is the double-edged sword, and this is the fight. The Lord has His Word, and He is telling you what truth is. Jesus said that the sower went out to sow, and he sowed seed, which is the Word of God, into the ground. We are made out of the dirt of the ground. So the preacher is sowing the seed of the Word of God. He sows light into us. But immediately the devil comes and starts attempting to get you to doubt the light, the Word of God that you heard, in order to keep you from coming out of the kingdom of darkness.

Every time I remember when I was first saved, because of the supernatural experiences the Lord gave me, every one of my friends came at me and said, "Man, you cannot do that. You have a career ahead of you. You have a life to live." Susan, who knew the Bible better than anyone I had ever met, was teaching me the Bible. She would open the Bible and show me where the things she was telling me were the truth. I would tell her the things that these churches would tell me, and she would say, "Here, this is the exact opposite of what the Bible says." The Bible is the only truth that we have on this side of eternity.

There are people who have Ph.D.s. There is a difference between the knowledge of darkness and the knowledge of light. Some people seem as smart as can possibly be, and yet they must be born again of the Spirit. They do not have the kind of intelligence or knowledge that it takes to enter the kingdom of heaven. They do not have Christ in them.

You can go into attorneys' offices, you can go into the President of the United States' office, and they have degrees all over their walls - Ph.D.s and all kinds of certificates saying they are smart, that they have completed these courses. But this is knowledge of darkness. The knowledge of darkness still leaves you in darkness, because it cannot get you into heaven.

The only way you are able to have the knowledge of light, or true intelligence, and to no longer be ignorant to the real things of value in this world and in the world to come, is by reading the Word and receiving the Word. The Bible states that Jesus is the Word. We must receive the Word. The Bible says, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." That is true, but the Lord Jesus Christ is the Word of God. So believe in the whole Word of God, from Genesis to Revelation, and thou shalt be saved. How can you believe the whole Word of God if you do not study it?

Speaker 3 - Congregation / Response Voices:
Amen.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
I know that I was considered smart in the kingdom of darkness because I made money and was able to lead different people's careers to where they would at least initially be successful in the kingdom of darkness. But then they might start drinking or taking narcotics and drugs and die in darkness. This was before I was saved. I could not lead them. I did not have the knowledge of light to tell them what they had to do to get into the kingdom of heaven.

When I became a born-again Christian and a child of light, of the kingdom of light, of the King of Light, I told a singer I made famous, Rouvon, whom I sold to RCA Victor, that the Lord had shown me something else. Many people thought I was crazy because I left such a brilliant career - brilliant to the people in the world of darkness. But I found out that I did not know anything.

Paul thought he was so bright. He was a Pharisee, but he was not born again in the Spirit. When he became born again in the Spirit, when he became a child of light, he wrote, "I know nothing save Jesus." All the knowledge I have is Jesus, because Jesus is the wisdom and knowledge of God. He is the wisdom and the power of God.

There is no other knowledge that has the power to defy gravity. I explained yesterday that rockets use most of their fuel just to get out of the earth's atmosphere. It takes full belief in the Word of God to get out of the kingdom of darkness. You have to first believe in the Word of God, or else you are still in the kingdom of darkness, the kingdom of ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.

When I hear people in the administration talking about what they are going to do in Israel, and how they are going to solve problems in Israel and with the Arabic nations, I think, "You people are so deep in darkness that you do not really know." The king of darkness has people so deep in darkness, with ignorance, lies, and twisting everything, that people are going to actually believe that Satan is God.

The way that is going to happen, as I teach it, is that trouble will be stirred up in Israel, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, and other countries, and then a false leader will claim he can bring peace. He will say, "If I am allowed to come into Jerusalem as the Messiah, I will bring about peace in the Middle East." According to this teaching, it will seem easy for him to bring about peace because, as the speaker claims, the same forces causing the trouble can be commanded to stop.

Then the people will say, "This is the Messiah." The sermon continues that 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 speaks of a temple of God, and the speaker teaches that Christians are the temple of God. He warns that the spirit of Satan will enter Christians who do not know the depth of the Word of God, and that many who were once saved will fall away because they will believe the false Messiah is the real Messiah.

How could anybody understand the things going on in this world today when they seem so complex? Some leaders know exactly what is going on. They know, according to this sermon, that this is a big theatrical scene being played in the world, and people believe it just like they can watch a motion picture and believe it is the truth because it is so well done and the actors are so good.

The sermon references Pope John Paul II, the Vatican, and other public figures, making strong accusations and warnings. It references George Albert of Cashbox magazine, John Peeler, Waco, the World Trade Center, and other controversial events. These claims are preserved here as part of the sermon and should be independently verified before publication as factual statements.

I am bringing this light to you so that you are not ignorant anymore. I teach that this is a nation that is a member of the one-world government, run by Satan's seat in Rome, and that it is taking orders from an evil man. Every pope has been evil, according to this sermon. It does not make any difference what people tell you. You have to read the Bible. It states that these people are in darkness, and there is no one in darkness who can be of the light unless they come to the light.

But they do not come to the light because their deeds are wicked, and they do not trust the Lord to save their souls even because of all the darkness they have done. But it does not make any difference how much darkness you have done. If you will come to the light, the Lord will save your soul.

Speaker 3 - Congregation / Response Voices:
Amen.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
We send finances, Bibles, tapes, airtime, and help overseas to starving people and to people who do not have water, so that wells can be built. We feed, clothe, and house people. People of darkness do not readily give up cash for poor and needy people. If anyone tries to stop me from preaching the kingdom of heaven, exposing the darkness, and helping people come out of ignorance and darkness to be saved, I ask, how have I become your enemy because I tell you the light, the way, the truth, and the life?

If you are in trouble and want to serve the Lord, you can come here. We provide everything for you if you really are of the Lord. Even if you are not of the Lord, you can come to our place every night and eat. We give boxes of food to take home, especially for those who have children.

This, according to the sermon, is not the United States government anymore but Roman canon law. The speaker urges people, even if they are afraid, to be like Nicodemus: get a Bible, take it into your house, and read it. You will see that the things I am telling you are the truth.

There is no profit if you are the wisest person in the kingdom of darkness. You still will not get into heaven if you die without the Lord. You do not know that you will not die tonight or in the middle of the night. All of a sudden, the Spirit of God can pull you right out of your body, and you will be before the judgment bar of God. Why is it so hard for you to pull out of the kingdom of darkness, away from the king of darkness, away from evil, lies, and everything that is the opposite of knowledge and truth?

Why would you not want to know the truth? When you know the truth, you will be free from the kingdom of darkness. Satan has you penned up in his penitentiary, and he does not want to let you out. But if you receive the Word of God, if you believe Jesus, who is the Word of God, that is the only hope you have for coming out of the kingdom of darkness, ignorance, and stupidity.

The difference between the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the kingdom of heaven is very great. The wisdom of this world cannot save you. Only the wisdom of the kingdom of heaven, the Word of God, Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, can save you.

As Christian believers, we live on earth, but our citizenship is in the kingdom of heaven. We all have to have a passport into the kingdom of God. When I was falsely convicted by the kingdom of darkness, according to this testimony, they took my passport away because I could not travel here and there. The only way you can show citizenship in a country is if you have a passport. Well, the blood of Jesus on your soul is the passport into the kingdom of heaven. If you have sin on you, then your passport has been revoked. If you begin sinning again after you have been saved, then you become the slave of sin.

There is no slave of sin going into the kingdom of heaven. The spirit in you is the very same spirit that will go before the Lord. If there is sin on your soul, you are not going into God's kingdom of light, because in the kingdom of light there is no darkness at all. Anyone who believes they can continue in sin is still in the kingdom of darkness, and their king is the king of darkness.

Study the Word and do what the Word says. Receive the Spirit of God in you. If you have received any other spirit, there are people out there who say every kind of evil thing about me. These are people who are, according to the sermon, in ignorance because the things the Bible says I am supposed to do, I do. The things the Bible says not to do, they do. They lie and twist the Word of God and twist what we are doing here at this church.

The sermon continues with accusations against government, the Vatican, political leaders, and public figures, and urges listeners not to be ignorant of the devices of Satan. The speaker says it is not good to be herded into hell like cattle, and again contrasts the kingdom of darkness with the kingdom of heaven.

All the resources, authority, and power of the kingdom of heaven are available to us as we seek to live as faithful and responsible ambassadors of our King. People who have been given money by Rome, according to the sermon, think this is the epitome. But when you become a citizen of the kingdom of heaven, God gives you everything. Seek first the kingdom of God, and all the things of the universe are given to you.

When anybody asks us where we are from, we must give careful thought to our answer. I am from the kingdom of heaven. Where are you from? If you mean where I was born, I have lived in many different places. I have lived in Canada, California, New York, Europe, and Israel. Praise the Lord. I would love to be there right now, if the Lord lets me.

The more we learn to think like kingdom people, the more we will act and be as kingdom people. It has to be kingdom-of-heaven people, not kingdom-of-darkness people. There are only two kingdoms. You have to be of one or the other. As for me and my house, we will be of the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of light.

The more we act like kingdom-of-heaven people, the more we will proclaim the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, the gospel of the kingdom of heaven, to a lost, confused, and dangerous world. The Bible says we are living in dangerous times in the end times because people will be lovers of their own selves. It is dangerous to be lovers of yourselves, because we have to give self up in order to have Jesus. You cannot be selfish and have the Lord living in you with the Father by the Spirit. You have to surrender yourself to Him and give yourself to Him as a gift, so that He can live in you and declare the kingdom of heaven through you.

This is a world where citizens are full of fear. People fear death. They fear they are going to be blown up. I had an uncle, now dead, whom I got to believe the Bible and believe in Jesus. He said, "Tony, I do not fear death so much, but I fear where I am going after I die." I told him, "Clayton, you do not have to worry about a thing if you just receive the Lord Jesus Christ, the whole Bible, into you and do what it says. It is simple, because when He enters into you, He gives you the power to do it."

You must have God's life living in you. That is what this program 220 is all about - having God's life living in you.

It is important that we learn to live distinct kingdom-of-heaven lives in order that others can see the difference between the kingdoms of this world and the kingdom of God. All the people who have ever been born on this planet have faced the same intention: designed for one kingdom, yet forced to live in another. We are forced to live in this kingdom of darkness because we were born into it. That is why the Lord says we must be born again into the kingdom of light. If you refuse the mercy that God has provided, you are sending your own soul into hell and the lake of fire.

Most people are never able to clearly define this menacing problem. For them, life always seems out of kilter, without purpose and full of misery, as if something just does not ever fit. They are greatly dissatisfied and discontented with life, but do not really know why. If you are discontented, and you are not born again of the Spirit, then come unto the Lord. Come unto the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of life, by saying this prayer.

My Lord and my God, have mercy upon my soul, a 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 former sins. I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. Jesus said, "I lay my life down, and I raise it up Myself by the power of the Holy Spirit." I open the door of my heart, Lord Jesus, and I invite You into my spirit, my heart. Wash all my filthy former sins away in the precious blood that You shed for me.

You will not turn me away, Lord Jesus. You will save my soul, my precious soul that You died for. That is why it is so precious, because You died for me. You will not turn me away. You said all who call upon Your name shall be saved. Therefore, I know You have heard me, and I know You have answered me, because I am calling out to You for salvation, to get out of this rotten kingdom of darkness and get into the kingdom of light. Therefore, I know You heard me, I know You answered me, and I know I am saved. I thank You, Lord Jesus, for saving my precious soul.

Now just raise your hands and praise and thank the Lord. Say, thank You, Jesus. Praise Jesus.

Now, Sharon, tell them the four different ways to receive this program 220 by CD or audiotape. Shipping and handling is also free of charge. Go ahead.

Speaker 2 - Sharon / Ministry Assistant:
Go to AlamoMinistries.com, or write to Tony Alamo Christian Ministry, P.O. Box 6467, Texarkana, Texas 75505. Or call area code 479-782-7370, or fax area code 479-782-7406.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
All right. Praise the Lord. I am so happy that you were born again of the Spirit this evening, that you have accepted the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of life, the King of Life, and that you are totally rejecting the kingdom of darkness, the kingdom of ignorance.

Tomorrow will be part 119, program 221. Yes, Jesus loves me. He loves you too, but He takes no pleasure in people who want to remain in darkness. So get in and stay in. Do not ever love darkness again, because there is no profit in it. I know He loves me because the Bible, the light of the world, tells me so.

God bless you, and praise the Lord. Until tomorrow, this is World Pastor Tony Alamo saying amen.