Speaker Identification

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo
Identified by the opening introduction and closing sign-off. He delivers the sermon, comments on letters, leads the prayer, gives the salvation prayer, and closes the program.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant
Identified by the parts of the recording where letters and typed material are read aloud at Tony Alamo's direction. The transcript later names Sharon when Tony asks her to come forward and read the prepared message.

Speaker 3 - Letter Writers
Identified as written correspondence read aloud during the program, including letters from Farmington Hills, Michigan; Lome, Togo, Africa; Queens, New York; and Edo State, Nigeria, Africa.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Hello again. This is World Pastor Tony Alamo. We are now in part 107 of How to Have God's Life Living in You. This is program number 209. If you would like a copy of it, an audio tape or a CD, postage and handling are paid. Everything is free. God gave me my life free of charge and His Word, and therefore I know without a doubt that God is going to bless me, and He is constantly doing that.

We have some letters today. We have a message relating to all the different societies that have happened from the beginning of the world until now. All of them have failed, with the exception of the society that the Lord has set up for us. Therefore, people should shun and forget about all these other societies, especially the anti-Christ society that we see today, which they call democracy, which is nothing more than a dictatorship of Satan.

A lot of people may not believe that, but this is the truth. If this society is not satanic, then what more would Satan do if he created another society other than taking Bibles away and taking the name of God out of society? But God has His people here and will not allow the name of God to die, because God even esteems His Word higher than His name, and He says that nothing can defeat Him. If people all get together hand in hand, there is no way that they can fight God and win.

Right now, let's go to the throne and ask the Lord to anoint this program.

Father, You always pour out Your Spirit upon me whenever I am doing a program, and I really thank You for that, Father, because I love to see souls saved, like You do. I love to see people strengthened by Your Word. Open up hearts. Open up people's minds and their spirits, because the battle that is waging, Lord, for the people here on earth is the battle between their two ears. That is the battle of the mind.

You stated, Lord, for us to put on the mind of Christ, which actually is the Word of God. We are to allow the Word of God to penetrate into our minds and keep it, because if we are going to be the society of the Lord, if we are going to be members of Your society eternally, then we must obey the rules of Your society here on earth.

I thank You and praise You, Lord, for this knowledge, for permitting me to know what Your ideas, Your precepts, and Your concepts are of what a society, a perfect society, must be. You have already laid it out. Why man continues to develop new societies, when all they need to do is read Your Word and listen to Your people, I do not know, because the society has already been established: the society of perfection.

Lord, I ask that this be embedded firmly in the minds of every hearer today, into their hearts, their souls, and their spirits. In Jesus' name. Everyone says amen.

Amen.

All right. Read the letters. First letter.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
From Farmington Hills, Michigan.

Speaker 3 - Letter Writer:
Dear Pastor Tony and staff,

Thank you for your recent letter and acknowledgement. I know you are doing the work and will of the Lord. What a ministry. I just want to let you know I am so blessed to listen to the audio tapes over the internet.

Pastor Tony, thank you and Lord Jesus for speaking the "hard words" never spoken by mainline churches. Especially, I don't think I have ever heard a minister ever speak about the judgment of God rather than just His love like you do. I love it.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
All of God's ways are judgment. He is judging everything we say and everything we do. So everything of God's society, all God's theocracy, is judgment. All of God's ways are judgment.

He said, "If you do this, then I will do that. If you do not do this, I will do that. If you keep My commandments, you will go to heaven. If you do not, you are going to go to hell." Therefore, He is judging everything that we say and do.

People say, "Well, you are making a legalistic monarchy." No, I did not make it that way. The Bible says it is that way.

Now, you people out in the world think that you are living in a democracy, but you do not even know what the word democracy means. You should pay attention to what the people in this world are doing, what this government is doing. They are herding you into a corral and making you. President Bush says, "I don't mind dictatorship as long as I am the dictator." They keep saying that we need a dictatorship, and that is exactly what this is. Either do it our way, or we will come in and murder all of you and put in our own leader, somebody that fears us and will do what we say. That is what they are saying.

The Lord is not saying the same thing. He is saying, "Either do what I say, or you are going to hell in the lake of fire. But if you do what I say, you are going to have perfect peace, a sound mind, joy, happiness, and you are going to have all My blessings." So you can choose what you want to do. He said, choose either life or death. It is all in your will, whatever you will. If you will to have life, you will have it by keeping the rules of My society. If you do not fit into My society on this side of eternity, you certainly will not go into heaven, and you will not live in the utopia.

When people pick ears of corn, if you go to the market, do you buy corn in its chaff? The chaff is the leaves, or the shucks, that are around it. The bodies that we live in are the chaff because these bodies must die and deteriorate. If the Spirit of the Lord was there before we die, then we resurrect from the dead, but with a new body. It is an ecclesiastical body. The body that we live in now is chaff. The corn in the ear of corn is living in its chaff. The husk has to come off, and then you can get to the real corn itself.

If we abide according to the rules, everything in this world that you see first was an idea, and then it became a concept. I have done a lot of ideas. There are people that have had ideas, people that have thought of a car, or a design of a car, an automobile, or an airplane, and new devices that they have, television. Those were all in somebody's mind. They were ideas before they became a reality, or something that you can see, a visual, something that you can see before your eyes.

The Lord has ideas. He has concepts. The only idea or concept that is of any value is not TV, because I existed in this world, and many people before me have lived in this world, before there was television or radio. The components of all these things God had already provided here. However, I did very well without it. The Lord laid down the rules for a perfect society in this world. You will live by them, or you will live in hell in the lake of fire eternally.

There are all kinds of people, like in my church. There are all kinds of people in my church that have ideas that are completely foreign to me, foreign to God, because I live by God's idea, His concept, His theocracy. They all say, "Well, I thought it would be better this way." Every time they do that, there is disaster.

For instance, Don Davis, one of the people here, decided to go to the mayor of the city that we are in and receive permission for one of the city's trucks to water a new patch of ground that we planted grass on. Well, it hit the newspapers. I do not want the people in the community to believe that I knew anything about that. I did not know anything about it. The only time I found out about it was when it was read to me yesterday in the newspapers.

So it was Don Davis' idea or concept that he had, when the Lord tells you that you are to obey and you are not to usurp authority. The rule was that I do not want anybody going to city government, state government, or federal government without my permission, because every time they do, they cause a mess.

It hit the newspaper that the taxpayers paid for this truck, and that the taxpayers' money spent on the truck should be used for the city, not for Tony Alamo Christian Ministries. I hear the mayor told me that he goes over there asking to borrow things all the time without my knowing it. That makes us look lower than dung. If you want to know, the word dung is in the Bible many times.

Up to that time, everybody in the community knew that I have helped the community. We paid for the park that they have now. Also, when the city had a big ice storm out here, and the city was hurting, they had taken some of the brothers' and sisters' grocery store away and caused them to not be able to have a way to make finances and for people to get food on a wholesale basis.

Even after they did that, when the Lord told me to go ahead and buy a generator so that everybody in town could have water and lights, electricity, I did that. That brought a lot of happiness to everybody in the city. The people of Texarkana knew that we were of the Lord because they knew that we had been persecuted by the city, and we overcame evil by doing good. Then Don Davis ruined that. After several years, he just decided he would go according to his thoughts, his ideas, not the society of the Lord, but his.

When you have a lot of people in the church, everybody has their own thoughts and concepts that are so inferior to those of the Lord. It makes me sick to my stomach every time I see one of them making a decision or having a thought. Thoughts, if they are not from the Lord or in obedience with the Lord, are garbage. They are chaff, just like the shucks that are around the ear of corn, just like your skin and bone and flesh that is on you. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven. There must be a new body formed.

If you are disobedient to the society of the Lord, you are not going to be there. You have a will. You can will to do what the Lord says, or you can live according to your will. Sometimes people have such outrageously inferior thoughts that the Lord tells me to put them outside of the church. Do not let them be in here anymore. Do not pay any attention to them, and get them out. The Lord is pressuring me on this situation more and more every day.

I am saying this for the people in my churches. I am heading hundreds of churches all over the world. I have received a letter from somebody that says, "You are not a pastor. A pastor has a church. You do not have a church. Do you have a church, sir? I think not." I want to let people that think that know that I pastor hundreds, maybe thousands, of churches all over the world.

I am telling you what God says. I believe in His society. All the societies from the beginning of time until now have failed, and this one is failing more than ever. When you get into the society of the Lord, you have peace, happiness, joy, perfect peace, and a sound mind. Every time somebody thinks, their thoughts are like chaff, trash, because they are the exact opposite of what they have been told.

What the Lord says is that anyone who disobeys the rulers of this earth, because the earth is the Lord's, is wrong. He does not put Satan as rulers here. Those were voted in by you people out in the world there. The Lord says that all of you have been deceived. The whole world has been deceived. But the people that are really of the Lord never usurp authority. If you are of the Lord, you keep the Lord's society the way that He planned it because it is perfect.

Because of the fact that you exalt yourself to think that you are going to cultivate a new society within God's society, you have to be insane. You have to be totally out of your mind. Therefore, you are not going to make it into heaven. If you do such a thing as that, not only is your outer shell chaff, but your inward self is chaff as well. You are worthless, with the exception that you are to burn, which is what the Bible says.

Continue on with this letter.

Speaker 3 - Letter Writer:
I don't think I have ever heard a minister ever speak about the judgment of God rather than just His love like you do. I love it. It truly ministers to me. The self-life, crucifying it, and turning back to God - all these things are in the Word of God, yet hardly a peep from the ministers and pastors. They are so afraid of losing "their sheep" and their money.

I like what you say about family members also. If they do not follow the Lord, they follow the devil. No man can serve two masters. Thanks be to God, who gives me life to be alive today, to thank you for the blessing of your ministry.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Read that last line again.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
No man can serve two masters. Thanks be to God, who gives me life to be alive today, to thank you for the blessing of your ministry.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
No man can serve two masters. The Bible says that one sinner does much harm. After I, the Lord, had instructed me, and I had done everything in my power to make us a shining example in the Texarkana area, then Don Davis went out and destroyed everything yesterday. There was a big article in the newspaper yesterday about how we are using the government to water our lawns, of all things, as though God does not have enough provisions.

Continue.

Speaker 3 - Letter Writer:
Also, by the way, I am grateful for the internet audios because my shortwave hardly picks up the broadcast. There is so much interference. I do not know why, unless I need a better antenna. Well, bless the Lord. I thought I would just drop a line to say praise the Lord.

Sister Kathy from Farmington Hills, Michigan.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Sister Kathy, you are truly a person of the Lord. I love your letter. Make sure that Sister Kathy gets a copy of this tape. She is going to listen to it on the internet anyway.

Next letter.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
The next letter is from Lome, Togo, Africa.

Speaker 3 - Letter Writer:
I am very proud to take part in what God is doing in my ministry through your Christian literature. We are distributing it in several villages and in the rural areas of our country. During my evangelizing campaigns, the Lord is manifesting enormous miracles to all those who are reading your literature.

Thousands and thousands of souls are being converted to the Lord. I also received the Greek Bible and the Greek version of your book entitled The Messiah.

May the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

Yours, very dear, Didier from Lome, Togo, Africa.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Right. The Lord has told me to distribute all this literature and Bibles free of charge. We hear from Africa that there are some people there who are selling this literature for money. I really despise that type of person. Therefore, I am sending missionaries over there.

There is a man from Africa who stated that he would monitor all these people and get to the bottom of it and find out who it is that is doing these evil things, because I do not want people to think that I have people out there selling the literature that the Lord gives to me or these Bibles. They are to be given out free of charge.

There are some very unscrupulous, satanic, very evil people in this world. Not only in churches, but outside, they see that my literature is extremely in demand in that area. People really want to read and hear and be saved and enter into the society of the Lord because it is a perfect society. All others have failed, especially the one that we are currently living in, you people in the world. I do not live in that society. I live around this society. I am here in this world, but I am not a part of the world's system, and neither are these people who are writing in.

What else?

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
The next letter is from Queens, New York.

Speaker 3 - Letter Writer:
Two days ago, I called your prayer hotline, and we prayed for my mother, who was 89 years old and fell three weeks ago. I learned today that they are releasing her from the assisted living place she has been staying at and that she made an "incredible recovery." While I do not take the work of the Lord for granted, I know where the incredible recovery came from.

The effectual fervent prayers of a righteous man availeth much. Godspeed, Pastor Tony. In Jesus' name.

David from Queens, New York.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Right. And the disobedience of just one person does much harm. People who have their own ideas in this magnificent system that the Lord has set up in this world really need to be placed and cast into hell and into the lake of fire. The Bible plainly tells of that. Some people really like it. The Bible, the Lord's Word, tells us of these things.

There are people who do not believe God. They believe President Bush and President Kennedy. I knew Kennedy myself. He was wanting me to do campaigns for the party. I knew Walter Winchell and all these people, and I have known four or five different presidents of the United States. They consulted me on many things.

As a matter of fact, even with the clothing that I do, Ronald Reagan called our store in Nashville and asked me about a belt, and he mentioned the kind of belt. I asked why he wanted to know. He said, "Because somebody sent me one of your belts, and I want to give them a gift equal to the belt. I do not want to pay more, and I do not want to pay less." So I gave him the price. I cannot remember how much it was.

I conferred with Ronald Reagan on many occasions, telling him to stop Raymond J. Donovan in what he was doing, because he is evil and he is in your administration. You will reap the wrath of God for allowing him to do what he is doing. I got word back from Herb Ellingwood, who was his right-hand man. He said, "I just had breakfast with the president. Tell Tony," meaning me, "that I cannot do anything. My hands are tied. I cannot make decisions." So that shows that these presidents are puppets of Rome. Take it for whatever you think it is worth, but you are being told the truth.

What else here?

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
The next letter is from Edo State, Nigeria, Africa.

Speaker 3 - Letter Writer:
Greetings to you in the name of our Lord and personal Savior, Jesus Christ. How is the ministry of God? I hope fine.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Fine. How are you? The ministry of God is fine, with the exception of those within it who have their own ideas, their own concepts of what they think it should be rather than what it really is.

Then what?

Speaker 3 - Letter Writer:
I am writing from Nigeria in West Africa. I decided to communicate to you to inform you. I am a very busy pastor who has made some giant strides in the ministry field of God. We are doing very good ministry work through evangelism and distribution of your literature and proclaiming the good news.

Many people are accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and giving their lives wholeheartedly to the Lord. I therefore request from you hundreds of newsletters, eight complete Holy Bibles, your taped cassettes, and a big giant-print Holy Bible for me to use in promoting God's work.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
See, these messages are in demand, and people are willing to pay for them. I know many of you people in radio would be willing to pay for them if I put a price on them. It was freely given to me.

Now, the book of Malachi and all throughout the Bible tells you to tithe, but I leave that up to your will. If you want to be a person that robs God, go at it, but you are not going to like the benefits that you receive. Sowing seed is not just giving money, but that is part of it. Sowing seed is the Word of God. Consider everything that the Lord says, because we do not live eternally in the kingdom of heaven by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

The book of Malachi tells us that we are robbing God if we do not give tithes and offerings. How are we robbing Him? You are robbing Him of His bride, because when you see people who are willing to tell the cold, hard truth of God's Word - that He is not only a God of love, but He is also a God of wrath and vengeance, and that He hates - He says, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

He says many things that He hates, but He does try. He does chasten people. He starves them out. Sometimes He gives them famine, diseases, earthquakes, tsunamis, every type of disease in the world, to try to chasten people so that they will cry out to Him, but they do not.

It is like the people of New Orleans. They say, "Well, this was destroyed. This was just a natural thing that happened." Just like God is hitting Florida, as you can plainly see on television and read in the newspapers and hear on radio. The Lord is always in hope with His chastisement. He chastens them that He loves, but He loves you and tries to get you to repent. If you do not, then He hates you and just kills you and lets your soul go to hell.

Keep that in mind too. This is the actual structure or the society, the way that the Lord has set His society up. "If you love Me, keep My commandments. I am your friend if you keep My commandments." But if you do not, He is not your friend. So if you say, "What a friend we have in Jesus," then you must be keeping His commandments, or you are a hypocrite.

What else is left here of this letter?

Speaker 3 - Letter Writer:
This requested material will help us very much in furthering our evangelism distribution work. May God bless you many, many times for being the instrument through whom our need and those of several million others are met. We thank you very much.

Yours faithfully,

Pastor Elios from Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Okay. Praise the Lord. Now, Sharon, come on forward here, and we will start doing this message that I taped today and that a couple of the sisters here just recently typed up.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
I have had many ideas in my life.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Well, my ideas - I have designed many jackets. I started the 20 Original Hits. That was the idea in my mind first, to put 20 smash rock-and-roll hits on one album. This is before I was saved. The idea was so good that Time-Life, Warner, and they, now affiliated with huge other corporations, are really barreling in on it because they are making billions of dollars on my idea.

So when I say I have made billions of dollars in my life, I have made hundreds of millions, and I have made hundreds of billions for other people. I am the one that had the idea of Disneyland walls, for people to come into Disney, into their homes, and put scenes from Disney's motion pictures on the walls of children, and to put Dutch Holland kitchens and tropical fish bathrooms and things like that.

Disney flipped over the idea. They said they were afraid that people would drink the paint, that little children would get into the paint and drink it, or that bad salesmen would represent Disney in a bad way. So they said, "What we will do, Tony, is come up with Disneyland wallpaper." What I was telling them to do was charge a thousand dollars a room for a painter to come in and do it, because artists can do artwork so fast, they can actually do four or five characters in one minute. A true artist - Disney artists can do up to 10 or 15 pictures in a minute. There is just something about their hands. I do not know whether it is a demon or if it is just the hand of God or what, to be able to do that.

I have hired many artists in my life to take my preconceived ideas down on paper. Some people said, "Well, you did not do it," because I had artists. It was my idea, and I relayed it to artists. Many times, I had to tell them, "No, it is not this way. It is this way," and so on and so forth.

I have had many ideas before you see them. All these jackets that I designed, T-shirts and sweatshirts, all these things were in my mind before they became a reality. Also, the American Health Studios and Slender Figure Form were in existence just a few months before I got into the company, but because of my sales ideas for the company, they made me executive vice president. The company started doing $1.9 million, almost $2 million a month, which was the same as around $30 million today. We were listed in the Fortune 500 at that time as the fastest-growing organization in the country.

I could go on for a long period of time. The Democratic Party realized my ability to come up with ideas, different new ideas on how to promote things. Kennedy wanted me to handle his campaign, and he sent Walter Winchell, Ted Shirak, Mary Orte, and several other people over to me to get this thing done.

Everything in this world that you see - there are many people that have more ideas than I ever had - but all these things were in their heads before you could see them: automobiles, television, radio, telegraph, banking systems, houses, and buildings. They were all in people's minds before they were drafted. They brainstormed maybe with other people, with artists, builders, and bricklayers. The idea man did not lay the bricks or put in the plumbing. But everything that you see in my organization was in my head first. Then I instructed people how to do it, and then it became a reality.

Keep reading.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
I have had many ideas in my life, and they turned into concepts and then into reality. I have been called a visionary. An idea in the mind of a visionary, in the mind of someone who has been successful because of their ideas, is more powerful than an army.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
When people - God had an idea. What I do today is not my idea. It is God's idea. I may come up with an idea that the Lord puts in my mind about what is going on, but this idea of His society is His idea. Anyone who comes up with other ideas in God's society is satanic. There is not any other way that you can say it.

People who think they can lie and commit adultery and fornication in His society and still get into it are sick. They are satanic beings because they are formulating these evil ideas within His society, and that means they are condemned.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
There is nothing more powerful than an idea.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
No, there is not, because everything in the world that you can see was an idea. Even the world, the sun, the moon, everything was an idea of God's before He set it into being.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
Ideas have created the world, and they control the world that we live in.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Somebody has bad ideas, and the world is being controlled by those bad ideas. People have ideas all the time. We have married women in this church and married men who use their carnal brains rather than the Word of God to accomplish the things that the Lord wants them to do within God's system here on earth. These people are so evil and so disgusting to me that I do not have the words for it. More than that, they are very disgusting to God, and you never see them be blessed.

They want everything that blessed people of the Lord have, but they cannot have it because they never comply with God's idea. God tells them that He said, "I want you to be fruitful and multiply," and they say, "I don't want a baby now. Not now." It is amazing.

When you have several hundred, thousands, or millions of people, and they all have their own idea, then there is no society of God, because all the society of God has to do exactly what the Lord says, just as the children of Israel did when Joshua told them not to speak at all for all those days that they were circling Jericho. Every one of them obeyed. That is what people have to do. The true people of the Lord will have to do that.

God knows. The Bible tells us that there are going to be some people God is going to take out of this world, His children, and there will be people left behind. The Lord knows the ones that really enforce the things that He says, and He knows some who do not listen at all.

You can tell when a person loses their love for you because they do not listen to you any longer. They do not pay any attention to what you say. They just live their own life. They are aloof. That is one of the signs. They are no longer your friends. They do not do anything to help you. These are all signs that people do not love you anymore. I know the Word of the Lord, and the Lord tells me these things.

Little 15-, 16-, and 17-year-old girls sit there, and even when I am saying these things, you can see them in the audience considering whether it is really true, as if they really think their carnal brain is something. That is why they are ignored, and they do not have enough sense to even know it.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
When an idea is conceived in the mind of a person who is a visionary, it is called a thought.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
You have a lot of people who thought. They say, "I thought." I say, "No, the Lord says," and they say, "But I thought." Can you imagine people thinking, when the Lord says for you to put on His mind, to put on the full armor of God? Who cares what you think? Your thoughts are chaff. Anyone who lives by their thoughts rather than what God says is chaff, according to God. That is God's thought. That is God's concept, and that is God's reality, because people will come to the knowledge of God's reality when they are burning in hell in the lake of fire, or when they are in the kingdom of heaven enjoying peace, happiness, joy, serenity, and divine everything because they kept the commandments.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
Many people get thoughts, but they are not visionaries, and their ideas are worthless. They are like chaff, like the outside husk of the ear of corn.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
The husk is nothing but chaff, and the interior is nothing but chaff. The chaff on them is double chaff to be burned.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
But when the thought of a visionary is conceived, it is called a concept. Concepts are the material that dreams are made of, and they serve as the substance for living and interpreting life.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
If you have the substance of faith, if you have faith, you do not think any longer. You go by God's Word because your thought is garbage.

There are so many people - we have prayer chains in our church, and in the four semesters, there were 20 people who had different excuses why they cannot go into the prayer room. One says he is so busy doing outreach. Another one is busy doing carpenter work, and they cannot spend one hour in the prayer room. These are all their thoughts. Therefore, they say, "To hell with the prayer room. Going and picking up things or purchasing stuff is more important."

Purchasing things is not going to get you into the kingdom of heaven. Planning your life and the things that you want to do is not going to get you into the kingdom of heaven. Obeying the Lord's commandments, putting on the mind of Christ, is going to save your soul, because those who continue doing that to the end will be saved, and those who do not will be lost.

You think that because you are sitting in a church, you can just call your own shots. The rule is that we have a prayer chain, and you have to be there. The rule is that we have church services, and you have to be there. The rule is that you have to obey those that have the rule over you, and that is me in this church. Many other pastors throughout the world, actually thousands, believe the same thing.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
Everything that human beings have made or invented was first an idea. Every invention invented was first preceded by an idea. As a matter of fact, inventions are often called a person's brainchild or brainstorm.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
You get together with some people, brain people, and they start kicking things around. "Let's do this. What do you think about this?" You bounce off each other's brains.

Renee Rice from Mattel Toys, who was in charge of the Barbie doll division, used to call me at all hours of the night and say, "Can you feel like bumping heads, or can you give me some ideas of what to do?" I told her, "You could put Barbie in a Ferrari, and Ferrari will pay for a lot of the ads. You can have her drinking a Coca-Cola, and maybe they will put her in the Coca-Cola ads. You can do all these." I was giving her different diversions. So she did it, and she was just a small part in Mattel Toys, and they made her over the whole world because she told them they were her ideas. They were not. They were mine.

I am working with so many ideas that I always just figure easy come, easy go. There are so many people who are doing what I said, like the Warner Brothers stores. I told them they should open them up instead of licensing their stuff out, and they opened them up. Record companies ask me ideas all the time. All kinds of people, motion picture people, ask me advice.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
In essence, the mind can be impregnated by ideas that develop into concepts. They then become visions that produce reality.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
But the concepts do not produce anything. The people who believe in the concepts, the people who believe in the ideas, get to work and make them happen. A lot of people think that you hear the Word of God and the Word of God is going to do something. It does not do anything unless you do what the Word says. Then it becomes a reality. But if you just sit and make up your own ideas, you are a fool because you think your ideas are better than God's.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
Concepts are to life what the blood is to the body. This is what the great King Solomon meant when he wrote over 2,000 years ago that as a man thinks, so is he. Proverbs 23:7.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
So if you think your own ideas, then you are garbage. As you think, your thoughts are garbage, and you are garbage. Your thoughts are what you are. If they are inferior to the Word of God, and they are, then you are garbage.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
If a person thinks wrong thoughts, they are mess-ups, and they try to project their ideas or their thoughts into other people's minds.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Whenever I am telling you the Word of God, the thought of God is in me. I am projecting God's thoughts into you. That is exactly what I am doing. When I thought of the 20 Original Hits, I went to different people and told them of my concept, and I projected my thoughts into them. I went to Earl McDaniel, the number one DJ in Los Angeles, and I told him about it. He said he wanted to be part of it. He said, "Who do I have to kill?" I said, "Okay, just get these masters for me." I was telling him what to do. I projected my ideas into him, and he received them. It became a giant thing that now one of the biggest mega-corporations in the world is using my ideas, and they do not even give me any royalties.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
They try to transfer their bad ideas or bad thoughts into others.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
There are people in this church who do not obey the Lord. They are attempting to get their ideas into me. They think that I am going to believe their inferior carnal-brain ideas rather than continue steadfast in enforcing and conveying God's idea into them. It is like a constant battle, a war, with the people of this world, and there are many worldly people in churches.

Jesus had one out of twelve. Judas Iscariot betrayed Him. There are many betrayers in the church, and the Bible said in the last days there would be many who betray the children of the Lord.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
So what you are is you become your thoughts or your concepts.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
If you are not the Lord's, we have to die out. Our thoughts, our concepts, and our inventions are supposed to die out. You are supposed to put on Christ and live by what He says. Don't you agree with that? Well, then, if everybody agreed to that, the kingdom of heaven would be firmly established here on earth, wouldn't it?

Some people do not say amen.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
I have heard psychologists describe value and estimation of life by the nature of our thoughts or our self-concepts.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
That is what they say it is.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
A concept would rise in value as we consider our conception and interpretation of life.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
I would rather go by God's interpretation of what life is rather than a psychologist, or you, or anyone like you inferior people. All people are inferior to God, aren't they? Does everybody say amen?

Then your thoughts are inferior to God's thoughts. That is why the Lord said, forget your thoughts and put on His thoughts, because His are superior to yours.

It is amazing to me that people who have never thought of anything constructive, or if you cannot see any evidence of anything they ever thought of, even in the world, that made finances or money or any notoriety, still think. You can shoot them down one right after the other, and they still have not accomplished anything, and they never will. Nothing of any value. Yet they still raise themselves up. These are demons, because no matter what you do or say to them, they never change.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
Now this is really important. Human communication is solely dependent on concepts.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
I have to communicate what the Lord says to you because I am not preaching my own ideas or concepts. I am preaching the ideas and concepts of Almighty God to you. I am communicating them to you, and it all depends on whether you are able to receive them, if you have a godly receiver in you that wants to receive what the Lord is communicating to you through me.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
I take no stock in anything that I ever did in my life before.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
It is all garbage. None of the things that I did before, the Disney thing, the Pete Best thing, owning a Beatle, none of that is going to get me into heaven. Only if I put on the mind of Christ and convey what He says. The Bible says that we are supposed to communicate one with another, but not with our own ideas. We are to communicate the Word of God.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
We can only understand life to the degree that our concepts are correct.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
That is right.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
As a matter of fact, the purpose and goal of communication is to transfer our ideas and concepts from my mind or your mind to other people's minds.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
But when we are talking about the system of the Lord, we are not to communicate our ideas to people. We are communicating the Lord's ideas to people. When you are sitting around talking about this or that, that is garbage. There is no value to it whatsoever.

So what I am saying here is not for you to communicate your ideas, but if you have revelation from the Lord, you can communicate it to those who have receivers and see if people will agree with God to do what the Lord is attempting to communicate to you.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
Therefore, communication is only successful when the sender's concepts are received accurately and properly understood by the receiver.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
If you are not receiving what Almighty God says, then His communication is garbage to you, and therefore you are one hundred percent chaff, one million percent chaff. You are going to spend eternity in the fire, screaming your head off.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
The same goes from the receiver to the sender.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
If the receiver does not receive what the Lord is saying, then they are going to argue with you. I tell you that much of my day, there are some sinners in this church who spoil the good that has been done. One sinner does much harm. What they do is, the Lord commands us to redeem the time, and what they do is take up your time arguing with you when you are telling them what the Lord says.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
If your ideas are wrong, then your concepts are wrong, and consequently your understanding will be inaccurate and incomplete.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
You do not have any understanding because you use your own brain to try to figure out if what the Lord is saying is right or not. You, the great prophetess or prophet, are scaling out if what the Bible says is true.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
You can only understand properly if your concepts are in alignment with truth. Your ideas must be based upon the Bible, God's dynamic truth. The original concept is always in the mind of the sender.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
I have had many concepts in my life.

Speaker 2 - Letter Reader / Assistant:
The thinking process is called a precept. To put it truthfully and simply, the precept is an original idea. Therefore, in order to understand the original concept, you must have a clear grasp of the precept of the sender or the message. You must have a clear ability to communicate your idea and concept to others so that they can help you in communicating this particular idea of yours to the public.

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
As an advertiser, I know that very well. I make up commercials to convey what my ideas were to the public, and they worked.

I see my time is up right now. It is 55 minutes already. Now the Lord wants me to communicate to you that you must be born again. You may have an idea that Buddha or somebody else is the way, but the Lord says that there is no other name given among men whereby you must be saved but Him, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of the living God. So you must come to Him.

If you want to receive this, or you want to receive the garbage, other people's ideas and their concepts, their precepts in this world that are lying to you and are not telling you the truth, you can do that. But I pray that your will is such that you will receive what the Lord says. He says that if you pray this prayer, all that call upon the name of the Lord, He will hear you. You will be saved.

If you would like to be saved and escape all this trash and garbage, the mire and madness in this world - mire is like seaweed that gets around you, and you get bogged down into sinking sand - just say this prayer to God and mean it:

My Lord and my God, have mercy upon my soul, a sinner. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God. I believe He died on the cross and shed His precious blood for the forgiveness of all my sins. I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit.

I open the door of my heart, and I invite You into my heart, Lord Jesus. You are the Word of God. I want Your Word in my heart, and I want all my words to be drowned in the sea of Your forgetfulness because they are sin. I open the door of my heart. I invite You in, Lord. Wash all my filthy sins away in Your precious blood. There is no forgiveness of sins unless there is blood being applied to wash them away and drown them in the sea of Your forgetfulness.

You will not turn me away. You will save my soul. I am guilty. I have committed sins, and my sins caused You to have to be killed and go to hell for me. But I have called upon You, and I know that I must continue doing Your work, listening to Your Word and doing what it says in order to enter heaven.

Therefore, I know I have called on You, and You say all who call upon You shall be saved. Therefore, I know You have heard me, and I know You have answered me, and I know I am saved. I thank You, Lord Jesus, for saving my soul.

Just raise your hands and praise and thank the Lord. Say, "Thank You, Jesus. Praise the Lord."

All right. If you would like a copy of this tape or CD - it is an audio tape or a CD - mention program 209. It is all free of charge. Even the postage and handling is free. Here is Sharon to tell you how to receive a copy of it.

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

Speaker 1 - World Pastor Tony Alamo:
All right. So you have heard this. Make sure you tune in tomorrow because we are going to continue with this thought of God's community, God's society. No other community on earth, no other society, has ever been a perfect society. As a matter of fact, all of them have failed. They have gone down the tubes. But there is one community, one society, that will never go down the tubes. It stands forever. It is the kingdom of God, God's kingdom, God's society.

So until tomorrow, in part 108, this is World Pastor Tony Alamo saying God bless you and praise the Lord. Amen.