Tony Alamo, July 24, 2026
Tony Alamo with Tony Alamo World Wide Ministries
The Kingdom at Hand: Purpose, Poverty, and the Call to Live Heaven on Earth
Ep225 How To Have Gods Life Living In You Part 123
Program 225 Opens With Rovon and the Purpose of Ministry
In Program 225, part 123 of How to Have God’s Life Living in You, Tony Alamo opens by offering listeners a free CD or audio tape copy and then reflects on his former career in entertainment promotion. He recounts how, after becoming a Christian, Susie encouraged him to promote the singer Rovon, whose real name is given as Jim Hahn, in order to show that he had not lost his abilities or judgment after leaving the worldly entertainment field. Tony uses this story to emphasize that he believes his true purpose is no longer worldly promotion, but preaching that the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Promotion, Fame, and the Warning of a Divided Life
Tony tells the story of Rovon’s rapid rise from working in a lumberyard to becoming a headliner at the Dunes Hotel Casino de Paris, receiving RCA Victor attention, appearing on major stages, and recording “The Lord’s Prayer.” He says he wanted Rovon to focus entirely on gospel music, but claims Rovon continued to pursue worldly fame and died young after ignoring spiritual warnings. Tony presents this as a cautionary example: being born again, in his view, must be followed by obedience to the Lord’s purpose, or the profession of faith “doesn’t count at all.”
Repentance and the Kingdom of Heaven
The sermon turns to Jesus’ first public proclamation after His baptism and wilderness temptation: “Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Tony teaches that the kingdom of heaven entered the world through Christ and can now live inside believers when they repent, receive cleansing through Christ’s blood, and are filled by the Spirit. He argues that the central purpose of Christian life is not comfort, wealth, food, houses, cars, or personal ambition, but representing the kingdom of heaven on earth through obedience, ministry, and service.
Africa, Poverty, and the Commonwealth of the Kingdom
Tony then focuses heavily on ministry work in Africa, describing reports from Buster and his wife about poverty, lack of toilets, unsafe water, hunger, shelter needs, and people sleeping outdoors. He contrasts the material desires of many American Christians with what he describes as African believers asking primarily for literature, Bibles, and the Messiah book. Tony says the ministry is helping with tools, bathrooms, water tanks, food, and practical instruction, and he challenges listeners to contribute rather than merely call themselves Christians. His claims about African conditions and ministry impact are presented as his statements from the transcript, not independently verified facts.
Prayer for Anointing, Giving, and Kingdom Responsibility
Tony prays over the program, thanking God for the kingdom of heaven living in believers and asking that people be convicted to help build it on earth. The prayer emphasizes sowing and reaping, financial giving, truth, obedience, discipline, care for the poor, clean water, food, shelter, and ministry expansion. He criticizes prosperity preachers, expensive lifestyles, and religious leaders he believes falsely claim to be doing major work overseas, while presenting his own ministry as directly involved in practical aid and gospel work. The prayer reinforces the episode’s core theme: those who truly belong to the kingdom should show it through action.
Letters From Nigeria, Atlanta, India, and Chile
Sharon reads several letters requesting materials and reporting ministry activity. A letter from Nigeria describes a Christian library, sermon tapes, Bibles, literature, and reported decisions for Christ in a school for the handicapped. A listener from Atlanta asks for Bibles, Bible dictionaries, concordances, literature packets, and guidance to establish Bible studies throughout the area. A pastor from Andhra Pradesh, India thanks Tony for newsletters and says the literature is changing lives in local villages. A letter from Santiago, Chile requests messages on CD or tape for a rented radio program, which Tony praises because the writer is not asking for money to air the broadcasts.
Solomon, Purpose, and the Closing Call to Salvation
Near the end, Tony begins a message on purpose, using King Solomon and Proverbs 19:21 to contrast human plans with the Lord’s purpose. He argues that people spend their days pursuing routines, grooming, errands, and personal plans without asking what God wants them to do. For Tony, the highest purpose is to preach that the kingdom of heaven is at hand. He closes by urging listeners to repent, become born of the Spirit, receive the kingdom of heaven within, and say a salvation prayer. Sharon then gives the ministry website, mailing address, phone, and fax information for receiving Program 225 free of charge, and Tony previews part 124.
Tony Alamo
About Tony Alamo Worldwide Ministries
"The central purpose and mission of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries is the great commission. To bring the gospel to the whole world as Christ commanded. To feed the hungry, visit the sick and imprisoned, and to offer help and hope to a lost and dying world."
Speaker Identification
Speaker 1 - Host: World Pastor Tony Alamo. Confirmed by the program opening and user instruction.
Speaker 2 - Sharon / Letter Reader: Reads listener letters and provides ordering/contact details near the close of the program.
Speaker 3 - Music / Recorded Performance: Rovon, referenced in the program as performing "The Lord's Prayer" and later "Israel, My Home." Lyrics/audio were partially unclear in the raw transcript and are identified as music segments where appropriate.
Speaker 1 - Host
Hello again this is World Pastor Tony Alamo we're into part 123 of How to Have God's Life. In the beginning this is program 225 if you'd like a copy of it. Sharon will tell you four ways how to receive it. You can receive it either on CD or on audio tape. So make sure you have your paper and pencil ready. It's absolutely free of charge and it's even the postage and handling is taken care of.
Speaker 1 - Host
Before I was a Christian or no I used to do promotion so time after I was saved a lot of people in the entertainment industry thought I'd gone crazy because I left a career that was second to none.
Speaker 1 - Host
And so Susie after I'd been saved for three years told me to do a promotion for a singer that Norman Kay who was a member of the Mary Kay Trio came to me with this opera singer. And I you know it was during the day of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. I also did a promotion for Pete Best of the Beatles and I have a Beatles album and authentic Beatles album. I've been told this was $100 million and I've never sold it because I want people to know that I'm not in the ministry for money but I'm in the ministry because I fear the Lord and I love the Lord. I love doing the work for the Lord before I know that it is the purpose of the Lord to preach the kingdom of heaven is at hand. That's the real purpose of the Lord. That's the purpose the reason that God brought him into this world is to tell him that the kingdom of heaven is now uniting with the earth and those of us that have received the kingdom of heaven in us that is not seen by observation the actual kingdom of heaven in us but it is seen by the Lord living in us because he enters us when we ask him through. He washes us first in his precious blood and then he with the Father, by the Spirit, enters into us and we then become a member of the kingdom of God. So therefore after three years of being saved Susie told me that I should promote this opera singer because she knew that I was good enough of a promoter to steal and that I hadn't lost my mind and that I wasn't crazy that I could still promote better than anybody in the world and then I'm actually far wiser with more understanding wisdom understanding and knowledge than I ever was in my entire life and my even though my former life is gone I still have not lost the knowledge that I had before of what I learned in the world and what I knew in the world and so she said go ahead and do this promotion well this singer Norman Kay brought this singer Rovon, whose real name was Jim Hahn, to me and changed his name to Rovon and 90 days later he was the star of the Dunes Hotel Casino de Paris and this was something but just the average person doesn't realize how hard that is to do something like that but that's never been done in history where somebody becomes a headliner of one of the huge casinos in Las Vegas without having paid their dues this man was working in a lumberyard about three months before I took him and now he's the star of the Casino de Paris which had a cast of a hundred people out from that they imported from Paris from the Lido in Paris and so
Speaker 1 - Host
I let him to the Lord and I wanted to sing strictly gospel songs because he for sure would be the best gospel singer there isn't anyone in the gospel field that can even hold a candle not even a pimple next to him so far as the singer is concerned and I'm going to open the program today with the cut of him after I had done the promotion and got him where he was I also got him on RCA Victor on the Ed Sullivan show sign boards all over the world with his picture on it and the pictures of the can can girls from the from Paris and it was quite a thing and they were running his ads because I told me if to spend a million dollars a month on him for promo before he made it I went after I'd done the had Ernie Freeman do the arrangements the musical arrangements and another arranger who was the arranger for Pat Boone Ernie Freeman did a lot of arrangements for Vic Damone and Frank Sinatra and a lot of other ones but Joe Leahy also had done the arrangements on the other side of the record and Joe Leahy was no slouchy did almost all Pat Boone's hit records so after I took it after I recorded my took him to RCA Victor just the electrical transcription of his disc and they laughed at me and told me that I never happened I said you'll be begging for him by the time I get down with this promo he'll be begging for him on your hands and knees and that actually came to pass 90 days later they were at the Dunes Hotel all of them Columbia Records RCA records and all them the only ones that I allowed to have him was the RCA because he agreed to do four albums on him per year and four singles the Dunes Hotel offered us $15,000 a week for a five-year period of time and here he's just a newcomer I mean 15,000 a week plus a suite in the Dunes and all the food and drink he wanted and everything as soon as that was over I got him in there and got him on the in the London Palladium and the Coconut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard I just walked out on him I sold him to some Chinaman who really loved the way he sang and that was it so he was on RCA Victor and this song he did sing two gospel songs and I'll let you hear one of them right now on my radio program he was actually on my label first on Colamo Records and this cut that you're gonna hear now is the Lord's Prayer and it's on RCA Victor go ahead, let's hear it. [Song: Rovon performs "The Lord's Prayer."]
Speaker 1 - Host
Praise the Lord. After his lips over to get the Dunes Hotel Norman Kay told me that he was there. I was invited by the brass Major Riddle, the President of the Dunes, to attend the opening of Rovon and Lee Fisher, who was the promotional manager for the Dunes, and also Rovon himself. I had dozens of invitations from them, and I didn't come because the Lord stated that was the end of it, and just, you're in it now to promote me, and so I didn't go.
Speaker 1 - Host
He was about to be real angry at me because I listened to the Lord, and then Norman Kay told me that the trumpet player tried to hold the note as long as Rovon could, and he passed out. He just fainted. They don't have the wind that he has, and there's nobody in the gospel field that he can even hold one-hundredth of a candle to this singer, because I've been in a commercial field and been in promotion for many singers, and used to have talent contests at my school in Cleveland, Ohio before I was saved. I had the Tony Alamo theatrical school there, and I had seen contests and had some very good singers there, and there's just no one. And I did, but, well, I'd listen to you, I told him to just get in the gospel field and sing, because you'll be the biggest sensation out there. You're competing with rock and roll and everything else, even though he made it because of my knowledge of the promotional field and my knowledge of casinos and nightclubs and all this sort of thing, because I was raised by my dad to be a nightclub and a casino and an owner, and gambling casino in Vegas. And also, there were people in Billings, Montana, like Mike Basel, who owned the Crystal Lounge there, he owned the Skyline Club, which was up on the rim rocks and the tavern in several places, and he also was helping train me to do it, because they figured, you know, they said, you've got a real good brand, you could run hotels, casinos, and nightclubs, restaurants, things like that. So, this was the way I'd done, but I told him not to run around with these other singers like Frank Sinatra, people like, big name Casino Comedians and things like that, that he didn't listen to me and he started drinking, I told him he would, and he got a cirrhosis of the liver, and his esophagus bursted and he died, a young man, he was very young, and it's a very sad thing that he didn't accept the ministry, because to be born again and then not do what the Lord tells you to do, it doesn't make, then it doesn't count at all, because the purpose of the Lord is that we preach the kingdom of heaven.
Speaker 1 - Host
The first thing that Jesus did after he was baptized by John the Baptist, and the Spirit of God came down upon him for the ministry, to the outward anointing that causes people to be moved by the Holy Spirit. He was moved by the Holy Spirit to go into the wilderness and he passed it forty days and forty nights and was tempted in every respect by Satan and did not adhere to anything that he said. Then he came down from the out of the wilderness, and the first proclamation that he made was to people, the people of the world, was Repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. In other words, the kingdom of heaven is now presently in this world, in him, and he was the first, and he knew that if he preached the kingdom of heaven to people that the kingdom of heaven, if they repented and would come unto him, that the kingdom of heaven would be living in them, and that they too, after receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit, would be anointed for the ministry to go into the highways and hedges and also preach Repent for the kingdom of heaven is in the world now.
Speaker 1 - Host
Now the kingdom of heaven in the world, this tells us that the Bible says that we're in this present world, but we're not of it, that this present world is going to burn up. The Bible says that the earth shall abide forever. Well, some people might think that this is a contradictory statement, but it means the earth will remain for everybody. It will be refurbished. It will be burned up to your crisp. All the evil that was in here before will be burned up in the same thing with the kingdom of God because Satan actually Lucifer became Satan in heaven, and the Lord doesn't want any remembrance of Satan in heaven or on earth. Heaven now has come down to earth. In Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, and the entire kingdom is being developed here now because the Lord has dispatched the angels to compass around and about us while we're here on earth preaching the kingdom of heaven. He said this is the whole reason that he came into this world was to preach the kingdom of heaven being at hand. It is now available here on earth and it's now. It isn't here for us to eat and to sleep, and they have cars or homes, better homes. Of course the Lord states you know seek first, "the kingdom of heaven." Did he say this? And everything that is in the kingdom of heaven will be added unto you. So he will give you increased your riches. He will heal your healed already by being in the kingdom of God, in the common wealth of the kingdom of heaven. And he says, so this is what he came into this world to preach that the kingdom of heaven is now here. And if anyone is preaching anything other than that and living any other way than the people that are in the common wealth of the kingdom of heaven live, then they're not really of the Lord at all. There's a lot of people. They say I don't believe in a prosperity message. Oh yes I do. But I don't believe that God gives his prosperity solely for him in a better house or a better car. We see suffering all over the world and nobody does anything about it. Mark Buster's in Africa right now and states that there's no other ministry here from the United States of America that they know of in Africa. They don't know anything about that. No one's given them money. No one is buying them food. No one is buying them shelters or toilets. The area of Africa that's he's in now, they have no toilets. They go to the bathroom on the streets. The stench is so bad that they can't that Buster and his wife almost faint from the smell. And they asked us for $3,500 for toilets. And so over here in the United States, what I do is we work because if you don't work, you don't eat according to the gospel or good, the good news that the kingdom of heaven is here on earth. That's what the good news is, is that the kingdom of heaven is arrived and it's here on earth. And so I told them, look, Buster, there's one crew of people there, about 58,000 people in one time alone. And they're like these young kids and the adults and everything have Jesus all over their face. And they don't have anything to eat at all hardly. They eat some ground up roots that the UN pays for. And they throw some kind of something in there and they get a bowl of that a day. And so there's no toilets, there's no roof over there here. They sleep on the ground with a little mat. And so they're getting a thousand dollars a week from us. And they said, don't send anymore. Even the leaders, they say, don't send anymore because all of Africa will come roaring over there. And there's no way that that could support all of them at one time. So this village of around 50,000, 55,000, 60,000 people said, if you send that in, that will be more than enough. And I told Buster to buy some, are they willing to? Where he says, sure, they want to be under your instructions. So I told him to dig their own holes instead of paying some rip-off artist over there, $3,500 to dig a hole about 60 deep. And I don't know how long. I said, give them some pickaxes and some shovels and put them out there and have them dig their own holes. Well, they've already got the $3,500 hole deck. Okay. And I told him to dig a hundred of them. And then I, we got pickaxes and shovels and they love it. They love being given instructions that are wise. They don't want to walk through dung and urine on the streets anymore. They don't want to have to smell it. And so these are just elementary common instructions that I've given ever since that I've been in the ministry and had became a pastor. And they love it. And they love working and they love to see something develop over there. And so I told them to get this, what they call plywood, their busser says, I don't know what it is, but it's similar to it. You got some hammer and nails and they have people there that have the aptitude to build bathrooms and things like that, above bathrooms and to, if you put the seats together for them to sit on when they're going to the bathroom. They've got all these people going to the bathroom right on the street and he says, he'll just drop their pants and just go to the bathroom right in front of you. It's like they're like animals. But these people love God. He says, boy, they just praise him. Lord, he asked him, well, what would you want more than anything? He says, can Tony send you food or clothes? He says, just send us more of his literature. Send us more Bibles. Send us more of the Messiah book that he wrote. This is not the will of the people in the United States. They want a new car, a new house. We want a bigger house than the people next door to prove that we're Christians. It's me, me, me. Give me. I want it. I want this. These people say we will be 100% obedient to what Tony tells us to do because we see that the things that he's saying are in the Bible and they can quote scriptures better than anybody that I've ever heard in the United States of America. They really are saved. So don't be saying what about the people in Africa, you know, the deep dark jungles of Africa? Because when I was in prison for the gospel's sake, I was put in there on false charges for six years, but I got out in four years on good behavior and I'd spend a half year in the halfway house over here. Don't be saying what about the people in the deepest, dark, the jungles of Africa? If you're worried about them, why don't you go over there like Buster and his wife are? Why don't you send in some offerings for them? So this is the kingdom of heaven here on earth. If the kingdom of heaven is in you, then let's do the work so that you can receive the benefits of the commonwealth of the kingdom of God. Why don't you do that? Okay, instead of set a pound in your chest and saying you're a Christian. Uh, wow. Why, you know, there's some preachers that are charging 50 to 100 dollars to go and hear them preach the gospel. That is so anti-Christ, anti-God, anti-Bible. Do you think that Jesus, when there were 5,000 men and many women and children on top of that, that he charged it 50, 50 cents even or one penny to go here and preach, he preached. He says he freely gave the gospel to them. People better like that. I don't understand how they gather such great crowds outside of the fact that they don't tell them that they're going to hell. You know, it's very hard to get any finances if you're telling people that they have to serve the Lord, that they may have to go into the deepest, darkest places in Africa and help out over there. But right now, Buster still in Africa and he's helping them out over there. He's telling me, leaders say, don't said more than a thousand bucks. And don't said more than 10 Bibles because we were sending them 100 Bibles, 50 Bibles because there's a lot of phonies out here too in certain parts of Africa and they'll come over and and horns swag old people out of or come on them out of Bibles and then they go and sell them on the streets. The people are poverty stricken. Prostitutionists all lower the place over there. He says the place takes like you can't believe. And the food tastes funny. He said even if the Heinz ketchup there when he poured on food, the catch it tastes funny. It doesn't taste like it does in the United States.
Speaker 1 - Host
And so, you know, the kingdom of heaven at hand and the reason that the world is still in that kind of condition is because people are unwilling to loosen up their purse strings and let at least let us help develop Africa and the same thing with India. And the same thing with China and the Philippines. They have cages over there with dogs and cats and one of the women was telling bus, she said, well, she said, I don't mind dog. I like dog meat. But she said, I can't, you know, it's hard for me to stomach cat, cat meat. And they just don't have anything over there.
Speaker 1 - Host
And so, you know, if you're at the kingdom of heaven is in you, you're not going to resent us because we're prospering in all these different nations. I have a tape, you know, Buster saying, I said, Buster, you know, is Joyce Meyer. He started laughing like crazy. He said, Joyce Meyer, not over here, Benny Hinn, Ben King is not here. What's his name? Benny, Benny Hinn. I know the singer more than I know, this Benny Hinn. He says, they all say they're doing a job over here 20. They don't even know these people. They never heard of even Billy Graham. They have never heard of them. Never heard of any of these supposed to be big time events with us over here. And so, yeah, I just I wonder because they're on TV saying that they're doing all these things over there. But they've never heard of them before. And you see things in the news that says that there's big pipelines, the input over there. And the very area that you'll be in and finished by October. They don't even have roofs. They got about three buildings over there that they're a bit working on. And they they're unfinished and have been unfinished for years. And the little children are sleeping out in the open air. And when it rains, those masks get soaked. I mean, you know, like actually I've got three hours of tape, some buster that if you'd like a copy, or like I feel like I should put it on the air. When I said if you want a copy, I'll say anyway, but what I want to do is like put them on the air as soon as I get some of these things out of me that are like eating at my crawl. Okay. And so we're there and we're building bathrooms farm and we provided a thousand dollars for the tools and everything and the materials to build them. And what are you doing? Are you of the kingdom of God? If you are, well, how say ye that you're the kingdom of God? What are you doing for the poor people? The Lord says, remember the poor. Amen. Remember the poor and the needy. And he said in as much as you didn't do it for them, you didn't do it for me. That's what he's going to tell you at the judgment bar. But in as much as you did it for these poverty stricken people that love God, I'm not doing it for the people that don't love God. I'm not to give place to the devil. But I'm doing it for these beautiful people. Buster said he's never seen people that love the Lord so much in his whole life in the United States as he sees there. He says, Tony, they are like just praising and thanking the Lord and those little kids. They know Bible scriptures and the adults better than anybody that I've ever known in the United States outside of the church. But right now let's go to the throne of the Lord and let's ask him to anoint this service father. We thank you that the kingdom of heaven is living in our hearts. Those of us that have the kingdom of heaven in us. We don't argue with people and we obey the list of heaven rule over us because we want to re-presempit the kingdom of heaven as it ends. Lord, we know that the people that are against those of us that preach the kingdom of heaven and those of us that have been given rule, we are able to see. We are able to sense those that resent any leadership, any rulership, anyone that's ruling in your name and in the name of the kingdom of God. And so we know that they are not of you. They're not and they resent hearing this because there's actual proof, proof positive that is manifested in the bodies and in the spirits and the souls of those that really are in dude with the kingdom of God within them. The kingdom of God is within the Father. We know that. And so it cometh not with observation because it's within us but people can observe the way we live our lives and the people in the United States that call themselves Christians that are living high on the hog and won't give a penny, not even a dollar or a $10 bill or a $100 bill because people they say, well, we just can't afford it. But according to the scriptures, the Father wants you to know and I'm in the spirit right now praying for him to know this service that you can't receive anything unless you sow it. And you're supposed to be sowing into God's kingdom here to bring it about on earth. And there's no manifestation in people that are tight-biscids and resent leadership and resent discipline. They just are not of you, Lord. And there's a lot of people that even live around and about me that are the most hateful people I've ever seen in my life. And I'm not going to, you know, you see that I've been putting them out and you, I know you want me to put the rest out. And I will, or as you as they become more and more resentful, they think that their evil looks on their faces going to frighten me, but they have it. I just put them out because you put me in control here. And so Lord, I ask that you I know you deserve this. And in fact, it tells us your words that you speak through me to convict people in the world and cause them to believe that the kingdom of heaven is now in this earth, in this world, and that you're developing it, heaven has come down and glory has built my soul and has filled my heart, has filled my spirit. And has filled the spirit of those poverty stricken peoples, some of them over in Africa, some of them are demonic, Lord, as we know, those people are willing to work. They just need something to work with, some tools, and some hammers and nails in lumber praise the Lord. And we're teaching them how to raise chickens and vegetables and things like that. And we're setting up water tanks for them. They say that the earth is so deep in this terrible part of Africa that we can't get to the water down below. So we're putting the water tanks in. And we've recruited water trucks to come and fill their tanks up with water on a continuous basis so that they're not eating, so that they're not drinking this brown water over there that they've been drinking. They're drinking clear water now. And we thank you, Lord, and God, for giving us the wherewithal to be able to do this. Lord, that souls eat us cut and let the kingdom of heaven go and enter their hearts so that the working, seeking first the kingdom of God doing what the kingdom of heaven people are supposed to be doing, that as they can be as see of the commonwealth, we know that if we need finances, that if we sow finances that we're going to reap them, a hundred fold. We know that if we tell people the truth that we're going to be set free, because when we know the truth, the truth will set us free. And we know that when we give it, she'll be given unto us. Our cups will flow over, be pressed down, and she'll run over. And this is not for us to buy things from ourselves. Surely the Lord wants us to have things, but he wants us to scour the earth to see what we can do. For those that are living in such awful conditions, because if you let the Lord live on the ground and live without clean water and live without food, without shelter over their heads, and without the wherewithal to build and to be valid, you're not going to like what you hear at the judgment fire. You think you're going to be at the mercy seat of Christ, because of all the false prophets that are in the pulpits today that are saying that they're doing a great work over there, and those that are bragging about, they're wearing two and three and four and five thousand dollar suits. And that's what the Lord wants us to do, is to walk around with five thousand dollar suits and two hundred and fifty thousand dollar cars and multi-million dollar airplanes, and they're going around preaching heresy and lying about them doing a great and mighty work in Africa, India, and other places in the world. They're not receiving anything from them. And I asked if some of these other works are doing anything over there, and he said, no, James Robison, we have sent James Robison over one hundred and some thousand dollars to build water wells, and they may have put a couple of them in, but they may have done something, but these people that we see in Africa don't know who he is, they don't know anything about it. Lord, cut their hearts, cause them with our thanks God that we're over there now, we don't have to send money to him any longer, or any of the others like Rod Parsley, that we're there and you know that I'll do, I'll give them whatever it is that we have. Lord, save souls, encourage, and your power to the church in Jesus name, we're praying everyone says amen. Amen.
Speaker 1 - Host
Okay, now what letter do you have here?
Speaker 2 - Sharon / Letter Reader
From Nigeria. Grace and blessings from our Lord Jesus Christ be upon you always Pastor Alamo. It was all Hosanna in the highest as the miracle befell us. We are enjoying the presence of God. I am fine and happy to write you. My library is now crying for more of your sermon tapes, books, Bibles, literature, and those life changing materials which are powerful messages. Testimonies are come my way daily from those who are making deep use of the Christian library just recently in a school for the handicap.
Speaker 1 - Host
One thing the Lord told me to say is, those of you out there that are accusing me of being a cult, what are you doing for the people over there in Africa? What are you lying weasels doing? You know, you're not doing the thing, you're not doing the thing, but you are not of the Lord, what she is that you're discouraging people from giving through this work that is really doing something for the people that are without you in this world. And you really going to be very upset when you stand before God Almighty on the other side. What are you doing? You scumbags. And then what? You devils out of hell. And what?
Speaker 1 - Host
The Christian library we set up just recently in a school for the handicap is where we share the good message of God. There are 42 decisions made for Christ after hearing the good messages on your tapes sermon living in the presence of God. Our goal is to go to the unreached who have not heard of Christ nor see His good work. We write you to send us Bibles, tapes, literature, a giant print Bible for a church library. Thank you once again and the Lord bless you. Yours and his fields serving the lost souls for Christ, Pastor Kumi from Benan, Nigeria.
Speaker 2 - Sharon / Letter Reader
Someone from Atlanta, Georgia, Dear Pastor Alamo, I have tuned into your show for the first time just a few days ago and would like to thank you for having such an insightful and straightforward broadcast that sheds light on the corners of darkness that have been created by many of the other so-called ministries. You know usually how can you be a pastor of a church called people, scumbags? Well the Lord calls the people that are ponies. He calls them pigs, dogs, snakes, children of the devil. And he says that how could you escape the fire of hell? So I like being like he says that you're like chaff, in other words scum to be thrown out. And so I like to be like Jesus. Why don't you? You think that I'm crude? Well you think Jesus was crude too if you ever read the Bible. Okay? But it's obvious that you've never read the Bible. And if you do you surely don't have it read at all. Anyway, I would also like to request material to begin the establishment of Bible studies throughout the Atlanta area. At present I am working with 18 members of my community and the list continues to grow. Please provide me with at least 30 Bibles Bible dictionaries, concordance and other material that you will that you have to assist me in this venture. I would greatly appreciate any advice or other assistance you may afford me as well. I would like to become a distributor of your literature. So please include a number of your literature packets for my Bible study group as well as for general distribution. Thank you once again and may God continue to bless and use you magnificently for the kingdom of God, your son Christ, Sister Gloria from Atlanta, Georgia. Okay.
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This is from India. Dear brother in Christ, greetings and prayerful wishes to you from Pastor Mosha. Pastor Alamo, thank you so much for sending me your precious world newsletter. I distribute in our village in in Andhra Pradesh, India. Keep up the good work. My prayer is that God will continue to bless you and your ministry because it is through you that many people's lives have been changed. Your literature is winning many souls here. And it's not only the literature, it's that they want to see the works of Christ. Christ fed the hungry, amen? Amen. And he did the things that we're supposed to do. When you see people in need, you provide for them. Okay. And if you can't provide for them, then contact me and I'll provide for sure something for them. Okay. Then what? Thank you. And I will never forget you. Your brother in Christ Jesus, Mosha from Prasakam District Andhra Pradesh, India. Okay. The next one.
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From Santiago, Chile. Dear Pastor Alamo, God fill you your ministry with many blessings. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the literature I received a while ago. I would like to request your message tapes for our radio program that we rent. We would like to release your tapes over the air. I would like the messages on CD. If not, then tapes will be fine, whichever is more convenient for you. I hope that the above is a blessing for you. I see you know this person is of the Lord. They're not saying that if you send us a thousand dollars a week, we'll put you on the air over here. You're not asking for any money whatsoever, amen? Amen. This person is of the Lord. We're not asking money for ourselves. We're asking money for to provide all the necessities for running this ministry throughout not only the United States, but wherever in the world that the Lord leads us and shows us what they need. Okay. Then what? Bye for now. Your servant, Pastor George, from Santiago, Chile. Yeah. Bye for now. Instead of kind of put you help out with the radio broadcast or something like this. This guy to the person, I would be glad to offer them something for it because we have these programs in Spanish as well. I have people here that transfer these messages that are given in English. They transfer them into Spanish. The literature, we have them in many languages, all the popular languages in the world. All right.
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Now, Sharon, let's begin with this message here.
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King David's son is stated in the Bible as being the wisest and greatest king of Israel. The most powerful law. This is
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King Solomon.
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King Solomon was the greatest king of them all. And yet he failed because there's only real one king, really one king that has never failed. That's King of Jesus, amen? And what is the king? You know, if a person says they're a king, then they have to have a kingdom. Amen. Yeah. You're not. There's no such thing as a king of democracy or a king of republicanism or a king of Buddhism. There's the king of a kingdom. And the Lord is the king of kings and the Lord of the Lord. He's the king of the kingdom of heaven in heaven and here on earth because there are several of us that are of the kingdom of heaven right here on earth. And we don't pay any attention to the darkness. It doesn't mean nothing to us. We hate it. And the Lord tells us to either love him or love Satan. He says, you can't love both of us. You can't be living an outside life outside of the kingdom and then come back into the kingdom and expect to receive the different benefits of the commonwealth of the kingdom of heaven. You can't do that. You have to be perfect. And how do we stay perfect? We stay in the spirit and we stay in the commonwealth of the kingdom of heaven because if we're seeking only, firstly and only the kingdom of heaven, then everything that we possibly could ever need and things that we didn't even know that we wanted will be given unto us. Okay. And part of that is medical assistance. Jesus is the great position. He's the great healer. If you've got problems with your health and you can't be healed, it seems. Maybe it's because you are not seeking first the kingdom of God. More than likely. That's what it is. And more than likely it's like you want all the benefits of the commonwealth of the kingdom of heaven. But you don't want to do the things that cause it to come about in your life. So you are forced to go to doctors and you are forced to be thinking of suicide and seeking out someone that can help you commit suicide and things like that because there's no happiness in your life. And there's no happiness in your life because there's no kingdom of God in your life. And the terrible things you may not worry about dying as a matter of fact you may be praying for death to come. But there's something after death. There is something after death. It's supported unto man once to die. And after this the judgment. And so don't worry about dying. We know that a lot of people that have no knowledge of heaven and earth, heaven and hell, earth, heaven and earth. But you're going to find out when the spirit leaves your body. You're going to stand judgment because God said so. And God never lies. He can't lie. It's impossible for him to lie. So you people think that this is a vacation spot when you get saved and you see these people going on vacations. And you know to me working doing the Lord's work for him to be living in me and through me is a joy. Because what greater thing could people ask for? And this is exactly what those Africans say all day. They say we are so happy. And Buster says they're always happy and left because they know that the Lord is in them and that they have eternal life. They said that's the most important thing. So just keep loading us up with Pastor Alamo's literature. And we will be happy. Over here people shine that out and they thunder, no santa. And there's very few people here in the United States that I consider. I just don't see much true kingdom of heaven in this country. They've legged with the politicians like Bush. They call him the Messiah. Oh my God these people. This is like Haggie and Rod Parsley. They all say that Mr. Bush is the Messiah. Mr. Bush and he always said he's not the Messiah. One thing for sure. He said drunk. Amen. I mean his own wife said it's either me or Charlie Daniels or what was the name of the Jim Bean. Or Four Roses. You can tell whether they're doing Four Roses because their noses are red. They get red from all that boots. And not only that he bombs people, thought poverty stricken people and thinks that it's okay to do so. And people like Clinton. Those people are not able to love it. They go to church so that you'll vote for them. But they're demon-desists and they need to be saved so that those demons will come out of them. You know you're not supposed to kill them. You're supposed to preach the gospel to them. And so they'll possibly get saved. Okay so keep going. Solomon expressed the very important purpose of the concept of purposes in the book that he had written entitled Proverbs. He told it to us in this way. Many are the plans in a human being. I'm paraphrasing here. Many are the plans or the devices of human beings right? Yes in a human being's heart. Okay people. Many plans. We all, everybody gets up and they start planning their day. Okay but the Lord in other words they have their purpose to do something. They don't think at all of the what does the Lord purpose for me to do today? What does he purpose for me to do? It's there filthy rotten nothing to the kingdom of heaven purposes what they want to do. Okay read them again that part. Many are the devices or the purposes of the plans of human beings. Amen. Amen. Then what? I'm paraphrasing the word man. Many are the plans in a man's heart or a human being's heart because females are also mankind. Yes. So when it's in the heart of man it means mankind. Very well. Many are the plans or purposes in a human being's heart but it is the Lord's purpose that is the most important of all. It is the Lord's purpose that prevails. It's the Lord's purpose that is meaningful for you to have good status when you stand before him so that you be able to stand before the mercy seat of Christ rather than the great white throne on judgment day. Then what? That's in Proverbs 19:21.
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All day long people are planning for some purpose in their lives. Oh yeah they're just they or they just get up and they go into a routine that they purpose that that should must be their routine on a daily basis. They have to do their nails if you're a female or you know go and just think about well it's time to eat now. It's time to get up now. It's time to do paperwork. Never. It's time for me to get up and pray. Never. It's time for me to read. It's never right for me to prepare myself for the day but I just I have my own plans and purposes. I got to go to the dentist. I've got to get my teeth cleaned. I've got to trim my toenails today. My fingernails and do my eyebrows and get a hair due and dye my hair or do something like that. Without ever asking the Lord first is this what you want me to do or is there something else Lord? Is there somebody you want me to talk to or you want me to go somewhere where there'll be somebody there for me to witness to? Okay then what?
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Few are interested in the Lord's purpose. What the Lord wants them to do every day. The Lord's purpose is the priority of purposes as compared to a plan of action of human beings. It tells us that the most important interest of our Creator and Savior is his original intentions for his actions in creation. What is the Lord created for on the first place human beings? Okay. To listen to unsaved parents or unsaved anybody or to follow after anybody likely there's a construction person in the Los Angeles that the people over there in our Los Angeles church started listening to them. I had them working on planting these orinistries and he said you better stop because the people across the street think you're doing something wrong. So they stopped without asking me. They listened to an outsider and the Lord never told them to listen to outsiders. He also told them to throw a bunch of concrete blocks into the wash over there and now I have to pay they say they're wanting me to pay 40 to 50 thousand dollars to clean all that up because they listened to somebody that didn't have the rule of them at all. They just wanted to go by an unsaved person's purpose. Amen? Amen. And I am sorry to say that my time is up. Just when we're getting into the purpose of purposes is to preach the kingdom of heaven and just read one more line here.
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This is the very reason why if you want to get into heaven that you must very seriously, very intentionally, very carefully consider when you begin thinking what is the most important thing for you to do and what is the most important subject regarding God's purpose and plan for human beings that we come in contact with the word over and over again regarding the purpose, the message and the assignment of the Lord Jesus. Now we come into the word of God that says to go preaching, repent ye the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Are you doing that every day? The answer is no but my time is up and tune in tomorrow for the remainder of this message but right now the purpose of the kingdom of heaven is for me to tell you, repent ye because the kingdom of heaven is here on earth for what person that I know for sure is in me. And so I'm preaching that to you so that you can think about that and if it's your purpose to do what the Lord says is this your purpose to be a real Christian and to get the benefits of the commonwealth of the kingdom of heaven and know that you're saved and have blessed relief and peace then say this prayer before the Lord to become a born of the spirit Christian to have the kingdom of heaven dwelling within you. 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. I believe he died on the cross and shed his precious blood that it would wash away all my former sins. It doesn't take care of the sins that I'll do after I say this prayer but all my former sins. Lord I opened up the doors of my heart and I invite you into my heart Lord Jesus. Wash all the filthy sins that I've ever commanded in my life off my soul. You will not turn me away Lord Jesus. You will save my soul because you said that you would do that. You said all who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved and at all my sins should be drowned in the sea of your forgetfulness and you'll never remember them again. It's me anymore unless I continue doing them again. So therefore I know you've heard me and I know you've answered me and I know I'm saved and I thank you Lord Jesus for saving my soul. Now just raise your hands and thank the Lord. Now, Sharon, tell them four different ways how to receive a copy of this tape. This program 225 tape. See the postage and handily taking care of it and it's absolutely free. 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.
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Hopefully you said that prayer. So until tomorrow to an end it will be part 124 of how to have God's life living in. Then go ahead and tune in and you'll hear the ribbed sub of the remainder of this message. Until then God bless you. This is world pastor Tony Alamo saying God bless you and praise the Lord. Amen.

