Building a Life on the Word, Obedience, and Spiritual Renewal

Speaker Identification

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo / Main Speaker
Identified from the opening line, where the speaker introduces himself as “World Pastor Tony Alamo,” and from the continued first-person narration throughout the program.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader
Identified from the speaker’s reference to “Sharon” giving closing instructions and from the repeated role of reading letters and scripture passages. The transcript renders the name once as “Sharing,” which appears to be an automated transcription error.

Speaker 3 – Congregation / Audience
Identified only where brief group responses such as “Amen” or “Praise the Lord” appear to occur. These responses are included only where reasonably clear from context.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
Okay, hello again. This is World Pastor Tony Alamo. Today we are in part 99 of “How to Have God’s Life Living in You,” and this is program number 201.

If you would like a copy of it, Sharon, at the end of this program, will show you how to get an audio copy of this program, or a CD. It is all paid for, even the shipping and handling.

We have some letters and messages and scripture readings. Right now, let us go to the throne of the Lord and ask the Lord to pour out His anointing on this service.

Father, You are the same yesterday, today, and forever. All who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. All those who call upon You, You will hear them and answer them and show them great and mighty things.

Lord, I ask that You show me great and mighty things today. Pour out Your wisdom, knowledge, and understanding through me to the world, so that they can understand that You are the same yesterday, today, and forever, and that people need to fear the one whom You have given authority here on this earth.

There are some people who have not done this, and You have let them know that You do not like that. You have let them know that they have no place or part with You, because anyone who is in defiance of the authority You have set over them is defiant, and they are witches because they are disobedient to Your Word.

Therefore, Lord, I ask that You deal with them before I have to put them out of the church, for their souls’ sake, Lord, not mine, because I am already saved.

Lord, anoint everything that I say, that it strictly come through You from heaven above, that it may bring forth the kingdom of heaven in people’s hearts, and that it may keep Your church, the body of Christ, sitting in heavenly places with Him. Yours is the kingdom. It is Your kingdom, and You want those who are in it to be subject to You.

They are not supposed to have a chip on their shoulder toward You. They are not to be speaking out to You with their body language by not doing what You tell them to do, because You would not have such creatures as that in Your kingdom with You.

If they are told not to sit on the floor, then they need to sit on chairs. If they remain sitting on the floor after You tell them to sit on chairs, then they are not going to sit at the marriage supper of the Lamb, because they are defiant even in the smallest thing. Those who are defiant with small things will also surely be defiant with larger things.

They are not Your children, Lord. They are bastards, as You have said in Your Word, fatherless children. So, Lord, reprove them. Give wisdom, as You always do, knowledge and understanding, for Your people perish for lack of understanding. Your people. That means they go to hell for lack of understanding. Scriptures like that should be a warning to the world that there is no such doctrine in Your book as “once saved, always saved.” This is Baptist doctrine, and some other people foolishly believe it.

As You say in Your Word, Lord, the whole world is deceived. Lord, I pray, and I know that what You are going to tell me to do in this message will show people just that. Therefore, I thank You in advance, Father. Thank You, Lord Jesus. Praise You, because we are going to uncover Satan by Your Word, and this will bind him, according to Your Word. It will bind him here on earth so that You can bind him in heaven.

All those who are defiant against what You are teaching, not only will You bind them on earth and in heaven, but You will tear them to ribbons because they forget God. That is God. You are the Word of God. The Word of God is You.

So, Lord, I ask that You do all these things, and I know You will because You have led me to say these things in front of some defiant people, warning them and telling them these things. They know what I have said, what You have said through me. Therefore, they have been told that they cannot bring any accusation unless they want to accuse You, and accuse You for placing certain people over them, but only to their own destruction.

Lord, I praise and thank Your holy name. All these things I ask in the mighty name of Jesus.

Speaker 3 – Congregation / Audience:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
Amen. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.

All right. Now, where is the first letter from?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
Mexico.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
Mexico. Okay. What part of Mexico?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
Ensenada.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
Ensenada. What a beautiful name. What does that mean?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
It is just a name.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
Yes, I mean it is just a name. Okay. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
“Appreciated servant of God, Pastor Tony Alamo, I am sending this letter to greet you cordially, and may God bless you for sending me the literature and the book ‘The Messiah.’ I have read the book, and I have distributed the literature you have sent me among friends and relatives.

“I would like to be placed on your mailing list so you can continue to send more literature and message tapes for distribution in my community, for the winning of souls to Christ. Please remember us in your prayers. In time, I would like to become a member of the Alamo congregation. I hope you will continue to send me more Bibles, literature, and message tapes for distribution.”

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
That would be nice, for you to be in the congregation. I already consider you a member of the congregation, and you need not worry. As long as you keep sending orders for the literature, the Bibles, the Messiah books, and tapes, you are going to get them. Praise the Lord.

Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
“I would like to request thirty-five different pieces of literature, twenty Bibles, and five T-shirts and sweatshirts, size large, in the gray color. May the Lord bless you. I await your reply soon.”

Manuel, from Ensenada, Mexico.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
You will receive everything, unless we run out of gray T-shirts, in which case we will send you white ones. We only received the gray ones because the manufacturer had run out of white at that time. They asked whether we wanted to take some gray ones. We have some, and we will give them to you if we have them. If not, if you prefer white, black, or whatever other color we have, you will get them.

Where is the next letter from?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
From Scotland.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
Dear Pastor Alamo.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
Glasgow.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
For you, the Lord. For you people there.

Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
“Dear Pastor Alamo, I am writing to express my gratitude for the literature and T-shirts which you sent to me. All these materials which I received have been put to good use by way of distributing the literature to friends who do not know Christ and the role He plays in their lives.

“I also seize this opportunity to notify you of a change in my address, which is above. I thank you again and say a big God bless you for the good work you are doing. Hope to hear from you soon. Thank you.”

Your friend in Christ, Albert, from Glasgow, Scotland.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
Yes, Lord. Albert. Amen, brother.

Then what else?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
From Manipur.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
Where is that?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
It is in Northeast India.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
Very good.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
“Dear Pastor Tony Alamo, greetings to you and your dear loved ones in the name of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. I am always happy to go out with the World Newsletter in my hand, to give it to people, to tell them about the ministry, and to share the Word of God with them that is in your World Newsletter.

“It is great that you mercifully considered me, granted, and enabled me to start up the worship center in the heart of Imphal City. My spiritual vision, with full hope, is that this kind of great service will be the first in Manipur and around Northeast India.

“Pastor, it is the prayer of my heart that you would kindly accept me as your coworker in the Lord, in your ministry, and a full-time worker over here in Northeast India.”

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
You have my blessings on all that, and I am sure the Lord wants you to do the same.

Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
“I am much desired and thrilled to hear the good news from your deep heart, concerned for my wholehearted thirst to open the ministry branch here in Northeast India, and hungry to start up the Alamo Christian Church in the heart of Imphal City, to begin with the facility of providing meals and fare to the interested participants.

“Kindly treat this email as a special case. Act immediately in all necessities and needs as fast as possible. With best and deep regards, yours in His glad service.”

Ricky, from Imphal, Manipur, India.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
Great. Praise the Lord. Amen. We will. Where is the next letter from?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
From Kenya, Africa.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
All right. Let us hear it.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
“The man of God, Pastor Tony Alamo, grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be upon you. This letter is to inform you about the changes your messages have brought in the lives of many people in Kenya.

“I got your newsletter through Brother Amos, who is the minister, and we minister together. The anointing, authority, and power in your literature has changed many people in my city, who have since received Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and Lord.

“Kindly send us Bibles to enable the newly born again to utilize. I hope you will perceive the kind of spiritual growth that is taking shape in my life, thanks to your literature. Thank you. God bless you abundantly as you serve His people.”

Your coworker in the kingdom, Brother Shanale, from Kenya, Africa.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
Okay. I fully realize that the words the Lord gives me cause people to be saved and become thrilled at the knowledge of the Lord living in them: the Father, the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ in them, with His Father and the Spirit.

One of the things I really have to say is that the winning of the gospel is not just preaching the gospel. It is not just reading the Bible, and it is not just praying. All these must be done, of course. However, what we read, we must do.

There is a class of people in the world who believe that Jesus did it all. He said, “It is finished,” and it was finished. What He meant by that was that the plan of salvation and the way of salvation were finished. The plan of salvation, the way of salvation, the truth of salvation, and the life of salvation is that we continue allowing the Lord to do the work that He did here on earth in His human body, which had real human blood in it.

Before this, He promised that He would send the Comforter to us. That would mean that He Himself would send Himself, with the Father, by the Spirit, to comfort us by the knowledge that He gives us: that He is with us. If God be with us, who could be against us? This brings forth a very calming effect in our souls.

The Lord is love, but I have also experienced His anger on several occasions. When I was a young Christian and was not really doing what I should have been doing, I did not fully understand, or I did understand and did not realize I was doing something wrong. I felt His anger come down upon me.

God also threatens. He threatened me one time when I had acted in a very bad way toward a brother in Christ. He was Four Square Gospel, part of Aimee Semple McPherson’s ministry of Angelus Temple. He had a church in Northern California. He came down and wanted me to record him, and so I did.

While we were waiting, one of his sons was a police officer in Chicago, and here we were in Los Angeles. When I did this thing, the Lord put me on a fast, which ranged anywhere from twenty-five or thirty days to forty days. I lost count because He told me to fast without food and water. He said, “If you take water or food between now and the time that the session is going to take place, I will kill you.”

Now, this is the real God, the God I know. There is no way I would fast if it were up to me, because I love food too much, and I love to drink water. It was during the heat season in Los Angeles, and there were fires all over the place. My late wife, Susie, and I lived in Zuma Beach, which is right next to Malibu. It is farther away from downtown Los Angeles than Malibu. First comes Malibu, then Zuma Beach. We lived up on top of a hill, where many motion picture stars and others lived. The money I made by promoting a singer named Robon was used to buy that house. I sold this singer to a group of Chinese men in San Francisco because they wanted him after I had booked him into the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, as the star of the Casino de Paris show with a cast of more than one hundred people from Paris, including dancing girls.

We were up there, and the Lord put me on this fast. I was deeply into the ministry, but I was not deep enough in the Lord to know that you cannot play games with God’s people. God can put you on a fast.

We sat down at the best Holiday Inn, even though we never liked them that much, in Beverly Hills. The Beverly Hills Holiday Inn was very plush. They had fully dressed waiters in very formal attire. It was so hot out there. They poured a big goblet full of water, and I could hear the chunks of ice coming out of the pitcher as they poured it in. They had these tall, heavy menus, and I opened one up and saw prime rib. I loved prime rib, and I was about ready to order. I was about to take a sip of water when the Lord said, “No drinking of anything and no eating until this recording session is over.”

So I folded the menu up and set it down. He said, “Or I will kill you,” or, “You will die.” I put the menu down and said, “I am not hungry.” Susie started really being angry with me because she was hungry and thirsty and wanted to eat and have some water. I said, “I am just not hungry.” I did not want to tell her that God had just threatened to kill me. I kept it a secret for quite a while. She said, “Let us go.” She got up in a huff, and I had to get up with her and follow her.

The fast went on for five days and ten days. The heat was boiling. There were fires up around Zuma Beach, and mice started coming into our beautiful house up there. The place was infested with mice. The Lord was really cursing me, because I had cheated these people. I was almost three years old in the Lord, and I learned never to do that again, never even to be in business with anybody, for fear that I would unknowingly cheat them and have to go on a fast like that again. I never want to have to go through that again, because I was boiling inside for want of water. I was so thirsty that every time I opened my mouth, there was a cracking sound. That is how thirsty and dry I was inside.

All of a sudden, about two days before the recording session was supposed to happen, I got word that the man who was the other part of the group would not be able to come down because he had to stay another two or three weeks in Chicago. I said, “Oh my God, how am I going to do another two or three weeks fasting without food and water?” All of a sudden, the food did not mean that much. It was the water. I wanted water so badly.

It got so bad that I had to run full bathtubs of cold water, and the Lord would allow me to sit in there. But the fire was still raging inside of me, and I was so hot and thirsty. Then I would dry off and kind of calm down. I had spells when I could be calmed down.

One time, I was lying on a couch in the living room. Sue was way down the hall in one of the bedrooms. A voice came to me and said, “Listen to your wife. Your wife is telling you the truth. You are going to die if you do not drink something. Now go out in the kitchen and get yourself a drink.” It did not seem like the Lord because the Lord never contradicts Himself.

So I got up on my feet. I had bare feet. I started walking into the kitchen, and I saw mice scattering all over the place. I went onto the tile floor into the dining area and then dropped down one foot into the kitchen area. I said, “Lord, if that was not You, do something to stop me from drinking, because I do not want to go to hell. I know that Satan is an imitator of You. He makes people believe they are doing right when they are dead wrong.”

I started walking very slowly to the kitchen sink, and I saw a mouse run across the top of the backsplash and around. To me, mice are an abomination. I thought, “Maybe that is a sign.” Then I said, “Well, there are so many mice in here. Maybe that is not a sign.” So I kept walking a couple more steps, very cautiously, toward the sink.

May God strike me dead right now if I am telling you anything other than the truth. There was a light bulb with a little fixture around it above the sink, and it was on. So help me God, and may my soul spend eternity in hell if I am lying to you, that light bulb, all that was left in the fixture, jumped off the wall and crashed down in front of my feet. I considered that a sign.

I said, “Thank You, Father God. Thank You, Jesus.” That could not happen. Even when it was in the air, it was still lit until it smashed on the floor. Susie came running out and said, “What was that crash?” I said, “Susie, I hope you believe what I am telling you. I asked the Lord if I would go to hell, if I would die and go to hell if I drank, to do something to stop me. So help me God, that light jumped right off the wall. It fell right in front of my feet. Do not ever tell me to drink or eat again until this is over. I must fast without food and water until that recording session is over.”

She said, “My God, Tony, it is not over for another two or three weeks, and you have already been on this thing for about that long.” I said, “I cannot help it. If I have to die, I will just have to die. But I am not going to disobey God. I do not want to go to hell. I do not care if I die. I just do not want to go to hell.” She said, “Well, if God really told you that, you had better not eat or drink.”

Finally, I invited some people up to the house, Ada and Fred San Antonio. When people came, I bought all these different kinds of soda pop and had them displayed with big chunks of ice and everything like that. I thought maybe that would relieve me by watching them drink and eat. There were all these delicacies that I liked, and I sat there and looked at them, but they were not eating or drinking. I thought, “Oh my God, drink. For God’s sake, take something to drink.”

What I am telling you is what I am going to have Sharon read in the Bible now. It is not just reading the Bible. It is doing what the Lord says.

I had said that I was going to do a recording session for these people and that it was going to cost so much. Then I thought, “Well, I can shave the cost by taking some of this money and spending it on myself. After all, I do require that I have some.” I had just come out of the world’s recording industry, and I thought I should have some money anyway. So I went and bought clothing with it, and I could go into a Beverly Hills restaurant. God is not going to kill me for that. But you cannot make up your own Bible. The Bible is the Bible, and it means what it says.

For instance, we just had a birthday party in the house for my little daughter. A couple of nights ago, we had to rebuke one of the people in the congregation. I do not know whether Buster rebuked her in a real kind way or what, but she was so scared by the rebuke that she did not show up for church the next day, or the next day either.

At the birthday party, I was sitting out in the kitchen by myself because I did not want to rule over the children’s birthday party. I just let her have her little party with all the children in there. The Lord told me to send a couple pieces of cake over to the lady and her husband, along with some tofu ice cream. I sent a couple people over there. They only live about half a block away. They were thrilled that it came. They said, “The pastor really told you to send this over, and his little daughter?” Yes, the pastor told you to do that. The pastor is supposed to do things like that. Amen? It is a commandment. Jesus did things like that. What are we supposed to do? Not do things like that?

One of our people was put in jail in Chicago for distributing literature. I had a witnessing crew out there. He was a baby Christian, and he had a parole violation because he did not report to his parole officer. We did not know what the story was, so I paid several hundred dollars for Don Sweatt to go out there and visit him to find out what the story was. He said it was a parole violation and that they were going to extradite him to California from Chicago.

The Lord says to visit those who are in prison, and not only preach the gospel but do what the gospel says. “You visited Me in prison.” Well, when did we do that, Lord? In Chicago, do you remember? And with all the other brothers and sisters who have been put in prison, and all the other people in prison who were dying, or who wrote to us, and we sent finances to them and everything.

How can you possibly say you are a Christian and not do the things the Lord tells you to do? You have to learn to do what the Lord says, or you are not going to enter the kingdom of heaven. If God, if Christ with His Father by the Spirit, is living in you, then They want to continue Their work through you. What is the purpose of God the Son, with His Father and the Spirit, living in you if you are not letting Them do what They did when They were here? You have to let the Lord do His own thing. Amen.

He said he grew a beard because they did not give him any shaving gear or hygiene whatsoever. He said, “Please thank the pastor for sending him out there.” He just could not get over it. Usually people forget about you if you are in prison. I said, “No, I have been in prison for the gospel. I will never forget anybody in prison.”

I have spent hundreds and even thousands of dollars for people in prison. If they are there on false charges, I have two top attorneys in New York that I hire to see whether there is anything we can do for them. One is Ron Kuby, who is one of the top attorneys in the whole world, and the other is Eric Lieberman. They are both high-caliber attorneys. They want retainers, and I send it to them, because if I feel somebody is rotting in jail for nothing, to me that is the Lord Jesus Christ in there. If I do not give to free him if he is innocent, then I will stand before the Lord, and He will say, “I was hungry and you did not give Me anything to eat. I was thirsty and you did not give Me anything to drink. I was in the hospital and you did not visit Me. I was in prison and you did not come and visit Me.”

When you visited Me, you said a few words, but you knew I needed help. I sent them immediately, right now, a hundred and fifty dollars. He wants a Bible because all they have are these new government Bibles in there. So I told them to express it to him and get him some money right away.

He said there is not anything that can help right now, that there is not anything the attorney can do for him until he goes to trial. Then, if Pastor Alamo will, he could hire attorneys to go in there and see if they can get the sentence shortened because he became a Christian, is serving the Lord, distributing literature, and getting people off narcotics, drugs, alcohol, and all these things.

How can you sit there and let Satan take over the world the way he has been doing on this earth, and just sit there idle and not show the love of God? These people who had the ice cream and cake, it seems like a little thing to do, but they were so thrilled that they were twittering around. They said, “Nobody comes to visit us, and to think that the pastor and his little daughter wanted us to have some cake and ice cream.” They are in their sixties or seventies. I think the wife is in her sixties. Everybody is like a little child. You become sixty and seventy years old so fast that it seems like it happens overnight. Everybody is still like a little kid. They still like ice cream and cake, and they still love it when you come and visit them and are nice to them.

We do not do that for everyone. We visit sinners, but people who are devils and coming against the Christian work, we do not pray for them. The Bible says not to pray for them. The Lord says that. Amen. But we pray that they will be saved. That is it. I am not going to deliver ice cream and cake to them unless God Himself tells me to, and God told me today to do that.

This goes on and on. They were going to ship a person to be executed in England. They were sending him to this Muslim country. He wanted some money to appeal it. It was up in the thousands of dollars. We had been paying his rent over there for all this time. The life I save is the Lord’s life.

You can read the Bible, and it says, “Thou shalt not commit fornication.” You had better not commit fornication. You had better not commit adultery. You had better not be a lesbian or a homosexual. I am saying this in love. You say, “We were born that way.” Then you had better get born again. You must be born again of the Spirit so that you have the power not to do that anymore.

You had better not steal. You had better not lie. You had better obey those who have the rule over you. That is not the secular government. The rulers are those who preach the gospel. They are the rulers of God. The Lord has nothing to do with the other people.

Now let us start reading from Luke chapter 6. What verse?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
Verse 44.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
Okay. Turn to Luke chapter 6, verse 44. Has everybody found that? Okay, let us read.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
“For every tree is known by his own fruit.”

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
If you are an orange tree, people know it is an orange tree. When you look at it, what kind of tree is this? Orange. You look at a tree and there are apples on it. That is an apple tree. You cannot fool anybody. The tree cannot fool anybody, and you cannot fool anybody either. The Bible plainly states that we are going to be judged by whether we did the work of God or did not do the work of God. That is what we are going to be judged for.

If it is a pomegranate tree, you are going to see pomegranates on it. Those trees cannot be phonies, and you cannot either. Once you are defiant to the leaders of the Lord, you are known throughout the house, throughout the church, throughout the community, and wherever you go. Eventually, you will be known as a hypocrite, a phony, and the Lord hates hypocrites. He hates counterfeits, people who say they are ten-dollar bills or hundred-dollar bills, and they are really one-dollar-and-seventy-two-cent bills. You are a joke. You are not even a joke. You are a tragedy because you are going to be in hell.

We know a tree by its fruit. If you are a Christian, you are doing what Christ did. If you are not doing what Christ did, then do not call yourself a Christian. Do not put Christian descriptions on yourself to meet your own personal needs, because you have to be put way back in the back of the bus and Christ has to be put up front.

Some people are so carnal, and they have been living like fat hogs off the gospel. The Lord is moving on me to put these types of people out of the church because they are leeches. They are filthy from the top of their head to the bottom of their feet. Their entire soul is corrupt.

Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
“For of thorns men do not gather figs...”

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
No. If you are a thorn, you are not going to gather fruit for the Lord. You are not going to grow anything. If we have the Lord in us, with His Father by the Spirit, we are going to grow. We are going to cause others to want to go and do as the Lord did. But if you are a thorn, if you are a miserable wretch, then all you are going to do is bring forth corruption. You will not be able to bring any fruit that the Lord wants into the kingdom of God, because you are a thorn, a hypocrite, no good.

Then what else?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
“Nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.”

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
No. You are not going to grow grapes that are going to be harvested. It says that the clusters of grapes, the angels, will come down and reap the harvest.

If a woman has hair on her head, and she is not shameful and places herself under her husband, if her husband is of the Lord, the angels will see that she is obedient to the Word of God. Because of the angels, if you want to get reaped into the kingdom of heaven, you have to have the blood of Christ on you and no sin on your soul. It is defiance against God for a woman to shave her head or cut her hair very short. It says to make sure your head is covered, and the Lord has given you hair for a covering. It is the glory of a woman.

Make sure you do that, and that you are obedient not only to your husband, but also to those who have the rule over the Church of God here on this earth in the government of God. That is not anyone who got voted into office by people. The masses of people have always been wrong. Read about the time of Noah, when all the people were destroyed by God because they were all wrong. They say majority rules. Well, God is the majority, and He is the ruler. His ministers are the rulers here on earth. He sent them here as ambassadors. He talks through them, and you had better listen when they talk.

Otherwise, the Lord may get angry with you and have these leaders put you where you belong: on the street with the Gentiles. He will do it. A true ruler will do everything the Lord says to do. He says He has given you space to repent, and you did not repent. So He says, “I will send you into a bed of affliction and kill you,” because you are worthless if you are not letting the Lord live out His life in you.

Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
“A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good.”

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
Right. We spend many tens of thousands of dollars a week on radio programs, and that does not mention that it costs us thousands of dollars for truckloads of paper to print the literature. The same thing goes for tapes, and the postage costs even more than the tapes, literature, and Bibles. The postage costs more than the Bibles.

Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
“And an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil.”

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
Right. Anything you are doing that is contrary to the Word of God, when you say, “I believe Jesus did it all, and we do not have to do anything. We can just sin, and the Lord forgives our sins past, present, and future,” that is the devil talking.

The Lord never saved your soul to sin, to be disobedient, or to be evil. He saved you to be holy. He said, “Be ye holy, for I am holy,” and “Be perfect.” You hear so many people say, because they have heard false preachers and satanic preachers say it, that no one is perfect. If you are walking in the Spirit, you are perfect according to the Lord. If you are not defiant against any of His Word, then you are living by His Word. Man must not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. The whole Bible proceeded from the mouth of God.

The Word of God is Jesus. The Bible plainly tells us that in the first chapter of John. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. As a matter of fact, the Word of God was God. Verse 14 says the Word of God came into the world in flesh, in a man. So the Word is God.

If you doubt anything God says, and you are defiant against anything God says, then, according to God’s Word, you are anti-Christ and anti-God, and you have sinned against God. If you sin against God, there is no way you are going to enter the kingdom of heaven. There is no such thing as purgatory, some in-between place. It is either heaven or hell in the lake of fire, where you are tormented forever.

You say, “I do not believe that.” You only do not believe that because you have never read the Bible. If you read the Bible, you know it is the truth. “Well, I do not read the Bible because I do not believe it is the Word of God.” One day you will. You will believe it sooner or later. You are going to really believe it one of these days.

I believe it because I have seen, in vision, the kingdom of heaven, and I have seen the pit of hell. I have heard people screaming, moaning, and groaning in torment, saying, “Oh my God, it is true. It was true. We did not believe it. Oh God, we are here. It is really here. We cannot get out.” Then they start screaming. They start dashing themselves against fiery pits and growling like dogs, because even if you have been there for one flash of a second, it already seems like an eternity. You growl out one word: mercy. Mercy, mercy, mercy. And there is no mercy there.

You know why? Because you never sowed any mercy. You did not care whether people went to hell. You just chose the easy way out. “Oh, it sounds good,” the false prophet says. “He did everything. We do not have to do anything. Oh God, I am free.” Then they twist the scripture and say, “When the Lord makes you free, you are free indeed.” What it means is that He freed you from Satan. Before, you were bound by Satan and were not able to do anything for the Lord. Now you have been freed to serve God.

The Lord says, “You are My friend if you do everything I say,” which means you have to do. You are going to be judged whether you did or not. If you did not, you are going straight into the pit of hell and the lake of fire, and it is never going to let up. You are going to be screaming your head off forever.

Okay, let us read some more.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
“For of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.”

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
I speak the abundance of my heart. A lot of people think I am wicked because I tell them just what they are, and they have a different opinion because they never think from the Word of God through the Spirit. They always think with their carnal brain. I have never seen or heard a carnal brain speak that had any sense in it.

Sometimes I watch the news and shake my head. I say, “These people are so utterly stupid, so wicked, so evil. How can they believe they are intelligent?” They have no intelligence in their bodies, not even one fraction of it. People who could rule this earth and rule it the way the Lord says, they want to kill. This is what makes them so evil that God jams them into hell and the lake of fire. No matter how hard they scream, there is no mercy. Even the name of God is taken out of hell. You cannot even say, “Oh God.” You say, “Oh, what was His name? What was His name?” All you can say is, “Mercy.” By the time you say that word, you take another breath and say, “Mercy.” You only have time to say that. There is none. There is no water. You get no rest.

You rested from doing the work of God down here. You did not do it. Therefore, down there, the Lord makes you work eternally. It is a workhouse like you have never known before, and there is no rest. There is no food, no water, no nothing. You cannot even sit down. There are no painkillers, no doctors, no nurses, and no mercy.

Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
“And why call ye Me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?”

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
See? You have to do what the Lord says, because if you do not, then He is not your Lord. Why do you call Me Lord when you do not do anything I say? You phony hypocrite. You say, “Lord, Lord.” Why do you call Me Lord when you do not do what I say? If I am your Lord, then you are doing everything I say. My sheep know Me, and they follow Me. They do what I do. They do what I did, and they let Me do what I did two thousand years ago in their bodies today.

I am not your Lord, the Lord says, if you are phony, sluggish, deadbeat, lazy people who do not believe My Word.

Keep going.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
“Whosoever cometh to Me, and heareth My sayings...”

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
If you hear My sayings, if you hear these words I am telling you from the Bible, then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
“And doeth them...”

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
And if you do what I tell you, then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
“I will show you to whom he is like: he is like a man which built a house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house and could not shake it, for it was founded upon a rock.”

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
Right. The rock is the Word of God, and the Word of God is Jesus. He is the solid rock. The Word of God. Solid Rock Jesus. The Word of God.

If you hear what He says and then do it, like I am doing, standing up against the god of this world and every little imp around me, then you are building on the rock. Some people doubt that I will put them out. I just put some people out the other day. A lot of people have very carnal brains. They are not bright at all, and they do not believe that God is going to send them to hell and the lake of fire. What you do not realize is that you send yourself there.

Now, you people who believe that, do you think the Lord is lying here? Everyone who hears My words and does exactly what I tell you to do, you are like a smart person who digs down to the foundation and puts your house on this foundation and builds that house out of solid stone.

Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
“But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built a house upon the earth, against which the stream did beat vehemently; and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
You see a lot of people down south building their houses with wood floors, and they set them on concrete blocks. The tornado comes, and you see the whole town is nothing but sticks. Out in California, where our church is, they are building all kinds of homes now. Instead of building them right, they use the cheapest wood. They look nice. They look fine outside. They look like a place you would love to live in. They look warm, with the right colors and everything.

But the people who work there say they only allow them to put one nail in a stud. They use the nail gun and go boom, boom, boom. That is three boards that are nailed. When I build a house, I put maybe five nails above, five in the middle, and five down below. But they put one nail right in the middle of the thing. A lot of people are doing that all over down south, in places like New Orleans and Oklahoma. Then you see those places trashed out. A tornado comes through, and everything is gone. They do not build their house on solid ground. They are foolish, according to the Word of God.

Those are the ones who say God did it all, and we do not have to do anything, when the Bible says we are going to be judged by what we did and what we did not do also. If He tells you to do something and you do not do it, you are going to be judged for it.

Obey the Lord and live. Obey the Word. If you do not do that, then in the eyes of the Lord, you are trash. You are like chaff, and chaff is good for nothing. You do not have any salt, no savor.

I see that my time is up. To start putting more nails into your house, this house, the Lord does not want you to be you anymore. He wants to live in you, and He wants you to die out to your old life, the kind of life you were living before. He wants you to lay down your life at the cross and let Him enter in. If you do, then He resurrects you from your dead spirit unto life so that He can represent Himself in you, in this world, and through you.

If He is going to be doing that, believe me, there are going to be works done in His body, in you, because you are to be His body now. He paid for you. He paid the price for you with His blood, His life. He shed His blood for you.

To make God know that you mean business with Him, you must be born again to enter heaven. You do not know, when you go to sleep this afternoon, tonight, or whenever you sleep, that you are going to live another moment. Even if you are not sleeping, you do not know if a meteorite is going to fall out of the sky, or somebody is going to do a drive-by shooting, or somebody is going to drop one of these atomic bombs in the area that is in one of these briefcases and wipe out things for miles. You might be right within that perimeter.

So make sure you get born again of the Spirit right now by saying these words to the Lord, and mean them from your heart to God. Let Him know you mean it, because He does not like a phony. He hates a hypocrite. If you want to be saved, if you want to be born again, if you want to enter the kingdom of heaven and stay out of hell and the lake of fire, say these words:

My Lord and my God, have mercy upon my soul, a sinner. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God, and I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit. I open the door of my heart, and I invite You into my heart, Lord Jesus. Wash all my filthy sins away in the precious blood that You shed for me. You will not turn me away, Lord Jesus. You will save my soul, I know, because Your Word says so. Your Word says that all who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Therefore, I call upon You, Lord, and I know You hear me. I know You answered me. Therefore, I know I am saved, and I thank You, Lord Jesus, for saving my soul.

Now just raise your hands and praise and thank the Lord.

Sharon, give them four different ways they can receive a copy of this tape or CD. It is an audio tape, not a video. It is an audio. Ask for program number 201. Here are four ways that you can receive a copy of it. Please specify whether you want an audio tape or a CD. Everything is paid for, even the postage and handling.

Go ahead.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Letter Reader:
Go to AlamoMinistries.com, or write to Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, P.O. Box 6467, Texarkana, Texas 75505. You can also call area code 479-782-7370, or fax area code 479-782-7406.

Speaker 1 – Tony Alamo:
All right. Make sure you tune in tomorrow for another message on “How to Have God’s Life Living in You.” It will be part 100. This is World Pastor Tony Alamo saying God bless you, and praise the Lord all the time. Amen.