Faith, Rest, and Entering God’s Promise

Speaker Identification

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo. The speaker identifies himself at the beginning and closing of the program. He delivers the main sermon, commentary, prayer, scripture teaching, and closing appeal.

Speaker 2 – Sharon. The speaker is addressed by Tony Alamo as Sharon and reads letters, scripture portions, and ministry contact information.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Hi again, this is World Pastor Tony Alamo. Today we are in Part 95 of How to Have God’s Life Living in You. This is tape number, or program number, 197. If you want a copy of it, just specify whether you want an audio tape or a CD. Postage and handling are taken care of, and everything is free as far as you are concerned: tapes, messages, books, gospel literature, Messiah books, and Bibles if you need them.

We are continuing on with the message from Hebrews that we began yesterday, How to Have God’s Life Living in You, and also some truth about the fact that the Bible does not call polygamy sin. A lot of people out there say that I am a polygamist. Do not believe them. Check all the marriage accounts and license bureaus in the world, and you will see that at the moment I am not married to anybody.

If I were, though, I am telling you that the Bible does not condemn it. In the eleventh chapter of the book of Hebrews, it commends a multitude of polygamists. Moses had three wives, and the Lord says he was honorable. David, Solomon, Gideon, Abraham, and a whole host of others had several wives. It is not for everybody, for sure, and it is certainly not for people in the world today because of the Antichrist government. It is opposed to marriage and opposed to polygamy, which the Old and New Testaments do not condemn. As a matter of fact, it honors the ones who were.

It is not for everybody, but the Lord appoints those He wants to do that sort of thing. A lot of people who are doing it, if the Lord did not tell them to do it, are just doing it for sexual reasons. That is ridiculous. The Bible never condemns it. Whether they do it for the Lord or for some other reason, I do not know. But I know that some of the people who are huge TV evangelists are polygamous right here in this country, but they would never say it because they know they are living in an Antichrist government that condones same-sex marriages, which, according to the speaker, is contrary to the Word of God and condemned throughout the Bible.

The speaker says they condemn marriage between a man and a woman, or a man and several wives, if he is able to support them spiritually and monetarily. I know the Bible says the whole world is deceived. The Antichrist government has told you that it is all right and that we have to be sympathetic to people who are homosexual because they are born that way. But the Bible says that is why we must be born again of the Spirit.

If you can find any place in the Bible where it condemns polygamy, one place Paul said that if you want to be a bishop, then be married to only one wife. It does not say anything about if you do not want to be a bishop. There are people out there saying that I am this polygamist and so forth, but even if I were, I am not condemned by God. I am only condemned by the Antichrist government, the cult in Rome, and the government, because those people do not believe in marriage at all. As a matter of fact, the speaker says they believe in homosexuality and adultery, which he says are forbidden by the Lord as well.

People have to make a choice whether they want to believe the Bible or the Antichrist. If you want to believe the Bible is the Word of God, the Bible is God, the Bible is Christ, and the Word of God is Christ. You have to choose whether you want to believe God or Antichrist Satan. It is obvious, the speaker says, that most of the people in the world have chosen Satan, just like they did in the time of Noah, when they were all drowned with the exception of Noah, his wife, and his family.

Right now, we are continuing on in faith in the Word of God, because without faith it is impossible to please God. Without belief in God’s Word, you cannot enter God’s rest, the Kingdom of Heaven. Unless you go into a complete seven-day Sabbath here on earth, you are not in God’s rest, because God’s rest means He stopped doing His own work.

The work that He did, including developing man and woman, all went to pot, and it became an entire new world system, a system exactly opposite of the Lord. You see it very prevalent in the world today. The conditions of the world today are exactly the way the Lord said they would be just before He comes back to earth again. Satan is doing everything to detract people from the reality of what is going on today.

Everybody I know does not like President Bush, and the speaker says the Vatican has him doing things that are so obnoxious to the people of the world today that they have to divert people’s attention to other things. They are constantly talking about the border, the border, the border. We had laws about borders before that. You are not supposed to come over here unless you have a green card or whatever.

I am all for this being the land of the free and the home of the brave, and a melting pot of every nation in the world. I am preaching the gospel not just to America. I am preaching the gospel to every race, color, and creed. I am preaching the Bible to the Antichrist. I am standing before the god of this world and saying God is right and you are wrong. That is what the Bible states the two witnesses would do.

God said that Enoch would be here on the surface because he did not die, because he pleased God. But the Bible says it is appointed unto all men to die, and after this the judgment. So Enoch, just like Elijah, has to die. Elijah came back into the world in John the Baptist, and he was killed. He had to die. Enoch has to die too, so he is here on earth right now, and who knows? You may be listening to him at this very moment. I believe you are, because I have been told.

I believe that Enoch and his wife are the two witnesses, and I believe that God is going to be giving them extremely supernatural power very soon, to be able to call down rain from heaven and to stop it from raining. Anyone who tries to destroy them will be destroyed. I have seen that happen down through the ages, and I cannot understand people being so stupid as to come against this work, because they just do call fire from heaven, and it is absolutely 100 percent scriptural.

If people think it is not, it is only because of the fact that they do not read the Bible. If you read the Bible, like some pastors, preachers, and teachers who have read the Bible for years, they know that I am right on. There is nothing I am doing that is wrong, and there is nothing I am preaching that is unscriptural. I would love to be on live television to debate anybody. I have challenged the pope, rabbis, Buddhists, anybody. I will do an interview with them. I have done many before, until the government said, “Do not let him be on the air anymore,” because, the speaker says, even the government officials say that I make them look like such fools.

You are going to hear the truth, and when you know the truth, if you receive it, the truth will set you free. Why? Because Jesus is truth. Those who believe in Jesus are free indeed, because He frees you. We have some letters. Right, Lydia?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Right.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
I am going to start calling testimonies in our church, but I am so eager to preach the Word of God that, unless God tells me to call testimonials, I am not going to do it because there is so much Word. We have hundreds of testimonials, and we read some of them with letters every day. Amen. That is pretty good. Not only pretty good, but plenty good. Amen.

Right now, I love the Lord. Father, I love You, and I know You not only love me, but You like me, and I like You too, Lord. I ask You to pour Your true Spirit upon me so that there is nothing I say that is from me, but that everything is expressed from You, so souls will be saved and the church will be edified and strengthened. I ask You this in Jesus’ name. Everyone says amen.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Where is the first letter from?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Mexico.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Mexico. All right, let us hear it.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Dear Pastor Alamo, it gives me great joy to greet you and be able to bless you in the name of Jesus. Thank you greatly for blessing me by sending me your tapes and literature.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
The Lord did that. He just tells me to do it. I am just doing what He says. What else?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
First of all, I ask that you forgive me for not having written you before, but my prayers and my church’s prayers are always for you.

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

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Thank you for these study materials. They were very interesting. What you say is so true, like the Lord says, to destroy and burn all that is of the world. That is what will happen to all those who do not desire to listen to the Word and never accept salvation, not because they have not been told, but because they have not understood, because their hearts have grown fat.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
The Bible says it is because they heard the Word. Every one of the people of Israel heard the Lord telling them what to encompass, but it was not mixed with faith because they never did what He said. They murmured and complained. God had them marching around the mountain for forty years. It is stupid that they would doubt God after God destroyed Egypt, and they would not go in and fight those big giants.

The giants were just a bunch of bulk. They died just like everyone else. God showed Israel and the entire world that He had defeated the giants by sending little insects into them. They were all driven out by hornets. Little insects. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
I ask the great favor, in the love of Christ, would you send fifteen Bibles for the people who are attending in the congregation?

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Okay. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
I ask that you pray for us, for the growth of this ministry that the Lord has raised here in Gomez Palacio.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
See, there is another church that is like us. We are part of the whole body of Christ. Hundreds, maybe thousands of churches all over the world are segments, parts of the entire church, the body of Christ. Father, bless them in Jesus’ name. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
We are going to continue on with this great mission. Woe unto us if we do not preach the gospel. Amen. I will write you a more formal letter later on. Excuse my short letter. We will stay in touch, my brother. May the peace of the omnipotent God and His powerful hand be always with you in the name of Jesus. Amen. Yours in Christ, Pastor Francisco from Gomez Palacio, Durango, Mexico.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
God bless you too, brother. Praise the Lord. You are a brother. You are a friend. You help the church of God, the body of Christ. You do not hinder it. You open your mouth and the Lord talks through you. God bless you. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
From Togo, Africa. Dear Pastor Alamo, may the grace and peace of the Lord be with your household and your ministry.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
He knows that grace is power. May the power and peace be with you. When you have the power of God, you have peace. You are not a usurper of authority, and you do not disobey anyone who has authority. Those who do that do not have the peace of God or the power of God in them. They never do anything for the Lord. Then what? Let us hear what this brother says.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
This is from Agbanzo. I thank you for the two cartons of gospel tracts that you have sent me. Your gospel literature is winning millions of souls for the Lord.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Amen, brother.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
People have given their lives to Jesus after having read this literature. Some of them are in fear, believing that these earthquakes will surprise them even while they read the literature.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
You hear these people on different television programs say, “People are saying that it is God.” My God, you ought to read the Bible. God promises to send all these things: tsunamis, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes. These are coming from God. Why? Because you mock Him. They say these are just natural disasters. According to the Word of God, the speaker says, you are a liar. They are not natural. They are supernatural disasters. He says you people will build those cities back, and He says, “I will knock them back down again.” Go ahead.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
But I have explained to them that the only way to escape is the power of God alone, which can save whoever will confess that Jesus Christ has died, is risen, and is presently sitting at the right hand of the Father.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Amen.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
If they are to live day by day in this teaching, bearing their cross and following Him. Some of these people live far from my house, and I have entrusted them to another church. I have gathered those who are in my district together, and I am teaching them to be victorious in Jesus Christ. Amen.

Pastor Alamo, briefly, I want to tell you that it is through your gospel literature that this is done, so that the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries will be in Togo. What we would like to see is that one of your coworkers be sent to organize an evangelizing campaign to us in Togo.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
I wonder if that is in northern Africa. We will check that because Buster is flying out there within the next few days with his wife, with cameras and video cameras. They are going to take between fifty and two hundred fifty thousand dollars to spend over there on hungry people and to help the ministry in every way. We are with you Africans one hundred percent. You are of the Lord, and I thank and praise the Lord with every letter I hear from you. Go ahead. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
There are many here in Togo who know you through your writing. Pastor, pray for us because we are going through some hard times right now. In the past, I had to go to Benin as a refugee. The political crisis here has caused everything to be very expensive in the country.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Right. It is the world system, the Antichrist cult church, and its government that enforces it. The Antichrist cult’s will on everybody. It is the devil’s will. This is the church of the devil, according to the speaker, and the one causing so much trouble on earth. The Bible says so.

When Satan is cast into hell, all the people down there look at him narrowly, really squinting, and say, “So you are the one who caused the desolation on this earth,” and so forth.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
And we know that all this is fulfillment of prophecy.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Absolutely, brother. But the Lord never abandons His own. If people leave the Lord, they abandon Him. Some people never have been with Him, and He has never been with them because He never knew them. To know a person, you have to live in them. You have to be married to them. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Thank you, Pastor, for taking the time to read my letter. Brother Cassavi Agbanzo from Togo, Africa.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Praise the Lord. We send the tape of the program that we read their letters on to everybody. God bless you, brother. Then what else?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
From India. Dear World Pastor Alamo, greetings to you in the mighty name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We are safe here by your mighty prayers and by the grace of God under the wings of the Lord. Sir, we are thankful for your sending the Bible in Telugu and English, your world newsletters, Messiah books, and literature entitled The One That’s of God.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Now we have the Messiah books in many languages. I do not know how many offhand, probably twenty or thirty languages: French, Italian, German, English, Spanish, Romanian, Greek, Japanese, Chinese. We have the major languages, languages of Africa and India, and on and on. Russian, too. No matter what language you speak, ask us if we have it in your language. If not, we will have it translated. What else?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
It is very useful in the Lord’s ministry. We are going to upland areas to proclaim the Word of God. Many people are saved by your literature, especially Dry Bones.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Dry Bones is my testimony, how the Lord saved my soul. It is also elaborated in another piece of literature entitled Signs of the Times. Both of those are my testimony. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Many people are asking me to arrange a public meeting with your people and are desiring your message. We are praying for your visit to India. Sir, we are proclaiming God’s love with the only literature we have.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
We are sending missionaries over there now. First they are going to Africa, then they go to India, then they go to the Philippines, and then they go to China. We are hunting for souls and hunting to help others who are preaching the gospel, others who are members of the body of Christ. There are so many people in this country and in your country who are not of the Lord, but we want to find the ones who are, because we know if we get together it is going to be a hallelujah jubilee. Amen. A glory hallelujah jubilee. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
We are praying for your journeys, for God to surround you with His mighty angels everywhere you go.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
He certainly is doing that, and I really covet all your prayers. I thank and praise the Lord because the Lord has helped me health-wise, and there are enemies all around me. God keeps the mouth of the lions shut. Thank You, praise the Lord for you. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
God protect your health. I request that you send me two hundred Telugu Bibles to your poor servant. Please remember me and my family in your prayers. We want to see the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries spread to every nation. Yours in His name, Pastor D. Ebenezer from Andhra Pradesh, India.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
The only reason I use my name is because the Lord told me to, and also to identify our work from other people’s work, because there are so many false works. That way you can know who to write to to get this literature. Sure, the work is actually the Lord Jesus Christ’s. Amen. It is His work, and He is doing the work.

Now let us continue, Sharon, with the third chapter. How many verses do we have left?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Approximately about twelve.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Okay, let us go.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit saith, today if you will hear His voice.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
It says today, if you will hear His voice. That means if you listen to what He says because you want to do what He says. If there is no desire in you to do what He says, then there is no desire to hear what He says. If you do not have any desire to hear what He says, then you have no desire to listen to the person the Lord has placed over you, because the Lord says that even Jesus placed Himself under tutors, governors, and teachers while He was here on earth.

If you do not listen to the rulers, the ones the Lord sent to rule this earth according to His Word, then, according to the speaker, you are nothing because you do not even listen to that part of the gospel. You figure, “I am a human, and I am just as good as he is.” That is the wrong attitude.

This is primarily with the young children in the church, but there are a lot of them who are pulling out of it now because of the tapes. I thank God for that. It is the only way they could ever pull out of that, to receive these powerful messages the Lord gives me. There is no other possible way for them. Then start reading the Bible, because if you do not read the Bible throughout the day, you are not receiving. You are going to fall. You are going to say things that offend leaders. You are going to do things that offend leaders, the ones God has placed over you, and you are going to wind up on the streets and in a worse place than that at the end.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Do not harden your heart against the Word of God. This is God talking to you. It is this Word we are reading, and God is the Word. Who do you think you are? What do you think you are going to think when you are not resting any longer, and you are in a flame, a horrible place of torments? What are you thinking? Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
The people were tempted because the Lord did not want them to have everything they wanted, like Joyce Myers wants you to have, and T.D. Jakes and other false teachers, according to the speaker. They always talk about how you will have this and you will have that, and everything is for you. “I am going to show you how to enjoy everyday life.” But the Bible says, “Love not the world.” Do not enjoy it. Deny yourself, take up the cross, and follow Me.

Most people cannot stand to live in splendor. They cannot see. This ministry is the Cadillac of ministries on the face of this earth, the speaker says, because we have been told by people who have been in other ministries that we treat the people better than anyone else. They have more clothing, food, transportation, places to enjoy, and if they are sick, they get taken care of. People cook for them, wash their dishes for them, and it goes on and on. But I want to preach the gospel.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
When the children of Israel provoked the Lord to anger, He let them all die rather than enter the symbol of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
When your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
They saw God do all these miraculous things for forty years. The people in this church have seen miracle after miracle, but they are bored. You think they are not that way everywhere? If you have to go out of the church, you will see that it is not that way anywhere else. Then what else?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, they do always err in their heart, and they have not known My ways.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Look up the word “err” in the dictionary, and we will keep on here.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
So I swear in My wrath, they shall not enter into My rest.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
In God’s wrath, God swore in His wrath with these people, these sinners, these evildoers.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
They shall not enter into My rest.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
They are not going to heaven. They are not even going into the symbolic place, the place symbolic of heaven. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Take heed, you people who were once saved. He is calling them brothers and sisters. He is saying, “Take heed, you people who call yourselves of the Lord.” These people were of the Lord too. God rescued them out of the oven of Egypt. Now He warns you, they did not take heed and they all went to hell, according to the speaker. Take heed, all you people. This is New Testament. All you people, brethren, people who call yourselves Christians. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Yes, because disbelieving the Word of God is sin. That is what Eve did. She disbelieved God and believed Satan.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
In departing from the living God.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
It says you are departing from God. God did not depart from you. You left Him. It is like if you are living in Chicago; Chicago does not leave you. You leave Chicago and go to Los Angeles. Chicago did not go with you. The Lord is telling you the same thing. You left the Lord. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
But exhort one another daily.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Talk about these things to one another daily. Stop watching cartoons. Stop playing video games. Do not watch TV. This church has taken TVs away from everyone who lives here. If you want to come and live here, you will not be watching TV. You will not be listening to worldly radio stations, rock and roll stations, and everything. There are people who have stuck those things into the church, but they had everything like that confiscated, because everything the satanic one-world government and cult media are penetrating people’s brains with lies. So they are all taken away. If you do not like it, do not come.

We are not here to support a bunch of people of the world. I do not want the Lord to support them. This church does not want evil people in the church who just want to hear from the world and love the world. They love all the different things going on in the world. You can see them bored and everything, but if you sent them out to the ice capades or the fair, it would be the most treasured moment in their lives. But when you want to talk to them about praying and reading, they say it is garbage. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Exhort one another daily, while it is called today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Through the deceitfulness of this world, which is sin. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
For we are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
You are part of Christ. You are part of His body if you hold the faith, if you continue believing the Word of God that you first believed. If you do that only. If you hold the confidence steadfast unto the end, if you are steadily full of faith and steadily doing what the Lord says because He says you have to do it. If you do it until the end of your life, but if you do not, He did not leave you. You left Chicago. You left New York. You left the Lord, and shame on you.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
While it is said, today if you will hear His voice.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
If you will hear His voice. What, you do not obey those who have the rule over you? You do not hear that? Wives in this church, obey your husbands in the Lord. You do not do that? The Bible says the Lord did not put the woman over the man, but He put the man over the woman, not to be his ruler, but to be his helpmeet, to help him. If you are not helping him, the speaker says, you departed from the faith. You do not believe that is true.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Do not harden your hearts.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
For some, when they had heard, did provoke.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
They heard what the Lord said and said, “We want to be able to go to the idol, a golden calf. We will worship it.” Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
It was not by Moses. The Lord delivered them. Amen.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
That means three million of them, minus two, according to the speaker.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
And to whom swear He that they should not enter into His rest?

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
His rest means that they should have rested in faith in the Lord so the Lord could bless them, but they did not. They died and went to hell in the lake of fire, according to the speaker, and they are there in that workhouse today. “Workhouse” is a light word for that. You people in this world today are very lazy. What do you think you are going to do down there? Working yourself, just working constantly and never able to sit down. You lazy people who did not do anything for the Lord here, what do you think? You get bitter if you have to obey common-sense rules and regulations. So think how bitter you are going to be in hell in the lake of fire, screaming your heads off. It is only you to blame because you did not obey the Lord.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
And to whom swear He that they should not enter into His rest, but to them that believed not?

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Because if He swore that because they did not believe God, that means they believed themselves. If you are believing yourself, you are believing Satan. If you want to get a good look at Satan, look in the mirror. I have said that ever since I have been saved.

I remember one time when I was in the world. I had plenty of money and all kinds of things. I looked in the mirror, and all of a sudden it flashed into me. I could see it. I jumped back from the mirror. It was like I saw him. Like the Apostle Paul said, he was filled with demonic powers, and I was too. I jumped back and said, “Oh my God, who am I? What is this?” I am so glad I found the Lord. Amen. The world should be glad about that too.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Right. Now let us go to chapter 11 for a little while. Did you find the word?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Err.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Now the word “err,” because they erred in all their ways. Go ahead.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Roam. Wander. Wander in direction. Deviate from a target or aim.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
They deviated from God’s Word. They wandered away from it, and so the Lord let them wander in the wilderness. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Go morally astray.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
They were not moral. They were having orgies when Moses came down from the mountain.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Sin.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Sin. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Make a wrong judgment.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
You people are making wrong judgments.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Form a wrong opinion.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
You are forming opinions instead of receiving the Word of God. You are believing things you hear from others rather than the Word of God, because you listen to others but you do not read and seek God. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Make a mistake.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
A fatal mistake. Sin.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Blunder.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
You blunder. That is error. So they erred.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Be incorrect.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
You are incorrect if you do not do what the Lord says. That is sin, and no sin shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Do something wrongly or sinfully. Make a mistake.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Some people call sin a mistake, but it is worse than a mistake. The Lord says if we make a mistake, if we did something in ignorance, that is forgivable. But willful sin, from people who have heard hundreds and thousands of messages and still wander away, is different. Their ears are blocked. Now chapter 11.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
If you hope to get to heaven, you know you must believe the Word of God. That is faith. If you do not have faith, you do not have any hope, because you do not believe the Word of God. You believe that if you do what the Lord says, or what the people God has given to rule over you say, that it is a waste of time. So you wander away from the Word of God. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
The evidence of things not seen.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
You believe. The faith you have gives evidence to you that the Word of God is true, because you have seen the fulfillment of the Word of God so many times that you have great hope. If you have seen all these miracles, then surely you will see the fulfillment of all His prophecies about the Kingdom of Heaven and that you will surely be there as well. But you have abandoned that to talk to your silly girlfriends or boyfriends. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
For by it the elders obtained a good report.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
By faith, the elders, Moses and the prophets, received a good report from God. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Many do not believe that. They read it like a comic book. Captain Marvel, Superman. You read it, but you cannot fly because it is a fake story. But when you believe the Word of God, you can lay hands on people and they recover and are healed. You see God sending finances when you do the right thing and do what He says. You see everything developing around you and hear all these testimonies of people being saved. The greatest miracle is someone being saved, and yet some people wander away. That is why the Lord calls them corrupt. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
So that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Right there, the Bible tells you that the things we see are made out of atoms, things you cannot see. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
What does that mean? Even at the beginning, after Adam and Eve sinned, God said He would have to come into the world as a man. To show that you believe that, you have to shed the blood of a lamb, because He is the Lamb of God. Abel did that. Cain offered vegetables, fruit, because he was a farmer. He did not want to acknowledge the Lord Jesus Christ or the Word of God. The Word of God says that you have to shed the blood of a lamb. He did not acknowledge the Word of God. He had his own opinion, his own ideas about what a sacrifice should be. He should have sacrificed himself to do what the Lord told him to do, and according to the speaker, he is in hell now. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
A lamb signifying that he believed the Lord was going to come into the world as the Lamb of God to shed His blood for the forgiveness of our sins. The television stations say that I cannot be on TV because I speak negatively about the world system, as God does, and because I mention the blood of Jesus, which is negative to them.

You rarely hear anybody who preaches their own version of the gospel say “the blood of Jesus.” Listen to them closely, because they are afraid they will lose their slot on television. They listen to the demon-possessed person who runs the station, and they do not mention the blood of Jesus because it is negative. That is the blood of God, the blood of Jesus. The Spirit in Him was God, but He had genuine human blood that was shed for you. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
He was righteous because he acknowledged the Word, the Word of God, God Himself, the Son of God, Jesus, and His blood, which the majority of people in this world do not.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
God testifying of his gifts, and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
He is still alive. Abel is alive forevermore. He is in heaven. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death, and was not found, because God had translated him. For before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
I please God. You could please God too by believing, by preaching, by teaching, and by doing what His Word says. But you prove God a liar by not doing what He says. That is why I love the testimony of Buster so much, because he does.

When he made the vow to the Lord to keep the commandments, Hebrews 13:17, to obey those who have the rule over him and make it a joy for them to be in the ministry, it is a joyful thing when I talk about this man because he really does what the Bible tells him to do. He believes. There are many people who despise people like that. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
But without faith it is impossible to please Him.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Without doing what the Lord says, you cannot please Him.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
For he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
You would not be bored all day long if you believed the Lord was a rewarder of all who diligently seek Him. Some of you do not diligently do anything but eat, sleep, and go outside and play. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
You are not the righteousness of the Lord if you are not keeping His commandments. If you are sinning, do not let these people who are supposed to be preachers of the gospel tell you that you are the righteousness of God if you are breaking the commandments. I hear some of these people saying, “I know you people are sleeping with each other’s wives,” and then a few sentences later they say, “Well, you are the righteousness of God.” According to the speaker, that is a lie. How can you lie to people like that? Only because you are possessed by the devil. You are one of his preachers.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed. And he went out, not knowing whither he went.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Abraham had several wives, did he not?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Yes.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
It is saying he is wonderful. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Because he had faith in God, not this world system. The world system says you cannot do this and cannot do that, but the Lord says you can. Amen.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
He believed God. He was not afraid of what would happen to him in the world. He believed God, and God blessed him. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
He is called the father of faith. He really does what the Lord says.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
He is looking forward to going to heaven. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
We will go into that later on tomorrow, but let us go to chapter four. Leave the marker there so you remember where you were. Go to chapter four. We have about four minutes.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
He is talking to the brothers, and he says your brothers could come short of getting into heaven. Read that line again.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Why does it say fear? This is to saved people. It says, therefore fear. If you come short of entering into the Lord’s rest, that means you are not in heaven. If you are not in heaven, you are in hell, according to Scripture. I am reading from the Bible, folks. You can read it if you like. This is the fourth chapter of Hebrews. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Everybody had the gospel preached to them, us and them.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
But the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Some people hear the Word of God and disbelieve it, so they do not get to go to heaven. They go to the workhouse.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
For we which have believed do enter into rest.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Only those of us who believe. If we believe, we do what the Lord says. We are obedient. You do not scowl at the people of the Lord. You do not stand and argue with them, because the Bible says I am supposed to put you out of the church if you do not measure up to the Word of God. The Bible says in the eleventh chapter of Revelation, in the day we are living in, for you to be put outside with the dogs and the pigs, the Gentiles, and that is exactly where you are going if you do not receive what the Lord says.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
For we which have believed do enter into rest.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
That means we enter into heaven. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
As He said, as I have sworn in My wrath, if they shall enter into My rest.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
“If they shall enter into My rest.” He does not promise that you are going to go in there if you disobey Him. He says, “If you listen to Me, you will get in.” Only if. “If” is a small word with a huge meaning. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Everything is finished. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
For He spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, and God did rest the seventh day from all His works.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
He made everything that was good, then He let man have rulership over it, and then man did everything wrong. So God rested from His work, and He says for you to rest from your works as well. When you do what He says, that means you are resting from your filthy, dirty, sinful works. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
And in this place again, if they shall enter into My rest.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
In other words, He does not promise that you are going to go there if you disobey Him. If you listen to Him, you can get in. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Do you believe the gospel? Do you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ? Do you believe the whole Word of God, because the whole Word of God is Jesus? If not, that is not going to hurt God, and you are not going to hurt me, because I get the same reward preaching the truth, the Word of God, to you whether you receive it or reject it.

But I pray that you people out there, some of you who call yourselves Christians, receive it now, because now is the perfect time for you to be saved.

My time is up. I have only about three or four minutes left. If you want to be saved, if you want to enter into God’s rest, if you want to drop the things of this world so you can be saved, because you do not know whether you are going to live another minute, then say this prayer to the Lord and He will save your soul. He says all who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved, and the Lord is the truth.

Say, “My Lord and my God, have mercy upon my soul, a sinner. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God, and I believe He died on the cross and shed His blood to take away all the sins that I committed formerly, all my former sins, because I cannot go on and sin anymore like the devil’s preachers say. They say He forgave all my former, present, and future sins. That is a lie. If you hear somebody say that, you are listening to and looking at the devil. But Lord, You died for all my former sins. You washed them all away now in the precious blood that You shed for me on the cross at Calvary. You will not turn me away, Lord Jesus. You will save my soul. I know because Your Word says so. Again, Your Word says that all who call upon the name of the Lord, all who call upon You, Lord, shall be saved. Therefore, I am not going to doubt that. I believe it because I am saved by faith, believing You. Therefore, I know You have heard me, and I know You have saved me, and You have answered me. Therefore, I know I am saved, and I thank You, Lord Jesus, for saving my soul.”

Raise your hands up and praise Him. Thank the Lord. Thank You, Jesus. Praise the Lord.

Sharon, tell them four different ways they can receive this program. This is program 197, and we provide either an audio tape or a CD. We pay the postage and handling. It is all free. If you would like a copy, here are four ways to receive it.

Speaker 2 – Sharon:
Go to AlamoMinistries.com, or write to Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, PO Box 6467, Texarkana, Texas 75505, or call area code 479-782-7370, or fax area code 479-782-7406.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Praise the Lord. Make sure you tune in tomorrow, because this is really interesting. The Lord told me to talk about the book of Hebrews, the few chapters that we talked about, and to preach it and teach it. I did. Tomorrow will be Part 96 of How to Have God’s Life Living in You.

Until then, this is World Pastor Tony Alamo saying God bless you and praise the name of the Lord who just saved your soul. If He did not save your soul, then if I were you, I would start reading the Bible so your faith can grow. Faith comes by hearing, what you are reading, hearing the Spirit, because the Word is Spirit and life. Do that.

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